Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

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.

Nov 20 2019

send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself)

Keeping track of things in the infor­ma­tional realm implies keeping track of a sequence of events, which in turn requires keeping track of time. Keeping track of time requires agreeing on a “now” — a moment in time that eternally links the settled past with the uncer­tain future.

We failed to realize and solve for the fact that our physical money was terribly unfit for cyberspace, and now we are all paying for it—with our attention, among other things. One could even argue that the use of attention as currency is—at least in part—to blame for the loss of nuanced discourse and the increase in polarization, be it political or otherwise.[4](http://dergigi.com/2022/12/18/a-vision-for-a-value-enabled-web/#fn:fn-polarization)

The problem of paying attention to the wrong things is not new, but it is particularly pronounced online. Again: the issue is that when dealing with conventional currencies, we have to use IOUs as electronic money.

An IOU is not something that you own outright, but it's something that you owe to someone else: "I owe you." It is credit, and credit is different from base money. Credit requires trust.

Imagine a special-purpose client that scans all your bookmarks for long-form content.5 Everything that you marked to be read later is shown in an orderly fashion, which is to say searchable, sortable, filterable, and displayed without distractions. Voilà, you have yourself a reading app. That's, in essence, how Pocket, Readwise, and other reading apps work. But all these apps are walled gardens without much interoperability and without direct monetization.

What matters is the information itself.

Here's the thing that nostr got right, and it's the same thing that Bitcoin got right: information is easy to spread and hard to stifle.[^fn-stifle] Information can be copied quickly and perfectly, which is, I believe, the underlying reason for its desire to be free.

the specs became our source of truth for what was being built and why.

I am now fully convinced that AI for coding is not just for toys and prototypes, but rather a deeply technical engineering craft.

To put this in Information Superhighway terms from the 1990s, a symmetrical broadband connection is necessary for you to be a "netizen," while an asymmetrical connection that beams lots of data to you but isn't capable of letting you talk back is what makes you a "mouse potato." It's grimly hilarious that the right has done so much damage to public fiber rollouts, given their oft-repeated grievances about being "shadowbanned" by dominant services. With symmetrical fiber, every crank could run their own server – a 4chan in every garage. And if that fiber is provided by the government, then your ISP will be bound by the First Amendment, and legally prohibited from discriminating against customers based on their political speech (something that commercial providers can do to their heart's content): https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/17/turner-diaries-fanfic/#1a-fiber

the government can no longer paralyze it through debanking

Because the Gnassingbé dictatorship controls the financial system, the regime can easily censor "troublemakers,"

has historically allowed France to store and collateralize Togo's national gold savings

the mechanics of money are at the heart of some of the biggest democratic struggles worldwide

Roya continues to fund underground education inside Afghanistan with Bitcoin.

Mobile money never materialized in the country, and PayPal and Venmo were not available to Afghans. Cash was problematic, as male relatives would seize it from women when they came home.

she could not shake the idea of a money that anyone could use, regardless of gender.