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 yeah he loves them. he reads everywhere we go. this is him reading at a bar in sayulita while we were dancing 😆 sooo much better than phones and his vocabulary is noticeably improving. https://i.nostr.build/kjBFGjc3jWb8SsLR.jpg  
 suits are great. lots of pockets. 
 Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked ... 
 awesome 
 Looks like this these results are wrong, their site seems broken. Earliest node screenshot i have is this one. Would be interesting to know if any of these other nodes are still running. I remember one was the blockstream store (sleepyark)

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/92846633884776a7.png nostr:note1xjywxev0u7426ssl3ea8lnmydv826hndtegyu8zktg0jppstlqvqfsxpt8 
 Me and felix weis still holding down the top 2 oldest nodes still running on the lightning network 😎

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/6cab15e1b008dd5d.png 
 Weird, those results are only 4 years, our nodes are both 6 years old. 

I was able to get to it somehow but there doesn’t seem to be a querystring for it.

Heres the earliest photo i have of the original #reckless  mainnet crew:

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/6cab15e1b008dd5d.png

Maybe need to crossreference with this image 🤔 
 If i remember correctly rompert was one of the first nodes as well, i think i misremembered the felix one as rompert and assumed the search results were correct. Looks like im getting random now :/

Should reach out to them to see what their earliest db entries are 
 I definitely remember him as one of the earliest well connected nodes. lnd scum tho 
 I bet we'll hit 100K in 2025. Maybe even 1M. We just need that one killer app, that one killer us... 
 I get those too 
 i find it mildly entertaining and makes me ponder the extent of mental illness among the general population 
 Satoshi tried to warn us. If there is a head, it’ll be cut off. 

Don’t give them a head to c... 
 12.5 years for potential false positive is insane 
 Apparently Solana people were interested in buying nostr.com for $5M. nostr:nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l... 
 Imagine having that much money just for a domain, I could use that to pay all of my current contributors for a few years… instead I am just losing contributors slowly due to lack of funding and denied grants. Sigh. 
 yeah i was going to do VC before grants, starting to look like I may still have to since you can’t build a proper team on grants. 
 I personally do but damus has multiple apps now built by many people who don’t get paid. I would like to raise money so they can keep working. I’ve had many people come, do great work, and leave. The churn kills momentum. 
 I’m still waiting for a drop below 1950 to recover from a bad trade…

        i don’t trade anymore. 
 GM 🧡⚡

Wen Notedeck? 
 Alpha release is end of November 
 This is pretty funny actually. The FBI has over 200,000 btc, The NSA over 250,000, The CIA over 2... 
 Yeah i thought it was only fbi 
 Then again if i remember correctly they sold it all? 🤔 
 the tbd guys hated nostr and loved DIDs and DWNs. or maybe it was just daniel. 
 nation state fomo incoming. buckle up. https://i.nostr.build/G0dDMLYBCwtI3De2.jpg  
 maybe trump will take those and put a more official designation on them as the reserve ? 
 I don’t see this as “falling for politics”. It’s observing game theory and reality and predicting how it will play out. 
 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s can Damus not do multi phot... 
 yeah its on the purple TestFlight atm 
 so rare 
 I ate the sea bugs and i was happy 
 Nostr Wallet Connect with my Primal Wallet? I want to use my Primal Wallet to receive zaps from D... 
 Receiving zaps has nothing to do with nwc. Your primal zap address will work automatically on damus and any other nostr or lightning client 
 really cool feature if you haven’t tried it yet 👇 nostr:note1h7ydcjy7sj9t3zrvh3une8q5pltg89dt3mtkyasvxr8cx827l4eq3mvqfc 
 will any mobile client fully integrate nostr.build?

could be nice not having to do it on one's b... 
 huh? we also integrate it. What do you mean. 
 I'm hitting a hard limit of 500 gifs stored under Kind 1063 (File Metadata) for the  nostr:npub18... 
 if you use negentropy (nip77) it will only pull down new gifs. 
 I literally can't post any media on nostr 
 Theres an issue for that ™️

https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/2216 
 this is great news. people don’t want to follow a bunch of people they don’t know and then ha... 
 No we don’t do that 
 onboarding is somehow getting way worse. we're stopping all new new feature dev to focus our onboarding experience. we're not going to win if people give up before they even start. 
 the onboarding experience, in damus at least. 
 yes there are many things, we had an hour long meeting about it and identified like 5+ pain points that we are going to be working on.

Biggest one is cold-start cache and having no profiles to search for. We're going to look into a profile precache of all of the users on the network. Should be pretty small and should work well until we get much larger.

Another one is the QR code experience, damus QR code scanning is janky and downright broken at times. We were looking into ways to load more profile data through the nprofile, even without and internet connection.

Profile picture and banner optimization, a lot of profile data fails to load on bad connections because things are not optimized across the board.

Onboarding checklist to guide users to set up missing things.

Lots more 
 This is the main thing we are going to be focused on fixing 
 because its a continuous thing that needs improving 
 @danieldaquino don’t we disable push on logout? 
 you likely have the developer mode option enabled to always show onboarding? 
 It’s really basic, just a fixed list. We would love to improve it if anyone wanted to take a stab at something better. 
 Yeah we can fix it 
 nostr:nevent1qqsfm4p3pvy0f08ajes6hx574dgu0a62e6lx9h0w89m9fljmu9czuecprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcprpmhxw309akk7mnpvshx5c34x5hxxmmd8gurqwpsqyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv0tydtu 
 nothing is safe 
 im sucking in 
 too many pacificos this trip. need a week long fast. 
 KEEP NOSTR SIMPLE

VOTE “NO” ON THE EDITS REFERENDUM 
 I think your deletion edit spec is the most reasonable and avoids a lot of the ux issues 
 bitcoin voter base is huge. can’t ignore it anymore. 
 free ross ⏳ 
 Is everyone still here and ok? Lol. nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrguf... 
 lol 
 A Bitcoin node will detect bugs in the matrix

since I'm not seeing any serious memory or disk issues, and assuming there are no bugs in bitcoin-core, I wonder if my bitcoin node is getting hit by cosmic rays and bits are getting flipped every now and then, leading to leveldb checksum errors.

I looked into ECC ram but I may need to build a home server, since it's not common in desktops motherboards.

Is this is why you’ve been going on about ecc memory @semisol ? I found a post about it from greg maxwell 10 years ago as well, saying all his non-laptop machines use ecc memory:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jpk54/risks_of_running_bitcoin_client_on_a_computer/cle3qyb/ nostr:note1ktns7scrqr00h9a400eajn8k23hcxzzp35syfr7j4tvzjkdpjjdsj4z0sf 
 Hit it again… running memtest now. Will see 🤔 https://i.nostr.build/3nHp1Ev3iLaEzzrS.jpg  
 Nothing yet… running hot as well. https://i.nostr.build/ERa0xSlAk8elJIQv.jpg  
 yeah I thought it was my drive so I got a new ssd but still having issues. ran tests on that and didn't find anything. trying memtest now. 
 it just happened again so I can send it 
 yeah chainstate again 
 This machine is on a UPS and doesn’t ever randomly restart. It’s never unstable. I don’t run it hot. If it can get corrupted from ungraceful stops then thats a bug. 
 was using a hdd, switched to a 4tb ssd recently. I suspect it was due to a low dbcache (32) value but not sure yet