@jb55 have you posted stats anywhere on how much traffic strfry is handling on relay.damus.io? I’m curious how big of a server you are running it on too and how much it cost. I heard that it costs thousands of dollars per month to run a Bluesky PDS(!?) and it’s an interesting comparison.

Wow, just got access to the beta Apple Intelligence and… it’s awful. I tried generating an image, summarizing an email, asking Siri if she was an LLM, and some other requests. All failed spectacularly, mostly resulting in Siri offering to Google search something that sounded phonetically like what I asked for but was wrong.

@Vitor Pamplona why do all my "General Relays" in Amethyst have 0 bytes, 0 errors, etc?

@Sean Tilley are you coming to DWeb camp? You would love it.

Nostr but with GraphQL. Would it be good? Or just a DoS mess? So many of the more arcane problems with building a good client come out of the simple query language of REQs.

Is there a way to browse a specific relay in Amethyst? @Vitor Pamplona

@Ben Arc @motorina0 @dni hey I’m working on a project at @nos where we are setting up a paid relay using LNBits. Unfortunately we’re running up against a deadline so I’m reaching out for some help. I’m having trouble doing NIP-42 auth with the relay. I think maybe there is a bug in the implementation but maybe I am just dumb. I haven’t done NIP-42 before. I wrote up the details here:

GitHub

NIP-42 Auth Not Working · Issue #27 · lnbits/nostrrelay

Hello! I have set up a nostrrelay using LNBits and enabled "Require Auth" for filters and all events. However I'm not seeing an "OK", or any messag...

Would appreciate your thoughts when you have the chance!

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To get over my fear of soldering I decided to order the unassembled kit for this open-source trackball mouse instead of the assembled version.

Classic 2 – Ploopy

I attempted to solder the sensor last weekend and it went really poorly. I thought I had burned the board and I accidentally soldered two pins together that shouldn’t have been. A few YouTube tutorials later and I’m ready to try again. This time with some solder wick, one of these cleaner things, and solder that’s actually small enough for a circuit board (I had my dad’s plumbing solder 🤦). Wish me luck.

Is there a good NIP-46 server I can easily self-host?

I really like this "ultra-processed content" idea from Cal Newport. He compares it to "ultra-processed food". To me any social media app built around “content” is a red flag. Not that content is bad, but it’s a hyper-capitalization of entertainment. It doesn’t have much to do with building healthy social structures. The healthiest food for your social self is being in relationship with other humans and good social media should encourage this.

Cal Newport

On Ultra-Processed Content - Cal Newport

When I visited London last month, a large marketing push was underway for the paperback edition of Chris van Tulleken’s UK bestseller, Ultra-...

I love this quote from @jack “There’s a lot of conversation these days about free speech, and the importance of free speech, and I think that is a complete distraction. The question, and the debate, and the conversation we should be having is around free will. Because these algorithms are being used to direct your attention, and in some cases direct your action.” I think we can talk about a lot of abstract problems in the decentralized social media space like privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, and algorithms and it can be hard to connect them to other problems in the world. But attention and behavior change are happening at scale and it’s changing elections, increasing polarization, inciting violence, driving late-stage capitalist consumerism and a other societal diseases that help keep powerful people in power, and it’s being done through you and me. From

I finally got around to reading up on Bluesky’s moderation architecture. It’s nice to see that they’ve arrived at pretty much the exact solution we are working towards at Nos.social. An open labeling system that can be used by all stakeholders (relays, apps, users) in the way that makes the most sense to them.

Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky

Moderation is a crucial aspect of any social network. However, traditional moderation systems often lack transparency and user control, leaving com...

Apple Intelligence is the first time I’ve actually had a physiological response to AI. Watching the keynote today felt like watching a giant wave coming towards you that can’t be stopped. If Apple Intelligence is any good it’s going to be *really* useful. It’s just a taste of the radical shift we are going through. How many months before the majority of human communication is filtered through AI? AI that we can’t inspect or opt out of that is created by a few powerful super corporations who don’t have our best interests at heart. But idk maybe things will be fine.

The dox article conveniently left out that @fiatjaf immediately gave half the bitcoin to @jb55 because he didn't want to be in charge of all the money. The two of them have been giving it away since then to all kinds of people working on all kinds of Nostr projects. Whatever his political views are with respect to Brazil, when it comes to governing the Nostr protocol he has consistently taken a light and open-handed approach.