Important reminder. Thank you.

What book is it?


To disable this gross spyware, throw that windows garbage in trash where it belongs.


Long long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, someone published a "meme" which was purely informational. It depicted a huge (bavarian?) house from the 19th century with a thick roof made from natural materials. The point was to show what even simple, often illiterate people could afford a bit more than a 100 years ago, while we fight for scraps today.

Another similar theme (or was it the same meme?) said how in the early 20th century a postman lived in a huge house and was able to support the family of five or six.

If anyone has these or any similar examples, can you please share them here?

#asknostr


This GUI is absolutely gorgeous! If it's not a secret, what software is that?


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SimpleX works.
I am not sure about the time (aren't we all lacking it? :)), but I can most definitely take a look and help you narrow the project down to the essentials.


One more (general) thing.
Think of yourself as a product manager in OSS. Try to come up with a product doc that explains why, what, where, when and then leave how to developers. Think of what should be in scope vs out of scope of the project. What are must haves, and what are nice to haves, etc.


Those are the servers that sync your calendar and contacts. I don't think you need that for the userfacinfg website. Would an iframe embedded calendar be an option?

Without requirements it's hard to tell what is the right solution.


For simple(ish) web sites today you might not even need ChatGPT. The tooling became so good. Plus, if you build it yourself you'll haave the sense of agency.

I love OSS (if you can't tell from my profile :D). More than happy to help.


Also addy (formerly anonaddy). It's FOSS
https://addy.io/


"The gravity of that"

Pun intended? :)


Desktop is fine, but you then need to either give nsec to the website directly, or use an extension such as Alby.

I don't see an easy way to have those highlights on your mobile app without compromising nsec in some way.


Sorry for not seeing these replies earlier.
Well, I like to test how things work so any mobile device (stock iphone, stock android, graphene...).

It's nice that you can do extensions on mobile browsers. That's one way to go about this.

Ideally, people should be able to use a signer like Amber, but as far as I understand, the highlighter doesn't support it :(


Plenty of options here:
https://www.minisforum.com/


Missing/expired certificate. Browser is warning that the connection is not secure.


On Nostr relays :)


Sorry for the silly question, but what are templates in this context?


I think what nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a303dstl2 wants to achieve is to have a simple command he can give an input (existing .md file) and the destination (his own npub). That command would then publish the contents of a markdown file as a long form note to his profile.

In order to achieve that, the command would also need to authenticate, IIUC.


CLI stands for the command line interface. Aka the terminal.


No. Telegram has always been pointless 😆


Isn't this exactly why multisig exists?


Why is it not possible to right click and copy (he actual) image in Amethyst? #asknostr


Who's gonna build the roads?
Who's gonna run the relays?


Gluten morgen! 🙃


That helps a lot, thank you!
Is there somewhere a list of apps that support bunkers or how do you figure that out?

These are all excellent information for newbies, such as myself.


Do I understand it right that, for the app to work with #amber, itneedas to be a native app? In other words, no PWAs?

#asknostr


Is there any officially supported Fountain binary other than what can be downloaded from the two biggest stores?


Is there an easy way (or some written guide) how to setup nostr:nprofile1qqs8834mjfzq4y6yy70h5d428hshzry3nzc7n69rjnx38cxatjv5cccpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39e3x7mr59ehkyum9wfmx2u30qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uqs7amnwvaz7tmev4ehgu3wd4jj7j7e69h on mobile? Ideally without having to enter nsec anywhere.

So when I say set up, I mean connect it to the existing nostr account.
#asknostr


And sorry for the noob question but what is the biggest difference between an extension and a full account?

I'm guessing that's explained somewhere so a link as an answer will work just fine :)


Yeah but I meant why isn't it possible to register using the existing nostr profile?


Hey guys, are there scientists (biology, physics, chemistry...) here inside the Nostr community? I am looking for some good npubs to follow.

#asknostr #nostrask #askingforafriend


Is it possible to use nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgnwaehxw309aex2mrp09skymr99ehhyecusqvd6 without an email? #asknostr


No one knew where we were, and no one cared.

From the ages of 8-11, I spent my summers in Saltaire, Fire Island, a tiny town across the bay from Bayshore Long Island, accessible only by ferry. I vaguely recall the first summer our parents enrolled my younger brother Damon and me in day camp where they made us swim in the cold, jelly-fish-ridden bay water early in the morning. We quit the camp within the week and were largely left to our own devices after that.

The island didn’t have cars, so you got around by bike. That meant it was safe for kids, and late-70s/early-80s parents could check out entirely. By the time I was 10 or 11, I would wake up whenever it suited me, scarf down a bowl of cereal, grab my bike and return for dinner. No one knew where we were — though the baseball field was a good bet — and no one cared.

I remember one time we brought a two-man inflatable raft to the ocean on a choppy day and thought it was a good idea to see if we could ride the waves in it. We got so destroyed by one wave, Damon wound up face-down in the sand underneath the raft. He was crying, but no real harm done.

. . .

To this day, I often find myself projecting into the future. “In 12 hours, I’ll be back in Lisbon, in 48 hours, I’ll be done with my running for the week, in 72 hours, etc.” And when the time comes, and I’m done with whatever travel or unpleasant task, I’ll start all over again.

If you tell this to someone, they’ll often say, “You need to be in the present.” Yeah no shit. That’s like telling someone you’re an alcoholic and them saying, “You should stop drinking.” It’s a bad habit, I’m aware. But where did this habit come from, and why is it so entrenched?

. . .

My summers were a stark contrast to the school year where like everyone else I was up at 7:00 am, exhausted and forced to sit through class after class all day, the teachers droning on about something in which I had no interest. I remember watching the clock, as though trying to make the hands move faster with my mind. Only 20 minutes left, only 10 minutes, only five. Thank God it’s Friday.

. . .

I’ve never had a real job. I worked on the Truckee River one summer blowing up rafts, stacking them on trucks and putting people in the water. I cleaned houses one summer, I worked for free during law school for the NY Attorney General’s office, I ghost wrote car blurbs for Motor Trend and Car And Driver and then I worked for RotoWire (in fantasy sports) for 22 years before we sold it. The idea of grinding away at a law firm or some other joyless menial mental labor filled me with dread. Even tedious tasks like editing our annual NFL magazine, going over the copy word by word four or five times was torture. And I had a dream job and owned part of the company.

. . .

I partied a lot in my 20s and 30s, and it was not without consequence. I have a beautiful 12-YO daughter now, but we started too late to have more than one kid. Had I known then what I know now, I would have started a big family much earlier. I would have been more serious and made it a priority. But even though I wasn’t exactly an alcoholic, I had a strong urge to use the weekend as an escape. It was my time, and I wanted to use it to chase the pleasures that were denied to me during the slog of the work week.

. . .

For parents, school is kid storage, but for kids like me it was prison. My biggest takeaway was there are dreadful, pointless things society wants from you, and you should get those done with the least possible effort so you could do whatever you wanted later. That life is divided into appeasing the machine and having fun, and the problem to solve was how to get rich despite having a very low tolerance for appeasement. The point of getting rich was to do whatever you wanted whenever you wanted and to dispense with the dreadful, pointless things forever.

. . .

Now that I have no job, and the dreadful, pointless things are kept to a minimum, I mostly do whatever I want. But the younger version of me would be surprised to know that includes running at the track three times a week, doing pull-ups at the local park, writing and editing my own essays, learning and using to the extent I’m capable the challenging new freedom tech protocols (bitcoin and nostr.) I’ve largely stopped drinking, almost never smoke weed, fast once a week, am gluten-free, rarely eat junk food, don’t drive a fancy car. I save rather than spend most of my money.

There is nothing from which to escape and nowhere to go anymore. And yet my mind still projects into the future, perpetuating the dichotomy between obligations and leisure, indentured servitude and escapism. It’s as if I’m back in Saltaire, the whole day every day in front of me, but it’s only June, and I haven’t yet adjusted fully to the reality that school’s out, and it’s really, actually summer.

Just as soon as I post this essay, walk the dog, do my pull-ups at the park, I’ll start to relax and enjoy myself.


Openlibrary FTW. I'm wondering if creating everything from the scratch is the way to go? Foranyy idea out there, not just this one.

Imagine Openlibrary integrating Nostr instead!


The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


Oh, I think I misread your message. Sorry about that.

YOU added an extra 0 that someone else found! I understood it's a quote from that someone that goes  together with the screenshot as a proof :D


I don't see that message in the thread. Maybe I muted that user or something else is weird.

Here's my original message just 1h after you posted.
nostr:nevent1qqsp9e77wyp23hs8rhzpsqpn09s5qzp74f8kkn80m4hdc3pvknvy72sppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzpexun3djmt2swc6f7kmfp7x9m2uyggcg4d6jugx2t3lvlrzgl8lcqvzqqqqqqy3vjr8f

I find it weird that you can add a character whenithe task was to find an EXTRA character. The only way to prove the solution works is to post a decoded message.


Still waiting for at least a reply nostr:npub1wl89d7yazg500lehg08p45dj2jzhhyqg2erj067458e3wd30djns4zn8lu


Do you need me to post the proof (decoded message) or how this works?
I still don't hear the sound of sats in my alby :D


I did :)


It's the second "V" in the sequence "2VjcmV0ljo". If you remove that, a message makes sense.


Hello Flockstr.com,

R.I.P. Meetup.com.


Take a look at this nostr:npub1axy65mspxl2j5sgweky6uk0h4klmp00vj7rtjxquxure2j6vlf5smh6ukq
nostr:nevent1qqspehuwttvg6zj7dhk5fwr67nawpxyph0mt47fne54tvd3heguz5pcppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzq3jhml5fvklgnq9fxpete767txn9zfzqdkc0sxfptmnchfrexje7qvzqqqqqqyp7uh77


Well, that answers my question :))
I was dreaming about this. Thanks for sharing great news!
nostr:nevent1qqs8jntslptjah3eynuddfrhqjradc8nf69af2n3avf7ztnxj46d4scpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzpexun3djmt2swc6f7kmfp7x9m2uyggcg4d6jugx2t3lvlrzgl8lcqvzqqqqqqygg68q8


Are there any good privacy-friendly alternatives to goodreads? #asknostr


Hate to be "that guy" but it's "your", not " you're". It affects otherwise beautiful design.


As the community here grows, I'm wondering if we'll even need Meetup app in the future? It gives me creeps, tbh.

What is the biggest obstacle in using Nostr to organize and coordinate meetups? Adoption?


Are people still largely relying on the #meetup app for dev/eng/technical local meetups?


Are you reading a particular book or some other source you'd like to share?


If you use Insomnia for API development or testing DO NOT upgrade to the latest version (v8).

They will hide or overwrite all your local data and collections without warning. Some people were able to recover by using the "export" button.

Another option is to downgrade. The data should still be intact. Homebrew still has the old version so that can be an option for some.

If you decide to upgrade after all, make sure to backup all your data first.

The community backlash ensued in this issue:
https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6585


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