Tim Chase on Nostr: I'm sure I knew this at one point, but (re)learned today that a DNS TXT record has a ...
I'm sure I knew this at one point, but (re)learned today that a DNS TXT record has a limit of 255 characters.
(he says noting that it's roughly the length of a Tweet and pondering the ramifications of microblogging-over-DNS which is absolutely horrible…hey, brain, no…stop it, STOP it!)
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2025-01-19 02:01:35Event JSON
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