social media has always sucked up the energy and wisdom and meaningful content of its users But maybe Nostr can achieve what legacy options never could - search like Google. Websites, curation services pulling together to make the nostr gems endure, discoverable.

Been a very unproductive day between relays, and bootable Linux drives not playing fair. No doubt it is me and not having the latest greatest kit and 2 left thumbs. On the positive side of this learning opportunity, the takeaway is: I'm only interested in tools that make me productive. I'm willing to learn, but that's not the same as being a crash test dummy. There's more of me than techies who love to tinker, or if there aren't, Nostr is going nowhere. Or the same place as Linux which is still not in the average Joe's lexicon. I used to run a big how to website so I'm not just having a pop after a bad day on Nostr. Very often we fell short of providing the clearest info, because of too many assumptions. Instructions need to be idiot proof. The word "just" needs to be struck from technical step by steps. For newbies, explanations need to come AFTER we have followed every step and achieved something technically challenging. Under promise and over deliver. .I think the client owners need to step up and have a pinned welcome message with resources to get newbies started. It isn't right to be attracted by censorship resistance, sovereignty over content etc, when it is still a dark art to achieve that. Back to the crash test dummy, learning curve, tinker balance. But Even Twitter had a button to press exports. Nostr users are very helpful but I am fast running out of #asknostr tokens :)

Finally have citrine relay app working on my phone without errors showing on 10/10 relays listed on Amethyst. In citrine settings though, if I input my npub in "Accept events signed by..." a relay goes down. Remove and the relay goes back up. (Not that I can tell which relay is going down!) The version choice on the #citrine github page. As that is all there is to go on, a lot of assumptions are being made about what a noobie would choose. Early, right!

I love cabbage, and I really like how they keep on coming back. They are heavy feeders so it is helpful that they aren't a flashbang veg. #Permaculture will never feed the world, but it sure keeps us close to the land and excited by #nature.

#asknostr what I am supposed to see on the working localhost:4869 page for the #citrine relay I installed on my Android phone? After much node.js-ing, I have now got as far as Terminal confirming everything is talking and reading correctly, but progress is stalled at a message on Chrome saying it sees a Nostr relay or websocket. But that's it. What am I missing? Or is that the feedback? #relay Also any idea how to see and rectify the errors indicated on my private relay entry in Amethyst? cheers

Found an old hard drive with Mac apps from a while ago when I was a busy boy and needed to be organised. This one is a peach for clippings. And is Open Source and free and still supported. After 15 years of hobby coding, the dev must surely be open to zapping.

This year was the biggest olive harvest in living memory, and the almonds are bowing under the weight too. Not a drop of irrigation, the almonds are not an ecological disaster when left to their own devices. However the price to pay is less yield per tree. The olive's alternate fruiting cycle means this year is near zero harvest for us. And it is the drive for consistent yield and price that motivates the questionable practices of the mega farms who have driven their input costs up and the prices down en route to becoming mega farms. It is a ludicrous system of misaligned incentives that the consumer, the farmer and nature pays a heavy price for. Or we could just eat a little less and leave much of the almond industry to nature and find more purpose in the orchards beyond monoculture almonds. #chickens #growstr #Spain #homesteading

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The Cern contact telephone number is so whimsical! Good morning. One moment, please, I will just connect you. Now look at us. Good morning, I was up all night trawling through GBs of data online from hundreds of websites, and still I can't see what's on the Nostr relay on my phone :)

Another rabbit hole, relays this time, thanks to Nostr and @Derek Ross and @Vitor Pamplona #asknostr how do I see what's on the server? I found websocat, am I on the right track? Another voyage into the unknown.

Adblock plus tell me they have blocked over 600,000 ads in recent internet surfing times and by inference, for only $4 a month they can carry on doing so. Here's an idea, why don't they send those stats to all the companies that paid for those ads. Tell them they are being scammed by the advertising agencies, and think of a new way of operating. Like maybe try Zapvertising, cause that sure worked on me when @Blockstream tried it. No special blocking ware, full engagement likely.

Imagine if all the how to sites online could install a zaps lightning option for tips. And a Nostr comment box, much like you can/could (it has been a while!) post to Discourse from a Wordpress site. So much useful info being given out for free with no way of readers showing their appreciation with a token tip. Even leaving a quick message is a faff with emails and names. #asknostr