Building safeguards against bots and spam was inevitable, and it's good we're being 'forced' to develop them faster thanks to these annoying bots. It also prepares us for more coordinated attacks in the future. However, the solution shouldn't be worse than the problem. If we're implementing WOT, users must have some level of control and full transparency.

A simple web of trust can solve the bot problem, eg. by connecting friends of friends. We can establish multiple degrees of connections and prioritize them.

Internet Archive Situation "More than 500,000 books have been taken out of lending as a result of Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged books." Publishers also removed 1984, The most Orwellian thing they could have done, the book is a cautionary tale!! Those books are still available on this website. If possible, support them; they accept crypto donations. You can also buy a membership; worth it. https://annas-archive.org/

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Keeping apps up to date is a powerful feature of app stores. Interestingly, some Android FOSS apps have found a neat way to handle this with built-in 'auto-update' and 'check for update' options. This method allows apps to operate independently from the app store while still staying current, enabling one-click updates and installations without needing an app store or Obtainium. The next version of AppCore will include this feature, and I really like this approach, it addresses a key challenge for open-source apps.

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. ~Naval

Anonymity is a great selling point for Nostr. No other social media platform truly offers it. With just one-click signing and no need for an email or phone number, unique level of privacy. Combine that with Tor, and you have one of the most private social media experiences available.

Who do you think truly runs the world, or holds the most influence?

Personal Project: I just finished writing a NIST-recommended post-quantum encryption algorithm in JavaScript from scratch. It uses lattice mathematics with hundreds of dimensions—fascinating stuff, but it's incredibly compute-intensive. Currently, it works with just one bit (0 or 1). The next step is to combine this new PQ encryption with traditional AES encryption. The goal is to make it highly efficient without compromising post-quantum security. I've also built a simple website named en.webcore.live (for educational purposes only) to test my custom encryption implementations. I'll add this encryption soon. For now, I won’t release any public app; that would be very irresponsible. I’ll wait for a trusted, audited library to implement this. Mark my words: encryption will be the most powerful tool in our arsenal against tyranny.

Would anyone like to have a freedom-loving, orange-pilled AI assistant in their nostr DMs?

Centralized platforms like X do nothing but create an illusion of freedom and delay real solutions. They are completely useless against the state, where you really need them.

Having frontier models like Llama 3 publicly available has led almost every AI API provider to dramatically reduce token prices. This is a great example of how open source, simply by existing, can improve almost everything in its category for all of us.

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The Batch AI News and Insights: After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that...

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