Alex Gleason

https://alexgleason.me/

I create software that empowers people online.

I'm vegan btw.

Public Key

npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

NIP-05 Address

alex@gleasonator.dev

NIP-57 Address

alex@alexgleason.me

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dstpc3j3

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

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Last Notes

2025-03-01 21:59:48 UTC

Nostr upload servers compared:
NIP-96: uses multipart/formdata making it impossible to stream the request in chunks. Violates NIP-98 arbitrarily.
Blossom: cannot support video transcoding by design, making the client responsible, which is nearly impossible to do in web browsers.

2025-02-14 04:11:29 UTC

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Looks good!
https://media.ditto.pub/e38e50b873aa69bbe8088ca7cff6bb719fb4002ed918931ce11580c6d89c0a78.png

2025-02-03 05:11:14 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/5e69f12d09420f684fe31d183fa74ffab4dd7ef9bcb87c4195b354ead9da2dfa.png

2025-02-02 21:10:43 UTC

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Yall seem to forget 5 weeks ago when an AI spam bot convinced like a dozen people to follow it because its avatar was a picture of a girl.

2025-02-02 20:25:31 UTC

The good thing about AI saturating the internet, is that it will force people to never believe anything they see on the internet. Therefore any political content, sources of outrage, distractions, interference, etc cannot be believed. It will force us back into our immediate surroundings, as the only source of true reality, which is how people lived for thousands of years before the internet existed.

2025-01-26 15:35:58 UTC

No, you're supposed to rebuild the internet.
https://image.nostr.build/c5509bd96cb56ffae980db107e37fd822e8ae1077de384d97c0d791a9f6610e4.jpg

2025-01-11 02:25:25 UTC

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Use this: https://nostrify.dev/sign/connect

2024-12-28 20:20:01 UTC

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I think Bluesky has effectively already killed Mastodon. Now Gargron is stuck dealing with only the absolute worst of them. Which is unfortunate because Mastodon is a little more free than Bluesky.

2024-12-28 17:29:29 UTC

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I'm back to "give it 6 days" 🤦‍♂️

2024-12-28 17:28:18 UTC

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Wait, no it's not. I'm sorry, this is confusing as fuck. This is the actual did doc it would resolve with: https://npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s.eclipse.pub/.well-known/did.json
Looks fine. That other URL is just a hack.
https://image.nostr.build/555f953f8dff5d8807cbc95bde71689d527d7ff150f97a0820e4ee0b09044d2e.png

2024-12-28 17:25:05 UTC

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Oh shit this is a bug on my end related to the fact jb55's nip05 is on a root domain. I apologize to the bluesky gods. https://jb55-com.eclipse.pub/.well-known/did.json
https://image.nostr.build/aed57d5f1c9985322036c38be7541c155f956e2fbd53c31c09a90a185e658dcf.png

2024-12-28 17:21:22 UTC

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I got Derek's profile working again just now: https://bsky.app/profile/derekross-nostrplebs-com.eclipse.pub

2024-12-28 16:45:01 UTC

For some reason jb55 isn't allowed on Bluesky. I'm making his posts available in Bluesky format on eclipse.pub but for some reason they're not showing up on bsky.network, and it's impossible to figure out why. Even though other accounts are working.
It took my own account 6 days before it magically appeared on Bluesky.
#nevent1q…jcme
https://image.nostr.build/af566a63136b40b0a055c1b088520eab31e7e585d06edf5c5fb90d3b070f7bf7.png
https://image.nostr.build/c5e4dddebad949b98f558f8f3bd46e526ed3b287e3412decd9d875da1cef6928.jpg

2024-12-28 16:12:09 UTC

hello @nprofile…dk4n

2024-12-21 02:05:55 UTC

Body of Christ does not taste very good.
https://image.nostr.build/663e41fdef0c6d88f62f0a84902bc10d7235a8e5690eb8d7ba8ec69286931bfe.png

2024-12-20 00:18:50 UTC

Dude https://bsky.app/profile/bsky-gleasonator-dev.eclipse.pub/post/3ldp4c55d7c2o

2024-12-12 17:15:35 UTC

Dell Optiplex are tiny, absurdly cheap computers that are a great first step for self-hosting out of your house.
Why? Businesses and schools buy hundreds of these at once and then "liquidate" them a few years later. Therefore they're way cheaper than regular PCs for their specs.
For less than the cheapest smartphone you can own a small slice of the Internet.
https://image.nostr.build/0a605adf1bce31e3a989062316ba9cf38ffdc21492435b10804726e1855e46a7.jpg

2024-11-23 05:21:46 UTC

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I think mkljczk has one similar. I went a different approach and made a thin wrapper around `fetch`: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/blob/main/src/api/MastodonClient.ts

2024-11-23 05:19:49 UTC

did:plc is a shitcoin.

2024-11-17 00:07:38 UTC

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I think bluesky _could_ be decentralized IN THEORY. They did design it with that in mind. But nobody has actually done it yet.

2024-10-29 21:46:07 UTC

I completely rewrote the bunker ine Soapbox. I'm amazed that it's working.

2024-10-29 05:57:17 UTC

Blasphemous is the greatest game ever.

2024-10-25 04:25:58 UTC

Crikey...
https://image.nostr.build/4a128a82ef91d81d85bee9798dd0351d74506ac515cffd0b729731f4701f60f1.jpg

2024-10-24 04:07:55 UTC

This is not a political post. I already regret writing this post. Isn't it interesting they call Trump "Hitler 2.0" yet he supports Israel, but that's actually worse? I am not making any point or political statement with this post. Do not reply to this post.

2024-10-23 05:33:50 UTC

Copying is not theft.
Stealing a thing leaves one less left
Copying it makes one thing more;
that’s what copying’s for.
Copying is not theft.
If I copy yours you have it too
One for me and one for you
That’s what copies can do.
If I steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus,
but if I just copy it
there’s one for each of us!
Making more of a thing,
that is what we call “copying”
Sharing ideas with everyone
That’s why copying
is
FUN!

2024-10-20 13:37:32 UTC

Woke up with that pounding headache again. I found out it happens not after a late night of drinking, but after making 5+ pull requests in a day.

2024-10-19 12:43:53 UTC

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A little old man on a nature trail said guudu moning to me and I hit him back with ohayo gozaimasu and it was very wholesome.

2024-10-14 17:29:50 UTC

Truth Social's new streaming website looks exactly like this Slovenian telecom provider's service. Huh! Interesting.
https://image.nostr.build/81cb2d1729708df5a44f28ee75840bcf07ef4140b90c18a2048dcbe545fc0f45.png
https://image.nostr.build/ca7eccbc960c5a4a01e60cdb87d8231d918f9912a9cd564e1890e4eea2c90bec.png

2024-10-14 14:13:11 UTC

There was a study where people took turn ratings songs on a fake music review website, 1-5 stars. Each person could see the reviews from the people before them. Justin Bieber is widely disliked, but the study found that if the first participant rated the music highly, like 5 stars, it would continue to be rated more highly be other participants. If they rated him low, he would stay low.
The moral of the story is that an initial group of people can set the stage and perception of a thing, in the beginning. Right now it's Bitcoin. But Bitcoin isn't even that bad! Honestly it's one of the best online communities out there.
We need a few more nice communities like Bitcoin before we attract a mainstream audience.

2024-10-14 13:32:31 UTC

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Did you just stylize Nostr! with an exclamation point?
@nprofile…v2wn get on this ^

2024-10-12 04:48:41 UTC

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I opened: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/issues/246

2024-10-12 04:31:46 UTC

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In what browser?

2024-10-12 01:01:41 UTC

Just received this crazy political meme pamphlet to my mailbox. 😂
https://image.nostr.build/779c911a21accda92352c1167d4d1368d35f6e02d3ac6d86b097dd20ff88ccd9.jpg

2024-10-11 23:47:54 UTC

A big challenge of client performance is that you cannot optimize filters. There are a few objective things you can do, but without knowing the relay's query planner you don't know if it's better to make one request or two requests, for example. How you structure the filter could result in completely different performance on different relays. None are perfectly optimized for all shapes of filters. Extending filters to do more things might exacerbate this issue rather than help it. Regardless, this is an inherent limitation with doing JIT querying of relays. You are basically deciding that you prefer the freedom and purity of the protocol over UX. And that's fine.

2024-10-11 23:25:50 UTC

Still recovering from ReplyGuy one month later, #Ditto has a puzzle captcha now.
We coded this captcha from scratch using the Canvas API, mainly based on work by @nprofile…mcz8 and implemented in Soapbox by @nprofile…4j4t 😃
https://image.nostr.build/7d6839d6e038479f7accb097932068784da7fe16014ef7b6779c6ad6a8841b97.jpg

2024-10-11 18:04:21 UTC

"don't use eslint for formatting, linters are for linting formatters are for formatting, use prettier"
prettier: "Prettier is not a kitchen-sink code formatter" "Option requests aren’t accepted anymore" "Please note that as option requests are out of scope for Prettier, they will be closed without discussion."
https://prettier.io/docs/en/option-philosophy

2024-10-11 16:56:06 UTC

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How dare you put a .js file in a TypeScript project

2024-10-11 16:26:04 UTC

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Tired of being stuck in 2017 with Axios and xhr. I want new things to be based on Fetch API. A lot of code depends on it so I want to change it now. Couldn't get past this in the "best" existing library: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky/pull/606 Wasn't worth forking it when I need only a fraction of the functionality anyway. So I wrote this instead: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/blob/main/src/api/MastodonClient.ts?ref_type=heads Honestly not bad, but it took way longer to figure out than it looks.

2024-10-11 15:59:47 UTC

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I wrote an http client library from scratch at 4am

2024-10-11 15:58:01 UTC

What the fuck? That sounds nice. Feels like I'm constantly pushing the limits of what's possible. It's honesty surprising how much isn't solved.
https://image.nostr.build/2fbe8a67599f2bebc13d34eebf3d8a95638168121925d56a0f30f5d2afcc8315.jpg

2024-10-10 15:35:36 UTC

Damn
https://image.nostr.build/e028fa9951f0a9d1ea3f38068601bce9f578ce22e573e8462f283a7042939912.jpg

2024-10-10 14:41:24 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/3025289f95bf1b4707da72e610e4d64be5e9fa6a2a6554807b949aeea6efe597.jpg

2024-10-10 02:27:57 UTC

Let me tell you what I learned about JavaScript today, that I wish I didn't have to. If you create a rejected promise, and you put it in a variable, and you don't catch the promise in the same tick, it results in an "unhandled promise rejection" that crashes your entire application. Also, if it's not an "Error" instance that rejects (but rather a different type of primitive or object), you don't even get a stack trace. You get an error like this:
error: Uncaught (in promise) null
With absolutely no other information. Your application is crashed and you have no idea how to fix it. And you'd better pray you logged the right stuff above it to use context clues to figure it out.
Anyway, here is the problem code (left) and the fixed solution (right).
https://image.nostr.build/b3f01ac78bbc7b0663f671571df079e65ac2538a34539d723ea5c0d0138c941c.png
https://image.nostr.build/145b01c72531ed614ea8ac298c10c9527635b6668defa6c76e4aaed706e5fad8.png

2024-10-10 01:34:27 UTC

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Oh I feel the urgency.

2024-10-10 01:28:58 UTC

Machine translations, coming soon to #Ditto 👀 @nprofile…fpkw
https://video.nostr.build/42ba5d61a604bfbb0dbd6916b440e71b08b64cbeed31300c4b097da59e98f5ec.mp4

2024-10-09 22:47:41 UTC

Would you accept Hitler's pull request?

2024-10-09 19:21:07 UTC

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Que porra você acabou de dizer sobre mim, sua putinha? Quero que você saiba que me formei como o melhor da minha turma no Navy Seals, e estive envolvido em vários ataques secretos à Al-Qaeda, e tenho mais de 300 mortes confirmadas. Sou treinado em guerra de gorilas e sou o melhor atirador de elite de todas as forças armadas dos EUA. Você não é nada para mim, mas apenas mais um alvo. Vou acabar com você com uma precisão nunca vista antes na Terra, marque minhas palavras. Você acha que pode se safar dizendo essa merda para mim pela Internet? Pense de novo, filho da puta. Enquanto falamos, estou entrando em contato com minha rede secreta de espiões nos EUA e seu IP está sendo rastreado agora, então é melhor você se preparar para a tempestade, verme. A tempestade que destrói a coisinha patética que você chama de vida. Você está morto, garoto. Posso estar em qualquer lugar, a qualquer hora, e posso te matar de mais de setecentas maneiras, e isso é só com minhas próprias mãos. Não só sou extensivamente treinado em combate desarmado, mas tenho acesso a todo o arsenal do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais dos Estados Unidos e vou usá-lo em toda a sua extensão para limpar sua bunda miserável da face do continente, seu merdinha. Se você soubesse que retribuição profana seu pequeno comentário "inteligente" estava prestes a trazer sobre você, talvez você tivesse segurado sua língua. Mas você não podia, você não fez, e agora você está pagando o preço, seu idiota maldito. Vou cagar fúria em você e você vai se afogar nela. Você está morto, garoto.

2024-10-09 19:16:10 UTC

Olá mundo

2024-10-09 17:51:49 UTC

#Ditto upgraded to Deno 2.0! 🎉 https://deno.com/blog/v2.0

2024-10-09 17:40:10 UTC

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Nah we just weren't married or engaged but she was more than my gf. Although this lead to some interesting copypastas. 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/Pleroma_Mastodon/comments/z62td3/in_defense_of_rebasedsoapbox_alex_gleason/

2024-10-09 17:14:27 UTC

This is what they're saying about me 🤣
https://image.nostr.build/7d64fc2e81fa907e329201907d6f11c5a60fe8151a5bd36604aa6ac854d8a4a1.jpg

2024-10-09 16:54:19 UTC

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Here is an example post of something I posted in May. Now suddenly they're after me, seeking to cancel and remove me from every angle. But they have no real power!
https://image.nostr.build/ebf97a93b164cad1d3224528a1632cf94bd8bc7b1add5e0c879ba3660ddee7fe.png
https://image.nostr.build/30c2c31d113d3447ff148c9a87b15bf74af8ccb652408d742fdf105ffde730bd.png

2024-10-09 16:49:49 UTC

Continuing to get cancelled on the #Fediverse. lmao what the hell is going on??
https://image.nostr.build/d45ed1841c747a3887294d2a6b56f866e8867942a7ea26b9c284cdd6caa77ae1.png

2024-10-08 18:07:03 UTC

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I think your best bet for now is probably to use Vite in a Node project (instead of Deno), and use Nostrify like this:
npx jsr add @nostrify/nostrify
It may be possible to get it working with Deno with Deno 2's release candidate, but I don't know how exactly to set up Vite with it.
https://image.nostr.build/9272cbe9be667ed5861a46cc9c6299f7146ceaeb3f3bba7b7fc53c4cc1a5a5b0.png

2024-10-08 15:53:16 UTC

Nostr Signer benchmark using nostr-tools.
https://image.nostr.build/00264665ce1519cb5d401e06e2a259e693b7066a015c99e994bf5954a3d7e21f.png

2024-10-08 14:06:05 UTC

I'm learning a lot about cryptography. Just enough to be incompetent.

2024-10-08 12:57:21 UTC

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GM, clownworld update:
https://image.nostr.build/00582f5d8b01243bbbe1a2a0b39e604bbc9bc2d1141c936e3f173cd3e9d6c5eb.png

2024-10-07 17:36:42 UTC

If you ask a woke person to explain their point of view, eventually it will always come back to Hitler. Some people have role models they aspire to, such as George Washington, MLK, Gandhi, or Jesus Christ. A woke person's goal is to discredit these role models, because their own own ultimate role model is Adolf Hitler, a negative role model, in the sense that they want to be as much NOT like him as possible, rather than aspiring to BE like an aspirational figure. This negative mindset leads to division, counterproductivity, and self demise. These people who call themselves atheists ironically align themselves most with fundamentalist religious nuts who obsess so much with fighting the Devil they forgot how to love God. Regardless of your beliefs, the best thing for one's mental health is to focus on your own aspirations, to seek inspiration, and to NOT try to obsessively control people because of perceived wrongs of the past. And then maybe someday we will be able to move past WWII.

2024-10-06 19:06:13 UTC

Thanks to work by @nprofile…59se and @nprofile…4l8s , it's now possible to filter the global feed by language on #Ditto!
This helps people to more easily find posts in their native language. Portuguese, for example. 🇧🇷
https://image.nostr.build/74a35e550b979d545c08c424d9554e327e2984716949d4fc546357c976b94318.png
https://image.nostr.build/714ba94a3e0bafae8fec07a92ddcd841a3950ee0d6b8ed7fcc9f67df4770614c.png
https://image.nostr.build/55de071ad4710145d3082a58e466bbeaf9de5195fc9f3bad03a58179747efebb.png

2024-10-06 18:20:06 UTC

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I said there is 2 genders like five years ago and they're still mad about it.

2024-10-06 18:00:55 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/377d51abe05e9a560b20d8f6ced052dd3a9215ba46f91fcb9d5942f2ec50cc24.png

2024-10-06 01:23:06 UTC

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No I don't think we should bomb my grandfather in Iran. I was just sharing an interesting fact. I don't think I had a bigger point to it.

2024-10-06 01:17:41 UTC

For a long time I mistakenly thought that daddy long-legs were "technically not spiders", just because people mistakenly call crane flies "daddy long-legs", and crane flies are definitely not spiders.

2024-10-06 00:04:48 UTC

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Iran stones gays to death, yet subsidizes gender transition surgeries.
Source: am Iranian.
Fact check: TRUE.

2024-10-05 21:46:00 UTC

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I disagree that's what's holding speed back. The issue is that clients talk directly to relays "just in time", and relays themselves are slow because they're getting overloaded by malfunctioning clients and don't have the right protections.
Pure clients can partially solve this by reading from an internal database synchronously and populate it asynchronously (like Damus does with nostr-db), but there's limits to smartphones being able to do that without wasting precious disk space, battery life, bandwidth, etc.
Which is why I think the server model used by Ditto and Primal wins for mass adoption. Pure clients need to exist for freedom reasons, but it's a choice people need to want to make.

2024-10-05 18:18:36 UTC

Does anyone feel like we're still stuck in 2019?

2024-10-04 22:55:44 UTC

I think this is possibly the most cursed place that exists on the planet? https://maps.app.goo.gl/PeV9cNH777MGXYA56

2024-10-04 18:43:53 UTC

Proton Mail requires proof-of-work with their captcha. But it's not just one - the client has to solve 32 PoW challenges.
This is interesting because this work can run in parallel. The difficulty is only 13, so each one should take less than a second to solve in theory. I'm still thinking it through.
https://image.nostr.build/4b73b17f599ef203b746628b4d558759a5e2fb522d8b43acaa1dfa67717fe39b.png

2024-10-04 00:02:55 UTC

Lmao! 😂 You saw it on Nostr first, bros.
#nevent1q…63u4
https://image.nostr.build/fce8dc635795d745a1356ef7634c4c590df37732c47c969e1364dfc6e2bc3bb8.png

2024-10-03 16:50:05 UTC

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Is Nos a pure client or does it have a server?
The client I'm building is a hybrid client/server. I am working on an anti-spam system where I treat users of my client differently from users on the network.
Users on the network need a valid NIP-05, or need to be in the web-of-trust of some configured account (Jack Dorsey currently, but it's configurable) in order to post. The WoT thing is primitive, but I can envision ways to improve it. Look how small the code is: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/nostrify/-/blob/main/packages/policies/WoTPolicy.ts?ref_type=heads
For users of my own client, I'm building a captcha served by my server. When they solve the captcha, my server will publish an event saying they solved the captcha. Then any client which trust my server (including my own client) can query that event to decide whether to let the user post.

2024-10-03 15:42:42 UTC

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This should have been written in LaTeX and then transpiled to JavaScript

2024-10-03 15:41:17 UTC

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Sure, let me just (s0 ^= b[i + 0]), (s1 ^= b[i + 1]), (s2 ^= b[i + 2]), (s3 ^= b[i + 3]);
({ s0, s1, s2, s3 } = encrypt(xk, s0, s1, s2, s3));
(o[i++] = s0), (o[i++] = s1), (o[i++] = s2), (o[i++] = s3); for you.

2024-10-03 15:40:48 UTC

Have y'all seen what an encryption algorithm looks like in code? Pure madness.
https://image.nostr.build/c512961cd5f00c01a7b9648aca8ba5a65b52f6d4a269865649190c723a5742c2.jpg

2024-10-03 14:43:06 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/ae1d34040d532ef289e869acf63258b214b4080e2f3f937bf824cf513e143bd8.jpg

2024-10-03 03:58:40 UTC

I improved relay hints etc on #Ditto so it embeds nprofile, nevent instead of the lazy ones, and adds NIP-10 pubkeys to e tags (among other fixes).
https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/merge_requests/527

2024-10-02 18:29:02 UTC

Only in #France.
https://image.nostr.build/302caf84230cb9b756aa4834b4b84548961121e9f6ccfdff905cdacd0971be7c.jpg

2024-10-02 18:07:52 UTC

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I spent a few days on it, and just couldn't get login with Amber to work properly.
It actually is possible to do NIP-46 login to Ditto right now through the REST API (and it works perfectly with nak), but I haven't built a UI for it yet. I'm not in a rush because the signers don't work great yet. This is probably a chicken and egg problem.
So, sadly the only way on mobile is to paste the nsec, or use FireFox with a NIP-07 extension, which I'm told does actually work, but then you will have to use FireFox.

2024-10-01 21:22:21 UTC

Journos are reading my posts on Nostr.

2024-10-01 14:46:11 UTC

people be like "omg alex I totally forgot you're vegan" just because I forgot to say "I'm vegan btw" 5 times today and don't look like this guy
https://image.nostr.build/5a5050b05714e42ea6562cfabe41dbfdafa434ddc706479f2fc887e044e10259.jpg

2024-10-01 13:14:38 UTC

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The founders dumped once their lawsuit succeeded, that's all you need to know.

2024-10-01 13:00:45 UTC

Truth Social in shambles. Many more people fired.

2024-10-01 12:56:48 UTC

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What's the trick to preventing future spam?

2024-09-30 18:03:17 UTC

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Glad you like it!

2024-09-28 17:20:30 UTC

Guys this is why "censorship resistance" aspect of Nostr actually does matter. Even if it doesn't win for the initial sell, it matters for the long term of it actually working.
#note1399…m742

2024-09-28 09:45:07 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/79de5b2dd9eb6dcc7767353530d624cd979b839e56a6a60c5548437f85e1bb0e.jpg

2024-09-27 21:27:39 UTC

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Spinster.

2024-09-27 20:55:45 UTC

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Yes. I got an app merged into F-Droid and then they banned it.

2024-09-27 20:29:18 UTC

The more you have to say to explain it, the worse the argument probably is.

2024-09-27 19:37:12 UTC

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Looks good now.

2024-09-26 23:35:20 UTC

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This is the part that really got me.
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2024-09-26 23:26:55 UTC

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This is crazy. The more I read it, the crazier it is.

2024-09-26 23:26:23 UTC

Lol https://anti-captcha.com/

2024-09-26 23:06:10 UTC

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We should assume that most of the attacks Nostr will face won't be from scammers, but from trolls. That's the disconnect.

2024-09-26 23:03:43 UTC

The problem proof-of-work solves is that it limits the upper-end capabilities of bot farms. It means that bot farms that are already at 100% capacity will have to buy more servers or slow down their operation.
It does not stop an individual with a powerful laptop from being able to create thousands of annoying notifications at users each day.