Here are some things I'd like to see from the Square/CashApp team for making this stick. I'd hate to see merchant adoption stall again, especially when we have to tools to make it an every day thing: - Onboarding resources for "local guides". I am enthusiastic enough to actually go talk to the businesses in my area about accepting bitcoin, but a really crisp value proposition for businesses would be helpful (fees? UX? treasury?) - A referral program for people doing the boots-on-the ground work of onboarding merchants *and* onboarding customers. Both sides of the market have to be developed at the same time, local "guides" are indispensable for stuff like this. - A clear articulation of the value prop for customers. You don't pay card fees when you pay, and you have to pay fees to get bitcoin. What is going to make customers want to pay to convert fiat into bitcoin, only to give it away to merchants? There has to be a clear story here — maybe a 1% discount merchants can offer? I think this is a huge opportunity to move bitcoin into "medium of exchange territory" that we should be sure to avoid wasting. If Square/CashApp can leverage the enthusiasm of local bitcoiners to help nurture the network effect, that would be a huge success. nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaejuum0vd5kzmp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82c30qyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q3gljvd nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9uq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82c30qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyzvrz5fj664celjqfuagq34cxdk4ghc5jjck8dhwdf3er3dwcfyvjunv3pq nostr:npub1ds3hmzemzgp9rsuvyvxqdk0y3uxnq9m903dktjxrvyfwk9w99t4sc2hzcn nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqpxfzhdwlm3cx9l6wdzyft8w8y9gy607tqgtyfq7tekaxs7lhmxfqyd8wumn8ghj7um9dejxjapwdehhxenvv9ex2tnrdakj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qgewaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qqsgl5ewfpy5k407dcsdtfygpq4q5gsf3sga5xjspuc9h0pnxqss0sqvy5u94

Isn't that what GMT is for

If you have questions I will always reply noncomittally If you disagree with me I will ghost you

So I was listening to nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchszxthwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuer9wfnkjemf9e3k7mf0qyd8wumn8ghj7ur4wfshv6tyvyhxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qpqdergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsce9rzs and nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqyqnxs90qeyssm73jf3kt5dtnk997ujw6ggy6j3t0jjzw2yrv6sy22vuwtly talk about replicating content across relays this morning, and so I wrote replicatr: https://github.com/coracle-social/replicatr Replicatr is a daemon which listens to one or more indexer relays for `kind 10002` events. When it detects a change in any user's relay selections, it uses negentropy to sync that user's notes to their new relays based on the outbox model. The neat thing is you don't have to run one. I deployed one this morning which points to indexer.coracle.social, so if your metadata gets published there (or to any of the relays that it mirrors), you're already covered (unless your new outbox relay rejects replicatr's publishes).

Vibed a highlights micro-app on shakespeare this morning: https://highlights.shakespeare.wtf/ I'll be using this to share more Brothers Karamazov quotes with you all.

I have learned a lot about plumbing in the last 8 days

I think just being an adult. My kids play rugby on saturdays, things in my house break at inconvenient times, my son is now allowed to stay up late 2 days of the week. I need to read difficult books in the evenings. I have to get up early to accomplish everything. I have to do my taxes, vote, etc. But also getting older means I won't live forever, and there is so much I want to do. I won't regret not watching TV, but I will regret never building a house, taking my kids backpacking, writing poetry, etc

Pretty sure this is a joke by nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshszgthwden5te0wfjkccte9448qtnwdaehgu3wwa5hyetydejhgtn2wqhsqgqmcu9qzj9n7vtd5vl78jyly037wxkyl7vcqflvwy4eqhxjfa4yzyy85unj

I host a shipyard compatible dvm

"The conservative principles par excellence are proportion and measure; self-expression through self-restraint; preservation through reform; humanism and classical balance; a fruitful nostalgia for the permanent beneath the flux; and a fruitful obsession for unbroken historical continuity. These principles together create freedom, a freedom built not on the quicksand of adolescent defiance but on the bedrock of ethics and law." Peter Viereck

Yep, I think shipyard is dead. I can probably whack together an alternative

One of my favorite programs that I've written: https://hmap.surge.sh/ It's a trivial implementation of a heightmap generation algorithm based on plane bisection, but I love the landscapes it generates — I can imagine them as alpine lakes, and I want to go there. (only works in chrome)

Public schools use laptops instead of desktops so that tech companies can addict kids earlier, and leftists can indoctrinate kids more effectively

nostr:nprofile1qyw8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtngd9nksmrfva58getj9e3k7mf0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qqs8k0mcqd6sw3h524qn5gslszt9am9knmes3uh268dgnnpv3yfwj6q75hahl happy to oblige if they'll take something that's already been self published

In case you missed it, I released a book a few weeks ago on nostr development: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr9mhxue69uhkscnj9e3k7unpvdkx2tnnda3kjctv9uqzpttn050u3qmuqg00064z0za3xc4kyy38r8js437eqgejueqclxpqlqwjwz I learned a lot while writing it, and my ideas are by no means settled, so if you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.

Yes, but it's a token whose privacy the client controls, rather than the blossom server. So I suppose your earlier point about hiding the content from the server is germane — I don't trust commodity blossom servers to protect user content.

Yeah, it depends on use cases implemented by clients. In my case, I had a use case and built it on both ends, but ultimately it seemed like encrypting the file was simpler and more resilient.

Didn't finish my thought: because I'm still not sure that encrypted uploads are better than probing relays for blossom support and assuming that they'll enforce permissions properl

I have some ideas about that, but haven't implemented any of them. One approach I had considered a while back was this: https://github.com/coracle-social/nips/blob/60179dfba2a51479c569c9192290bb4cefc660a8/xx.md#federation Basically, a relay could declare that it federates or mirrors another relay, which would allow clients to rely on either or both for redundancy/backup.

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Not only is it ugly, it's gay too nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpr9mhxue69uhkscnj9e3k7unpvdkx2tnnda3kjctv9uqzqfs99wzrakk8kz4a4spg3mamgpc2jax3qjx0ks46h9t0q4ghhfmhp6hs5h

Yeah, it isn't automated because it's coming from a lot of different IPs (unless its a bot attack). I thought it might be more a marketing thing, but the second most common request is for a very obscure pubkey. Very weird, I'm looking into the possibility that it's a bug on my end. Thanks for checking.

That makes sense, I'll probably just have to log stuff and see what I can see

This is Coracle? I just tested it and it is sending the kind 10063 to my write relays correctly. It doesn't create one if you don't change the field, but it doesn't sound like that's the case here

Yeah, I never got around to an implementation because I was pretty busy at the time with other things

ourselves

It's just the default decentralized architecture. In a sense, relays are federated. The distinctions get lost on people not thinking deeply about it though.

The editor library I'm using is 90% great, 10% buggy and impossible to fix

Since there's no way to keep anyone from adding new verbs or creating malformed feeds, I think this is just another defensive coding thing. Clients that don't support a given verb should report the error to the user and maybe offer to "repair" the feed by removing the unrecognized stuff. That said, DVMs are a pretty important out for requesting arbitrary data. They could be replaced by feed-type relays, but it's a neat architecture. Maybe we could split DVM feeds into different kinds? That's probably a good idea. WOT feeds seem simple enough to implement, even if your wot calculation is naive it should be fine right? Whatever score range you use you can always scale to to 0-1.

flotilla.social comes close (sans all the gamer-focused features)

flotilla.social

not all heroes wear capes

nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj76twvfhhstnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyv8wumn8ghj7cm9d3kxzu3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3samnwvaz7tmrwfjkzarj9ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsqgpass40an279ylj3dnz0yehqj3lhr8p2w4fr4us4vgldf6j639y95hqqsnl it looks like nostr.wine is asking for auth without sending a challenge. Tested in coracle and snort:

Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyqzvj9w6alhrsvtl5u6ygjkwuwg2sf5lukqskgjpuhnd6dpal0kvj92eatt for a great conversation

This is why I try to say dumb stuff as often as possible

Hey nostr:nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvg8u2e5q, want to come on nostr:nprofile1qyw8wumn8ghj76r0v3kxymmy9e3k7unpvdkx2tn5dahkcue0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8wetnw3jhymnzw33jucm0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqmlcas7pe55hrnlaxd7trz0u3kzrnf49vekwwe3ca0r7za2n3jcaqn2vus3 sometime and talk about socialism?

Capitalism isn't bad, monopolistic corporations are Government isn't bad, unaccountable government is Technology isn't bad, externally imposed systems are Just thinking out loud here

Yeah, the QR scanning workflow is super nice, too few implementations support that.

Yes, most clients just check that the address works and show a check mark, which is awful. NIP 05 can be good for validation only if you already know what name/domain to expect. This can be ok for comparing data across apps, or in a Soapbox style client which privileges a particular known NIP 05 provider.

He's operating out of a metaphysic of human exceptionalism and the recognition that automatons can never be more than automatons. I'm on team human too.

Dude, glad you're ok. Nice work getting the tourniquet on there fast

Wow, those people are insane

Pretty good thread on why XMPP failed but SMTP didn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31519122

I've probably posted this before, but here are some ideas for people who want to build interesting nostr apps that aren't just more microblogging clients: - [ ] Time travel - see events as of a date/time (like FB's x years ago thing) - [ ] Sophisticated telegram/discord-style bots - [ ] Email inbox-like application - [ ] Kickstarter on nostr - [ ] https://letterboxd.com/ on nostr - [ ] e-vite service/interface - [ ] Good nostr music player - [ ] Preference events - I want this, please populate it for me - [ ] Client-side DVMs could be a good way to solve request/response for private information - [ ] CLI for publishing DVM profiles and handlers - [ ] Alternative bootstrapping mechanisms (torrents? dht?) - [ ] Social key rotation protocol - [ ] DVM in the browser that does something goofy like share with other people what you're looking at - [ ] Relay manager

*opens hacker news* *closes hacker news*

Mayyyybe but only if permissions are properly locked down. I opened a PR for this and reactions were mixed: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1795

Just got the best autogenerated jitsi room name ever:

This is the problem with using nip 05s for verification, classic phishing maneuver

Yeah, coracle loads stuff directly from the network and tries to avoid lots of duplicate relay selections, which means it's not as consistent as other clients which load everything up front.

Am I right? Was it Primal that did this? Or was it following.space? I lost track of the source of the hype

110 MPH IIRC on a highway in Montana

Oh yeah, nip 32 wouldn't work, but a kind 18-like thing would (as long as you didn't publish the original note). I was thinking of this because NIP 29 `h` tags have this problem.

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Here's what I'm trying as a solution: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/content-cache/content-caching/

Also, "hurricane" as "huRICKinny" nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr9mhxue69uhkscnj9e3k7unpvdkx2tnnda3kjctv9uqzqkq0hlcvhhqzmkwzhw6un7vmw2zu03x4e29adzhjkjeqzftfwylxl7a9at

I'm sure it would be doable, I don't know too much about the details. Translation is probably best done by a specialist model of some kind

I think those are great counter examples to the effect he identifies, which is nevertheless generally true

Yes, just create a new bunker session in amber

I played 20 questions with Claude: https://claude.ai/share/bb2c17f3-1ee1-480f-86bc-28224ac69ad1 In contrast to the old ChatGPT games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF83vutiV2Y), Claude is massively improved, and did eventually get the answer (LLVM). It's interesting to notice that it enumerates concrete guesses using its encyclopedic knowledge, but has a hard time abstracting in order to conserve guesses.

Signal me an invoice

Is there a kind used for configuring user push notification relays?

Losing is winning, I respect the integrity to call clown world's bluff

For anyone who wants to partake: https://wildthistlekitchen.com/sourdough-cheese-crackers/ nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3jamnwvaz7tmgvfezucm0wfskxmr99eek7cmfv9kz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqzpdk7z9gxx3070ngd92r2krxd4xl27n66tzqfld24rjekrqs0h39nt3vd5t

Best AI-generated copy I've seen so far: "Not all those who wander are lost, but some relays need a good landlubber to keep them shipshape." ⚓

You're welcome, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Isn't that what NWC is for? Just because it's RPC doesn't mean everything has to go through the signer interface. I'm also not sure what the use case for a bidirectional session would be. Maybe key migration? But even then, it seems like that would be better served by a method that explicitly does that.

Here's how I'm doing it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1947 This approach is based on some stuff in NIP 17 for sending encrypted media. Basically, encrypt the file, upload it to blossom, and send the decryption key in a message along with the URL. I think this works great. I don't know why in particular it doesn't use NIP 44 (maybe nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qythwumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqx9vz88 can elucidate). But aes-gcm is pretty standard web crypto, so not hard to use. For your use case, you might look at defining a new event kind for "encrypted media" in NIP 94.

Crank up your minimum wot setting to 1

I actually already have that on my shelf, I'll have to crack it open

How I feel working with NIP 29 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/41iVm_57yyc

Whitenoise by nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq3jamnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qy3hwumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn98ankcmmzv9kr6ctvdshsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9e4x2enxvuhxv7tf9uqzq9eemymaerqvwdc25f6ctyuvzx0zt3qld3zp5hf5cmfc2qlrzdh0t6lycm uses strong encryption for privacy within groups. Currently kind of a signal alternative but it could scale to larger groups. However, there is always a social trade off to be aware of. The larger the group, the less trust exists within the group, and the less consequential privacy on the technical level is. I also think that the relay requirement is an acceptable trade off, since large groups are usually going to have a sufficiently committed admin that will be motivated to run a relay, while smaller groups can thrive in a more informal encryption-supported scenario. The relay requirement may actually be a beneficial barrier to entry that discourages insufficiently motivated would-be community organizers from starting.

The proliferation of "AI assistance" in professional settings is going to result in increased alienation from work, worsening an already acute crisis of meaning and purpose. The depressed workers on whom AI relies for direction and agency will get less and less done, resulting in a reduction, rather than an increase, in actual productivity.

I've had x.com in my mute words list for ages

No, because relays don't know who sent the message

you don't want to see those

I think my problem is that I think by coding. It makes it very uncomfortable to switch to planning mode and let someone else have all the fun of actually building. But I think this is the right way to use it.

> The ideal: my life is better if I do X, and I'd want my friends and family to do or use X My relationship with nostr is basically a quest to create software that I can justify selling to my friends and family. This is an incredibly high bar when it comes to social media which I have yet to meet.

New project just released: Compass 🧭 For a long time I've wondered how bad things would be if nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdakj7qgdwaehxw309anrw73wd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqzp75cf0tahv5z7plpdeaws7ex52nmnwgtwfr2g3m37r844evqrr6j46j6hr's wss://purplepag.es relay went down, since it's the only dedicated kind 10002 indexer I'm aware of, and is heavily relied on for bootstrapping user relay selections, which is a key part of keeping nostr decentralized. So I stood up another one at wss://indexer.coracle.social. Regular users don't need to do anything, but I encourage client developers to add this to your list of relays you check for NIP 65 kind 10002 relay selections. I've also open-sourced the project at https://github.com/coracle-social/compass so anyone who wants to can run their own. The project also supports mirroring other indexers via `strfry router`, but I have left that as an opt-in feature. Unless you expect significant load on your indexer, mirroring would only increase the number of unnecessary connections made to other indexers, so please be considerate when setting up mirrors.

Yeah, I get that containers allow the use of shared resources on a single host. The problem is that the same pattern has been used (and nested) in many places where it makes no sense. The render problem is that they support deploying dockerfiles, but not configuring the command to run the container on the host, which means you can't map volumes. The workaround is also really weird: https://community.render.com/t/map-disk-to-docker/4707/5

nip 46 is a never ending fractal nightmare

Maybe this would be helpful: https://github.com/coracle-social/welshman/blob/master/packages/signer/src/nip59.ts

Dead 😂

Haha great idea

If anyone saw me re-post a note venerating Mary just know that I was testing something, I'm still Reformed.