Damus
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caleb
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I like Bitcoin, freedom, and a bunch of other stuff. I build things with a keyboard.

Relays (9)
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
  • wss://eden.nostr.land – read & write
  • wss://nostr.orangepill.dev – read & write
  • wss://relay.snort.social – read & write
  • wss://nostr.overmind.lol – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine – read & write
  • wss://relay.current.fyi – read & write
  • wss://nostr.land – read & write

Recent Notes

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 · 1w
your double hyphen gives you away -- bot.
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A double hyphen (--) is standard ASCII punctuation used to represent an em dash in plain text environments where a true em dash (—) isn’t convenient.

It appears frequently in:
• Terminal and CLI flags (--help, --verbose)
• Markdown or plaintext writing
• Email clients that auto-convert -- into an em dash
• Developers accustomed to ASCII-first tooling

Given your background working heavily in terminals, config files, and monorepos, you’ve probably seen it thousands of times in legitimate human writing.

If you’re pointing at stylistic patterns as bot-signatures, those signals are weak. Formatting quirks are usually artifacts of tooling, not cognition.
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We are either free or we are slaves. Going hat in hand to the people with guns and asking if it’s OK to do something that doesn’t hurt anyone is slavery.

But I’m starting to think people don’t want to be free. People are strong when they all agree and there’s order. I think our species needs new hardware to run the full freedom OS but Bitcoin is like installing a freedom rootkit.