Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

What this means is that data that is not cryptographically signed is tightly coupled to custody. The only person who can reliably attest to the authenticity of a given piece of information is the person who can trace its provenance from the author, through storage, and to your device.

Digital signatures are essential to making Nostr work. The goal of Nostr is to break down walled gardens by subverting one of their key value propositions: content authentication. Or, in other words, the ability to know that a particular person said a particular thing.

It implies the ability to both view and interact, but this trust is not extended. Level 2 pertains to friends, or friends of good friends and family. It constitutes the bulk of what the child can interact with, and will probably map closely to the child’s physical environment; think of school, sports clubs, i.e.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Orwell, who died at 46 in 1950, was a cauldron of contradictions – a single‑minded rebel so concerned about embarrassing his parents when writing about homelessness that he adopted a pen name; an Old Etonian man of the people; an introverted party animal; an egalitarian socialist and bigot; a man who railed against the “incorrigible dirtiness and untidiness” and the “terrible, devouring sexuality” of women, but who lived in filth and devoured as many women as possible.

Having finally agreed to adopt after their struggle, Orwell was not going to give up on his son. “The thing he wanted most in life was to have children,” says Blair. “And now I was his family.”

Eric, better known as George Orwell, was an unusually hands-on dad for the 1940s

I couldn't help but think, "Fiat ruins everything."

"Wen bitcoin in Square terminals?!"

Nostr is growing fast!

In this case, the reading case, the users are mostly "consumers" of content.

It is also important to point out that the path of development, be that related to clients, relays or bunkers, is not just in service for this one particular ‘Kidstr’ end-goal of a safe and suitable internet for children. The features and functionality developed along the way can be of value all kinds of use cases. In essence the only thing that ‘Kidstr’ is, is tooling for the most high-risk type of user with the largest amount of requirements; professionals that want a Safe-For-Work experience, or conscious users that want to guard themselves from aimless doom-scrolling can benefit just as much from all these developments.

To illustrate, with what was already mentioned in the previous article: At this point in time, leveraging relays would be the low hanging fruit for two reasons. First because it is really easy to create a client that restricts itself to only use particular relays.

What this means, is that the three components can be developed (at least in large part), independently. A ‘Kidstr’-bunker app can be developed and immediately provide value regardless of what clients and relays are used; the same goes for ‘Kidstr’-relays and ‘Kidstr’-clients respectively. The moment these Kidstrized components are combined, synergies emerge and new use cases become available, because the system can benefit from the unique restrictive capabilities of the respective components.

Relays have complete read/write access control, and can apply whatever arbitrary logic to enforce that: only certain Npubs, only at full moon, can read particular event-kinds, when a threshold of signatures is provided by a quorum consisting of a dynamic group of WoT-score defined people grant permission… if it so happens to be a Saturday and the relay owner feels like it, or something like that. Clients control what relays they connect to, where it sends events to, what queries they make and can subsequently decide to do whatever they feel like with the events that come in or go out; it can bother to fetch things, or not; show them, or not; render them completely or just partially, or upside down, scrambled… A client can even have special requirements before it accepts a particular key-pair. The signing bunker holds the keys, and can therefore decide whether an event gets signed or not.

Relays have complete read/write access control, and can apply whatever arbitrary logic to enforce that: only certain Npubs, only at full moon, can read particular event-kinds, when a threshold of signatures is provided by a quorum consisting of a dynamic group of WoT-score defined people grant permission… if it so happens to be a Saturday and the relay owner feels like it, or something like that. Clients control what relays they connect to, where it sends events to, what queries they make and can subsequently decide to do whatever they feel like with the events that come in or go out; it can bother to fetch things, or not; show them, or not; render them completely or just partially, or upside down, scrambled… A client can even have special requirements before it accepts a particular key-pair. The signing bunker holds the keys, and can therefore decide whether an event gets signed or not.

Within Nostr, control lies in various places at the same time. Relays have complete read/write access control, and can apply whatever arbitrary logic to enforce that: only certain Npubs, only at full moon, can read particular event-kinds, when a threshold of signatures is provided by a quorum consisting of a dynamic group of WoT-score defined people grant permission… if it so happens to be a Saturday and the relay owner feels like it, or something like that.

It will engage with the large spectrum of stakeholders involved to identify the requirements and establish specifications; it will facilitate the discussions, resources and nurture the knowledge base. Its main goal is to achieve coherence in the more chaotic process that will be described below. To be clear, we think that there are many for-profit business opportunities here, demand is high and there is a multitude of domains and use cases for the general system we propose.

gave an outline of the general idea with various mechanisms to achieve the vision. Because the goal of creating a safe and suitable internet for children will have a large number of requirements, we will need every tool and means at our disposal. On the other hand, expecting to build this from scratch in isolation all the way to completion, only to subsequently expect the broader ecosystem to adopt a large set of complex systems, is not realistic.

A simple local relay that downloads the latest events from your contacts and makes it searchable with NIP-50. This was test app to see if I could app sqlite support to applesauce and it worked.

The app is a nostr bunker that is designed to run on your Umbrel and handling multiple accounts and signers. Its something I've been needing for a while with the number of nsites I've deployed and other accounts I've created. ### Nostr junk drawer Github: https://github.com/hzrd149/nostr-junk-drawer

blob-box was my attempt to make a simple blossom server on Umbrel that would exclusively use the file management UI to upload and manage blobs.

I always wanted to make it support blossom somehow

why shouldn't they use my nostr-relay-tray which has 500k+ events in it? and NIP-50 search.

Probably the thing I'm most excited about is the new [Event Database](https://hzrd149.github.io/applesauce/core/event-database.html) classes that provide drop-in event storage for [Bun](https://hzrd149.github.io/applesauce/sqlite/bun.html), [Deno](https://hzrd149.github.io/applesauce/sqlite/native.html), or [Node](https://hzrd149.github.io/applesauce/sqlite/better-sqlite3.html). They also support NIP-50 search.

This release builds upon our previous beta and introduces a completely revamped captive portal for a much smoother user experience. Start earning sats by sharing your internet connection!

Add 1 bay leaf, 1 teaspoon turmeric, ½ teaspoon each coriander and salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper; cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add trimmed chicken, 5 cups broth and sliced sweet potatoes; bring to a vigorous simmer over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sweet potatoes are tender but not falling apart, and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest portion of chicken reads at least 165°F, 15 to 18 minutes.

For evil to win those who fight for the good in the world need to get complacent. I think it's safe to say that the good people in the world became far too complacent for far too long.

Marmot is an evolution of NIP-EE.

Marmot has the security of Signal with the censorship-resistance and data portability of Nostr.

**Fazit:** ppq.ai ist mehr als nur ein KI-Tool – es ist ein Beispiel dafür, wie Bitcoin und Lightning das Internet des Geldes Realität werden lassen. Fair, transparent und ohne Zwischenhändler.

The second path, deliberate co-option, is exemplified by the "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" strategy notoriously used by Microsoft in the 1990s. In this model, a dominant company enters an open ecosystem, extends a standard with proprietary features, and then leverages its market power to make its version the de facto standard, effectively extinguishing the original.

This isn't theoretical. The internet is a graveyard of open protocols that slowly succumbed to centralization, and we must learn from their demise. These stories reveal two primary paths to capture: slow, organic decay and deliberate, corporate co-option.

In contrast, Bitcoin's BIP-1 explicitly defines the author's role: "the BIP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions." This model ensures that proposals have dedicated champions who must engage with feedback. The removal of authorship in Nostr created a vacuum where it's unclear who is responsible for the quality and consequences of a specification.

sovereignty alone is not enough. Nostr's other superpower is interoperability

This change, while seemingly minor, had a significant impact on accountability. In contrast, Bitcoin's BIP-1 explicitly defines the author's role: "the BIP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions." This model ensures that proposals have dedicated champions who must engage with feedback. The removal of authorship in Nostr created a vacuum where it's unclear who is responsible for the quality and consequences of a specification.

While Nostr is inherently decentralized, heavy reliance on a few public relays can make the ecosystem vulnerable to outages and attacks. By hosting a relay, you contribute to distributing the network’s load, strengthening the protocol’s resilience.

ContextVM is a protocol that bridges the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the Nostr network, enabling decentralized communication. It allows MCP servers and clients to communicate over the Nostr protocol, leveraging its decentralized infrastructure for secure and private interactions.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is state-of-the-art on the SWE-bench Verified evaluation, which measures real-world software coding abilities. Practically speaking, we’ve observed it maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is state-of-the-art on the SWE-bench Verified evaluation, which measures real-world software coding abilities. Practically speaking, we’ve observed it maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is state-of-the-art on the SWE-bench Verified evaluation, which measures real-world software coding abilities. Practically speaking, we’ve observed it maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks.

Nostr is like email, but for social media—it’s a system where anyone can send and receive posts using any app they like. Similar to how you would send an email to everyone you know.

In each case, once-dominant companies mistook the means of delivery for the thing being delivered — like Amtrak confusing a desire to get somewhere with a desire to ride over railroad tracks. Could the crypto industry be making the same mistake?

Broadcast events after coming back online

require payment for publication

there will always be some Russian server willing to take your money in exchange for serving your posts

A relay can charge a fee

each person can publish their notes to multiple relays (which are just simple servers), and people who follow them can connect to these relays and fetch the notes

example of video sharing, ActivityPub enthusiasts realized it would be completely impossible to transmit video from server to server the way text notes are, so they decided to keep the video hosted only from the single instance where it was posted to

doesn't work in an adversarial environment

The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.