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 pokey used 33% of my battery in a couple hours, may need to go back to just amethyst 😂 
 nostr:nevent1qqstjq8t382stmd89tf0txfe0y7auxzm3mc3d6jdadew2a98rzqe23spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaen5te0d4hkucty9e4xydf49e3k7mf68qcrsvqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatzhtelt3 called it 😂 
 https://bsky-users.theo.io/

it's so decentralized you can get accurate counts of (definitely real) users 
 yeah they take the current estimated rate (11 users per second) and animate it. 11 per second seems pretty high. maybe nostr is like that, but we wouldn't know. creating a nostr "account" is just generating a key. 
 great idea! 
 😂 
 urge to build https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ for nostr rising 
 I’m tired of them talking about aliens. So they are underwater now. just fucking show us then. Let’s see some high res pictures, videos, and radar data. 
 Unfortunately incredible claims require an incredible amount of evidence. Most people will not be convinced until there is a lot more high quality material to study, ideally in the open.

The majority of the ufo community is ok with a large quantity of low quality evidence. I am definitely in the former camp. I’m not dismissive but i’m also very picky with beliefs and demand high quality evidence before I believe anything. 
 how come using your mobile wallet with your bitcoin full node is still difficult?

you gotta inst... 
 you don’t need electrum 
 bitcoin core tracks all of your utxos via descriptors, why would you need an index ? 
 this is sad 
 Yes nostr:nevent1qqs9ym9we3gwavjjdnmjgu63h794xvvehdxzkfcmmys5qwp2c3hfryqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yh82arcduhx7mn9qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2wn9dzp 
 She definitely won. Wtf 
 #onlyzaps 
 haskell. nice. haskell dev of 10 years here, love to see it! 
 It bothers me a lot to be here at nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qs... 
 This isn’t that hard to fix, but we have bigger issues at the moment. Onboarding is really bad so we’re focused on fixing that.

Damus is open source, so if you really want a feature added you can contribute it yourself or sponsor someone to add it. You can’t do that with X or other apps.

Our ios team is only one person part time at the moment, so there will be gaps when compared to big tech apps. 
 We don’t persist drafts if the app closes, so it’s usually ok unless the app gets backgrounded and the os kills it 
 Any way to post a highlight on iOS? 
 nostr:nevent1qqstlzxufz0gfz4c3pktc7funs2ql45rjk4ca4mzwcxrpnurr4006uspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6gprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mqzxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wf5kxcfwvdhk6qg5waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetke7xdhk 
 Adding “smart” prefix to any appliance just means that shits gonna break in a few weeks 
 me avoiding nostr drama the past few days and just focusing on code https://i.nostr.build/40XBAp1Sts55cvxd.jpg  
 lock. in. 
 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s I know you’re a busy guy,... 
 you mean push notifications? Sometimes they don’t get to our relay until much later due to a rebroadcast from somewhere 
 Truly running #notedeck this am! 15 days to go! #guineapigtester #damus 
 at 1200 follows you are likely hitting the filter limit for contacts. we have a workaround for this in damus ios but not notedeck yet 
 Your contact list works fine for me when I do this on master (just pushed):

./target/release/notedeck -c contacts:@Derek Ross 
 Maybe it has an old contact list cached? I wonder if this works:

./target/release/notedeck —datapath test -c contacts:@Derek Ross 
 The real problem is github taking down repos 
 really? not hard to push to another endpoint 
 Trump enforcing neutrality on section 230 is going to be very interesting, because it would force platforms to not censor people for political reasons, otherwise they could be labeled as non-neutral.

So many centralized platforms depend on 230 to even exist.

There is still the issue of takedown requests from other countries, i wonder how that would interact with a neutrality clause in section 230.

It’s nice that there is some effort in law to reduce censorship, but it’s much cleaner to just enforce it in the design of a protocol itself. Don’t have to worry about the day to day changes in law and corruption.

Maybe nostr becomes even less relevant for the majority of people if our censorship resistance story isn’t as enticing. we should probably lean in hard to note verifiability and app interoperability. These were always the best sells anyways. nostr:note1akxnhg6hmlj7vjhv7jwrl2t4z935dhg4z6379fcshg96axcz3zfsnyxe5e 
 Definitely 
 in a free country you think you would be able to sue for copyright infringement on uploaded content, but section 230 protects platforms from this to some degree.

the idea is since they benefit from this huge government-granted privilege/protection, maybe users should have the same free speech protections citizens have via the first amendment in this particular case.

I am not a lawyer or that into politics, so I don't have a strong opinion on this, it's just an argument that I heard from a commentator. 
 Googles search labs ai results are getting quite good. I suspect google is just going to become an ai frontend in the future. https://i.nostr.build/UGR5sesr5YArFQs2.jpg  
 maybe all uis become intelligent 
 Why is there now so much hype with #BlueSky? I don't know why people running away from #Twitter g... 
 because they have more censorship and centralization. people love that. 
 TIL that when you burn fat the majority of waste products are exhaled as CO2 🤔

Adding this to the list of things i thought i knew about the human body but really didn’t. The systems complexity in biology is insane. There is so much we don’t know. I mean just look at the immune system, that alone is more advanced than any piece of software i’ve even seen.

I think ai researchers will be the ones that start making large advances in this field. There is just too much going on and too much data. Anthropic ceo (claude, etc) suspects AIs will be doing phd level research by 2027…

This is going to be an interesting century.

#insomniastr 
 The people building state of the art models don’t seem to think so:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000676542285 
 Its long but good 
 lol 
 What is nostr without zaps? 
#asknostr 
 censorship resistant, fast, decentralized, store and forward database for social apps. 
 Okay Bolt12 users, I’ve successfully tested sending sats to my Core Lightning via traditional L... 
 are you paying the same node or a different one 
 Didn’t know strike supported bolt12 
 I know more than a few bitcoin people that could easily retire.

Not a single one is considering ... 
 retiring was never an option. they fucked with our money. fuck around and find out. 
 Is there anyone who is *strongly* interested in being an early round beta reader for my sci fi ma... 
 🙋‍♂️ 
 Translations in #Damus are a nice pro feature 
 right 
 @semisol built it 
 so far trump has assigned vivek+elon for gov efficiency, tulsi for intelligence, rfk for health. pretty based. 
 never heard of these guys, maybe because im an ignorant canadian 
 yeah 
 OP_CAT 

Good or bad for #bitcoin? 
 OP_CAT + @Rusty Russell great script restoration is good for bitcoin 
 Posts from the Fediverse now include imeta tags. 
 someone give this guy 6m 
 i can’t stop thinking about the paella i had in ibiza and its becoming a problem. why can’t i get this anywhere 😭

her: hes probably thinking about other girls again.

no. its much much worse and i am ashamed to admit it. I should stop noting when i am drinking. #paellastr 
 I love miami 
 i like ur attitude 
 😭 i miss it 
 nothing is safe. Best to have in person convos with phones off or far away 
 everything is slowly being appropriately priced in sats 
 So what browser is everyone using this month? 

I'm currently using Vivaldi because I think it ha... 
 qutebrowser