A late GM, Christmas and a Happy New Year

I'm back home from my Christmas Cruise.

So that was the strangest thing ever.

Once I boarded the ship and switched to iPhone only on a Red Bull CruiseShip eSIM or Land based O2 roaming, I could no longer post notes.

I could view all posts, but could not post anything, despite not changing a thing.

Across nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpq8m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsmthtls nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnsv9ex2ar09e6x7amwqyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqzq5edsvxllcyuz0n4azc5tjp9wx8uz2cqq0mp6c0fqamjr3llly7tksuz3y nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2qpqn0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5ese32dk3 and Nos all clients failed to post. They did not report an error, but the posts never showed up. The closest thing to an error was Damus saying it failed to upload media to nostr:nprofile1q9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx96r2amr8p5rxdm4dp4kzafew3ehwwpjwd48smnywycrgepndcu8qd3nx36hguryvem8xdr5d56hsmt5xfehzemtxejxkeflvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egprpmhxue69uhkc6t8dp6xu6twvaex2mrp0yhxxmmdqqsfnz2sqsflkatdssmeztxr90s8xrd7r07xkhfwaa6eu9zkcguljpg0va3vj

I was able to log onto the nostr.build web interface to upload media, but no client app worked.

Some obvious things to state:

Yes, all 4 apps had my private key stored directly and yes, all 4 apps worked perfectly on both mobile and WiFi up until boarding the cruise ship.

The only possible anomaly was that my relay nortis.nostr1.com from nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3yamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3jxyhxxmmd9uqzqjeh6m7lh30zt3r07xt9mja0acufe74h7j40phd6nw33pz68m56ygemrhx had expired, which I've just topped up, but I'm a Damus purple and always include that relay in my lists.

So, here's the plan. I'm going to post daily from tomorrow about my cruise, reporting historically 2 weeks from the past.

So tomorrow, I will post from Monday 22nd December 2025.

Better late than never.

Happy New Year everyone.

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Love it and welcome back. Did you happen to try bitchat ? Just curious πŸ‘€

On a cruise ship where the average age is over 60 and where at least half a dozen fellow cruisers had Doro phones!

No, I didn't πŸ˜‚

πŸ˜‚. Yeah, I don’t always think things through πŸ˜‚

Bluetooth, to them, is a medical condition requiring additional insurance πŸ˜‚

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Grinder.

Blast from the past. Haha happy new year!

A belated Happy New Year to you too.

Happy new year! πŸ’œπŸŽΆπŸŒΉπŸ’ƒ

Happy New Year

Haven't read the long post yet, but welcome back! Was worried you died

I nearly died from over eating TBF πŸ˜‚

Happy New Year πŸ«‚

Happy new year to you too!

Missed you.

Oh, I read No Mouth finally. Wow, so good and so disturbing!

Isn't it just 😱

Yes, very much so. Relentless

Not alot else to do if you’re stuck at sea πŸ˜‚

I tried line dancing, you know, with the dancing girls πŸ˜‚

Nicely tied tie πŸ˜‚

Is she on nostr?!!!

Not that I'm aware of! πŸ€”

Catastrophic fail on your part then. You had one job to do!

I just want to see nostr grow!

I kid, though prettt girls coming aboard, even if to just receive zaps from creeps, could be one of the fastest ways to get adoption moving

I did gift 3 copies of my Bitcoin book to the onboard library, each one got loaned out within 24 hours of being deposited πŸ˜‚

Am I at least partially forgiven πŸ™

Orange pill > purple pill still at this point. Well done

I selected the Scottish Flag Emoji by error and don't know how to unselect it.

2026 is going to be a great year πŸ˜‚

Moving up north then πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

Happy New year JL

πŸ‘€

That’s a pic from the Epstein files ?

I was on a ship, en-route to an Atlantic Island with 5,000 of my closest friends πŸ˜‚

πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

The Hardcastle Haven Islands. I wait for the breaking news and you in a mugshot πŸ˜‚

I'm thinking of writing a book πŸ˜‚

You’ll have good time to do that in Dartmoor

Dartmoor has wonderful views to inspire any writer 🀝

Booking Airbnb now πŸ˜‚

There’s a high walled style airbnb there already for you, with a guaranteed 25 year stay. πŸ˜‚

Is breakfast included? πŸ˜‚

Oh yes

I'm in 🀝

And fun games like β€˜pick up the soap’ and β€˜who’s the daddy’

It's looks like it's cheaper if I'm prepared to share with someone called "Big Bubba"

He loves to hug, you’ll be loved

I've had issues posting videos last couple times I've tried.

Some others have had trouble posting the odd note recently too.

Wonder if related

And happy new year to you

Happy New Year my friend

Happy New Year Dan.

Hope it's a great one for you and your family πŸ«‚

I had a feeling something was missing from nostr last week πŸ€” looking forward to seeing your cruising adventures

Here's a side story to wet your appetite:

First day for lunch, a lady goes up to the Pasta section at the onboard buffet and asks

"Do you have shrimp?"

The guy behind the counter answers:

"Yes ma'am, how would you like them cooked?"

The lady replies:

"with a little garlic and oil".

The man replies:

"and what Pasta would you like served with them?"

The lady replies:

"I don't like Pasta"

The man replies,

"ma'am this is a pasta station, we only do pasta dishes".

She replies,

"that's fine, I'd like Spaghetti with Shrimp, but hold the Spaghetti".

The server obliges πŸ˜‚

πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Late Happy GM!

And a Happy New Year to you πŸ«‚

We missed u big boi!

Shucks 🫒

omg 😱 I was worried bout you bcoz you said you were going to post your vlog. Was not sure if u decided to go off grid or somethin (won't even dare to mention it). thank goodness u r safe. πŸ™ pphheewww 😰 been on cruise and I know the ocean can be unpredictable. 😬

welcome back and lookin forward to your escapade!☺️

The replay cruise starts tomorrow in earnest.

In the meantime, have you ever heard a depressed lift? πŸ˜‚

https://v.nostr.build/5sHL3wnXNlv6nrql.mp4

nope πŸ˜‚ it doesn't sound that the voice over is happy at all. lol

Did you try using a commercial VPN provider? Or a self-hosted VPN server?

Sometimes, wrapping your traffic in a VPN tunnel can circumvent cruise ship networks that perform packet inspection and filtering.

As I wasn't using tiered ship WiFi, I doubt this was happening on the Red Bull eSIM, which is charged per GB. Also this happened on land while roaming with O2.

But yes, I use Tailscale + Mullvad, which I tried turning off and on several times. I also use NextDNS within this configuration, which bypasses any DNS blocking, again, I turned this on and off.

Both NextDNS and Tailscale are great options. You know what you’re doing. Carry on. ;-)

The funny thing is, I was by far the most technical person aboard ship, but was the only one having problems.

I couldn't even get the onboard PWA to work, most cruise lines have actual apps, but Cunard decided to make it web only, meaning my wife had to book all the shows and restaurants for us on her app πŸ˜‚