Hello. Thanks for the test. You are Megalithic.me, correct? I was really helped by your documentation when setting up the node initially, so it's good to hear from you. Anyway, since the server hosting my Lightning address is run by an amateur, the connection is a bit unstable. It was turned off and on again yesterday while some work was being done. It's strange because by the time you replied, the work should have been finished. I tested sending from my separate wallet just now, and it did go through. However, this has happened before. For example, transfers to my address from Wallet of Satoshi didn't work. I don't know the reason. When I inquired with them, I received a response suggesting it might be because my server supports too limited TLS options, but looking at my Nginx configuration, that doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway, it's a mystery. I'm starting to think it might be best to just leave the operation to a professional, as you advised. I plan to do so if I see a few more failures.

Just in case anyone doesn't know, your follow list is completely public data on Nostr, and due to how decentralized SNS works, it is the type of data that is rarely but is recommended to be broadcast to almost all relays. ​And this information is utilized for various purposes. The most common use is to act as a filter to screen out unpleasant spam. Since Nostr has no administrators (censors), a separate mechanism is needed to filter spam, and it's typically used to make an assumption like: posts by people who are followed by the people I follow are probably not spam, and so on. ​If you still see an unpleasant image despite such filtering, it means someone in your follow list is following the spammer who posted that unpleasant image, which naturally leads to users trying to find out who that person is. ​Of course, I know that following someone doesn't necessarily mean agreement, support, or affection for that person, but your taste can be questioned, so I hope you manage your follow list with a bit more caution. ​If you feel those around you don't know this, please boost this so they can become aware without feeling awkward. Lol. ​I should also check my own follow list to see if I've accidentally followed anyone

#foodstr

I lost it :( My precious 5 sats (7 including fees) are gone lol.

Today, I finished migrating the translation service for #jumble to a self-hosted setup. I initially looked into LibreTranslate, as it was an available option, and discovered it's an open-source translation model. However, after testing it, the quality was significantly lower than Jumble's official translation service—to the point of being unusable. Then, I remembered that the translation performance from Ollama, which I use regularly, is quite impressive. So, I built a simple adapter that mimics the LibreTranslate API but delegates the actual translation work to Gemma3:27B running via Ollama. It's working perfectly.

Most people don't really understand what inflation actually means. In that state, nothing you say will make any difference.

If on-chain transactions are inconvenient, they can use Lightning channels; if channel liquidity management is inconvenient, they can run a Chashu mint — so if someone still insists on creating an alt, it means they have some other agenda.

Feeds from individuals following thousands of different pubkeys are fundamentally impossible to paginate in a true sense, and I see this as the biggest performance issue with nostr. That's why most people say the most practical solution is for each person to keep their following list at a reasonable size. However, from my past experience studying Neo4j’s internal structure, I realized that structural support is actually possible for paginating notes from arbitrary lists of pubkeys in reverse chronological order. Unlike current typical relay architectures—where we have to fetch a batch of events per pubkey, then merge and re-sort them—it felt like Neo4j’s structure could directly query only the exact amount of data needed for a given limit and offset, making the operation much more efficient. But is this just theoretical? Would it actually not be that much faster in practice?

The most important reason why Bitcoin is great is that it operates independently of traditional systems, functioning regardless of what laws or politicians do. People who keep talking about politicians needing to "do something" or worrying about what happens "if politicians regulate it" clearly still don't understand what Bitcoin is.

I've been using amethyst and amber together, and even though I haven't received any DMs, I keep getting requests to decrypt something. Does anyone know what this is? #asknostr