MichaelJ

https://geyser.fund/project/gitcitadel

Building the library of Alexandria

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2024-12-18 19:41:40 GMT

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#Alexandria will soon support both `a` and `e` tags. That fix is in my currently-open PR.

2024-12-15 17:08:55 GMT

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Catch me aggressively kicking stories out of our `v0.1.0` release target in Jira.

2024-12-14 17:14:46 GMT

I almost feel too tired to bother with Christmas traditions this year. It's been a busy year, and since July most of our free time has been spent on home improvement projects. It's hard to pull away from that to think about holiday traditions.
We didn't get our Advent wreath put together, or our Christmas lights put up, until just this week. I've barely started Christmas shopping. Wife and I have kind of agreed not to worry too much about giving each other gifts this year (though we still want to do something).
We'll be leaving to go visit my parents in about a week. Perhaps the change of pace will be good for us. My wife volunteered to decorate their home for Christmas. We also are planning a Christmas party when we return, the Saturday before Epiphany. Advent is breezing by, but perhaps Christmas will be easier to attend to.
How is everyone else feeling going into Christmas?

2024-12-08 17:07:36 GMT

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What is probably needed is a restoration of cultural mores governing interactions between the sexes. Right now there basically aren't any. Chivalry? Respect? Common decency? None of those are a guarantee.
That doesn't require anyone forcing anyone into anything else, but it does require a strong cadre of virtuous role models to set the example (and fashions, to some degree) that everyone else will follow. It's a generational project.

2024-12-08 17:01:19 GMT

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On Friday I encountered some old code in my day job that showed different variations of an icon depending on app state.
And, I shit you not, it achieved this by putting all 6 variations in a column on a single png image, setting that image as the background to an HTML element, and shifting the background depending on app state to show a different icon.

2024-12-08 16:55:19 GMT

For anyone following the #alexandria project, I've detached our gc-alexandria repo (since it was originally created as a fork). From now on, all development will flow back into that repo.
Unfortunately, starts and follows were lost in the process. If you'd like to track our progress on GitHub, add a star or follow at https://github.com/ShadowySupercode/gc-alexandria.
#gitcitadel

2024-12-01 19:47:58 GMT

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That tuning must have a physical manifestation, I should think.

2024-11-29 21:15:36 GMT

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How one would even attempt to restart Mars' magnetic field, though, I have no idea.

2024-11-29 17:02:53 GMT

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I am pro space colonization, for the record.

2024-11-29 02:54:39 GMT

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Yes I think that's right. And momentum is what my team needs right now. Time to get this train rolling.

2024-11-29 01:15:48 GMT

It finally clicked, what @nprofile…qlr4 has been writing about in regards to Agile methodology. I've been developing in features, rather than user stories. Time to break down the work further and deliver one user story at a time.
Keep an eye out for more PRs on the #aedile, #alexandria, and other #gitcitadel repos as well realign to more bite-sized chunks of work.

2024-11-28 05:08:42 GMT

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Happy Thanksgiving!

2024-11-28 05:05:57 GMT

It's still better than waterfall.
#nevent1q…hec3

2024-11-28 05:05:34 GMT

Agile be like:
1. Started with a manifesto
2. Has never really been tried
#nevent1q…wfp3

2024-11-27 20:45:44 GMT

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Being able to aggregate and search logs is helpful sometimes, especially if the server is remote somewhere.

2024-11-27 18:33:30 GMT

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Fair enough!

2024-11-27 13:59:43 GMT

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Glad I could help! I might come back and do some more review soon; I definitely didn't survey the entire code base yet.

2024-11-26 22:32:07 GMT

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Mother Angelica was a big deal. She's more or less the reason Catholic media is a thing today.

2024-11-24 20:18:09 GMT

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We can provide many of those tools in Aedile. That's the goal.

2024-11-24 19:31:54 GMT

@nprofile…3dys I'm looking over realy, and wondering what the `search` field in your filter implementation does, since it's not defined in the NIP-01 spec.
https://github.com/mleku/realy/blob/4a3d7c0a2243dfab87fe6a05a987406c82b90926/filter/filter.go#L40

2024-11-22 00:06:15 GMT

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9% improvement by what metrics?

2024-11-21 17:20:08 GMT

In a training meeting for Microsoft Copilot, and they're suggesting saying "please" and "thank you" to help train it to write responses in a better tone.
Sorry, the LLM is a machine, not a person, I'm going to tell it what I want plainly and directly.

2024-11-21 15:08:18 GMT

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What is your GitHub handle? I'll @ you in the discussion.

2024-11-21 12:25:54 GMT

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That does bring things to a head.

2024-11-20 09:12:20 GMT

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I'm really interested to see if Trump can negotiate a peace deal. That's what is needed, more than anything.

2024-11-20 07:51:08 GMT

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Yeah tactical nukes are another step up the escalation ladder. The US or allies wouldn't even necessarily respond with nuclear weapons, either.
Using nukes as battlefield weapons has been on the cards since the beginning of the Cold War. It's been largely rendered unnecessary as conventional weapons have become more accurate.
Tactical nukes are still several steps removed from global thermonuclear war, though I'd rather not see nuclear weapons used at all.

2024-11-19 22:41:22 GMT

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This is actually the end of our trip! We started in Milan, visiting the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, since St. Ambrose is my wife's confirmation saint.
We saw the tomb of St. Dominic, with his skull on display, in Bologna.
Madrid was our last stop, including a day trip to Ávila. Heading back to the States tomorrow.

2024-11-19 22:35:22 GMT

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I was there earlier today!

2024-11-19 22:31:45 GMT

The Cathedral of Ávila must be one of the most distinctively Gothic cathedrals in Europe.
https://image.nostr.build/114f5de7366ab2c3c894e56652a65435be629f73609b338ed587aa8b527599d6.jpg

2024-11-12 09:11:36 GMT

Texas should issue its own passport just for the lolz

2024-11-06 13:10:56 GMT

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Trump has a good team of people around him, and he ran on that in the final days of the campaign. That makes me cautiously optimistic that his administration will accomplish more than in 2016-2020.

2024-11-06 13:06:48 GMT

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This is true.

2024-11-06 12:40:19 GMT

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Yup. I hate it.

2024-11-06 06:32:10 GMT

Of course, my county voted 60/40 to approve yet another property tax increase.

2024-11-06 05:32:25 GMT

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My understanding is the Republicans might not get a House majority, but it's likely they'll control the Senate and perhaps the Presidency.
The thing to watch, when it comes to abortion, is ballot measures. Almost every ballot measure on abortion since Dobbs has made it more accessible. Restrictions have come primarily through state legislatures.

2024-11-05 21:17:01 GMT

For the record, I am anti- #nostronly
#nevent1q…9w4v

2024-11-02 22:41:25 GMT

November is goth month.

2024-11-02 18:09:16 GMT

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The whole article is filled with interesting points. Many of them form the reasons why I'm planning to stick with C++ as the language of choice for the Aedile NDK.
Aedile's goal is to be an abstraction layer for the Nostr network, and to be the base for other software. C++ is built for just that.

2024-11-02 04:54:39 GMT

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I'm not sure I want to.

2024-10-31 13:38:38 GMT

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Tbh Luce is growing on me, and I didn't expect it.

2024-10-29 18:48:31 GMT

BRB gonna whip up a plate of Chilean Sea Bass for my Girl Dinner. https://image.nostr.build/aa5d749fab4d75e8da73e7707c914462a311c377796fe6bcf79df0372a57cf5d.jpg

2024-10-29 04:20:34 GMT

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If you're familiar with consoles you could try building a simple console app with C or C++ on Linux.
If you like making graphical UIs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript gets you all the web development basics.

2024-10-29 04:07:06 GMT

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Nothing beats making something when it comes to learning.
Even better is to make something with someone more experienced. It gives you a leg up.

2024-10-28 14:16:57 GMT

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I'll have to add one of the megarelays to my outbox list I guess, to get visibility.

2024-10-28 14:01:55 GMT

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UnPerson.
Perhaps it's because I primarily write to auth-protected relays now, and nostr.band can't or doesn't see those.

2024-10-28 12:15:58 GMT

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Maybe this is why none of my OPs get any interaction until someone else boosts them.

2024-10-28 12:15:37 GMT

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The Deep State is trying to censor me 🤣

2024-10-28 12:10:40 GMT

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Funny story, at my day job we just did an integration with this service that is essentially a state machine over a network. We call an API to create a thing, but any substantive changes to the thing cause the creation of a new instance with a new ID.
It drove my team nuts for a bit because the IDs we were using to reference objects over the network weren't behavior quite like we expected.

2024-10-28 01:15:15 GMT

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My first two programming languages were C++ and Racket. We are above goto statements. 🤣

2024-10-18 02:07:12 GMT

Imagine taking a video and generating a Twitter-style thread from it in just a few clicks.
@nprofile…m52f has made that possible.
#naddr1qq…8pe4

2024-10-18 00:59:09 GMT

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What kind of algorithm are you working on?

2024-10-15 22:24:09 GMT

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Atomic commits can be small or large. A whole PR should be atomic, but single-line changes can also be atomic. It doesn't require tons of attention but it's pretty helpful in managing git history.

2024-10-15 21:11:56 GMT

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Framework has a GPU option on their 16" model.

2024-10-15 19:26:03 GMT

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I follow the "atomic commits" philosophy, where you check in reversible, isolated changes, insofar as possible, when those changes are ready.

2024-10-15 18:21:39 GMT

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"Task failed successfully" 🤣

2024-10-14 17:38:05 GMT

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The university I attended reopened campus and was back to mostly in-person classes in fall of 2020, but campus social life was curtailed. I spent more time with a small group of friends who weren't Covid paranoid, and less time with everyone else. So "back to normal" still resulted in a significant change. I was kind of demoralized there for a while, too, and didn't want to engage as much with the larger community.

2024-10-14 16:26:52 GMT

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I think shutting down campus life really screwed a lot of people over. College kinda slumped to an end for many people, with online classes and virtual graduations.

2024-10-14 16:04:39 GMT

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Yeah the covid years really messed things up. I sometimes wonder how different my life would be if that all had never happened.

2024-10-14 13:38:09 GMT

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Like the village bell.

2024-10-14 13:37:45 GMT

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Kind 1111? Might be fun to try out the new comment kind. Unless that's not allowed as an OP.

2024-10-14 13:20:22 GMT

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If we just want to get started, then it should be Lauds, Vespers, and Compline, as those are the ones laypeople pray most often.
However, if it's not hard to do all of them, we might as well do all of them.
I think the Invitiatory goes before the Office of Readings, but I always skip that myself 😅

2024-10-14 04:08:13 GMT

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Selenium will be huge for stability.

2024-10-14 04:07:19 GMT

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I've been having that realization over the course of this year. I graduated college in 2021, and this year feels like my life is having so much more movement than the previous years since college.
Always focus on the next step.

2024-10-14 04:03:17 GMT

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So Jenkins is scheduling Liturgy of the Hours reminders now?

2024-10-14 01:27:36 GMT

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Were you able to see it with the naked eye? What time did you go out to see it? I've been wanting to go look for it.

2024-10-13 22:52:35 GMT

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I thought it was some sort of flowchart, but I couldn't navigate it, and the numbers make no sense.

2024-10-13 22:49:01 GMT

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Oh yeah you'll love it.

2024-10-13 22:45:01 GMT

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Lol what does it mean?

2024-10-13 22:41:56 GMT

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Such a thought-provoking book.

2024-10-12 20:30:31 GMT

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Makes sense to me!

2024-10-12 20:18:07 GMT

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Makes sense, replies are optional. The index event is the container, but the app developer gets to decide what it contains.

2024-10-12 19:42:05 GMT

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With stories you'd probably index the videos, then use kind 1111 comments on each video. You could have collections of stories, maybe pinned to a user homepage.
(I don't use Instagram so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something.)

2024-10-12 19:28:52 GMT

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YUGE

2024-10-12 16:25:42 GMT

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I wonder if Ditto in the stack is actually https://ditto.live/

2024-10-12 14:56:15 GMT

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Yes a real note thread! The thread author can control its organization, and people can go ham in the comments without generating gigantic hellthreads on a single note.

2024-10-12 14:54:23 GMT

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I'd say `[ "wikilink", <d-tag>, <naddr>, <relay-url> ]`.
The d tag is still useful as a fallback for search should the client fail to find the addressed event.

2024-10-12 14:33:12 GMT

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`a` tags are pretty standard, so we should use those. Perhaps `naddr` is a good option for `wikilink` tags.

2024-10-12 14:31:01 GMT

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The change detection is interesting, since relays may delete old versions of replaceable events. In theory, then, if there is an `a` tag and an `e` tag for the same event, the `e` tag should be preferred, as it is more specific. If the client notices an update, it can offer to update the `e` tag on the publishing user's behalf so it is in sync with the version addressed by the `a` tag.
However, that seems to be more of a client implementation concern than an event specification concern. In general, the same event should not be indexed twice in the same kind 30040 event, though it's not the end of the world if it happens, since a client can naively display the same event twice just as the index event suggests.

2024-10-12 14:22:49 GMT

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Awesome! Making a note so I can use this for remote signer discovery in my #Aedile NDK.

2024-10-12 14:16:10 GMT

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You've inspired me.
Free idea for the social client #nostrdevs out there:
Use kind 30040 index events to create a Twitter-style thread UX. The index should list a series of kind 1 or kind 1111 social notes/comments, each of which can have its own spin-off comment thread. The first event in the index can be used as the thread header. Since index events are replaceable, additional notes can be added to the thread by the OP after it is initially published.

2024-10-12 14:08:02 GMT

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I think there are two use cases:
1. Use `a` tags in index events the exact same way we use `e` tags. Index events don't contain content, so we don't need to worry about wikilinks in that context. Instead, a client can use `a` tags in an index as an option for referencing replaceable events that still works even after the replaceable event has been updated.
2. Use `a` tags in zettel events as wikilink hints. When a client parses the zettel content and encounters a wikilink, it should search the zettel event's `wikilinks` and `a` tags for a matching ID. `wikilink` tags can be used to reference an event by ID; which means the wikilink won't update to the newest version when the content changes. `a` tags can be used to reference an event by its address, which means the wikilink will always refer to the most up-to-date version of the linked event. A publishing client should have UX to let the user choose what kind of reference to use for each wikilink.

2024-10-12 14:00:42 GMT

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The `d` tag event ID is already part of the replaceable event address, so we don't even need to add it as an extra field in the `d` tag array.
This makes wikilinks easier for replaceable events.
The complication arises, though, for non-replaceable events. The idea with index events is that they can index _anything_. So if you rely on `a` tags, you're limited to replaceable events. I might want a wikilink to refer to a comment on a thread, in which case I'll need the event ID rather than the address. Additionally, if the content of a replaceable event changes, then the content for which I referenced it might disappear. We've discussed creating copies to "snapshot" linked articles in the state in which they were indexed, so that context is preserved. I still think there is value in that, at least for some use cases.

2024-10-12 13:49:40 GMT

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Do these clients all render the linked articles in the order in which the `a` tags are listed in the index event?

2024-10-12 13:46:54 GMT

Has anyone considered tying remote signer URIs to NIP-05 addresses? I'd love to have apps auto-connect to Amber without my having to copy-paste the connection string from my phone to my computer into the app.
#nostrdev

2024-10-12 13:41:32 GMT

@nprofile…h7ym I just logged into Coracle with Amber! That was on my wishlist for a while; I think I'll be using Coracle more often now.

2024-10-12 13:26:52 GMT

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I'm excited to see where this goes!
I'm curious at the inclusion of ActivityPub. What role does it play in the stack, do you think, that Nostr doesn't cover?

2024-10-12 13:23:58 GMT

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True and real!
I go to coffee shops for that exact reason. Yes I love a cappuccino and a little pastry, but also a change of scenery like that can easily get me a solid 2 hours of near-uninterrupted focus.

2024-10-12 13:04:58 GMT

I will be following this project with great interest.
#nevent1q…2yjz

2024-10-12 02:27:43 GMT

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@nprofile…p0n0 @nprofile…l937 certified #php moment

2024-10-12 00:14:12 GMT

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Yeah check out our progress updates under #Alexandria.
We called it that after the Library of Alexandria, because we want to make a new way of interacting with and organizing knowledge that is now possible with Nostr.

2024-10-12 00:13:03 GMT

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In theory it's pretty important information to the customers, and management is asking us to build it.
We're in a modernization effort, so everything in the old version of this webpage has to be ported to the new tech stack. It'll let us experiment and iterate faster going forward.
But this page has been accruing features for about 10 years. It's really important to customers as a whole, but there are a few features that are barely touched.

2024-10-12 00:02:38 GMT

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And this was after I had _improved_ the feature to give it greater flexibility 🙃

2024-10-11 23:59:44 GMT

In my day job today I found a feature that no one uses.
How do I know no one uses it? I'm glad you asked.
We're reimplementing this old, feature dense web page in a new tech stack. I've been grinding on one feature for over a week now, and suddenly when I'm testing the new version I built, it's broken.
It worked a few days ago, though. So I'm scratching my head.
Check on the old web page. Broken there. Check on different environments. Still broken.
Check our logs. There are 5 errors matching what I saw. All are from me.
Not one of our thousands of customers is using this feature.
So maybe we can take our time on this one.

2024-10-11 17:40:35 GMT

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What tech is on the client end of this stack? Native apps? PWAs? WebAssembly?
#asknostr

2024-10-11 17:16:35 GMT

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Thanks for the correction! I didn't know Web3 and Web 3.0 were different. I've heard them used seemingly interchangeably.

2024-10-11 16:51:05 GMT

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I've been coming around to this same recognition.
Permanent storage should be off Nostr, whether it's on user personal devices or somewhere in the cloud.

2024-10-11 16:34:37 GMT

We may be watching the emergence of a new "Web3" decentralized application stack.
Solid + Nostr + Client
This starts to map sensibly onto well-understood MVC or MVVM application patterns.
#nevent1q…memd

2024-10-11 16:26:11 GMT

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I like how this lets users declare trust for certain service providers. It maintains the decentralized identity concept.

2024-10-11 16:22:39 GMT

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Eliminating professional licensing and legalizing drugs. I think there is a (very limited) place for strictures in both areas.

2024-10-11 15:42:12 GMT

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I could get behind most of this.