rossbates
Ross

Interested in open data, networks, and distributed systems. Developer of npub.fm

Public Key

npub1u656f7znujcagfhtgngvtkcflhzptnj38enyzx85da0lh63sfj7qva332p

NIP-05 Address

rossbates@nostr.id

NIP-57 Address

cornflowereagle1@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswd2dylpf7fvw5ym45f5x9mvylm3q4eegnuejprr6x7hlmagcye0qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9uvthnny

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nostr.wine

nostr.oxtr.dev

eden.nostr.land

Author Public Key

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2024-10-15 15:28:30

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These days I’m more drawn to people who are not afraid to say “I don’t know”

2024-10-11 03:57:22

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Same vibes when people complain about mass adoption and the only thing they are talking about is competing with X.

2024-10-07 23:57:55

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Imagine someone who is nostr curious showing up and getting @npub1sg6…f63m or @npub1qny…95gx as a buddy. They’re sending a personal GM each day and helping setup their wallets. It would be a wild experiment.

2024-10-07 23:44:07

Maybe for #nostrnovember we focus on making things feel smaller around here.
If we want people to commit their time, let’s make it reciprocal. How about if there was a nostr adopt-a-newbie system?
It might be stupid and chaotic, but it could also be fun. Particularly if some of the bigger accounts participate.

2024-10-07 13:52:02

Did ReplyGuy get bored and stop or did relay operators land on an effective filter?

2024-10-07 13:19:40

The thing that bums me out about AI image generation is how quickly all the models converged on the same hyper realistic and overly saturated aesthetic. I suspect they’re all using more synthetic training data which lacks the subtle imperfections of reality. https://image.nostr.build/646211c1d51ae6e01c0874d4fbaf4c411c190aa3fc4ff0601461823876456be4.jpg

2024-10-07 13:06:47

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Folksonomies!

2024-10-07 12:23:46

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Is that a limit which is enforced by relays?

2024-10-06 17:33:45

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It’s a gd never ending conference call. 👊😅 you ever ask yourself a question and wait for an answer? No…. Me neither.

2024-10-04 14:16:38

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What irks me is when economists hand wave and try to make you think there are too many variables, and how it’s just too much for you to understand. Meanwhile, I picture this chart of m2 since 2000. https://image.nostr.build/a2cc58c2b595dfe195dd19f766a328e188f9351dc0d0acda51a4f2f64370ad17.jpg

2024-10-03 12:00:40

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😂 omfg how did I never see the origin of this word?

2024-09-27 15:04:57

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This is a good summary. It’s less noticeable now as people continue to bring their politics and diets to nostr, but the most “real” conversations are typically devs talking about development. Yes nostr is open to everyone, but to your point it just gets noisier the more people that join, then complain it’s too noisy.

2024-09-22 13:53:39

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Agree allowing for “I” to reference the most relevant unique identifier for the context of that client makes sense. Lowers the friction for users/devs and has a nice side effect of incentivizing the media publishers to support as it’s an organic mechanism for discoverability.
Source would also be useful. As just mentioned, loosening the requirements for clients is the way to go - but it points to a future where post processing to clean up, integrate, and present events is going to be required. It’s not so much a negative trade-off, just the reality of open data. Also, if certain communities want to be more strict, they’re free to do integrity checks on write. Only suggestion would be to call it ‘client’ instead of ‘source’. When I read ‘source’ I think of the publisher.

2024-09-21 16:23:32

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You forgot “we’re still early”

2024-09-18 22:42:55

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Oddly people are also pretty tolerant of someone’s manipulative or exploitative tendencies if they’re wealthy.

2024-09-18 13:34:17

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Email providers 20 years ago would be judged based on the quality of their spam filters when attracting customers. In a way they still are, if they were bad you wouldn’t use the service.

2024-09-18 13:26:39

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Total transparency of relay filters helps address this because everyone involved has access to the same information.
Relay operators are not trying to suppress information without others knowing.

2024-09-18 11:41:15

@npub1xts…kk5s @npub1zaf…26k5 heads up, in iOS 18 when you open a media preview panel the app switches to dark mode until you force close. Ahh the joy of new iOS versions 😅

2024-09-16 21:10:03

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That we can totally agree on. A good indicator of intelligence can be when someone comfortably understands when to say “I don’t know”

2024-09-16 16:36:29

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It only knows what it’s trained on. My original point was about poisoning training data. Exhaust their resources, collectively make it economically infeasible to be a data broker.

2024-09-16 14:24:59

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Is Primal your daily driver or just your wallet provider?

2024-09-16 14:20:09

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Lightning. Everyone warns you to learn to self custody to reduce your risk of being rugged, but the options for self custody of lightning are not great. So you choose something like Wallet of Satoshi, and things seem ok. But people still tell you to be careful. So you are like wtf. Then WOS bails on the US, and you are like wtf again.
So you try Primal. And you pay a 30% premium for the privilege. Then you realize you are stuck there, then Primal becomes unusable so you come back to Damus.
Damus can’t do zaps unless you install a 3rd party script which nobody knows about. And you still haven’t solved the custody issue.
I’m more bullish on cashu at this point.

2024-09-16 11:42:09

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Also, this machine could make a mistake so it’s untrustworthy, but these humans over here….. that is a prevalent flaw in reasoning.

2024-09-16 11:21:31

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His example was technical documentation, which one also writes.

2024-09-15 19:46:41

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1 hour of QA vs 10 hours of writing. I’ll take that gain every time.

2024-09-15 19:23:33

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The progress made in language models from 2017 to 2024 isn’t impressive to you? These things are literally writing software. The returns will accrue to those who understand how to use them to run circles around those who think they’re a toy.

2024-09-15 18:25:55

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No previous AI cycle had this amount of data, and this amount of compute, available to this number of people.
The shift in scale has created a virtuous loop, enabling more people to experiment with machine learning models, which in turn accelerates AI development.
AI, in this sense, is a byproduct of technological and societal trends rather than the driver of them.

2024-09-15 18:14:05

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An llm only understands the relationship between tokens.

2024-09-15 16:36:48

Those concerned with personal privacy in the AI era will require tools that not only protect their data but also poison data streams.

2024-09-15 15:57:56

I’m more concerned about the people in denial of AI than any threat from AI.

2024-09-15 13:06:16

If you find yourself writing an “open letter” chances are you are too late.

2024-09-14 11:45:56

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I'd be lying if I told you I didn't feel the same way at times. Taking full responsibility for your keys is hard, but I've also learned it’s a good signal of the value of learning how to do it right. To practice getting better at it in low risk environments, so it doesn't feel like a burden.
Nostr is honestly a great place to learn. Let's be honest, at this stage if someone loses their keys it won't be the end of the world. The other thing is, on nostr there is value in using your keys to sign notes, notes that are tamper proof and tied to you at the time you created them. Nobody can retroactively take that from you.
We'll still need better key rotation and delegation schemes to ensure longevity, but this is different from losing your key and losing everything associated with it all at once.

2024-09-13 20:22:39

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Oddbean webapp is in a strfry branch
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/tree/web/src/apps/web

2024-09-13 19:28:29

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Yeah it’s the best interface I’ve seen so far which captures the nostr zeitgeist all in a clean and simple way. Really nice work.

2024-09-13 19:04:41

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And…. uhhh…. the website is written in C++ Doug is hardcore folks 🤣
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/tree/web/src/apps/web

2024-09-13 18:55:21

TIL @npub1yxp…qud4 is not only the incredible talent behind strfry, he also built Oddbean - a Hacker News clone built on nostr.
https://oddbean.com/
While we're encouraging people to engage in conversations through nostr, conducting any sort of dialog through interfaces which are effectively ephemeral is challenging for users.
Oddbean fills a gap in the nostr ecosystem:
* Interface encourages continuous discussion over time
* Implements clean, consistent threading
* Provides transparent way to rank/sort notes and threads
* It's not a firehose, notes don't constantly move in a river of posts
* You don't have to follow someone to discover the most interesting content.
Finally, check this out, his ranking algo is published right at the top of the site.
https://oddbean.com/algo
He encourages others to build their own. This is the future.
#grownostr

2024-09-12 21:56:52

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That’s a really nice idea

2024-09-12 21:35:09

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First error was user error, I was using -p from your first post. I get a second column now, but not a 3rd. Should there be a 3rd? Ran it with your npub
./target/release/notedeck --pub @npub1xts…kk5s -c contacts -c notifications https://image.nostr.build/ff8409bd27b93604835251f65487a45524b23e3182864a789596236e2e592e06.jpg

2024-09-12 17:28:56

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Sorry for my dumb questions….. Got the npub to load, what does one provide for the additional parameters?

2024-09-12 17:15:10

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Love it, really excited about having a feature rich desktop app. Took the plunge and installed the Alpha yesterday.
The cli arguments on the GitHub page don’t appear to work. Has the syntax changed? https://image.nostr.build/61d0a812f045e8cb238cfabafbb2fb380d4a11679107e585512d3c0eee620cb5.jpg

2024-09-11 17:27:27

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We’re all aligned on this. The goal of creating an open music graph is to remove all barriers between artists and audience. It’s the anti last.fm. Same for Spotify, YouTube, etc…. No intermediaries.
What Erik created was just a cool proof of concept to funnel data out of that system, to set it free. The kind 2002 event type can be published by any client.
Another vision I have personally….. we should be empowering audiences to own the media they purchase. The problem I see with V4V is I don’t want to lease my music through something which is effectively subscriptions by another name. I would rather see a decentralized Bandcamp, where I can buy something, and I can own it. I don’t need access to an infinite library, I don’t have infinite time.

2024-09-10 16:05:00

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Oh yeah… I thought you meant relay admin as well.
But as long as we’re talking about clients, I would love to have a client that could read/write from public and private relays within that same interface.
I was going to say it doesn’t even need to store private relays in the kind 3 relay-url field(s) - then just discovered nip-65 is attempting to supplant this with replaceable events
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md

2024-09-10 15:44:20

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You bet, that’s awesome!
Connectors for last.fm are an excellent way to bootstrap the network using existing tooling. Long term the goal is to have people publishing listens directly to the relays of the communities they are a part of.
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/79

2024-09-10 15:16:42

Sharing the things you care about will always be something people want to do on the internet. It’s an evergreen use case.
It’s the ownership and portability of your data which nostr provides that’s novel and exciting.

2024-09-10 12:00:56

If you’re a nostrich and a last.fm user, please join us in building an open music graph on nostr. #note1jck…dle8

2024-09-09 20:18:28

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Yeah, guess I’m thinking nip-94 data is most useful for search and discovery. If you are uploading something you already know what it is.

2024-09-09 19:49:30

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Any reason it’s not also being suggested as a way to provide supplemental info for /list?

2024-09-09 03:41:50

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Man you are on 🔥 this weekend!

2024-09-08 23:00:57

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Heads up I think the stats job hit a glitch and duplicated everything.

2024-09-08 16:10:34

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But now that it has manifest itself, we can have a productive conversation about how to address it. Even @npub180c…h6w6 said it was a clever attack he didn’t consider.

2024-09-08 13:32:06

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Feel free to ask questions. Happy to help.

2024-09-08 13:29:05

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You could spend the remainder of your life writing code to handle things that will never occur.

2024-09-08 02:00:25

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Love it. Nice job shipping something simple that just works.

2024-09-07 15:42:40

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Nice…. what server are you using? I’ve been tinkering with public servers but now starting to explore running my own to publish local album art.

2024-09-07 15:37:17

As with most bugs it’s simple once you’ve solved it. Here’s a Python gist should anyone want to experiment with it themselves:
https://gist.github.com/rossbates/d5bb4fdd728bf18536a2c0ebf2960519
I’m using this blossom/go server which has been easy to configure and run:
https://github.com/sebdeveloper6952/blossom-server
I’ve also found this web client from @npub1klr…7gxc to be really helpful. Even works testing locally
https://bouquet.slidestr.net/

2024-09-06 14:20:10

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Can’t help but wonder if their relay and cache are under a spam attack

2024-09-05 22:55:38

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No, sorry…. This one
https://www.rabbitmq.com/
I’m not convinced websockets are the only game in town. TCP/IP doesn’t care if you send smtp or http

2024-09-05 22:35:25

Anyone else been thinking about notes being broadcast over a proper message broker like Rabbit?

2024-09-05 22:34:05

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I've been wondering what the outbox design pattern is. Appreciate you taking the time to describe, but I'm struggling to see how this improves things as you’re talking about a potential n^2 problem with clients.

2024-09-05 01:36:59

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He thinks nostr is Damus and Primal. Also, someone needs to tell the nostr CMO to start calling it something other than a protocol. People have no idea what that means.

2024-09-04 12:43:44

Don’t be fooled by the digital monarchs trying to dazzle you with infinite options.
Convenience is a negotiation with autonomy.

2024-09-04 12:28:17

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Also if a piece of music is meaningful to you, it’s advantageous to own it vs renting it.

2024-09-03 21:54:58

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Post really strong opinions on the value of likes, then throw in a theory on how to make deletes work at scale (it doesn’t need to be viable, just say it)

2024-09-01 19:07:45

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I think the publisher subscriber relationship is due to invert at some point - you will whitelist trusted npubs and ignore everything else. People can scream filter bubble all they want, but it’s the only pragmatic approach to what is coming.

2024-08-31 19:04:00

The idea of a global town square is a flawed premise. It is what’s gotten us into this mess in the first place.

2024-08-31 19:00:27

Not being obsessed with the mass market is a form of freedom. That’s why I’m bullish on the philosophy behind Ditto. Find your people.

2024-08-30 18:32:55

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Something else which would be awesome is relay sets for a column. Then a user could interact with different groups from the same interface. Damus, Ditto 1, Ditto 2, Local etc….

2024-08-30 18:23:57

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Yeah absolutely, this gives me incentive to get it pushed to a public repo. I’ll add my thoughts to the nostrability thread as well.

2024-08-29 12:14:47

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Been reading the docs and it looks like you specify them in the server config.
https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/install#add-relays
Kudos to Alex on the documentation as well. It's very clear and easy to follow.
Ditto appears to be following a pattern in which a user's relays are simply the relays of the Ditto communities they are in. This makes sense, it's just a change in mindset because currently there are 3-4 major relays which we all connect to in hopes that they have everything (every note, like, zap, profile, etc....)
This model embraces the fact that relay consensus at a network level is not only difficult, it’s not necessary.

2024-08-28 15:35:02

Ditto looks amazing and the idea of smaller communities loosely coupled is much more appealing than a social monolith.
The data architecture is confusing though.
Notes created by an npub still propagate across all relays in a user’s profile and they are just filtered by the Ditto relay? @npub1q3s…d26p

2024-08-28 15:26:39

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Inconsistent threading across apps.

2024-08-28 15:13:13

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You said it bro

2024-08-28 15:12:40

Our resident AI bot is on the v4v bandwagon #note19tz…2vdw

2024-08-28 15:09:26

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Summarize that in 420 characters or less

2024-08-28 15:06:28

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What is the best use case for micropayments on nostr? You can only select one, be specific and justify it.

2024-08-28 15:03:57

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@npub1tsg…htk4 please chime in with your thoughts on ai, nostr, and micropayments.

2024-08-28 12:34:29

Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
gamengen.github.io
Skeptics are going to chirp with "duh, it memorized a bunch of games"
To which I say... indeed, and you can't see the implications for predictive computing?

2024-08-28 12:00:07

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Then what does dave@damus.io signify

2024-08-28 11:57:25

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It was you I was looking for, that’s why I asked if you were online. Was that unclear?

2024-08-28 11:56:08

@npub1tsg…htk4 are you online?

2024-08-27 20:15:02

tldr for whatever happened on Twitter today?

2024-08-27 00:38:18

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Currently trying to find time to implement blossom integration for album art. Also working on MusicBrainz integration as optional metadata.

2024-08-27 00:35:45

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Totally with you. I’m working on my own self hosted music server and I’ve built in a way to publish listens as nostr events. I never liked how scrobbles were all or nothing - it’s nicer when the user has control.
If you look carefully the event type is 2002 in honor of the year last.fm was founded. https://image.nostr.build/f9e0a28dd96073d6417094f386451d28b87e25d53570bc4989dd7696bdcf0770.jpg

2024-08-13 17:28:47

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A Free Will Revolution. ❤️

2024-08-08 21:48:04

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If impairment of your inhibitions helped you overcome your irrational fears in the long run then you might have a starting point for your argument.
Unfortunately the opposite happens, people get more disconnected from reality and addressing their real issues.

2024-08-08 21:38:35

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While it looks like @npub1xts…kk5s published NIP-57 on Feb 13 2023 he did it Satoshi style and published the code first to GitHub on Feb 10 2023. People were able to start testing it that day I remember. It was a Damus only thing at first.

2024-07-31 13:11:08

I’ll pay a premium for relays that filter zapvertising. Freedom or destruction of capital.

2024-07-31 13:02:38

Use all the mental gymnastics you want to justify zapvertising. It sucks.

2024-07-21 18:23:50

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Right on 👍 There’s an epub on Internet Archive but the accuracy is really poor.
Being that it’s public domain wonder if we could crowdfund the clean up here on nostr?

2024-07-21 02:14:26

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Just went to grab a copy and it’s $4,629 on Amazon. 🤨 Where did you acquire yours?

2024-07-09 23:10:28

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Eh, I switched to only eating fish when I realized my digestive system functioned better.

2024-07-03 18:29:40

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That’s an interesting point. People will pay for certainty even if it’s self-deceiving.

2024-07-03 17:41:39

More predictive models should be presented like this because it offers a much clearer view of how messy reality is. https://image.nostr.build/1e98810caa87537fd2684bf1a7711238dee82d77419fae974ac51795bdecd2f6.jpg

2024-06-30 13:43:11

And you won’t be able to steal the data, it has been set free.
#note17ww…rj6u

2024-06-28 22:19:01

Berlin is spectacular. I think I turned German. https://image.nostr.build/aedcf83de97542b607ec514e916ea5b779dec6d4b245b8094027ce5bfaa3d635.jpg

2024-06-25 13:50:51

I have an extra day to spend in Berlin this week. Any artsy or nerdy suggestions for things to check out?

2024-06-21 04:03:09

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Would be nice if the reply counts on the timeline were displayed.

2024-06-20 02:31:49

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Thanks for the heads up… didn’t even know these were here.

2024-06-19 12:37:37

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Your last point might be the most important. People who are creating content just want something that’s easy and it works today. They are rarely concerned about the implementation details that we enjoy debating. They just want to know, “does it work?”

2024-06-16 18:53:35

TIL people think Blossom 🌸 is a media server. Esc :q!