Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

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Last Notes

2026-10-27 14:13:18 UTC

it's #NutNovember already?! time flies when you're nuts.
#nevent1q…vjf0

2026-10-27 13:33:20 UTC

good morning and pura vida, nostr! how we doing this fine tuesday morning? i have several toasters grinding away, building the future. how about you? 🫂🤙🏻💜

2026-10-27 02:04:34 UTC

now we're getting somewhere.
#nevent1q…8jcs

2026-10-27 01:28:44 UTC

who's going to be at Bitcoin Amsterdam next week?

2026-10-27 01:00:59 UTC

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Sames. Used it daily for two decades.

2026-10-26 21:44:48 UTC

Reddit's /r/opensource banned AI assisted projects. I wonder if they're going to ban IDE assisted projects. Real developers use vim only. Right?

2026-10-26 18:12:15 UTC

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Yes.

2026-10-26 16:24:30 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/604bcabe9bc304c534ee5e2edd0bb7aca3c8eccf35e57092b4dc53269ca7c9aa.png

2026-10-26 15:45:40 UTC

Anthropic's IPO filing warns AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."
In the same filing: please buy our stock at a valuation bigger than SpaceX.
Which is it? AI Bad or AI Good?
Anyways, if the most powerful technology of our time is this dangerous, the answer isn't to hand control of it to a handful of companies and their shareholders.
Open models for the win.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq398p1wd1evo

2026-10-26 15:20:50 UTC

i smirked, but also, i am feeling a bit burnt out myself. the last few months have been a roller coaster. still here though. still building, posting less, but still here.
#nevent1q…44w8

2026-10-26 14:13:38 UTC

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GIF

2026-10-26 14:12:34 UTC

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This is 100% Derek Slop.

2026-10-26 13:46:59 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/967a3871beb8d73f3bb8f590cecc2d05d7f5760894cb8b7abaf8005516f238d7.gif

2026-10-26 12:34:45 UTC

good morning and pura vida, nostr! happy monday. it's time to get to work. 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-10-26 01:11:12 UTC

Open Source Everything.
#nevent1q…ckhm

2026-10-26 01:10:51 UTC

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

2026-10-26 01:10:31 UTC

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Hmm...

2026-10-25 19:29:11 UTC

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If that's the case then it may not be as interesting as I thought.

2026-10-25 19:22:48 UTC

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Hmm. What if I run my own mint? Can I transfer it? I would assume since that's how regular Cashu tokens work.

2026-10-25 19:15:17 UTC

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Loves me some badges.

2026-10-25 19:15:06 UTC

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Can't answer that. I just thought I was an interesting concept since it's an actual monetary token.

2026-10-25 18:10:48 UTC

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Blockchain NFTs are dumb. They don't mean anything or ownership. They're essentially scams. Anyone can download the image.

2026-10-25 17:34:59 UTC

I love this!
I've said for nearly four years now that I wanted the NFT crowd to build on Nostr. I wanted them to build their community using Nostr tools instead of using Twitter and Discord. Hell yeah. Keep building.
Fuck NFTs in the traditinal sense.
A Cashu NFT is pretty cool though, because it's actually money.
#nevent1q…acr6

2026-10-25 16:49:38 UTC

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Gotta use Kimi or GLM 😂 American AI is gimped for cyber security.

2026-10-25 15:53:06 UTC

Interesting.
https://stealmybitcoin.com

2026-10-25 15:34:10 UTC

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Canoe in disbelief.

2026-10-25 15:19:41 UTC

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I hate what the Reddit hive mind has become.

2026-10-25 15:14:26 UTC

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If someone adds support. I don't have those devices.

2026-10-25 15:13:56 UTC

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

2026-10-24 19:08:04 UTC

Omarchy Mobile: this week's update
It was a big week, and more than half of it came from the community. Ports to new Pixels moved forward, a lot of hardware support landed, and the daily-driver experience on the Pixel 7 Pro got more polished.
🌱 New devices
- Pixel Fold (felix): went from first light to a real bring-up. Storage behind our read-only safety guard, the GPU enabled, volume keys, the power key, the hinge sensor and the cover screen's console. Work has started on its cover touchscreen. Thanks, boozedog!
- Pixel 8 Pro (husky, Tensor G3): our mainline kernel boots it with USB and SSH. Getting there turned up and fixed a USB bug that froze the phone, and that fix can go upstream to Linux too. Thanks, greenbrettmichael!
- Pixel 9a (tegu, Tensor G4): first light is recorded. More than a dozen kernel pieces for Tensor G4 merged, covering clocks, storage, pins, power management, GPU and touch, and a read-only battery gauge is in review. Thanks, W4HO-ham!
- Pixel 7a (lynx): new this week! A first-light board and an on-screen console are in review. Thanks, latentoperator!
- Pixel 6 (gs101): the build and flash tooling, bootloader glue and Mali-G78 GPU support merged. Thanks, robotosaith and bilacc!
- Also in progress: the Pixel 4 and the POCO F3, our first non-Pixel port.
📱 Pixel 7 Pro, the reference phone
- Camera: Night mode and HDR in omacam. Several raw frames are aligned and merged on the phone, and libcamera gained noise reduction and defective-pixel correction.
- Calls: groundwork for phone calls, with calls over the lock screen, a call indicator, Do Not Disturb that lets starred contacts through, and an Emergency call button on the lock screen.
- Notifications: you can reply straight from the notification.
- Charging: the charger and its battery-temperature guard now start at boot.
- Suspend: Wi-Fi stays connected across sleep and we've measured the first sleep power numbers.
- Fingerprint: unlock keeps working across sleep.
- Updates: Omarchy updates now follow Omarchy's stable channel on the phone, and our phone patches are reapplied automatically after each update.
- Kernel cleanup: the Tensor G2 watchdog and power-management hardware is now documented to upstream standards, and the result booted on the phone this week.
🛠️ For contributors
- Every pull request now runs automatic checks in both repositories, kernel included.
- There's a one-command phone smoke test for PR reports.
- Shared install tooling handles new devices, and the installer refuses images built for another device.
- We reviewed more than 20 pull requests this week, and our review notes and lessons are public.
🙌 Get involved
Have a spare Pixel 6, 7, 8 or 9? Check the supported-devices page and the Wanted list in the repo, and open an issue so efforts don't overlap. Have another phone or tablet with an unlocked bootloader? Point your agents to the repo and have them get to work!
https://github.com/derekross/omarchy-mobile

2026-10-24 18:49:00 UTC

Don't use Snapchat, TikTok, or Instagram. Use Bitchat instead. It's wild to see live photos from France, where Bitchat usage is skyrocketing. (I didn't take this, but have permission to share.) https://blossom.ditto.pub/eda60b0645a103fae9dfff5cdd961454d9b8bfa64ab68cc1e5be3f9ceb53c98e.jpg

2026-10-24 15:48:49 UTC

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@nprofile…s8gs's talk was really good! See you next year 🤓

2026-10-24 02:38:31 UTC

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Anyone at anytime can chat in a public group location channel. I can sit here in my living room in Pennsylvania and chat with people in the Paris locale.

2026-10-23 20:48:16 UTC

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Anywhere in the world.

2026-10-23 20:46:16 UTC

The examples for Dessa are wild. I can't tell the difference between human and agent. It's scary, but in a good way. Personal, local intelligence is the future and if I'm going to talk to my agent to complete daily tasks, I want it to feel natural. https://block.xyz/dessa

2026-10-23 19:23:15 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/926405893aa2777fcb4f3cd2f7cf233e622fe17de55d6863836bbebd7c934a61.mp4
#nevent1q…v2nv

2026-10-23 18:11:52 UTC

these relays are powering most of France's geohash chat today.
wss://relay.artio.inf.unibe.ch
wss://nostr.sathoarder.com
wss://test-relay.uid.ovh
wss://nostr.unkn0wn.world
thank you for your service.

2026-10-23 17:23:38 UTC

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Sames

2026-10-23 17:22:06 UTC

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I told Chad last night that it was broken and he fixed it this morning. Which is why I shared the above screenshot.

2026-10-23 16:51:39 UTC

Bitchat, a Nostr app, is now the #1 app in Apple's App Store. https://blossom.ditto.pub/6982f8c94487c1b2e8457e9f04e0cbe0ea99435e599af3d156a87b29d309b83a.png

2026-10-23 16:37:01 UTC

You can monitor the situation in France via heat map at bitmap.lat from @nprofile…73sf 🤙🏻🫂💜
https://blossom.ditto.pub/1b4d53f13abb503e375a6e8bfdf6d639378e4d5949f13272d790f364d0db1afd.png

2026-10-23 13:45:09 UTC

if any omarchy users are interested, i use this script on a keybind to normalize or equalize all of my windows in a workspace.
#naddr1qv…ntzu

2026-10-23 13:12:37 UTC

naw-str
no-str
no-stra
#nevent1q…tqsy

2026-10-23 13:04:56 UTC

zines are cool. help a guy out with a recommendation.
#nevent1q…zzvv

2026-10-23 12:46:26 UTC

i have never made a mistake when it comes to scheduling my flights... so i always opt out of paying extra to be able to make changes or cancel my flight. it's probably saved me thousand or two over the years as i fly around the world spreading the purple pill.
i realized late last night that i scheduled my flight for Bitcoin Amsterdam incorrectly. i wasn't arriving until the day of the conference, roughly around the time i was supposed to be on stage.
fuck me.
tldr; that's a $500 mistake.
double fuck me.
welp. we move forward. and there is no backward.
how does nostr and bitcoin fix this?
https://gifverse.net/media/ou1Z8r2l/original.gif

2026-10-23 12:27:13 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! The French geohash channels are blowing up with activity. Nostr is a tool of freedom. 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-10-23 12:18:02 UTC

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Oh it looks like the light sensor is done too.

2026-10-23 12:17:33 UTC

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After a power cycle this morning, the temperature sensor and pressure sensor did not come back. I assume they're dead. Maybe corrosion or something. I didn't take it apart. Might look this weekend if I have time.

2026-10-23 03:48:13 UTC

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It looks like it's been reporting that temperature for a while. I will hard reboot it tomorrow. @nprofile…2jc0

2026-10-22 18:04:59 UTC

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We are the inverse.

2026-10-22 17:36:38 UTC

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It looks like something out of the TVA 🤓

2026-10-22 17:05:37 UTC

40% of the web uses WordPress. that's a massive attack vector. i've been working on an alternative built on nostr for several months, but haven't had time to complete it. it works in it's current form and you can technically use it, but the project roadmap isn't complete yet, so i never announced it.
https://github.com/derekross/firefly
#nevent1q…wm06

2026-10-22 15:41:48 UTC

An app that has Nostr powered chat features is exploding in France. Bitchat, the encrypted peer-to-peer messenger that works without the internet, just hit #1 in the French App Store's social category and cracked the top 10 overall. The people want the freedom to communicate. https://blossom.ditto.pub/b3befd6496fe8839818119bf08c262780c84511dbc059bf3bc1cfeddfde8fe37.jpg https://blossom.ditto.pub/85dbdb72cd11a641708207ed1f6f5d5f9db9ab7f02ffd4e8e60a262061049ff1.jpg

2026-10-22 11:43:27 UTC

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Confirmed

2026-10-22 11:42:44 UTC

I've never used Grok or Grok Bot. I'm a Claude Maxi. A former OpenClaw Maxi. A current Hermes Maxi. I am curious about Claude Duet, but my second brain is over a year old, loaded with data and I like to run my own tools.

2026-10-22 11:38:20 UTC

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It did not

2026-10-22 11:38:04 UTC

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#HumanSlop

2026-10-22 11:37:20 UTC

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This one loads.

2026-10-22 11:36:35 UTC

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Thank you for your service.

2026-10-22 11:36:18 UTC

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I was able to transfer everything off before total failure.

2026-10-22 11:35:48 UTC

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We're going to get a lot of mileage out of this meme.

2026-10-22 03:31:06 UTC

We are living in wild times.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/80f72957cfa9f75939e74128e6e7ade523cf904f78d1b75a9217d3ba44e385fb.png

2026-10-22 01:04:40 UTC

AI Slop to the rescue! We've experienced a year of critical vulnerabilities in the last 24 hours thanks to Human Slop.

2026-10-22 01:01:41 UTC

Time to update your apps... Again.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases

2026-10-22 00:57:35 UTC

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Big oof. But at least they're where we've been for 11 months now 🤣

2026-10-21 23:03:00 UTC

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Doug. I've missed you.

2026-10-21 21:00:38 UTC

And there it is! I asked a while back when Anthropic would come out with their OpenClaw competitor. The time is now.
OpenClaw
Hermes
Gemini Spark
OpenAI Dot
Grok Bot
Meta Muse
And now Claude Claude Duet
https://claude.com/product/claude-duet

2026-10-21 20:13:08 UTC

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I am bringing my old 8 year old gaming rig back from the dead 💪🏻

2026-10-21 20:12:28 UTC

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The sda error is because I yanked it out after the emergency backup was done 😬

2026-10-21 20:11:26 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/142b6f74166d39f0a4344b84c62f3b4b4269a0da62f8316be985cbd763182f02.gif

2026-10-21 18:44:10 UTC

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Kinda like Bitcoin. Only that doesn't go down 😭

2026-10-21 18:41:06 UTC

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Hilarious

2026-10-21 18:40:54 UTC

It looks like my 8 year old "server" is having a bad time today. How's your day going? https://blossom.ditto.pub/e48d3a4afb0716ff96688918ad08c63a8265ced0248f94d7bd880334ec1e24a8.jpg

2026-10-21 15:49:16 UTC

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Good morning my friend 🌄

2026-10-21 15:45:12 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! 🫂🤙🏻💜
Heartbleed was bad, but the new PHP exploit (PHP2Shell) is wilder.
PHP powers ~70% of the web, and this flaw allows full server takeover + memory leaks going back to 2004.
Worse/Better: AI agents can now exploit or patch this at machine speed. It's a real time arms race. Stay safe out there.

2026-10-21 01:53:40 UTC

Yikes.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-warns-admins-of-two-critical-flaws-emergency-patches-coming-tomorrow/amp/

2026-10-21 01:36:00 UTC

"At this early stage, the most immediate threat appears to be for those using VPNs, especially in countries with governments likely to maliciously intercept traffic." 👀
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/#:~:text=At%20this%20early%20stage%2C%20the%20most%20immediate%20threat%20appears%20to%20be%20for%20those%20using%20VPNs%2C%20especially%20in%20countries%20with%20governments%20likely%20to%20maliciously%20intercept%20traffic.

2026-10-21 01:31:41 UTC

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I'm hoping Zapstore explodes with apps. Thousands of apps from thousands of new builders.

2026-10-21 01:30:33 UTC

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Wishful thinking. It would be a phenomenal message though.

2026-10-20 23:57:19 UTC

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For live streaming we have Zap.stream and others, but also most Nostr social feed apps include live streams. For video storage, we don't have a good alternative because video hosting is hard.

2026-10-20 23:56:05 UTC

The solution to many problems or issues is to just put your head down and keep building. Seek excellence. There's no other justification needed.

2026-10-20 23:45:37 UTC

Both Simply Bitcoin and The Bitcoin Conference had their YouTube accounts banned today. Their Nostr profiles unaffected.

2026-10-20 23:44:08 UTC

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Hello and welcome to Nostr and the decentralized social future of communication 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-10-20 23:43:19 UTC

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You can build your own Barney Gun emulator.

2026-10-20 23:42:37 UTC

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👀

2026-10-20 23:41:59 UTC

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I used to always want to own a Mustang. I don't know if I still do...

2026-10-20 23:41:25 UTC

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Lots of people just realized that they could connect to their TV over ADB 🤣 It's great. Good luck!

2026-10-20 23:09:18 UTC

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YES!

2026-10-20 22:59:23 UTC

Look around.
The amount of people building right now.
The amount of people reverse engineering everything.
The amount of people making their TVs their own, their phones their own, their devices their own.
The age of the app is dead.
Long live the age of the experience you own.
When frontier models land in everyone's hands, we grt digital freedom.
This is the digital Renaissance.

2026-10-20 20:21:50 UTC

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Thanks!

2026-10-20 20:10:33 UTC

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Being transparent is Block's entire mission. Watching what their employees say on legacy social media about AI doom FUD, I think this is a great move for them to get the real messages out there and facilitate that conversation.

2026-10-20 20:08:13 UTC

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👀 If you need one just lemme know and I'll DM you a code.

2026-10-20 20:07:49 UTC

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Do you need one?

2026-10-20 20:07:35 UTC

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NIP-17 DM sent.

2026-10-20 20:05:42 UTC

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Will send DM.

2026-10-20 20:05:13 UTC

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Thank you 🫂

2026-10-20 19:33:27 UTC

Nostriches, if you were on the fence about going to Bitcoin Amsterdam here in about two weeks, I have GA passes available for you. First come first serve. I have five. Let me know.
(These aren't the kind where I give you a promo code and then I get a kick-back like the other influencer types give out. I'm speaking, so I get passes to give to friends.)

2026-10-20 19:30:34 UTC

Block has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance, made up of more than 120 companies, including NVIDIA, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, and Visa, and hosted by the Linux Foundation. The Alliance believes that AI safety and security research, and the tools it produces, should be developed and shared in the open. https://block.xyz/inside/block-joins-the-open-secure-ai-alliance

2026-10-20 17:50:58 UTC

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https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/32cbbc51fe65c214c3f02306c237830a433fb5e09f1a787979ebcbfa38f8f5f3.gif

2026-10-20 17:50:16 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr!
Okay... Who from Nostr Valley got me sick? 😡
I guess we'll have to have Nostr Valley 4.0 outside during the summer months. 👀