semisol

👨‍💻 software developer
🔒 secure element firmware dev
📨 nostr.land relay

all opinions are my own.

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Last Notes

2026-03-04 04:29:26 UTC

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Years of old content already exists. At this point, it is set in stone.
Unlike centralized platforms there is no apply migration button

2026-03-04 04:27:34 UTC

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On large closed models the FT possibilities are limited too.
These black boxes annoy me to no end, and there is little price competition.
They work good as teacher models for synthetic data, but even then I still use the -mini versions...

2026-03-04 04:22:17 UTC

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attack surface *really* depends on the app, and usually people make it out to be way larger than it actually is normally

2026-03-03 23:44:18 UTC

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I would only want either
- prompts / actual requests, or
- actual human made PRs that fit the style
no thanks I’d rather either write the code myself or run the agent myself

2026-03-03 23:27:21 UTC

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for what benefit?

2026-03-03 23:25:04 UTC

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Because no one cares about privacy, really.

2026-03-03 23:13:07 UTC

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@npub14qt…9htj @npub1m3x…a5sf anything interesting on your side with these?

2026-03-03 23:11:43 UTC

oh well, a bunch of the top people at Qwen got replaced. ugh
we need a lot more innovation on open source *small* foundation models, as they will be what enable a lot of use cases, not your huge 1T parameter chatbot
#nevent1q…mjcu

2026-03-03 23:04:51 UTC

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not planning to support in nfdb — it would
1. be useless for any relay with a client that has a wide-net filter
2. require a lot of global subscription state tracking, which I want to avoid
3. hold up the OK response until *all* other NFDB nodes ack the event

2026-03-03 23:02:43 UTC

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last version my ass

2026-03-03 23:00:20 UTC

honestly the alby pivot doesn’t matter unless it actually affects the product’s quality.
don’t like shitcoins? disable it!
it’s very, very hard to make money in the bitcoin space, and the other option is just dying out instead of still being able to provide an extension

2026-03-03 22:23:39 UTC

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fine tuning for actually useful tasks than a slop machine

2026-03-03 19:46:47 UTC

interesting, new small qwen 3.5 models with no instruction tuning

2026-02-26 15:55:03 UTC

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Worst case make your own package repositories, not that hard. The primary thing that annoys me with package managers is no namespacing.
A package repository can override any package name. Which could lead to conflicts on independent sources

2026-02-26 15:41:07 UTC

I see all this vibe coding stuff going around on Nostr and yet there have been no new clients that weren’t slow asf or have horrible UX.

2026-02-24 16:06:37 UTC

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I should also say that writes to 1 relay can fail. So, outbox algorithm should read from multiple of users’ inboxes.

2026-02-19 18:19:45 UTC

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You should ignore the name field. too many assumptions are made about “name” compared to display name.

2026-02-19 17:43:26 UTC

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Display name should take priority, then.

2026-02-19 17:05:07 UTC

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I think display name is for the main name, “name” is supposed to be for mentions.
I would say “name” should be used for mentions, but NIP-05 should override that maybe with a special color to indicate it is that.

2026-02-19 15:35:06 UTC

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Yes

2026-02-19 15:32:20 UTC

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Outputs have a precision of 1 sat
LN balances are tracked in 1/1000ths of a sat and are settled on chain by rounding

2026-02-16 01:05:50 UTC

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INSANE: 2019 was the first year that Bitcoin saw greens between February-June

2026-02-14 17:50:57 UTC

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I don’t really like full black anymore. I don’t know why but a darker gray feels better

2026-02-14 10:12:05 UTC

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What do you think Anthropic is doing? 😆

2026-02-14 00:16:03 UTC

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I am going to implement a simple policy soon:
- You may not scrape Nostr.land without prior coordination to reduce impact* (personal use, bots doing stuff, etc. exempt)
- You may not use Nostr.land data for commercial purposes
- You must use NIP-42 AUTH with an npub identifying your scraper
I prefer per-client blocks than IP, and avoid blocks (only throttle) unless you are guaranteed violating these terms... only if you try to bypass repeatedly then you will get a network block.

2026-02-13 23:41:53 UTC

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Nostr.wine blocks the Nostr.land event cannon for some reason, all I get is 403's.

2026-02-09 05:37:05 UTC

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Next year? Bold assumption, I would be surprised if it was more than a few months

2026-02-08 08:26:55 UTC

Testing.

2026-02-07 11:49:11 UTC

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“ChatGPT please tell me how I should feel and respond to this reply made by Claude”

2026-02-06 19:09:02 UTC

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Which model?

2026-02-05 21:22:29 UTC

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NIP-17 is a meh spec, that is why.

2026-02-05 21:21:30 UTC

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microshit, in my nostr experience? no.

2026-02-05 21:14:19 UTC

https://i.nostr.build/9hmOHDIBYFLPvHvq.jpg

2026-02-05 15:18:23 UTC

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mmm uranium

2026-02-02 04:34:02 UTC

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Yes aggr.nostr.land, and nostr.land publishes to relays

2026-02-01 07:54:48 UTC

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You should try nostr.land :) There is a lot more, and we pull in from hundreds of relays.

2026-01-31 01:49:21 UTC

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probably best to have a section listing ways to protect yourself in general

2026-01-31 01:48:19 UTC

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Sure

2026-01-31 01:45:36 UTC

2026-01-30 07:21:47 UTC

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Anyway, use LE. Ask for a limit increase if you think you will do a high volume. Use the renewal API which is exempt from ratelimits when renewing

2026-01-30 03:17:05 UTC

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You can’t
An intermediate can issue certs for any domain so unless you are committed to being certified as being compliant to CA/B rules which will require a lot of expensive people and hardware, and can pay up big $$$ to an existing root CA to sign your intermediate, forget about it
Many “custom intermediates” are ones they manage fully for you, and only act as a whitelabeling service so the issuer is “Your Name” and not “EvilTrust Certificate Authority”

2026-01-29 22:39:21 UTC

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Why do you need an intermediate? That would basically be running your own *public* CA and would have all the requirements of that.
You are stuck with LE or creating your own root

2026-01-28 21:21:09 UTC

this applies to here as well…
#note12dx…xhns

2026-01-26 23:15:04 UTC

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notified about what specifically?

2026-01-24 20:39:18 UTC

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fully custom tooling

2026-01-23 20:42:48 UTC

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reputation has a problem that it is an "asset" that can be converted to money by abusing it, and unlike a bond which has 1. value outside of the given context, and 2. can be paid out to victims as a form of reimbursement
the best example is a shop closing down. one that wants to earn the most before a permanent shutdown will burn their reputation in a last round of scams, before disappearing. not doing so is illogical, as they can't carry the reputation elsewhere.
and with an anonymous(-ish) marketplace, it becomes hard to tie reputation across identities

2026-01-23 20:36:09 UTC

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It should work with all clients since it's *for now* Nostr. What I am trying to point out is the constant eroding of "Nostr, the open protocol" to replace it with "Primal, the app". Many people fall for it.

2026-01-23 16:34:07 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

2026-01-22 18:14:51 UTC

“Bring your content to Primal”
What Primal is doing to Nostr is suspiciously similar to what Microsoft has been trying to do to the open web and protocols 🤔
#note1a07…4w49

2026-01-21 03:23:34 UTC

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Primal does not tag their events

2026-01-21 03:18:46 UTC

anthropic is the polar opposite of the open and decentralized AI revolution

2026-01-20 13:07:27 UTC

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Primal doesn't care about your relays, so it shouldn't affect it.
Try Nostur

2026-01-20 12:57:07 UTC

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png

2026-01-20 10:58:16 UTC

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The inherent problem with AI systems is that it is trained on human generated content, and is often biased during training to be a yes-man directly or indirectly from user feedback.
AI systems are somewhat chaotic systems just like humans, and changes in the input can cause large variations in the output. Just like how framing things differently or the topic will change a person’s reaction

2026-01-20 06:33:20 UTC

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the script runtime is cancelled.
I overestimated the interest of devs and vibecoders in such a system (+ it would be not be decentralized!). I also do not want to take that risk with arbitrary code.
but I am mostly shifting things to a more modular set of APIs and DVMs (translation, user trust, better search/metrics, etc.)

2026-01-19 00:19:32 UTC

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oh no

2026-01-18 03:19:09 UTC

{"translated":"...","detected":"en-US-informal-tone-only-for-this-response-purpose-not-a-real-language-code-just-to-demonstrate-detection-capabilities-and-to-follow-instructions-precisely-even-if-unnecessary-and-silly-like-this-one. :) "
}
Excuse me Gemma what the fuck?

2026-01-17 22:23:52 UTC

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@npub1m4n…c2jl Your markdown engine broke this post.

2026-01-17 22:20:16 UTC

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GPS spoofing...

2026-01-17 22:14:10 UTC

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ofc

2026-01-17 21:06:51 UTC

I wonder if there is any interest in client market share graphs. However, the results may disappoint

2026-01-17 18:00:20 UTC

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Once you add it, the app should also broadcast the current list.

2026-01-17 17:47:17 UTC

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use https://nostr.land/restore

2026-01-17 16:22:38 UTC

Replace wss://relay.nostr.band with wss://nostr.land and wss://aggr.nostr.land.
Don't slow down your client with a half-broken relay.
#nevent1q…lz9x

2026-01-17 16:10:21 UTC

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the prediction is that the lines will line

2026-01-17 01:52:21 UTC

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this post is cat approved

2026-01-17 01:49:41 UTC

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anyway it took like 10 clicks for me to fully uncollapse the thread because it's so long 😂

2026-01-17 01:47:47 UTC

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breaking: cat and globe-shaped ball get into fight

2026-01-17 01:30:35 UTC

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Anything else? Or just mining?

2026-01-17 01:03:27 UTC

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bitchat’s only innovation was having a hype-man

2026-01-17 01:00:59 UTC

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Mining?

2026-01-17 00:05:40 UTC

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It’s called a trademark. There is no registered trademark so nothing can be done.
Movies fall under copyright which does not need registration. Hell, you can right now send DMCA requests to relays if someone reposts your content with meaningful copyrightable value like an article.

2026-01-16 18:53:54 UTC

The node has been operating smoothly for the last 2h, no HW issues.
#nevent1q…rezy

2026-01-16 17:03:47 UTC

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Nostr.land aggregates notes from many relays and pushes your posts to many relays. It’s a paid relay but it should speed up your experience a lot and increase your visibility.

2026-01-16 15:05:52 UTC

Looks like the SATA controller decided to lock up. Node will be online once everything is confirmed good
#nevent1q…000n

2026-01-16 14:20:34 UTC

My LN node is going down for emergency maintenance. Thanks for your understanding
https://i.nostr.build/00VhNbvsbUZ2Q4aa.png

2026-01-16 14:08:18 UTC

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Okay but aggr.nostr.land sends a clear blocked reason and your app just shows “Relay blocked this content”
just show the original message no matter the type

2026-01-16 02:18:45 UTC

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yeah I have been using it for a while, amazing lib
I guess I may be weird but sometimes I want stacktraces + KV pairs on my errors... since it is DB code, I need especially to store things like "which key caused the error" or "what value was invalid" to be used in reporting
one thing that I think more people should know is that debug.Stack does a global lock and you should instead use runtime.Callers and resolve on demand

2026-01-16 01:54:37 UTC

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Ah. Nostr.land does not have media hosting but you get a lot of relay benefits. For the Plus plan, media hosting with Nostr.build will be integrated soonish

2026-01-16 01:40:24 UTC

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which service are you talking about? nostrplebs does not have a subscription

2026-01-16 01:17:58 UTC

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I use aggr.nostr.land. Would there be a way to limit this outbox to the top-N relays (1 relay per person if possible and share as many relays as possible) + my read relays?

2026-01-16 01:16:16 UTC

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in a few minutes the status will update

2026-01-16 01:14:57 UTC

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I'd recommend adding the following relays and re-saving then:
wss://nostr.land
wss://nos.lol
wss://relay.damus.io

2026-01-16 01:12:30 UTC

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you need to set the nip05 on your profile as well.

2026-01-16 00:49:15 UTC

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@npub1m4n…c2jl underscores should not be parsed as italics if they are contained *within* a word and not on the edges

2026-01-16 00:48:26 UTC

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the biggest giveaway is the structure.
usually in any type of labeling system, you use enums which can have a fixed set of values, and are usually represented like SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE or camelCase etc, not freeform text.
and no one does Naming_Of_Fields_Like_This, only_like_this, orLikeThis, OR_LIKE_THIS, VeryRarelyLikeThisIfYouUseGolang. And certainly not "content descriptions" like an LLM synthesizes, but categories like say
"Finance & Investing"

2026-01-16 00:13:23 UTC

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that could have been an AI hallucination that someone posted
after that when others asked for it, the AI ate its own hallucination that was posted on X, and so you continue

2026-01-15 23:33:46 UTC

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I already have very few, but I am not sure why it acts like this.

2026-01-15 23:32:10 UTC

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@npub1m4n…c2jl When trying to publish to relays in your fork, it would be much better if it showed the failure reason instead of "Relay blocked this content", as it can contain useful info.

2026-01-15 23:31:39 UTC

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Testing reply from original Jumble

2026-01-15 23:30:48 UTC

Trying @npub1m4n…c2jl's Jumble fork. Looks pretty nice.
I tried to use the standard Jumble but it feels too stuttery and the feed takes 10-15s to load. I wonder if it's an initial cache warm-up thing. @npub1syj…f6wl

2026-01-15 22:36:31 UTC

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people wouldn’t want to burn their npubs with real PoW to spout nonsense

2026-01-15 22:32:30 UTC

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I think @npub107j…ncxg was doing some simple zap goal stuff, would be cool to have a better UI for that and with supporter goals and stuff.

2026-01-15 22:25:20 UTC

nostr funding is currently extremely centralized, even crowdfunding platforms
we need more options

2026-01-15 20:44:42 UTC

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https://following.space/d/stvg18jb931n?p=9ca0bd7450742d6a20319c0e3d4c679c9e046a9dc70e8ef55c2905e24052340b

2026-01-15 20:38:57 UTC

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have you tried checking my profile
https://i.nostr.build/Ykrw6P3MCr2dKsxB.png

2026-01-15 20:16:43 UTC

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I hope it does! but unfortunately I have seen about 0 that have come close to falling in the last category

2026-01-15 20:15:36 UTC

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proper DPA and also a canary updated at least once a week

2026-01-15 20:13:53 UTC

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also site security audit

2026-01-15 20:12:47 UTC

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show switch configs XOR perish