Silberengel

Member of GitCitadel and PurpleKonnektiv.
Admin of https://theforest.nostr1.com/ relay.

Bitcoin address:
bc1qldu8202l6kjv4u9qsw6rfghda8798pg38xkc7z

Bolt12 pay code:
https://twelve.cash/laeserin@twelve.cash

Bolt12 address:
lno1zrxq8pjw7qjlm68mtp7e3yvxee4y5xrgjhhyf2fxhlphpckrvevh50u0qf5se3npkealcue2te9dvrnre2ljf727cegxqdm7na95684l2wn8uqsr7umlffnk57t90nvss2mww4y5qaqmprd2cvharztce64ujhs4rlgqqv6fz88huw3xnert3zvf5734gne9nza7lu5r0a025sv2lugrhj8pepnly0rfdm85ssfehz0ha7gl874gkh5nq0nhh23lma88p4apys2tl2zfrjyf76ws3gtvlnv9h0e7hl0gx6jjjqqsxucaqre4hj2f4yagumy8kdz4av

Public Key

npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

NIP-05 Address

silberengel@gitcitadel.com

NIP-57 Address

gitcitadel@geyser.fund

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgprfmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakszythwden5te0dehhxarjxgcjucm0d5c206zz

Publishing to

theforest.nostr1.com

nostr21.com

nostr.land

Author Public Key

npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

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Last Notes

2025-04-03 06:50:21

Taking a break to focus on development.
I will be regularly checking DMs, so if you're on https://theforest.nostr1.com (Easy to test: can you see your own notes?), you can reach me that way.

2025-04-02 18:03:53

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😂

2025-04-01 19:43:13

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He was born in Germany and his mother is ethnic German, but he doesn't have German citizenship because that used to only come through the father.

2025-04-01 18:09:58

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Yeah, that's the sort of thing that kept getting me banned on Twitter.

2025-04-01 16:48:26

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Exactly. You learn to code by struggling with code.

2025-04-01 13:35:21

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If people want to use other relays, the performance is then their problem.

2025-04-01 13:34:04

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Most of you can't seem to tell when you're engaging something automated. Should I insist that they "out" themselves?

2025-04-01 10:50:45

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Yeah.
But, we expected that. The UX was never the reason.

2025-04-01 10:44:59

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😂

2025-04-01 10:06:02

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Yeah, people think the higher-level stuff is easier, but it's harder. It only looks easier, on a superficial level.

2025-04-01 09:36:58

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They are all so weirdly helpless.
It's all so bizarre.

2025-04-01 09:28:01

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They kept saying it's the relays, but @npub1wqf…qsyn and I were like
https://media.tenor.com/ud2QGYQk1qkAAAAC/confused-britney-confused.gif

2025-04-01 09:26:19

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Explains why relays are so fast, but so many clients are really slow.

2025-04-01 08:38:02

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It's sorta crappy, but actually works better than most Nostr apps because of the Alexandria base doing lots of the heavy-lifting.

2025-04-01 07:01:24

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Yeah, gotta move with the times. 🤷‍♀️
This gets you a good prototype to show customers and can help you out, in a pinch, and find bugs.
This actually went quickly because I told to use the Alexandria repo as a code base. Everytime it got stuck, I told it to go look at Alexandria, again, and that got it pretty far. Would probably have to feed it more Kind 01 examples, to get it moving from here, but I need to clean that up, first.

2025-03-31 16:59:01

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He's completely rebuilding Nostrudel.

2025-03-31 13:12:51

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Or batch discovery. Hmm. The server holds the key, maybe, and three people hold the server key.

2025-03-31 13:08:15

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Like, if you used multisig. 🤔

2025-03-31 11:48:53

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😂😭🫂

2025-03-31 10:24:59

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Private, protected, public functions.

2025-03-31 08:37:01

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It makes more sense as a read, than as a write, as it's completely open to all writers, including a lot of spam, and it pulls in most publicly-visible notes.
Having us look for replies in gigantic aggregators doesn't make sense, for an outbox model, as the client could always include an aggregator as a fallback for things it should be able to display, but can't find in the outbox.
It all needs to be thought-through a bit more. We're thinking. 🤔

2025-03-30 06:05:18

Follow lists are the solution to the problem of finding some particular subset of items (in this case, npubs) within a very large set. A set the size of "all Twitter users" or "all Instagram users", for example.
They are a solution to a problem we do not have.
Our problem is the opposite:
We have lots of disparate data sets and need to find particular items somewhere in them.

2025-03-30 05:28:16

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This Sybil tool is going to be a doozy, once it's done, because it has to cover all sorts of edge cases for testing. The bloat will be awesome, and it's already sluggish.
So... we're building a separate book-publishing API with Python, that will upload from a webform to our self-hosted Realy and relay.tools-hosted TheCitadel relays. The markup/PDF/LaTeX/Doc/Text/etc. automatic conversion will happen behind that one, and tap into all of those sweet Python AI libraries, so it's going to be much sleeker and faster, and *smarter*.
That's where the mass-uploading will run and we have a new dev for that. We'll announce who it is, with the first online increment, which will only handle Asciidoc.
GM

2025-03-30 05:19:23

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Okay, let's Stick with NIP-98, then. Devs are all sitting at PCs and laptops, so that's not a problem.

2025-03-30 05:05:41

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I'm just thinking of how we could do something like SSH, but for servers, using npub and NIP-05, instead of login name, email and password. Then they would only need to sign to login once, on each machine, and could setup SSH.
Or is that too complicated and they should just sign everytime?

2025-03-30 05:00:17

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💯

2025-03-30 04:58:30

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Of course, inventing a way to SSH with *confirmed* Nostr keys (see the last discussion about using Lightning for confirming a NIP-05 or similar address) would be next-level, which might make it worth doing.
Nostr SSH 🤌

2025-03-30 04:53:56

GM
#nevent1q…ddyj

2025-03-29 23:20:13

Due to the donations we have received, we can now lower the prospective monthly relay fee down to 1250 sats.
The fundraiser continues. Once it's complete, we can offer the git server for 500 sats per month, which is less than fifty cents. Enough to keep out spam and cover the relay costs, not enough to prevent someone from renting space on the machine.
https://geyser.fund/project/gitcitadel/goals/478?hero=gitcitadel

2025-03-29 23:03:29

I've renamed my ebook utility to "Sybil", to reflect its increasing powers. Now also publishes longform articles (Markdown) and wiki pages (Asciidoc). Added some utilities, like broadcasting and fetching. Delete is best-try.
https://i.nostr.build/Jo7qwDu7rgYkMIWJ.png
https://gitworkshop.dev/silberengel@gitcitadel.com/Sybil

2025-03-29 20:24:44

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Yes. 😂 The void is really chatty.

2025-03-29 18:54:18

Hello, Nostr world! (final test)

2025-03-29 18:07:06

Hello from a specific relay (fixed)!

2025-03-29 16:06:51

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Not much point being a lurker on Nostr, since the data can be viewed like any web page.

2025-03-29 14:20:52

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The problem with 3k-5k is that it's prohibitively expensive to some people in some places, at the same time as it's not enough to sustainably offer the cool CI/CD stuff that @npub1qdj…fqm7 and @npub16ux…lra7 and etc. have planned. That stuff will need computation and performance to be attractive, so we need a much higher price-point, for that, perhaps even further-tiered for consumption and size and etc.
We also had so much interest in sponsoring, that we decided to bring in stingier, low-ball offer for #smolldevs and then send the bigger players the bill with a higher tier.

2025-03-29 13:40:59

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Therefore, you don't control what is hosted and we can upsell other services. 🤔

2025-03-29 13:11:55

@npub16p8…fhdw Thank you! I'll update the relay price, again, later. 🫂
#nevent1q…cx6s
#nevent1q…cx6s

2025-03-28 18:11:15

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Mine was a dude, so I didn't post it. I get tired of being compared to dudes.

2025-03-28 14:07:41

The full text of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, already on 74 relays.
https://image.nostr.build/29a756576eed6feabda1b3c3ee1818525fc6a899f158944861ca5c8b52200927.png
#nevent1q…cjer

2025-03-28 13:38:38

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Here's the 30040 index for it.
#nevent1q…3mzh

2025-03-28 08:43:20

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It's got a full web interface. 😎

2025-03-28 06:21:50

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I'm paying to use Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Worth the money, IMO.
https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet

2025-03-28 06:14:34

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I'm assuming your first-level WoT can auth and get around delays. Otherwise, uploading publications would collapse.

2025-03-28 06:11:01

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As someone more specialized on test and UX, it saves me a lot of stackoverflow searching, which is nice, but I really have to sort of inch forward and constantly test because it occasionally breaks stuff or generates wrong solutions. The more time I spend writing the scenarios and tests, beforehand, the better the coding part is. The resulting code is better than what I usually write, but there's lots of room for patterns, tighter algorithms, and other architectural improvements.
Someone specialized on coding, probably feels that way about tests.
TL;DR -- It can leverage your current talent stack and even out your weaknesses, but a specialist would get better results. Since nobody is a specialist in everything, it's good that we at #GitCitadel can cross-pollinate the same codebase. Leverage upon leverage.
I'm now more convinced than ever, that this is going to have a bigger impact in making programmers faster and better, than in making them obsolete.

2025-03-28 05:51:45

Programming with Cline-support in VS Codium.
It's tedious to get it to build what I want (on the first try, and it would need to be the first try, to be faster than I am), although writing the request in Gherkin scenarios and adding lots of reference material helps. Then I page through the changes, slowly, rewriting stuff at each step, nudging it toward the desired architectural and programmatic goal.
I'm completely underwhelmed by its ability to bug-fix, but it does a great job on documentation and unit tests. Integration tests are not very good, but that's my specialty, so that's okay. I might just start having it generate Gherkin automation, based upon my hand-written scenarios (which are the core of the development, not the code, as they determine what the user will experience).
The minor release, with bouts of manual intervention, manual expansion, manual test data creation, and manual testing, took 14 hours. Which is slightly faster than completely manual. The end result is slightly better code than I can write, with fewer minor errors, and the test coverage is much higher.
I'm next going to try a process, to see if I can make it more-efficient and get it to produce higher-quality results:
* manually write scenarios,
* manually create test data and tests,
* ask it to change the code to pass the tests and fulfill the scenarios,
* manually test everything,
* have it refactor everything,
* run the tests, again,
* have it expand the tests to cover the new stuff,
* run the tests, again,
* manually test,
* have it correct/add documentation,
* run the tests, again,
* have it refactor, again,
* run the tests, again,
* manually test,
* push to master,
* faint in exhaustion.

2025-03-27 21:41:50

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😂

2025-03-27 18:41:21

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Amazing.

2025-03-27 17:33:55

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He could at least zap the spam, tho.

2025-03-27 16:48:27

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Nope.
Blocked him, now, too. Just to be sure.

2025-03-27 16:38:12

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It probably should be limited.

2025-03-27 15:39:28

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https://image.nostr.build/2aedb395579083ebffe2cd13693605c310cfd6d5f5e4974bae08038d4afd5223.jpg

2025-03-27 15:21:31

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We've got the container ready. 💪
@npub1qdj…7has been implementing that, for #GitCitadel.

2025-03-27 14:58:53

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Congratulations @npub107j…ncxg! 🥳

2025-03-27 14:23:27

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He took the server down, apparently. This is on his other domain. Unfortunately, his wiki pages are degrading, like his whole app. That is rendering with the wrong markup. 😏
https://nostrudel.ninja/#/wiki/topic/gitcitadel-project
I changed it to the Alexandria about page, as I'm not going to server-rug myself, and I'll make sure that looks good.
There were some bugs on the Geyser page, that made it impossible for me to change the link, but they seem to be fixed now.

2025-03-27 14:16:02

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First, we set up the git server and the relay, and use repo events and Lightning and etc.. That's the part that's sort of low-hanging fruit and is just a question of renting the server and hosting the machine and maintaining uptime and fighting off attacks and scrapers and... You know the drill.
That's the part the goal drive is for, because that takes the uncertainty out of our paying in advance and the support work.
The API will do more than that. That's part of our development project and will need more design work. We want to integrate with other git APIs, to bring those interactions onto Nostr, as well.

2025-03-27 13:48:36

I updated the Geyser fund page. 😊
We have a new goal!
#nevent1q…syyx

2025-03-27 00:02:02

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Some of the men on here were perverted, violent, or sorta rapey, but they seem to have bored of Nostr. Thankfully. Or they were muted and blocked to oblivion, and gave up. Which is also likely.
Or I don't see them, anymore, which is also fine.
Now, it's just grumpy trolls.

2025-03-26 23:37:14

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I've never had an interaction with this guy, that wasn't nasty.

2025-03-26 20:08:47

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Now, he's correcting my grammar and demanding we explain projects that aren't even ours. Whatever.

2025-03-26 14:49:34

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Has more to do with me, than with Mleku.

2025-03-26 06:56:49

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They don't get paid to maintain things, they get paid to build new things.

2025-03-26 06:54:14

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Ha ha. Nah. Pablo has always been a release-and-abandon dev and the other guy is focusing on Chachi.
Just too many people working alone, so maintenance suffers. Same problem with Nostrudel and Jumble and etc.

2025-03-26 06:48:47

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@npub1qdj…fqm7 @npub1wqf…qsyn

2025-03-26 06:28:43

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Yes. Any event can be deleted.

2025-03-26 06:24:45

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Also, Wikifreedia.
Oh well.

2025-03-26 06:22:34

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WoT relays tend to be full of spam and porn and bots and crap. I avoid them.

2025-03-25 21:40:08

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Yeah, they're all getting a bit burnt out. That's okay.
Second shift has arrived for duty, sirs. 🫡

2025-03-25 21:24:54

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There's like 5000 people on here. It's not too late for anything. 🤷‍♀️

2025-03-25 21:21:56

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As soon as you have nested events, shit gets crazy, fr. Adds a dimension.

2025-03-25 21:15:25

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I'm actually not really sure why it's a separate type, but I adopted that from the kind structure.
Not the hill I want to die on, TBH.

2025-03-25 21:01:23

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I expanded the instructions.

2025-03-25 20:56:41

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Kind 20 doesn't just contain the image. Whole thing is gobbledygoodk. Inefficient to put all that metadata into a kind 1.
Kind 1 needs to stay simplistic and clean. Also leaves client devs more leeway in what they want to display, and what not. We shouldn't be sneaking stuff into their feeds.

2025-03-25 20:41:22

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Example
https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4tqpzplfq3m5v3u5r0q9f255fdeyz8nyac6lagssx8zy4wugxjs8ajf7pqydhwumn8ghj7argv43kjarpv3jkctnwdaehgu339e3k7mgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqpqhg6r994nxjunnwskkymm0dvkk7e3dd4hhxetn943kzmrvv4jz6em9dejhx6tn9ckky7fdvdsk6cnjd9jxwefdwckkk6twvukk5ctdv4esx7g68p

2025-03-25 11:54:15

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It'll be millions of publications, in the end, so we're putting a lot of thought into sorting and rendering.

2025-03-25 07:35:16

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People who don't understand software development think you can predict the quality and longevity of a project by the amount of money thrown at it and how famous or popular its leaders are, but they are wrong.
It's the people on the project, and the way they interact _with each other_ that has the greatest impact.

2025-03-24 16:51:59

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Yeah, kids really change the dynamic, but kids don't stay small forever, and some couples can't have kids, so it's important that Christians remember that subsidiarity is a worthy goal. The decision should be made at the lowest-practical level, and that's the home, in this situation.
The whole idea, that we carve such rules into stone at a societal level, in order to keep husbands in their rightful place as the head of house, is schizophrenic. He can't be the head, if all he says is whatever someone has decided he will say. Then he's just a figurehead. He has to be free to make decisions and respond to the environment.

2025-03-24 15:46:39

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We found one on Nostr.

2025-03-24 07:55:49

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That's common, under strict patriarchy. He's just a visitor in the home and a paycheck.
Like the way ME guys often lounge around outside because the women basically throw them out of the house every day, and they don't go back until dinner.
Often don't see the sort of affectionate, companionate marriages, that we are more used to, because of the elevated status of Christian women and the more temperate view of patriarchy that it brought.

2025-03-23 19:20:12

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I am aware that it has been difficult.
Their willingness to suffer for it makes it more valuable.
It's a testament.

2025-03-23 18:35:14

Nonprofits are an attempt to demonize capitalism by making the pursuit of profit seem tawdry.

2025-03-23 10:18:51

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We will be making software projects that are index-based and will contain folders for the repo events, but that's not the solution you linked to.

2025-03-22 15:37:23

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Okay, we're looking at circa 60k sats/year/user, for 2GB.
You could buy additional "users" linked to the same npub, to get more space, if necessary. But that's already a lot for most code projects, even including web pages and a demo video, or something. It's the "free" amount GitHub offers, so that's what we're trying to compete with.

2025-03-22 12:36:28

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I only got on it to respond to NIP stuff and write issues, and that's turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger.

2025-03-22 12:22:23

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Yeah, it's gonna be an ongoing construction site, for a few years, probably. 😂 But a useable one, promise!
Just setup the repo for the project and gave @nprofile…x0dz a ticket, listing the guinea pigs -- errr... I mean, customers.
Already so many feature requests, that I made the ticket into an epic, rather than a story.

2025-03-22 12:14:20

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Someone could always choose to wait for the npub setup to finish, if they don't want to use email.

2025-03-22 12:11:19

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I'm not wedded to the NIP-05 address. Just seemed like one that most npubs would have or we could give them.

2025-03-22 12:10:03

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Would it be possible to include that in the registration Lightning zap? @nprofile…h4k8 would probably know a clever way to do something like that.

2025-03-22 10:43:28

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Like, use npub as the user.name and NIP-05 as the user.email.

2025-03-22 10:12:09

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Would be kinda neat to have the option to use a NIP-05 in commits, instead of email. One npub can have multiple NIP-05s and we could switch notifications from email to some sort of note.

2025-03-22 06:28:16

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Or, will it be HTTP and nsec, only? No SSH?

2025-03-22 06:25:53

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This does SSH and HTTP, apparently.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Smart-HTTP

2025-03-21 06:40:51

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They instituted 2FA to keep the other AIs out, otherwise, they'd have to shut the program down because it's just a money hole. 🕳️

2025-03-21 05:37:47

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Good morning.

2025-03-21 05:29:19

You won't need to vibe #Alexandria into existence and end up with a buggy, incoherent mess. All it would be doing is scraping our code and turning it into a sloppy, spaghetti version, with the color scheme you requested. And, since you and I know each other, we both know that it will be orange 🍊 spaghetti.
We are going to provide you with a free, tailor-made, AI-powered workflow, which will help you fork, customize, and install your very own version of our FOSS software (which includes the fastest upload-relay on the market and integration of your community relay), and ensure that you can continue to update that version with new features we add to the main one. We will help you support it, there will be real humans on the other end of the line, and our C++ NDK will be underlying it all.
Do not settle for vibing. AI is bigger than that.
We are going to AI all the things.
https://media.tenor.com/UTdKjyJCl9wAAAAC/ahh-snap.gif
#nevent1q…k2f9

2025-03-20 17:11:32

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Or a Nostr login, to read?
I'm just thinking for our public gitserver. Not your website.

2025-03-20 12:04:12

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Loved that movie.

2025-03-20 09:31:54

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Ah, okay, I can search for the nevent on Nostrudel and get the noteID from the event details viewer.
Impossible to stop using Nostrudel, because nobody else's client does anything. 😅 HELP, I'M A DEV TRAPPED ON NOSTRUDEL!

2025-03-20 09:05:15

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I was trying to figure out the noteID of a neventID because the Nostr Event Deletion app only accepts noteID. 🤷‍♀️
https://nostr-delete.vercel.app/

2025-03-20 08:41:46

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Here's what I have on Nostrudel, on desktop over WIFI. (Don't have a setup like this on mobile, or the subscriptions will crush you. 😅)
When I use any other app over WIFI, or I am on mobile Internet, then only mailboxes and my local/personal relay. It's enough, trust me.
https://image.nostr.build/05b228d647019548dc1826d408850c8815605df5e002c518fcc4a1daa393e7e8.png

2025-03-19 18:42:46

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Finally figured out what to do with extra headers.