(Pretty dresses, too, of course.)

What a beauty... that Mercedes W124!

One would hope that most Nostr apps respect your relay settings, so that your personal relay is that place.

Yet another option for more technical users would be to do it with a dedicated sync program on their computer. For example, I automatically sync my Nostr events to my laptop in a background job once an hour. Would be rather easy to just post them to RS from there, too. That said, I still like the original idea of it being as easy as flipping a switch in the account settings, so that I as a user don't have to worry about any of it.

Yeah, so my idea (and rough plan) was for kosmos.org users to have anything they post to the Nostr relay be synced to their storage automatically, so then other apps could go and cross-post content from there (in addition to just having a syncable backup and potential cache there, too). As you say, the transports can be much more agnostic, as long as the original content is signed by someone's key.

I meant the/a Kosmos relay, but it could also be a more generic program that follows pubkeys on multiple relays. From an operator's point of view, it's not fun having to connect to arbitrary other relays via WebSockets, and you have to build in a lot of fault tolerance to deal with timeouts and such. Another option would be to do this directly in a Nostr client, of course, but then it wouldn't work with arbitrary clients. However, the RS-enabled client can sync all the events posted by other clients and back them up to RS once received.

https://www.therage.co/leaked-luke-dashjr-bitcoin-hardfork I won't link any of the replies, but Nostr is currently full of simplistic "they're lying" posts, with no added facts or arguments, and no refutation of the messages being authentic.

"ANProto operates under the working theory that Nostr will never reach anyone besides Bitcoiners." https://anproto.com

The drama of the day is frankly just embarrassing. Either the screenshots are real, and thus all claims of lying simply criticize the article's wording, but not the substance. Or they're fake, and the journalist in question is intentionally spreading carefully fabricated misinformation. There is no other option, it's as simple as that. If the latter were the case, then why is there still no explicit claim of the screenshots having been faked?

Is "top 8th" supposed to be some kind of brag? Interestingly, real Knots adoption (when looking at non-inflated numbers) is somewhere in the same ballpark as Ocean's mining share.

(I.e. back to the Ponzi Scheme narrative that had already died before, but now you have some colorful characters to associate it with.)

Wouldn't those all be normal results of fat people losing fat? 🤔

It's a silly argument really. It inherently acknowledges that their problem is already solved by Nostr, but since they themselves are unwilling to simply use that and onboard people to their own relays and/or clients, the solution is not good enough for them and their peers. Maybe it's a practical joke by an xkcd fan? 🤔

Works! And it's much quicker and more concise than the other video. 👌

If someone's claiming that CSAM is why you should censor or centralize anything on the Internet, then it's virtually certain that they're on the wrong side of history. Not because CSAM is desirable, but because it's an absurd cop-out argument that you could equally apply to a printing press. And the only people who usually make it are censorious anti-Internet politicians.

Oh wow, I've never seen the second one with the taxi driver. Unfortunately, I don't have a Vimeo account anymore, and somehow it's behind a login wall. Could you re-upload elsewhere perhaps?

I met Pelle in Nairobi in 2013 or 14. Here's his account about Kipochi: https://blog.stakeventures.com/articles/what-actually-happened-at-kipochi Bitpesa was shut down by Safaricom in the same year IIRC, but apparently turned into an exchange later: https://www.bitpesa.co/ and I were traveling around East Africa during that time frame, and he built a Telegram bot in order to pay for his own things with bitcoin and to demo how bridges could work.