That would be awesome! It would be nice to be able to point the restore UI to a specific relay / event ir or paste raw json there as well. I don't know how many people other than devs would use it, but it would certainly be handy for me.

Sorry to hear this. I really want to know which client is doing this and under which circumstances. bet you to it (https://nostr.land/restore), though it only works with his relay since he needs to keep old copies of your kind 3 around. Also, Citrine has this feature if you have it running somewhere. I’m planning to add something similar to Haven myself when I have the time. Alternatively, you can sign a new copy of an old kind 3 and publish it with nak. Though a nice client where I can paste an old kind 3 and it would sign a new version / publish it for me would be brilliant.

Apologies again, but just to remove any ambiguity: when you say "for picking your own relay", what exactly does that mean? Is this something only for you (Mike) to filter writable relays? How is Gossip actually using the resulting list of vetted relays for its users, if at all? For example, if I have a brand new, non- NIP-11 compliant relay with a non-standard path tagged in my Kind 10002: ``` ["r", "wss://brando-relay.com/inbox", "read"], ["r", "wss://brando-relay.com", "write"] ``` This is the first time that Gossip encounters brando relay. Will it: 1. Write my own kind 1 notes to wss://brando-relay.com/? 2. Write other users’ notes tagging me to wss://brando-relay.com/inbox?

To be honest, outside of my own little Computer Science / Software Engineering bubble (well, specific smaller bubbles inside these bit bubbles), I'm not a big consumer of scientific articles or podcasts myself. Science does have its "celebrities/ambassadors" who make an effort to make science entertaining for people outside their respective bubbles, e.g. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, Richard Dawkins. You'll often come across educational shows, books written for the general public rather than for other scientists, interviews, and so on. I'm sure you'll also find podcasts featuring some of all of thrm. I actually respect these folks quite a bit. For example, you've heard me mention the great Carl Sagan many times. His educational shows certainly left a strong impression on a younger version of myself. They can also serve as a kind of "gateway drug" to science, encouraging people to follow their references to articles, take classes, or dive deeper into specific subjects. Despite the "soft science" aspect of a lot of these shows and books, they have without a doubt played a huge role in getting many people interested in science. https://youtu.be/UnURElCzGc0

Hey Mike, Thanks for coming back on this one. Just so I’m clear on what we’re discussing, given the sophisticated heuristics here: are you talking about choosing “default” Outbox relays for new keys? Or is Gossip ignoring write relays from users that don’t match the above criteria? For example, if I manually set a write relay that has a broken NIP-11, will Gossip respect my choice, or skip the relay I configured myself when I publish my own events? Either way, despite your comment below about not wanting shared blacklists, it feels like every client going through this process to compute lists of dead relays is a lot of duplicated work and wasted effort. I understand the value of having stricter criteria for suggesting default relays to new and potential fallbacks, but I wouldn’t expect every client (or relays needing to calculate WoT and other advanced functionality) to handle all of this aggregate data collection and processing. IMO a shared blacklist (optional for clients to use, and that they are of course free tk verify) seems like a more pragmatic solution.

Yeah. IPv4 scarcity and NAT have provided "poor man’s pseudo-security" for ages, and it goes well beyond BTC/Monero and Sybil attacks. There’s a lot hanging on the current way of doing things, including deeply entrenched architectural assumptions that are no longer valid. This is why adoption is taking forever. Projects will either find ways to overcome this or fall into obsolescence. I mean, it’s been what, 30 years since IPv6 was conceived? We went from "We need to find a better solution than IPv6" to mostly hybrid networking, with ISPs relying on CGNAT and translation mechanisms, while early bubbles of IPv6-only networks are already appearing in China, Africa, South America, etc. I think modern solutions will naturally evolve to the other side of the translation layer, and people will expect things to just work on IPv6-only networks very soon. As a side note, this is what got me to contribute to Nostr in the first place: I needed my personal relay to run on my former IPv6-only network (yes, I caved...) and thought others would find my two-line change useful :). I’m pretty sure that, with time, all the smart people working in R&D will succeed. And if blockchain-enabled tech is to last, we’ll find pragmatic ways to balance the permissionlessness, Sybil-attack resistance, and "freeness" trilemma effectively (this is a great paper, by the way: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445760.2024.2352740 ), just as we have with many other hard problems in the past.

IPv6-only land is a good place to be :)

Pesky persistent bug. Go to settings and click "Delete local cache". v3.4.6 should show up.

Good Morning Folks. So much to build. https://youtu.be/eO6OaVnbqaY #GM #BuildingTheFreeWeb

GM Zed. I hope you are doing well.

Looking good. I'll take it for a spin tomorrow.

This is frustrating. Same deal as before where it calls /media, received a reply with 307 and doesn't call back? If so can you just reply on the GitHub issue with the logs and your exact Primal media settings.

More like but I like your version much better 🤣

On my dev box, 10 different aliases to nak (nak1, nak2... nak10). While folks play with ephemeral audio notes, vibe coding and other fancy stuff, my top two "clients" at the moment are nak and go-nostr. I wish I was joking 🤣

On my dev box, 10 different aaliases to nak (nak1, nak2... nak10). While folks play with ephemeral audio notes, vibe coding and other fancy stuff, my top two "clients" at the moment are nak and go-nostr. I wish I was joking 🤣

I don't have a lot of trust in myself either 🤣. Aside from locking myself out of my own WoT experiment because I forgot to grant the relay owner pubkey ultimate (myself) ownertrust by definition, I also managed to lock myself out of not one but two NIP-29 groups I created. It happens to the best of us.

on the same front, if you still want me to upstream these fixes to Khatru, please let me know where (check your DMs). If you're too busy to deal with this right now, no problem at all. While it's not the cleanest solution, I can release v1.1.0 from my fork of Khatru. Either way, just let me know.

GM to you and the Goat!

GM Enki, take your time, rest a bit and soon the jet lag will be iver.

GN The Fishcake. 🛌💤🌙

🤣 https://youtu.be/vUncEiyXIT4

Agreed. Things are changing, and I’m seeing a much more pragmatic and warm attitude towards Nostr from my Fedi network than I used to in the past. Here’s a recent message that put a smile on my face: @[email protected] 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/reiver/statuses/115055937803007907 - @anthony FWIW, I think the people developing Nostr are our friends 🙂 (We have similar motivations.) -- If we could just get some of these folks to look beyond the BTC Twitter bubble thing and stick around a bit longer, we could gain some powerful allies and much-needed reinforcement, both in terms of content and development.

Not sure if my translator captured your question correctly, but I basically do this on my own account when I want to understand a topic in more depth. For example: what’s different about LLMs? How do transformers work? Other than that, I still have some academic connections and try to keep up with research produced around topics and groups closer to me. That might mean searching for specific terms, authors, keywords, magazines / periodics or even DOIs when I know exactly what I’m looking for.

I’m really ashamed of the UK. When the US judicial system and Trump feel like the better alternatives, you know you’ve really, really messed things up. Here's what my favourite angry New Yorker had to say about it on one of his latest videos: https://youtu.be/TNNsCuEvR5w