I create Fediverse software that empowers people online.
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I kept pushing for it. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Noooo my cabbages!!! npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason This is wild. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028338 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/fccd39c0587dced8d9e8c36a99b13ad184606c8b359dbe74ca406754b30507ba.jpeg npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Every few years when I hear this song it brings a tear to my eye. 🥲 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Working on something cool... npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-truth-social-executive-launch-090000339.html npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Wrote a script to migrate ActivityPub follows to Nostr. Now just needs a web UI. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://docs.soapbox.pub/ditto/nsec/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason This is epic... npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I believe in The Buddha. Except when he drank milk and honey, I think he was a hypocrite for that. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason What if instead of a mnemonic seed phrase, we just force you to type at least 50 characters, making you have to type in complete sentences you have to remember. Will people somehow still write the same phrases? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason >In 2013, this dude on YouTube begged everyone to buy just $1 worth of bitcoin npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Stunning and brave. But I can't accept ever owning Funko Pops in the first place. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason That's fucking hilarious npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason TFW the Mostr bridge goes down npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason You are a pubkey. You can identify as any name. Multiple names can identify you as the owner of that name. Your name is the name you identify as that also identifies you as the owner of that name. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason He will fail. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Groundbreaking https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bobsqr/drone_pics_of_north_korea_i_was_in_china_my_drone/ npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I have no stock in the company. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason The CI server in my living room when me and @npub122g…2h6e push code to it at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEEtU0os8h4 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I got all the medals in Mario Wonder and then the final-final level showed up, but I don't think I'm doing this bros. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Every man dreams of staring directly into the sun. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I am building upon and investing in Lightning. 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(They also coined the name "seitan") npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason This is what comes up when you search "Architecture" npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason People really lack critical thinking. It's embarrassing. Pic on the right is what everybody is freaking out about. They didn't actually read it or use any critical thinking skills at all. Or even just thinking skills. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I hate this. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/b35729da5b85434a17355b82e650818514e3cadd035f8d11d11d5cd23ece2b11.jpeg npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason 👋 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Admins on ActivityPub are little dictators. They will ban you for saying one thing they disagree with, then your whole account is gone forever. Nostr lets you move freely. That's critical. It's a game changer. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Guys, let's quit Nostr. I just found the ultimate solution for auth. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason https://media.gleasonator.com/649488d48abcbafb291556effd0f568b764c86ce732f171f9517b994034eed85.png npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Yep relay.mostr.pub is still strfry npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Show me npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason Is there an open source alternative to Atlassian Statuspage that I don't have to self-host? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason It's a different protocol. The point is that admins can't ban you from the entire network. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I'm looking through logs and not seeing any issue. Is the problem happening on your own server, in a way you could run `journalctl -u pleroma | grep mostr`? npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason It's working on my end, new posts are coming through. npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason I know. We are waiting 24 hours to see if this will be called: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/models/account.rb#L215-L217 npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 Alex Gleason No because there is a new issue I introduced yesterday. The other issue was happening before that.
