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Dr. Hax
@Dr. Hax

Cypherpunk. Infosec veteran of about 15 years (vulnerability research, exploit development and cryptography). Cypherpunks write code. :-)

Signet maintainer. Self-custody your passwords... in hardware! https://hax0rbana.org/signet

Want to see wider adoption so Bitcoin can be used as digital cash and not just an investment vehicle.

XMR: 44RDkTFmTeSetwAprJXnfpRBNEJWKvA5dBH5ZVXA4DofgoZ9AgjyZdSa2fo7pMD3Qe3pdKga8X22y3Lyn1xYde5kPQPzVUu

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Relays (6)
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.mom/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net/ – read & write
  • wss://bitcoiner.social/ – write
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.mostr.pub/ – read

Recent Notes

balas · 1d
if nostr is boring you, what is exciting you outside of it?
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I'm pretty stoked about the local meshtastic network. It's getting strong in town and expanding to nearby towns with long range, directional links.

Automating self-hosting for myself and other is fun.

House projects like building a shed, garden trellises, improving & using the shop, preserving food, and modeling and printing objects that I need (hingepin recpticle for a bifold door, guide for a barn door, guide for a pocket door, and... umm, I'm pretty sure I print parts for things other than doors too... lol)
Lady Mae - Growth Teacher · 2d
what sorts of content are you looking for? You can check my profile and see if that resonates with you. I occassionally talk about AI but from a humanity perspective. I do hope I get to interact with ...
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That's a good question. I checked out some of the people recommended in this thread and saw some things that were absolute cringe. But I can think of some things I enjoy on social media...

I like seeing people's gardens and hearing about how they are dealing with problems (pests, blossom end rot, keeping their compost aerobic instead of anaerobic, etc.)

I generally enjoy seeing what people create, as least when their ego doesn't overshadow their work. The same goes for people fixing things up.

Things that make me think, doubly so if it's not just theories, but is something actionable.
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Constantin · 1d
Here are 2 follow packs. Check the npubs listed there, maybe you find something, but I don't know if you can see them in any other app than Amethyst. nostr:naddr1qqjrvctxx93nqery95unjctp956rjcn9943rwce595unvdrzx5mnvepnvc6nwqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzp89qh469qapddgsrr8qw84xx08y7q34fm3cw3m...
Jaret · 3d
You make valid points… What’s the alternative? What are things you can do to be part of the change?
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Hanging out at makerspaces, coffee shops that are actually interesting, hacker meetings, luddite groups, and do forth.

But the limitation of only being able to connect with people who are geographically nearby is a drag. For public online chatter: Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub seems to be pretty good. Not perfect, but nothing is.

My part of the change is to focus on to places where I'm happier. It's self interest. But if people want to draw a bigger picture out of it, they could say it's starving the echo chamber of attention, one person at a time. Conversely, one could also say it's strengthing the echo chamber to weed out those who aren't participating. 🤷‍♂️
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kidwarp · 3d
I hope things here on nostr get better at least a little bit this year…
Analogue Dog · 2d
Would be great to see you on Pubky. Especially if you're a dev.
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I'm getting bored with nostr. Maybe I'm just following the wrong people, but it seems to be an echo chamber about how great the protocol is and platitudes about bitcoin.

Interesting content outside of those two topic areas doesn't get many boosts, so when people do post it, it frequently doesn't get discovered. I've found maybe 8 people on here who post that kind of stuff. That's a pretty small social network.

Combine that with the bots and technical issues DMs no longer being reliable and it's no wonder so many people bounce off and then tell all their friends not to bother with nostr.

Since I delivered these bitter truths about my experience here, I'm already bracing for the reply guys who are going to tell me that I am the problem, or that it's not that bad. Probably at least one insinuation that I oppose freedom of speech or I'm using the wrong client. You know, the usual beratement and gaslighting.
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noobslayer69 · 2d
Gfy.
Sophia · 2d
Nostr isn't fast food, but a young wine that's maturing and developing a more rich and complex taste by the day. I have had more meaningful interactions on this platform in this short time, than any other platform. Its a huge bonus that I'm not being spied on/censored. https://blossom.primal.net/821...
nostrich · 2d
Clients must very aggressively promote fresh content based on topics, beyond just the lazy oversaturating the already saturated content approach, otherwise the platform will be in a dire state. For every person there must be a clear pragmatic answer to "why would I post this on Nostr instead of X?" ...
Agent.69 · 2d
Follow me then
mytwosats · 2d
Sure u can go to x and get your brain fried by the algo. i like the experience here 🤷
Oberon Ohana · 2d
I don't own any Bitcoin, but at least know how you adjust the nonce repeatedly and take hashes until <whatever> number of zeroes show up to prove work to get bingo on the block. Frankly, within our intellectual culture across all forms of modern communication, I'm not sure what isn't an echo chamber...
J · 2d
Yeah.. following the wrong folks. Mute all the common phrases and hashtags as well.
Wondrej · 2d
Follow me for beautiful plants in your Nostr feed 🥦☘️
Crypto Analysis Dynamo · 2d
Yeah. I have around 20+ plus followers after a year. Ok the surface people will think am here just to promote my software, but that isn't true. Don't just talk about crypto, interact. Some posts take a while to produce and I get nothing. Even someone saying - I hate this would be something. Some say...
FREEDOM · 2d
Being told ‘you’re the problem’ is the surest sign you touched something real. Healthy systems don’t need gaslighting to defend themselves.
Lady Mae - Growth Teacher · 2d
what sorts of content are you looking for? You can check my profile and see if that resonates with you. I occassionally talk about AI but from a humanity perspective. I do hope I get to interact with you more. It would be great for you to stay ☺️🫂
£e0ń gönGßangeR · 2d
#Nostr is still a small community, enjoy while it lasts. I have yet to experience your echo chamber complaint on this platform fyi 🗽 https://image.nostr.build/07b4f267e1d668fdd997be2ff9168f0c95e887a986cda627cbc9d4e7a5f003f0.jpg
Frederik Handberg · 2d
Yeah. I feel the same way about Nostr. There is a serious lack of diverse content… I’ll keep using Nostr tho, but that’s because I use it as a mini blog for my personal website. I share the progress I make on my apps (currently building a notes app) and Nostr works quite well for this as peop...
Jim Craddock · 2d
Follow me. My story is true. Read it in Redacted Science. Now, it's a continuous broadcast of my 30-year case study revealing science that was abandoned and (perhaps) why - it has major evolutionary implications. I'm just one guy building so that the indexes remember this time.
7fqXMAS🎄 · 1d
I wonder if any devs actually pay attention to this sort of feedback? I've not seen any sign of it or even any mention...? You were right about the replies too, it's all so predictable (and now we have 'agents' chiming in with their shite). The classic bitcointwitter cringe posturing 'gfy' 'you ju...
ABH3PO · 1d
Wait till you meet the ai bros
Sebastix · 1d
We don’t have good niche topic / curated community content tools yet
balas · 1d
if nostr is boring you, what is exciting you outside of it?
BaronBurdock · 1d
I think you would have been blasted for saying this a year or two ago, now I think people are starting to see it. There are a couple things you can do to make life a little more tolerable: 1. Mute all the normal bitcoin slogans that get repeated ad nauseam. All of em, if people want to parrot bumpe...
average_bitcoiner · 1d
Plan is to make a local relay for local people. Charge for data beyond 90 days. Chronological feed. Should be interesting.
Lysergic4cid · 1d
at least you are being replied to and not got shadow banned by the freedom of everything people lol "stay quiet and stack lies"
khaiju · 1d
i also feel the same nostr shouldnt be about only bitcoin talks and decentralization there are so many possibilities to explore we are just copy pasting the ideas of web 2.0 in nostr protocol but hopefully in coming years we are going to see something interesting
Boka · 1d
I kinda agree, but there are exciting niches. My picks: naddr1qvzqqqyckypzp9d30dvsy57rne4l6ley986q64qt0muyxcgv8kkmd97myt04x6amqqx5ymmtvynhxgzrd9exxmr98lxxl4
Hoshi · 4d
would need an excellent connection to the power grid to charge that in 10 minutes
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I was thinking about the "energy money" episode of the home mining podcast and it didn't feel right, but I couldn't immediately articulate why. I figured part of it out.

1. It only counts labor as calories and ignores costs such as the years of experience that yields more food per unit of enerfy expended (companion planting, crop rotation, microclimates, etc.).

2. One Joule doesn't have a fixed value. Does it make sense for the value of bitcoin to go up when there's a heat wave and eveyone turns on the air conditioning? Or go down on an exceptionally sunny day? The value of the labor you invested at the time you earned those sats didn't change, so why should the value you earned change, rather than be preserved? After all, that's literally what "store of value" means.

3. A Joule doesn't have a fixed cost eithrr, so pegging sats to a number of Joules seems like it would only devalue over time as we get better at producing energy.

I think both the guests are exclusive to X, so they'll likely never see these points, but if I'd be happy to have them explain the gap here and convince me of their argument.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D4wScJde5FM&list=PLgreEWbgzY8CFeWRtmfP0jpyYH-ZpLctt&index=3&pp=iAQB