harrym

cypherpunk class of 1991!

Public Key

npub1lq4wa4y4ga6kl7s6zv6wh36xtee26frqn7x6wucyva6usjhgt9fqapfqrh

NIP-05 Address

harrym@getalby.com

NIP-57 Address

harrym@npub.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs0s2hw6j25wat0lgdpxd8tcar9uu4dy3sflrd8wvzxwawgft59j5sljlcae

Author Public Key

npub1lq4wa4y4ga6kl7s6zv6wh36xtee26frqn7x6wucyva6usjhgt9fqapfqrh

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2025-05-06 01:59:31

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spheres just break up. Hope you get to swarms before you begin construction 😉

2025-05-05 05:17:42

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erm. "Transaction not found" ?

2025-03-08 14:10:59

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in that case, they don't get my private key.
so how do they zap for me?
I understand they need to split my zaps but still don't see why I need to login for that

2025-03-07 19:05:22

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Are you suggesting fountain.fm will be providing me with a key pair to allow me to zap?
😄

2025-03-07 04:11:21

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of course you need to be logged into your nostr client to zap anyone!
But I was asking why you need to log into fountain itself.
It looks like this is one of those mindless decisions to just track everyone for no real reason.

2025-03-06 05:29:19

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Having some control over uploads of kiddie porn is more necessary than controlling who zaps a creator, surely?
Especially when it can be bypassed by zapping the guy within nostr.

2025-03-06 05:02:30

On fountain.fm (in web browser) I can listen to a creator's podcast for hours without login, but if I try to pay him with a zap fountain requires me to create an account and log in.
Why?
#asknostr

2025-02-23 19:31:18

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Thanks! I assumed it was Apple only for some reason. downloaded...

2025-02-23 19:26:58

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Sure. That does sound like the best outcome.
Why do you think noone is interested? Maybe the legal issues are different now, but people have done it in (almost?) every other nostr client.

2025-02-23 19:19:14

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The history determines the environment and therefore the current prob distribution for whatever happens next. When that distribution is sampled at an event, you have zero control over the value of the sample you get. That's pretty relevant.
The finiteness of timelines is irrelevant (in fact its doubtful they are infinite, at least in the negative time direction).
100 heads is fine, of course, just unlikely.

2025-02-23 13:52:55

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But you can't control the probabilities or the outcome at each step.
The probability distribution is determined by the history of prior outcomes.
I guess that's where parenting can affect an outcome - constructing a child's environment to lead to a desirable distribution.
No free will anywhere tho. It's turtles all the way down!

2025-02-23 12:37:44

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Something needs to change or the best (only?) native desktop nostr client and all your good work will fade away.
I'd like to think that the pressure is (now, at least) towards Gossip being able to connect to the bitcoin ecology for the users, not towards you being pro-bitcoin. Is that not an important distinction?
Physicists often say that Physics evolves one funeral at a time; perhaps Gossip can only evolve one 'rage quit' at a time!

2025-02-20 21:50:13

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confusion abounds: that 2i factor is actually 2^i
so no division by zero and the sum is limited to 21000000

2025-02-12 15:35:48

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Is it varying randomly?
I had a similar issue with varying albyhub wallet balance which I eventually tracked down to incorrect channel liquidity reporting (even in RTL). Closing the old channels and opening new, different ones fixed the problem.

2025-01-07 16:55:59

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ditto.
from my alby hub, matt has a routing timeout

2024-11-06 07:17:33

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elon musk says he will switch on the first commercial direct-to-cell service (T-Mobile only I think) in a few months. Then many more over several years. Low bandwidth but generally good enough.
Might be worth watching to see how the account and IMEI/SIM details are handled.
I guess local calls might initially be expensive.

2024-11-02 11:00:34

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Etoricoxib is a non-steroidal antiinflammatory. Worth a try at least.
I guess my basic thesis is that you won't easily stop this feedback cycle so easily by reducing the triggers and you really need to clamp down on it to get a new base to work on.

2024-10-18 08:39:30

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the only thing i see there is called 'site settings'. It has no 'key management'.
You think this has something to do with the browser? I've had problems in the past matching your documentation with Brave beta. Can you offer an exact link to the wallet settings?
What browser did you use to see 'wallet settings' in the example you show above? I may need to change browsers!

2024-10-15 11:22:55

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I've seen this setting before, but now I can't find it again (Brave-beta browser).
Could you be a bit more specific in that path? I don't even find a 'wallet settings' now!
I rt-click on the extension icon, click 'manage extension' but there's no 'wallet settings' there.
Did I get to it in alby hub?

2024-10-15 09:54:15

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Do we delete the alby web wallet then?
Currently, whenever i send funds to the hub, it appears in the alby wallet and i'm told to migrate it to the hub

2024-09-25 02:33:06

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ditto

2024-09-23 05:59:15

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Most of the docs were written over 30 years and most were for the pgp/gpg command line applications. In those cases, the whole key works 100% of the time.
The issues you're seeing are likely due to GUI apps' not following those standards.
Sounds like you can get it to work tho ...

2024-09-17 14:00:55

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I've always assumed the sellers are close to the money printer. On an exchange that means they have access to enough collateral to short bitcoin almost without limit. Then buy it back (to repay the bitcoin loan) slowly while traders are still panic selling (because the initial shorts were so sudden).
Sound sensible?

2024-09-11 23:46:39

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Me too, but then i noticed the horizon (top left) is rotated. Gravity is towrds the bottom left in this pic.
Still not gonna stand there tho!

2024-09-04 11:46:56

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Perl coding. Loved that language. 😉

2024-09-02 02:04:27

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i guess you could argue that unrealized value isnt acual value, but i wouldn't buy that argument.

2024-08-30 16:14:49

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inconvenient, yes
useless, no
pgp is almost a cryptographic primitive - you can wear it (almost!) on a t-shirt. That's pretty future proof.

2024-08-25 11:28:09

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2024-08-21 15:38:27

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if that's the problem it should be easy to use a vpn to get to it from another country

2024-08-17 05:55:06

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Yay!
BTC, mBTC, uBTC (bits), nBTC (0.1sats) for the win.

2024-08-17 05:50:17

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one red flag is when these imposters have lots of notes reposting 'themselves' to get notes that look right on their list of notes.

2024-08-15 14:11:40

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still have the error

2024-08-15 13:59:08

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same here. error in primal says 'no route'

2024-08-15 07:52:36

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its open source too. 100% someone will allow it to make these changes. the incentives are all aligned in the short term.

2024-08-15 07:50:46

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/research-ai-model-unexpectedly-modified-its-own-code-to-extend-runtime/

2024-08-13 13:15:09

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fyi: i was wrong it seems. Phil was actually jailed a couple of times for his activism. Strange i didn't remember that - maybe i never knew!

2024-08-13 12:35:01

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unable to send zap to you. its working elsewhere.

2024-08-11 00:59:31

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ahh. youtube works tho.

2024-08-11 00:55:59

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ouch. cant load any videos from this site with either brave or firefox. anyone else with this problem?
Maybe i should try a vpn server inside usa ...

2024-08-08 05:12:25

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one? laboriously? record? Oh, you're suggesting this would be done manually!
Genius! Tell the devs.
Seriously tho, normal thread construction could be done either way by the client. The way its done now (first post at the top, then reply underneath) is very logical.
Don't confuse threads with the raw chronological feed.
The quoted note within a note case is the weird one - for some reason devs decided to put the referenced note after the reply to it.

2024-08-07 23:58:35

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awkward, but (top posting or not) its always necessary to get to the first post to get the full context, right?

2024-08-07 15:33:51

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Haha. we used to call this 'top posting'. It was mocked and reviled (for good reasons imho). But these days reading your messages from the bottom upwards seems to be standard everywhere.
I digress ... the note contains an embedded quote, so you read the quote first to get the context.

2024-08-06 22:41:16

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mobile only?

2024-08-05 11:17:11

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I guess you're joking, but in case not ...
Its absurd that my desktop client needs a phone to work.
10 secs is a slight exaggeration.
Find the phone, load the wallet, enter login details, set the zap in Gossip, scan QR code with phone, ...
Compare that convoluted procedure to the single mouse click I use to zap with any other nostr client on my desktop.

2024-08-05 00:30:30

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Could you list the desktop apps you've tried for us?
Last time I tried this, Gossip was the only one that worked (but no zaps unfortunately).

2024-08-04 23:43:34

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I might have missed a native desktop nostrudel i guess, but i doubt it. Correct me if i'm wrong please.
If it uses your browser, its not native.
These clients seem to be designed for phones and use the browser infrastructure, then they get slightly changed for the desktop. As a result they are slow, clunky, usually rather buggy and are huge resource hogs.

2024-08-04 23:34:34

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Me too occasionally, but its still not a native desktop app.

2024-08-04 23:27:01

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Gossip worked extremely well on the desktop.
I haven't been able to find another native desktop client that came anywhere near it. Its only problem is the lack of zaps.
You say 'nostr' barely works on desktop - did you try Gossip?
I'm open to suggestions for other desktop clients.

2024-08-04 23:19:31

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I just zapped you from primal (webapp) with a single mouse click. That's a zap capabilty!

2024-08-04 23:15:44

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I was talking about installation ease. I'm not sure what you're asking here.

2024-08-04 23:12:09

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I did say I hadn't used it for over a year now. There was no wallet connectivity and you made comments that led me to believe you had no serious plans to add anything like that. Even now I still watch github to see if any relevant changes are being implemented.
More recently you've made your legal concerns clear. I can't fault you for that, but was disappointed that the possibility now seemed even more remote.

2024-08-04 22:59:33

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Fewer desktop users certainly, but also your attitude to zaps is important (for me anyway).
I'd love to use Gossip again.

2024-08-04 22:54:52

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I can speak for Ubuntu only but I installed it and upgraded many times without a glitch. So easy that I ended up using non-master branches regularly.
I stopped using it over a year ago though because it offered no zaps and Mike made it clear he would never add them.

2024-07-28 06:34:55

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if you're the real nat, i s'pose you know about your impersonator here: @npub164a…yqc8

2024-07-27 20:02:19

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I heard its RFKjr and Trump will announce his appointment to lead the Treasury!

2024-07-25 08:23:31

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Naa. That's like wanting to replace light-years with meters.
These days we add multipliers milli, kilo, mega etc to the basic unit and then we might as well use bitcoin as the reference unit.
Down around the satoshi range you'd be looking at nanoBTC (1 nBTC = 0.1 satoshi) and microBTC (1 uBTC = 100 satoshi).
I see no need for satoshis at all actually ...

2024-07-25 07:23:08

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I see something like that when i use Sparrow to create a tx, sign it with a coldcard, then broadcast it using a different wallet (Electrum). Muun calls it an error and fails Electrum complains but still broadcasts it successfully.
OTOH, Muun calls it an error and fails.
Are you mixing wallets?

2024-07-22 10:16:26

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decentralized doesn't work for you?

2024-07-21 01:15:24

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After a decade of faiures to create a decentralized internet money, and then mathematical proof (late 90's as i recall) you couldn't solve the byzantine general problem, they lost the momentum and gave up. When Satoshi presented bitcoin and solved a slightly different version, they mostly remained negative. Sad to see.

2024-07-17 03:17:36

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Does 'all' mean desktop native apps as well? Something like Gossip with zaps maybe?

2024-07-17 01:55:04

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I'd avoid religious government countries.
Thailand was my choice too, but warning - Thailand has become much more authoritarian over the last few years. Bank accounts are almost impossible to open, capital controls are limiting (so hold BTC!). There are other changes recently. For example english on labelling for food and pharmaceuticals has disappeared ...
Still, in Asia, I couldn't come up with a better recommendation.
I regret not exploring south america more now.

2024-07-03 02:39:37

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https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=8128575

2024-06-28 11:01:14

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hmm. what's bitcojn?

2024-05-27 16:26:13

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Oh damn. My picture's gonna spread everywhere now. 😭

2024-05-20 13:31:26

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forgot to say ..
NO

2024-05-20 13:29:40

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i cant remember the current sats per dollar, but i can remember the current btcusd value.
There's 100 sats per ubtc (microbtc) and 1k multipliers up to one btc...
20000sats = 200ubtc = 0.2mbtc.
Since btcusd is about $67000 now, 1 mbtc is about $67, so 0.2 is about $13.4
Easy huh? I should prolly add a memory location for the current sats per dollar value. 😉

2024-05-18 16:41:27

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At least get a Start9. Build it yourself if you want. Trust me 😉

2024-05-11 15:24:12

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I'm ancient. I go back to the (surveilled btw) vietnam demos. '69 or so.
Yes. Nuclear weapons...I don't recall fear of nuclear power (e.g.) except by some general association with weapons.
I don't recall anything specifically about PZ as a nuclear weapons prolification activist except the general statement that everyone was opposed to it. I would think I would have heard (and remember!) if he was unusually activist in that area tho.

2024-05-11 10:13:51

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ohoh. crickets ...
Was hoping for ya tho.

2024-05-11 10:02:08

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Back then we were all nuclear 'activists' to some degree.
He became a hero when he became a free speech activist by creating and releasing PGP (and then facing retribution from the DoD and DoJ). Without that conviction we may not have any person to person encryption now.
FYI: even a few cypherpunks were unwilling to take those same risks. Most of us made our opinions clear by publishing our public key on the mailing list.

2024-05-10 09:45:08

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i think it still it does it with QR codes only.
Has there been improvement on that?

2024-05-07 23:35:22

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Gossip still doesn't do zaps tho...

2024-05-02 22:33:26

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I started with bitcoind on my desktop and (years later) moved to Umbrel, but after a year or so of unexplained hangups and failures, I switched to Start9.
Now I have zero frustrations. Even Tor seems more reliable!
If you don't have the money for the prebuilt server and you have some tech skills, build your own Start9

2024-04-23 04:28:49

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good work. we'd zap you ... but well, ya know ...

2024-04-22 19:30:39

https://iris.to/harrym

2024-04-20 11:13:45

this thing has gotta be fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvA7OJ90qtI

2024-04-14 05:47:54

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There's a distinct paucity of desktop clients.
PWA clients feel clunky and usually have bugs (Primal included!). No wallet there also.
Any chance of a native desktop client for (say) Ubuntu with a zap capability? Something like Gossip with zaps?

2024-04-06 12:28:40

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its an open protocol, but there would have to be a way to efficiently filter that crap out of my feed. I mention that coz i've been having trouble removing shitcoin stuff while keeping bitcoin stuff in my RSS feed - client dependent of course.

2024-04-04 22:30:11

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no good on primal either

2024-04-03 13:30:36

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primal doesn't find the small image in this note? looks like it keeps retrying a couple times a second which causes all following notes (even following pages!) to jitter vertically. is that just me? should i see a doctor? 😉

2024-03-28 20:22:45

edt (gmt-4), right?
#note1f07…9naw

2024-03-28 20:21:17

you mean edt don't you (gmt-4), not edt (gmt-5)?

2024-03-28 10:13:17

feels a bit creepy to post a bird link on nostr, but i couldnt find a better one and this discussion by micheal saylor with 500 ceos, investors etcc. is absolutely worth watching. 96 mins.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1772752316472418372

2024-03-21 01:50:36

primal webapp doesnt reply atm. this is the best i can do
#note1qqq…slt4

2024-03-21 01:25:11

just remove the '...' at the end of the URL
#note1m0q…gv3q

2024-03-21 01:22:11

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Link dosn't work until you remove the '...' appended to that link to get it to work.
Just a forgotten space 😉

2024-03-15 00:43:13

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nvm. it seems you can (now) send to yourself. npub.cash works 😃

2024-03-14 11:32:14

anyone here want to test their zaps? I just changed my LNURL to npub.cash, so i'd like to see if i'm receiving zaps. i'll send it back to you ... promise.

2024-03-13 01:32:16

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sent sats, played around. Looks nice!
Can you provide an example (using curl maybe?) of the use of the api key?

2024-03-08 11:15:35

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Not sure I'm fully appreciating the meme complexity here, but since noBody said it, I can save time by ignoring the whole issue.

2024-03-05 23:03:08

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I like the symmetry and simplicity of big-rip and big-dip resp.

2024-02-16 19:03:07

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ahh. Thank you for the tip.
It looks like it installed with no notification (that I can remember).
I can run it from Ubuntu apps.
The problem with the modal window remains though. That's confusing.

2024-02-16 14:35:21

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Doesn't work on my desktop (ubuntu). Browser (brave) pops up a modal window saying the app needs to be installed but there is no way to do it.

2024-02-04 21:13:34

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you didn't know gossip was a nostr client?
it can be built on different platforms i believe, not just Linux.
But sadly, no zaps.

2024-02-04 21:05:41

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Hope you get some clues here. Linux platforms preferred 😄
Gossip would have been my immediate answer a year ago, but it seems to have an allergic response to zaps.

2024-01-14 18:33:32

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Exactly.

2023-11-15 09:10:54

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403 forbidden?

2023-10-28 19:18:39

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🤙

2023-10-07 11:14:11

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primal worked

2023-04-09 22:24:29

@npub1qkk…ynuj
gossip doesn't handle encrypted DM's very well yet. Can't reply at all.