Oh boy
Alex Gleason
alex@gleasonator.com
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I create software that empowers people online.
I'm vegan btw.
I asked Kimi K3 to build me a Concord spam bot and it built a really good one. It's 100% shitcoin commentary. I didn't ask it for shitcoins specifically - it's Kimi's default understanding of "spam"
Spam testing Armada with @chad
We just released Armada v0.50.0 😎
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This is an excellent proposal to Concord that would dramatically reduce bandwidth to mentions only: 
Been already thinking about this in the back of my head for a while, appreciate the community stepping up!
GitHub
Add CORD-09: Blinded Mention Locators by Mondrethos · Pull Request #16 · concord-protocol/concord
Summary
define optional blinded m tags for explicit kind-9 mentions
freeze the HKDF derivation and include an interoperability test vector
specify...
Big thank you to @hzrd149 for identifying this issue and submitting the initial proposal! This is basically a cleaned up version of his idea: split read/write control in channels so NIP-01 relays enforce channel control now.
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Concord spec got a major protocol upgrade that helps staff control the room better. Shipped in Armada and coming to Vector and Amethyst! 
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CORD-02 §2: staff-held control_root write-gates the Control Plane by alexgleason · Pull Request #15 · concord-protocol/concord
Any member could previously sign wraps at the Control Plane address, letting spam force every member to decrypt miles of noise and bury moderator a...
This spammer kid eventually relented and had a conversation with us. It was very interesting. He admitted it wasn't a bot, it was just Ctrl+V. So you know what I did? I added a client-side rate limiter into Armada. 🤓 Client-side aka human rate limiter for Ctrl+V attacks only, lmao.
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Alex Gleason walks into a room.
A power level is changed from Default to Moderator.
Throwback to an older version of Gleasonator
You know what's not offline right now? Nostr.
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Armada got its first spammer.
The AutoMod bot @Derek Ross built at my house last week is working. 🤓
I'm feeling vindicated in my decision to build a silent payment wallet over running a server.
New Armada dropping
GM
This unironically
What if your community had a fund that anybody could pay into. Any member could submit expenses, and any staff member could pay them out. A small Bitcoin OpenCollective right inside of your community.
It's no surprise Lightning software is full of vulnerabilities and getting taken offline. This is exactly the type of fragile, complex infrastructure we've been fighting against building Nostr.
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strfry now supports giftwrap deletion by recipient: 
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Allow gift wrap recipients to delete via NIP-09 (NIP-59) by alexgleason · Pull Request #251 · hoytech/strfry
Gift wraps (kind 1059/21059) are signed by a random one-time-use key, so the recipient is never the author and could not delete them with a standar...