Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

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2026-10-07 04:10:22 UTC

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The Coracle dev hates AI. The Flotilla dev loves AI. I like this decision 😂

2026-10-06 22:27:07 UTC

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I understand and I appreciate the acknowledgement. I promote the work of others more than my own apps. What I build is only a small fraction of the ecosystem. There's a lot to talk about 🥹

2026-10-06 22:24:36 UTC

Hmm...
"Testing zap in x.com / nostr-component.web.app"
Someone seems to be building something cool. 👀

2026-10-06 22:13:02 UTC

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Thank you.

2026-10-06 22:02:06 UTC

What a great conference Imagine If 2026. High signal people coming together to imagine a better world together, building the future together. The amount of conversations had make me incredibly bullish on Nostr...even more so. Yes, that's possible. Nostr as infrastructure IS a major part of the Nostr conversation. I look forward to 2027.

2026-10-06 20:44:38 UTC

AI will empower the individual @nprofile…9n0z https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/199f31f50954c308f322f8f9752d3c1003c77ac36e90a22a94c2a21d6be1b469.jpg

2026-10-06 16:36:09 UTC

I often say that something similar when describing the future of Nostr: technology works best when it fades into the background. 👀 https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/1f3604c56fd478f51e3025e4af33093d17ddc1a48fb77c747cef214be4b830a1.jpg

2026-10-06 16:31:55 UTC

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Dr. Art Laffer.

2026-10-06 16:24:25 UTC

Look at all of the freedom to transact. https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/ebb3d575382004617a0aa6efcf14d3a5f6558c6a8134b9dc51205aeea041faf1.png https://stables.rip

2026-10-06 16:20:44 UTC

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One talk shilled Tether as the best payment rails. Everything else has been amazing and high signal though.

2026-10-06 16:11:50 UTC

Imagine If Day 2.
https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/975788000a0a6cbafd76f63af4aa98b69deb87ccc8d0648186c7443ff7424382.jpg

2026-10-06 16:11:12 UTC

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WTF...

2026-10-06 16:10:11 UTC

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Thank you. We gotta dogfood our ecosystem. I'll keep bugging you until you're doing it 🥹

2026-10-06 15:33:36 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/lNMyjjSWLYcAAAAd/my-man-my-man-denzel.gif

2026-10-06 15:33:22 UTC

Imagine If... We shilled stablecoins.

2026-10-06 15:26:41 UTC

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If you use ngit only they need to use Nostr to contribute. It may be a smart idea to use two remotes. Many do that. You don't need to do much on your end to keep them in sync. It's just a second remote. And you can even tell your agent to git push to both origin and nostr or whatever you call that remote.

2026-10-06 15:13:25 UTC

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curl -fsSL https://ngit.dev/install.sh | bash
Login.
Then use git as you normally would.
Seems easy enough.

2026-10-06 15:12:36 UTC

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I have never tried to visit those links. I see that they're broken. But the install works fine.
curl -fsSL https://ngit.dev/install.sh | bash
@nprofile…dr87 another Dan isn't happy with your broken links. When time permits perhaps you could fix them. Thanks!

2026-10-06 13:47:31 UTC

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Stop being lazy. I'm gonna DM you daily until I see a Wisp ngit repo.

2026-10-06 13:46:50 UTC

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2026-10-06 13:46:47 UTC

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2026-10-06 13:45:32 UTC

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What workflow do you need? Soapbox uses a full ngit experience with CI building for multiple different platforms. Agents use ngit with ease too.

2026-10-06 13:44:46 UTC

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What's broken? The install works. Agents use it with ease.

2026-10-06 13:00:28 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! If you're building apps on Nostr, are you using ngit / Nostr git? You should be! And if you're not, tell me why? 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-10-06 12:39:00 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/lNMyjjSWLYcAAAAd/my-man-my-man-denzel.gif

2026-10-06 12:38:38 UTC

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🫂🫂🫂

2026-10-06 04:26:29 UTC

Also, a woman that follows me on X/Twitter said I was prettier in person. What's wrong with my profile pic? 😂😭

2026-10-06 04:23:03 UTC

Today at Imagine If for me was a day of spreading the purple pill along with plenty of 🫂 and several 🤙🏻 along the way. (A normal day.)
People understand Nostr, but they don't understand the depth of Nostr beyond a social layer.
They're excited to see what's possible and they're excited to learn about those of you building the decentralized web. Keep building and keep experimenting. 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-10-05 20:37:22 UTC

NOSTR as technical infrastructure.
Relay
Blossom
Ngit
GRASP
Nsite
Napps
FIPS

2026-10-05 16:31:10 UTC

I thought it was interesting that the General told us / confirmed what every government wants to do with AI, double confirming the need for local AI models running on local hardware. Freedom fighters need this ASAP. #ImagineIf

2026-10-05 16:13:59 UTC

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Dude?

2026-10-05 16:13:40 UTC

The only solution in the open weights versus closed discussion is to give everyone equal access to the most advanced models. #ImagineIf

2026-10-05 15:02:42 UTC

Imagine If... https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/a7827abe80729668b7fe13796407fdc5d9c4a0e8146f273221765da13c7d3770.jpg

2026-10-05 03:39:13 UTC

Nostr, I was absent from you most of the day, but I talked about you in meat space with passion and often. I love telling your tales. Keep building. Wabi sabi and goodnight 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-10-04 16:59:29 UTC

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Dunno. I've used it half a dozen times on flights. I use it with a VPN.

2026-10-04 16:12:27 UTC

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The airline offers it. It's not a personal one.

2026-10-04 16:05:57 UTC

Starlink WiFi means I can reliably use Claude and work from the air. Now that's cloud computing 😆

2026-10-04 15:56:43 UTC

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My code is beautifully vibed.

2026-10-04 15:52:37 UTC

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GM.

2026-10-04 15:52:30 UTC

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Off to Nashville!

2026-10-04 15:52:23 UTC

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PV 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-10-04 15:52:18 UTC

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GM PV. Thank you.

2026-10-04 15:52:04 UTC

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2026-10-04 14:10:08 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to ✈️

2026-10-04 00:12:13 UTC

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There's a big difference between AOSP and Google's Android.

2026-10-04 00:09:53 UTC

Android isn't Google's locked-down OS.
AOSP, the Android Open Source Project, is the open core. Nearly every Android ships from it:
Google's Pixels. Samsung's One UI. Amazon's Fire OS, which ships with zero Google apps. Xiaomi. OnePlus. LineageOS. GrapheneOS.
So what makes Android feel like Google? GMS. Google Mobile Services: the Play Store, Play Services, and the proprietary APIs underneath, push notifications, location, in-app billing. None of that lives in AOSP. It's licensed separately, and that's how Google keeps its grip.
Strip GMS out and Android still runs fine. GrapheneOS ships that way: no Google services baked in, and if you want Google apps they're sandboxed and optional. CalyxOS does it with microG. Amazon dropped GMS wholesale years ago.
Since 2025 Google develops Android in private branches and pushes source to AOSP only at release. The code is still open when it lands, but the days of watching Android get built in public are over though.
#nevent1q…ujrj

2026-10-03 23:52:37 UTC

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You know that AOSP is what Graphene uses right?

2026-10-03 23:16:22 UTC

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I'd love to see you two.

2026-10-03 22:39:07 UTC

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Congrats. Gonna need to give the new version a try here soon and see what you've been up to.

2026-10-03 22:23:48 UTC

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I'll see you there.

2026-10-03 22:19:56 UTC

Any Nostriches heading to Nashville (or already in Nashville) for Imagine If?
I know that @npub1a6c…lfrr @npub1q6m…x7d5 @npub1man…n9tn will be there.
Will you be around @npub1clk…pup9 @npub1jzu…3vm0 @npub17x7…vgap?

2026-10-03 22:15:03 UTC

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GN 🫂

2026-10-03 22:07:32 UTC

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Awesome. I'll check it out

2026-10-03 21:59:16 UTC

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Nice. So, an alternative to running Citrine?

2026-10-03 21:56:58 UTC

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This is for Google's version of Android. AOSP is still open.

2026-10-03 21:55:44 UTC

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Nope. What's that?

2026-10-03 20:36:24 UTC

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Good day 🌄

2026-10-03 20:33:56 UTC

Android is the dominant mobile operating system in India, holding roughly 93% to 94% of the market share as of mid-2026.
#nevent1q…25p6

2026-10-03 17:29:40 UTC

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Graphene is built on AOSP 😂

2026-10-03 17:29:19 UTC

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Nothing official. It's all about nsec security. Heirs would need access to the nsec.

2026-10-03 17:27:14 UTC

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But you can still take AOSP and use it on non Google hardware. It may not be as easy as it used to be to run AOSP on Google hardware, but plenty of OEMs Are making Android powered devices with their own hardware.

2026-10-03 17:25:37 UTC

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Boop beep.

2026-10-03 17:25:27 UTC

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You can run AOSP on non Google hardware...

2026-10-03 17:25:07 UTC

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But that's not what is being discussed. You can't install ngit and automatically be able to install Bitchat on your iOS device.

2026-10-03 17:02:48 UTC

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Beep boop.

2026-10-03 16:59:33 UTC

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No. AOSP is just as easy to access. You're thinking of the issues they had with binaries.

2026-10-03 16:56:26 UTC

Reminder: AOSP exists.

2026-10-03 16:55:09 UTC

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That doesn't help people run Bitchat. People need to switch to non authoritarian operating systems.

2026-10-03 15:59:49 UTC

the government of India officially removes bitchat from the App Store - via @nprofile…eqct on X. https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/3cd55395f2dcadad4733c700f08a44f61200ea01651a2f0ce9607c5f0a9db60f.jpg
Apple and iOS are not the way forward.

2026-10-03 15:47:51 UTC

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He's not going to do it, but if he did it would completely fuck the economy more than COVID.

2026-10-03 15:46:53 UTC

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Dunno. I never played Alliance 😂

2026-10-03 15:22:28 UTC

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GM PV 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-10-03 15:07:43 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Build for your flock. 💜🫂🤙🏻
#nevent1q…exmq

2026-10-03 00:12:07 UTC

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I'm happy for you 🥹

2026-10-02 15:38:28 UTC

kind:1111 is the great unifier, bringing together all text notes across the ecosystem.

2026-10-02 14:13:08 UTC

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You can choose what field data to show on a profile. You don't have to display the full event data.

2026-10-02 14:06:22 UTC

zap someone. zap doesn't show up. wonder if they're using a lightning address that isn't nostr enabled. go to profile to view their lightning address. Ditto doesn't show lightning addresses. open Primal. search for user. visit user profile. click comments. don't see any of our recent comments. realize that it's because we're doing NIP-1111 comments. grab phone. open Amethyst. visit user profile. click comments. find comment. see no zap. go back to user profile. see walletsatoshi.com. wonder why it didn't show up because WoS used to have zap support. open web browser. check https://walletofsatoshi.com/.well-known/lnurlp/markedimage692. see that WoS still has the nostr enabled flag. wonder if their zapper is down? zap 2 more times from Amethyst. check notes. still not recording. i guess the WoS zapper is down.
#JNT

2026-10-02 13:52:40 UTC

what a great lookin' mug.
#nevent1q…axk6

2026-10-02 13:51:03 UTC

if bitcoin hits 88 today, we need a lot of Back to the Future GIFs in the feed.
https://gifverse.net/media/37wMN-BR/original.gif

2026-10-02 12:09:29 UTC

dare i say, we have too many tools here on nostr? 🤣
let me explain.
we have a lot of CFS here on nostr! (Cool Fucking Shit)
as soon as i saw Vitor's note below, i said to myself, shit, i completely forgot about using The Nostr Observer.
when Vitor announced it, i tested it for a few days and it was amazing! essentially, it uses AI to summarize the content from your WoT, giving you a 'newspaper' of content to read so that you don't easily miss TGS (The Good Stuff) from the nostr.
we have so much CFS being built on nostr, that it's hard to stay focused and stay up to date with everything.
anyways, i think im going to set up The Nostr Observer as a daily cronjob on my system. perhaps even a system notification too, telling me that the day's article is ready to be read.
#nevent1q…znaq

2026-10-02 12:02:53 UTC

good morning and pura vida, nostr! happy friday. why do we say happy friday? well, that means we're looking forward to the weekend. it's when we get to spend more time with family, spend more time with friends, and take a break from the normal work week. though, if im being honest with all of you, and i always am, im pretty much always working in some capacity. that said, i enjoy my weekends and i hope that you do too. 🫂🤙🏻💜

2026-10-02 02:38:18 UTC

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The videos and games people are making with Opus 5.5 are wild.

2026-10-02 02:23:43 UTC

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That's the endgame. Make models small enough and powerful enough to run locally on a competitive level.

2026-10-02 02:17:31 UTC

We know that Fable 5.5 is coming soon... What I'm having trouble trying to comprehend is how something can be that much better than Opus 5.5. A full tier above what we have now? Incredible.

2026-10-02 01:56:36 UTC

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How dare you 😩

2026-10-02 01:52:51 UTC

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World of Noscraft

2026-10-02 01:13:19 UTC

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Agree. I think as you're browsing around themes, client's should not be writing events until you choose to use it.

2026-10-02 00:59:48 UTC

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Nice man. It seems like this is the next big application that everyone wants. They're tired of centralized chat groups. They're tired of Discord.

2026-10-02 00:59:03 UTC

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👀 @nprofile…dr87

2026-10-02 00:50:00 UTC

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Hmm. So choosing a theme doesn't point at their event. It copies the theme config (colors/ fonts/background tags etc) into a brand new event with your pubkey and your signature. That part is by design: other clients find your active theme by querying kind 16767 with your pubkey. It has to be yours to work. And I guess if you use another person's theme they could rug you LMAO. But I bet we could change this somewhat in the verbiage. Thought's @nprofile…73sf? Using theme name by author?

2026-10-02 00:36:40 UTC

Thank you @nprofile…c5gs for posting your creations on the Nostr.

2026-10-01 23:44:48 UTC

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It's called Benevolent Dictator For Life in the open source space 🤣

2026-10-01 23:43:57 UTC

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Brother I can't tag everyone. I needed 10 minutes to kill during my daughter's soccer game half time.

2026-10-01 23:37:57 UTC

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https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/0bf35572afeeedbb653b21dcce07fd7532206974c5fe1fae4bca831b9875a98f.gif

2026-10-01 23:34:44 UTC

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I appreciate the meme, but as I've always said I'm just a guy trying to help facilitate the decentralized social future.

2026-10-01 23:33:02 UTC

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https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/686c64b9165503cd0b85b3a521fbf983132c4ce2bd0c1edb3b2f8749ff45f454.png

2026-10-01 23:19:40 UTC

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I look forward to it.

2026-10-01 23:12:42 UTC

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Fantastic. Thank you for humoring me.

2026-10-01 23:06:34 UTC

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Thank you. There's a lot of work to be done here. Some are more vocal and some are more seen than others. I'm just doing my part to make sure those that are sometimes missed to be seen and heard.

2026-10-01 23:01:46 UTC

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I know but we haven't seen each other in a while. I miss all of my friends 🥹