NIP-29 is lowkey the most hated NIP because it reverses the "smart client, dumb relay" assumption and is centralized by design. NIP-29 is private property, not a public square. The relay as the authority (who can read, who can poast, etc.) is a feature for this use case, not a bug. Incentivises running your own relay. Makes writing clients simpler. Your house, your rules. The NIP-72 approach is naive, clunky, bandwidth and computation intensive, mostly poorly implemented and a dead end for what NIP-29 tries to accomplish. NIP-29 is pragmatic, not purist. Keep hatin' but imma keep building on it. View quoted note → View quoted note →

i wish turning profile images off in @Jumble would just hide them altogether instead of showing a color blurb

outbox is cool but a bunch of relays out there prompt for auth for no reason. auth approval should always be explicit, auto-auth is a privacy anti-pattern and I hope no one is doing it. user defined relay block lists should be honoured.

just said "no thanks" to a homeless man asking me for money. holy fuck i'm cringe af.

PSA @npub1m7r9...ny2w https://xcancel.com/bitrefill/status/2029521535824953829

every time someone types ETA in English it triggers my PTSD

The TAM for a cash-final, high-responsibility & trustless money system is really tiny and I'm sorry to say that the world isn't moving towards a cypherpunk utopia. Self-Sovereignity is exhausting and it takes a special kind of person to fully embrace it. Thinking that everyone will use Bitcoin and self-custody is like expecting everyone to be a prepper and build a bunker. Trust & convenience are features of civilization, not a bug. My pragmatic opinion is that Bitcoin is an insurance policy against the system's total failure, not a credible alternative. View quoted note →

GM lone wolfs 🐺 View quoted note →

went through a lot of stressful shit (work & life related) during the last few months and spidey senses are warning me that there is more to come, luckily I have a strong mental now and been sober for almost a month. some of you are probably going through similar shit. touch ass, hug your loved ones. we can't control what's going on in this weird af timeline, just how we respond to it. you got this.

changing my job title to claudeveloper :lul: