No such thing as middle school and junior high where I lived in Canada. Elementary school is junior/senior kindergarten to grade 8. High school is grade 9 to 12.
👉 Boops, the dumbest Nostr client, powered by Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms. Boop your friends to show that you’re thinking about them. Get booped back. Coming soon. https://v.nostr.build/0jGgY.mp4
Gossip model is the dream. And achievable if all the major clients prioritize implementing it.
Also it looks like @Little Mikey D ‘s attempts to get people to call it the rendezvous model have failed. 😅
I think you could just sample and experiment with sending a singular test note to a small relay. But yes, you would have to subscribe to a boatload of relays at the same time right before sending the note, filtering for the note that was just sent.
From the looks of that GitHub repo, @reya was working on a Safari web extension as of four months ago. Not sure if it’s ready yet.
Nostore is no longer actively maintained so it would be great to move to one that is actively maintained.
Pro tip: if you use Proton Mail with anonymous email proxies, disable the External GPG settings. I just realized that I’ve been leaking my real email address because Proton Mail attaches my public key to all outgoing emails. It’s disappointing that Proton doesn’t do this by default, given that I use SimpleLogin and it’s part of Proton.
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I believe it uses your Proton PGP key when you email directly to another Proton user. It will use your SimpleLogin PGP key if you email through the SimpleLogin proxy. The feature that I’m suggesting people disable is the one that attaches your Proton PGP key when emailing non-Proton users, which apparently also includes your own SimpleLogin proxy, and that’s the feature that leaks your email address.
I’ve been stuck on implementing NIP-44 for over a day, and stuck on getting the hmac_aad function to work. I’m using the pseudocode from the NIP-44 repo and the Kotlin code as a working base implementation to replicate it for Swift. Inputs are identical but outputs are different. I don’t get it. Cryptography is not my strong suit.
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I’m already using the secp256k1 library and the rest come for free from Apple with CryptoKit. I have all the code written and the unit tests pass for most of the base functions. It just doesn’t pass on the encrypt and decrypt tests because of the ciphertext being different in the hmac_aad function. I’ll compare with your Rust implementation and see how far I get. If I’m still stuck, I’ll preemptively commit it to GitHub to get more eyes on it. Thanks, Mike. 🙏🏼
💯 the translators have been huge contributors making Damus globally accessible and it makes me sad that we haven’t found a way to make sure they are compensated value-for-value in the same way that code contributors do.
All the translation attribution is currently in Transifex and can be looked up manually. The problem is that the integration to GitHub loses that attribution so it makes it hard — writing a script to call their API would make that a bit easier. Moreover, Transifex accounts aren’t linked to Nostr pubkeys or Lightning addresses so we would have to manually figure that out and manage that list so that we could map it back to people who can be zapped. I don’t currently have the capacity to do those things but maybe someone else on team Damus might?
As an aside, my ideal long term vision is actually building a translation management system on Nostr with a dedicated event kind for translations that could also integrate with the Nostr Git spec. In another life with enough time and funding, I wouldn’t mind working on it. But it’s currently a pipe dream.
💯 SimpleX is too janky for me. It’ll get better over time. Outside of security and privacy features, I’m not sure Signal will necessarily win over Telegram for now for normies. Telegram’s feature set and UX seem better. However, Signal remains my go to app because if its simplicity, security, and privacy.
I can’t hear any breathing and I don’t know if I’d classify it as classical, but I’ve been in love with this piece since it came out two years ago. It helped get me through a painful time in my life by evoking a lot of raw emotion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcfvJL880_A
Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive skin cancer called dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), which required removing a softball-sized chunk of skin from my forehead down to my skull and up toward my hairline. Three plastic surgeries followed it to reduce the amount of visible scar tissue at the cost of permanently disfiguring my right eyebrow.
Two weeks ago, my dermatologist noticed an unusual spot on my forehead where the cancer used to be, which caused her to be concerned enough to do a biopsy. I was afraid that the skin cancer was back.
I'm glad to announce that the results came back today as negative and that I continue to be cancer-free after ten years. Take care of your health and get checked regularly, folks.
We saw “An Enemy of the People” on Broadway tonight! Starring Jeremy Strong (played Kendall Roy on Succession) and a few other talented actors we recognized from the shows “The White Lotus” and “You”. They even asked us to be extras on stage during an intense scene! The cherry on top was standing in line to get into the theater immediately behind Gaten Matarazzo (played Dustin Henderson on Stranger Things). Amazing night with talented people. Highly recommend this play to whoever lives in or visits NYC soon. https://i.nostr.build/A8eq.jpg
OK yeah, the issue is with both Damus and Primal in regard to NIP-10. Damus doesn’t understand the new way of making replies, and Primal didn’t attempt to preserve backwards compatibility when implementing the new way.
I fixed the backwards compatibility issue in Amethyst two months ago.
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/737@jb55@miljan any way you could prioritize these fixes?
I looked into this more. I’m not sure if it’s easily possible to build a native signer app in iOS. There doesn’t seem to be the equivalent of Android Intents or bidirectional cross-app communication. Maybe it’s possible to build something janky with custom URIs.
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