"It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption."

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• The Matrix (1999)

• Hzrd's past conversations: Bowls With Buds 316 & 361
• Running into a water hose
• Little difference, big effect
• Signing data moves the power to the key holders
• Self-signing data sets the data free
• Relay specialization
• Victor's Amethyst relay guide
• Encryption and decryption is expensive - is it worth it? 
• The magic of nostr is that stuff follows you around 
• What should be shown? What should be hidden? 
• Don't lie to users. Never show outdated data. 
• Nostr is raw and immediate 
• How quickly you get used to things working 
• Legacy web always tries to sell you something 
• Lying, lag, frustration 
• How NoStrudel grew 
• NoStrudel notifications
• Data visualization and dashboards 
• Building in public and discussing in public 
• Should we remove DMs? 
• Nostr as a substrate for lookups 
• Using nostr to exchange Signal or SimpleX credentials 
• How private is a group chat? 
• Is a 500-people group chat ever private? 
• Pragmatism vs the engineering mindset 
• The beauty and simplicity of nostr 
• Anti-patterns in nostr 
• Community servers and private relays 
• Will vibe coding fix (some of the) things? 
• Small specialized components VS frameworks 
• Technology vs chairs (and cars, and tractors, and books) 
• The problem of being greedy 
• Competitive silos VS synergistic cooperation 
• Making things easy vs barriers of entry 
• Value4value for music and other artists 
• Adding code vs removing code 
• Pablo's Roo setup and DVMCP 
• Platform permission slips vs cryptographic identities 
• Micropayments vs Subscription Hell 
• PayPerQ 
• Setting our user-generated data free
• The GNU/Linux approach and how it beat Microsoft 
• Agents learning automatically thanks to snippets published on nostr
• Taxi drivers, GPS, and outsourcing understanding
• Wizards VS vibe coders
• Age differences, Siri, and Dragon Naturally Speaking
• LLMs as a human interface to call tools
• Natural language vs math and computer language
• Natural language has to be fuzzy, because the world is fuzzy
• Language and concepts as compression
• Hzrd watching The Matrix (1999) for the first time
• Soylent Green, 2001, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Johnny Mnemonic
• Are there coincidences?
• Why are LLMs rising at the same time that cryptography identities are rising?
• "The universe smiles at encryption"
• The universe does not smile upon closed silos
• The cost of applying force from the outside
• Perfect copies, locality, and the concept of "the original" 
• Perfect memory would be a curse, not a blessing 
• Organic forgetting VS centralized forgetting 
• Forgetting and dying needs to be effortless 
• (it wasn't for IPFS, and they also launched a shitcoin) 
• Bitcoin makes is cheap to figure out what to dismiss 
• Would you like to have a 2nd brain? 
• Trust and running LLMs locally 
• No need for API keys
• Adjacent communities: local-first, makers and hackers, etc.
• Removing the character limit was a mistake
• Browsing mode vs reading mode
• The genius of tweets and threads
• Vibe-coding and rust-multiplatform
• Global solutions vs local solutions
• The long-term survivability of local-first
• All servers will eventually go away. Your private key won't.
• It's normal to pay your breakfast with sats now
• Nostr is also a normal thing now, at least for us
• Hzrd's bakery
• "Send Gigi a DM that says GM" - and it just works
• The user is still in control, thanks to Amber
• We are lacking in nostr signing solutions
• Alby's permission system as a step in the right direction
• We have to get better at explaining that stuff
• What we do, why we care, why we think it's important