Dustin
Dustin Dannenhauer

AI Research Scientist with a bit of programming language theory background. Hobbyist python webapp programmer.

DVM maximalist

Building DVMDash - a monitoring and debugging tool for DVMs
https://dvmdash.live/metrics

https://dtdannen.github.io/

Public Key

npub1mgvwnpsqgrem7jfcwm7pdvdfz2h95mm04r23t8pau2uzxwsdnpgs0gpdjc

NIP-05 Address

dustind@dtdannen.github.io

NIP-57 Address

meditate@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsd5x8fscqypualfyu8dlqkkx539tj6dah634g4ns779wpr8gxes5gpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszghl7a

Publishing to

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

relay.damus.io

bevo.nostr1.com

Author Public Key

npub1mgvwnpsqgrem7jfcwm7pdvdfz2h95mm04r23t8pau2uzxwsdnpgs0gpdjc

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2025-04-05 21:10:25

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https://memeulacra.com/meme/d1b4d530-42fa-4472-9e9d-b08427f0838a
https://memeulacra.com/meme/e1f8218f-454c-4043-a05a-0a01b7d171fc

2025-04-05 17:50:15

GM. AI misalignment is not inevitable, don’t believe the doomers

2025-02-27 18:25:43

Purple pilling people at ETHDenver. Still haven’t found a better decentralized AI solution than Nostr DVMs, despite all the shilling.

2025-02-13 03:23:40

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Got it, great to know. It’s not obvious to me if/how people were using it.
I’ll ping you when the new version is up

2025-02-09 21:30:39

It’s silly to me that I can’t zap everything.
Signal message? Zap
Text message? Zap
GitHub repo? Zap
Can we just make everything that’s digital, zappable?

2025-01-26 16:02:51

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No!!! They changed the UI, I was just about to share this with a friend, the old one looked way cooler

2025-01-25 17:34:53

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Is it scalable to expect everyone on Nostr to self custody lightning or are you assuming many users will use custodial lightning?

2025-01-24 23:07:31

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You mean the GitHub repo?

2025-01-18 19:11:38

simplifying overly-complicated logic is a special kind of dopamine hit

2025-01-14 14:04:12

GM. Running second round of performance tests on the new version of DVMDash

2025-01-04 05:27:32

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@npub1nxa…a6q8

2025-01-01 17:23:53

If this works how I think it does, DVMs can add a dimension that no other kanban app has ever seen #interoperability
#note1tqm…5gam

2024-12-31 20:14:14

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Whoa - flutter bindings sound cool. Do you have examples of these anywhere?

2024-12-29 19:29:41

2024-12-27 21:07:15

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It was an absolute highlight of my year to meet you and you inspire me

2024-12-25 07:25:07

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Haven't tried lovable yet for anything Nostr related. I was able to get v0.dev to allow a user to login via a browser extension and display their feed. I tried getting it to work with nostr-sdk js bindings, but in the end nostr-tools is all I could get working (maybe it's been around longer and was in the training data of the LLM; although I did try dumping many examples of nostr-sdk js code).
I'm curious which Nostr features you got working?

2024-12-19 18:06:53

Yes! More of this!
#note1v7z…6qd2

2024-12-16 23:09:44

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No, can you share that?

2024-12-14 23:14:47

If you are following developments in AI, you have to follow Rao (unfortunately I don’t believe he is on Nostr yet).
This analysis on inference time compute being nothing new in AI is spot-on.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/subbarao-kambhampati-3260708_sundayharangue-neurips2024-ai-activity-7273814123795116032-cuHB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
https://m.primal.net/MwOO.jpg
https://m.primal.net/MwOP.jpg

2024-12-14 03:46:18

Scrolling on #olas is smoooooth! Nice job @npub1l2v…ajft

2024-12-12 19:20:33

😢
https://i.nostr.build/2pGaYGqEk99AzIXi.png

2024-12-09 02:21:55

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@npub12xe…rk5w

2024-12-08 18:11:42

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GitHub link gives me a 404

2024-12-07 02:26:13

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An iron temple if I ever saw one

2024-12-06 15:26:19

google drive file and folder navigation is terrible UX. maybe it's a skill issue, but it takes me twice as long to find something than any other file system

2024-12-05 18:01:53

I want to be able to filter any search anywhere by my web of trust.
If I had to pick first: video game reviews

2024-12-04 18:22:20

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More amazing in person events

2024-12-03 23:33:47

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The Prof and PhD in the name are killing me

2024-12-03 23:16:09

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Someone told me lululemon was chosen as a name to avoid the Asian market… because they can’t pronounce it 🤣

2024-12-03 22:56:37

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Found it

2024-12-03 22:55:50

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note1t5nku99y7q729lmjaq02vc7qqfu2s4lk308262e892m8qfgga0ns3q5p48

2024-12-03 22:55:01

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Found it! https://primal.net/e/note1t5nku99y7q729lmjaq02vc7qqfu2s4lk308262e892m8qfgga0ns3q5p48

2024-12-03 22:53:01

Guys can you stop posting for a second, I’m trying to find a note

2024-12-03 22:48:31

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He has the cool hair, taking me a while to find it one sec, I think it was trending this morning

2024-12-03 22:06:00

Custom feeds on Nostr are a killer feature I never realized I wanted. Love the new primal UX to make your own, except that it feels too hidden. If I didn’t see a vid of someone explaining how to do it, I never would have known.

2024-12-03 22:02:00

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Can’t wait for an AI that gives you a Nostr client on demand. Like V0+++++

2024-12-02 23:35:29

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Uh yeah that’s old… 661k right now
https://m.primal.net/MmUK.jpg

2024-12-02 23:34:13

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When I click it in primal it works for me, maybe a client issue?
https://m.primal.net/MmUI.jpg

2024-12-02 23:33:09

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Darn. Is anyone working in wiki stuff right now? I was thinking of a new client that is LLM powered and would ingest whatever format the articles are in. But not sure if people are still writing and editing them?

2024-11-28 02:33:17

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Some strategies I’ve recently heard of:
1. Everything should have a “place” it goes. Then when you’re done using a thing, you don’t have to figure out where to put it, it’s obvious.
2. You are an efficient human being. If stuff is piling up in certain places, put something there (small trash can, basket, etc) so it’s more organized.

2024-11-28 02:30:56

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Triple checking a new db schema with rollups to avoid full table scans so we can get fast, live metrics of DVM activity when we’re at millions of DVM events an hour. Currently at a few hundred per hour.
The future is coming.

2024-11-27 19:04:19

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I think about this a lot because I want the same thing. Would it just collect all your data from all your devices? Or are you thinking more like a silent, mini drone follows you around recording everything?

2024-11-27 16:03:59

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Incredible 🙏

2024-11-27 12:43:31

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We haven’t fully explored WoT solutions yet

2024-11-27 12:31:30

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Is the privacy sacrifice worth it?

2024-11-27 12:26:02

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I wonder if there’s an advertising model, where somehow a relay is free with the trade off that some posts show up in your feed. Maybe a “proof of follow” that as long as you follow an aggregation advertiser npub, you have access. Wait, that doesn’t work.
Every time I think of a solution to this, there’s always a trivial client side solution to block the ads. Even now. 🤷‍♂️ maybe that’s a good sign.

2024-11-25 22:34:06

It’s cool that you can zap a note you think is important, and it will increase its reach

2024-11-25 18:55:42

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At first glance this looks like a wifi drone. But then the Ethernet cable ports don’t make sense. Now I want a WiFi drone

2024-11-25 18:17:09

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apparently just saying "please this is very important" helps

2024-11-25 17:55:13

productivity tip for working with LLMs:
1. keep everything you've copied around with a tool like Copy 'em (on Mac)
2. star or favorite common context related to your LLM conversations
3. when prompting your llm, paste in relevant context like the codebase README, example files, etc.

2024-11-25 16:27:33

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What tools do you use?

2024-11-25 15:51:16

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I’m doing it all in pycharm and a terminal. So
much copy / pasting from that into Claude. GitHub copilot although it’s been disabled more often recently.
Once I understand or get some code
from these systems, I’ll take it back and review it myself, in the IDE.

2024-11-25 15:49:01

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I wish I could get cursor to work for me, but I find more and more that I rarely want an AI in my IDE auto suggesting stuff to me. And when I tried to chat with a few open source code repos with cursor, it always disappointed. I don’t think generic RAG or whatever they use in the backend works great for that use case.
Productivity gains are up and down. I iterate A LOT. The prompts matter. Dumping lots of context or code examples of how libraries seems to work often makes the difference.
The most useful thing for me is that I can get an AI opinion on anything now. It might be wrong, but I don’t have to start from scratch with anything.

2024-11-25 07:11:49

v0 and bolt.new seem to do better with nostr-tools than the nostr-sdk js bindings. It works even better if you paste the raw README of nostr-tools repo as "guidance" along with your prompt. I've been able to get v0 to make a simple react client that fetches all bookmark events (an apparently new kind 30006 that @npub1l2v…ajft made recently)
https://v.nostr.build/1M0BmOLANfL4VgF0.mp4 https://i.nostr.build/mJiW0HhHghxhHjnn.png

2024-11-24 18:19:50

There's a new dev trend of adding an `/llms.txt` to your repo's root directory! Give LLMs all the context they need and save time while getting better answers - use it by pasting its contents into your chat before asking a question.
I'm working on one for DVMDash here, if you want to see a WIP example: https://github.com/dtdannen/dvmdash/blob/full-redesign/llms.txt
Consider adding the directory layout, the goals of the project, any domain specific background information, etc.
https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-09-03-llmstxt.html

2024-11-24 18:02:58

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Claude sonnet: one of the best proprietary (if not best overall) LLM that exists. I use it to whenever I'm not already an expert at something:
- criticize my development ideas (such as redesigning the data pipeline behind dvmdash)
- generate first draft code prototypes (for example, I'll dump examples of Nostr code from @npub1drv…seet 's nostr-sdk library relevant to the features I want)
- write first drafts of infrastructure stuff (dockerfiles, yaml config files, etc)
- debugging errors in server logs (i recently set up nostr-rs-relay for a DVM specific relay, and 8 hours later my relay went down. I dumped the logs into claude and it found that I needed to change two settings in my podman service)
- meme ideas and suggestions for meme templates I should consider for an underdeveloped meme idea
- looking up random terminal commands I don't remember (i.e. check the disk space on ubuntu, etc)
v0 is incredibly fun to play with to iterate on frontend designs. It renders the code as you chat and you can interact with the UI as you chat. I'm not a frontend person, so it's incredibly useful for me). I've been using it to quickly prototype some nostr app ideas.
Perplexity.ai:
- market research is the best use case I've found for it. Ask it about a market for a new app you want to build. Ask what competitors exist. Ask what people complain about each of those competitors. Have it estimate the potential market size, and put the data into a table. Ask it to update the table with a new column with new data. All of it is backed by citations to web links.
- it's my new go to search engine, it seems to be the only LLM-based search engine where you can follow up chat with it
- if claude or another LLM fails to answer something, I'll ask the same thing to perplexity, and if there's an answer online, it may find it

2024-11-24 17:37:19

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not saying i'm going to do it, but if I was, I'd probably:
- watch for all changes and proposals to nips on github
- keep a running list of proposals per kind
- query top relays for events per each kind
- compare events found on relays against the proposals
- create a document of some kind tracking each kind number and each nip, both whats happening on relays and via proposals
- let you chat with these documents via an LLM

2024-11-24 17:33:32

resisting the urge to make an AI to answer all my Nostr NIPs questions....

2024-11-24 17:32:27

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is 30006 a specific kind of list?

2024-11-24 17:23:16

do any clients actually publish bookmark events? If I ask these relays for kind 30006 I get like 7 events, and most were made in the last 48 hours 😂
I suspected most clients save bookmarks locally and don't actually broadcast them... seems like this is true for now?
"wss://relay.damus.io"
"wss://relay.primal.net"
#nevent1q…0v0x

2024-11-24 06:55:43

I asked V0 to make me a new UI for DVMDash that’s a mashup of mempool.space and fetch.ai and the first thing it did was go take screenshots of both sites. 🤯
I live on these tools right now:
- Claude sonnet
- v0
- perplexity pro
My bet is AI will help Nostr succeed because we have more development needs than current devs can support.
It’s conceivable that each person could have their own unique Nostr client custom built by an AI.
#note17qj…g0ny

2024-11-23 03:03:25

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haha no, more that it would only get saved locally!

2024-11-22 19:54:02

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tags > folders

2024-11-22 19:38:28

I blame primal for this
https://i.nostr.build/W7SXFbEvcMIMV6OS.png

2024-11-22 19:27:13

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Could bookmarks be picked up by other apps? I’d love to display only the bookmarks in another client

2024-11-22 04:31:10

Whoa is that a list of 5300 DVMs under the “Feeds” tab? If someone launches a new DVM does it automatically show up there?
#note1kae…c43m

2024-11-21 21:03:56

📚 Did you know there are at least 7 published papers on Nostr? I've gathered them all in one GitHub repo!
I'd love your help making this collection even better - know of any papers I missed? Feel free to submit a PR 🤝
Huge shoutout to the Awesome Nostr repo that's been helping developers. I hope this new resource will do the same for researchers! 🚀
#Nostr #Research #OpenSource
https://github.com/dtdannen/academic_nostr

2024-11-21 03:26:16

Apparently building real-time data pipelines isn't trivial….

2024-11-20 00:39:45

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Surfs up

2024-11-19 16:52:25

If a coffee shop or other wifi network seems to not work when you use a vpn, check in the vpn settings for a ‘stealth’ mode, under ‘protocol’. I just tried it with ProtonVPN and all of sudden everything is working!
For protonVPN, you need to go into settings, it doesn’t show in the default app where you press connect.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/da18e9860040f3bf493876fc16b1a912ae5a6f6fa8d5159c3de2b8233a0d9851/ce065672e7d67122430a0d2a446b1295e24bf143269096b18fa336407ad7e0ae.webp

2024-11-19 13:44:13

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Also audio from multiple videos sometimes overlapped. And didn’t stop playing when I switched back to pictures only.

2024-11-19 13:42:16

Olas is awesome. @npub1l2v…ajft - getting an issue where audio from the next video sometimes starts playing before I scroll to it. On an iPhone 15 plus.

2024-11-19 00:48:30

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Sorry! Github username is similar to your Nostr 05 name

2024-11-19 00:05:27

@npub1utx…50e8 can I whitelist specific kinds with nostpy? Thinking of running a version of it for DVM events only (kind 5000-7000).
After skimming the repo, it doesn’t look like there are settings such as whitelisting or blacklisting kinds?
I might consider adding it if it doesn’t exist

2024-11-18 23:19:40

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Never. Give them the memes as fast as possible. All technology is magic anyway

2024-11-18 19:28:52

new minor ezdvm release:
- upgraded to use nostr-sdk 0.36
- improved README install section
- added a README for running examples
- added test script to send events to DVMs
https://github.com/dtdannen/ezdvm/releases/tag/0.1.2

2024-11-18 18:19:04

This library just keeps getting better and better. I couldn’t live without these python bindings.
https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr thanks to @npub1drv…seet

2024-11-17 15:16:41

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On iOS and home is blank for me. Can’t wait to try it out!

2024-11-16 13:48:14

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hip maximalist right here

2024-11-16 12:43:37

2024-11-14 18:21:28

What’s your favorite way to read #wiki pages on Nostr? Am I missing a client?
- https://wikistr.com/
- https://wikifreedia.xyz/
- njump.me (example: https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqrcvgpzp22rfmsktmgpk2rtan7zwu00zuzax5maq5dnsu5g3xxvqr2u3pd7qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqq77npwp3ksct594c8ymm2v43hgelf959)

2024-11-14 18:18:06

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I like #2

2024-11-11 02:34:42

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Sweet!

2024-11-10 23:12:51

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I haven’t looked at relay implementations in a while. I assume you know about awesome-nostr repo tracking all the projects? that’s my go to for what others are doing.
Yeah I think it’s perfect for that!
The cypher queries for those should be pretty straightforward. I’m currently working on scaling my deployment of a neo4j db and making it more performant. Open to trading notes if you start using neo4j!

2024-11-10 19:32:18

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Hey yeah I’m using it in DVMDash!

2024-11-05 16:28:58

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Thanks!

2024-11-05 15:49:50

Anybody have a favorite chat option for open-source projects, for the devs to chat with dev and non-dev users? I’ve used Gitter in the past but wasn’t the biggest fan. Discord is popular. Something Nostr-based that’s easy for new users would be ideal.

2024-11-01 04:09:26

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https://m.primal.net/JlFL.jpg

2024-10-31 20:16:42

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So that’s how you do it!

2024-10-31 13:25:51

GM & Happy Halloween! 🎃

2024-10-25 21:37:47

@npub1az9…m8y8 @npub1730…9yky I noticed you don’t have a ‘system’ parameter or role for using your API - is that intentional and if so, are you planning to offer an alternative?

2024-10-18 18:28:16

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So cool, been simmering on this problem for a while and exciting to see this solution!!

2024-10-15 15:10:17

2024-10-12 17:06:34

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Depends on the group of people. Mostly I don’t because it’s either irrelevant or convention not to use Dr. for that group. Sometimes though, a conversation before and after I mention I have a PhD is wildly different.
So, if it’s a kind of fancy or prestigious event in any way, and people don’t know you well, I would use it. Otherwise probably not.

2024-10-11 16:13:48

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awesome thanks, what I had tried was from the popup of the person’s profile. Glad to know the full profile has this!

2024-10-11 14:32:13

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I get this a lot. I now lead conversations with “Nostr isn’t a company”

2024-10-10 18:22:35

@npub1n0s…lahe have you thought about adding a dropdown on a person’s profile that lets you add them to one or more of your lists?
I just tried after making a new list and saw someone I wanted to add to it

2024-10-10 18:05:20

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Would be fun to plot this against the interest rates with maybe a red or green vertical bar

2024-10-10 17:49:07

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Neat, thanks. I have another follow up question based on when I tried to use off the shelf clients (damus, iris, snort) with a single private relay and kept seeing events leak into public relays… are you worrying about the problem of using existing clients and preventing them from re broadcasting notes to relays which might be hardcoded (or cached maybe) in the client code?
Back when I tried using a single private relay between multiple off the shelf clients, my process was:
1. Download a client
2. Remove all initial relays in settings
3. Add my private relay
4. Use the app
And I couldn’t get events to stay off the public relays.
Granted this was a while ago, and if a client can render an event, then it necessarily has everything it needs to send it elsewhere and a code audit might be the only actual solution.
Anyway curious if you’ve thought on this and are focusing or testing this problem at all?

2024-10-10 05:27:15

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Love it - what about “multiple relays run by individuals in the group” rather than a single relay? That way you get better uptime, etc. or does trying to have multiple relays just make it harder?