Technical Debt

The web just sucks man.
ZeroNet made it look easy back in the day, but then it runs as a daemon on your machine handling the p2p stuff in the background, but worked with any browser.
Brave has native support for IPFS but IPFS is slow as balls.
Only other option I can think of right now is:
- do server side rendering of the home page (client updates the dom afterwards)
- since the server rendered that page before it should be able to fech the first 30 seconds of each video and cache that
- do some HLS wizardry to switch the streams
Actually… I guess I am reinventing the library you mentioned.
Maybe we should just reinvent zeronet with nostr and nsites and whatever more, that way one daemon can serve as a local relay for caching/redistributing the nsites you visit and handle the p2p shit.

2026-10-14 05:54:23 UTC

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LTE is not the only possible transport.
5G has some low power IoT mode and actually, why restrict ourselves to mobile networks?
You could just broadcast a Bluetooth beacon intended to be transported by devices on the find my network, which means basically any iPhone or android around can do the internet hop for you.

2026-10-14 05:48:48 UTC

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The NAT issues only apply to people behind CGNATs which also don’t have IPv6… which should be precisely nobody, unless of course some ISPs are violating some rules there, which could get them fined etc.
But you can simulate a CGNAT at home, assuming you have IPv4 connectivity, just connect a second router onto your main router and then tada, you have double NAT, which is basically what CGNAT is. If you want more fun chain a third router and then you effectively have a double nat behind a cgnat, which now that I think of it shouldn’t be too uncommon either, given the amount of poorly set up “wifi range extenders” out in the blue and/or people manually disabling ipv6 or whatever.

2026-10-14 04:58:59 UTC

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Yeah people didn’t seem to catch on weight differences from some videos I saw, some had a huge ass battery inside.
Still, some Samsung TV controllers claim to harvest power from thin air (actually induced voltage from radio waves or whatever), that could be one way of powering as well. The attacker certainly can wait for that kind of system to slowly charge a capacitor.
I am rather surprised at how these devices seem to have a number of exposed pads, if you can’t design an obstructed silicon like Apple at the very least give the whole thing a resin bath or something.

2026-10-14 04:01:32 UTC

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Pretty sure it could be worked around with a joule thief, a battery… but yeah, better than nothing I guess.

2026-10-14 03:21:21 UTC

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Why bother with starlink? Just set a local mesh and keep away from the internet at large…

2026-10-14 03:19:06 UTC

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Tor is a CIA honeypot.

2026-10-14 02:35:46 UTC

This is uuuuge
#nevent1q…3npv

2026-10-14 02:33:05 UTC

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I honestly don’t know how to onboard people anymore… half the wallets look like ass, the other half behave like ass and the third half (off by one errors are hard) looks and behaves like ass.
And then there’s the question of which poison to recommend. Spark? Cashu? A whole ass node full of complexity which still needs purchasing liquidity from a third party?
Ignore lightning entirely and tell them to run a plain and boring bitcoin wallet like bluewallet?
So many questions…

2026-10-14 02:06:44 UTC

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Also, did the join button detect the browser signer and skipped the explanation about nostr and how to login in a popup or is it missing that altogether

2026-10-14 02:04:39 UTC

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Why does it say “Connect to relays to discover games” right in the front page?
We shouldn’t be forcing jargon like that, especially so early.

2026-10-14 01:59:10 UTC

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I think every nostr user would implode if they had to be forced into using a single client for a week.

2026-10-14 01:47:47 UTC

The humble client devs seeing their appstore age rating rise to 18+: :Sadge:
#nevent1q…qy72

2026-10-14 01:39:10 UTC

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Honestly I wouldn’t take blossom seriously for any long form video usecase, most clients don’t even seem to be doing blossom resolutions… treat it as if it was a mere a centralized http server.
Your best bet seems to be webtorrents indeed.

2026-10-14 01:26:36 UTC

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FIPS is good as is, but if you want to explore similar networks with an already existing user base, check cjdns and Yggdrasil.
Also see my reply #nevent1q…g39v

2026-10-14 00:56:33 UTC

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/f1e375c400131e3646ce2d6fec0d60f72b39ea154cea2e4e146e66aad38a0313.jpeg
#nevent1q…0nnc

2026-10-14 00:53:13 UTC

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It actually means that their blockchain isn’t held hostage by a handful of miners and we should congratulate them on that.
Why would a State or central bank try to develop a cpu based asic when they can just delist monero from every exchange on earth and use the surveillance apparatus they already have to keep an eye on who might be exchanging bitcoin for monero? Or setup honeypots or literally just plain brute force? That is what they always do.
And I’m pretty sure ASIC developers wouldn’t be sitting on the opportunity of printing literal cash if they thought it was possible to do so.

2026-10-14 00:34:53 UTC

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This is goated.

2026-10-13 20:15:35 UTC

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After a session of AI psychosis I feel like I’m more on side of Rootsocks than before.
Ethereum finality is only relevant in the context of a PoS chain, Rootstock being PoW means you can just count confirmations instead.
As for reorgs, Rootstock has multiple preventive measures (Armadillo, Timestamp linking with Bitcoin’s main chain, transparent double spending trails etc), mostly trading availability for consistency (it stops validating blocks when an attack is detected).
Basically, the worst case scenario for ethereum is solved through “social recovery”, meaning the community has to pick a chain to call ethereum arbitrarily (this already happened in the past due to consensus bugs).
Now Rootstock, even if its defenses fail, worst thing that could happen is what, a depeg? Sure, that would suck for them but for inkan there wouldn’t be the subjective problem of choosing which delegation history is canonical. The consensus rules of PoW take care of that.

2026-10-13 17:17:26 UTC

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Nostur is not loading that image for me. So far only ditto and yakihonne did the trick for me, not even nostrich, which posted the event with the fallabck url and everything, was able to load the image after I closed and reopened it.

2026-10-13 17:15:03 UTC

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I think some people will just outright refuse anything that doesn’t resolve 100% within the broken relay ecosystem, which I’m convinced is impossible. So… 🤷‍♂️

2026-10-13 17:09:24 UTC

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There’s a gap between socializing and fucking.

2026-10-13 17:07:28 UTC

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Yes, Rootstock is 100% EVM compatible. Some arguments for that:
- trusting the PoW of basically one network: since rootstock is merge mined with bitcoin and OTS already depends on bitcoin
- payment of delegation fees in a currency closer to being money/more holders/etc; getting some btc into rootstock is a trustless operation (and going back could be made to not require a federation if only a certain op code would be added into bitcoin or whatever, that’s besides the point)
But on a surface level a technical argument I can think for bitcoin script (which works against both ethereum and rootstock) is that you are already using one blockchain for OTS, using a second blockchain is added complexity/a second single point of failure/whatever.

2026-10-13 11:37:58 UTC

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Wen iOS

2026-10-13 10:54:30 UTC

If your client can’t load this image, it’s not doing blossom resolutions… in fact it is not even reading the fallback field from the note json.
#nevent1q…5e36

2026-10-13 01:15:23 UTC

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🫪

2026-10-13 00:44:53 UTC

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For the curious about my word selection
https://24242.io/abe36d1c95c7782006b05623d133f2adea49f34fbbf71636e4a9f775b57bb0ec.png

2026-10-13 00:25:05 UTC

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FIPS is more similar to cjdns’ younger cousin, Yggdrasil.
It should be possible to bridge all three, but I haven’t seen anyone trying it yet.
Since they don’t conflict with each other people just prefer to run them on dual stack I guess.

2026-10-12 23:50:09 UTC

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Finally being too poor to afford a hardware wallet paid off.
A used android phone sells for peanuts where I live, guess I shouldn’t have been worried about not being able to buy one of the fancy hardware wallets.

2026-10-12 21:25:28 UTC

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Good, now do @npub1y0g…00ly :EZ:

2026-10-12 20:52:12 UTC

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Do you think the smart contract could be ported to bitcoin script?

2026-10-12 19:11:18 UTC

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But do you think it would be better received or not?

2026-10-12 19:05:05 UTC

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You don’t even need to speculate about the existence of higher beings for this.
Our inherent inability to perfectly perceive the world around us is not proof that there aren’t universal truths.
Staying open to questioning perceived truths is what pushes us towards the real deal, not outright denying them.

2026-10-12 18:52:53 UTC

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Would it make any difference had he deployed the smart contract on bitcoin rootstock instead of Ethereum?

2026-10-12 18:42:51 UTC

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If you apply that assertion into itself the conclusion is that there can be things that are objectively true or false.
Relativism is one hell of a drug.

2026-10-12 18:30:45 UTC

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Yeah there is a smart contract because OTS + nostr alone would leave the system vulnerable to some attack scenarios. I won’t pretend to understand why that is the case but nothing seems to prevent us from deploying the contract on Rootstock instead.
#naddr1qq…u70r

2026-10-12 17:53:06 UTC

That explains a lot. #nevent1q…9jy4
#nevent1q…m4qw

2026-10-12 17:48:58 UTC

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Yes, at https://www.inkan.cc

2026-10-12 17:47:14 UTC

Laughing on the outside, but screaming internally because the only country in the world capable of exporting its inflation won’t stop playing third world games, so everyone will get third world prizes.
#nevent1q…09e7

2026-10-12 17:36:04 UTC

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Gimme gimme!

2026-10-12 17:34:13 UTC

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It depends on your level of paranoia, nothing in that proposal prevents you from making your existing npub do the delegation, but like come on that would be a one time effort for priceless peace of mind.
I personally have rawdogged my nsec enough that I would prefer to go through that effort when the time comes.

2026-10-12 17:19:09 UTC

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Have you guys figured out the not-so-secret sauce that makes @npub1cla…539g receive silent push instantaneously and replicated into Blitz?
Because right now, most of the wallet requests coming from @npub1n0s…k6h0 timeout for me.

2026-10-12 17:12:25 UTC

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Dude I am Brazilian, my race is yes.

2026-10-12 17:08:46 UTC

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That was so deep you may find oil

2026-10-12 17:03:29 UTC

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It is optional, but like why wouldn’t you? You can make your new key bless the existing npub, so that your existing posts aren’t lost in the transition, if I understood correctly.

2026-10-12 16:58:04 UTC

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Is it that bad in the big US of A?

2026-10-12 16:52:15 UTC

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He’s getting paid for that????

2026-10-12 16:50:23 UTC

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I don’t know if it was made to save money, I think the reasoning would be that nobody eats whole foods anymore and just associate the fake smell with the fruit… and then someone did a market research and found out enough psychos like that fake smell.
Or maybe we are just trying to read retards doing retarded things.

2026-10-12 16:42:01 UTC

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If I had to guess that would be the smell emitting from whatever chemicals they use to make artificial coconut flavoring.

2026-10-12 16:32:15 UTC

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@npub1fdt…uwwr have you seen this?

2026-10-12 16:15:24 UTC

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My only and barely relevant complaint is the use of etherum instead of rootstock, which I believe would make it easier to get bitcooners on board.

2026-10-12 16:01:24 UTC

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I see where you are coming from and that may be true for some of these projects, like Yggdrasil really started as a research thing.
However I don’t think that applies to CJDNS and FIPS.
@npub1mh5…233h , the creator of CJDNS, the oldest of this category of self arranging, encrypted, ipv6-compatible mesh networks (or darknets or whatever people like to call them), created pkt.cash with a novel “bandwidth pow” to, among other things, fund the project in a way that the equipment you buy to mine later becomes useful to sustain the network.
FIPS is the other way around, people at toll gate hit some scaling issues trying to bend the traditional network stack into incentivized mesh networks and so FIPS was born.
And there’s also Althea doing moves since 2018.
Now, I’m not so sure these projects are in the exact same position as nostr. Incentivized meshnets can lure anyone in with the idea of reselling idle internet links, which basically acts as the gateway drug. That is value delivered in the short term and dare I say it is easier to flash some random wifi router than it is to figure out how and why to nostr.
Meanwhile, when nostr (as a twitter replacement) got its big push, the fediverse/bluesky bridges weren’t up yet so people got burned with the lack of content and whatever other problems of early technology.
I’m pretty sure things would’ve been different if bridges were a day one priority, see how Matrix did an embrace, extend and extinguish on IRC.

2026-10-12 04:39:38 UTC

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The package management side of flatpak is atrocious compared to something like nix or guix

2026-10-12 03:32:40 UTC

Finally, the year of Linux on des- mobile phones.
#nevent1q…avdk

2026-10-12 03:23:49 UTC

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“Mixed breeds tend to be the most well adjusted dogs.”
Funny how mixed breed humans are the opposite.

2026-10-12 03:19:27 UTC

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I DMed you my solution

2026-10-11 18:25:45 UTC

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Thanks for the reply.
But damn, nostr.watch is racist against mobile users. And nostr.band isn’t loading for me.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/da8f01b56b843e6f60cc36625e4eb9abd951b8822bc0db6e2e03dbc15eb92e0a.jpeg

2026-10-11 18:16:44 UTC

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Ask the slop machine to take an alternative YouTube frontend people love, but replace the video backend with LBRY/Odysee and connect the social features (like comments) to nostr instead.
Too ambitious? Or just a pointless exercise? I don’t know 🤷‍♂️

2026-10-11 18:12:29 UTC

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I just wanted to tag a nostr solution that exists but has been ignored, don’t bite me.

2026-10-11 17:25:44 UTC

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Shoot me but I don’t think Monero replaces lightning for day to day transactions. Hell, not even lightning appears to be up to the task.
My first experience with Monero didn’t scream speed. Faster than bitcoin? Maybe, but I wouldn’t be able to confirm because cake wallet defaulted to some excruciatingly slow tor setup but even disabling tor didn’t seem to do much (and that was on a landline fiber connection).
“Sovereign” mobile lightning setups still rely on a third party for liquidity so the extra network traffic really seems not worth it compared to just using, I don’t know, spark or cashu.
Whenever I bring up the network problem some people say that “in theory you only need the merchant to be online since the costumer could presign the transaction locally and the merchant could publish and validate said transaction” but I’m not aware of a single wallet setup that implements anything close to that outside of the Cashu ecosystem.
Also see this old, opinion but still relevant article https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/top-bitcoin-lightning-wallets-in-slow-internet

2026-10-11 17:03:07 UTC

???
#nevent1q…e4ca

2026-10-11 17:00:12 UTC

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s/fixes/worsens

2026-10-11 16:59:41 UTC

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Dude we just paste our nsecs anywhere, and the work on key rotation by @npub16xn…6z6l went mostly ignored by everyone.
I guess we have no right to shit on them… this time.

2026-10-11 16:44:50 UTC

#asknostr
Since Google sucks (and so does my memory) I’ll have to ask: what were the tools for finding and comparing relays? I remember it even had some kind of benchmark so I could pick whichever had the lowest latency to me (not according to wherever the tool was hosted). And that one cool nostr note search tool?
Actually, where do we keep a repository of nostr knowledge? Like sometimes I see someone posting a relay that does X or Y and the relay list thing is not good at showcasing these special features.
Also I’m trying to fix my relays so I wonder which iOS/web client has the best UI/UX for that. And backing up said config since some random client might mess that up again in the future because why wouldn’t it.

2026-10-11 14:42:22 UTC

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/deb9109129f1a58619b83693971bb4d16f7daaf29b95a60a55b9b22a3d6ae9d4.jpeg

2026-10-11 05:43:16 UTC

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Where is the primoooool gif when you need it?

2026-10-11 03:32:20 UTC

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2026-10-10 23:56:05 UTC

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Computer. I really wish more clients would implement edits.

2026-10-10 23:46:50 UTC

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If that’s your use case, consider using @npub1y0g…00ly with https://nostrvpn.org/

2026-10-10 22:31:34 UTC

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Have you heard of Nostur yet?

2026-10-10 22:25:37 UTC

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ICANN is fake and gay

2026-10-10 19:56:01 UTC

THESE FUCKERS DIDNT EVEN BOTHER USING A VOLTAGE REGULATOR AHAHAHAHAHA
#nevent1q…m59e

2026-10-10 19:43:35 UTC

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Nothing prevents the OS from lying though, right?

2026-10-10 18:04:33 UTC

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I thought there was a path for using smart card hardware for that, what happened?

2026-10-10 17:49:45 UTC

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Since we are here… does anyone know which client would be starting NIP-04 DMs by default still? #asknostr

2026-10-10 17:47:17 UTC

# NOSTR MOMENT
Ok this one may actually be somewhat excusable. I just found out about a 4 months old DM while randomly fiddling with @npub1fa0…0z97
I have met the sender through a Stacker News post so we had no nostr connection beforehand, and whatever client they used sent the message using the old NIP-04 standard.
Now one might say that is WoT working as intended but how come every other client didn’t get the message?
Some clients have a tab for unknown senders, and out of these, some have another layer of classification so they require an extra step to see all dm requests. But regardless of how deep I dug, all I could find there was actual spam, not said message.
#nostrmoment

2026-10-10 16:48:29 UTC

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Have you seen the new leaks with Jason’s dong along hanging around?

2026-10-10 16:47:40 UTC

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I suppose the little board is stepping down the voltage to 5v, since it had a USB-A port.
Retarded design if it is just pumping 9v though.

2026-10-10 16:05:39 UTC

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I believe you can use passkeys with unixpass on desktop just fine

2026-10-10 13:51:16 UTC

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They should be able to scale better than DHT based meshes, or at least that is what led one of the co-creators of CJDNS into creating Yggdrasil.
Basically the problem was, since cjdns is source routed and relies on a DHT, the routing table would eventually grow to the point that nodes wouldn’t be able to route packets anymore (at least without asking for a bigger/“routing node” for a route), while Yggdrasil (and our nostr friend @npub1y0g…00ly) elect a node as the network root and then assign dynamic coordinates based on your position relative to said root, and then nodes try to find the best next hop based on local information (and a worst case scenario route is always guaranteed).
I may have gotten a thing or two wrong so might want to check out https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
I have a growing suspicion that IPFS isn’t fundamentally wrong, it just has/had severe implementation issues, to the point that I guess some vibecoder could get it working better than whoever is at protocol labs, but they have brand recognition so good luck to whoever attempts taking them down.

2026-10-10 02:50:00 UTC

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/553a171906c1ddd8d1afff260fe16e30184e4d23425c433bb295dac9db5e3782.jpeg

2026-10-10 02:38:51 UTC

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Can’t make this up

2026-10-10 01:21:42 UTC

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Unpopular opinion: followings should’ve been individual events rather than a list, would’ve prevented the problem with clients constantly nuking follow lists as well as making it easier to subscribe to other people’s follows.
But what do I know, I only have a gay iPhone and a broken MacBook, so my opinion as a non nostr builder is worthless.

2026-10-10 01:11:11 UTC

And nostr people fight over clients not rendering kind-1 replies… given a long enough timeline they will just disappear regardless
#nevent1q…32gz

2026-10-10 01:08:59 UTC

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Oh man, quoting old notes is so grim.
Missing events and broken media left and right. :Sadge:

2026-10-09 21:20:26 UTC

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Not the 5 years old post 💀
But really, are things still that dire?
Also I am told by IPFS evangelists that their DHT is not really a DHT and has fixed the biggest problems DHTs have… and yet back when I tried IPFS it behaved very much like you described, meanwhile the humble torrent magnets have not failed me even once so yeah, what the hell?
And this may be offtopic but don’t you think p2p apps could be better designed if they were drop clearnet support entirely to leverage some intrinsic property of spanning tree meshnets such as FIPS and Yggdrasil?

2026-10-09 20:45:49 UTC

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Cool. May I suggest to use Elixir next rewrite? :CatBlush:

2026-10-09 16:47:29 UTC

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#nevent1q…4z2l

2026-10-09 16:45:51 UTC

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If you have the spare time, consider flooding small claims courts because at least you can be assured that you’re making a dent on their profit and they might actually blacklist you internally.

2026-10-09 16:39:32 UTC

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We got Amethyst on desktop before GTA VI…
and before Amethyst on iOS 😤

2026-10-09 12:37:38 UTC

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Those aren’t men, those are rats and you should be glad they are gone.

2026-10-09 12:36:24 UTC

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Sounds like a dream wife.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/046500491cddd8d6121f89eae939b198b900e82947e25277f6bc8504e4ba3bc0.gif

2026-10-09 12:30:08 UTC

@npub1lrn…qnw5
#nevent1q…cvqe

2026-10-09 02:34:59 UTC