No Solutions

“The human spirit should remain in charge.” Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind. In this dialogue: Wind More Wind Information Calories, and how to measure them Digital Wellbeing Rescue Time Teleology of Technology Platforms get users Hooked (book) Feeds are slot machines Movie Walls Tweetdeck and Notedeck IRC vs the modern feed 37Signals: “Hey , let’s just charge users!” “You wouldn’t zap a car crash” Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views Long videos vs shorts The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention ) “Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it Questr : 2D exploration of nostr ONOSENDAI by Arkinox Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech DAUs of jumper cables Gossip and it’s choices “The secret to life is to send it” Flying water & flying bus stops RSS readers , Mailbrew , and daily digests Nostr is high signal and less addictive Calling nostr posts “ tweets ” and recordings being “on tape” Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96 Blossom (and wind) Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers SaaS and the DAU metric Highlighter Not caring where stuff is hosted When is an edited thing a new thing? Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits NIP-60 and inconsistent balances Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse Helping your uncle jack of a horse Can we fix it with WoT? Vertex & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr Linking to hashtags & search queries Advanced search and why it’s great Search scopes & web of trust The UNIX tools of nostr Pablo’s NDK snippets Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI Blog-post-driven development ( Lightning Prisms , Highlighter ) Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ( HLDD / LLDD ) “Speed itself is a feature” MCP & DVMCP Monorepos and git submodules Olas & NDK Pablo’s RemindMe bot “Breaking changes kinda suck” Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans LLM-generated sticker styles LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email ) “AI-generated art has no soul” Nostr, zaps, and realness Does the source matter? Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1 Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ( Technofeudalism , book) Is more context always good? Vervaeke’s AI argument What is meaningful? How do you extract meaning from information? How do you extract meaning from experience? “What the hell is water” Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality “Bitcoin is singularity insurance” Will vibe coding make developers obsolete? Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build 10min block time & the physical limits of consensus Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids? All you need now is motivation Upcoming agents will actually do the thing Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution Patronage, belle epoche, and bitcoin art Niches, and how the internet fractioned society Joe’s songs Hyper-personalized stories Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau) Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps Agency, free expression, and free speech Edgy content & twitch meta , aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming Using attention as a proxy currency Farming eyeballs and brain cycles Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait “You wouldn’t zap a car crash” Attention economy is parasitic on humanity The importance of speech & money What should be done by a machine? What should be done by a human? “The human spirit should remain in charge” Our relationship with fiat money Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom Recorded at 888,635.

“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.” In this dialogue: Where is the Utopia that the internet promised? “Neither nostalgia nor utopia” Net Neutrality is a moral stance Where did the internet go wrong? Tech as a tool; is tech always neutral? Technology that increases agency VS tech that enslaves Competition vs Symbiosis “Who will run the mints?” “Anyone” can use it vs “everyone” can use it Centralizing vs. Monopolizing Bitcoin has an ethos baked in (You Shall Not Steal) Passive internet vs active internet Agency in cyberspace, and how to maximize it Blinded custodian vs regular custodian User data is a liability Obscura / Mullvad / Silent.Link as obvious early adopters- Run your own ISP - Tollgate Cryptography is Not Enough Bitcoin is Time Time requires heat Zero-knowledge service providers Electronic Cash vs Digital Cash (CBDCs) Credit requires KYC, KYC implies outside enforcement Writings on Micropayments by Nick Szabo- eCash fixes 402, obviously Who Owns the Future? “You are the product” vs “Subscription Hell” “Hello old friend!!!” Cathedral vs Bazaar Why paywalls suck Information wants to be free “Markets become absurd as supply approaches infinity.” eCash + AI = match made in heaven #LearnToCode vs #LearnToPrompt Scarcity in cyberspace: compute, storage, networking Zero-Knowledge compute & zero-knowledge proofs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof https://github.com/AbdelStark/cashu-zk-engine Cairo: https://github.com/starkware-libs/cairo MCP https://github.com/AbdelStark/bitcoin-mcp MCP DVM: https://github.com/r0d8lsh0p/n8n-AI-agent-DVM-MCP-client DVMCP: https://mcp.so/server/dvmcp Olas & Nutzaps (NIP-60, NIP-61) Bitcoin is not only the internet of money, but it is the money of the internet Re-building the internet archive on top of nostr- Bitrot & 404 Resurrection markets & marketplace for hashes via Blossom Hugs 🫂 Links & References: Nostr Protocol Repository: https://github.com/nostr-protocol  Cashu (e-cash): https://github.com/cashubtc  NIP-60 (Cashu Wallets): https://nips.nostr.com/60  NIP-61 (Nutzaps): https://nips.nostr.com/61 The Cathedral And The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier Recorded at 887,039.

“We do not have the answers." In this dialogue: What is this No Solutions thing anyway? Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important Why is nostr exiting for developers? Evolution, Life, and nostr What is the perfect nostr app, and why can’t there be THE perfect nostr app? Why there is no “global” view in nostr Impossible problems vs. possible (but still hard) problems Blossom, blossom, and more blossom Zooko’s Triangle Freedom Tech Building Blocks NIP-60/61, NIP-89 Email vs ICQ Accepting constraints & moving forward Nostr has data integrity, but no data guarantees Bitcoin as an extreme RAID system Fault tolerance vs. efficiency “Build the infrastructure, don’t run it.” eCash fixes 402 Everything in nostr can be one-click There’s infinite nsecs (and they are free!) The magic of the nostr view-only mode The Local-first movement How to monetize without putting yourself in the middle? RoboSats as an example of open-source monetization The YouTube like count is a lie Further links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_cognition https://nips.nostr.com/60 https://nips.nostr.com/61 https://nips.nostr.com/89 https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko’s_triangle https://www.jrepodcast.com/guest/adam-curry/ https://localfirstweb.dev/ https://www.localfirstconf.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/25/icq-1996-2024-the-first-universal-messenger-had-a-good-run-and-is-leaving-us-soon https://www.chatinum.com/articles/the-old-chat-apps-of-the-2000s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI https://njump.to/nosolutions@sovereignengineering.io Recorded at 883,903.

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