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There's just nothing like this trio on OSX or Linux.
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We’re Trezor (https://trezor.io/), a leading company in crypto security, that has pioneered the hardware wallet industry. As a Firmware Developer, you’ll help us develop firmware that runs on thousands of Trezor devices all over the world. Basically, our products put people at ease knowing their digital assets are safe. Your job here will consist of providing new features, fixing bugs, and solving difficult technical problems. Along the way, you'll gain valuable insights into the practical application of cryptography.
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Seems that the movement is going through a small renaissance now. Basically - yes, the internet made it irrelevant for a long time if you think about Ham as a way to form communities, meet random people on the other side of the planet...
But imagine having devices talk to each other without the internet. This is where it starts to become really interesting!
Criminal? What are you even talking about?
BlueSky is PDS + relays + clients.
If you look at the history of Nostr and try to really understand the protocol, where it came from and what it was trying to solve, Nostr was also meant to work on a PDS + relay model, except it degenerated to the point where most Nostr app developers are simply writing Javascript browser apps that use relays as a "poor man's cloud", sort of, without any consideration for achieving self-sovereignty of the user.
"I save the data in the 6 most popular Nostr relays and done." is what 99% of the so called "Nostr apps" do. Sounds good in theory, until it is not. Relays were really meant to be treated as ephemeral actors, that come and go, and data was meant to be stored somewhere the user was in control of, but instead, relays are treated as some sort of reincarnation of IPFS, where you save your data and have it safe forever.
Bluesky seems to solve this by introducing the concept of PDS. It's not like PDSes cannot be built for Nostr - there are indeed some Nostr apps that work using the PDS model - save the data in a place the user has complete control of, and then propagate it to relays. The benefit of Bluesky seems to me that it formalizes the concept of PDSes, so that app developers don't have to think about it and cannot mistake the relays for PDSes.
While Sonic Pi is also beautiful and much easier to start with as a beginner, I later found the hard way that its architecture is incredibly messy - lots of unrelated parts glued together with duct tape. The simplicity and cleanness of Glicol's code is what made me immediately love it!
Thank you for such a beautiful project!
It's very early days still, but I use it myself.
The marketplace [2] is much more advanced! You can already use it to buy and sell stuff over Nostr!
[1] https://github.com/servuscms/servus [2] https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian-market
Currently clients just use the same bunch of relays as defaults, and let you (maybe) customize the relays you want to connect to.
I think this is sub-optimal for another reason, besides the one you mentioned (discoverability?): you don't necessarily control where your data is stored, and these relays might disappear without notice. It is a great way to broadcast status updates, but not great for having an archive of your own data, that you can trust.
I assume this will change eventually, with paid relays, which will have the incentive to keep your data around, OR personal relays - which is what I am building as part of my CMS - basically I want all my data to have one "canonical" location (my domain) and be hosted on my VPS, which also serves my data as a web page with RSS... this helps me wrap my head around where my data is stored, and know that I always have a copy of it... but doesn't solve the discoverability issue, I guess, which ... IDK, it seems to be solved using just a "shotgun" approach: mostly publishing to well know relays.
* a marketplace (sort of like eEay) where you can buy/sell items for a fixed price or as auctions
* a CMS you can use to host your own website (sort of like Jekyll, but without the build step, and with an admin interface)
People build all sorts of things though!
The most notable things that people are trying to build (it didn't happen yet though) is a GutHub replacement, because Jack Dorsey famously said he will give 10 BTC to whoever does it first.
But I still consider it a dying protocol for the simple fact that average people don't seem to care about it anymore and not much seems to be built on it anymore.
The main exception being of course podcasts, which work over RSS!
But for the past year or so I have been falling down the Nostr rabbit hole. Nostr is a lot like RSS, but it really is better and without getting much more complicated! You can write a Nostr client that simply does what a RSS reader would do (fetch status updates) in a couple of lines without external libraries. And the Nostr ecosystem has been growing so much over the past months, it is getting hard to keep up! It seems to be really getting the momentum I was hoping RSS to regain.
PS: For those that are curious about Nostr and don't know where to start, have a look at the NIPS [1] and of course at the awesome-nostr [2] list on GitHub!
[1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips [2]: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr
Ended up buying a Fostex VF160 EX, which is a beautiful machine, but huge. It's similar to the tape recorders except it uses a hard drive instead of cassettes and can write audio CDs with the final result.
The Zoom R16 / R20 is also pretty much the same thing except it writes to SD cards, is much smaller, and can be battery powered.
But in the end, the best of them all seem to be the Zoom H4N Pro / Zoom H6 / Zoom H8. They offer a "multi-track" mode which behaves in the same way, but... they are tiny in comparison and you can use them for many other purposes as well!
It's cool to bring back old technology, but sometimes you also need to KISS. These multitrack recorders are huge, while a Zoom H4N Pro / H6 is something that does the same job - and more - and you can carry everywhere in your pocket.