Not possible.

Well, the rumors that the CIA created Signal don’t sound so ridiculous now, do they?

So let me get this straight… The US government spends 900 million on their defense budget and they’re using the same Signal group chat that I use to send my family baby pictures?

Really? What relay is your connection string using?

Good morning from Japan on this public holiday. Yesterday, I bought Keio Sakura(啓翁桜) at a flower shop. It is known as the cherry blossom of winter.

I thought about saying goodbye to photography. I couldn’t take pictures anymore. It’s just a hobby, so I could quit anytime—but these two photobooks saved me. From now on, I’ll keep capturing the things that catch my eye in the moment, as they come. Good night✨

Decided to temporarily switch back to Wallet of Satoshi. Not sure if my Alby Hub node has insufficient connectivity or I am doing something wrong, but want to experiment with how well or bad zaps will go through back and forth. LN really needs some more love to be usable by general population. 🫡

My 2024 review and high-level report. Let's start with some stats for the nostr.build: - 720 Million media requests served - 650 TiB of bandwidth consumed - 8 Million unique visitors - 85% average cache hit rate - Improved median CPU time per request from 200 down to 2 milliseconds per request - 20 requests per second are served on average - 99.994% uptime for the hosted media - 98% uptime for the website and uploading servers - 2.5K daily free uploads on average Some improvements for the free uploads: - Increased free upload size from 10MiB to 50MiB - Increased image resolution from 1980px to 3840px - Increased per server RAM from 1GiB to 4GiB - Added full mirror of all uploaded media to the additional vendor (backup) - Implemented moderation headers (can be used to hide NSFW content if desired) Now some of the stats of my dev work for the nostr.build: - 1,333 git commits - 42 repositories with my contributions - 10k+ lines of code written, or changed Some features and completed projects: - Rewritten nostr.build account page (AI, stats, nostr share, drag-n-drop, variaty of sizes, poster for video, etc.) - Added AI Studio, onboarded multiple models from SD and Flux. - Added media statistics - Rewritten media serving front-end (dropping CPU utilization by 100x) and improving TTFB as well as cache hit rate (from 50%+ to 85%+ on average) - Implemented variaty of the spam, and other illegal media upload prevention mechanisms (automated AI media scanner, PhotoDNA scanner, etc.) - Implemented AI Moderation API that is shareable with other nostr media hosts (e.g., nostrcheck.me) - Implemented upload of pdf, zip, etc., with full virus scanning. - Various improvements to the PHP code, bug fixes and optimizations. - Implemented e.nostr.build to allow easy embedding and sharing of the video/audio files for the account holders - Referal links and account credits - Onboarded more nostr clients for uploads (e.g., YakiHonne) Some of the prototyping I've done for nostr.build: - Semantic search of the media (ML based), multilingual - Basic search for media using AI Vision - Video transcoding using serverless and server-based setups - Video transcoding to DASH/HLS (CMAF) - Multi-party audio/video chat Some of the in-flight projects that I'll have to complete in 2025: - Seamless implementation of the Blossom protocol (70% done) - Rewrite of the post-upload scanning to utilize workflows (50% done) - New video upload and transcoding experience, HLS, DASH, VBR video/audio (10% done) - New NoSQL based data-plane backend with the new API (50% done) - Full rewrite of the Accounts page (5% done, blocked by new API and data-plane) - Additional models for the AI Studio (90% done) - <Secret projects with new experiences and features> (25% done) I am sure I am forgetting a bunch, and this is only done from my memory.

Hot take: all nostr clients suck in their own unique way! 🫡🔥🔥🔥