I've made some tiny progress since I wrote this article: it appears I respond to tone better now. I'm not happy, though. I suck at identifying in time when the other side has started to respond from the 3rd lowest level of the Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement. Self-development is a bitch. #grownostr #meditations #leadership It's not a usual case in my debates: I do my best so the other side would never need to respond to my tone. Do my best to keep my vibes, directed to the other side, in control. I'm interested in rational discussions, not the discussions that turn into emotional drama, where either side has to respond from stress. This case was unique: the other side had a reason for responding to my tone because I was rude towards the third, the discussed side. Which was not some object; it's a group of people. A group of people that never responded to my initial friendly inquiries to them. What I've learned this time: identifying a response to a tone is not easy; it's not obvious because it doesn't feel offensive. It feels just like some normal, valid, routine kind of argument when it's a part of an already ongoing debate. While it should always be used as a marker for putting the discussion on pause instead. It's not yet an unrecoverable stage of discussion, but being too late with this totally kills it. Keep nostr weird, folks. But don't overdo it: notice that any side may be in stress already. That's not the point of debating; the point is truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryE8fahwC8s

Not gonna become another troll; that's not my thing. I prefer peaceful, constructive, intellectual conversations. I don't claim I'm perfect in that, though. My apologies to whoever I caused or will possibly cause emotional discomfort in whatever conversation. That's not intentional ☮ #grownostr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ0trKBniDE

What are the appropriate use cases for a duress pin in ? Have you possibly used it in a real scenario already? What price did you pay for that? #asknostr #grapheneos #privacy

> They haven't worked in 4 years > the nip repo has never had a focus on privacy I'm not happy with the reliability of NIP-17, when different implementations are used. Making it optional in clients would be a good thing. What about Cordn though? This one, in an exchange for reliability, doesn't attempt to invent truly decentralized DMs, yet this one is a competitor to Signal and SimpleX in terms of privacy and secrecy.

Are you aware of this paper, #devstr, #machinelearning, #ai, #asknostr? https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335 If this one was not a quantum leap in vibe-coding in particular—I don't know what was. I find it weird I still can't find any overview of this paper on YouTube in English (however, there's a good one in Russian; I believe some non-techies can understand it). Have you seen one? Are you possibly making such videos? I think this paper is worth considering. See my slightly simplified explanation (just under the paper link in the attached post) what it is about and how the same principle is possibly applicable to broader areas than something as formal as programming and math if the GPUs were more accessible on our VPSes. I'd appreciate any corrections by ML engineers on my explanation or the possible prospects I mentioned, whether they are far-fetched or close to truth already (yeah-yeah, I know ML guys, many of you are NDA-enslaved, but at least wink a reaction).

I find it ironic that we went so abstract about date and time that we no longer match this stuff with celestial bodies' positions really. I heard new generations no longer interpret analog clock and I think there's a reason for all that; all that has been too complicated. If you look deeper, at any normal time/date library source code—that just nuts; it's always a confusing thing with weird astronomical constants. 24-hour clock has been a normal thing in my culture, but I've gone further and been literally using 24-hour clock *without minutes*, so 02:00 PM for me is 14.0h and 02:30 PM is 14.5h. It's easier to calculate deltas with this but hard to translate to exact normie hours + minutes.

Wouldn't it be useful to have a censorship-resistant layer for normie DNS? Controlled from Nostr. #asknostr #devstr #dns Without going too much into design details, that used to have their valid NIP-05 `_@domain` could keep controlling their domain records after their domain takedown. Records are resolvable through ordinary nameservers that could be used as an alternative to Quad9/CF/etc., could be run by whoever wants, and could be advertised with DHCP in Nostr-VPN/Obscura/etc. by default. TLS will possibly keep working normally after a domain takedown until the cert expires. Useful for site redirection when it's accessed from an ordinary browser. HTTPS could be allowed with self-signed certs (at least for the taken-down domains) in the native Nostr clients. Relays would just keep working. All this would to some degree backfire on domain registrars (or whoever is involved) every time they conform to a domain ban requirement: with some limitations, the original authentic domain owners will be awarded a forever free domain when it's banned. Except these lucky banned domain owners will be actual owners, independent from ICANN.

Thanks for the article! Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I don't see my own comments under the kind 30023 articles anymore. Here it is:

I've got no idea who was the original author of the meme; I've stolen it from some other nostrich too 🌚

Oh, my assumptions were wrong, thanks! Having strict validations is good, actually; I don't think it's worthwhile changing; it's better to fix buggy clients. looks like something is not okay with your client: many of your comments are not visible from YakiHonne.

> i'm retarded Me too. It's crazy how this became so complicated. Marmot vs Concord vs Cordn, the way I currently understand them, specifically in relation to group chats: - Marmot—experimental attempt to make decentralized secret chats - Concord—reliable decentralized private non-secret chats (normally keeps storing messages on the relays; newly logged-in clients will retrieve them) - Cordn—reliable secret chats that rely on coordinator servers

Don't wanna be nihilistic, however some of these things are either doing phone number KYC-based metadata association or having poor security design or have been doing something irrational and suspicious likely camouflaged as bugs. More or less experimental stuff that gives hope: nostrmail, cordn, obscuravpn. https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

I've got a redirector for SearXNG btw: https://codonaft.com/searxng.html

There's a star button on gitworkshop.dev and gittr.space

> i prefer an imperfect and genuine human "voice" Definitely. For me, poetry in particular is a kind of psychotherapy. It's primarily for humans; I find current AI to be possibly useful only as something additional in this case, not as an initial step towards a first draft: AI doesn't have a (complex enough) body and doesn't experience some chemistry shit the body produces. It's only mimicking some shallow human shit outputs instead, not experiencing the drama that causes humans to make these fuzzy and multi-layered poetic outputs. I can't empathize with pure robotic stuff, can't "live it". Same with occasional posting.

Thanks for clarifying all this. > the problem with specialized relays is that they scale vertically, unlike general purpose ones Does this example (last paragraph) scale vertically or horizontally? What do you think: is it dumb enough?

White Noise is still an experimental attempt to build fully decentralized secret group chats. Currently Armada (Discord-like non-secret decentralized private group chats) and Cordn (secret group chats, relying on coordinator nodes) should be more reliable; both are built on Nostr too.

Is something missing in the current LTS kernel versions? They are less scary to update.

Sudden KYC attacks are the dilemma. They are technically not takedowns, but when nothing works, I suspect this may become a primary censorship technique.

#yakihonne