i've always found the concept of nation states ridiculous and kind of medieval, and hoped the internet (and later bitcoin) would reduce their influence, and create more opportunities for everyone no matter where they live
unfortunately nationalism is still always going strong


i guess if you expect to have to flee at some point (eg because of war, or persecution because of your ethnic group or such), already having done the paperwork in advance is better, but it clearly doesn't help if you're going to be personally arrested as it's unlikely you'll have the chance to get away


Herbig-Haro 212

https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01EVSZGV3G0XZ6SA9VCHN2MW3T.png

#HerbigHaro #vlt

Image Credit: ESO, Mark J. McCaughrean

Published: 12/14/18


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absolutely,, even actually banning twitter would be a big step and they'd probably chicken out


clearly someone thinks they're on twitter


still working on our new tourist marketing, but our jails are non-ironically among the top luxury jails in the world


come to Europe, the nicest place to be arrested
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you're right, but i do think it's much harder to arrest someone wealthy, with higher-up connections, from the US, and they picked the guy because among other things he was an easy target...

there's times i still unconsciously assume that things like equal justice are a thing, increasingly it just seems a fairy tale we were told growing up


it's what you get if "safe and secure" is the only thing that counts, there was a time that we called this a police state and it was somehow derogatory


for the paltry sum of 21 billion sats extra i'll proof your algorithm against graviton mesors from braneworld 6, too


somehow when people talk about quantum computers (especially in the context of cryptography) it makes me very suspicious, it feels like a distraction, either a scam or somehow trying to trade a weakening, against the premise of being prepared for hypothetical far-future tech


you're probably right


it sounds great but i still didn't manage to figure out the golang toolchain stuff to compile it 😅  (apparently the golang that's in ubuntu 22.04 isn't recent enough, i figured out this much)


"let's use an encryption algorithm that will protect us against a theoretical computer that might exist in 1000 years" while left and right it's clear that a company like Apple will just be forced to silently add a backdoor at the endpoints


i don't envy the Signal CEO right now, a while ago she publicly spoke against implementing EU chat control, when it'd be mandatory. And people thought the worst-case scenario would be "the app gets banned"... no, apparently we're making it personal


i mean we put the guy in jail, we didn't summary execute him with an anti-aircraft gun


i guess we do, but only by an ever smaller delta, ever sinking higher ground while "at least we're not as bad as <evil country>" is playing in refrain
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CEOs are central points of failure.


maybe ! let's not think that technological progress is inevitable, tbh, at this rate i don't think we're going to see that kind of society any time soon, if people continue to "just be consumers"

a technological society requires an underlying spirit of curiosity, scientific interest, freedom of thought and tinkering, a climate of fear might be enough to develop ever scarier weapons, or barely-good-enough mass produced trinkets, but not things that improve the quality of life much for the common person


yes ! also that intellectual property laws give corporations virtually infinite discretionary power to keep their monopolies, from Apple restricting software on "their" platform to trains stopping working because the geofenced license expired, farmers not being allowed to fix their own tractors, and everything else is strangled with an airtight blanket of patents, copyrights and trademarks

like yes freedom of speech and privacy is important, but freedom to talk is not everything that's important in the world


the existence of the internet as a (as far as realistic) neutral carrier is kind of a historical fluke, i sometimes wonder about it, if it would have been up to tv cable and telecom companies it definitely would never have happened and it'd have been another corporate-owned hierarchical publishing model (see for example videotex standards from the 80's)... it won out over the alternatives, eventually


everything is connected, and all that, but you have to start somewhere...


neutral communication platforms are only one step in building a freer society, maybe an important one, for me the point is to prevent a dystopian society (and have a degree of robustness against that), less to build a fortress that can survive even the most dystopian conditions


same, i have definitely dated people i knew from online but it's always been people from forums, chat sites, social media, who i already knew for longer and in different contexts than just "we want to find someone to date"


yes i think the premise of anything specifically aimed at dating is flawed, historically there's just social gathering and sometimes dating happens, but it's always felt really rushed to have that as goal, a winner-takes-all game for whoever is best at giving off short term attractiveness signals


one would wish "protecting citizens from harm" would actually be meant as in protecting their agency, not in the way a farmer protects their cattle from harm


if it's anything to go by, that didn't stop bitcoin yet


the "serious harm" part is just the typical "we're on the good side here" padding, it's part of the threat, it's easier to mobilize force against whoever is seen to cause harm


mass surveillance is already a given, i think it's more about active control nowadays, the power to steer mass opinion by censorship, threats, algorithms

Elon has demonstrated that this is possible by buying up one of the largest centralized platforms, but there's no way governments are just going to let him run his little empire by himself


everyone likes our old empire tradition of locking up people that say things we dont like in dungeons, but no one wants to experience it
a brilliant plan to reduce fuel usage and emissions


since we've started this pastime of collecting privacy devs and CEOs in cells i could somehow imagine people aren't that eager to travel here anymore


EU arresting the Telegram CEO as a warning to Elon Musk regarding X ? it's not that long after Thierry Breton's letter that the EU was prepared to “make full use of our toolbox” to protect EU citizens from “serious harm”


of those i'd go for ubuntu, it uses the same package management as debian that you're used to, and great as a desktop distro (for servers stock debian is fine, but ubuntu tends to ship newer software and driver versions which is good for desktop use)


be your own NSA 😅


right, not even need for text in this case, the symbol was enough


always the same

> stop virtue signaling !
> has the most simplistic, dogmatic idea of virtue and literally100% of their posts are about this


lol that's so mild, some people are such prudes


Being openly #trans is so fucking #punk
Respect.
Be you
Be #free
Fuck society.


i made some little top-down 2D games back in the day, as well as the intro screen/information tool for a local BBS. Don't think any of that has survived to this day, unfortunately.
i've also had lots of interest in graphics and UX, but my life took some weird turns and somehow ended up in semiconductors. and bitcoin development later 😀


Directly opening a channel using a coinjoin is a quite complicated, non-standard process, at least with c-lightning: https://gist.github.com/BitcoinWukong/0c04d9186251b0a6497fef3737e95ceb . Maybe that's why there's a hop inbetween?


Alternatively, you could look through the invoice log of your lightning client. It might be better at keeping historical data than nostr relays.

Look for the first invoice that is paid and has "kind":9734 in its description.


Those were the days ! But i think the last version i've used is TP 6, i never used it for windows, only DOS. It was so much fun with the BGI and Turbo Vision stuff. Before i made the mistake of learning C 😅


good idea ofcourse, but given how anti-bitcoin the average mastodon user is i give this a low chance of succeeding


They don't accept new channels, nor do many of the nodes they're connected to. And those that do, often have problems routing payments to them


i hardly ever have a lightning payment fail, but when it fails it's pretty much always towards lndus0.zaphq.io


it's pretty much what my feed was on my bitcoin dev twitter account, minus the toxic trolling, so not disappointed in that regard 😀

at some point on my old twitter i had 20k or so followers, but if i posted anything personal or not about bitcoin it got like 0 engagement 😀 doesn't feel that different here, bitcoin social media does seem to select for a certain type of person that likes very specific topics only, and if you're not in that group then it can be kind of lonely


this can be kind of handy, animated illustrations of the shortcuts for blender 3d modeling
https://hollisbrown.github.io/blendershortcuts/


coding from the witches' tower 🧙♀


imo unfollow is preferable in most cases, join the infinite sea of "everything i'm not following anyway", especially on nostr where mute lists are public apparently it seems too much recognition to add someone to that 😅


Any good frameworks for building Android apps with Python components?

#asknostr


freedom go up


Onward 🫡


this rings true, once you've been in the "desert of the real" that's FOSS bitcoin development for a while, where you're helping build something that's neutral and widely useful, it's hard to go back to this kind of sheltered job where you're just supposed to work to the advantage of one company, the stakes seem so insignificant in comparison


I wonder if, after serving in the trenches of the Bitcoin development industry—where there is a war against women, adversarial thinking is a must, and you have to fight hard to get anything of substance done—we become unsuitable for traditional corporate jobs, where you have to be quiet and obey authority, and even arguments to clients are vetted by your PMs.

Bitcoin development is the Hotel California of professional fields. You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave. Once you’re in, the commitment to its principles and the fight for change is something you carry with you indefinitely. It’s not just a job but a cause you can’t easily walk away from.

The relentless drive to question, challenge, and push for something better is what sets this field apart—and what makes it essential to keep advocating for inclusion, equity, and human rights within it.

This rabbit hole has no exit. And if you are an oppressed minority, it is like a war we have no option but to show up for. I wonder if there are other organizations genuinely concerned about what is being done to women in the dev communities that onboard beginners.


luckily, as an abiological woman i have no problem peeing standing up


yes, i had the same, besides that i was for a long time skeptical why fediverse wasn't "enough", and why we'd need yet another FOSS social media, but i like the looser coupling between relays and users (it's less feudal), and the integration with lightning is neat—it's not something i could see the fediverse devs adapt as they're, on average, very much anti-bitcoin


Bitcoin Optech newsletter #317 is here:

- summarizes discussion about an anti-exfiltration protocol that only requires one round trip of communication between a wallet and a signing device
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- Optech Newsletter #317 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/23/

Moonsettler posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe an anti-exfiltration protocol. The protocol uses the sign-to-contract protocol to allow a software wallet to contribute entropy to the nonce selected by a hardware signing device in a way that allows the software wallet to later verify the entropy was used...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/23/#simple-but-imperfect-anti-exfiltration-protocol

Changes to services and client software:

- Proton Wallet announced
- CPUNet testnet announced
- Lightning.Pub launches
- Taproot Assets v0.4.0-alpha released
- Stratum v2 benchmarking tool released
- STARK verification PoC on signet
- SeedSigner 0.8.0 released
- Floresta 0.6.0 released
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/23/#changes-to-services-and-client-software

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1LyGBgmeNjkJN


that would be the fair outcome ! 😀 right now it seems how it ended up is that ipv4 is the "privileged club" where you can buy a rare identifier for a higher price, and ipv6 for the rest of us

i agree with the painfully glacial speed, though i think we also overestimate the speed that large fundamental infrastructural changes like this can go, it's like the people in 2012 that were expecting global bitcoin adoption in 3 years or total failure (which is really tech hype VC thinking)


years ago when i first came across the name "nostr" i interpreted it as no-str, i wondered what is this "str" and why are people so against it


i don't think the problem is with "unisex", but labeling the one with stand up peeing as "men" could be seen as somewhat exclusionary


i'm regularly surprised how bad adoption of IPv6 is in the US, seems a matter of the rest of the world needing it more while they have enough IPv4 addresses to last like forever (who wants to give all their atoms a globally addressable identifier anyway 😀 )


e.g. props for simply using bittorrent instead of implementing your own file sharing protocol 😀


i agree

let's just not get too insular (nostr versus "the rest"), i've seen this happen before with otherwise open protocols like retroshare and to some extent, fediverse, it's important to consider what is already been invented and work towards integration instead of rolling your own (even if that seems easier)

anyhow let's hope for the best 🤷♀


i mean, the bank can decide who they do business with, but maybe not having a bank account shouldn't effectively put someone outside society as it does, they have way too much power that way


the risk is complication and fragmentation, turning both users and developers away

centralized platforms provide an easy to go solution, a popular interoperable protocol can provide a good alternative but if there's too many that defeats the purpose


i do think there's some risk in nostr reinventing too many wheels, especially if there are already interoperable protocols for things

but clearly an everything protocol is a much better outcome for a free society than a centralized everything app


https://i.imgflip.com/915k15.jpg nostr:note1l6psrscckkdt7xhycmkh2umn2l9ae7h7lh7nr2fg0u3akyy5alzqjrzt5w


yes, that must be the main reason

though tbf it's also really hard to get started on twitter as a new user nowadays, the algorithm is very much stacked against new and low-follower accounts, tends to promote those with already 1k likes per post, and besides that there's already so much of everything


oh no, please tell me that post is some kind of cheesy office bureaucrat humor... this just can't be real


monstr seems to be pure-python, and doesn't introduce dependency on an external tool, so it seems to be a good choice for this particular scenario

to be fair, all of the solutions seem so much overkill to me, i'm just trying to drop off a message on some, quite infrequent, event 😅

it's probably a mistake to roll my own using websocket.create_connection but it seems tempting, ofcourse i'll still need to steal the signing functions from one of the libraries


thanks for the suggestions everyone !
so many choices... which is good, i suppose 😀


"i won't hestitate to use the nuclear option... post a random picture from my camera roll"


oof, glad i already did my lightning channel reshuffling in the last few days
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anything from attention trolling to altcoin pumping, or often these are idea guys that have some half-baked idea they would like to see in bitcoin, and apparently think this is the way to accomplish that


after all this time there are still cranks trying to convince me they're satoshi nakamoto in random mails, speaking about missing the memo 🙂


can anyone suggest a python #nostr package that is actively maintained? i was using python-nostr but it fails on Python 3.12 and while i submitted a PR for that, there doesn't seem any activity on the repository in the last year

my use-case is nothing complex, simply "sign one event, push it to a list of relays", no need for persistent connections or high performance


yes, fwiw please don't add me to any auto-follow lists, i'm not a public figure nor a "safe default follow"

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if you dm the node id i'm happy to check


well maybe; on twitter i've sometimes muted people because they were just being annoying (and spamming the timeline with say, local politics that just don't matter to me) for a while, not because i otherwise seriously dislike them, i can see how it could be misinterpreted if it's publicly visible


you can see who has muted you here? that's... somewhat awkward 🙂


it's the one thing we can all agree on here 🙂


fwiw i'm currently using nostrudel, which can create the torrents as well as shows them inline as events (NIP-35, i believe)


i don't think so, for many of them it's not timeouts*, and some aren't even behind tor

* mostly "connection refused", the based58 node closes the connection in the cryptographic handshake


surprisingly many #lightning nodes have liquidity ads enabled but then don't allow incoming connections


yes

it's been a while i've seen so much enthusiasm in developing something, that's not driven by corporate tech marketing for once (eg like "AI" or "VR")

also the atmosphere is so different here than on X, where it's constant (justified) complaining about how things are going downhill, but no one can really do anything about it, it's hard to not get stuck in that sentiment

i think that's a rarely mentioned advantage of decentralization of communication platforms, it's not all about censorship resistance or privacy, but that things can be changed without being dependent on some distant central entity that may have a completely different agenda

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no, imo it's noone else's business why you would choose to have or not have children, this is like saying owning private property or not sharing resources is selfish and anti-human (what do we "owe humanity"), also not everyone shares the same idea of the greater good that more people (no matter what) is always better for the rest


Onward 🫡


post where you want your audience to be


either that or they just really like the crunchy sound that ASICs make when running over them with a bulldozer


yup that was my guess as well, but they probably shouldn't be leaking internal network details like that to the internet


there are some people who have ws://192.168.14.7:7777 as relay in their nostr events, i've seen my client try to connect to it, but can't really narrow it down who

it looks like a misconfiguration as that address is not publicly routable


seems to be working 😀


TIL, might try that for once


exciting project ! it would be cool if nostr can finally provide the "decentralized github" experience, but without introducing a token, block chain or bs like that 😅


#GitViaNostr just got 10x easier with a git plugin included in ngit 1.4

clone with a nostr url. any branch prefixed with `pr/` is an open proposal on nostr.
submit it to as a proposal via nostr by pushing a branch with a `pr/` prefix.
see https://gitworkshop.dev for a quick start guide
I'd love feedback


c-lighting has no bump(close)fee command, CPFP should be possible by withdrawing the utxo to an address and setting a high feerate, however, what i didn't think through is that i closed the channel to free up funds to open new channels, so i have nothing to bump with 🙂  so i have to send in externally anyway and there's no hurry


yes; that's the first thing that came to mind 🙂  but at some point i discovered the problem wasn't bitcoind's own memory usage (which tended to stay at 1-2GB, not near the 8GB in the machine), but still somehow pages for other running programs like ssh and tmux were being swapped out, reducing interactivity to a crawl

ultimately i narrowed this down to leveldb's mmap use, which maps a major part of the utxo set database into memory (on and off), which puts a high load on linux's paging mechanism eventually causing it to swap out anonymous pages

this behavior can be controlled globally with sysctl `vm.swappiness`, or on a per-page basis with `madvise(MADV_COLD)`, but i realized i don't actually need swap on this machine, so i disabled it which completely solved the problem


i closed a channel with #clightning (cooperatively, the entire balance is in my direction), unfortunately it seems it used too little fee so the transaction has been in limbo for a while

is where a straightforward way to bump the fee or do CPFP?


i mean given the transphobia, as well as misogyny, in the bitcoin community it's always seemed less bothersome to be ambiguous about those things
(anyhow, i'm self-funded nowadays)


oh, PoW doesn't apply to replies, only to top-level posts apparently?


hahah if only, the kind fo design you need for software is exactly what AI is bad in, try generating a consistent icon set alone


yes it was more tongue-in-cheek 😀  i don't disagree, i do think the more demands you make from people the less contributors you're going to find, discourse is so often "developers need to be X too" at some point it's unicorn hunting

also something i think is important to keep in mind that "UI design" is a separate specialization from general design, after all it's about designing usable and safe interactive user interfaces (with concepts like discoverability), not just things that look pretty, a lot of mobile app developers forget this

i think the biggest problem with usability in FOSS software isn't so much lack of expertise but that people won't listen, design requires a more dictatorial architectural mindset and thinking at a higher level of abstraction, while FOSS is more decentralized "oh some user wants a feature, let's bolt it on here" (not just FOSS, commercial software often has this problem too, especially longer running projects)


be careful what you ask for, designers tend to a be a lot less masochistic wrt free licensing and working for free than software devs 😀


kind of depends on what the funders want, but it can also go too far; for example Mozilla is often criticized for doing too many things outside browser development, while a lot of people just want to fund say, a faster or less memory-hogging browser... but sure, nostr still is in a much earlier phase where it's important to figure out what to even want


setting post PoW high enough as a undo cancellation period 😀


raspberry pi 5 with nvme is legit fast, haven't done any comparative benchmarks or such but doesn't feel slower than an average desktop pc


indifference


thank u that's really interesting, good to see this is only a temporary state !


"DM timeline" is kind of scary imo, clearly it cannot show the message content but the metadata of who communicates with who can already reveal a lot


i wish nostrudel had a way to disable auto-play of animations, i really dislike when things on the timeline start moving by themselves


haha don't blame calle too soon, if you got the invoice but couldn't pay it, it may also be that my lightning node lacks incoming liquidity (although it should have enough for a few satoshis)


tl;dr rate limiting in nostr-rs-relay isn't currently great, there's no useful error feedback when it happens just dropped events


i've narrowed one (maybe the only one) case of this down to the setting "messages_per_sec = 5", it looks like the behavior is that this limits the number of received messages per second and unceremoniously drops everything that exceeds this, and doesn't (as the comment implied to me) limit the number of created events

my hypothesis is that when the server is busy it would just drop the incoming event, causing no "OK" response to ever be returned and thus nostrudel logging this as "timeout"


i have no idea what i did here, apparently it was a "recommend relay" button 😅


gah, it's stranger: nostrudel shows the relay as timing out, but it does actually show 'persisted event: "47c4d7e2" (kind: 1)' in the relay's log, and it does store the event, looks like it's just being very impatient


looks like about half of the time my relay times out while publishing, causing it to miss the event, i don't understand why, everything seems to be running fine on the server side

of course, this doesn't happen while running developer tools...


thanks to whoever zapped me ! (can't see details)


i can't come to Baltic Honeybadger this year unfortunately, have fun !


nostrudel truly is the kitchen sink of web nostr clients, its feature set is impressive


i see the same issues with gap limits as with HD wallets but otherwise don't see why it wouldn't work


lol, ofc FOSS devs can do whatever they want, but it is kind of absurd for a client to be opinionated on this and hardcode it


✅ nostr.x0f.org assigned
✅ user created
✅ add nginx nostr.x0f.org reverse-proxy
✅ built nostr-rs-relay
✅ configured nostr-rs-relay
lets go..,


apparently it can ! https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/blocks/collapsible/


`swapoff -a`... it's the only way to be sure...


i wondered the same then found https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-markdown/ which provides some quite reasonable argumentation, e.g. markdown is only really usable with "flavors" while asciidoc standardizes everything


aspire to the masochism of a FOSS dev that tries to listen to end users 😅

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ok: i can retrieve the URL with curl fine and could pay directly using command line script; firefox network console says "CORS failed" so i guess it's about the cross-origin policy which makes it fail in web clients


i'll do some further debugging then


same with the EU anti-big social media laws, sometimes the only way to expose the inherent vulnerability in centralized systems is for them to be attacked en-masse


it can be so hard to move on, no matter how bad the situation, i guess it's easier if you have something to look forward to instead of it feeling like stepping into the void


i don't think that's an intentional decision of the developers!

an emoji is a unicode character, and most clients will display the emoji using your system's or browser's emoji font, which will have the silly gun for 🔫

i would guess it's possible to override it with some css incantation, or by installing a different font, but front-end isn't really my expertise


wait is the US government cheese reserve a myth ? have we been lied to again... 😅

https://patch.com/us/across-america/big-cheese-lie-no-u-s-isn-t-sitting-1-4b-pound-surplus


i can see this kind of things appeals to people but personally i don't need it😀

i don't get addicted to my phone because i don't like most phone software, i hate using a phone keyboard, i dislike touch ui, i really only use for communication while underway (when i really need to), maps/navigation, or to take photos


monstr, i mean mnostr


i wasn't able to zap you ! (request to minibits gives a connection refused)


yes...thanks for making that! tbh i regularly get lost in the labyrinth of different software and implementations around bitcoin stuff, all with their own wallets, stacks, frameworks, third-party sites or tons of npm/docker incantations that i prefer to avoid

so glad that there was simply a c-lightning plugin 😀


i play FOSS implementations of 90's games most often when i have some down time; Descent (dxx-rebirth), Descent:Freespace (fs2open), LucasArts point-and-click adventures (w/ scummvm), and so on, lots of nostalgia

puzzle games can be fun too; Talos Principle, One Billion Humans was a laugh, though trying to stay away from the programming game genre in general because ehh "been there done that"😅

also had some periods i was really into dance games and stuff like Ring Fit 😀

apart from that, sometimes indie games or more personal/arty games that friends worked on in jams and such


just now browsing https://nostr.watch/, i don't think i realized just how many relays there are 🤯


i love that nostr allows arbitrary emoji reacts, i know matrix has this but hadn't seen it in any social network


the paranoid part of me insists that the spurious notification indications mean that people are secretly quoting my posts in private and talking about them 😂


they forgot to add "designed by H.R. Giger" in the prompt


disk cache crowds out everything else, and probably adds very little for a random access pattern like this? i wonder if a flag to inhibit mmap and caching would make sense for low memory machines (eg if it cannot keep the entire utxo database of ~12GB comfortably cached in memory)


me: what could be causing all that swap trashing
bitcoind, furiously mmapping and random accessing GBs of leveldb files while catching up: <whistles>


also this program has a "trend" tab that's actually just one Japanese guy posting, a bit confusing but a definite improvement over twitter's "for you" tab already


sometimes the notifications lights up but there aren't actually new notifications... so mysterious...


there's some of that but not a constant stream of "people have to do XYZ (label your images, add content warnings for something, don't use a certain word, ...), or they're unworthy of the platform and should probably be banned and their instance too", which makes me feel like i'm in some failed utopian experiment that keeps piling up rules, instead of a thriving social media


hahahaha
"im new here, let me tell you how to be a model citizen here !!!"


genres for new bands seem very blurred compared to in the 90's, but what i listen now is pretty much an extension of the same industrial / aggrotech / darkwave / symphonic metal i liked in my 20's, i can't call myself an exception from the trend


one thing i like about here compared to mastodon is that not every second post is a meta discussion about how to be a model citizen on the platform, people actually talk about different things here


can't say the idea of a new alien movie makes me very enthusiastic, i mean i absolutely love the 80's movies but it feels so formulaic and derivative now, anyhow i guess i'll probably see it at some point


would it make sense to make the merge notification bots post on nostr? eg

https://x0f.org/@bitcoinmerges
https://x0f.org/@bipmerges

and so on


test


probably ! i'm a little hesitant to set up a wireguard tunnel between a web VPS and deep inside my home network, too easy to accidentally route other things over

wait, thinking of it a ssh tunnel would work just as well in this case, there's no need for tor's privacy here


whoops, looks like it made the "." part of the link, it works after removing that


i didn't say it's hard, it's just annoying to set up and socat as a background process managed by systemd can be a bit flaky in my experience


reverse-proxying from nginx to a tor onion is such a pain, the best method is probably using socat as in https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Deployment/ReverseProxyToTor/ but it's annoying to have another moving part to manage

alternatively there's an 8-year-old nginx module, https://github.com/dannote/socks-nginx-module, that adds direct socks proxy support, but using it, as i understand, requires patching and recompiling nginx

another option i've found is a http proxy for onions that nginx can use directly, https://github.com/termermc/tor-reverse-proxy/ but like the first option it's another process to keep running, and it's in server-side javascript ☹


> It turned out a mint rugged me, causing the payments to fail but without a clear error message

ridiculous... as this is so common nowadays, we should at least reserve a POSIX standard error code for this, what about "ESORRYFORURLOSS  The requested access failed because the resource was lost, stolen or confiscated."


that was exactly what i was looking for, thank you !


"pods have one(1) mandatory bed that covers nearly the entire floor area
ur not supposed to sleep on the floor outside the pods, as this obstructs the other inhabitants and the cleaning robots
thank u"


i used to have no problem at all just falling asleep lying on the floor, it grew more difficult as i got older


my experience has been it's pretty okay here compared to X, that there's no algorithm that boosts posts like that into the stratosphere helps


i think it's unlikely to work in practice, the people that post, say, transphobic posts are least likely to label them as such


same... i've always had dislike of software using the term "friend", please just keep track of communication in neutral terms, leave the friend-or-foe bit to me 😅


i agree in principle that something that doesn't depend on the DNS system is better, though, i've seen so many web of trust projects crash and burn over the years (nor did PGP's ever work that well), that i'm not sure what to expect 😅


is there an implementation of the payment related NIPs (NIP-47, NIP-57) for when you run an old-school core-lightning node. and don't use (nor particularly want to use) any of the fancy LSPs?


thanks for explaining !

the point about having a backup (and the outbox model) is great, having ownership over my own data is one of my main reasons for running my own masto instance

apart from that, an "aggregating relay" seems to be what i had in mind, happy to provide that service to users of x0f but not the entire world😀


sure, you're right, it's not really authentication but a measure against impersonation, which i imagine is super easy here due to the ease of generating keypairs


it means that javascript running on say, nosttter.app, can access that file on x0f.org... which is correct as it's meant to be publicly accessible and "well known"

to be clear, you would want to scope the location directive to just that file (or what's below .well_known), and not the entire webserver😅


thanks for confirming, i thought as much but wasn't sure !

so it makes very little sense to create my own relay for now i guess, i mean if i'm the only user there won't be any messages 😀


one thing i'm not sure about: do nostr relays relay messages to each other? or is it important to add as many relays as possible if you don't want to miss any messages?


whee, i got nip-05 authentication to work with x0f.org, if you're using nginx don't forget `add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;` inside the location directive or it wont display in web clients


thank you !!! i saw the rabbit one, it's cute, but was a bit hestitant to install the signer firefox extension (which needs access to my data for all websites)
i'll have a look at them later, for now nostter seems to work great


it's also a problem outside of twitter, but yeah that site's algorithm absolutely seems to encourage that kind of behavior, pretty much the only way to get any attention at all, let alone gain a large following, is to be mean and dismissive and abrasive... and it's still getting worse


good to see u too !!! 😄

haha i'm trying to be as little paranoid as is viable, unfortunately that's still a fair bit
i'm still pretty light on the technical details here, haven't done anything like manually setting a relay, maybe i should consider running my own on x0f.org


but the timeline shows posts by people i'm definitely not following (like the slashdot rss feed and some sports account)... this is so confusing


currently testing nostter and it works better ! hopefully it stays that way


trying to find a nostr web or desktop client that reliably displays a timeline of posts of the people i'm following; i've tried snort, iris to, but they keep showing an empty page with "show more" button and only very slowly and unreliably load posts, except trending ones, here


yea, delete being flaky was one of the first things i've noticed here, it definitely makes me more hesitant to post


haha sometimes the best way to place a picture in some year is by the symbols of social media companies they advertise on, that were fashionable at the time


thank you !


anyhow, giving nostr a try


seems like the test posts did get deleted it just took a while (or they were cached somehow?)