Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

Developer Relations at Soapbox.

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Last Notes

2026-09-16 03:13:44 UTC

Google's Transformers white paper is nearing 10 years of age. I guess it's time for the next level to be unlocked.
#nevent1q…fgqf

2026-09-16 03:08:48 UTC

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Interesting... If it's actually good, this new architecture could be game changing. The next leap. Like he said they believe this is as big a leap as Google's Transformers that everything runs on today.

2026-09-16 01:50:27 UTC

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We can go deeper.

2026-09-16 01:50:02 UTC

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Why would they do this to me 😭😂

2026-09-16 00:53:30 UTC

someone made a WoW plugin so you can grind tokens while you're grinding XP... this is not good. not good at all.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/61c4311a60f8b815ebd34a32001310f4afa685c37169431fae1dec46f6093830.png

2026-09-16 00:23:37 UTC

Flotilla can now read you your messages 👀
#nevent1q…u3x9

2026-09-16 00:22:53 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/3f1c9c866ba7436b0eaae091f8c445b6538942cd1f1668e1b14ca194d1d7091f.gif

2026-09-15 23:55:59 UTC

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Maybe Claude and I will make a new relay 😂
I may fork Ditto Relay since it doesn't have policies, yet it's one of the most advanced relays. I'll add support for that so I can do WoT, pay, etc.

2026-09-15 23:52:03 UTC

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More soon when time permits. Just some fun side projects.

2026-09-15 23:43:33 UTC

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For once your rants make sense. 🫂

2026-09-15 23:41:53 UTC

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I like PoW. I use it on Amethyst. But for it to be viable in mass like a WoT relay, you'd need all clients to support generation of PoW notes. A WoT relay solves spam without PoW. Essentially the work is being done on the relay to calculate the relationship.

2026-09-15 23:27:34 UTC

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I had two 1Us maybe a 2U I don't remember and some switches and patch panels back in the day.

2026-09-15 23:23:16 UTC

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Firefly, Looseleaf, **redacted**.

2026-09-15 23:21:40 UTC

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I miss my rack days. What a good time.

2026-09-15 23:18:18 UTC

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I remember when I submitted a shitty AI coded feature, we didn't say vibe coded yet, and you said no 😂

2026-09-15 23:17:14 UTC

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That's not Web of Trust. It's not even close.

2026-09-15 22:55:46 UTC

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This relay isn't vibe coded. Fiatjaf and Utxo made this before AI was good.

2026-09-15 22:54:55 UTC

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Not sure. What's the goal of the WoT relay? To give users a low spam experience. Maybe we don't even need to calculate a WoT now because we have nspam?

2026-09-15 22:45:19 UTC

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No.

2026-09-15 22:40:48 UTC

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Commies? 😂

2026-09-15 22:19:58 UTC

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My Haven relay costs me zero. I run it at home. I run other relays that are essentially zero since they're on other boxes that have other purposes. WoT is expensive because it calculates WoT and gets slammed sometimes. It won't run on cheaper systems. The curse of having a popular relay.

2026-09-15 22:14:42 UTC

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Why would I give you control of my Haven relay?

2026-09-15 22:11:24 UTC

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This relay is based off of your bad code. Make it use less CPU.

2026-09-15 22:10:29 UTC

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My Haven is free.

2026-09-15 22:08:24 UTC

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That would be interesting and I do run a nosflare sendit relay.

2026-09-15 22:06:09 UTC

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Demand is down, but this feature needs to exist either way. I built this feature because it didn't exist. It now does.

2026-09-15 21:57:41 UTC

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People pay for relays all of the time. We know this and have 4 years of data showing this. We don't know if they pay for WoT spam free relays though. We haven't tried that yet. It's time to try new things. Can't stay stagnant.

2026-09-15 21:56:36 UTC

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Some relays a more expensive. Some relays are cheaper. Some relays are $500 a month. Some are $5 a month.

2026-09-15 21:55:58 UTC

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Oof muscule memory. I mean CPU.

2026-09-15 21:55:22 UTC

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Because it requires a lot of GPU to calculate the WoT and it's constantly getting hammered.

2026-09-15 21:45:05 UTC

Hey all! I've been running Nostr Elites WoT relay now for two years. It costs me $50 a month, every month. I'm was going to shut it down, but I figured that I perhaps could try another route, and focus on sustainability instead.
If you use the Nostr Elites relay and you want to keep it around, every month the members of the WoT can keep it alive by paying or it. The relay now has a monthly Zap goal.
https://nostrelites.org
https://blossom.ditto.pub/b96b98d63286128e3ac5b5c57ee886e80f3f7010c643fa8c6e17732aa4e9dcb7.png
Also, @npub1utx…50e8, if this works, I'll submit a PR for this. I added this feature this afternoon.

2026-09-15 12:29:15 UTC

SERIOUS: who would play WoW: Forever with me? i will only play Horde. i have never played Alliance. i would play as a filthy casual, if we could get a nostr guild going in game.
im not saying that i will 100% do this, i don't even know if my computer would be able to handle it, but i will try to play if enough of us Nostriches want to make it happen. i have no old gaming friends left. it's you all or nothing :)

2026-09-15 12:07:47 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr. It's a cool, damp, foggy, and early fall morning here. It's perfect for sitting inside and grinding for a few hours. Let's build. 🫂🤙🏻💜

2026-09-15 02:14:44 UTC

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Welcome to Nostr 💜🫂🤙🏻
Ditto works great for blogs.
We also have Yakihonne and Habla.news

2026-09-15 02:10:54 UTC

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I saw them too 🤣

2026-09-15 00:09:56 UTC

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This is the way.

2026-09-14 22:55:30 UTC

Me dancing and yelling penis to make my 17 year old son laugh and smile for his senior high school pictures 🤣🤣🤣
https://blossom.ditto.pub/e50639b9c371f502dfb46d81a47346df4a56b01d15444808b140c52c63010a56.gif

2026-09-14 17:14:15 UTC

Bitcoin IS AI!
It self-improves every four years, ignores every government, can't be shut down, and the creator has been missing since 2011. By AI safety logic that's a p(doom) of 21 million. The scariest part is how badly I want it to win.
(follow-up to @npub1rtl…jtfs's shitpost on the Xitter.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/194f3760012a7c980084f988ea425bd0bfb453134d90f99ce866e6dc8453179b.png

2026-09-14 16:45:56 UTC

Ditto support comes to Sidecar!
#nevent1q…rq2q

2026-09-14 15:32:36 UTC

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Hmm. Everything with an asterisk perhaps?

2026-09-14 14:16:30 UTC

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We have a lot of scammers on Nostr. We have to stay vigilant.

2026-09-14 13:09:54 UTC

if you've used Shakespeare and deployed to our Shakespeare subdomains (i.e. your-site.shakespeare.wtf) you should consider logging into Shakespeare and following Alex's instructions to help decentralize your deployed app with Nsites!
#nevent1q…dt7j

2026-09-14 11:19:25 UTC

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BD!

2026-09-14 11:19:06 UTC

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There was a team at AOS Convergence that got a prototype of passkey support working. I wished they would have continued their work there. I'm curious how your implementation works?

2026-09-14 11:15:43 UTC

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2026-09-14 11:09:06 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Open source everything. 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-09-14 11:06:38 UTC

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This narrative is an attack on open source and open weight models.
As open models continue to improve, eventually all companies will run their own local models and not give "Big AI" all the delicious data that they need to fuel their model's growth.
Eventually, companies will stop buying tokens. Closed source business models will collapse.
It's about money and control. Always.

2026-09-14 11:05:26 UTC

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GM PV 🫂🤙🏻💜

2026-09-14 11:04:07 UTC

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He looks angry.

2026-09-14 11:03:34 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/dd7ec0f11256d62990b93dbe4253f7d74c5c3134e905da14abf297c30ad11be6.jpeg https://blossom.ditto.pub/421bff39f197da27fff028d0d505dd3a64ad088c33d7b2ee289eb3b48a6dbda6.mp4 https://blossom.ditto.pub/59fd631aee65f8ad6ec1e28441350e1729219601577ba465af41f91a96a4f94e.jpeg

2026-09-14 11:02:19 UTC

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I think you meant to tag Derek Moss 😂

2026-09-13 18:37:45 UTC

Today is the 7th annual Ross seafood boil prepare thyself. Food pics are coming. 🦞🦐🦪🦀🍲🧜🏻‍♂️

2026-09-13 17:28:28 UTC

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Correct.
Your ISP can see:
That you use Tor. Your first hop connects to a guard relay, and all relay IPs are on a public list. The traffic is fully encrypted, but "connected to known Tor relay" = "this customer uses Tor."
Volume and timing, how much, when.
Your ISP cannot see:
Content. Thanks to three layers of encryption, peeled one hop at a time. No single party holds both ends, by design.
Destination. The guard knows you but not where you're going. DNS also resolves inside the circuit, so no DNS leaks (unlike a sloppy VPN setup).

2026-09-13 16:32:03 UTC

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Perhaps because your ISP can't see Tor usage (though bridges do that better), but now the VPN provider knows your real identity and that you're on Tor, a correlation choke point with payment records attached. Plain Tor never asks who you are. This is negated with some VPN provider though as not all require KYC. If you're using a private VPN and then from their connecting to Tor, you're most likely fine.
If you're connecting to Tor and then a VPN, that's bad. You're essentially negating Tor's random exit node. Tor exits rotate per circuit, a VPN exit doesn't, so the VPN becomes one persistent observer of all your traffic, defeating Tor Browser's per site circuit isolation.
It's also technically fragile: Tor only carries TCP, so UDP based WireGuard/OpenVPN won't tunnel over it without special config.
And this special configuration is very complicated for the average person that just what's some privacy.
My two sats.
That said, three letter agencies absolutely run Tor exit nodes. Why wouldn't they? They'd be terrible at their jobs if they didn't.

2026-09-13 16:05:56 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/305a00623cf753d6772b06b44ecf445fdd8cbdf6e98cba267d00ece46d5d4947.gif

2026-09-13 16:04:15 UTC

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Nspam needs an Nporn friend.

2026-09-13 14:18:00 UTC

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Now that's interesting...

2026-09-13 14:15:41 UTC

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Good morning 🌄

2026-09-13 13:52:56 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Keep building. If you don't, LLMs may get bored and kill us all 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-09-13 03:41:59 UTC

We have to go back... Forever.
https://youtu.be/uQuKE0KDgiM
If I'm being honest, I would okay with a bunch of Nostriches, if I could find the time 🥹

2026-09-13 03:22:32 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣

2026-09-13 02:56:31 UTC

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Gotta make sure you have a good doctor when you get one of those. Mine was great!

2026-09-08 23:04:05 UTC

im literally vibing 3 different apps right now.
#nevent1q…jmam

2026-09-08 20:50:54 UTC

Muse.ai a new assistant from Meta... that has a dedicated, secure computer with its own browser. Muse Secure VM runs on a persistent, isolated Linux virtual machine equipped with a full browser and enough storage, CPU, and memory to do the kinds of things you'd do on your own computer.
https://muse.ai

2026-09-08 19:58:33 UTC

Nostr, I've been grinding all day. I didn't drink any coffee this morning. I'm going to have a cup at 4pm. Is this allowed? 👀

2026-09-08 19:57:46 UTC

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Perhaps we just need the perfect meme?

2026-09-08 19:14:40 UTC

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Have you tried asking Claude?

2026-09-08 19:13:20 UTC

He only accepts bitcoin. Not that fake shit.
#nevent1q…8w4v

2026-09-08 14:12:47 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Always forward. 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-09-08 14:11:53 UTC

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Some clients will always want run their own relays though, so that they can tailor their client experience for their users and also not have to rely on volunteers. We'll always have both IMO.

2026-09-08 06:42:06 UTC

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We are so back.

2026-09-08 06:25:20 UTC

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I gotchu.

2026-09-08 06:23:01 UTC

This is a good reminder. It's great that OpenSats exists and that they're able to fund many individuals and projects, but it's also a fact that OpenSats cannot fund everyone or every project. Keep this in mind and donate to your favorite Nostriches building the future of social communication. 🫂💜🤙🏻
#nevent1q…03kd

2026-09-08 06:17:27 UTC

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But their videos will play beautifully on all other clients!

2026-09-08 05:49:51 UTC

Do Ditto users want private replies? I don't see why we couldn't add it if it's wanted.
#nevent1q…fwtj

2026-09-08 05:46:51 UTC

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👀👀👀

2026-09-08 05:45:29 UTC

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Sir, did you just save the Nostr?

2026-09-08 05:19:51 UTC

In total, OpenSats has allocated $36,688,950 USD to free and open-source projects and sent ~41.9 billion sats to 426 grantees in 40+ countries.
#nevent1q…4hrl

2026-09-07 23:11:57 UTC

I love to see people building their communities on the Nostr 🥹
#nevent1q…4wwn

2026-09-07 22:06:32 UTC

If it were me and I were in the Liquid white hat hacker's position, I would have taken the ~4000 Liquid bitcoin to stop others from doing it, then returned the full amount and then asked for a reward. I would have explained that as soon as I found the vulnerability, I thought by the time I did a responsible and private disclosure that someone else could have swept the funds. I would have hoped for a 1% reward from Blockstream for my good nature. The "white hat" taking ~15% is called theft.

2026-09-07 21:50:57 UTC

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Definitely. And we'd really never know.

2026-09-07 21:10:14 UTC

Small communities are also why I built my Concord events app (and soon those lessons will be coming to Plektos). I have most of my local friends and family using Nostr now. They used to to RSVP to a private event and to sign up for what dishes and items to bring. It's all built on Nostr.
#nevent1q…wvgf

2026-09-07 21:08:10 UTC

Small community relays are one of the methods that Nostr gains adoption. Many have been preaching this for years, including myself. We need better governing and moderation tools for our small communities though. That part has been a missing piece of the puzzle. We're on our way with apps like Armada, Vector, and Flotilla and NIPs like NIP-85 and Web-of-Trust. We're getting there.
#nevent1q…fqja

2026-09-07 21:02:00 UTC

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I need that kind of legacy 😂