Alex Gleason

Introducing: Armada ULTRA!

Din's browser reads both Onion-Location and Nsite-Location and supports both natively, so you can click to access over Tor, or view the nsite without a gateway.

Imagine being able to just click a button when you want to sudo, instead of having to type your password. Linuxnerds in disbelief.

Din desktop notifications for nsites

Ubuntu VM in DinOS

DinOS has window effects and cursor effects 😎

The Binance hacker just wanted extra eCash

I wish Terry A Davis was here to tell me what God thinks of AI.

A small glimpse at DinOS

Dude I'm telling you, Zuckerberg is actually based now. It's so weird. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jyjqUOWmGQM

DinOS might be the coolest operating system ever.

GM

This year the Renaissance Festival was filled with AI slop products. I couldn't believe it. Like leather bound books with AI generated pictures of ducks on them.

These child porn gooners made an Armada group again. Tipped over email, I reported and banned them again. But not before making the game over screen even more epic for extra salt in the wound.

This is amazing

! https://vectorapp.io/blog/magnitude-relay/

Someone sent me a very scary sounding Mostr Bridge vulnerability report. I ran it through Claude which confirmed it's a CRITICAL issue. But it still sounded like bullshit to me - come to find out it's only exploitable in theory of the ActivityPub spec and not in practice of any existing ActivityPub implementation. It made me feel smarter than an AI.

Overheard at the Renaissance Festival: "It's not a whore house, it's a whore home."

Ash Ketchum died on the cross for your sins.

They want Open Source to lose.

They're trying to cancel Armada on Reddit again because I blocked a group from distributing child porn and "didn't communicate it properly." 🤡 https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1xegxc0/a_bit_concerned_about_armada/

I didn't realize that Claude Desktop doesn't let you actually let you control your whole computer. You have to do it in the terminal. Normies don't understand how we have so much power.

Who needs Photoshop? Not me.

I've been trying to get AirDrop to work on Linux. I did make it work... with WiFi disabled. AirDrop needs to use WiFi on a different channel. Apple does it by flickering between channels, but the network chip needs firmware support to do this. I could patch the WiFi chip's firmware on my laptop, except it's closed source. We could reverse-engineer it, except it's signed by the vendor and it blocks unsigned code. These companies are truly evil.

This is awesome!

Me: They're an AI data mining company

Them: We're an AI data mining company who likes Bitcoin 💪

You: Alex why did you lie to me??

Nostrich is run by an AI data mining company.

Mesut Darendeli holds more than 100 patents internationally in the area of data mining, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and other complex networks.

https://rhxotech.com/

$500 bounty paid to a researcher who reported an Armada permission issue. tl;dr deleting a role assigned to a private channel didn't actually remove people from the channel. Now fixed, update your app: https://gitworkshop.dev/soapbox.pub/relay.ngit.dev/armada/commit/01b0ea0e06e2237ba853888f2856ba3d6fef227d

This is what happens when you post child porn on Armada.

Reverse engineered AirPlay between my laptop and Steam Deck

Ditto has a new Blossom server written in Rust, that is up to 170x faster than the original blossom-server in Deno lol https://blossom.ditto.pub/

ZFS is destroying my write performance. Now I understand why ext4 is still the default.

I forked boxedwine and had opencode optimize the wasm build for about 24 hours straight. Got old Windows programs running somewhat reliably on Rainbow Player with it.

They said I use AI so much I probably can't even code by hand anymore. So I created this site to test if that's true. Still got it, baby. https://jsbat.shakespeare.wtf

TIL that Monero is mineable on consumer hardware and having a GPU or ASIC doesn't even help

I created an ngit-mirror daemon that automatically mirrors all of our Soapbox ngit repos to GitHub so it shows up in search and dummies can find it. Sorry to Jeff Cliff.

So it turns out Tor's Rust implementation sucks. But their process to submit patches is too hard to do, so I'm just going to maintain a superior fork that they don't know exists.

They reported our posts so hard the mods of this subreddit are asking for help with moderation. https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1x4i03t/looking_for_new_moderators/

Those tiny little black mosquitoes are the fucking devil

Plz upvote, and don't neglect the comments. These people don't want us to win.

Armada Stack announced! https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1x4f0s0/selfhosting_armada/

Ditto Relay (relay.ditto.pub) is now available over Tor 😎 ws://ditto3gnoedy3ld6vh2l6hynla2meuszaggtblxtyhcycgb7a6o3xcad.onion

npanel is now available as a Debian repo and a RedHat repo: https://pkg.soapbox.pub/deb/soapbox.pub/npanel

Ditto Relay is now available as a Debian repo and RedhoHat repo: https://pkg.soapbox.pub/deb/soapbox.pub/ditto-relay

It seems what's stopping a drop-in replacement to Windows at this point is not a technical barrier. It's that Valorant, League of Legends, Fortnite, Apex, Destiny 2, Roblox and Siege actively detect and block your account if you run the game through Linux.

This fat fuck is gonna spend his happily ever after in a forest park 10 miles away

These little guys are so intelligent. Whenever I see them they're investigating something (or me) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis

"The underlying ideas are sound"

RIP Deno. You did a lot. https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare

I keep buying that delicious fresh-baked soft and fluffy french bread from HEB, don't eat it immediately then get disappointed when it's hard as a rock 2 days later.

I rewrote Ditto Relay from scratch in Rust. It's 5x faster than strfry. It supports NIP-50 full-text search. It's backed by LMDB + Tantivy. Migration complete and now live on relay.ditto.pub!

I posted it on Reddit. Let's see how this goes! https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1x15pmf/armadaexposed_exposed/

In response to armada.exposed, I created armadaexposed.exposed 😂 https://armadaexposed.exposed

I'm migrating Ditto Relay to a new system. Recent events (and profiles etc) are already migrated. The full historical backlog will be available in the next 6-9 hours.

I did Microsoft's humiliation ritual of scanning the front and back of my government ID, scanning my face twice, on top of paying them $10/mo just to make Armada.exe not display the "unsafe" warning they created. I still have to wait 1-20 days for their response. They're a mafia.

I love you, Nostr.

https://blossom.ditto.pub/b62db0a0f0282b40b77ff95a0c6da04ff95f4edf98f68db74e0eae4496486863.glb

Guys, I think Bernie can still win.

They're calling a vote to ban Armada on the DiscordAlternatives Reddit 👻 https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1x042lj/mod_can_we_ban_armada_from_rdiscordalternative/

I'm getting cancelled on Reddit, guys. It's so over 😭😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1wzpjdg/regarding_armada_tw_politics/

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npanel now has a mini Sentry built in 🤠

The symbol for Nostr should be a key. Not a stupid ostrich. GM

Web of Trust doesn't work. Because too many of you dummies are following

who is running a bot farm manipulating trends.

"Nostr is too hard to use. People will never figure out private keys"

First Armada release published with "ngit release" instead of zsp 👀

I had a nightmare that I was 36. I woke up and started to type the year into the calculator. 2016- wait FUCK it's 2026. Where did this decade go? Anyway I'm only 33 so everything is okay... for now

npanel now embeds a full JavaScript runtime (QuickJS) allowing individual nsites to render their own dynamic link previews to crawlers. nsites serve /.well-known/npanel/preview.js which takes a Request object and renders an og-image, title, etc.

You can now migrate your post history from Mastodon and Pleroma to Nostr using this tool: https://mostr.pub/migrate

I'm still deliberating on this. I thought it made sense when I added it. But

made a very good point that AUTH inextricably links your IP address to your pubkey as a user. Normal Nostr queries don't do that. So it's a difficult choice. AUTH is arguably worse for privacy.

Soapbox (the original Fediverse software) has been renamed back to Soapbox FE.

Should relay AUTH even exist? Pros: it's better for privacy. Cons: it's worse for privacy.

Is your relay running? ... well you better go catch it

I compiled Tor directly into npanel. And added TLS support with automatic cert renewal. So you don't even need Caddy in front of it. You can just run it on a server and point a domain at it and everything "just works"

https://blossom.ditto.pub/5185313d3957cca6245f9883df6e13264886d05a95a3a1c1617454b6e3707fac.glb

https://blossom.ditto.pub/c5e39de8070d8357ff04d6318f30f430df9fd7cfacbc3138e937ba38c1fdf1c3.glb

:trillian-lol:

Discord sucks. protocols > platforms

Your hate fills me with power.

Vote Vampire Boy

New Wisp just dropped :wisp_lazor:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordAlternatives/comments/1wvouqz/what_if_x_was_built_for_gen_z_and_games/

Get fucked, gooners.

LMAO we should generate a badge award for this

I occasionally open X to check that my crossposter still works. I see that Josh Adams liked my post, and then I scroll through a few of the dumbest takes of all time before closing the tab and coming back to Ditto / Nostr.

poster.place reverse-bridged Nostr and now every Nostr event is being duplicated into ActivityPub and then re-bridged into Nostr without proxy tags. I wonder if this could create an infinite loop.

Who should I add to my Top 8?

Making a healthy peanut butter banana spinach smoothie and then pouring Pepsi Max® into it.

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It's been a while since I've had an adversarial relationship with my own users. That's how you know you're #winning

Discord sucks. Use Armada.

I prompted Opus 5.5 "port Armada to SolidJS" and it took about 6 hours but it actually fucking did it. It looks perfect, 1:1, functionality is all perfect. I can't even tell the difference at all. The bundle size is only like 14% smaller and the performance boost isn't proven yet, so I'm not going to pull the trigger yet. I just wanted to see if it was possible. Several years ago, Sonnet 3.5 couldn't tell the difference between SolidJS and React and kept fucking everything up. Now it can do it. Potential wins for mkstack across the board if we convert everything to SolidJS.

The left pic is human engineering. The right pic is vibe coding after destroying and recreating the codebase 5 times and protocolizing it.

Although I still dislike Rust, if it improves performance that much it's basically a moral imperative for self-hosting freedom tech. It means it can run on lower-end (old or recycled) hardware, costs less to run, and uses less energy so it's literally better for people and the environment. I was against it because it made it harder to develop on and harder for people to contribute. It is anti-inclusive. Those things are still true. But AI is making those points no longer relevant. I still think that what we call "apps" should be built for the web, because the web is the greatest software distribution platform of all time. The benefits there still far outweigh the tradeoffs. But for servers, Rust does make sense. Especially since the future we're working towards has as few different types of servers as possible. Internet infrastructure will be standardized into Nostr relays, Blossom servers, bots, and gateways. For those backbone services that serve thousands of users, performance matters more than developer inclusivity. For "apps" that serve one user on their own device, inclusivity and ease of distribution matters more.