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nostr-auth-enabled is the unlock which prevents the content from being in a silo. Once enabled it can flourish in the ecosystem using relays, blossom, and zaps. It’s not the same old web.

2024-06-15 20:53:32

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This is super cool! Really well done.👍

2024-06-13 18:54:06

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I loved del.icio.us and have since moved to pinbord.in
You are definitely onto something here thinking about nostr bookmarks as a product vs bookmarks as a client feature.
Collectively you end up with hiqh quality curated content like this:
https://pinboard.in/popular/
With a native social layer, nostr would be awesome for this - and unkillable.

2024-06-13 14:16:13

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The most minimalist way to accomplish this is ffmpeg and nginx with the rtmp module. Those 2 willl give you a live stream.

2024-06-02 21:02:09

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Love this. Although I would argue the value of nostr in this case is not a portable social graph, it’s a portable identity attached to a modular portfolio. The people who attend your events and the people who hire you for commercial work don’t have to know each other even exists.

2024-06-02 19:05:31

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Yeah that’s a good point. Early indications are that the Cara developers are trying to support the platform by making it a talent showcase for hiring/jobs. Definitely different from a direct to consumer or patronage model.

2024-06-02 18:28:09

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The quality I am seeing on Cara is really nice so far. There’s an interesting scenario which could unfold where by building a community of “verified” human artists we are able to more easily see the value of an individual artists work vs the averaging of all art using AI. It could elevate the value of human art.

2024-06-02 18:17:16

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Cara is going to be really interesting to follow. Looks like they are building an artist community where one of the core features being promoted is the detection and blocking of AI generated art. The quality on display there is amazing so far 🍿

2024-06-01 15:48:45

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A worthy companion to this is “responsibility is expensive” - it’s not supposed to be easy or cheap, that’s the point. It’s only available to those who put in the work.

2024-05-30 17:22:08

Argentine authorities are working with El Salvador, a pioneering nation in bitcoin adoption, aiming to boost cryptocurrency adoption in Argentina.
https://reason.com/2024/05/30/argentina-teams-up-with-el-salvador-to-boost-crypto-adoption/

2024-05-24 21:06:12

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Might have been me. I just zapped the note with 2100 sats.

2024-05-24 16:57:47

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Message queues aren’t push?

2024-05-21 19:25:42

Just like we learn to trust, there will not be a “trust algorithm”, it will be data driven for each individual.

2024-05-21 19:24:56

Trusting a person is not the same as being willing to vouch for them.
In the former you have personal risk, in the latter you've doubled your liability.

2024-05-20 23:18:01

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It was the name of a heart attack inducing appetizer that was served at Chili’s going back to the late 80’s

2024-05-20 23:16:25

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https://image.nostr.build/36af661b193fea9a21871b46cbbac5b58471c085578968cd5f877659201055fb.jpg

2024-05-20 23:12:00

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rofl, that’s the best repo name ever. familiar with the naming convention but that’s a winner.

2024-05-20 17:15:35

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😂 dying at the idea of someone casually throwing this up on a screen and being like “hey check out this little highlight reel from my vacation on the coast this summer”

2024-05-19 17:40:40

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👻

2024-05-19 17:11:19

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I’ve seen the blossom spec on GitHub - is there a reference implementation of a managed server?

2024-05-19 16:58:40

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If you wanna rage quit, do it for real and post your nsec in your farewell.

2024-05-18 04:32:43

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Fair, but that’s half the reason I posted this in the first place. Few of us have time to be contract lawyers, so it’s helpful if we watch out for one another. ✌️

2024-05-18 00:33:57

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When I use a paid service one of the things I assume I am getting in return is privacy and security. If that’s not the case then it should be made clear. It’s all about expectations and trust.

2024-05-17 22:00:28

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As I said elsewhere, totally agree but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t shine a light on it.

2024-05-17 21:59:01

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Agree, can’t say I’m surprised. But it’s still our job to call people out when they cross the line. This is all about transparency and expectations.

2024-05-17 21:56:24

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They absolutely can, everything here is public. There are already people training models on nostr posts. Nobody here has expectations that they have control over the data they publish once it’s in the wild.

2024-05-17 20:55:54

Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models and the only way to stop it is to email them.
This is some bullshit.
https://www.engadget.com/yuck-slack-has-been-scanning-your-messages-to-train-its-ai-models-181918245.html

2024-05-17 00:38:00

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✌️if you are afraid, you are not free. Good luck to you as well.

2024-05-15 15:24:12

The strength of the nostr user base is their conviction and passion. The people who stick around here are not leaving. You can’t buy that with paid installs.

2024-05-12 18:36:58

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Ha ha yeah I hear you, but no matter the language - nobody has solved layouts. It’s all DOM like and never easy.

2024-05-12 18:20:09

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If you have ever attempted to build a distributed system that maintains state across a pool of unknown participants - even on a small scale - you would know said cock is just a mechanism for the transfer of information.
Synchronization in nature is bigger than we can conceptualize.

2024-05-12 17:34:58

@npub1xts…kk5s heads up, reactions made in Damus don’t appear in Primal. Using most recent TestFlight. Perhaps related to all the work that’s being done on threading compatibility.

2024-05-12 16:32:22

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There is no such thing as untrusted.

2024-05-12 15:02:52

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Viewed as a global ledger which has run continuously and precisely for 15 years it is modern marvel. A freakin global state machine.

2024-05-11 23:12:01

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Awww man, it’s a tombstone 🤣 that was not intentional

2024-05-11 23:10:27

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lol well I don’t even know what emoji I just reacted to you with. I ❤️ the new selector but man you have to be careful when scrolling.
It does start to build a frequently used cache though which is awesome.

2024-05-11 22:29:00

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Right, I’m a proud Purple supporter though. Solution was to force close TestFlight if anyone else stumbles upon this.

2024-05-11 18:47:16

The universal feed in nostr is an illusion. This note is performative. It doesn’t belong here. Someone put it here. Everything is curated.

2024-05-11 04:50:22

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I was able to send from Primal to 8333.space:3338 using the QR code to fund my cashu wallet earlier today

2024-05-09 19:52:36

Paywalled interview with Jack Dorsey on The End of Social Media.
I would zap $1 to read it, but I'm not willing to sign up for yet another subscription.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

2024-05-07 18:55:36

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All good points, and totally worth figuring out for the benefit of both buyers and sellers. All the primitives to make this work are available.

2024-05-07 18:51:15

A fair, transparent, social ticketing service built on nostr would be freakin amazing. I’ll do whatever I can do to support this project.
#note10uf…zprg

2024-05-06 05:43:54

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Better ways to visualize relationships, traffic, and storage across your notes, relays, and contacts.

2024-05-05 00:08:15

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Found these to work with some basic functionality.
https://badges.page
https://nostrbadges.com
Looking for a more seamless way to show off my fancy new @bitpopart badge

2024-05-04 23:15:50

Which clients currently display badges? #asknostr

2024-05-03 00:42:48

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I store my sats in a “vault” because I hear unhosted wallets are not compliant. Better safe than sorry.

2024-05-03 00:38:16

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Top shelf note 😂.
FYI can’t zap you from Primal.

2024-05-02 18:42:33

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Go for it! Smaller domain specific models are a natural path. The more transparent you are about how you are preparing the data and training the models the better. Help educate people on how this stuff works.
Hi nostr… this message will be encoded in the nostr-LLM one day.

2024-05-02 02:21:20

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Totally agree, that’s what caught my attention. He has identified the problem which many open source developers are struggling with, but the solution feels like a return to the past.

2024-05-02 02:02:53

Bruce Perens recently outlined a "Post-Open" vision that aims to compensate developers fairly for their work and provide a more streamlined licensing and compliance model for companies using open source software.
https://www.thestack.technology/open-source-pioneer-perens-says-time-for-post-open/
https://perens.com/static/DEVELOPMENT_LICENSE.txt?v=2004_04_01
Reading it, the license grants restricted rights to use the software for free up to $5 million in revenue per year, after which companies must pay for additional rights. It also sets conditions like prohibiting export for military/defense purposes, requiring modifications to be publicly released or paid for, and banning training of machine learning models without releasing the resulting model under the same terms.
I've got a ton of respect for Bruce but if you were thinking about adopting something like this you would be better off hiring a lawyer to write something more specific on your behalf.
We've had Free as in beer... Free as in speech.... and now Free as in a large legal team.

2024-05-01 02:05:08

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Perla’s on South Congress

2024-04-29 14:15:03

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Yeah that’s a good way to put it. Agree the UX is really nice, however because of the async nature of posting it’s more like a stream of soliloquies.

2024-04-28 16:37:25

Has anyone been playing around with Air Chat? I'm a huge audio/podcast guy so assumed I would enjoy it, but the short clips and responses don't end up translating into an actual conversation. Finding the context and flow to be disorienting.
Seeing a nostr screenshot was a pleasant suprise though. https://image.nostr.build/91f888ed84f209803f4db08b0ff87be140f964115ea704b7099438b364c3a200.jpg

2024-04-22 19:30:47

You should just assume there are already multiple companies on nostr harvesting npubs and building audience panels to monetize the data.

2024-04-21 14:27:43

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The thing I enjoyed most was the focus on sovereignty through the lens of small communities. @npub1lun…27lj explaining how there is a shared responsibility within a group to own their means of communication.
Sometimes a heavy focus on self-sovereignty can feel isolating.
This episode was a nice reminder how we're all in this together.

2024-04-20 16:36:34

Happy record store day!
Out: Rare Sats
In: Rare Vinyl

2024-04-20 15:45:48

Typically developers write code until it works, and at that point don't have the time or incentive to iterate on it.
For judgement free feedback paste that janky ass function you wrote into an LLM and ask it "how can I simplify or improve this?"

2024-04-20 15:19:36

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Use ChatGPT, Claude, or the new Llama 3 (via meta.ai) to help. Ask it questions, ask it for examples, if someone tries to tell you it might hallucinate etc etc ignore them completely. Yes, errors are possible but you just feed errors back to the model and it help you resolve them with a smile.

2024-04-17 23:51:11

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Where can one see the events and users this bot is flagging?

2024-04-17 15:02:49

The pursuit of profit naturally drives centralization, as economic activities tend to consolidate for efficiency and scale.
GM ☕️

2024-04-16 22:00:36

Really like the idea of a pubkey as a personalization vector. @npub1ye5…knpr added pubkey colors to nostrudel profiles and it’s simple but super cool! https://image.nostr.build/e8baed4ce87b9f8b11238865f05020239ffd628fcbc467c33778f6fe62e58075.jpg

2024-04-16 16:25:02

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That’s a really great response. It’s not so much here’s some sats for what you’ve brought into existence, it’s here’s some sats because you bring me joy and I want you to continue.

2024-04-16 16:15:23

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That’s the paradox though. How does one value something which can be replicated at a near zero cost.

2024-04-16 02:42:53

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In addition to Strike not working, CashApp and Muun don’t appear to support using lnurl.

2024-04-15 19:00:42

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Glad this is staying a civil but spirited debate because it's an interesting philosophical argument.
On one hand people shouldn't expect privacy in a public space, that is true both online and offline. If however, in physical space I followed you around 24/7 and provided commentary on every comment you made, you would want to punch me in the face.
For a moment let's set aside the technical responses such as: encrypt your messages, or run your own private relay. That kinda defeats the purpose of participating in a public network.
So, is the act of someone programatically categorizing your content a form of harassment? Would providing an opt out mechanism satisfy both parties?

2024-04-15 17:50:01

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When it comes to proof via GitHub, I’d prefer to see a dev who knows how to document, communicate, manage a project (even if it’s 1-2 people). A bunch of code doesn’t tell you much. Good development requires good communication. The only exception is if you are the only user *and* developer.
The other winning indicator is referrals. People won’t recommend someone which might in turn reflect poorly on themselves.

2024-04-14 22:52:44

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Sure, but if it’s adoption we are looking for we have to be honest about how many people will understand this, let alone go through the process of using it. Which begs the question, are there lots of people out there who care about portable identity in the first place?

2024-04-14 22:28:42

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Not much risk if you never want to use other apps, but the real value is unlocked when you can use the profile on lots of apps. Each new app you use however incrementally increases your risk.
Ideally you could be wild and free out there signing notes without a care in the world, but storing your key in a password manager can’t give you that.

2024-04-14 20:31:58

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Can’t argue with you there, It’s a single point of failure and a genuine concern I personally have about my own profile.

2024-04-14 18:03:32

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This… and I’d pay a fortune for threading that works across clients 😂

2024-04-14 17:58:55

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Absolutely, people will pay for some combo of personalization, vanity, scarcity etc… Gaming has proven this.
This is also why I think the number one value prop for nostr is that you own your identity. All the time and money you spend on making it yours belongs to you.
Value add services on top of this might disappear, but your profile still belongs to you.

2024-04-14 17:28:31

The conversation nobody wants to have is that the only business model which works for free products and services is advertising. (this includes affiliate marketing and other transactional fees)
Closely related, when people have a free alternative vs a paid one, they will choose the free one. No amount of VC funding or grants will change this.

2024-04-14 16:31:14

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That is basically what I did except for I just made the content static instead of using a cloudflare worker.
I just tested using Wallet of Satoshi and it worked!
Using @npub1ex7…vyt9 however it claims the address is invalid. I can see in the logs that it makes the request and gets a 200.
"GET /.well-known/lnurlp/rossbates HTTP/1.1" 200 309 "-" "zap/1.0" https://image.nostr.build/68c31f5a126d73a744ba12297e6c7a26d4d13654af71e26c3c037184fc9fcf50.jpg

2024-04-14 15:57:57

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My guess is that it won’t work cross-domain but I’ll ask around and see if we can’t get some clarity

2024-04-14 15:44:27

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I tried copying the lnurlp payload into my own .well-known path and sending a payment to it. It didn’t work using Strike, the error was invalid lightning address.
https://nostr.id/.well-known/lnurlp/rossbates

2024-04-14 15:04:02

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Hmm, yeah I’ve never dug into this but it seems possible. This is the current address on my account
https://primal.net/.well-known/lnurlp/cornflowereagle1
Wondering if I can host my own and point it to the lnurlp callback url. Does a provider accept redirects from arbitrary outside domains?

2024-04-14 14:56:42

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Interesting, thank you for the explanation. I noticed the topic seemed to disappear quickly.

2024-04-14 05:46:37

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I use [email protected] for my nip-05 validation, but not lightning. Are you looking to get a lightning address for nostr, or are you looking to use the domain for a lightning address alias?

2024-04-14 05:09:30

So….I’m not well versed in Brazilian politics, what types of accounts are being censored on Twitter? Are any of those users moving to nostr?

2024-04-13 20:29:34

The killer app of nostr is a portable and interoperable identity system.
The challenge of getting people to immediately see the value is that it’s not really valuable on your first day. The value of portability increases with usage, when you have more invested.

2024-04-13 20:12:59

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I’m fond of the hybrid philosophical longform shitposting squirrel who authors lines such as:
“It’s easy to forget that we only read the really good poems. Most, throughout history, were dog shit. Sorry if this is the first you are hearing of this."

2024-04-12 21:34:04

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Nick Cave could never be replicated by an AI because the following words only mean something when written by the man himself:
“One of the reasons I write is because it allows me the freedom to move beyond the declared world into the uncanny and unfamiliar world. As a songwriter I have made a commitment to uncertainty and to embrace that which I do not know, because I feel this is where true meaning exists.”
“However, my duty as a songwriter is not to try to save the world, but rather to save the soul of the world. This requires me to live my life on the other side of truth, beyond conviction and within uncertainty, where things make less sense, absurdity is a virtue and art rages and burns; where dogma is anathema, discourse is essential, doubt is an energy, magical thinking is not a crime and where possibility and potentiality rule.”

2024-04-12 15:01:44

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In this scenario what info does the pubkey carry that a url doesn’t? You would still need a dns like resolver.

2024-04-12 04:40:59

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Huh…. your embedded note works in Damus, however this response doesn’t appear in Damus (only Primal).
We’ll get there soon enough.

2024-04-12 04:19:57

"Sorry we were unable to protect your personal data. Please sign up for this monitoring service which survives by acquiring more of your personal data."
G-T-F-O 🖕 https://image.nostr.build/36c2e5e501f5ea4c37ed86e23733a9582dcbb1d62e6a76a9b55172e468a76803.jpg

2024-04-11 16:13:32

High Culture and Hyperstimulus.
"The ineffable gets effed, given enough time."
What happens when AI becomes a stimulus solver?
"The aesthetic community rises in significance compared to the art itself. Pieces will be evaluated, not on the basis of visual, sensory, or even intellectual or ideological signals, but signals of personal identity – ones that can’t be replicated by an AI."
https://cameronharwick.com/writing/high-culture-and-hyperstimulus/

2024-04-11 15:21:28

Publishing indiscriminately to *all known relays* is making some pretty bold assumptions about the importance of your message and the audience you intend to reach.
How is this not considered spam?

2024-04-08 21:13:18

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https://m.primal.net/HsfT.png

2024-04-03 22:35:48

nostr is signed json. We have not even begun to scratch the surface of different ways to broadcast and subscribe to messages.
Personally I think websockets kinda suck but here we are talking. It’s working.
There are so many other patterns and transport protocols.
Viva la nostr.

2024-03-28 16:22:23

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There is a visceral difference between creating a cashu token and sending a lightning payment. Being untethered from the network provides an additional layer of freedom.

2024-03-27 15:21:03

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Opinion on the upcoming nostrdb/damus design where all clients are relays?
Seems there is plenty of room to work around in the transfer/sync layer to balance real time vs eventually consistent based on kind.

2024-03-26 19:40:09

Failed experiment transferring sats between eNuts and Fedi. Here’s 250 sats for someone else….
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

2024-03-26 01:56:56

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“when these principles are taken to an extreme and divorced from any consideration of the common good or the social and institutional prerequisites for a stable and just society”
Apply that statement to any political ideology and you are not going to have a good outcome.

2024-03-25 19:30:51

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“You don’t need to start a company”
This x100. It’s likely another side effect of fiat but every idea doesn’t need $5mm and a cap table.

2024-03-25 14:49:22

“Languages are protocols and protocols are languages”
Love when @npub1der…xzpc writes techno-philosophical content
#note1sdd…a2hj