this is weird... lego military prison... https://www.temu.com/nz/military-prison-building-blocks--trap-diy-construction-toy-compatible-with--for-young--made-of-durable-abs-material-g-601099607862012.html

Between 60% and 90% of ip cameras can easily be hacked. I never thought they were secure but damn.

Giving a talk about bitchat, nostr private groups with MLS, and what we’re doing with andotherstuff.org at #why2025 in an hour at 7pm CET. Watch the stream https://streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025/delphinus

Wait are you saying is not gay because I made the links work? 🫨🏳️‍🌈

Sometimes when there isn’t someone speaking up about an injustice then you’ve got to do it yourself. I created stop.b416.nz to try and kickstart a campaign against bringing KYC and age restrictions to social media in Aotearoa New Zealand. There are some groups like doing that work in the US. And I’m sure there are nascent efforts in other countries. "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"

What are other nostr app developers and relay operators doing with regard to the UK Online Services Act? Apparently there is no legal exception for open source or apps that are not connecting to servers you control or apps that are entirely encrypted and peer to peer. Basically they want us to KYC anyone they think might be based in the UK, and implement content filters. There seems to be no way to be in compliance in Nostr without limiting all connections to a single gateway relay the way Primal does, and with geo location, including blocking tor and vpn connections, and content analysis of all text and media. Basically insanity which is completely counter to the entire Nostr project. I knew there was some of OSA coming but I hadn’t paid attention to it. None of us want to KYC our users or build a content filtering system. I mean how do we know if a post is about a knife? Yes we can’t have content about knives! Or how do we determine who considers content hateful? https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/illegal-content-codes-of-practice-for-user-to-user-services.pdf?v=391681 What are Nostr devs based in the UK doing? Users? Relay operators?

This tombstone is an inspiration! https://archive.is/TlJnd

There's a wave of research and people posting on social media that the new LLM agentic programming isn't improving developer productivity. This reminds me of when people said the same thing about email, the web, and mobile phones. Eventually the naysayers will be ignored and everybody will move on. The very idea that we would consider developing software without agents and LLM's. Just like the idea of doing business without a mobile phone or email or even computer seems insane. https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented

had early access to gpt-5 and has a good write up of it from the perspective of a developer. https://simonwillison.net/series/gpt-5/

Don’t ask gpt-5 to make your graphs.

Nostr is a commons, it's something we all use, some of whom make money using Nostr, but none of us own it. We govern it through formal and informal means, but without the thing itself being owned by an individual, company, or government. I sad down with David Bollier, researcher and author of many books about the commons to talk about social media protocols as a digital commons. And how a commons based open markets is the future of social media. https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/rabble-evan-henshaw-plath-how-network-protocols-enable-digital-commons-open-marrkets https://www.bollier.org/blog/importance-network-protocols-commoning-open-markets And on fountain, which seems to be a little late in syncing the podcast: https://fountain.fm/show/ninjSpTel8YuRHtDAcEv