Intro

Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?

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• Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
• Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
• Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
• Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
• Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
• World ID
• Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
• Nostr Iceberg Meme
• NIP-01
• Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
• Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
• Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
• Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
• HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
• zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
• ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
• Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
• Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
• UseNostr
• awesome-nostr
• Decentralized publishing for the web
• Nostr Apps
• Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
• Amethyst
• amethyst: Nostr client for Android
• yana
• Primal App
• Dan's Nostr Relay
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• SpeechNote — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so.
• rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
• Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
• starship on GitHub
• ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
• distrobox-assemble — distrobox-assemble takes care of creating or destroying containers in batches, based on a manifest file.
• Pick: Gathio — Gathio is a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform.