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Notices by Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com), page 11

  1. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 21:14:55 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    in reply to
    • Jaz (IFTAS)
    @jaz You look way too old to be this ideological. What did mommy do to you? Do you still have unresolved feelings?
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  2. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 11:08:36 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    As I'm learning about Bitcoin Lightning, I'm seeing some major red flags. To use it, you need an account with a service provider. It's a username/password type of custodial account. Then, the node has full control over your funds. They could shut down without warning, or transfer your funds. The only way to actually have control is to run your own node, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of Lightning? The whole point is to allow many users to transfer tiny amounts of money a lot, eg zaps. To me, it seems that Lightning nodes have all the problems of Mastodon. Imagine the problems of Mastodon, except it's your bank account. That's bad. What am I missing?
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  3. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 01:22:58 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    What, how is this even a question? Reddit depravity.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. https://media.gleasonator.com/73187d6de9cd98ceda9a71c17d890dcb57b5999a67f678f1b4625c20c387f68f.png
  4. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 13:01:11 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Nintendo needs to create a modern sidescroller Zelda. Zelda in the style of Zelda II *but actually good this time* would be just the right mix of weird and nostalgic to work.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  5. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:13:44 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    in reply to
    • :btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐
    @graf They don't like you. But they don't discount your success.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  6. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 08:01:12 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Fun things you can do with internet identifiers like alex@gleasonator.com:

    Webfinger (used by ActivityPub)

    Nostr NIP-05

    Bitcoin Lightning (dumb method)

    Bitcoin Lightning (other dumb method)

    Email???

    These should probably all be part of Webfinger, since Webfinger was designed to do all of it.

    Also it would be neat to build a little React app where you can enter an internet identifier, and it pulls all these URLs to give information about what it all supports.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. https://media.gleasonator.com/7ce6e449406193a602053ce735dc7818e6d84b94c247f63e8421211c10e2b33e.png
  7. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 04:26:15 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    in reply to
    • silverpill
    • Dave
    @silverpill @97c70a44366a6535c145b333f973ea86dfdc2d7a99da618c40c64705ad98e322 Should we convince Alby to implement this? They would probably do it. Curious what @dave things. I'm still researching keysend trying to understand possible alternatives. This is an LNURL flow.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  8. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 03:44:13 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    • silverpill
    • Dave
    @97c70a44366a6535c145b333f973ea86dfdc2d7a99da618c40c64705ad98e322 Mastodon API is not ActivityPub. It's a REST API inspired by Twitter's legacy API. Old versions of GNU Social were even API-compatible with Twitter, and you could use GNU Social client apps to interact with Twitter. Mastodon developed this idea out separately from ActivityPub. In fact Mastodon was not even originally an ActivityPub server - it added that later.

    Ditto exposes zaps in a way Mastodon API clients can implement, but it doesn't solve the ActivtyPub problem. Mostr does emit a "Zap" activity for zap receipts, but it doesn't actually contain all the necessary information you would need to verify the zap: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr/-/blob/main/src/activitypub/transmute.ts?ref_type=heads#L412-429 To complete it, I would need to add a stringified 9734 event in there and other essential fields like the preimage. I didn't add these things because I didn't understand how zaps actually work, and I'm only now starting to learn.

    The main issue with ActivityPub zaps is that the zap spec itself (NIP-57) requires a Nostr event to be sent to the LNURL callback in order to get a receipt. To build that Nostr event you need a keypair for the user. The receipt is then delivered to a Nostr relay. This essentially means that to implement Zaps, you have to implement Nostr. The only way around it is to ignore NIP-57 entirely and just go straight to sending Lightning payments. But then there's no way to get the receipt on the ActivityPub side, and thus no dopamine rush notification or any statistics or context about zaps on the protocol at all.

    Either a new spec would be required, for zappers like Alby to support an "activitypub" optional field in the lnurl callback (as they do for "nostr") and then emit an Activity of the receipt back to the AP server, or AP servers like Mastodon and Pleroma will have to implement basic Nostr features (maybe as a facade) to work within the existing system.

    cc @silverpill @dave
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. src/activitypub/transmute.ts · main · Soapbox / Mostr · GitLab
      A bridge between Nostr and the Fediverse. https://mostr.pub/
  9. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 12:51:08 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Lightning Zaps on Nostr are of event kind 9735. This is a reference to the Lightning protocol, whose default port on nodes is TCP port 9735. This is itself a reference to the UNICODE LIGHTNING SYMBOL, which has an ID of 9735! Not the High Voltage emoji, the meteorological lightning symbol: ☇
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  10. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 05:49:24 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Mostr bridge now supports setting a lightning bolt emoji ⚡ on your profile to enable zaps. Previously it was the text "lud16". That is now considered deprecated. The bolt supports both internet identifiers and LNURLs: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr/-/merge_requests/80/diffs
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. https://media.gleasonator.com/463124fab2e78de2087e1f8c3f3cab765e46d8f2844375719e886e0aa6a38186.png
    2. Support lud16 zap emoji (!80) · Merge requests · Soapbox / Mostr · GitLab
      Allows putting a lightning bolt emoji ⚡ in profile fields instead of the text lud16 to support lightning addresses.
  11. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 09:51:47 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Open Source is the secret of my success. Every great opportunity I've ever had was the result of Open Source. I skipped all the job interviews. I contributed patches and they hired me on the spot. I built open source and they found me. Without it, I would be just a regular man with precious ideas. Ideas aren't precious, no matter how good they are. Even the best creations aren't precious on their own. You could die an unknown Shakespeare. OPPORTUNITIES are precious. Open Source maximizes opportunities. People are resistant to it because they're afraid. Their heads are full of doubts, of tropes like "how will artists make money?" For that reason, brave people are able to benefit from Open Source while fearful people don't. If you want to be a successful software person and you're not already a millionaire, I would highly recommend building Open Source software.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  12. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 13:00:12 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Excited for the possibilities of Nostr+git integration. I want nothing more than the people to be off GitHub, and for self-hosting to actually be feasible.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  13. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:10:28 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    • Alex Gleason
    • fiatjaf
    @1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe3c89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411 @3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d One more thing. Nostr has the flexibility to do it both ways because of data portability. ActivityPub doesn't have this. Bluesky probably doesn't have this. But it's a major reason Nostr will win.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  14. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:10:24 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    • Alex Gleason
    • fiatjaf
    @1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe3c89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411 @3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d Mastodon has a pure anarchist philosophy when it comes to decentralization. They think your server should have zero reliance on anything else. Bluesky takes the opposite approach, more like an authoritarian socialist one, where there is an high level of reliance on the official Communist party servers, but the whole stack is made up of user-interchangeable microservices. So for example, as a user you could run a custom timeline algorithm service and other users could point to it. It's basically the Twitter microservices topology but users can set the URLs to each piece. Importantly, identity is centralized on Bluesky's BGS.

    Nostr does not take a pure anarchist approach to servers, but it does take a pure anarchist approach to clients. That's how it's different. Although in reality, with many clients relying on services such as nostr.build, and there being many singleton services like Primal or nsecBunker or whatever without the clear message to "host your own" as the main way of doing it, Nostr is a big mixture of everything.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  15. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 23:10:24 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    • fiatjaf
    @1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe3c89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411 @3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d Bluesky has clients, PDS, and BGS. The clients and PDS are explicitly open source. The BGS appears to maybe be open source (somebody did find a link) but it was buried inside some other repo. It would be wrong to call it proprietary even though they're a bit secretive.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  16. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 05:37:07 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Gamefreak: can't make a functional game

    Indie devs: open world Pokemon with guns https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. Save 10% on Palworld on Steam
      Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
  17. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 01:49:21 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    I want to smack whichever dumbass made this article at The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/19/mark-zuckerberg-artificial-general-intelligence-system-alarms-experts-meta-open-source
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. ‘Very scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts
      from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/danmilmo
      Meta CEO accused of being ‘irresponsible’ by considering making tools on par with human intelligence open source
  18. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 01:49:20 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    in reply to
    • :bible_wh::confederateflag:RMIV⛎:sonnenrad::yay:
    @RMIV Zuck is taking about releasing an Open Source AI

    "That is an existential threat to humanity"

    Right because a few corporations controlling AI is better.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink
  19. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 03:52:33 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    Perfect.
    In conversation about a year ago from gleasonator.com permalink

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    1. https://media.gleasonator.com/01d354f73e3a3186b32e7fae89f11bb4cffbbb57966c614691b549eec8179ece.png
  20. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 01:33:45 JST Alex Gleason Alex Gleason
    in reply to
    • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:
    • Hyolobrika
    @Hyolobrika @thatguyoverthere Of course. The only way it doesn't is if you consider animals to be objects, which the majority of people don't.
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    I create Fediverse software that empowers people online.I'm vegan btwNote: If you have a question for me, please tag me publicly. This gives the opportunity for others to chime in, and bystanders to learn.

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