I get really angry when an org gets hacked and my data is stolen and in return they give me “1 year of identity theft monitoring” as if that’s going to do anything. The thieves can just wait a year to sell or use the data.
However nowadays my data is stolen so frequently that by the time one year of free coverage ends there is another year of free coverage available from some other company. It’s funny in a way.
Matt Lorentz
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Technologist, solarpunk, gamer, backpacker, passionate about using the internet to push more power to more people.
Are most nostr clients using NIP-50 for search or something else? The two most popular relay implementations, strfry and nostr-rs-relay, don’t support NIP-50. We are looking for a big, reliable search relay to add to the default list in Nos.
@Vitor Pamplona what logic does Amethyst use to decide whether to show a content warning on reported content? We have a AI bot (@Reportinator) going around labeling stuff and we’ve had several complaints and some targeted harassment towards our employees from Amethyst users who don’t like it.
In Nos we only listen to reports from people you follow, but it sounds like Amethyst is doing something broader?
Just got this email from Amazon: “Your new pharmacy is Amazon Pharmacy”. What a dystopian way to phrase it. What PR department thought this was good phrasing for a product announcement?? Aren’t they under investigation for anti-competitive behavior?


Just set up borg on a new macbook for backups. I use it for all my computers and servers, and I highly recommend it if you want to self-host! It ticks all the boxes for good backups:
- open source
- nice GUI and CLI (Vorta for the GUI)
- encryption
- deduplication
- compression
- backup to multiple destinations, including any SSH destination. I use borgbase.com and my home server.
- works on Linux and macOS
- robust scheduler
- alerts when backups don’t run
Dune Part Two at the 70mm IMAX was amazing. Probably the best cinematic experience I’ve ever had (Avenger’s Endgame is probably my second). It’s been so long since I’ve seen such a confident, epic, serious movie that wasn’t trying to use nostalgia, brands, sarcasm, and breaking the fourth wall to get me to like it. I haven’t read the books but it’s clear the Dune world building is on par with LOTR or Harry Potter, and it’s refreshing to see some producers apparently get the keys to do it right.
Hey folks, I was gone for a bit taking care of our new baby. What did I miss?
I feel like a lot of the problems with social media today have to do with people participating in groups of humans that are too large. If a tribe/community is like <100 people you can probably have relationships with a lot of them and appreciate the diversity within the group. If your tribe/community is like 10 million people then views and identity seem to homogenize and breed problems: us vs them mentality, large volumes of feedback, echo chambers, etc. The human brain doesn’t work very well at that scale.
(side bar: I have pet theory that a lot of the celebrities we see slowly losing their minds in public on social media is caused by their social media addiction. Looking at you, Elon)
Part of the reason we ended up with a bunch of “large group” social media apps is because they mirror Web 2.0 technology architecture. All the data goes on one server and is owned by one company. Web 3 tech like Nostr actually has the opposite architecture, and imo we should be leaning into the scale that humans are optimized for: friends, families, and third space communities like clubs, churches, local activist groups, etc.
Plant inventory. Most of these are in desparate need of repotting which is why they are all line up. I’m trying to make up for a year of neglect this week 😅
Finally applied my Nostrasia sticker to my Nalgene. It fits nicely next to Hermies the Secure Scuttlebutt mascot.