[HN Gopher] Gitstr: Send and receive Git patches over Nostr
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Gitstr: Send and receive Git patches over Nostr
Author : jgilias
Score : 36 points
Date : 2024-01-30 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| jgilias wrote:
| This is not a ShowHN, as I'm not the author. I just find the
| concept really cool!
| Karellen wrote:
| > Nostr is a decentralized network protocol for a distributed
| social networking system. [...] It was designed with goals of
| censorship-resistance in mind.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr
|
| (Because the linked page doesn't describe/link to a description
| either, AFAICT)
| kevinak wrote:
| This is dope! Very cool to see more Nostr applications that
| aren't just Twitter clones.
| RIMR wrote:
| Nostr really feels to me like the blockchain: An incredible novel
| solution desperately in search of a problem to solve.
|
| The engineering behind this is neat, but I have no idea why this
| is useful.
| pjfin123 wrote:
| Nostr is the only payment network I've ever used that lets you
| send payments of less than $0.10.
| gkbrk wrote:
| Nostr is not a payment network. You probably used Lightning
| instead.
| RIMR wrote:
| Bitcoiner "understand what you advocate for" challenge
| (impossible).
| RIMR wrote:
| Nostr really feels to me like the blockchain: Nobody that
| advocates for it understands what it is or how it works.
| evbogue wrote:
| Bitcoin uses secp256k1, Nostr uses secp256k1. I was
| surprised as anyone to learn that when you exchange money
| using Nostr clients it is not directed at the private key
| that you use to sign Nostr messages.
| RIMR wrote:
| I cannot say that I am surprised at all to learn that you
| were sending and receiving Sats over the LN with zero
| understanding of what keys were actually associated with
| your funds. This is exactly the level literacy I expect
| to see of anyone dealing in cryptocurrency.
|
| Is there a reason to think that two different keys for
| two different protocols are actually the same key just
| because they use the same ECDSA? Not if you possess even
| a modicum of understanding of cryptography, but I
| digress, we are talking about Bitcoiners after all.
| seanw444 wrote:
| Your condescending bone-to-pick attitude about people
| using cryptocurrency is kind of cringe.
| crotchfire wrote:
| I'm surprised by this too.
|
| Bitcoin was developed just barely before ed25519 was
| finalized, which is probably why it uses secp256k1.
| Unless intended mainly for government users (FIPS),
| almost every new cryptographic system uses ed25519 --
| _except Nostr_.
|
| I always assumed Nostr chose secp256k1 so you could send
| bitcoin to another Nostr user without some extra "payment
| address request protocol" bolted on the side. Very
| surprising that this was not the motivation!
| ecf wrote:
| Nostr is everything that fediverse social networks claim to be,
| but aren't.
|
| I was shocked to find out that the Lemmy instance I signed up
| on was blocking dozens upon dozens of other instances, which
| defeats the entire purpose of a federated network.
| AlphaCerium wrote:
| Then switch to a different one, the point of a federated
| network is that anyone is able to talk to anyone, not that
| they have to.
| ecf wrote:
| You must realize that the moment you say "just switch to
| another" you've lost 99% of your potential user base.
|
| It took me signing up for Lemmy to realize why Lemmy is
| still a completely dead network.
| RIMR wrote:
| This is a strawman argument. The biggest advocateds of
| federated social media are not promising a fully
| decentralized and censorship-proof network. Federation is
| built on trust, and blocking untrustworthy instances is a
| critical function of any open federated system.
|
| There is another side of the Fediverse that operates on the
| principles you are talking about (eg. Poast, Baest, Spinster,
| Gleasonator, NoAgendaSocial, NicecrewDigital, et al). That
| part of the Fediverse, like Nostr, is covered in Lolicon,
| gore, and Nazi memes because that's the userbase you get when
| you promise that nobody can stop you from posting whatever
| you want.
|
| More and more I am learning that the people who desire
| censorship-free social spaces are the kind of people that
| others rightfully exclude from polite social spaces, because
| these are people who lack respect and want to say and do
| horrible things without opposition.
| poulpy123 wrote:
| I tried nostr and I was impressed by how fast it is compared to
| the alternatives and by how seamless it is to connect to
| everyone. Unfortunately I'm not interested by the current
| content and I'm not sure a social media without censorship is
| viable on large scale
| Nzen wrote:
| I found Ryabitsev's 2019 meditation [0] about maybe using git
| with secure scuttlebutt interesting (though not terribly
| compelling). Ryabitsev's fantasy scenario involves a developer
| exchanging git patches for a particular project via phones, to
| a laptop. Because that person uses secure scuttlebutt, the bug
| tracking thread is part of the enabling software, rather than
| out of band. I am of the impression that Ryabitsev's history as
| mailing list manager and software patch attestation more likely
| informed this dalliance than typical web3 inroads.
|
| [0] https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/patches-carved-
| into-d...
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