Bill St. Clair

I'm a retired Lisp hacker, working on WebApps in Elm for fun. Dance! Sing!

billstclair.com

Play that funky music white boy.

Public Key

npub15hrlcd8y620mwu7u6xy2adhgp7ngmuu00lfks6fdldyz2luyuhpqn3yad2

NIP-05 Address

billstclair@ditto.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs2t3luxnjd98ahw0wdrz9wkm5qlf5d7w8hl5mgdyklkjp907zwtsspz4mhxue69uhkg6t5w3hjuur4vghhyetvv9uszxmhwden5te0dpjku6r0w4ek2tnnda3kjctv9aex2mrp0yv3y9dt

Publishing to

ditto.pub/relay

henhouse.social/relay

Author Public Key

npub15hrlcd8y620mwu7u6xy2adhgp7ngmuu00lfks6fdldyz2luyuhpqn3yad2

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2025-03-16 16:18:44

The Knoxville SunSphere
https://media.ditto.pub/8653f3789d06d362f2502b139ea5eddf2b160c8cbd74e67bba8ae8ca6ad7f501.jpeg

2025-03-16 16:12:12

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https://media.ditto.pub/8b81694c423fadd745d1ab6c2f2627328d506b515705cb4f35096b268146b1b8.jpeg

2025-03-16 16:09:28

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https://media.ditto.pub/d8fd6c986de73076859b8ba295c00636c2d8d4af285154c5d1484dc6683ff736.png

2025-03-14 14:05:36

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Mighty glowing report for digital tulips.

2025-03-12 15:06:01

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https://media.ditto.pub/3927d7b6e7599d3750339273e07ea48da04eca8c5108c98d6a420b4f4a34886e.jpeg

2025-03-12 15:05:43

https://media.ditto.pub/07b751cd589aa181985d0a34d0c723a14bdc6f13c711dcdd55e9ad41f989937d.jpeg

2025-03-11 22:55:47

Can you see the A in the circle? It's subtle for me.
https://image.nostr.build/e3e10a9cf431be500cd38dc9e43d959eba1d98c33f6770e041654f81dbb6ccc2.png

2025-03-11 21:51:00

https://media.ditto.pub/26443716dcdf48da8db0fc109823273792571d20f9fa613a026e9cbf8d5b9bba.jpeg

2025-03-11 21:48:13

https://media.ditto.pub/e3e10a9cf431be500cd38dc9e43d959eba1d98c33f6770e041654f81dbb6ccc2.svg

2025-03-08 07:20:53

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https://media.ditto.pub/36da21273a507d15411dd134f47f4bdcd0bfb77b1654d87329d07da1f5836b3d.png

2025-03-08 06:10:55

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I appear to have gotten it right so that posting from either place looks like the other place to the other place.

2025-03-08 06:09:24

Moi? I just typing at my personal space, and see how that looks over at ditto.pub. Haha! Haha!

2025-03-08 04:43:30

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I have decided that the lesson was a good one, and that I donated generously to ditto.pub development. But I will post usually as @nprofile…ezr3

2025-03-08 03:02:49

Daniel Ladinsky, _The Subject Tonight Is Love_, versions of Hafiz
https://media.ditto.pub/8f5bde2ec3df9f480a913b1c2a81d3587e13f5bda1ef5e1f6be4614ef1a48694.jpeg

2025-03-08 03:01:45

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If you speak bash and ssh and engnx, you will be fine following the directions. Find them, and let me know if you grok.

2025-03-07 16:16:23

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BTW. I tried installing Ditto on Ubuntu 24.04 twice. Failed both times, late in the game, though I don't at present remember where. You'll have to reproduce that yourself anyway, so it doesn't really matter unless it works for you, and then I'll try a third time.
My first install, on 24.10, worked, except that entering an nsec didn't log you in. My latest, and second, 24.10 install works, but I've decided to do most of my browsing on ditto.pub, until I get a real ditto client for Mammudeck. But I'll continue using that to browse the Fediverse via Impeccable.Social.

2025-03-07 16:09:08

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I hope you'll get someone to work making it work in Ubuntu 24.04. I REALLY like to run Long-Term-Service releases on my servers. And update to the previous LTS release, when the new one comes out.

2025-03-07 15:10:56

Daniel Ladinsky, The Subject Tonight is Love, versions of Hafiz.
https://media.ditto.pub/be441a9359e71f655bcce7e31c95e48bd5fd1df215c07cd171fac38e1fc8c580.jpeg

2025-03-07 14:22:42

I'm typing this morning on my huge Apple Vision Pro screen, connected to my Mac Mini.
https://media.ditto.pub/57a0f5b26cfd274c644599e18ab6b6416883762db6564dde9d8dffea3fa04123.jpeg

2025-03-07 14:01:47

@nprofile…667r @nprofile…s456 Youse guys have created something beatiful in Soapbox/Ditto. Bravo!

2025-03-07 13:30:10

Oops. I added that image on ditto.pub. Try again.
https://image.nostr.build/50c65fc6bebca91ede1401b3138d99556b4d504b6c8d033ec55d03d4f7048107.jpg

2025-03-07 13:27:12

Let's see if I can add an image.
https://media.ditto.pub/2528279c5e3ff82a84bf9ba86bd6a3c3550c1d5091212756ba254106243013a8.webp

2025-03-07 13:24:47

Typing this on my brand new Ditto instance.

2025-03-07 12:59:23

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When I tried to restart nginx, I got a "duplicate upstream" error (in /var/log/syslog, not the other two places). The problem was that I edited /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ditto.conf with emacs, not nano, and it created ditto.conf~. I recommend changing your instructions to adding ditto.conf to /etc/nginx/sites-available, and then `ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/ditto.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/`.
The instructions for installing nak need to be better. The release in the git repository is an executable file. It needs to have its execute bits set, renamed to "nak", and moved to some place in the PATH. Also, it didn't work to just "curl -O <url>" to my server. I got a zero-length file. Instead, I had to download it to my machine, and copy from there to the server.
In Section 3.b, you need to specify that the user should type 1 at the "Please choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, removing HTTP access" prompt, "No redirect".
It did NOT work in the latest LTS Ubuntu, 24.04. I had to use 24.10. That does NOT ask about HTTPS redirection. I guess their code to recognize existing redirection is better.
A reinstall made it work at ditto.impeccable.social. Yay!

2025-03-07 12:59:23

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2025-03-07 11:17:46

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I don't remember anything, but I'm pretty good at ignoring that kind of stuff. I'm going to try again, make sure I didn't skip anything, and watch for problems.

2025-03-06 18:07:19

@alex I have a new Ditto instance at https://ditto.impeccable.social. It never logs on. This has a slight delay on working servers, but the delay is infinite on mine. Creating a new key gives me a file to download, but clicking the "Next" button after that does nothing. I'm out of things to try.
(and here I've been thinking that the ball was in your court. It wqsn't. Now it is)

2025-03-06 04:47:51

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Yes.

2025-03-06 04:43:22

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But if NOSTR stops accepting new messages encoded with an old key, all will be well.

2025-03-06 04:41:22

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I live in a free world. I can do ANYTHING, and suffer the consequences.

2025-03-06 04:05:06

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2025-03-06 04:03:17

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Thanks for answering my question. It was an actual question. Snarky, Of course. That's my nature.

2025-03-05 23:49:56

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Just make the old encryption algorithm read-only. All new messages must use the new one, and there's a dictionary mapping current to old.

2025-03-05 23:47:56

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I did not say anything about whether or not I care, only asked a question. Answer is in your court. I will not entertain another question, while mine is on the floor.

2025-03-05 20:18:21

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Boomer, in particular Generation Jones, but not in any way normie.

2025-03-05 17:11:25

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/var/log/syslog

2025-03-05 17:10:45

@nprofile…s456 I installed a brand new Soapbox with Ditto on a brand new Digital Ocean droplet, running Ubuntu.
When I create a new account, it hangs forever after downloading the new key and clicking "Next".
If I attempt to sign in with that key, it again does nothing, but I see this in /ver/log/syslog:
2025-03-05T17:04:53.424631+00:00 ditto ditto[2915]: {"level":"error","ns":"ditto.http","msg\
":"Unhandled error","method":"POST","pathname":"/oauth/token","requestId":"00254487-882d-4b\
4d-824d-f756d5888d89","error":{"name":"Error","message":"Subscription closed","stack":"Erro\
r: Subscription closed\n at NConnectSigner.send (https://jsr.io/@nostrify/nostrify/0.39.\
1/NConnectSigner.ts:130:38)\n at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:216:9)\n at async\
NConnectSigner.cmd (https://jsr.io/@nostrify/nostrify/0.39.1/NConnectSigner.ts:97:31)\n \
at async getToken (file:///opt/ditto/packages/ditto/controllers/api/oauth.ts:132:3)\n a\
t async createTokenController (file:///opt/ditto/packages/ditto/controllers/api/oauth.ts:53\
:23)\n at async dispatch (https://jsr.io/@hono/hono/4.6.15/src/compose.ts:75:17)\n at\
async uploaderMiddleware (file:///opt/ditto/packages/ditto/middleware/uploaderMiddleware.t\
s:46:3)\n at async dispatch (https://jsr.io/@hono/hono/4.6.15/src/compose.ts:75:17)\n \
at async file:///opt/ditto/packages/mastoapi/middleware/tokenMiddleware.ts:38:5\n at as\
ync dispatch (https://jsr.io/@hono/hono/4.6.15/src/compose.ts:75:17)"}}

2025-03-05 12:12:41

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Why should I care?

2025-03-04 16:16:05

@nprofile…s456 If just upgrade Soapbox on impeccable.social, will it talk Nostr to relays known to grok that?

2025-03-04 13:30:35

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But note that the @nprofile…ezr3 link didn't get through. It's not highlighted on the other side, either.
https://media.ditto.pub/670ce4ea801aabfd334d049ad528238b88f2bbdaab1c06be591111242f88d019.jpeg

2025-03-04 13:24:22

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By golly, it does. Good work, @nprofile…s456 .

2025-03-04 13:10:15

@nprofile…s456 Mentioning you so I see it at @nprofile…egke, so I can try following over the bridge.

2025-03-04 03:11:42

From _The Essential Rumi_ by Coleman Barks
https://media.ditto.pub/84c01e8d557a41297e3ca74ee10d06a5f046c3fbf52de432ef7bc6d87b089cb3.png

2025-03-04 02:49:39

@nprofile…egke Foo

2025-03-03 14:25:38

I have a Google Authenticator hack that I wrote in JavaScript, many years ago (2016 it says in the copyright line). I need to convert it to Elm and make it a full-fledged WebApp.
https://billstclair.com/totp.html

2025-03-03 14:16:04

@nprofile…egke Hello from Ditto

2025-03-03 13:25:41

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Every website should have an LLM search engine, trained on only its pages. We should each have a personal LLM, trained on sources we choose, and regularly change.

2025-03-03 12:58:30

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Link please.

2025-03-03 12:58:00

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@alex Which is the best place to start with the Nostr client protocol?

2025-03-03 12:57:14

I was wondering which client protocol to add to Mammudeck first. Looking at the Ditto blog has convinced me to do Nostr first. Yowza!
No edit, though? Only delete and redraft? Oh well. Likely a side-effect of posting on a blockchain. Still, amazing work, @nprofile…s456

2025-03-03 12:52:14

Ditto is a webapp!
https://media.ditto.pub/9c7ecdfdd684f9e79a4d53ac9f51f9fc23e7de76f333d6f64ada6a0e4d5c3de8.png

2025-03-03 12:05:15

I wrote a little Medium story about my Elm WebApps.
https://medium.com/iquites/webapps-0a3c957376c5

2025-03-03 12:02:58

So glad to see that @nprofile…s456 has gotten his Nostr server working. I haven't been paying attention. My muse is finally back from vacation, and I'm likely going to have another twenty years to play, so here I am. Guess I need to write a nostr client for #Mammudeck.
https://mammudeck.com is a TweetDeck-like multi-column client for the Mastodon client protocol. It needs to learn other social media client APIs, e.g. Nostr, BlueSky, Threads.