LibertyFarmer
Liberty Farmer

Lead Hamster at HAMSTR - NOSTR over HF Radio

Public Key

npub1uwh0m2y8y5489nhr27xn8vkumy8flefm30kkx3l0tcn0wss34kaszyfqu7

NIP-05 Address

the_liberty_farmer@nostrcheck.me

NIP-57 Address

cancerboyuofa@strike.me

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsw8tha4zrj22njem340rfnktwdjr5lu5achmtrglh4ufhhggg6mwcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmc0gkjyw

Publishing to

relay.mostr.pub

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1uwh0m2y8y5489nhr27xn8vkumy8flefm30kkx3l0tcn0wss34kaszyfqu7

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Last Notes

2024-09-27 04:08:53

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No issues here?

2024-09-27 04:03:10

https://image.nostr.build/0c957884f7f8ba7bb7ee0cd238ee9b077e69559a9d087a89e3b47f4510f886a3.jpg
Not that anyone cares, lol.
But.... #HAMSTR development has made new progress. Getting closer to inital early extra special bug filled and bad alpha release!
Packet radio stack, communications, and
It can officially send and recieve dummy nostr notes. Next up real nostr notes. Then UI work begins.
Will be releasing the source code and Making it fully FOSS for any python devs that want to help. As I have said, ai am a terrible dev, it's poorly documented, but works!
Global HF packet radio is the next step in decentralized NOSTR access!
#hamradio
#nostr
#decentralized
@nprofile…5ddh
@nprofile…vu4p

2024-09-25 03:28:08

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Amethyst can also choose which relays are used for what function. For people, global, searching, etc..

2024-09-24 00:32:49

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To be fair, like 100 million people have already used threads. It's pushed daily by meta on instagram.

2024-09-19 23:00:37

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So none, got it. i assumed not.
There is in fact a significant increase in all teen suicides since roughly 2004.(year depends on stats and study used)
Certainly gay teen suicide is also up.
I'm not going to blame the rise of social media, but.....seems like a good culprit.
You certainly can't make the case that social media has helped their suicide rate.

2024-09-19 22:35:00

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there is absolutely no way the numbers of teen suicides as a whole, ans in the gay community have dropped since social media became a thing. Zero chance.
gonna need some sources on that.

2024-09-19 21:57:31

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Which suppressor is that on the FN? It'd a beast.

2024-09-16 01:39:05

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That's actually a great onboarding.

2024-09-14 23:15:15

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I did not authorize you to film and release me at the bbq!

2024-09-14 22:36:56

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Exactly. Just eat the meat, be done with it. Add cheese if desired. Eggs for bfast or snack or dinner. Easy

2024-09-14 17:20:51

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So does 99% of government and fiat, yet here we are...

2024-09-14 17:04:17

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It's a trick. You ate it.

2024-09-14 16:18:07

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Well damn, he's gone again.

2024-09-14 16:15:50

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Hey @nprofile…q3u8 write this guy a few preentation slides about NOSTR and how it can help solve social media and decentralize communication in life.

2024-09-14 15:02:23

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The problem is, it's not true. Countries and tribes ha e had wars for millenia.
It requires citizen buy in, it doesn't stop war in any way.

2024-09-12 03:49:52

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They should have made it August, 1971

2024-09-12 01:02:28

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Works for me

2024-09-11 02:47:16

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Got it.
My server and client setup doesn't broadcast the npub and callsign together as it is now. It never broadcasts your npub.
It's about tradeoffs. Always is. Here, you trade server leakage and or bad server operators for over the air privacy issues. Just your callsign is broadcast. No npub or any other identifying information from nostr.
Run your own server and there is no chance of or at least very minimal server leakage of npub and callsign mixing.(barring q hack or something is all).
Personally, the advantage of smaller packets and more privacy over the air is the way to go.
Again, the compression scheme, would also maximize privacy. You can't encrypt to obscure a message legally. You can absolutely compress data to dave transmit time.
You could also broadcast in the open, but not in the right order. Perhaps a scheme to rearrange packets with npubs in random key orders baded on parameters eithin the software. Fork it on your own and change the key integer or something and nobody else would have it to decode.
There is nothing illegal about sending full and open text in a random order. That is cypher use potentially, not encryption. But I'm not a legal scholar.

2024-09-10 21:41:46

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Good points. To clarify:
I am not running a relay. Merely a server that sends and retrieves nostr events and notes from the relays of the server operating choosing. They could certainly run their own if they want.
The relays rjemselves will never, ever see the callsign. It isn't possible.
Js8 call is fantastic. For a bad signal conditions comm of sn ratios, light and short messaging, emergency reports etc.. I use it almost daily.
As a comms mechanism, it is absolutely horrendous. In good timing and good SN, you can get 22 bytes per 15 second slot. Then you have to wait until the next transmit to continue.
Without compression, a smallish nostr note raw json object is roughly 700 bytes. This note here will be well into the kilobytes. Even stripping meta, and other stuff out of it you are left with likely 400-500 bytes.
That's over 6 minutes of transmit time for one small not and no emoji's(which take up 4 bytes) on JS8 call.
Even for emergencies, 6+ minutes to publish or get a note frkm a relay is incredibly horrendous and adds to packet loss massively. If you include acks and connections and the actual requests, it likely would be closer to 10 minutes.
This is assuming no repeated data from lost. Yikes. No thanks.
Vara HF would be best honestly, but it I'd closer source, and their KISS TNC is a pain.
Yes, 100% every transmission has your callsign.
However, the data is legally allowed to be compressed with a public algorithm, so that helps obscure your message, even though that isn't the point and theoretically anyone could just decode the binary, brotli, grip, or whatever schema I end up using.
Only the server has to know your npub in my app, it has to for nostr, obviously so can post and get the notes .
I am not running a relay, merely a server that takes the note from radio and broad asts it to relays.
No permanent logging is done on the server on messages. After disconnect, there is no method to retrieve old connections by design.
If you run your own server, there is literally no provacy leakage I see from client to server to nostr. The relays never see the callsign.
If you were to use mine, I will require callsign and likely npub.

2024-09-10 18:34:37

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Currently fx25 hf packets at 300, 600, maybe 1200 baud in great conditions.
Next up will be fldigi compatibility as well for much more robust data modes and even higher speeds with error correction as well as rafio control and on the fly mode switching depending on s/n ratios.
Then hopefully reticulum network interface option for lora and other radio and tcp options.

2024-09-10 16:21:20

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That's a good question.
I am still working through login ideas. Ideally in a decentralized way.
The server software id currently planned to keep the npub and callsign locally on its instance.
You can however always run your own server software, so no big deal there if worried about privacy leakage.
The pvt key will ONLY be on the client device. Never the server, and never sent over the radio. Only the signature will be sent over the air.
The main reason to keep the npub locally is to save on bandwidth and bytes.
It's 64 bytes of waste for the key, plus tye extra json and spaces,, when we have to send the callsign anyways, this can be used to help mitigate that issue.
75bytes doent seem like a lot with the internet, but it sure can be the difference between a sent packet or not on HF ij bad conditions.
It will be full FOSS, you could always fork and to a slight tweak to always transmit the npub from client and the server to process it however
It perhaps I could add an option later on.
64 bytes on the request however may not actually be a big deal and worth it for privacy reasons, not sure.
However, let's say you want to wrote a note, and reply to 6 others, and zap 2 more. That's now potentially almost 900 bytes of data that don't need to be sent when they could residen on the server, since the callsign is already being sent with the data requests. The server will just formulate the relay request and auto fill your npub to grab notes or post them.
But again, I want to make server allowable callsigns/users decentralized, rather than localized through me or hardcoded in the code.
My idea was to have a bot running, and the person could send a dm to the bot account npub with their callsign and name or something.
The user could be verified via the different callsign databases as being legit. It then will keep a dB of allowed users/callsigns. Nothing else would be stored.
I can't have the server being pinged to death by non registered users. I want them to be able to not connect to a server if not authorized to help this issue and tying up the server(s) on frequencies.
But I am open to this process, and currently none of this part has been codes.
Let me know ow your thoughts and concerns and ideas!

2024-09-10 13:14:59

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RN isn’t just an overlay network. It is a network. With encryption and route finding, plus multiple interface types like radio, Lora, and tcp,
Nostr relies on the domain name system for relays currently. A major issue potentially in hostile environments.
RN and tor perhaps are more similar, but adding access to relays over RN is intriguing.

2024-09-10 05:29:43

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working logo...
https://m.primal.net/KldM.jpg

2024-09-10 05:02:01

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😂😂😂

2024-09-10 04:56:40

Ok, it is settled, and it wasn't even close!
It will be named HAMSTR.
Thanks to all the ostriches for their input and zaps!
#ask nostr
#hamradio
#nevent1q…9ypx

2024-09-10 03:51:02

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Complicated question sort of.
In the initial release, you will need an HF Ham Radio.
I plan on running a 24/7 HF station/ server for a while to get started. Hopefully others will download and tun them as well all across the world.
The client will need to be an HF radio as well and will need to be the proper licensed ham(legally speaking...), however there would be nothing stopping g anyone from using it in an emergency situstion in the US...legally.
Ans yes, NOSTR could absolutely be used in the future for emergencies I think.
In future releases, I am planning VHF and UHF capabilites, opening it up to lower licenses.
From there, the plan is to add support for the reticulum network, which would open up the possibility of lora mesh nets and even complicated relats and networks like this:
HF radio from anywhere in the world potentially,, to server with hf station with no internet access, relayed via other ham radio, lora, wifi, or even a local tcp network setup, the again relayed via any of the above interfaces to a reticulum station that has internet to be able to post the nostr note, or pull notes, dm, and hopefully if I get if figured out, zaps.
In due time, lol.... I have had to create a mini packet radio network stack from scratch.... and I am not a developer, in fact I am bad programmer...

2024-09-10 03:29:02

Alright #hamradio and #nostr users. As some of you know, I have been developing a NOSTR over ham radio client and server application with the hopes of a globally distributed . I am releasing an early alpha by the end of the month god willing. Now I need a name.
I am currently town between 2 names and want some input from the community. The first is accurate, the 2nd is fun and plays off the name as an acronym and hits back at authoritarians in some ways.
1) HAMSTR - Decentralized NOSTR over Ham Radio
This one obviously is perfect, but I am tired of the STR names...
2) COMMIE
This one would have a few possible acronyms for a fun play on the COMMS, Communication and dentralized idea:
Centralized Oppression Mitigated by Independent Exchanges
Collaborative Open Messaging for Independent Entities
Community-Organized Messaging, Media, and Information Exchange
What say the nostriches?
#asknostr
#Amateurradio
#freesom
#unstoppable

2024-09-09 00:06:53

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Well then give us the steps and recipe on nostr.cooking 🙌

2024-09-09 00:02:49

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I don't disagree at all. The tor issue is its just so slow. There is no quality of service there at all.
Reticulum network is intriguing with the built in encryption, route finding, addresses, etc...
Ideas like that seem like a good idea. Or similar to bitcoin core, self discovery and propogation based on just a few known and trusted systems.
.

2024-09-06 20:11:29

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*here
Lol

2024-09-02 20:14:50

Let me get this straight. The United states seized the plane of a guy who isn't American, and is the president(rightly or wrongly) of a sovereign nation, in a country that isn't controlled by the united States and is in fact sovereign. How the hell does that work???
#Insanity

2024-09-01 22:16:18

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You vastly overestimate people.... as a whole, they would rather take the easy controlled approach. Because 'they don't have anything to hide'.

2024-09-01 20:42:44

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qsl, you are coming in 59

2024-09-01 03:30:20

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You are my hero.

2024-08-31 02:33:00

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I thought you can run rnode on the tdeck? Just not the keyboard. am I wrong on that?

2024-08-30 02:33:33

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you mean I will get more addicted by the month?? Now that it is football, my gambling degen has begun again...

2024-08-23 00:20:31

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Wow. crazy dude!
I just have been watching some videos on number stations. crazy stuff.

2024-08-22 22:57:27

So who on NOSTR is using, testing or doing dev on Reticulum Network?
On RF, lora, or even tcp
Amyone?
The decentralized nature seems like a match made in heaven for decentralized nostr and not relying on domain names for relays. Not sure ok speeds though.
#asknostr
#hamradio
#Meshtastic
#lora
#programming
#networking

2024-08-22 13:35:27

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Wow. I reorganized some utxo yesterday at 2 and 3 sats. Good timing I guess.

2024-08-22 04:13:47

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Old chart. Already almost 35.2T. Lol

2024-08-22 03:57:39

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Literally never seen it. No idea who you are, so good to know.

2024-08-22 00:47:09

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Nah, you are getting old and grumpy. 😂

2024-08-22 00:43:59

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How odd. Lolol

2024-08-20 23:50:27

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In amethyst, it always just has black. So I clicked play. Brutal

2024-08-20 23:44:43

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I believe you own me and the rest of NOSTR for having to watch that. 😂

2024-08-20 04:18:04

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No. I absolutely would not, lol. But more power to you and the D&D peeps.

2024-08-17 23:21:22

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holy hell, I had no idea they were still around. Ill check out the album.

2024-08-17 20:12:45

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Gotcha. Alibaba is more for bulk, but some suppliers do offer 1 off or samples.
Beware though the priced shown likely will not be accurate. You need to talk to the suppliers.

2024-08-17 20:11:51

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Uniden makes great scanners.
Just youtube: ham radio for beginners. Take your pic.

2024-08-17 17:32:12

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What is your goal/endgame?

2024-08-17 04:02:03

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Wow. Hardcore.

2024-08-17 03:02:11

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It's decent. It is probably the closest to call it a child of windows and macos.
Far from the least bloated and best modern nix system though IMO.

2024-08-17 02:59:51

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My best friends family owned our local IGA store. .8% margins on food items.
Absolutely insanely poor margins.

2024-08-17 01:02:53

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Alibaba or aliexpress?

2024-08-17 00:17:37

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It began last year. But I stopped for 6-8 months.
I'm back at it now.
I want to have the concept done by October ish.
It honestly was a project to browse nostr when camping with my son offgrid or places with no cell.
I use ham already for that.
Then I built a sport scores by request scraper.
The a bitcoin price getter.
Those are done via radio email(winlink).
Now nostr.... this one will use HF packet radio and likely a few other services.
In theory you could do the same over meshtastic easily, but less range for sure.

2024-08-17 00:07:29

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Ha. I am!
I hope to have a working client/server setup within a few months.
I'm not a dev though. Just self thought and when I have time to work on it.

2024-08-17 00:06:21

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There are multiple ways to handle this.
None ideal.
My way: have a client and a server. The client connects to the server. The server signs notes, not the client.
You can send some sort of creds, id or other way to authenticate over radio.
I did this to save bandwidth mainly. The sig could be done client side, but then you are adding a ton of data and bytes.
The purpose of the signature isn't to obscure a message, rather prove identity/ownership. I see no reason this isn't legal in almost all if not all jurisdictions. But I'm no attorney.

2024-08-17 00:02:46

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Agreed. The main issue is bandwidth. FM speeds using vhf/uhf for nostr text only would be decent.
I'm working on HF radio nostr. It is slow, and has many limitations.

2024-08-16 23:40:21

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Not yet! Let's call it pre pre pre alpha. Not working right alpha.
😂

2024-08-16 23:15:50

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Bands are shit for me right now.
I'm getting just a bit on 20m. Bad prop in AZ

2024-08-16 22:57:38

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I just have the mostr relay in my relays. It does the work.

2024-08-16 22:57:06

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Funny you say that. I'm working on a nostr over ham radio app.

2024-08-16 22:23:41

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It's the mastodon link in. I'm getting a ton from mastodon and have been trying to get them to switch to nostr

2024-08-15 00:48:45

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Well put.
I traveled with my family to Tel Aviv and the air strike warnings went off a bunch. Amazing how locals mostly barely moved.

2024-08-15 00:28:49

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wow

2024-08-13 03:36:04

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Lol. I think that is the concern. If there aren't a lit of relays, there is no propogation. In NOSTR, that means nobody sees your stuff and you don't see theirs.

2024-08-13 01:50:11

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Nah. I'll take 1994

2024-08-13 01:48:46

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They get to the circle jerk yet?

2024-08-13 01:47:51

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The problem is it takes money to relay at any kind of scale.

2024-08-13 01:47:11

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I have 0 desire to listen

2024-08-13 01:45:37

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Thursday is for sure not August 12

2024-08-13 00:23:01

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Was that today?

2024-08-12 02:29:13

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University of South Liberal?

2024-08-10 05:40:42

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I'm sorry, I am currently unable to answer that question. please rephrase it and try again.

2024-08-08 18:55:31

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Wtf actually happened? Legal? Financial?
They were still pushing mutiny massively in the last few weeks.

2024-08-08 18:13:43

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So whats it like being whipped, anyways? 😂😂👊

2024-08-07 05:30:56

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fantastic! I've been off since mid January. first few weeks were tough. after that no issues and feel better.

2024-08-06 23:35:23

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well, to be fair, the penalties for a non licensed person transmitting still exist and sre way worse than a licensed person, typically. pirate radio stations have massive fines if caught.

2024-08-06 20:48:44

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Reticulum and nomadnet are really cool. I'm continuing working on a reticulum over hf python custpm setup.
From there, was thinking of other used than just a BBS. Am thinking about perhaps a nostr api setup to call through the bbs and only using HF.

2024-08-05 14:27:05

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What am I if I stack after a dump?

2024-08-04 22:15:56

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While this seems like a good one, probably shouldn't have people just run random bash scripts they see on nostr.
😂😂😂

2024-08-03 18:29:38

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Can also self host a similar app called OpenUI. Makes tailwind components
https://github.com/wandb/openui

2024-08-02 00:55:47

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Congrara, but this seems to be a nostr issue and bots I think. Primal shows over 1,000, Amethyst shows you at 572. What's the truth I wonder?
Either way, congrats.

2024-08-01 23:52:00

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Good upload. My starting averages 120-140 down, 13 up.
Peaks of 250-350 down all the time

2024-08-01 20:38:01

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you mean the thing used by like 90% of wallets?

2024-08-01 00:14:06

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They always have a choice. You can run whatever version you wish.

2024-07-31 17:52:53

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im not sure that all adds up. The US holds gold as a reserve, 'supposedly'. I can go to my gold guy today and pay him cash for bullion with no paperwork, I'd or anything. He will buy my gold and silver for cash as well.

2024-07-31 14:30:14

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it's honestly not that hard to pass the 1st exam. online study and practices tests.

2024-07-31 13:48:52

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Yes.
Yes.
Yes.

2024-07-31 01:54:28

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The United states.

2024-07-31 01:32:40

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https://image.nostr.build/722d38309f93de9db7d56e079ce12a864d99f7f4e52fa382b6e9cd3c949b78e5.jpg

2024-07-31 01:22:49

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Crazy. Thank you for your coverage on nostr. I don’t have twitter anymore.

2024-07-30 12:54:08

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thats called 7am in Arizona right now. lol

2024-07-30 02:28:32

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NIce. I didn't get the relay return. That guy was booming to me @npub1uwh…fqu7+16db. Yes, you should, however you are tied into it already however via the fediverse and MOSTR. I do not use mastodon or other fedi, but NOSTR only. A great bridge. And here we are communicating 2 ways.

2024-07-30 02:19:26

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I'm showing I got you. trying a relay from idaho that is booming. Bad prop. https://m.primal.net/Jico.png

2024-07-30 02:08:28

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if you are still there, Ill reach out. KK7A

2024-07-30 01:18:56

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Thank you for htis! I am just now expanding from ham to meshtastic and now reticulum/nomadnet. LFG!

2024-07-29 22:56:39

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nice! I hit az to new Zealand on 20w on am efhw last night

2024-07-29 21:37:18

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antenna? that's impressive!

2024-07-29 21:35:02

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I'm shocked!!