@elsat did you lose your follow list? We just had a team meeting to talk about two of our employees who lost their lists around Nostriga and noticed yours. We are cooking some things which you will hear about soon but in the meantime I learned about

nostr contacts

which seems to work well for recovery.

If you are at Nostriga with an Apple device download the @Comingle app and you can check out the full schedule and RSVP to the sessions you are interested in. Then tap your profile picture -> View Profile to see a list of everything you have RSVPed to.

Hello Riga 🇱🇻

@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?

@npub1ldzl...n99t 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 @npub1cx4q...8vf0 @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!

Still 🔥 on Tuesday morning View quoted note →

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