Please watch! This beautiful platform launches on October 14th and will allow us to preserve what would have been forgotten or lost. Some mutual friends of mine have built this and would appreciate you checking them out. You can checkout more about the project here:

Healing through storytelling. Gaza: A Living Story.

For generations, Palestinians have carried stories of love, loss, and resistance, tied to the streets, their homes, and their land. Today, Gaza fac...

There's also a free launch event you can attend in Camden, London if you're around: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theatrotechnis1/1887388

This is amazing!! I’ll be able to use it to derive accurate figures on Nostr vs Spotify View quoted note →

Stop the rubber UFO's ✊ View quoted note →

Warning Vibe Nostr clients!! So I've been writing a paper (if you can call it that) on fixing Nostr from a security perspective. I've only spent a few hours on it so far, turns out getting the citations, doing code analysis, mathematics, cryptography etc takes longer than I expected. Unfortunately the web-client I like to use, iris, is a piece of AI slop. Consequently I will be moving. Any suggestions? Check out CLAUDE.md file here. It points to a DEVELOPMENT.md file that I'll also link below: CLAUDE.MD: https://github.com/irislib/iris-client/blob/main/CLAUDE.md DEVELOPMENT.MD: https://github.com/irislib/iris-client/blob/main/DEVELOPMENT.md

Does anyone know if there's a NIP for read receipts for notifications. When I open each of my clients I have to dismiss each notification individually. I feel like we could create read receipts by encrypting the event with the public key and sending it to a private relay used for drafts and other bits. @@𝖘𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖔 I feel like you might know this.

Thoughts on Australia including GitHub in the list of platforms to treat like social media (requiring regulation, age restrictions and ID). Can you imagine “Hello emergency services, my child has a merge conflict” xD Who is getting groomed on GitHub? Who is getting addicted to GitHub 🤣🤣 Banning GitHub is like banning a library. It’s complicated by the fact that although GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, it kept its CEO and remained mostly separate with the exception of a few CoPilot tools. With GitHub’s CEO resigning and everything moving towards Microsoft and digital ID, I worry about the centralisation of open source software. Most of the code we know would cease to exist if GitHub suddenly went down. Unless you went and tracked down every person with a local copy on their machine (basically the dev team). It’s a scary reality and we need to fight it!!

So given the current state of the UK, I’m looking at moving. If this digital ID goes through then there’s no doubt I will be gone. The easiest places to go to are places that offer a working holiday visa. This allows me to stay there for 2 years and then you can simply extend it. Australia is a great candidate but unfortunately they’re quite right-wing, full of facial recognition and state surveillance and they’re even trying to require ID to use GitHub now. I know!! GitHub 🤯 Canada is my next best choice but they still require biometrics (including all ten fingerprints) for foreigners staying longer than six months. The place is gorgeous though and there’s plenty of outdoors for me to explore, rock climb and kayak through. Any suggestions??

There’s quite a few of these alternative social media platforms being advertised on mainstream social media, ironically. This one reminded me of Nostr a little. It’s clear that the public wants to break free from social media and move onto something without an algorithm that’s not feeding you propaganda constantly. It’s interesting to see how they’re pushing the “verifiable” claims though, whatever that means. I’m not in the slightest part interested in their platform but I think it serves as an important reminder that Nostr could work for the general public and they ARE interested, we just need to streamline the user experience a little to remove the barrier to entry and then shout about it.