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2026-03-18 15:39:00 UTC

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What almost destroyed it for me was the original author passed away before he finished the series (while I was on like book 7). But then the author of mistborn stepped in and actually stuck the landing pretty well all things considered.

2026-03-18 15:18:37 UTC

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It ain’t perfect, but The Wheel of Time is still the GOAT for me.

2025-11-19 22:33:04 UTC

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I added a self-signed, self-hosted url, hopefully works better for tor/vpn access: https://census.labs.yonson.dev

2025-11-18 15:35:09 UTC

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Oh dang, that’s unfortunate. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll see if it’s a setting on the bucket and re-host if necessary.

2025-11-18 15:04:05 UTC

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It’s just hosted on a GCP bucket so I assume so? I’ll try to kick it a bit later today to make sure not an issue on my end though. Let me know if you want me to add anything to it in the future though!

2025-11-12 15:12:52 UTC

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Hmm, I’m not seeing the “spend bitcoin”. Maybe state dependent?

2025-11-04 14:55:11 UTC

@npub1art…m0w5 impressed by your patience

2025-10-23 19:47:45 UTC

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https://github.com/TheCharlatan/kernel-node

2025-10-05 03:16:09 UTC

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This flow works for the Q or mk4

2025-07-11 21:49:16 UTC

open water bitcoin

2025-07-07 23:15:21 UTC

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Is this cause the socks connections don’t have to be encrypted or something?

2025-06-20 16:33:30 UTC

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Ah ok, more to learn. I wasn’t aware v2 required new firmware.

2025-06-20 15:27:37 UTC

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Why v1? Does it not make sense to use v2 if even just for the encryption?

2025-06-03 19:33:21 UTC

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First time watching bluey with my kids now and wow the feels

2025-05-28 19:13:50 UTC

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There are other impls, but the rust bitcoin guys generally want very few external dependencies. Plus this impls interface is kept small, just what the bitcoin use case requires.

2025-03-09 00:03:53 UTC

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I gotta frame this

2025-02-27 18:22:23 UTC

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Next up notedeck package 👀?

2025-02-12 17:32:00 UTC

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Always panic a little when I see the block height represented as 3 bytes. What will we do in 300 years when I am long gone??

2025-02-01 21:12:06 UTC

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Yea, just making sure I understand the problem. I agree in general that pow appears to still be lookin for a second use case.
I was thinking a user id (if one exists) would make a pow at least only useable for one user.

2025-02-01 18:09:10 UTC

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If the PoW scheme requires the user to commit to some user id in the hash, would that satisfy specialization?

2025-02-01 17:47:32 UTC

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What’s wrong with PoW?

2025-01-26 21:27:01 UTC

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Been a bit since I looked into it, but I was thinking of these expansion ports which all go to usbc instead of being like, directly connected to a motherboard (I assume, not actually sure if that’s right): https://frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards

2025-01-26 19:57:46 UTC

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What’s it like having all the peripheral dongle things going over usb 3? Seemed like a headache for some things I take for granted to just work these days

2025-01-24 20:21:48 UTC

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I am getting the “does not exist” error as well, I am nyonson:matrix.org if I can be added

2025-01-18 15:29:04 UTC

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I avoided hm for as long as I could too. It still feels very heavy, but has iron’d out a few quirks like this.

2025-01-18 15:10:07 UTC

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Yea, I am running Wayland too and had to add some settings in home manager for my cursor. Only issue I still have with gossip is the scrolling feels very different than my other apps. But hard to track down why.

2025-01-18 05:58:36 UTC

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Tried to capture a history of the proposals for it cause curious why it seems to have stalled: https://blog.yonson.dev/log/2025-01-vol1/
Could see it having some tricky UI issues though for something like chat use cases.

2025-01-18 05:41:43 UTC

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Are you using the unstable channel? SDL2 stuff was cleared up for me with this tweak to the package: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/db6be866d53a65f0081792b05cb37c2a21e5ef89

2025-01-15 19:48:22 UTC

Trying to recap the history of nostr proposals for onion routing to preserve network metadata privacy: https://blog.yonson.dev/log/2025-01-vol1/
Are there any current onion routing proposals using NIP-17? CC @npub1l2v…ajft and @npub1gcx…nj5z I believe I saw some rumbling from you guys in some deep comment threads.

2024-12-29 02:32:56 UTC

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“OH…I can feel it.”

2024-12-16 03:57:42 UTC

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Not sure I follow on the two receiving addresses. Wouldn’t we want two envelopes so it’s hard for outsiders to trace the path of the message?

2024-12-16 03:48:55 UTC

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A built in nostr solution (ie a bunch of republishers) may lower the bar for more user usage. Also maybe better privacy if a republisher is popular? Versus just offloading trust to a proxy.

2024-12-15 21:42:21 UTC

@npub1h0u…rwx8 any thoughts on this simple onion routing proposal for nostr as an extra privacy layer? Feel like it could be useful for low bandwidth, but extra sensitive messages. Or is something like this already baked in? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/411

2024-12-05 16:29:20 UTC

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Like an easier dbus?

2024-11-21 23:59:47 UTC

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Maybe @npub1xts…kk5s knows? Any chance you think this would have a good enough value/cost for nostr?

2024-11-21 19:42:38 UTC

Has there been any consideration for #nostr relays to support some sort of compact filters like BIP157/158 style in order to preserve user privacy? Allow reading from a relay without disclosing exactly which events they are interested in.

2024-10-22 20:41:49 UTC

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Epic.

2024-10-19 22:05:59 UTC

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Very cool. Curious if this could be used as a payjoin v2 async communication channel, but would need to be able to have the read side too

2024-10-19 20:50:20 UTC

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Do you think this could also support onion routed event reads?

2024-09-19 01:11:22 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/d98aeecff6b3fc0245ff462e59d42b5c42c378ac1fad688e8c403c5330aacdd6.jpg

2024-09-18 04:13:38 UTC

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Nice, good enough for me!

2024-09-18 01:27:05 UTC

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Seeing someone else wonder about this is pushing me to give up on the capitalized version

2024-08-21 04:46:42 UTC

Added a flake to my little liquidity management app if you are into that: https://github.com/nyonson/raiju

2024-07-04 18:07:35 UTC

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Ah, totally missed the different requirements. Gotta dig into it more, thanks!

2024-07-04 17:47:19 UTC

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Any thoughts on OHTTP vs. MASQUE? A quick reading of that paper and it kinda sounds like OHTTP is better in the NOSTR use case?

2024-04-09 17:33:05 UTC

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Ah, the bip mentions Noise in its motivation: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0324.mediawiki#user-content-Rationale_and_References
I didn’t see authentication in Noise, but sounds like that’s a big part of it.

2024-04-09 15:01:46 UTC

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Sounds a lot like BIP324. Is there a reason the bip didn’t just use this?

2024-01-02 21:28:22 UTC

Did a little deep dive on OP_RETURN, ordinals, and STAMPS: https://blog.yonson.dev/log/2024-01-vol1/

2023-12-04 00:40:38 UTC

Why do a lot of nostr web clients in the wild register to the “web+nostr:” scheme instead of the nip-21 “nostr:”?

2023-04-09 00:04:57 UTC

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Hackers 5 times