echonull

Songwriter and producer. Also, tea.

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Last Notes

2026-02-06 04:06:34 UTC

At least a couple of you enjoyed last week's foray into the Berlin School, Kosmische Musik realm. So here's an entire playlist for you.
#musicstr #tunestr #kosmische #berlinschool
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbds3dP0iRl6G-E54_OtI4KhSShhNArSC

2026-02-05 02:49:24 UTC

Heads up: there are a bunch of "echonull"s on YouTube. Only the videos for "synchronic" are me, no others.
Does this mean I need to change names? Ugh.
#musicstr

2026-01-31 06:42:09 UTC

Some proper old style Berlin School electronic for your weekend.
#wavlake #tunestr #music #musicstr #v4vmusic
https://wavlake.com/album/58359f22-6a61-4478-a06e-7a431e835605

2026-01-17 22:08:59 UTC

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On Android: Koala Sampler and FL Studio Mobile. There are literally no decent free or open source music making apps on mobile.

2026-01-16 07:46:05 UTC

Another new year new tune. Enjoy.
#musicstr #tunestr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/7e925403-b0f2-4a78-9652-9df5792d9e74

2026-01-15 05:26:41 UTC

My current fave t-shirt. Wish there was a sats/lighting store I could send you to, but we’re not there yet, apparently.
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/86389349-science-is-the-answer?store_id=326355

2026-01-09 07:13:32 UTC

New year, new music!
#wavlake #music
https://wavlake.com/album/49aedb57-8366-464d-a2b3-3edd642eb48d

2025-09-25 23:22:27 UTC

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I just got myself a @npub1ref…64x3 eSIM. Paid in lightning on the website. From payment to using the internet: 90 seconds. No complaints so far!

2025-09-22 02:25:51 UTC

Using a @nprofile…4kcu esim on the iPad. From payment to install and up and running took less than 90 seconds.
Phenomenal. Works a treat. A++.
#sovran

2025-08-24 01:02:25 UTC

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Civil War.
No One Will Save You.

2025-05-03 00:29:30 UTC

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Damn, you beat me to it!

2025-04-28 23:35:44 UTC

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Welcome to the isle! I've lived there for about ten years for much the same reasons (though I'm actually travelling right now.) Lots, and I mean lots, of places take lightning payments! Keep your eyes open!

2025-04-24 00:18:07 UTC

New music. Not what you expect, I hope.
#musicstr #tunestr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/537ee40f-c0d3-4e3a-8edd-18c591bb10b5

2025-03-11 04:14:43 UTC

My friend Ana absolutely killing it on vocals on this one.
#musicstr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/7deef9e0-d829-4e8e-8158-ec94a99300bf

2025-03-04 02:47:52 UTC

Yes, 2025 is nuts but least there's still music.
#musicstr #tunestr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/7a94c754-9d85-4c80-9cce-89477ded4f63

2025-02-19 03:57:50 UTC

Totally forgot this existed.
Back in the early 2000s BIG percussion was in. Kodo, and shows like Battlestar Galactica, Underworld, 300, etc. You do what you gotta!
#musicstr #tunestr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/1bd40ea0-ecdf-4f2b-96bf-7da61397915d

2025-02-11 22:37:48 UTC

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The OGs of modern urban fantasy: Megan Lindholm's Wizard of the Pigeons and Emma Bull's War of the Oaks. Also, almost anything by Charles De Lint.

2025-02-08 04:11:25 UTC

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Blade Runner.

2025-01-16 22:23:52 UTC

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Chinese teapot making for me. With the sound muted. I just put it on in the background and let it run ...

2025-01-04 07:56:18 UTC

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Not in the way you mean, I don't think. More of a live jam/looping session by myself!

2025-01-03 08:27:14 UTC

OK, 2025, let's do some music.
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/1c1020a4-bd2c-4e36-bf5c-4cc8be43354a

2024-12-12 22:18:30 UTC

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Peaked at 4 on the #wavlake charts, currently floating around the 6/7 spot. Thanks to everybody. Check it out, if you haven't already!
More tunes incoming.
#musicstr #v4vmusic
#note1cnm…h0cs

2024-12-10 06:06:31 UTC

This is what happens when you grew up on 80s metal. Just sayin'. Be careful out there, kids!
#musicstr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/ea422afd-585b-4810-aec1-701e0e6069fe

2024-12-09 23:42:21 UTC

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Oh, looks like I can also get to /studio/upload via direct URL. /studio is still throwing the error message, though. But at least I can upload, it seems!

2024-12-09 22:33:30 UTC

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Signed out, cleared browser cache, restarted device, still getting the notice on both Firefox and Chrome on Android. All other pages on the site load fine, either by clicking hyperlinks or putting the URL in the address bar.
Only /studio page not loading across all browsers. It tries to load, gives a very brief flash of the page, then goes straight to the "there was a problem" message.

2024-12-09 10:10:20 UTC

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Nope, sorry, it's broken again. When it worked there it showed the old page, before you recently changed it.

2024-12-09 10:03:59 UTC

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OK, now it's working! That was weird.

2024-12-09 06:10:25 UTC

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Nope, still getting the message. It's specifically the wavlake.com/studio page doing it. /studio/artists, /studio/albums and /studio/analytics, are working fine.

2024-12-08 22:19:57 UTC

Something going on with the site, @npub1yfg…v6vg - I keep getting this when I try to access studio. Everthing else works: analytics, artists, etc.
#wavlake
https://m.primal.net/Mqgk.jpg

2024-12-05 19:16:41 UTC

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Oh, wow: sitting at number 17 on the top40! 🙏
#note1cnm…h0cs

2024-12-05 01:22:57 UTC

Apparently I'm also in a hard rock power trio. I'm sorry. Or ... you're welcome? 😉
Please share/zap if you dig it.
#tunestr #v4vmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/ed11c7b0-b73a-4580-b7c9-57d94dfc7561

2024-12-03 05:26:26 UTC

Well this is an absolute banger. The vocals are ... *chef's kiss*
Full disclosure: I only supplied the beat and don't really deserve a producer credit. But that's how they role in hip-hop land.
#tunestr #v4vmusic
https://wavlake.com/album/19e0a198-9188-47c5-ae2d-b46a7f55079e

2024-12-02 10:01:32 UTC

Have coaxed my friend Jeannie Wilde onto @npub1yfg…v6vg with a jazz standard track written and co-produced by me.
If you like it, give it a zap and let's make her feel welcome! And maybe she'll agree to put up the other tracks we did! 😉
#tunestr #v4v
https://wavlake.com/album/99b8647d-9e71-48bb-84ca-557acab8b40f

2024-11-26 23:23:32 UTC

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If it was the occasional non-matching across apps, that's one thing, but we're talking multiple posts, likes, comments and zaps simply failing to propagate.
So if you're correct, Nostr will never be anything but niche. Which is fine. But it won't ever be anything I can, with a clear conscience, drive people to use. Especially people who might never see an important comment on their post, a journalist, say.
And to be clear: I love Nostr and what it offers. But I'm open-minded enough to understand why a lot of people are choosing Bluesky.

2024-11-26 23:00:07 UTC

So, this is interesting. I have multiple posts going back over a month or more that I made via @npub1nz6…0w5y that have never shown up in @npub12vk…pugg. Also, I was receiving zaps that I couldn't find the origin of. Opened Amethyst - a whole bunch of notifications on zaps, likes and comments, none of it ever showed up in Primal. It was similar with some stuff going Primal -> Amethyst.
I've been sitting on my username over on Bluesky with 2 followers for 8 months. In the last week that's ballooned to 100+ followers, all of them music friends/colleagues, fleeing the X dumpster fire. What most of them seem to want is an *old* twitter replacement, that simply works and has their tribe and connections, whichI totally get.
Even though I'm extolling the virtues of @npub1yfg…v6vg over there, realistically, Nostr itself just isn't ready yet. These are working, professional musicians/songwriters, not developers or tech geeks. They don't have the time or brain space for "relays" and "nips". And I suspect that's the case for many fleeing X.
I think @npub1gcx…nj5z might be right; pushing apps instead of protocols might be the way. Abstract the backend away, unless you actively want to tinker. But if a bunch of your posts, likes, comments and zaps aren't populating across those apps, that's a UX nightmare that will drive users away.
At some point, this stuff with smooth out, but we're absolutely not there yet.

2024-11-22 22:54:00 UTC

Back in the '80s, when I was first starting to figure out this music and songwriting stuff, these two books were invaluable.
Songwriting for lyrics and song structure(s).
Play Rock Keyboards for chords, progressions, inversions, etc.
Their importance to my early development cannot be overstated.
#music #musicstr #musicbooks #songwriting
https://m.primal.net/Mecv.jpg

2024-11-10 02:51:58 UTC

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That's #wavlake obviously. Oy.
#note1ykp…vy68

2024-11-10 02:50:30 UTC

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That's a "YES!" from me!

2024-11-10 00:27:28 UTC

So I have a SoundCloud account I've never really used, but music industry types kind of expect it. So my current strategy is to post some tracks over there and use it to gently push people over to #wavelake instead.
SoundCloud and Spotify are still the standards, alas, but we just need to keep pushing forward.
https://soundcloud.com/echonull
#v4v

2024-11-01 22:10:46 UTC

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Meant to say, the marks around "producing" are because I have no idea what the heck a producer does in the current music landscape. All I did was lend an outside perspective and try to get them to the best music they were capable of. I certainly had a lot of fun.
#note14vv…tnr5

2024-11-01 21:59:38 UTC

Yes, I'm still here. I haven't jumped ship to one of those corporate silos. I could tell you were all worried. /sarcasm
I did take a much needed holiday and have been "producing" music for, and with, other artists. Wasn't planned, just happened. And a collab with a friend. All incoming. Have convinced all of them to give #wavlake a shot. Next step, get them on #nostr.

2024-10-25 04:37:06 UTC

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There's also a great scene in MI: Ghost Protocol, where they have to go up the outside of the Burj Khalifa and it suddenly dawns on Ethan Hunt that he's the one that has to do it (the rest of the team have other jobs). And he walks over to the open window and looks out and the colour drains from his face and the fear and panic set in. And then he tries to talk his way out of it.
A brilliant, humanising scene for a "superhero" character and beautifully played by Cruise.

2024-10-16 22:58:24 UTC

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This was while back. I think I had a white MacBook with Ableton Live and NI Guitar Rig and an NI audio interface that the guitar (an Ibanez RG421) went into. Drums were done in Propellerhead Reason. Everything was done independently but brought together for this track.
Not intentionally influenced, but yeah, a fan of old school Maiden, but also Vai, Satriani and Jeff Beck, which I'm sure were swirling around in there somewhere.

2024-10-11 08:12:26 UTC

This was intended for a video game, but things didn't quite work out. Still has a nice a kick to it. Enjoy.
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/5614b3fd-71ea-4b35-8e61-7b966278b231

2024-10-07 01:23:36 UTC

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Yeah, it looks good in theory, but is a little too old skool Meccano for my tastes. 😉

2024-09-29 07:58:56 UTC

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Honestly? Nope. My whole life has been screens. TV -> cinema -> handheld game consoles (Pacman!) -> computer -> phone/tablet.
And I'm old. Well ... oldish. 😉

2024-09-29 00:51:36 UTC

Not gonna lie; what we need is more shamanistic pagan music in the old languages. Because, sure, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVbc_Fwbt50

2024-09-26 23:32:30 UTC

Unexpected sats are always nice, but boy does it vex me when I can't figure out where they came from. 🤔

2024-09-26 23:22:34 UTC

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Escalating tension and stakes for the main character(s). Worry they can't get through it.
Gregg Hurwitz, in one of his Orphan X novels, has a multi-chapter action scene which starts in a hotel room and spills out into a busy city street, as our hero tries to clear a path for a mother to reach and rescue her child. It just keeps tightening the screws because you care about all 3 characters and the odds are brutal.
Absolutely virtuoso action and suspense writing.

2024-09-24 06:12:56 UTC

This is one of my favourite tracks, but it seems to have gone completely under the radar. It started as a LoFi track then went AfroBeat on me. Maybe I should've eased up on the LoFi aesthetic.
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/95d40903-dece-4548-bc29-45a30947879d

2024-09-23 23:35:03 UTC

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Just saw your Michael Clayton post, so this might be a little too really real for your tastes. But it is wonderful.

2024-09-23 23:16:39 UTC

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The Wim Wenders film, Perfect Days, is a live action film much like this. About the everyday life of a Japanese cleaner. And the first film directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry at the Academy Awards. Just wonderful.

2024-09-14 02:39:17 UTC

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Usually the protagonist. However, there's a thriller novel by Jack Higgins called Solo I first read as a teen and it stuck with me. The reason: Higgins gives you the back story of both protagonist and antagonist equally, they are both sympathetic and flawed and one isn't really the hero and the other isn't a villian, and yet they're headed for a collision because of an error in judgement that one of them doesn't realise the severity of. Absolutely brilliant, stayed with me, and held up on re-read.
Another like this is Grandmaster by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran.

2024-09-14 01:09:41 UTC

Just a reminder: If it’s not (end-to-end) encrypted, it’s public.
#e2ee #encryption #crypto

2024-09-13 08:38:47 UTC

Physics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP_0Vv5F29I

2024-09-13 08:09:50 UTC

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This is the way. And I was about to suggest this very thing.

2024-09-13 04:47:52 UTC

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To quote Ken Watanabe in King of the Monsters:
"Let them fight." 😉

2024-09-13 00:02:54 UTC

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This still stands, but if you're after a *much* cheaper user repairable phone, the HMD Fusion might fit the bill.
#righttomodify #righttorepair
#note13zr…fjmc

2024-09-11 01:36:59 UTC

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Same. During the live showcase, right at that moment, without looking, Mike Shinoda just points across at Emily, "here she is, this is it, here we go ..."
I am so here for Linkin Park 2.0. Bring it!

2024-09-11 01:16:29 UTC

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When Emily goes hard at 1:38 - goosebumps. Every time.

2024-09-10 00:02:31 UTC

240523.
Have some eye candy. Made in threejs. Would have been a lot easier in Blender, but I didn't have access to that.
Enjoy.
#creativecoding #threejs #abstract #abstractart #popart #webgl
https://m.primal.net/KlUI.png

2024-09-09 23:54:03 UTC

Updated @nprofile…s8dt to 0.90.4 - super smooth and that ReplyGuy nonsense is gone. #amethyst - fighting the good fight!

2024-09-08 08:56:54 UTC

Meant to post this awhile back. Found when I was in Sydney, Australia. HunterMart, cnr Hunter & Pitt St, Sydney, for the interested.
#bitcoin #orangepill
https://m.primal.net/KjOi.jpg

2024-09-08 08:20:20 UTC

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I looked at the photo before seeing your emoji and thought, "damn, those limes look weird!"

2024-09-08 08:13:47 UTC

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Broken Money was so good I'm genuinely curious to see what you could do with fiction. Even a novella or something.
Oh ... did I mention I loved Broken Money? 😉

2024-09-06 00:57:53 UTC

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Probably just dealing with a Godzilla sighting. Nothing to worry about. 😉

2024-09-05 06:38:43 UTC

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🤙

2024-09-04 00:31:59 UTC

Cracked the top 20!! I am, quite literally speechless. From this point on, it's nothing but gravy. Holy cow.
#music #streaming #top40 #top20 #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://m.primal.net/KdAj.jpg

2024-09-03 23:39:06 UTC

While I'm doing other stuff, have some glitch art. Made a few years ago.
#abstract #abstractart #glitch #glitchart
https://m.primal.net/Kcxg.png

2024-09-03 04:19:47 UTC

"forever stars" is now at 22 on the @npub1yfg…v6vg top 40 charts. Can it crack the top 20?!
I realise there's tracks doing far better than mine, but I'm honestly overwhelmed at this point. Thank you to everybody.
Now I havet to go do something new to follow this up. No pressure ...
#music #streaming #top40 #wavlake #nostrmusic
https://m.primal.net/KbfV.jpg

2024-09-02 03:00:43 UTC

Somebody just zapped this track and it reminded it me that it's one of my own favourites. Made waaay back in the dark ages when the only game in town was Sonic Foundry's Acid Pro (actually, FruityLoops was also available, but I didn't know about it. A year later there was Ableton Live, a year after that, Propellerhead Reason.)
Anyhow. Acid Pro treated audio clips like Photoshop treated images - infinitely malleable: stretch, warp, re-pitch, reverse, re-time. And I went at it. This was an early product of that. It was never going to be popular or crack the top 40, but I still love it.
#music #wavlake #nostrmusic #ambient #tribal
https://wavlake.com/track/1657bfab-1c31-420b-98ef-bca9cd46386b

2024-09-01 02:33:06 UTC

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Thanks!

2024-08-31 02:47:33 UTC

Direct link to "forever stars" for those interested. Wonder how long we can keep it in the top 40? 😉
#music #wavlake #nostrmusic
https://wavlake.com/track/3b30170b-fd0c-476f-b003-1559168716a4

2024-08-31 02:11:11 UTC

Whoa. My track "forever stars" just cracked the @npub1yfg…v6vg top 40! Speechless. And thank you all!
#music #wavlake
https://m.primal.net/KWNy.jpg

2024-08-29 01:42:40 UTC

GM/GE!
#meme #nostr
https://m.primal.net/KSkH.jpg

2024-08-27 01:08:57 UTC

Some new old music.
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/4be31259-d075-430a-87a5-33c1c62a50cb

2024-07-25 05:31:52 UTC

Stop using Big Tech. Just, stop.
#degoogle #bigtech
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service

2024-07-25 01:38:58 UTC

As it says on the tin ...
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/0fcb754d-fe21-46a1-8f65-6f7db3be84b5

2024-07-25 00:10:33 UTC

A lot of WTF and scepticism around this, but it makes perfect sense to me. Particularly as Proton had their funds frozen by PayPal in 2014 and it looked like they were dead in the water. I cannot comment on the quality of the wallet, but as long as it's self-custodial and open source, they have my attention.
#privacy #bitcoin #wallet
https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch

2024-07-21 10:13:15 UTC

Sunday vibes.
#music #musicstr #nostrmusic #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/6dcb2e44-bfcf-4aa8-90a8-34978820c846

2024-07-19 11:04:24 UTC

The Weekly Echo #4. This is a thing I do, infrequently, and I swear I'm trying to be more regular with posting in general. If this interests you, there's some more stuff on the front page.
https://echonull.neocities.org/echo4

2024-07-14 23:11:44 UTC

Your mind is free to wander, but your actions are algorithmic. B must follow A to achieve C.
#algorithms #algorithmicthinking
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computation-is-all-around-us-and-you-can-see-it-if-you-try-20240612/

2024-07-13 10:00:55 UTC

Heading into the weekend like ...
#musicstr #music #tunestr #wavlake
https://wavlake.com/album/df51407e-0c70-4004-9608-18e2ce6a4480

2024-07-12 08:33:17 UTC

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🤙

2024-07-12 08:28:47 UTC

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I see it on Amethyst - wants me to zap to vote.

2024-07-12 00:21:45 UTC

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So, so good. The dojo fight is brutal.
"The problem with Shindo Ryu is ... it's trash."
😆

2024-07-11 00:35:29 UTC

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Wasn't the update I had issues with, but a fresh install. Both Droid-ify and F-Droid gave the "can't be installed, app is unverified" error.
Github apk installed without issue.

2024-07-10 01:10:22 UTC

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FYI: the current build of @npub12vk…pugg on F-Droid can't be downloaded or installed due to an "unverified" error.
I grabbed this version via Github. Very nice update!

2024-07-09 00:55:29 UTC

Seriously, how do any of you use a browser without uBlock Origin and Dark Reader installed?
Absolute insanity. 🤯
#adblocker #darkreader

2024-07-08 10:46:10 UTC

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Yep, figured it out. Love it, great work!

2024-07-06 02:15:14 UTC

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So how do I sign in? It says use Nostr account, but I have no username@domian connected to this account. Npub and nsec, yes, and my standalonr username. No @ etc. Nothing works.
Looks good though!

2024-07-03 09:11:19 UTC

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@nprofile…z24k has both of these!

2024-07-03 04:07:13 UTC

Not your keys, not your sats.
Not your nsec, not your (social) data.
If you can't open/fix it, you don't own it.
#bitcoin, #nostr and #fairphone* all the way.
* Also #framework, if you're so inclined.
#foss #floss #righttorepair #righttomodify #permissionless

2024-07-02 01:51:58 UTC

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*appreciated. I kan spel. 😆

2024-07-02 01:49:42 UTC

Once again, thank you to everyone who has listened to, and zapped, my music on @npub1yfg…v6vg - every zap is apreciated, but I'm astonished at the generosity of some of you. Beyond words.
#tunestr #music #wavlake

2024-06-30 23:59:22 UTC

If you say "check our website for more details" and your "website" is a Facebook Page, you're dead to me.
#optout

2024-06-29 10:26:19 UTC

A number of my tracks seem to be getting included in podcasts, but I only find out when someone zaps me via the podcast. There needs to be an easy way to track this stuff. If there is already, please let me know.
#tunestr #music #podcasts #wavlake

2024-06-27 05:33:13 UTC

I'm cycling up to write a lot more about Termux, but here's a little something from awhile back that might be fun and/or useful.
"Easy Web Search From Termux On Android."
#foss #floss #android #bash #bashscript #termux
https://echonull.neocities.org/search.html

2024-06-27 05:21:27 UTC

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DO NOT use the Google Play Store version. From the developers themselves: download only from F-Droid or Github for the time being. Details as to why at the link below.
Also, development on Termux has never stopped. I've been a hardcore Termux user for a very long time and the packages are updated constantly, sometimes weekly. Just get the app from the correct source.
https://github.com/termux/termux-app/discussions/4000

2024-06-25 23:17:50 UTC

*snigger snort*
#ai #funny
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/chatgpt-now-has-phd-level-intelligence-and-the-poor-personal-choices-to-prove-it