PolymathicPedagogue

That awkward moment when you realize you've accidentally nuked your relay list when setting up White Noise.

If Orwell were with us today, would he write about AI slop, Tiktok, IG, and algorithms?

Are there any decent clients to review my random collections of bookmarks from different apps and sites?

#asknostr

#asknostr #Linux

This is the story of my life!

Does anyone ever go down obscure learning pathways?

In years past, when I would try to pick up bits of a language, I would suddenly find myself going down a wild adventure on Wikipedia or elsewhere and would then decide to learn some outdated script or obscure dialect.

For example, I visited Vietnam for the first time maybe decade ago and decided to start learning about the history of its language. I discovered Chữ Nôm and really wanted to find some resources to learn that script. Mind, I hardly knew any Vietnamese, so knowing characters for a language I didn't speak made little sense. I mean, the only real reasons to do that would be to geek out for fun AND get some nerd street cred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m

Does anyone else do stuff like this?

#languagelearning #language #languages #nerd #nerdstr

I've joined your Armada community but am now getting this error message:

"The community rotated its keys after this link was made, so you're on an older version and can't read new messages."

Do you have an updated link?

This is the perfect opportunity to remind our friends and family members that their centralized walled gardens can disappear at the drop of a hat.

They need to try decentralized freedom technology: #Nostr, #SimpleX, #Reticulum, etc.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/facebook-instagram-down-live-thousands-37449397

#grownostr

This is another reason to continue growing out the #Reticulum network.

What are the most active #Armada communities? Share links!

#asknostr

Language flexing is some of the most wholesome flexing on the planet.

Look how much this man appreciated meeting someone who took the time to learn his language and about his culture.

#languagelearning #language #languages

I've seen a few notes about something called #Armada.

Are there any decent public communities anyone would like to recommend? If so, please do drop the links! I'll give them a try!

#asknostr

Besides using a Nostr-based messenger and trying to message myself, is there any kind of 'pastebin' client that I could use on desktop AND on mobile to send text and links to myself and to have access to everything on all of my devices?

Sometimes, I just want to share a link or make a note and access it later on another device, but I don't necessarily want to publish it for the world to see. Having something semi-private would be nice.

#asknostr

EU-based nostriches, is it time for you all to start a big used car network?

#asknostr #privacy

I'll be the first to admit that I use and abuse YouTube as a sort of search engine to research different topics, but I think this old note from BenniBTC is entirely correct. A lot of content could just be streamed audio and a PDF.

Instead of a PDF, a long-form note on Nostr would work too. Not being super well-informed about all of the different NIPs out there, I'm not sure if Nostr could handle the audio content too?

Alternatively, does anyone know how #Reticulum (and by extension #Nomadnet) would work for this type of model?

I've seen several people mention the Vector chat app recently, so I finally downloaded it (in spite of the fact that I so rarely send messages on Nostr).

The interface is incredibly clean and easy to use.

It does make me wonder if there's anything comparable for desktop?

#asknostr

What I'd be more curious to know is what FOSS alternatives exist for translation on both desktop and mobile.

#translation #FOSS #asknostr

#Cybersecurity nostriches, who is familiar with these "Global Device ID" from Windows? Who has access to it? Does it negate the point of a VPN, as suggested in this video? Do other operating systems have something similar?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9aGEuboGpLQ

#asknostr #security #privacy

🪪 My Nostr License — PolymathicPedagogue #NostrLicense

https://kojira.github.io/nostr-license/

I haven't played games in years, but this sort of news makes me want to build one of those DIY, RPi-based consoles for retro gaming.

"bUt I dOn'T hAvE aNyThInG tO hIdE i DiDn'T dO aNyThInG wRoNg"

Hey, nprofile1qqs936kc97s4k4gqjnmltljgqns0uadh08d77t5mypg3anxkneks37gwtxcgv! I was trying to pull up your site earlier to find your Cryptpad instance, but it looks like your whole site is down. Is everything okay?

I've been trying to use Olas on and off, but it never seems to work properly. Photos take forever to load. Old content gets stuck at the top of the feed. etc

Today, I tried Unfiltered from the Zapstore. It works out of the box. Guess I have my new Nostr photo app now!

#meshtastic sighting out on a semi-mainstream channel! Nice!

Do I think the US government can fix its own surveillance overreach problems? Definitely not.

Should that stop individual politicians from trying? Of course not. God bless these freedom-loving folks for doing what they can. I just pray that they will make clear, in the most public manner possible, that they are of sound mind and have no intention of hurting themselves or others.

#privacy #freedom #USA

I have known many fellow educators who use ChatGPT or Gemini to produce worksheets, quizzes, and so forth. That part is fairly standard. Heck, they can obviously even make minor tweaks to existing materials with relative ease. However, hallucinations are still a problem.

The other day, I met an IBDP physics instructor, who was specifically using Google's NotebookLM for his classes. While other AI tools worked for him, he found that NotebookLM was great for producing IBDP-like assessment questions. He would populate a dozen or more past paper questions of a particular type and then ask the AI to create a series of news questions, using the existing ones as the sole model. Because of the nature of NotebookLM, he found this to be the most accurate way to create new, but true-to-form IBDP-style quiz or test questions for his students.

I had to say that I was impressed. I normally had seen the students using this platform to query a given set of materials for answers for their homework or to study for upcoming exams. However, for the teachers to use it for generation of new assessment topics was brilliant in its own right. I was afraid that NotebookLM's own parameters wouldn't allow for extensive creativity, but that physics teacher swore by it.

#education #teaching #ai

Has anyone heard of QVAC Workbench? It looks like some kind of AI tool that uses the Pear Stack or whatever to connect your private AI instances between devices.

The idea is cool, but part of me is skeptical, as it's being released by...Tether? The same Tether as the stablecoins, right?

https://qvac.tether.io/products/workbench/

#asknostr #ai #privacy #freedomtech

Oh, look! I've now picked up a Portuguese-speaking carnivore bot too.

I guess that's one way for me to pick up that tongue.

#languagelearning

Always interested in things obscure, I learned years ago about the Artsakh Republic and had wanted to visit. With the Azeri invasion of this historically Armenian territory in 2023, that dream fell by the wayside.

There was hope that peace could return to this land, but it seems that the Azeris are intent on erasing every last remnant of the Armenian presence there, which dates back centuries.

Today, I awoke to learn that Azeris are now in the process of demolishing a central church in Stepanakert. This is the kind of behavior of thugs and terrorists. While not directly correlated, it reminds me of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan over two decades ago now.

May God forgive them for these crimes they commit against the population and against history itself!

https://zartonkmedia.com/2026/04/21/azerbaijan-destroys-holy-mother-of-god-cathedral-in-occupied-stepanakert-ahead-of-armenian-genocide-commemoration/

#Artsakh #NagornoKarabakh #Stepanakert #Armenia #Azerbaijan #history #culture

Who needs their #privacy anyway?

#asknostr

https://mastodon.social/@tristan42/116429261672086106

It's great to see more folks discovering alternative ROMs like

and

.

#foss #freedomtech

A private company wants to create an AI-backed, ultra-centralized version of Snopes to decide what is or is not true in the world?

What could go wrong?

#dystopian #asknostr

Life in the fiat mines is tough.

#fiat

This is my new favourite client.

Now, if only I could search for the gifs/mp4s via text search (as opposed to just emojis), it would be perfect!

It's way easier to search 'thank you' than to try to guess what emoji that might be.

I keep trying to install Columbia via

. While the app initially appears in my search, clicking on it returns an error message, saying the app is no longer available.

Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

#Reticulum #asknostr

The bots aren't even clever.

I've apparently picked up a carnivore bot follower.

I wonder how many different ways this clanker will twist my notes to promote the carnivore diet.

Data Slayer dropped another #Reticulum video. This is going to the top of my to-watch list!