hodlbod

Christian Bitcoiner and developer of coracle.social. Learn more at info.coracle.social.

Merch is available at https://geyser.fund/project/coracle/rewards

Public Key

npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

NIP-05 Address

hodlbod@coracle.social

NIP-57 Address

hodlbod@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdu5ntvjd

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nos.lol

relay.damus.io

relay.nos.social

Author Public Key

npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

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2025-04-03 00:27:09

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Block their IP? Ignoring closed is definitely bad behavior. EOSE + CLOSE is forcing me to do weird hacks in coracle

2025-03-29 14:16:34

I'm honored
#nevent1q…ca5a

2025-03-26 18:27:35

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Because I'm writing a web client

2025-03-26 18:05:39

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As in, you tried it, and went back to imperative event listeners?

2025-03-26 18:03:27

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@nprofile…h7nv

2025-03-25 15:36:22

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This is the answer I was looking for, thanks!
I swim in mostly post-millennialist circles, and have lately started to feel the effects of over-realized eschatology you identified above. At the same time, I feel like God must have a place for our work, just because we spend so much time doing it. The amil answer isn't completely satisfying to me, because it seems to limit the scope of the effect our new identity as Christians has on our whole lives, but I think your reference to Jeremiah is also a good answer to that — we "mind our own business and work with our own hands" to build up the city of man not as such, but for the peace of the people within it (either evangelistically, or for the Church as a separate enclave).
Thanks for your thoughts, I'll check out those VanDrunen books.

2025-03-23 02:23:48

I have a thesis I want to run by my fellow #christians. Maybe I'm just rediscovering postmillennialism, or historic premillennialism, or something, but some of this seems original.
There are two halves of Biblical/world history: Creation and New Creation. Creation's head is Adam, whose commission is dominion. New Creation's head is Jesus, whose commission to evangelism. Dominion involves subduing physical reality to human ingenuity; i.e. technology. New creation involves subduing humanity to divine love.
We are told that this world is going to wear out like a garment, and be rolled up like a scroll, prompting apocalypticism throughout history. Yet Jesus says that the Kingdom is with you, and that it is the latter days. This is conventionally explained by the "already not yet", that New Creation is latent within our earthly lives.
But what if that is true beyond just the devotional? Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like leaven, and we take that to mean that our souls are being saved. But what if the world itself is being saved? What if every rock, tree, ocean, cloud is being invisibly, slowly suffused by the Good News of Christ's immanent lordship over the earth? What if New Creation is slowly covering Old Creation like moss covering a rock, and when the rock crumbles away the moss will retain its shape? What if the new creation is already here, and is no less physical for it's being spiritual, and when "we see him face to face" and are changed, the rest of the world — including nature and the physical stuff we've built — are suddenly changed as well?
This fits with the idea of the "garden city" — in the Bible, cities come first, and then God irrupts into their center (for example Solomon's and Ezekiel's Temples), changing their entire nature, purpose, and organization.
This seems to me to reconcile God's apparent intention to discard this world in favor of a "new" one with his obvious love of what he has made. Thoughts? Hallucinations?
@nprofile…gpgh @nprofile…lg5q @nprofile…u5qv @nprofile…29w9

2025-03-23 01:10:55

Just hit 8 miles, feels good

2025-03-23 01:09:47

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Nice, speaking at MIT, that's an accomplishment

2025-03-22 04:40:39

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My market share is melting away

2025-03-19 16:11:55

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One of your notes broke my parser for spotify links, I've pushed a fix which should solve this

2025-03-19 16:00:40

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I think it's mostly a UX problem. On the write side, allow a chain of self-replies. On the read side, identify self replies that happen at the same time as the parent and show those as a thread. 7D isn't the right solution, and requires completely different UI, since it doesn't allow for replies to replies.

2025-03-19 13:05:00

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Different definitions of "thread" I think

2025-03-17 17:57:19

Thinking through groups on nostr for communities that put a premium on privacy, and I'm not sure it's going to work.
You can get privacy of communication via relay authentication or encryption. But a starting point for identifying each other is to publish a public profile, which might not be desirable. And you might want to use your real name in a community, but not in public.
I'm just imagining asking a little old lady in my church (assuming she can get past the cryptographic key pair step) to permanently publish her name and picture to 8 billion people on the internet in order for her to get access to announcements about after-church potlucks. It just doesn't make any sense.
Having a single profile for your online identity violates the "selective revelation of self" principle. Even if you use different keys for different things, you ideally are only going to want to share your profile with certain people.
A possible solution to this is encryption-by-default. Only send your profile to the people and communities you want to reveal yourself to, AKA the Google+ circles model.
Have I been barking up the wrong tree this whole time? I know some people have said "nostr is for public data". I still don't completely believe this, but it's harder to work against the grain than I expected.

2025-03-16 14:05:55

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These are beautiful. I've never seen pictures of a safari like this.

2025-03-15 16:16:34

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That makes sense, but I believe you can generate frost shards independently, which would allow multiple trusted parties to collaborate without ever seeing the full key. Of course, hand-off in such a way that no one has the whole key would also be a problem, but I think we have the basic tools

2025-03-14 20:43:01

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I'm already finding it to be an incredible research tool for my book. "Hey perplexity, I heard one time that Aristotle said something about experience being formed of many memories, could you give me a citation?" "Sure, check out Book I, Chapter 1 of his Metaphysics."

2025-03-14 13:09:48

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Are you using any other clients?

2025-03-13 16:40:45

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@nprofile…ddx7 this is why clients should just render nip19 stuff regardless of whether it's prefixed

2025-03-12 17:48:32

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💯 but also I'm not writing a book of theology (mostly)

2025-03-12 15:52:10

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Without a universal framework of meaning, you get solipsism, which is not what anyone actually believes in practice. We have reason to believe that the other person is there, and philosophy (love of knowledge) is the attempt to understand those reasons.

2025-03-12 15:36:47

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Why should your conscience bind mine? What purpose does social harmony serve? Both of those things are very good practical reasons for moral judgments, but they aren't self-sufficient. They depend for validity on some framework that provides context for and confers meaning on conscience and society.

2025-03-12 13:31:02

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Well, there are some questions I don't know how to answer without God as an axiom. Specifically, I've never heard a compelling case for the meaning of life that doesn't rely on a transcendent God, which is an important anchor when you're talking about fulfilling human purpose. A belief in the goodness of the world is also most strongly backed by a belief in the Christian God (rather than a pantheistic consciousness) because of the doctrines of creatio ex nihilo and incarnation. But I'll try to explain all that in a way that isn't dogmatic, but reasonable.

2025-03-12 00:03:56

Thinking about writing a book on how cryptography might be used to craft a more humane social media ecosystem.
https://image.nostr.build/b7623c279e5f664e799a5e4f89d4646bef3884165aa4b66c41b2385bada239eb.jpg
Would you be interested in reading such a thing?

2025-03-11 23:01:26

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"Block" has been discussed, and is a good idea despite the fact that you can't really enforce it. But if clients implemented it, it could help.

2025-03-11 22:28:33

Always nice being stalked by an aggressive German Shepherd while out for a run

2025-03-11 15:54:07

Cool idea:
https://www.seven39.com/

2025-03-10 23:33:59

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Sure, there are christians on nostr, and they recognize each other to some extent, but the things you cited are not sufficient conditions for a "community". Listen to my interview with Scott Mann for a good perspective on that.
Treating communities as demographics to be exploited for growth of the protocol is exactly the thing legacy platforms did that we're running away from here.

2025-03-06 18:05:58

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Yes, it absolutely is, you should be using a signer to keep your key safe, here are some options: https://nostrapps.com/#signers

2025-03-06 17:23:39

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That's kind of weird, maybe try coracle.social

2025-03-05 18:11:08

For the last several months I've been working to develop patterns for using keys with cross-platform applications like Flotilla in a way that doesn't scare people off. This is crucial for achieving my stated goal of creating software that serves the kind of people who do not know what a public key is.
There has been plenty of work in this area by other people which has brought this goal slightly nearer for me. In particular, I think`ncryptsec` for backups and good mobile signers like Amber are the cleanest solutions out there so far, and multi-sig key storage protocols like bifrost and promenade promise to substantially strengthen security without increasing the burden of new concepts on users.
Unfortunately, none of these solutions remove the need for users to learn what keys are. Users are going to have to be able to use keys, and in order to do that they will need to develop a mental model for what they are and why they matter. If they don't understand what makes keys important, they won't understand why traditional custodial account management is a problem.
To that end, this blog post is my best attempt (so far) at explaining Why Keys Matter.
#nevent1q…f3er

2025-03-05 16:21:38

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IT'S MARCH 5TH, NOT APRIL 1ST

2025-03-04 23:12:17

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If you're using albyhub I bet it's incoming liquidity

2025-03-03 18:34:57

Check it out, welshman now has documentation: https://welshman.coracle.social/
For those not in the know, welshman is a distillation of a lot of what powers both coracle and flotilla. Source below:
https://github.com/coracle-social/welshman
Disclaimer: very alpha, so use at your own risk.

2025-03-03 17:42:40

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What in particular? The re-posting via kind 1? Because I agree with that. But in any case I think clients can still provide a good UX by reconciling the different kinds when needed.

2025-03-03 17:25:46

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The difficult part is indexing them by type so you can fetch one without the other. If Olas fetches kind 1s, it has to filter out everything that doesn't fit the olas format. On the other hand, a client can support as many kinds as it wants. So granular distinctions are generally good.

2025-03-03 17:02:41

If divergence in UX justifies divergence in data formats, then every distinct UX would have its own data format, and there would be no interoperability.
On the other hand if semantics justify data formats (e.g. we've arbitrarily decided that short form video vs long form video are different concepts on an ontological level), then divergent UX can interoperate.
The difficult thing is deciding what the trade-off should be between simplicity (by collapsing multiple types of thing into a single standard) and complexity (proliferating standards and granular tags for more complete support of more use cases).
The limiting factor is simplicity. Once a spec becomes too complex, the number of implementations drops significantly. Therefore, in order to support interoperability, applications have to interoperate on a level below their desired UX, and supplement either through inferring additional meaning from the base data formats (which logic may diverge between clients) or by creating proprietary data formats to support the client's UX.

2025-03-02 01:36:56

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Yes, but in theory nostr prefixed links shpuld be enough. If you have a native app it should open those links regardless of where they show up. The bad part is for people on web or who fon't know what those are. In that case prefixing with njump is better. But it's worth pushing people towards the native solution

2025-03-02 01:34:50

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Good feedback, thanks!

2025-03-02 01:34:04

Another friend has succumbed to the XRP mind virus 😭

2025-03-01 18:32:17

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If you click info you can copy the nevent. But I should surface it more

2025-02-27 18:40:03

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Yeah, no rush. I'll send you a DM with a link

2025-02-27 18:39:44

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And I appreciate that

2025-02-27 17:25:19

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Hey, would either of you guys like to come on @nprofile…mjp8 and talk about frostr?

2025-02-27 14:48:10

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Yep, nwc via alby's bitcoin-connect library

2025-02-26 19:09:50

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Dude, this is fantastic. Nice work! I love seeing my stuff get forked to scratch an itch.

2025-02-25 21:00:06

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This is a very good idea

2025-02-25 01:29:03

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I totally respect that, microsoft is evil but the vendor lock in is strong. I'll look into finally getting started with ngit. In the meantime, feel free to @ me with issues here. Individually is probably easier.

2025-02-24 20:33:38

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Hey, I'll take it

2025-02-24 18:37:41

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I am the developer of coracle.social, so you might give that a try. Amethyst on Android and Damus on ios are the most popular mobile apps. 0xchat is very nice for DMs and chat.

2025-02-24 15:06:24

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Nope, just an idea so far

2025-02-24 14:45:19

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There's also this though, which is relay based:
#nevent1q…anwa

2025-02-24 14:41:48

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Nostr is much more than primal. You can bring your own wallet, and use it in any nostr client (see nostrapps.com for a good list)

2025-02-24 14:38:51

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Cryptography may be able to solve this use case too

2025-02-23 03:01:54

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These people all have mostr.pub nip05s right? I'll see about blocking profiles with a given nip05 domain

2025-02-22 00:36:13

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Shopstr published the listing using the currency code SATS, while coracle uses SAT. We're working it out

2025-02-21 20:10:07

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:chad_yes:

2025-02-21 19:24:12

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Is this the git version of consolidating utxos? Honestly didn't know you could do this.

2025-02-21 18:06:54

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I don't really want to encourage people to use coracle for these, since I've removed a lot of support for them @nprofile…xeyl is there a NIP 89 handler for shopstr?

2025-02-21 17:53:40

Check it out, you can now buy Coracle shirts on nostr!
#nevent1q…fp3x
#nevent1q…axrj

2025-02-21 14:50:34

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Run your own relay, your content will eventually get scraped and replicated

2025-02-21 01:51:10

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This is the scariest image in existence

2025-02-20 22:51:24

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Instagram didn't always look like instagram. You might enjoy the next episode of the @nprofile…zv0e in which @nprofile…lh06 and I talk about this very thing.

2025-02-20 22:49:22

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Calyx

2025-02-20 22:11:28

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Nice! Does that mean apps could automatically register new subscriptions with pokey?

2025-02-20 21:52:18

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I'm hoping to possibly have a basic version done tomorrow. Probably get it integrated with flotilla next week. The first version will be only emails, and so it won't do much with pause_until etc. What do you mean by adding a new kind to pokey?

2025-02-20 21:34:14

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SAME
Speaking of which, this may be relevant to your interests:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1796
https://github.com/coracle-social/anchor

2025-02-20 21:31:54

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@nprofile…xeyu bro you guys gotta stop spamming me with notifications about your fake replies

2025-02-20 16:39:03

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Unacceptable

2025-02-20 00:35:28

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See https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1796 for an updated version, would love your feedback @nprofile…r2zc

2025-02-20 00:34:37

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Ah, I see, the client would have to block on auth in order to make sure it got the maximum results. Hmm

2025-02-19 18:40:11

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Not for iOS it ain't

2025-02-19 18:18:21

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No, but in all reality that's probably the first thing my target users will ask for

2025-02-19 18:14:48

Thinking about how to add push notifications to flotilla for closed communities — since push notifications have to be sent from a server, I need some way to get access to auth-gated content. The simple way to do this would be to just share the user's own session with the push server, but for obvious reasons that's a no-go.
The cleanest solution I can think of would be to allow an active NIP 46 session to delegate permissions to another session. All I really need is authorization to sign a `22242` event on behalf of a user.
Below is a draft NIP that introduces a `delegate` method to NIP 46 which "locks" the delegated session to the initially requested permissions:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1795
@nprofile…xqzw

2025-02-19 01:24:40

RFC: should clients send users' kind 10002 to every relay that they publish to so that other people can find their profile information (etc)?
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/166

2025-02-18 19:58:40

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Nostr dms work, or you can use my nip05 as an email address

2025-02-18 16:40:12

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I wish there was a better answer

2025-02-18 16:35:47

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Probably just knowing where to start, sorting what's important from what isn't. An introductory e-book is something I've been wanting to write for a while.

2025-02-18 16:30:30

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Oh, absolutely. I didn't write this, I just used it

2025-02-18 16:15:41

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Yup 😂 I like to live on the edge

2025-02-18 16:13:44

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Someday someone will write a book

2025-02-18 16:03:06

Match created between fiatjaf and Donald J. Trump!

2025-02-18 15:12:02

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Vanilla results in writing your own state managements, htmx requires a server component, and web components are cumbersome (although I have my eye on stenciljs). Also considering rimmeljs and my own micro framework for svelte store based components.

2025-02-18 02:28:46

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Because it's terrible for anything other than physical backups

2025-02-18 01:50:52

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The problem is that svelte is trying to re-invent garbage collection. It seems to me like you could just... let stuff be defined, and it would disappear when everything that holds a reference to it gets collected.

2025-02-18 00:26:55

My polemic against svelte 5 continues

2025-02-17 23:35:22

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In fact it doesn't, you have to re-assign the variable in order to break reactivity

2025-02-17 21:52:08

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The pattern is really weird in isolation, but it makes sense for use cases like portals and modal dialogs.
It worked in svelte 4 because this is just how javascript works. It seems like svelte 5 is trying to re-implement garbage collection by undefining props on unmount. Svelte 4 just used javascript for state management — even though there was some compiler magic with stores that get `unsubscribe` called automatically, it was basically relying on the javascript VM's garbage collector to avoid memory leaks. I suspect something about runes makes this more difficult.

2025-02-17 21:47:19

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The`reduceLinks` utility has been a little unstable, but that's pretty much all that's changed recently

2025-02-17 19:15:59

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No, media is not private yet unless you use a custom server

2025-02-17 17:35:25

New maintenance release of Coracle is out:
# 0.6.5
* Fix memory leak
* Fix isEventMuted
* Fix toast animation
* Fix (and improve) drafts
* Fix parser dropping sections of notes
Thanks to @nprofile…jf9g @nprofile…yvym @nprofile…d0w3, and @nprofile…as0s for reporting bugs!

2025-02-17 17:02:58

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(sometimes it can take a little while for the browser to load the new code)

2025-02-17 17:02:23

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aHA! I suspected this. What you thought was a bug with the editor was actually a bug with the renderer. I fixed that bug late last week, which means your notes all got published as intended. Does this fix your issue?

2025-02-17 16:55:09

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I'm still not sure what that chart means. Is that people who are eligible, or who are actually receiving payments? Seems like neither, because there are hundreds of millions of people too young to be eligible, and hopefully we're not paying out 400MM people worth of payments. If the chart is just a list of people who aren't recorded as dead, it doesn't seem surprising that lots of very old people wouldn't have been registered as dead (maybe they're perpetually lost/missing, maybe a death certificate is required). Anyway, I'm going to wait until the size of the actual fraud is demonstrated.

2025-02-17 15:06:25

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#ninolife

2025-02-17 15:06:08

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Click "console" at the top

2025-02-16 03:36:15

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I appreciate it haha

2025-02-16 00:06:10

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Thanks, I'll take a look

2025-02-16 00:05:48

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They were never broken

2025-02-15 20:43:43

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Sure enough, it was working a week ago, but it's gone. I'll fix it