Gm, #nostr. My current practice is to block and hide commenters: - who ignore (or don't care about) the context of the original post - who appear to have not even read the original post - who subtract value from any potential conversation which might arise from the original post While quote-posting commenters and others who: - add a relevant idea which had not occurred to me - point out a legitimate flaw in, or alternative to, my reasoning - disagree with me is a way that adds value to any potential conversation which might arise from the og post. I have never had this approach work for very long on the centralized SMs. It rapidly devolves into something which is boring and uninspiring. Let's see if #nostr is different.

I would like to know what is actually, technically going on behind the scenes when #cloudflare throws a captcha just because I'm using a #VPN, claims it has detected "suspicious activity," and needs to "verify I am human." I'm 90%+ sure neither of these stated justifications is honest and do not represent what's really happening. It is much more likely, IMO, cloudflare is making some attempt at identifying me in order to sell marketing data - probably some pattern match of device profile to a known identity database. But I don't really know and would like to. #askNostr

I didn't join #nostr with any intent to stop using [insert centralized social platform here]. I'm here on an exploration, not a crusade. Nevertheless, I've quickly found myself spending more time on nostr than any other - even though I have several fairly large Twitter/X lists following people (almost none on nostr) in certain niches where I like to stay up to date. Now that's quite probably due to the newness and exploratory nature of my experience. But I see great potential here - even with the "Beta test" nature of it all. Relays should be as easy to deploy as WordPress instances. Ditto for media servers. Being able to spin one up via relay.tools is a good start, as is being able to buy your own preconfigured hardware/software node from an umbrel or Start9. I'd like to be able to deploy one on the VPS I already have, located in a data center I like, run by people I know. Unless there is some technical barrier I've missed, any decent VPS ought to be able to run it. Hopefully that day will come soon .

I do not trust AI to tell me about history, law, science or other topics where I cannot easily and quickly verify its outputs, as I generally have no idea about its inputs, nor about its parameters for analysis. But I do use it quite a bit to analyze bits of code and help me change and customize stuff. For instance, I do not really know CSS, HTML, PHP, RegEx, twig, yaml, XML, etc.I'm not even particularly good with the Linux command line. But I can feed some code snippet to an AI, tell it what I want to accomplish, and have it analyze the snippet and give me suggested changes. I can then test the changes and verify the results. I used this technique to #selfhost my NIP-05 address and avatar so I don't have to rely on a third-party service. Trivial tasks really, but useful for me. My preferred AI for this type of work is currently perplexity.AI for two reasons: - I don't have to login if I don't want to - perplexity links to multiple sources for its reply so I can dig in further if needed

@Vitor Pamplona, I un-/reinstalled Amethyst from F-Droid today and the standard "like" symbols are missing/replaced by rocketship, googly eyes, etc. Is this intentional change or something else?

@dave, this is a test. Can you reply to this please.

Any #nostrDevs working on to/from content publishing with the #grav cms? #askNostr

Can a nostr relay be packaged like a server app in softaculous for ppl to do simple installs on #selfhost servers/vps/etc? #askNostr

@CarpyDM The other day you mentioned fediverse. It looks like this guy might be a good follow for anyone interested in both domains: @Alex Gleason

@dave Dave, is nostr a serverless protocol?

@dave is this how I "tag" another user on #nostr? #askNostr