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7fqx · 63w
I understand:(
jb55 · 27w
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Ľḭṿḙśƫṟãɖãṁṹṧ💫#RunCoreV30 · 70w
You missed out on a great opportunity to be a CEO at a (-de)centralized social media network
laanwj profile picture
joinmarket still doesn't work with descriptor wallets in bitcoin core, and it's become kind of pressing that this is addressed

legacy wallets have been deprecated for a long time, and are very likely going to be removed in next major version of bitcoin core (29.0), there's migration functionality to upgrade old wallets but this won't help for the use of legacy RPC calls like "importmulti"

after that it will ofc. still be possible to use it with version 28.x, but it's kind of sad to see an important privacy tool fall behind like this

so in case anyone wants to give it a go:
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues/1571
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FiddleHodlHomestead · 71w
many folks would probably contribute to that bounty!
Felix · 74w
There is definitely a narrative that nostr event should be permanent which I guess some relays enforce. Guess that's the most "delete" we can get😃
mleku · 74w
some relays literally don't have it implemented it requires some extra pieces to work, you have to keep tombstones of the event id to prevent it coming back, and that necessarily implies an eventual need for garbage collection in general and yeah... expiry... i'd implement that on my relay if i kn...
Felix · 74w
Built a (basic) CLI tool, https://github.com/f321x/nip04-wiper, seems like a bunch of relays ignore the delete request though.
laanwj profile picture
i remember this kind of thing from the early days of bitcoin, people have real difficulty coping with a system where there's no company and organization in charge, or directly profiting from use

at some level many people just *can't* understand it, which means Bitcoin Core was a convenient target for all nasty complaints

one of the most persistent, hard issues was fighting scope creep in Bitcoin Core (and in the consensus code); yes, that you can do something with bitcoin doesn't mean it all has to be in that software, the onus of decentralization is to create an ecosystem, where everyone does their part, but no part is critical
(and a project with everything is unmaintainable anyhow; there's the tendency to push the burden on a few people, a kind of Omelas effect)

and the relentless nagging for me to be "more like a dictator" (remember Mike Hearn)... sigh, no that's not the kind of thing we're trying to do here: create a decentralized financial system, not a weird new government. the reason BSV appealed to quite a few people is that it had a central dictator, even if clearly a scam

eventually, things fell in their place, though even in bitcoin it's a continuing struggle... really want something to be done? great, take initiative yourself, help out one of the projects in some way or get people to help

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Kayhan Sepanta 🪽 · 76w
in an open society, expectations have no meaning.
/√\î¢h&|3 ∆ëglï Ü3ę®tį · 76w
As a non-techie guy, I consider this complex and muddled UX on Nostr the price to pay for being an early user in a thriving and truly decentralized OS communication environment. If so, I'm more than willing to trade comfort for freedom. 🙏🏻💜
7fqx · 76w
I consider the jankiness part and parcel of Nostr. Tinkerers and hobbyists, mad max shed coders etc. lol. It also unintentionally serves as some sort of signal of something similar to using Craigslist's forums 'streetsmarts needed here, proceed with caution'. IMO
satsie 🇹🇭 🇱🇹 · 76w
When I see complaints like the one fiatjaf’s note is referring to I love to say things like “I’ll to let the CEO of bitcoin know” or “I’ll file an issue with Nostr customer support” 😆
Sha-4096 🟠 · 76w
Agreed, despicable.
dunxen · 76w
Received the haveibeenpwned email since I created an account for IA way back when I never used aliases per service. Password was definite random and unique though and at least IA bcrypted them. Sad evil people.
Sjors Provoost (possibly compromised) · 76w
We'll just have to figure out how to apply that to a twelve year old. Juvenile crimes against humanity law is underdeveloped:-)
Scurvydog · 76w
What is it and why do we need it?
Deleted Account · 76w
agree
Bitcoin Wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️ · 76w
true. i have donated some sats, they accept BTC
Vitor Pamplona · 76w
Looking good! https://image.nostr.build/db738dacbfa82c75a7f5522f6e15acabffd5ec7b0370ba437770ff0d252de793.jpg
Jimmy Bond · 76w
I see that the magnet link includes tracker info, but the Nostr note does not. How does that work?
Silberengel · 77w
No, it's not something specific to the early days. It's just the way things are, if you don't constantly stay on top of it. Software rarely ossifies; it atrophies. Can happen at any time, in any ecosy...
laanwj profile picture
it doesn't help that there's a lot of nonsense innovation by tech companies to sell new software and hardware and vendor lock-in (how many UI frameworks do we really need?), so everything is always new in that sense, always needing to be ported to some new API or API version

with all that context drift, writing software is like building sand castles, unfortunately, i often wish it'd stop and some things would be standardized