Alex Gleason 🐍

https://alexgleason.me/

I create software that empowers people online.

I'm vegan btw.

Public Key

npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

NIP-05 Address

alex@gleasonator.dev

NIP-57 Address

alex@alexgleason.me

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhggpt7fy

Author Public Key

npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

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Last Notes

2025-04-02 01:47:44

#Ditto now publishes a NIP-89 application handler event and displays "client" tags on posts.
https://media.ditto.pub/793062db343cbf99968e6a37cb0f9d45093454aac47f25f3e213efd8280c8aaf.png

2025-04-01 20:08:06

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*vegans

2025-03-28 23:43:39

"I want AI to only do the things I'm disinterested in, and never do the things I'm interested in"

2025-03-28 15:17:29

How it started vs how it's going. @nprofile…70u3 #goose
https://media.ditto.pub/cab58e4b669b61e1f5b7f7c09aea89c6443facc710816c8d73f007e52232ddbd.jpeg
https://media.ditto.pub/38a5d408035cd2db5ea098ce57503a11b8c691c2d16ca71b396acf73481559f4.jpeg

2025-03-28 01:16:10

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No no. That's not it. Content creators will be able to build software. Build websites, build apps.

2025-03-28 01:10:29

The entire IT industry is cooked. All technology jobs are in the danger zone. Assimilate to AI or become a farmer.
At the same time, content creators are more empowered than ever. A 10 year old will build the next big product.

2025-03-28 00:49:44

Andrew Yang was right. People are fucking retarded.
https://media.ditto.pub/3066d138547f049c6f5a11192a27891a0d95fb8ef4e40365433a70733f34a032.png

2025-03-28 00:31:29

@nprofile…2ujm built an MCP that reads the NIPs.
Then Goose used it to create a functional NIP-07 browser extension.
This is insane.
https://media.ditto.pub/07dd70f55490d12545072ed099e0cb6b36d22f1ebe155628753c8d26e2fe4c75.png

2025-03-26 23:55:18

I think Androids will be real. That's something not enough people realize. Maybe Androids will even be most of us at some point. It won't be like terminator - the Androids will be pushovers. But things will get cringe.

2025-03-26 22:35:10

Will we soon be able to convert entire movies into anime? Or look through an old photo album and it's all anime, like it's no big deal?

2025-03-26 22:13:03

I was wondering what the Signal people thought of all this 😂
https://media.ditto.pub/d5080c1889d46082adecef128ab29d578e9a7ac4b0d927fd2ac1970b2d58b982.png

2025-03-26 15:40:25

HAVE YA TRIED #DITTO ?
https://media.ditto.pub/e77a215cd8936f7ddf7d6c0b3f89434f2dafc3f28911e7401150e56bd1eb2d17.png

2025-03-25 16:31:16

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Don't say "bullish, bullish, bullish" in the mirror 5 times or you'll get burned at the dip. #stoicism

2025-03-17 18:48:01

I think YouTube has just straight up stopped providing oembed links in their markup.

2025-03-17 14:59:01

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This is proof we need to get swifties on Nostr.

2025-03-17 06:17:03

Never cheap out on disks. Or you will regret it at 5 o' clock in the morning.

2025-03-17 06:11:10

https://www.npmjs.com/package/tiktoken

2025-03-17 04:35:04

I couldn't build a computer.
https://media.ditto.pub/2305770d070e23d8723cf3ad94671e121a7a3e098414d929fa247e5c8aa2d392.png

2025-03-15 05:17:51

:ditto:

2025-03-12 20:42:20

@nprofile…grgf
https://media.ditto.pub/87444ba2b07f28f29a8df3e9b358712e434a9d94bc67b08db5d4de61e6205344.mp4

2025-03-10 02:10:54

Apparently Reddit has been censoring the word "Luigi" even in the Nintendo context, so users have resorted to discussing "Luis" and his brother "Mark".
https://media.ditto.pub/9adbbcd2ecbe7f3002455723049f0415db2dac6b35085ffae8564921c91f4474.jpeg

2025-03-08 17:47:18

What do you think about human civilization and culture? Is it based or is it cringe?

2025-03-06 17:23:40

Is the world of G Gundam post-apocalyptic space station nationalist Giant Robots fighting on Earth finally upon us?
https://media.ditto.pub/c12006617ab5492c4d0b8f84b570f8c6d137047c2dfd51bdb372e81364efb05e.png
https://media.ditto.pub/339756a96c6d47d9808107676d8a83fbca7b9a7d874dbcd1f7e499d63596379b.png

2025-03-04 16:04:05

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A single regular person using ChatGPT can now do the work of a funded team.

2025-03-03 23:24:37

hi @nprofile…0pzz

2025-03-02 15:45:44

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We had a good thing going at Truth Social until this guy got involved.

2025-03-02 02:24:16

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15 competing standards

2025-03-01 21:59:48

Nostr upload servers compared:
NIP-96: uses multipart/formdata making it impossible to stream the request in chunks. Violates NIP-98 arbitrarily.
Blossom: cannot support video transcoding by design, making the client responsible, which is nearly impossible to do in web browsers.

2025-03-01 18:07:28

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Shoot me an email at alex@alexgleason.me and let's coordinate some other chat platform from there. I'm down to basically pair on it and update the docs to be more useful.

2025-02-28 15:17:47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QTB93oMIQ

2025-02-26 22:45:40

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Actually @nprofile…eqxm give me a list of all the hotkeys you would want.

2025-02-26 22:41:08

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In soapbox you can type "n" to compose a new post, "r" to compose a reply.

2025-02-26 21:30:18

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Deep integration of git issues, MRs, and commits with team chat software.

2025-02-26 19:50:01

What does God think about Israel and Palestine?

2025-02-25 21:34:51

https://media.ditto.pub/05c71cfab69d05aa89c254fa35a75e4614e9c0a03f915972da6849c46fe2687f.jpeg

2025-02-24 19:33:57

😂
#nevent1q…a9dz
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2025-02-24 19:29:05

You ever get a no-stir peanut butter that needs to be stirred? Str.

2025-02-24 19:25:02

https://truthsocial.com/@alex/posts/114060496094263676

2025-02-20 15:33:03

If you're a Nostr developer (or want to be), go to the nips and click this button. That way you can keep updated about the latest information.
https://media.ditto.pub/133cb080fb49d18bad3710bd7f10c8594ff60d39cc8f44638c5e4dded42f2eb4.png

2025-02-20 07:54:25

Apple is so bad. Why do people tolerate this? Click through that ios404 website.
#nevent1q…wneh

2025-02-20 07:42:53

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LGTM

2025-02-20 05:54:45

Been chatting with Elon Musk on Nostr.
https://media.ditto.pub/7c758325f7b004fc8fa7e1eaf3115fa187d31c4d57fa29663812e390c514c6ae.png

2025-02-19 19:34:34

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But seriously, all those errors are from Amethyst filters. I feel that's an unfair metric to judge a relay by.

2025-02-19 17:50:47

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https://media.ditto.pub/d31fc29a27dab9bff997989674171948fbfe2a794d837dea332a4ee3579e45c5.png

2025-02-19 17:09:49

Learning Prometheus and Grafana has altered my worldview so much it borderline changed my Myer-Briggs personality type. It's a similar feeling to learning programming for the first time. I used to just make things up about my problems: "oh, I bet it's the CPU, oh I bet it's the network, oh I bet it's the Russians." No. These problems DO have answers that you CAN know. You don't have to navigate the world purely on your intuition. Your intuition is wrong. Prove it with data or flounder.

2025-02-19 16:30:38

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@nprofile…lxck What's going on?

2025-02-19 01:57:19

https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/tag/v2.2.0

2025-02-19 00:15:28

What's the best model for ollama? Deepseek genuinely sucks, llama3 is okay but we're not close to chatgpt intellect yet.

2025-02-18 19:55:56

Didn't realize how much I was being sucked dry by parasitic corporations until I started keeping most of my funds in Bitcoin which they can't charge automatically. Still fighting against it.

2025-02-16 23:04:55

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Can't fit anything bigger in the 1U case. Planning to get a 2U server dedicated to AI so I can use bigger cards. Also these are 8GB, but they're small (1 pcie slot), so you could fit 4 in a single machine.

2025-02-16 22:31:05

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ollama is really sick. It looks like ChatGPT's UI.
https://media.ditto.pub/c8973aa1dfad0a28ddc56d533d4a1719102766bcb05dc63794e91207fbc92b4f.png

2025-02-16 22:20:03

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Especially if the ship is in motion.

2025-02-16 18:34:14

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Quick fix is pass DITTO_POLICY as absolute path to your policy, and DITTO_DATA_DIR=/opt/ditto/data

2025-02-16 16:31:31

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Like 2 years ago I pasted the text of NIP-01 into ChatGPT and asked it to write me a relay. Pasted its code and ran it and couldn't believe it worked. 😂

2025-02-16 16:17:09

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More discussion and rationale here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1124#issuecomment-2184077181

2025-02-16 16:14:48

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Talked about this with @nprofile…9ket already a long time ago, and he says Amethyst is debouncing them. But I've had the kind blocked for so long I don't know if there's any difference nowadays.

2025-02-16 16:12:52

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SQL was designed to let people "speak English" to computers. Speaking English to an AI is just an extension of the original ideas of COBOL and SQL, and more.

2025-02-16 15:05:47

You know who you are.
https://media.ditto.pub/a228149636e20a2cedcce54ce2e03f18e1565c5be644ebf8b2805df04f22912c.jpeg

2025-02-14 13:57:43

Drake used to be known for such great things, like the meme where he said no then said yes, and the Hotline Bling Wii Menu Remix.

2025-02-14 05:12:03

The Devil is being cancelled by woke cancel culture.

2025-02-14 03:19:21

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I tested it and am not hitting rate limits when I do it. Try adding adding this flag to it:
--paginate-interval 1s

2025-02-14 02:04:41

https://media.ditto.pub/3edd3daead450eb48e63a9cdc065f1047b7d185e8c5846b5d6005f6f80b62dda.png

2025-02-13 20:16:33

#Ditto's domain: search now indexes NIP-05 hostnames separately from domains, so domain:mostr.pub will show all subdomains of the Mostr bridge, while domain:mastodon-social.mostr.pub will only show mastodon.social posts.
You can even combine multiple domains in searches with other tokens, eg:
domain:nostrplebs.com domain:primal.net reply:false

2025-02-13 16:21:24

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This is Barack Obama's favorite song.

2025-02-13 16:18:44

First time using a materialized view. It sped up performance of account search 5x but still not as fast as I want it. https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/merge_requests/653

2025-02-13 03:48:53

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Ruby on Rails

2025-02-12 20:57:53

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Are there any errors in the browser console?
This indicates a signer issue, so might be a problem with nos2x. I'm using Alby.

2025-02-12 17:13:37

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Well, I was going to test which other clients freeze, but most Nostr clients still just straight up don't work in the first place. 😂

2025-02-12 16:56:15

Hey guys, when you implement the #outbox model, be sure to have your client connect automatically to my new relay at wss://evilrelay.com/garbage !
(don't do this)

2025-02-12 05:22:04

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Wow. I hate listening to Elon speak.

2025-02-12 05:06:04

What does he mean by this? Is the social security database a folder of text files?
https://media.ditto.pub/88c7024f2d900337e78fd7d276b43df500ea13c3fa744fb1f046ed422f146650.png

2025-02-12 02:04:00

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I would start by using nak: https://habla.news/u/alex@gleasonator.dev/nak-sync
Your Ditto relay URL will be wss://yoursite.com/relay

2025-02-11 17:10:04

It's too bad Oracle owns the word oracle, because Oracle is probably the best name possible for an AI. Somebody should sue them.

2025-02-11 03:31:24

The official MIME type of favicon.ico files is "image/vnd.microsoft.icon", but some servers like Caddy use "image/x-icon" just because they don't want to hardcode the word "Microsoft" in their server.

2025-02-10 23:33:04

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Fellow Proxmox user 🤝

2025-02-10 23:23:56

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Each person is only responsible for their own relay.

2025-02-10 23:22:30

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It's a solution to the liability problem. The solution to the ethical problem is to block all porn and try to drive those people away.

2025-02-10 23:18:06

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You just don't. If somebody uploaded illegal content to your server, you delete it and report it to the NCMEC. You don't try to do anything else.
I think the NCMEC has an API. The best thing to do would be to develop an integration for it so you can delete and report it at the same time.

2025-02-10 15:11:24

Don't argue with idiots online. Or do, if it makes you more popular.

2025-02-10 00:08:19

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To enjoy the suffering

2025-02-09 16:24:34

I heard that Elon Musk, modern Lex Luther, has bought all the Stupid Bowl commercials to use as propaganda for DOGE.

2025-02-07 17:45:40

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If it's a PipePolicy, it should work to block it. Grep your logs with "ditto.system.policy" to make sure it's even using the policy.

2025-02-07 17:44:06

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Are you sure the whole thing isn't wrapped in an AnyPolicy? That's an OR

2025-02-07 17:42:58

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We couldn't even get WebSocketStream working, and support for WebSockets across all tools and languages is still pretty bad as it is. I'll believe it when I see it. 😃

2025-02-07 17:41:32

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It does, but could you be doing an OR on it above? If you copied from my policy, Web of Trust will override domain blocks. So you would need to restructure it.

2025-02-07 17:39:09

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If you get to that point, just run multiple servers, and use some DNS tricks to get traffic routed to different servers based on the user's location.

2025-02-07 02:25:42

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Reposts don't count. Just regular posts and replies, articles, comments, and Picture events.

2025-02-07 01:05:23

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You've hit the limit. Check:
#nevent1q…qupy

2025-02-07 01:03:43

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The streak seems to cap out at 181 days. I haven't done the math to figure out why, maybe that's when I last recreated the Ditto database?
A rare few power users are tied at the cap.
@nprofile…dk4n @nprofile…r0kg
https://media.ditto.pub/b036e3c83a8fd70cb15d77a4eb4d54612c2b0d3f4fd831ae0caf35de08b480cc.png
https://media.ditto.pub/085d182771f43042cc8bf03248b3c65bf04250b32aca06bda80029ee4000a6c8.png

2025-02-07 01:01:27

#Ditto now displays daily streaks! To have a streak, no more than 24 hours can pass since your last post.
https://media.ditto.pub/5773e58b0a3c1dca195d213bcd7f3eff54b5cba24a95e3c3a5d480ef7a64d9b9.png

2025-02-06 19:16:07

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On the Fediverse you can't simply learn something and then be like "let me move to a different server". I mean you kind of can, but only with permission from the admin, who is already your adversary at this point.

2025-02-06 19:10:38

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Strong disagree on that one. The only barrier there is human ignorance, since people can just switch to a different app and lose nothing. They don't lose their posts or followers, and can pick up right where they left off.
The barrier on the Fediverse is technological. After you join a server you can't change your mind.

2025-02-06 18:59:09

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People can use their keys to go elsewhere on the network.

2025-02-06 18:54:04

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Looks like they're trying to be the Cloudflare of Nostr.

2025-02-06 18:18:54

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Check again

2025-02-06 18:15:52

I fixed a problem with relay.mostr.pub which was causing new events to not be served on its relay.
#nevent1q…tepc

2025-02-06 16:35:44

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I used fasttext years ago on the Fediverse, and people complained about it a lot. So this time I'm using an obscure library I found digging through GitHub issues: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/lande
This one is specifically trained on small text, making it ideal for shitposts, but it still doesn't even take the character set into account.

2025-02-06 16:28:01

Language detection is surprisingly difficult. The neural networks get basic things wrong. They will say that Korean text is actually Chinese, even though you can obviously see with your eyes that it's not.
After multiple libraries failed this basic test, I did something brave and implemented a naive regex solution in #Ditto. It does a first pass on the text before moving it on to the neural network.
안녕하세요
For example, if ALL the characters are in Korean script, it must be Korean. Even if it's a nonsensical sequence of Korean characters, it cannot be any language other than Korean due to the fact Korean makes exclusive use of this character set.
There are only a few languages where this is possible: Korean, Greek, and Hebrew.
Again, this is only possible if ALL characters in the text match a target language, so simply using "π" in a text does not make it Greek. So, currently this check is very narrow.
Notes about other languages:
Chinese: it's not possible to do a regex-only solution for Chinese, since Han script is also part of Japanese.
Japanese: we *can* definitively detect Japanese, as long as the text contains at least one Hirigana or Katakana character in addition to 0 or more Han characters. So at least *some* Japanese text can be unambiguously detected just by a regex.
Russian: Cyrillic text is used by a handful of languages besides Russian. BUT, if the text is entirely Cyrillic, that at least narrows down the *possible* languages it could be.
Next steps:
To optimize this, the regexes will narrow down possible languages of a text before passing it to the neural network.
For example, if a text is entirely Han, we would restrict the model to deciding only between Chinese and Japanese. If it's Cyrillic, we'd do the same thing, but with the 6 or so Cyrillic languages.
We could also try to match, say, 90% of the text instead of 100%, to any specific script, to catch outliers like occasional English words used in Japanese, etc. We are already stripping things like punctuation, emojis, and URLs before passing text to the model.
Finally, this is all so we can use a lightweight, embedded solution for language detection, instead of calling out to some proprietary API, or even a giant self-hosted solution. In that case, I believe a layered solution will always be needed. We have to do these naive checks to put "guardrails" on the model, so its guesses can't stray outside of common sense. Switching the model can improve it, but these naive checks will still be true.
https://media.ditto.pub/d75ed063c5c40446ee982a71d51c7a988823ead11bbe32e659dc2fc3c9054f59.png

2025-02-06 05:31:30

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I can't even get it to load.

2025-02-06 05:03:22

#Ditto search now supports negative search tokens. That means you can use -protocol:activitypub to remove everything from the bridge, or even -language:de to remove the Germans.
https://media.ditto.pub/0530ee83333c5961996182cf14f5eb0c4b87b07d3b1aed0c936a134d2b90acc8.png