M. Dilger

Author of Gossip client: https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip
Dual National (USA / New Zealand)
My principles are Individualism, Equality, Liberty, Justice and Life
FREE PALESTINE - SANCTION ISRAEL

Public Key

npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

NIP-57 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

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relay.momostr.pink

nos.lol

relay.damus.io

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2024-09-19 23:19:57

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Once nostr embraces CORS, I'm out.

2024-09-19 23:17:44

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It is not a bad workaround. But given the workaround exists, AUTH isn't achieving anything.
Nonetheless I'll implement it simply because it is easier to change my code than to change other people's thinking.

2024-09-19 22:23:23

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Are you seeing clients that get disconnected immediately reconnect from a different IP to make the same request, or are you just assuming such?
Chorus blocks reconnections by IP address for 1 second to stop any kind of overwhelming. I don't know how well it works because of course my relays isn't heavily used:
* it has 107 open clients at the moment, which is the highest I've seen... it times them out too so they aren't just hangers-on
* Since it started, Inbound: 595880001 bytes (803.1994 B/s) Outbound: 1588855136 bytes (2141.6519 B/s)

2024-09-19 21:44:35

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Let me clarify that a little bit. Relays can be used for all kinds of things. AUTH-to-read is perfectly fine in many contexts.
It is only the OUTBOX context that I'm talking about.
IMHO nobody should have an OUTBOX relay that is AUTH-to-read.

2024-09-19 21:42:27

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Just for videos that have a landscape format.

2024-09-19 21:35:10

I am sorry to see so many relays now require AUTH for reading. I don't AUTH to read. I want to read anonymously, just like I can read RSS or websites anonymously. Why require AUTH for reading (other than for DMs)?
NOTE: I totally understand requiring AUTH for writing. And if I reply to somebody and their inbox wants me to AUTH to send that reply, I get it. That is a good policy to prevent reply spam.
It feels to me that nostr is splitting, and a bunch of relays that have taken this AUTH-to-read policy are now unavailable.

2024-09-19 21:09:52

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You could add a token to that.

2024-09-19 20:36:04

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Removing the event store is only a minor performance drop (1 more lookup).
mmap_append originally was only working on linux, but Ashkan Kiani replaced some of my code with memmap2 which is cross-platform. So now mmap-append works on Windows too, as does the stuff on top of it. I just noticed that the README is wrong 🤦 .. fixed.

2024-09-19 20:25:08

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What I do is I don't write anything down, I promptly forget every wrong prediction, and then when I look back I have 100% accuracy. I feel great and learn nothing.

2024-09-19 20:20:28

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This is very cool and I would love to use it. But pasting my nsec isn't something I'm willing to do anymore given NIP-07 and NIP-46 have been around for a while and I'm app setup to use either of those methods.

2024-09-19 20:08:32

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I'm curious, does nostr-lmdb run in WASM? I'm guessing that it can't.

2024-09-19 20:04:39

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Nice work. Glad to see this progressing, and if I hadn't started out on my own I would have liked to have used rust-nostr for gossip... but gossip is too riddled with nostr-types already.
It looks like quite a significant set of changes to the LMDB stuff, definitely not 'pocket' anymore but using some of those ideas. I'm glad it was of use.

2024-09-18 05:35:19

It is not a "news cycle". It is an accelerating carousel of horror populated by violent clowns inside a hall of mirrors.

2024-09-18 04:19:15

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This is normal. I even price bitcoin in washing machines. BTC is at about 122 washing machines presently.

2024-09-18 03:28:12

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Bah! You win this time.

2024-09-18 03:25:06

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I was just riffing off the word "cotton" which ben got from Snowden saying "cotton on to". We are off in the weeds.
But I'm going to guess it was the more expensive and difficult to find mercury fulminate (with some potassium chlorate) undetectable by explosive detection systems looking for nitrate. Just a wild guess.

2024-09-18 02:57:14

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Must be part of the explosive.. gun cotton or something.

2024-09-18 02:53:00

I've been in New Zealand so long that when I see a date like 5/2/2024 on a US based website, it takes me quite a while to realise that this does not mean Febuary 5th.

2024-09-18 02:35:43

"Made in Taiwan" used to be a stamp of quality. Now it's a warning sign that you might be carrying an explosive.

2024-09-18 02:19:34

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