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maybe i'm a bit too diplomatic sometimes, but also i like to believe we're at least still trying the civilization thing which implies human values like empathy and compassion, not just competing for "the deadliest tribe"

2024-12-07 21:46:34 CET

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i agree, no one should "wait for my approval", that... wasn't the point i was trying to make
i was directly asked for my opinion about it and gave it, probably a bad idea

2024-12-07 17:43:24 CET

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Ava hasn't said anything with regard to the current softforks
she prefers working on things that don't affect consensus
https://x.com/achow101/status/1861442003885601027
can't remember anything from Murch either

2024-12-06 17:13:26 CET

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zapped...as instructed...

2024-12-04 17:23:42 CET

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fwiw, the "matrix chat" of the recent crackdown is not the matrix as we know it, it was some "private chat for criminals" kind of scam app no one else had heard of

2024-12-02 20:35:19 CET

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hmm i could easily expose nostrudel.x0f.org as onion, is anyone actually using these ?

2024-12-02 20:16:31 CET

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does reading my screen by candlelight count 😀

2024-12-01 23:07:50 CET

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over

2024-12-01 21:40:00 CET

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*sigh* lol that github is the most 2014 thing possible

2024-12-01 19:49:30 CET

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you'd also only want the setting to be exclusive to .i2p addresses as I2P doesn't have the concept of exit nodes, no way to connect to the wider internet through it
i don't know anything about android I2P implementations, but not sure SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy helps in the case of I2P, they tend to recommend using their own protocol (SAMv3) for connecting
as for integration, there's IIRC no library like Arti for Tor to integrate I2P into applications, so that would be difficult

2024-11-30 22:26:11 CET

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happy to open a channel, but 5 000 000 minimum channel size is a bit steep 🙂

2024-11-30 22:07:51 CET

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i too prefer just sleeping on the floor nowadays, with only a yoga mat and blanket under me
but the floor never gets very cold here ymmv

2024-11-30 17:59:42 CET

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thank you !

2024-11-30 14:37:28 CET

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i would guess:
a combination of software maturity, which is way easier if you can "cheat" with centralized solutions (nostr isn't ready to add that many users), and marketing
most people don't have censorship resistance that high in their list of priorities for a social media, or it even sounds scary to them, they just want a fun community with "fair" moderation
bluesky also cashes in heavily on nostalgia, it feels like the old twitter

2024-11-30 14:25:33 CET

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Is de bluesky implementatie dusdanig open source dat dit kan? De PDS is open, maar veel calls zijn een proxy naar proprietary, gecentraliseerde services, bijvoorbeeld voor DMs en moderatie.
Zie bijv. https://bsky.app/profile/laanwj.x0f.org/post/3lc3cl4khyc2k

2024-11-29 17:19:33 CET

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i'm definitely not promising zero moderation on my relay
the only reason we don't have instance politics here like on mastodon is that people can send their posts to multiple relays, and some will probably keep it around, it's more like a kind of regulatory arbitrage

2024-11-28 19:11:56 CET

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i used BBSes and fidonet, later usenet and IRC while under 16
that was not what fucked me up, it was more of an escape at the time
but yeah things were very different, it was just socializing and sharing pirated stuff 🙂 not yet weaponized to spread hate and propaganda

2024-11-28 18:28:40 CET

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i agree they're shades of the same thing, but i think 'media' implies the intent to publish (semi-)publicly, whereas chat messages are meant to be more ephemeral and shared with a limited group

2024-11-25 17:52:37 CET

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dunno about terrorists but sometimes we do need to negotiate with hostile people, unfortunately

2024-11-25 17:40:21 CET

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kind 1 are definitely used for technical discussion sometimes
i don't think nostrudel, or the common clients, support posting anything else
it would be less of an issue if replaceable notes were shown in the same timeline by clients, then people who want edits could use those and there would be no reason to fight about kind 1 technical details

2024-11-25 17:21:12 CET

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is he willing to sell it

2024-11-25 13:27:59 CET

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not all typos are "cute" like that, for example in a highly technical post a small mistake can completely undermine the message, or move the discussion to the typo instead of the fundamental point, which is really unconstructive

2024-11-23 22:23:57 CET

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that's a possibility, but doesn't seem too user friendly
it could just happen automatically; i remember monero, for example, starts with a fairly low value then doubles (or some other exponential factor) the mapsize every time it's reached
fhe factor is s a compromise; resizing isn't instant so you wouldn't want to do it too often

2024-11-23 21:59:51 CET

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writes will fail after that (with MDB_MAP_FULL error), the usual strategy is to increase the mapsize when that happens

2024-11-23 18:43:54 CET

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and there's a lot of local/edge caching going on with CDNs and such

2024-11-23 18:42:36 CET

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it also looks like the major lightning nodes make it intentionally difficult to make channels to them because there's so much demand
and it wouldn't be good for decentralization if everyone did that
sometimes it's better to connect to nodes a hop away

2024-11-23 18:05:38 CET

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it's not common, but it happens
i was really surprised to see Kanzure using a phone and a bluetooth keyboard to type his transcripts for talks at btc conferences, years ago
way better battery life than a laptop at least

2024-11-23 17:46:02 CET

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sure, maybe, the idea that LLMs are full artificial intelligence seems to have, always been based on a belief in logocentrism, as well as that cognitive psychology is a complete representation of what our brains do, i think this is questionable

2024-11-23 16:35:22 CET

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this should be a required feature in nostr clients 🙂
nostter has it, but nostrudel doesn't, unfortunately

2024-11-22 17:09:34 CET

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hahahaha "tell us your villain origin story"

2024-11-21 21:25:53 CET

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not directly probably, i don't care much about the profile field, but i think the discussion was good
it is somewhat reassuring to also see many people in favor
it already feels a bit more inclusive here

2024-11-21 19:51:13 CET

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yea it's something, i really like this blend between 80's brutalist terminal UI and modern true color/semi graphics characters

2024-11-21 19:35:34 CET

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i haven't ever found CPU to be the limiting factor, nor have i heard it to be slow; but mind it's a consumer router, if you want utmost speed i guess you end up in the more professional segment aimed at datacenters-or roll your own firewall with a mini x86_64 pc
maybe also see also this previous thread with suggestions, though most people seem to prefer pfSense based routers there not openwrt:
#nevent1q…aug9

2024-11-20 22:08:09 CET

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no real use cases !!! 🤣

2024-11-20 21:33:13 CET

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it's a possible scenario; i kind of prefer the one integrating with AI to being replaced by it

2024-11-20 21:06:32 CET

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it reminds me of the kind of tokenization that LLMs do (though that isn't strictly per word)

2024-11-20 20:49:27 CET

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i mean at this point it's mostly men talking about how they want more babies, well, do the work yourself then

2024-11-20 20:48:27 CET

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it's surprising how "women are just people" is controversial in the least, or even a notable thing, but clearly it is nowadays, some people really have a hard time seeing women as individuals

2024-11-20 20:36:02 CET

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we really need to work on those womb implants...

2024-11-20 20:34:09 CET

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agreed, i also had this impression
in a way it's understandable, they run on donations and don't have a $50M grant behind it like signal

2024-11-20 20:26:42 CET

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surprisingly, bsky doesn't ! they only have avatar, backgrond banner, display name and description as profile elements

2024-11-20 18:24:00 CET

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looks like there is already an feature request open about this
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/4847

2024-11-20 18:16:36 CET

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one thing i prefer about signal is that i can just start the desktop app and it immediately works, linking was a one-time thing, i don't have to link every time

2024-11-20 18:04:09 CET

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yes, this seems like a better way to do it

2024-11-14 21:24:09 CET

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i mean, is the target of the payment you're paying the BOLT11 invoice to the same as the one you're paying the BOLT12 invoice to (so is the route the same in both cases?)

2024-11-12 10:29:24 CET

new ath is great and all that but i still cant buy an aircraft carrier... so what's the point... 😀

2024-11-10 20:14:07 CET

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happy to test your matrix server, no problem if it's behind tor

2024-11-09 00:49:00 CET

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what's the castlevania one ?

2024-11-09 00:16:10 CET

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i assume it's another corruption in the chainstate ?
most useful would be to zip up the entire chainstate dir i think (i'm not sure just the one corrupted ldb file will tell much)

2024-11-09 00:09:50 CET

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i'd still be kind of interested in a copy of the corrupted state to see what kind of glitch this is

2024-11-08 23:49:03 CET

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whoa we've the Stable and HSDir flags
https://media.x0f.org/89659c5882eb469c9bb7df0849b5b8f18d33b60e3fec548c340b5dbc3fc917ae.png

2024-11-08 23:23:17 CET

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it needs to be a single icon, there's no functionality anywhere to pick a different icon based on the theme
so it should work both on light and dark background, and i don't think there's a way around having a border
tbf the original ghost bird design has a a white background but i don't think that helps 😀 :
https://media.x0f.org/575280eb3a8c453d181fc24c2a3942abd45bf5b355f445030070a06cf941f240.png

2024-11-08 23:04:56 CET

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oh noooo hahahah he was just an example but yeah... using the mastodon bridge is kind of cheating don't you think 😀

2024-11-08 22:49:30 CET

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who knows ! but tbh, not expecting Cory Doctorow here any time soon 😅

2024-11-08 22:20:02 CET

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the siren's call

2024-11-08 20:10:42 CET

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i have no idea who this person is, but
that's the same way as it feels to be a trans person, you're always a weapon in the political battle, always automatically associated with a certain side and just as easily brushed aside if you're not useful enough to the cause of the day

2024-11-08 17:17:18 CET

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and this is why we need censorship-resistant social media... good luck trying to prevent us from posting here 🤣

2024-11-08 17:04:35 CET

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cloning from the git mirrors at http://nxshomzlgqmwfwhcnyvbznyrybh3gotlfgis7wkv7iur2yj2rarlhiad.onion/ is also working again now
and i've added "/git/bitcoindev.git", the bitcoin development mailing list archives

2024-11-07 22:11:25 CET

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i'd heard of the fake missing dog posts but never knew why they did it, that's sneaky

2024-11-07 21:55:38 CET

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this is a scam... ive been playing with lightning for nearly a decade and still didnt get pregnant...

2024-11-07 20:47:01 CET

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ok, yeah good point...

2024-11-07 20:41:39 CET

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hm could maybe define a new tag for replaceable events, that forbids replacement after a certain timestamp?

2024-11-07 20:30:10 CET

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i've been running my own mastodon server since 2018, so i guess so
it's been pretty dead over there lately and kind of boring imo

2024-11-07 20:13:15 CET

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damn typos ! if only there was edit function ! 😏

2024-11-07 18:04:30 CET

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signal, easy, i've never trusted telegram the least and don't use it

2024-11-06 18:41:32 CET

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imo
edits are good
deleting is good
keeping nostr simple is an important goal too, but if we can't offer users basic 2024 expectations for usability and control over their own content, what is the point

2024-11-05 18:27:06 CET

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transmission-gtk
doesn't have any fancy features but it's fast and cross-platform

2024-11-03 23:13:03 CET

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i will not get into the pod i will not breathe the nitrogen gas 😅

2024-11-03 22:56:33 CET

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no....when i find out how to make the US government pay for my hobbies i'll let u know ! but i'm not a US citizen nor do i live in the US so im not giving it much of a chance

2024-11-03 22:30:43 CET

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right, like a lot of heuristic metrics it only works as long as it's not popular enough for the scammers to put work in faking it
for "faking" NIP-05 they could register a similar-looking domain

2024-11-03 22:18:33 CET

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of course... it's gay to date someone of the same species

2024-11-03 21:18:23 CET

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i always choose stock debian (12), it's lightweight enough (in the minimum server install) while being easy to install packages for and do ad hoc sysadmin
if you have a lot of similar nodes to deploy i guess it's worth going the declarative minimalistic GUIX or Nix image route

2024-11-03 20:50:51 CET

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makes sense
besides the bandwidth, having a Tor bridge / snowflake proxy running from the same IP as a relay might be less useful because relay IPs are publicly listed, and snowflake proxies are supposed to be stealthy "hide in the crowd" things, so that they don't get blocked

2024-11-03 16:41:28 CET

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yes for reverse engineering this is generally something you'd want to do in software, not hardware: wireshark can intercept and show USB traffic
hardware USB interception devices are meant for vendors to debug problems with their USB implementation, and are really expensive especially if you need USB3 support

2024-11-03 16:31:31 CET

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brand new Tor relay !
https://media.x0f.org/d1a4aaa11daf17bf45ca409d9fe814a332ae5b9597ee2ae61433ff84d6cfeb72.png
it's running on a vps with unmetered 100mbit network connection, paid through lightning
#nevent1q…vdl6

2024-11-02 16:34:09 CET

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i think their main point lately is that one shouldn't specify too many relays in the NIP-65 metadata (inboxes and outboxes), because that's information for other people and makes it harder to find your posts or send a post to you
apart from that there's little reason to not use as many relays as you want, though things might become slower and/or more battery and bandwidth usage, but doesn't affect anyone else

2024-11-02 16:21:04 CET

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there's definitely the "can the master's tools be used to dismantle the master's house" kind of discussion
so i agree it's not entirely neutral, but it's also not completely opinionated on everything imbued by the author
there's a degree of neutrality, there can be shared goals and underlying methods, otherwise there would be no reason to cooperate on technology at all (which would entirely undermine FOSS), and clearly different people can use the same technology

2024-11-01 22:02:23 CET

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cool im already very good at losing money on nostr... cant wait to have more options...

2024-11-01 21:40:13 CET

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IPv2 upgrade incoming...
#nevent1q…cfyw

2024-11-01 21:11:40 CET

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no need for global namespaces where we're going 😅

2024-11-01 19:38:58 CET

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opened a channel

2024-11-01 19:19:55 CET

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yeah of the big sci-fi authors of that time Alastair Reynolds was always one of the only sci-fi authors to do female characters well imo

2024-11-01 18:58:40 CET

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upvoted!

2024-11-01 18:51:10 CET

bluesky just got its own social media icon on github, when will nostr finally get one! —
https://media.x0f.org/78b57a058e7759987fa434c026d2965acdabcbfa29689ffc4c3123136f094f61.png
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/131633

2024-11-01 17:12:31 CET

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if it's FOSS, sure...

2024-11-01 17:04:52 CET

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fwiw, BOLT-12 can do automatically renewing invoices, might be a game-changer for periodic subscriptions

2024-10-31 20:41:04 CET

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tbf it's often not so much about not liking bitcoin, but about not liking "bitcoin twitter" community and its atmosphere/culture
ignoring bitcoin content specifically doesn't solve that, only having a more diverse user base and different communities would

2024-10-31 20:30:33 CET

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didn't know github did seasonal theming, but looks kinda nice 🍂

2024-10-31 19:55:43 CET

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i already tried to convince Will of this a few days ago, don't bother
#nevent1q…ylks

2024-10-30 20:23:07 CET

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something i've noticed is that habla.news seems to ignore the relay specified in the naddr—so is often unable to find a post, if it's not on its default relays, and then hangs
(not that this naddr has a relay specified)

2024-10-29 17:38:58 CET

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i want to change my passport gender marker to '); DROP TABLE Citizens;

2024-10-28 19:00:20 CET

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hah you could say so !
i had been arguing to remove miniupnp since i had a CVE-2015-6031 based local network code execution exploit PoC, but back in the day people were really hesitant to remove it, because of potentially losing connectable nodes, and at some point i gave up
it looks that that sentiment changed over time; that was one of the most popular (and least controversial) PRs in a while 😀
i guess having a built-in NATPMP/PCP implementation made the last ones change their mind

2024-10-28 18:48:29 CET

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it's definitely not impossible that there's a bug in leveldb ! maybe it's possible to diagnose it if it keeps happening more or less consistently there
it's just that, data corruption messages tend to show as "error in leveldb" (because that's the thing causing most of i/o) and thus people are first to blame leveldb, it's such a common trope
i've investigated a few corrupted databases back in the day and every time it was a bitflip or some other issue more likely to be caused by hardware than software problems
while on reliable hardware it tends to be possible to run syncs back to back in a loop without trouble
the thing is, there are few workloads that put modern hardware to the test, and are also super-critical about every bit of correctness like a blockchain sync, so it makes sense you're not seeing problems with anything else
still, it could potentially be a bug that happens in very specific circumstances

2024-10-28 18:29:51 CET

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fwiw, it's very possible to host nostrudel (or other web clients) locally instead of using it from the author's website
this is what i do, it's simply a static website once built

2024-10-28 18:07:36 CET

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you get that error because it's a robust database; if leveldb didn't do the CRC checksum on records, the UTXO corruption would go undetected, and there could be much worse consequences like losing coins

2024-10-28 18:03:15 CET

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doesn't have to be the drive, could be a CPU issue too, or memory, or OS, anything can introduce corruption
bitcoind has always been a graet burn-in test for hardware

2024-10-28 17:59:48 CET

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fwiw, i kind of doubt it's a leveldb issue, i've done thousands of syncs from scratch without corruption, usually these kind of things are due to specific hardware conflicts or bugs

2024-10-26 18:10:00 CEST

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i remember the reason why i didn't use a []() link for the magnet link; just tried again and both nostrudel and habla won't allow "copy link" for some reason if you do (nostrudel will end up with a link to nostrudel.x0f.org, habla shows javascript void(0) ), so writing out the link seemed preferable, making it easier to copy/paste into whatever