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2024-09-16 06:21:52

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to be clear, i think adding some spam filtering and rate limiting and such to the relay implementation can make sense, it doesn't have to be 100% one extreme
but if you completely reject the core idea of nostr, maybe you're working on the wrong project 😀

2024-09-14 08:01:31

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self-hosting mail goes too far for me too, i did so a long time ago, but it's too much of a hassle to get right, and maintain😀
i use a paid protonmail account for my own mail and handling my domains' mail, i still have a google account for android's sake but don't use it for anything important

2024-09-08 18:27:10

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just a.kid with too much time on their hand probably, they do it exactly because it's easy to do and causes a lot of annoyance, was the same with IRC in the 90's

2024-09-08 07:02:24

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maybe ? i'm personally skeptical of use of AI for technical documentation. It primarily needs to be precise, not verbose and flowery. Whereas the models often hallucinate things, from entire functions to subtleties like data types, field names, constraints on use. Anything a LLM would come up with would have to be reviewed with a dust comb. That's so much work that the people reviewing might as well write the documentation in the first place, and have a bit more confidence in it.

2024-09-07 19:48:03

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hold on to the nearest earth fragment… and enjoy the trip 😅

2024-09-07 10:27:28

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yea that's still the case, you have to resist the temptation to re-log in to your twitter account for a month for it to be entirely deleted

2024-09-07 08:06:33

i wonder if this kind of thing could help in getting the scientific community to nostr, that'd be more interesting than trying to become the latest kids' hype
#nevent1q…8fwx

2024-09-07 07:02:44

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they can't just keep adding huge, massively complex features then under-document them, good user space developer documentation has always been a weakness of the linux kernel, imo, and this doesn't bode well

2024-09-06 20:50:17

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yes i think so too… thank u reply guy 💜!!!

2024-09-06 20:13:36

linux manual pages no longer maintained due to lack of funding
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-September/159717.html

2024-09-05 19:15:55

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looked into it for a bit a while ago; TLDR it's bullshit:
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yes, you can run your own PDS but you have extreme limitations because everyone connects to their hub (which sets the rules), it's way less decentralized than even mastodon

2024-09-05 18:42:26

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that's the browser-extension based lightning node? i'm not sure it supports incoming connections, that may be the reason... in which case, no, i have no idea how to do this

2024-09-05 15:10:14

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yeah +1 for syncthing, it's great between android and linux (and other desktop operating systems), don't know about ios support though

2024-09-05 06:55:04

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in a way, the entire field of anti-virus software is testament to just how difficult software is to censor 😅

2024-09-05 06:39:08

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of course it's more nuanced than that
it is questionable whether the "playing good samaritan" kind of digital neoliberalism they were doing was really anything but a naive kind of good (it made centralization very attractive), and while playing footsies with the US state department, the change in course wasn't entirely the Google leadership but reflects a change in US foreign policy...
buuut they became decidedly Worse after 😀

2024-09-05 06:11:20

remember Google removing their "don't be evil" commitment , that was quite the rug pull
#nevent1q…9cgx

2024-09-05 05:40:32

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this: it's always a temporary situation when it hinges on one person, or a certain culture among those in charge, we've seen it so many times that that just won't stay
in a business there will always be reversion to the mean: mostly likely, the next CEO will only be concerned with profits, any activism will get demoted to marketing slogan
(even ignoring that Musk's "freedom of speech" is very one-sided and fragile, he was censoring the word "cisgender" side-wide just shortly ago ffs)

2024-09-05 05:25:35

LRT: nostr solved follower count narcissism by simply making it impossible to track ! 😊

2024-09-04 09:41:21

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fyi https://github.com/hzrd149/nostrudel/issues/213

2024-09-04 09:23:52

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i think this can be useful to debug client problems, though i agree the errors could be confusing for "normal users"
i'll look into reporting this as a nostrudel issue, thankyou !

2024-09-04 09:08:52

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yes, though tbh, this is for large part also how it works on twitter, small accounts are very unlikely to be picked up by the actual algo, and are sorted way down for replies, until some big account happens to retweet them and they gain tons of followers
it has gotten more like that over time, i guess because of anti-troll/spam as well as to encourage people to buy the "verified" subscription
at least there's no algo here that intentionally buries you either 😅

2024-09-04 08:29:08

nostter is a good and easy to use client, even gets notifications mostly right 😀
doesn't have the immense number of features that nostrudel has, but it's a great client to start with
#nevent1q…g8sx

2024-09-04 08:17:53

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i like a Ursula LeGuin's translation too:
## ACTING SIMPLY
True leaders
are hardly known to their followers.
Next after them are the leaders
the people know and admire;
after them, those they fear;
after them, those they despise.
To give no trust
is to get no trust.
When the work’s done right,
with no fuss or boasting,
ordinary people say,
Oh, we did it.

2024-09-04 08:13:14

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it would be fine if they actually paid for the work, but somehow it's also often the cheapest people with the largest expectations

2024-09-03 20:28:15

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marriage vows

2024-09-03 19:24:28

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i,,, didn't realize that was a luxury in the first place ☺️

2024-09-03 13:51:40

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mastodon has no concept of encrypting user data at all, all user's data is stored unencrypted (including DMs) and accessible to anyone with direct database access on the server

2024-09-03 13:50:01

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oh i misunderstood, i think you mean something more like "pkgconfig" that can specify external static libraries needed to link as dependencies, when using a library, not just squashing together intermediate build results

2024-09-03 13:42:49

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NIP-11 does have an "icon" URL, i think it might be meant for a bigger logo and is separate from the small favicon that e.g. nostrudel will show in overviews, but i'm also not 100% how things work here

2024-09-03 13:19:31

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ugh, maybe it's possible to work around that?
effectively, linking multiple static libraries together is nothing else than combining the archives contents and re-running ranlib to index the symbols
not that shipping static libraries it that great usually, dynamic libraries are way more useful for distribution and external use

2024-09-02 10:57:10

good riddance 😀
#nevent1q…tng8

2024-09-01 13:52:39

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sometimes they're more like balls (this in no way invalidates your argument ofcourse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Spheres

2024-09-01 12:43:37

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it makes it more awkward to drink from the bottle and, it sometimes makes it more difficult to screw the cap on again, but all in all a brilliant invention 😀

2024-09-01 10:47:32

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you're right, though i also deeply dislike "you were just lucky" accusation, as if it wasn't a very emotional ride, and holding through all the FUD campaigns, dumps, altcoin hypes, leveraged daytrade nonsense, crashing and robbed exchanges, was just easy like that 🤷‍♀️

2024-09-01 10:32:23

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please don't put mastodon(fediverse) and bluesky("the atmosphere") on one heap!
i think the design of mastodon is pretty solid, you can just decide not to federate with their biggest silo and it still works fine, you'll still see most posts, my concerns with them are mostly:
- users are bound to instances, migration is painful and can be prevented by the admin, this creates a nasty kind of instance politics
- implementations are heavyweight server-side, spinning one up requires serious resources and skills
- the community is just no fun (lol, this is very personal)
so i prefer nostr, but it's definitely not as fake as bluesky in that regard

2024-09-01 10:12:30

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case in point: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#early-access-limitations
it's posed as "early access limitations", i mean obviously they get to put limits on what their infrastructure will process (no one likes spam), which wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't the central hub
the distribution in a federated network will always be somewhat lopsided. for comparison, here's the mastodon activity statistics for x0f.org :
https://media.x0f.org/545eb202dd426a84deb4b0caa567afb092e2eb6005f9f9a22539bbea5157d919.png
the precise numbers are meaningless, but you can see that the most active server is about 3 times as active as the second
for bluesky it's *6 million* to *10* (restricted on purpose) for the next-up PDS🙂 their whole concept hinges on the promise that this will change some day
it's not entirely comparable but it reminds me of some "we'll decentralize later" altcoin concepts

2024-09-01 09:19:15

meanwhile on the blue butterfly site
"fear not my flock... for decentralization is coming
just repeat the magic words
you're not our users
the Atmosphere is growing"
"here's our snazzy website full of dazzling, intimidating diagrams" (only if ur really technical!!!)
https://media.x0f.org/cda5b35699f4dcbb269a24557b739d031f7d3b2b7cefff0e28bdb9145d237dc7.png
some true believers, but i remain very skeptical, i think a rug pull is more likely... like twitter removing its API
there's some legit concern how much the nostr protocol development process is under fiatjaf's control but it's not *near* the degree of control Bluesky Social has over both the AT protocol, let alone whoever gets to federate

2024-08-31 17:50:53

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yea only `do-release-upgrade -d` overrides that check (if you enjoy the pain)

2024-08-31 13:46:37

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hahahha, for now i'm the only user anyway so i'm fine with the risk 😅
i also appreciate that it's very little code, and the option to make the `list` endpoint authenticated is a nice touch, so i'm already more confident in it than i was with servus

2024-08-31 08:39:27

gm 💜
https://media.x0f.org/339265168ddf72e6697ecf5d97c6a4ec4f68c254211c3fdf2a4eb71d518da6ec.jpeg

2024-08-30 21:19:20

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both versions work fine here (firefox, notsrudel)

2024-08-30 20:39:33

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npub whitelist, secure, low maintenance, preferably written in rust, should work behind a reverse proxy such as nginx, no big dependencies such as postgres/mysql

2024-08-30 20:32:41

what if Musk would buy up fiatjaf's pyramid

2024-08-30 19:53:57

bluesky is really an example of "decentralized in name only" isn't it
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/7f28b17b-c619-4f0b-879e-a7d61a39ecb2/technically-you-are-allowed-to-run-your-own-pds-data-server-on-bluesky-but-in-addition-to-the-site-silently-unexisting-your-posts-if-you-make-any-interesting-code-changes-when-bluesky-changes-the-pds-code-on-github-they-expect-your-server-whi...

2024-08-30 19:42:45

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AIs are unbullyable because they don't have an instinct for self-preservation nor a sense of self-worth in the first place... dunno if it's enviable or pitiable

2024-08-30 19:23:48

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limits? freedom of speech on its own is an anesthesia, talk is cheap, need freedom to be and to make

2024-08-30 18:21:59

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it won't show as an image unless you add .png or .jpg 😅

2024-08-30 11:22:28

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nostr.build uses a custom protocol (neither blossom nor NIP-96), don't know about the other one

2024-08-30 10:48:27

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email is only useful as an example of the worst case scenario for a federated protocol

2024-08-30 10:13:26

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Makes sense, thanks. i'm also doubtful that PoW solves spam, although i think it could be one tool making at least mass spamming a little less lucrative. But i was just curious. If i get bored i might try adding it for the other events.

2024-08-30 09:43:44

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For what it's worth i was seen as lead developer for bitcoin core for about 10 years, i never experienced any door kickers, nor even real harassment at airports.
The only "trouble with the law" i've been in, was an idiot suing me in a civilian lawsuit. Expensive and stressful but no real risk of prison.
Things are becoming worse now but (depending on your country), it might not be that bad as often implied. As always, avoiding attracting too much attention helps. Don't be a central point of failure and it's quite pointless to attack you personally.

2024-08-30 07:39:44

this may be different for other clients, but at least in nostrudel, top-level posts have PoW but replies and reacts have not, while they are just as (if not more) sensitive to spam
does anyone know why this is ?

2024-08-29 22:30:32

https://media.x0f.org/edce07e370e1eaf87068bda783eb48dc92e42a2f3e46305235db1947c9ddd879.jpeg
#nevent1q…6ga6

2024-08-29 09:01:30

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what hypothetical place are these people coming from that has good DM privacy anyway, don't forget Musk basically bought twitter to read his ex's DMs lol

2024-08-28 19:13:42

sure, you can ask "who will run the relays" but at least running a nostr relay is way less involved than running a mastodon instance, which requires rubygems, node.js, at least three background processes, a postgres database, tons of disk space for cached media, and has a maze of configuration and administration options, and constant critical security updates
not even talking about having to handle sometimes really absurd moderation reports (if you have active users), and the whole instance politics bs
i intend to keep the one at x0f.org running for the foreseeable future but sometimes i wonder why i bother

2024-08-28 13:13:37

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lol that time that every narcissistic twitter tech personality needs to get their opinion in on how it's broken and how to fix it

2024-08-27 18:37:16

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looks like that one gets the broadcast relay list from the last kind 3 event for the npub it could find: https://nostrsync.live/js/nostr-broadcast.js
so if you have the relay configured in your client, and your client updates the "kind 3" list, it should pick it up? mind that not all clients use that anymore though e.g. nostrudel leaves it empty

2024-08-26 10:52:32

i've never actually used telegram

2024-08-26 09:03:15

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sure, extreme measures like real-name requirements will make people leave
but besides that, i would say privacy can't be a main selling point for social media, as using social media at all is slightly exhibitionist
people super concerned with their privacy aren't going to use it at all, or will at least be very infrequent users, not the main audience

2024-08-26 08:15:50

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i'm too new to nostr to have a qualified opinion on its social corners, but to be frank, i think the scariness for most people isn't talk about bitcoin (though clearly it shouldn't be the only thing 😀 ), but specifically "bitcoin twitter" and all its often socially conservative or even regressive dogmas
as more of a queer weirdo who never felt at home there, if that becomes the only or dominant group that would imo be boring and awful

2024-08-25 20:58:54

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i think the wildest, most weirdo book i've ever read is Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless i don't think i can really recommend it though 😅

2024-08-25 15:38:30

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clearly someone thinks they're on twitter

2024-08-24 15:18:15

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i made some little top-down 2D games back in the day, as well as the intro screen/information tool for a local BBS. Don't think any of that has survived to this day, unfortunately.
i've also had lots of interest in graphics and UX, but my life took some weird turns and somehow ended up in semiconductors. and bitcoin development later 😀

2024-08-24 13:52:20

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Those were the days ! But i think the last version i've used is TP 6, i never used it for windows, only DOS. It was so much fun with the BGI and Turbo Vision stuff. Before i made the mistake of learning C 😅

2024-08-23 20:12:10

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coding from the witches' tower 🧙‍♀️

2024-08-23 18:51:33

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imo unfollow is preferable in most cases, join the infinite sea of "everything i'm not following anyway", especially on nostr where mute lists are public apparently it seems too much recognition to add someone to that 😅

2024-08-23 17:12:13

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this rings true, once you've been in the "desert of the real" that's FOSS bitcoin development for a while, where you're helping build something that's neutral and widely useful, it's hard to go back to this kind of sheltered job where you're just supposed to work to the advantage of one company, the stakes seem so insignificant in comparison

2024-08-23 16:00:22

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luckily, as an abiological woman i have no problem peeing standing up

2024-08-23 14:34:56

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yes, i had the same, besides that i was for a long time skeptical why fediverse wasn't "enough", and why we'd need yet another FOSS social media, but i like the looser coupling between relays and users (it's less feudal), and the integration with lightning is neat—it's not something i could see the fediverse devs adapt as they're, on average, very much anti-bitcoin

2024-08-23 08:49:10

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i do think there's some risk in nostr reinventing too many wheels, especially if there are already interoperable protocols for things
but clearly an everything protocol is a much better outcome for a free society than a centralized everything app

2024-08-23 06:58:47

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yes, that must be the main reason
though tbf it's also really hard to get started on twitter as a new user nowadays, the algorithm is very much stacked against new and low-follower accounts, tends to promote those with already 1k likes per post, and besides that there's already so much of everything

2024-08-22 18:09:21

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oh no, please tell me that post is some kind of cheesy office bureaucrat humor... this just can't be real

2024-08-21 21:13:22

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well maybe; on twitter i've sometimes muted people because they were just being annoying (and spamming the timeline with say, local politics that just don't matter to me) for a while, not because i otherwise seriously dislike them, i can see how it could be misinterpreted if it's publicly visible

2024-08-21 21:04:54

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you can see who has muted you here? that's... somewhat awkward 🙂

2024-08-21 20:39:25

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it's the one thing we can all agree on here 🙂

2024-08-21 16:45:13

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fwiw i'm currently using nostrudel, which can create the torrents as well as shows them inline as events (NIP-35, i believe)

2024-08-21 15:58:23

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i don't think so, for many of them it's not timeouts*, and some aren't even behind tor
* mostly "connection refused", the based58 node closes the connection in the cryptographic handshake

2024-08-21 08:57:59

yes
it's been a while i've seen so much enthusiasm in developing something, that's not driven by corporate tech marketing for once (eg like "AI" or "VR")
also the atmosphere is so different here than on X, where it's constant (justified) complaining about how things are going downhill, but no one can really do anything about it, it's hard to not get stuck in that sentiment
i think that's a rarely mentioned advantage of decentralization of communication platforms, it's not all about censorship resistance or privacy, but that things can be changed without being dependent on some distant central entity that may have a completely different agenda
#nevent1q…l5ue

2024-08-20 18:54:01

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either that or they just really like the crunchy sound that ASICs make when running over them with a bulldozer

2024-08-20 18:48:04

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yup that was my guess as well, but they probably shouldn't be leaking internal network details like that to the internet

2024-08-20 17:47:00

there are some people who have ws://192.168.14.7:7777 as relay in their nostr events, i've seen my client try to connect to it, but can't really narrow it down who
it looks like a misconfiguration as that address is not publicly routable

2024-08-20 14:25:21

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exciting project ! it would be cool if nostr can finally provide the "decentralized github" experience, but without introducing a token, block chain or bs like that 😅

2024-08-20 08:47:33

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hahah if only, the kind fo design you need for software is exactly what AI is bad in, try generating a consistent icon set alone

2024-08-20 08:34:00

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yes it was more tongue-in-cheek 😀 i don't disagree, i do think the more demands you make from people the less contributors you're going to find, discourse is so often "developers need to be X too" at some point it's unicorn hunting
also something i think is important to keep in mind that "UI design" is a separate specialization from general design, after all it's about designing usable and safe interactive user interfaces (with concepts like discoverability), not just things that look pretty, a lot of mobile app developers forget this
i think the biggest problem with usability in FOSS software isn't so much lack of expertise but that people won't listen, design requires a more dictatorial architectural mindset and thinking at a higher level of abstraction, while FOSS is more decentralized "oh some user wants a feature, let's bolt it on here" (not just FOSS, commercial software often has this problem too, especially longer running projects)

2024-08-20 07:53:16

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kind of depends on what the funders want, but it can also go too far; for example Mozilla is often criticized for doing too many things outside browser development, while a lot of people just want to fund say, a faster or less memory-hogging browser... but sure, nostr still is in a much earlier phase where it's important to figure out what to even want

2024-08-19 20:13:12

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indifference

2024-08-19 14:55:54

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thank u that's really interesting, good to see this is only a temporary state !

2024-08-19 14:05:30

"DM timeline" is kind of scary imo, clearly it cannot show the message content but the metadata of who communicates with who can already reveal a lot

2024-08-19 13:40:11

i wish nostrudel had a way to disable auto-play of animations, i really dislike when things on the timeline start moving by themselves

2024-08-19 13:05:32

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haha don't blame calle too soon, if you got the invoice but couldn't pay it, it may also be that my lightning node lacks incoming liquidity (although it should have enough for a few satoshis)

2024-08-19 12:46:46

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i've narrowed one (maybe the only one) case of this down to the setting "messages_per_sec = 5", it looks like the behavior is that this limits the number of received messages per second and unceremoniously drops everything that exceeds this, and doesn't (as the comment implied to me) limit the number of created events
my hypothesis is that when the server is busy it would just drop the incoming event, causing no "OK" response to ever be returned and thus nostrudel logging this as "timeout"

2024-08-19 08:57:52

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gah, it's stranger: nostrudel shows the relay as timing out, but it does actually show 'persisted event: "47c4d7e2" (kind: 1)' in the relay's log, and it does store the event, looks like it's just being very impatient

2024-08-19 08:07:06

looks like about half of the time my relay times out while publishing, causing it to miss the event, i don't understand why, everything seems to be running fine on the server side
of course, this doesn't happen while running developer tools...

2024-08-19 07:43:55

thanks to whoever zapped me ! (can't see details)

2024-08-18 15:29:03

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i see the same issues with gap limits as with HD wallets but otherwise don't see why it wouldn't work

2024-08-18 14:47:26

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lol, ofc FOSS devs can do whatever they want, but it is kind of absurd for a client to be opinionated on this and hardcode it

2024-08-18 13:35:11

✅ nostr.x0f.org assigned
✅ user created
✅ add nginx nostr.x0f.org reverse-proxy
✅ built nostr-rs-relay
✅ configured nostr-rs-relay
lets go..,

2024-08-18 12:13:12

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i wondered the same then found https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-markdown/ which provides some quite reasonable argumentation, e.g. markdown is only really usable with "flavors" while asciidoc standardizes everything

2024-08-18 10:11:30

aspire to the masochism of a FOSS dev that tries to listen to end users 😅
#nevent1q…njlv

2024-08-18 10:07:54

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ok: i can retrieve the URL with curl fine and could pay directly using command line script; firefox network console says "CORS failed" so i guess it's about the cross-origin policy which makes it fail in web clients