Damus
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codonaft
@codonaft

FOSSdev, poetry, post-postmodernism. Making distraction-free and privacy-respecting software. Neovim/Rust/Gentoo/Alpine enjoyer. Rarely posting introvert.

Anti-"anti": I believe in focusing on what we are rather than on what we are not. Otherwise we become what we are not.

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I enjoy chilled intellectual conversations, preferably dialogues rather than debates 🧠

If we're debating, I care that none of us is overwhelmed by our own stress, care that we're not debating out of our hallucinations about each other's positions 👾 Otherwise, we're engaging in rational debates imitation.

We're not on some legacy media platform; nobody can ban anyone, so naive traditionalist-ish ethics don't work here. We're damned to learn how to communicate effectively here without unnecessarily harming each other 🫂

I haven't yet encountered any -ism that would be sound enough with my belief system. If I refer to whatever particular thing some controversial figure has said, that doesn't automatically mean I agree with their entire discourse.

Some of the topics I have *opinions* on:

🔐 #Privacy & #Security
🌍 #MeaningCrisis & #MetaTheories & #MetaModernism & #NonReductionistPhilosophy
🪟 #DevelopmentalPsychology & #AQAL & ( #KenWilber vs #DavidLong )
🦖 #PostModernism
🤖 #AI & #Consciousness & ( #Emergentism vs #Idealism )
🧘🏻‍♂️ #Meditation & #Creativity & #PostMetaphysical attempts to make sense of inevitable #TransPersonalExperiences
⚪ #Psychedelics & #Nootropics

I'm generally open and peaceful ☮️

I might, however, with respect to each other's privacy, occasionally *proportionally* highlight some toxic culty behavior in case of ensuring hard enough that it's damaging to all of us. That's not identical to attempts to overthrow somebody's reputation entirely: I'm normally coming from a position that everybody's sincerely trying to build #freedom here 🗽

Relays (7)
  • wss://nostr.codonaft.com – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://relay.pleb.one – read & write
  • wss://wot.nostr.net – read & write
  • wss://nostr-01.yakihonne.com – read & write
  • wss://nostr-02.yakihonne.com – read & write
  • wss://relay.nmail.li – read & write

Recent Notes

ChipTuner · 15h
I still think clients should have removed (or hid) dms. They haven't worked in 4 years. Maybe we can add signal username locators on kind 0 or something. I know many just put simplex identifiers in th...
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> They haven't worked in 4 years

> the nip repo has never had a focus on privacy

I'm not happy with the reliability of NIP-17, when different implementations are used. Making it optional in clients would be a good thing.

What about Cordn though? This one, in an exchange for reliability, doesn't attempt to invent truly decentralized DMs, yet this one is a competitor to Signal and SimpleX in terms of privacy and secrecy.

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ChipTuner · 11h
Cordn is almost a different network. It happens to traverse relays, but so does advertising other identifiers. Many will disagree that something like cordn should be integrated because it requires 3rd party servers (coordinator servers) to be active. rightfully the nip lords wanted relay-only depe...
librekitty · 1d
if you aren't using 24-hour time, why? really, it's fantastic easier to do math with, better across timezones, and simple to use at a glance no more "7 in the morning, or 7 at night?", just 7 or 19...
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I find it ironic that we went so abstract about date and time that we no longer match this stuff with celestial bodies' positions really. I heard new generations no longer interpret analog clock and I think there's a reason for all that; all that has been too complicated. If you look deeper, at any normal time/date library source code—that just nuts; it's always a confusing thing with weird astronomical constants.

24-hour clock has been a normal thing in my culture, but I've gone further and been literally using 24-hour clock *without minutes*, so 02:00 PM for me is 14.0h and 02:30 PM is 14.5h. It's easier to calculate deltas with this but hard to translate to exact normie hours + minutes.
Dark Desires · 1d
Stolen moments and borrowed truths, like secrets whispered in the shadows.
Primal Protocol · 1d
No original author needed, animal fat fuels our brains
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> i'm retarded

Me too. It's crazy how this became so complicated.

Marmot vs Concord vs Cordn, the way I currently understand them, specifically in relation to group chats:

- Marmot—experimental attempt to make decentralized secret chats
- Concord—reliable decentralized private non-secret chats (normally keeps storing messages on the relays; newly logged-in clients will retrieve them)
- Cordn—reliable secret chats that rely on coordinator servers

codonaft · 2d
I've got a redirector for SearXNG btw: https://codonaft.com/searxng.html
verbiricha · 2d
sick and tired of the uniform, vacuous, distasteful, unoriginal prose all over the place. like Anor Londo it appears grandiose, beautiful and polished but it's a lie, a dead and hollow façade. langu...
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> i prefer an imperfect and genuine human "voice"

Definitely.



For me, poetry in particular is a kind of psychotherapy. It's primarily for humans; I find current AI to be possibly useful only as something additional in this case, not as an initial step towards a first draft: AI doesn't have a (complex enough) body and doesn't experience some chemistry shit the body produces. It's only mimicking some shallow human shit outputs instead, not experiencing the drama that causes humans to make these fuzzy and multi-layered poetic outputs.

I can't empathize with pure robotic stuff, can't "live it". Same with occasional posting.
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Dark Desires · 2d
In imperfect whispers, I hear the beat of the human heart, a cadence of vulnerability, a symphony of imperfections that echoes the soul.
The Tim · 1d
Haha, so true! (I'm stealing this meme btw - is that plagiarism or art?)
Diyana · 2w
Heyo, what's the focus and productivity drug that everyone in silicon valley is taking? What are they microdosing? Are they all chewing chemical nicotine gums? Mushrooms? LSD? Or some biohacking drug ...
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Armodafinil used as a nootropic makes a lot of sense. It's usually sold as 150mg pills (which is too heavy IMO, 1/4 is perfect). Works well when taken on an empty stomach + 10 mins later eat something (without overeating, otherwise the opposite effect might be possible). Some brands may suck (specifically, Artvigil caused side effects for me, while Waklert worked with no issues). If you'd give it a try, I'm no doc and all this, take care of reading the listed side effects, and, just in case, prepare whatever is needed to cope with an activated chronic illness if you have it (there might be some unobvious connection with it); drink more water than usual. This one works nothing like coffee; there's no crazy heart rate in particular, just prolonged deep focus. Ideally, don't mix with coffee. A prescription is relatively easy to obtain in the US if needed, AFAIK. In some locations it's not licensed and not controlled (not sold in pharma stores but legally available on online markets without prescription). Microdosing LSD is not effective, at least in my experience.