Nostr notes by mister_monster

These Chinese manufacturer names are getting out of hand lol

2026-10-15T07:07:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…mmjs
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These Chinese manufacturer names are getting out of hand lol

I like the purple rice that Jews eat. That shit is good.

2026-10-13T20:04:22Z

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I like the purple rice that Jews eat. That shit is good.

I'm looking at that subreddit, and it appears armada is the ...

2026-10-13T01:24:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…du6x
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I'm looking at that subreddit, and it appears armada is the most popular project in that little community dedicated to discord alternatives (so they say).

Seems to me like the loudest are a minority there.

I guess this is a bad time to sell my old ledger nano s devices ...

2026-10-12T22:09:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…xu50
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I guess this is a bad time to sell my old ledger nano s devices that ive had for a couple years and dont use, and dont want, and haven't tampered with.

I don't think hardware wallets are dead. I think QR code based wallets are the future, if you can verify your hardware and firmware and the only connection to the outside world is a camera and screen. In that case, unless the RNG is borked (like coldcard) its safe so long as the encryption itself isnt broken, in which case the currencies are fucked with our without hardware wallets.

I do think big vendors are kind of fucked too, because the more a supply chain scales the less safe it is. They're gonna be FOSS and open hardware, QR oriented, and small manufacturer or they're going bust.

@nprofile…vhl6 would it be possible to be able to turn off ...

2026-10-12T04:20:37Z

VitorPamplona (nprofile…vhl6) would it be possible to be able to turn off concord chat notifications as a separate thing? Amethyst does so much now, if we get notifications for every thing on nostr then notifications will become just noise, and particularly concord rooms often have dozens of people in them.

What about aborting each other lol

2026-10-11T20:27:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…h7z5
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What about aborting each other lol

People who commit attacks against powerful corporations need to ...

2026-10-11T19:31:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…dx3x
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People who commit attacks against powerful corporations need to understand and face that this is what they're doing. Creating Nitter is absolutely an attack against X, they knew it and felt it when they made it, thats the whole point. Yet somehow they decided that they should attach their names to it, host it on github, put themselves at the mercy of a "justice" system they probably already understood existed to protect the power structure and nothing more.

I liken it to old armies walking dick first into battle because of "honor." The ones that won acted like guerillas.

If youre going to attack a powerful entity, you need to do it in a way where there's nowhere to send a cease and desist. Your code should be hosted on ngit on one or many relays behind tor, or some other such approach that protects you. Your name should not be attached to such endeavors.

If youre writing disruptive FOSS software (redundant I know) you need to obfuscate its source as best you can and prepare for pushback if youre successful. You need to act like a guerilla.

Now they need money to fight the battle on the opponents turf. They're probably not going to get it. That could've been avoided.

I hope someone is hosting a fork of the software somewhere out of reach, and not attaching their name to it.

What should public discourse look like on these topics?

2026-10-11T17:31:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…0d6u
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What should public discourse look like on these topics?

I had no idea myself lol

2026-10-09T22:20:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…pg9c
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I had no idea myself lol

Wait til you wake up from a nice dream and then check your phone ...

2026-10-09T17:20:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…ls0v
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Wait til you wake up from a nice dream and then check your phone to find that that is true. A figurative nightmare is worse than a literal nightmare.

They'll never come to nostr because they can't be in ...

2026-10-09T06:58:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…epg6
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They'll never come to nostr because they can't be in charge of anything but their own blocklist.

I personally don't care who "comes to" nostr, because nostr is just a protocol and they're free to isolate themselves. The trouble is that in the past, in other places, they've tried to isolate others and actively harassed them. They're not going to really be able to do that here.

Shared this yesterday, the github page, its so new I think most ...

2026-10-08T05:34:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…4227
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Shared this yesterday, the github page, its so new I think most people dont realize it exists yet. This suite is gonna be a big one if maintenance continues and the maintainers are sane.

Nostr event nevent1qqsqqqqpkz62dn0z9mchdut6e6luw6ppwtay0dheh6ea5ckf6uwel7qzyrwjq464d7y2vn9v6p6aqpl3heyql9yuj87k6rzdtya6endj4277yh3d454

2026-10-08T05:30:45Z

He just thinks feminism is for females. Pretty straightforward ...

2026-10-08T03:02:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…qefh
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He just thinks feminism is for females. Pretty straightforward opinion. I dont think he is taking a flamethrower to anybody.

Default relays on install, you can change them if you like.

I dont think youre missing anything. Its just some people on a crusade, if you've ever been a fediverse user you'd know how incessantly boring this all is.

I've got a tip: if you have a hard time keeping a regimen of ...

2026-10-08T00:38:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…m232
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I've got a tip: if you have a hard time keeping a regimen of nutrients youre going to be forced to keep a regimen of pharmaceuticals later.

Take a fucking multivitamin every morning, drink a glass of milk.

Also L-citrulline is absolutely amazing.

(And I hope youre already aware but I'm not a saylor fan)

http://armada.exposed @nprofile…g58a Being a vegan doesnt ...

2026-10-07T22:58:26Z

http://armada.exposed

Alex Gleason (nprofile…g58a) Being a vegan doesnt excuse you of this lmao

These people are so full of shit. I'm glad I live in a time where the only people buying their bullshit are themselves. They're still bleeding from the eyeballs mad at the world while the rest of us have moved on and continued to live life.

Why is it these people only argue in half truths and lies of omission?

Looking at the thread, it looks like most of the people, even the ...

2026-10-07T22:51:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…qfux
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Looking at the thread, it looks like most of the people, even the trans' are like "this is ridiculous" so probably you'll get banned in spite of a "no" result lolol. But at least some people found it first. Word of mouth works great when you have something as solid as armada.

That's a badge of honor.

2026-10-07T22:48:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…qfux
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That's a badge of honor.

But the body doesnt get sick and die randomly. There's a ...

2026-10-07T17:22:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…vfnc
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But the body doesnt get sick and die randomly. There's a probabilistic distribution about when that is more likely to happen. And your body stops it from happening, almost every time. Your immune sysrem: even without your neocortex your self strives to preserve itself. There's a part of you that youre not even conscious of, a thinking system that predates brains, that exists primarily to preserve you. And then there's conscious and semiconscious self preservation, that kick in when needed.

Just because youre helpless to certain forces doesnt mean youre a leaf on the wind. Youre constantly preserving yourself. The fact that you can engage in deliberate, directed action demonstrates some type of persistent being with a will.

A human is more than their desires and rationalizations.

2026-10-07T07:24:48Z

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A human is more than their desires and rationalizations.

Yeah for some reason I can't get it to connect to a relay. ...

2026-10-07T02:56:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…m6yq
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Yeah for some reason I can't get it to connect to a relay.

Why do I need a signing request to go out over the internet?? I know I could run a local relay and all that, but I just want a local request to a local application on my machine, like a normal person.

Hey man, how use knox

2026-10-07T02:11:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…3gu0
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Hey man, how use knox

what's with bunkers?? trying to get a nostr signer running on ...

2026-10-07T02:07:30Z

what's with bunkers?? trying to get a nostr signer running on linux, everything has to connect to a relay (and wont lol) why cant i just get a local signer like amber on android (which also wont connect to relays double lol)

https://github.com/storytold Has anyone seen this yet? Pretty ...

2026-10-06T23:45:35Z

https://github.com/storytold

Has anyone seen this yet? Pretty cool if the tools are any good.

I know a guy that got frisked on the way home from the bar and ...

2026-10-06T18:09:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…4x8c
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I know a guy that got frisked on the way home from the bar and was arrested because he had a warrant out for missing jury duty. Never got a letter, presumably it went to an old address or something. Some states take it very seriously.

I got a letter, went online, it asked if I had ever stolen anything, I said yes. Of course, everyone has stolen something, even if thats only being a little kid stealing a candy bar. Disqualified.

I'd do jury duty. Depending on the case I'd nullify the shit. Unfortunately I can't because I stole a candy bar when I was little lol

Then absolutely.

2026-10-06T04:04:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…stt9
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Then absolutely.

You can just create an npub for it, very easy.

2026-10-06T04:03:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…4nxq
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You can just create an npub for it, very easy.

https://github.com/2ro/goblin Interesting.

2026-10-06T03:40:21Z

https://github.com/2ro/goblin

Interesting.

Omarchy has a *pre set list of different default apps you can ...

2026-10-05T21:48:38Z

Omarchy has a *pre set list of different default apps you can install.*

You *can* install other apps, but they can't be made default in omarchy. Like qutebrowser? Good luck.

xdg-desktop already exists. Whos fucking idea was this?

What kind of person uses a remote AI as their fucking diary lol. ...

2026-10-05T19:43:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…ej88
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What kind of person uses a remote AI as their fucking diary lol. Just use a text file, or better yet, pen and paper.

What does "auth" even mean when identities are keys? Its ...

2026-10-04T06:58:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…9lf6
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What does "auth" even mean when identities are keys? Its not like you have to create an account on some server and provide your phone number. If I'm just signing a message to prove I have access, and especially if I need to I can pay for access with anonymous internet money, I'm perfectly fine with that. Steganography is more likely to tie my IRL identity to me than a signed message and a broadcast transaction.

Idea: a nostr feed algorithm that places notes higher the more ...

2026-09-30T15:24:07Z

Idea: a nostr feed algorithm that places notes higher the more PoW they have, and falls back to chronological.

Looking at the global firehose feed you can see that there's ...

2026-09-20T04:09:12Z

Looking at the global firehose feed you can see that there's a ton more activity on nostr than our little circles.

(If you want to see mostly real human activity, look at replies)

People who say nostr is dead just well tuned their follow list to their own biases. They're bored of themselves, not nostr.

So youre deferring to a state? The state must exist? OK, but then ...

2026-07-27T19:19:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…j8cq
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So youre deferring to a state? The state must exist? OK, but then youre basically saying the same thing we are saying.

Once you have a state structure in place, there is an ongoing cost to guaranteeing you exclusive use of your land. Who will pay this cost? You must. You'd have to if the state didnt exist, so you must continue to do so when the state exists. Ultimately the state provides you the might for the might makes right system that underpins everything and you can't have it for free.

Its not about ceding land to the state. Its about acknowledging ...

2026-07-26T15:25:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…8s84
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Its not about ceding land to the state. Its about acknowledging that the big man with the guns owns the land he says he owns, and it has been this way since the beginning of time. *you are incapable of truly owning land.* Nobody will just recognize your claim to land and honor it because "rights." All land in existence has come to be owned in this way, some big guy said "you can't come here", before that everyone could just go anywhere they could get to with their effort.

I do think though that the proposal isn't that good. It assumes that a government that funds itself this way will direct funds towards things for its people. It even throws out UBI as a use for it. But you have to wonder, apply the logic of who owns land to human populations. If it is in the interest for the state that only earns from property taxes that some people are enslaved, whos to force it to enforce individual liberty for all people? It is just a market actor that cares about maximization of utility of land, where does its sense of justice beyond land disputes come from? Incentives are outcomes. The proposal is still naive idealism, though with a clearer understanding of something fundamental. That clearer understanding is the value in this essay.

You do live under a dictatorship.

2026-06-12T16:09:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…gafz
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You do live under a dictatorship.

100% a good idea IMO. The problem is, how does this get ...

2025-09-04T01:06:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ghq
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100% a good idea IMO. The problem is, how does this get implemented? Relays can require it, but they'd prefer to just require a zap which is purchased PoW, if a client allows users to require it a user might want to turn it off because they already follow people with keys that dont have it already. And how does it get communicated to others? If I send a guy a message, I want to know that he won't get it because my key isn't compliant with his requirements.

I thought about IPFS also. But IPFS has a ton of problems and ...

2024-12-21T07:20:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…jhv7
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I thought about IPFS also. But IPFS has a ton of problems and isn't very robust. There's massive maintenance overhead attempting to implement something with IPFS. Bittorrent is very, very robust. It's only real downsides are that swarms connect p2p and so share IP addresses with each other, and that it's mostly labelled as a piracy tool. But for multimedia delivery it can't be beat.

So, right now, nostr can only be used for the feed ...

2024-12-21T03:06:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…v6g6
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So, right now, nostr can only be used for the feed fetching/notification part. Content delivery is all done over http, so multimedia content is not censorship resistant, only letting people know where to find it is.

What I'm working on is a piece of software that basically uses bittorrent to deliver the multimedia content and nostr to deliver the message that the content is available. The infrastructure is already there for that, and paid seedboxes already exist, most bit torrent clients are already able to handle remote auth so paying for hosting is already a breeze. Censorship is nonexistent on the bittorrent network, monetization is solved with nostr. I hope to get this out the door Soon™, and am more than halfway done, but real life happens and I've got responsibilities I can't shirk.

I think with this combination, there won't be a bandwidth boddleneck for content.

If someone wants to ensure that their content is always made available, yes they'll need to self host or pay someone for that. That includes seeding and relays. It's probably a good idea to run a relay anyway, and for anonymity, to leave it open to others to use. But you should *always* publish to more than one relay, to ensure that your content is censorship resistant.

I love RSS and Atom. I'm an avid user for everything, I will ...

2024-12-18T21:38:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…0k6p
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I love RSS and Atom. I'm an avid user for everything, I will not sign up for an account for subscription to things, period, if there's not a feed to subscribe on my side I don't subscribe. It has enabled a permissionless model of publication and subscription to flourish on the internet. What I said above isn't to rip on it, I love it.

(Thanks for the work you've done to further that flourishing.)

But, the published works live at individual servers. It's identity is the URL at which it can be found. This means that it cannot be censorship resistant. A person publishing their work can choose to publish it in multiple places, but someone subscribing to one might not know how to find the other.

This is why I say nostr can do everything RSS can do but in a censorship resistant way. The content is simply signed, where a user pulls it from is of no consequence. A publisher can put it at several relays to be pulled from, the user hardly notices if it gets taken down from any of them. If someone wants to be able to publish anonymously, and in a way they can't be censored, nostr is a dream come true.

RSS is still cool, useful, and you're right about all the infrastructure. But this censorship resistance, you can't beat it. I exclusively publish what I want to publish with Nostr, the identity of this voice is the key that signed this message. I won't host my writings on a blog, because it requires identifying myself to a data center, and having to watch what I say to avoid my site being taken down or blocked or something else.

You should know, I'm working (very slowly) on a piece of software that enables publishers to share multimedia content in a censorship resistant way. Once I have it working and published, which is hopefully soon if real life can get out of my way, your average person will be able to publish audio and video with ease in a way nobody can stop, and even offload hosting to a trusted provider at their leisure also very easily. It leverages existing protocols and does not require any new infrastructure. Right now, nostr publishers have to host media at a URL and it is not censorship resistant. This is a weakness, I hope my solution is adequate for people.