balas

https://tiago.balas.pt

Full Stack Sats Dev at https://alphaama.com

Public Key

npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8

NIP-05 Address

_@balas.pt

NIP-57 Address

balas@getalby.com

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

nostr-relay.wlvs.space

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npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8

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Last Notes

2024-10-12 08:54:26

sometimes u start writing a post with a problem u need solving, hoping that someone would help u find a good solution, but by the time u finish writing, u find a solution yourself and don't need to post anymore. just explaining the problem in writing can help solve it.

2024-10-11 11:29:39

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it should work on native apps and it may work on some web clients that do some extra work, but it would be better and work seamlessly across all browsers if primal switched the extension to mp4 on their servers.

2024-10-11 09:46:43

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I'm unable watch your videos because you're using ".mov" file extension. is that deliberate? why not use ".mp4" that has broader compatibility? using a centralised video format is not the way to go on a decentralised environment.

2024-10-09 09:31:05

the kinds people I follow used in the last day
https://i.nostr.build/DJj2cjAnTxiliotw.png

2024-10-07 14:07:31

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yes

2024-10-05 10:07:05

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it's sad but it warms my heart <3

2024-10-03 12:09:28

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did you manage to publish?
there should be in the draft event actions (`<3`) a button that says "yolo"

2024-10-02 22:39:59

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pro-tip: you can use multiple tabs

2024-10-02 17:27:10

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what do you mean by alphaama does not accept relays? how are you adding them?
you can add relays by entering the command: `.aa r add wss://relay.url read write, wss://other.relay read`

2024-10-02 10:42:34

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smol brother is watching you

2024-10-02 08:58:38

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if it wasn't a nostr dev, then it wouldn't show up on nostr

2024-10-02 07:55:34

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looks good now :)

2024-10-02 07:52:01

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what were you trying to achieve? you could have done everything just in the main alphaama (and probably also just in nostrudel too).

2024-10-02 07:40:16

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Just so you're aware, this page does not render fine in mobile Safari on my old iphone, because of the header, it crops the overflow with no option to scroll. Can't reproduce on desktop as it behaves correctly there.. https://i.nostr.build/w44wFySGks8N5KQo.png

2024-10-01 14:01:27

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step by step, app by app, this is how / why nostr will spread like wildfire. what's the dev npub? he has a bunch of socials on his profile but no nostr npub :/

2024-09-30 14:51:41

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i don't know where those come from as I've never used them in my life. @npub1acg…p35c do you know where those relays come from? where did gossip found them? my only explanation for those would be relay hints either on someone kind:3 or as a tag from a reply

2024-09-30 14:37:49

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do I? I don't remember setting any of that.. can you point me to what events have these relays setup?

2024-09-30 13:59:55

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nope, i'm a nostr caveman

2024-09-30 12:23:01

I literally have no relays setup anywhere but in nos2x with simple read / write for months

2024-09-30 09:57:09

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people that have nothing to do and need to make up stuff so they feel useful or peole that profit from it.

2024-09-30 09:52:41

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#note1qqq…quwv

2024-09-29 18:23:34

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ok I found this: https://github.com/arkin0x/cyberspace
should have been part of the post :)
need to do some reading

2024-09-29 14:32:08

https://i.nostr.build/IQUlqcyhuiMy6il2.jpg

2024-09-29 12:22:28

seeing a lot of `p` tags with the third value marked 'root' or 'mention'. aren't marked stuff exclusive to `e` tags per nip10?
shouldn't `p` tags have a petname at that index instead? nip1 does not say what goes on the third value but nip2 defines it as petname, at least in the context of kind:3, but I think it should be extended to all p tags for consistency.

2024-09-29 10:46:55

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deletions on nostr are expensive for clients and relays that need to keep track of what has been deleted. relays are forced to keep a table of all these deletion notes and query against them for every inbound event to make sure they're not accepting events that were deleted a long time ago that just resurfaced now. this will never scale well and no relay / client should opt into this theater. IMO it only works now at a small scale, but as the network grows it will be unsustainable for any relay and client as the list of deleted events only grows.

2024-09-28 17:48:53

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Guten Morgenberg

2024-09-28 13:13:15

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use .mp4, whoever told you that has no clue. .mov is not a codec, it's a container. It has nothing to do with quality

2024-09-28 13:06:56

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'.mov' video files only playback on apple software, and usually it's a sign that they have been uploaded from the camera roll without any processing, making them unwatchable on most browsers except Safari and much more heavy than an optimised for web version.

2024-09-28 13:02:05

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sadly, yes

2024-09-28 13:00:30

'.mov' videos have no place on nostr, this is madness and I don't understand why it's still happening in 2024

2024-09-28 10:39:48

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I'm forging my own path and exploring how I can interact with the protocol without nanny rails and glossy buttons. it's very difficult at the moment because the protocol is still in it's infancy and keeps changing with new features added continuously. I had to rewrite my client a bunch of times because when I think I have a good base, suddenly the big clients start to adopt a new NIP that renders my code unfit (bech32, rpe, outbox, etc...), the paradigm of what a client should do keeps changing, so there's no time to sit and design with a clear focus because users keep expecting their client to adopt whatever the other clients have. IMO, good design will only arise when a client can confidently stay in a fixed set of features, but for now it's been more on having all the features functioning than having them be designed properly.

2024-09-25 19:28:10

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I know, but it's not really churning all the time, it's basically only my notes and maybe 1 or 2 crazy people I don't even know about..
and I don't know where to begin with rust crates and all that shit.. so it's the best I can do for now :)

2024-09-25 12:56:34

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not as it stands, because I purposefully left out kinds:[0,3,7] because those are automated in the UI, but it can easily be added too

2024-09-25 10:27:51

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here's how it looks like
https://v.nostr.build/0COVhGCJRjB3YPlk.mp4

2024-09-25 10:23:13

alphaama now has pow. you can use a global for all posts or apply as needed per post.

2024-09-24 16:09:08

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the loophole has been patched, doesnt work anymore outside github

2024-09-24 15:04:08

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if we don't have reactions with their own kind, then people will use kind:1 to write a single emoji without a way to single them out. are kind:1 notes with one or 2 characters spam or wasteful?
at least this way we can choose to not download reactions if we don't want to (or zaps or any other kind).
now, regarding note aggregation, this is a practice that doesn't work well with nostr, because there is no central database. every relay has it's own count and trying to merge all this is pointless, what value do people get from an open count? this number can be faked or inflated and is only used by people manipulating the masses by bragging their own numbers. notes with 3 / 4 likes sometimes come from the same account that made the post in the first place, and because clients aggregate and don't show who did what and when, they distort the value of the note and burden the relays. that's why advocating for more of this is going the wrong way, clients will just show meaningless numbers to people.

2024-09-24 14:32:43

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reactions aren't likes, they're full blown replies using a single character and can convey way more meaning than a 1000 bs words note.

2024-09-24 14:25:20

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clients are probably also downloading all zaps just to count them..

2024-09-24 12:33:50

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I'm not because I don't use the feature. but if you're going to ask for everything just for a count, might as well trust the relay for that, because it's meaningless anyway and the relay doesn't have to send everything and you don't have to download everything just to discard it afterwards. but just because I don't use it doesn't mean that other don't as well, so if clients will do it because they can, they will, and in that scenario, it is best to have a better solution with tradeoffs both agree.

2024-09-24 12:15:07

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no, because the notes are external content not generated by the relays, the relays cannot be trusted ever, the client needs to verify everything. you're advocating for clients to "just trust me bro" which is completely wrong. the practice of displaying a single integer count is the problem, and clients downloading tons of events just for that are the problem. anyway, there's a COUNT nip since a long time ago that I helped shape precisely to unburden relays from this bad practice.

2024-09-24 11:49:33

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I don't need to do that because I don't tally anything, I display all the reactions like any other reply, but I would use relays to count if I needed to use that feature.

2024-09-24 11:44:54

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just download the reactions of people you want, just like you do with kind:1
it was always dumb to ask for everything, either reactions or any other note, but clients decided to go the dumb route.

2024-09-22 20:13:52

dfdgdg

2024-09-20 20:16:27

we should strive for a healty ratio of less nips per number of clients.
1 nip for 1000 clients is better than 10 nips for 100 clients is better than 100 nips for 10 clients is better than 1000 nips for 1 client
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/She-wolf_suckles_Romulus_and_Remus.jpg

2024-09-20 19:29:15

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i consider the nips repository akin to the state. it's where we store our rules and law. we want less in there. concise and to the point, otherwise it's debt accumulation

2024-09-20 19:21:17

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plot twistr

2024-09-20 18:26:11

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nostr has a super power call tags, it's amazing so we don't have to infer weird and new and arbitrary meanings in what people want to say, we can just neatly put them in a proper structure with well defined meanings. going the route of adding more and more on raw string data that may or may not be what we expect just removes freedom for the person writing because everything turns into something else and creates really hard to interpret parsers that now need to jump through hoops hoping for few false positives. if it is defined in tags, there's no more doubt and clients can freely expand on that, instead of trying to guess and interpret every word into a trigger. I already see a lot of bloat trying to interpret anything as a URL and auto inserting it into tags, this will just compound.

2024-09-20 18:15:06

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ah, is that what they say before the chorus? had never really caught it until now

2024-09-20 08:31:34

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gm :)

2024-09-20 00:26:24

https://open.spotify.com/track/6po71PeJnTDHZdqYcFfAY1

2024-09-19 22:53:48

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🤔

2024-09-19 21:13:20

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hey! I'm glad you like it. I plan on adding a bit more in the coming days, specially on how to interact with events. If you have any question don't hesitate to ask. <3

2024-09-19 18:36:35

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https://image.nostr.build/a9bc4bd377023a3c6ec191f9386abe647d08f4a814bedf1eca9ed6838d62de5b.gif

2024-09-19 15:02:08

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that's the spirit!

2024-09-19 14:37:23

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I know, I don't agree with them either... but at least that is intentional and purposeful, reactions aren't.

2024-09-19 14:10:04

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They're not not binary so yes, the client cannot make assumptions nor to read them nor imply arbitrary meaning automatically and auto send their arbitrary meaning saying that's what the user wanted when it clearly wasn't. Reports should be performed privately between the user and the client and publicly only by the client, so your users are not associated with unwanted content directly.

2024-09-19 14:02:21

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Reactions should not be filtered, that's not their purpose.

2024-09-18 21:03:27

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https://i.nostr.build/JnkZVaIijKTTap7s.png

2024-09-18 20:53:12

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to rename them you need to download and edit the files

2024-09-18 19:29:00

alphaama now has 3 useless micro-apps:
- https://alphaama.com/ma/note
let's you create notes from scratch manually without writing JSON
- https://alphaama.com/ma/filter
let's you create request filters manually without writing JSON
- https://alphaama.com/ma/miner
let's you take any note and apply PoW to it

2024-09-17 11:26:08

spam on nostr should only find it's way to you if:
1. it is directly targeted at you (replies,mentions)
2. you follow the target and he interacts with it
3. you actively request to see all posts
2 and 3 can easily be fixed, 1 is where it becomes complicated and difficult without excluding yourself from legitimate content

2024-09-16 20:57:48

https://open.spotify.com/track/7wLtyMDljwAziOVC9d3FOh

2024-09-16 14:30:30

I get a lot of nip19 decode failures with NostrTools that nak has no problems decoding. anyone familiar with this issue?

2024-09-16 12:38:03

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$49k

2024-09-16 10:07:45

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make sure to check for the content of the interaction as there might be some ⚠️ reactions there 🙃

2024-09-15 15:23:31

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my profile picture was done using procreate 12 years ago

2024-09-15 14:37:56

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"bitcoins" 😅

2024-09-15 14:25:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFN_A7L356I

2024-09-14 18:21:05

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https://i.nostr.build/mMOpe3hvWTQu0Kpk.jpg

2024-09-14 18:01:24

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in time, everyone will learn.

2024-09-14 14:35:56

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they don't use reply guy anymore, I'm seeing empty profiles replying with the same behaviour or profiles that don't look like bots
ex that came from damus relay:
#note1ndg…dxgy

2024-09-14 13:41:51

weirdness intensifies as we're starting to not know who's the bot anymore:
https://i.nostr.build/oIg03MBktOIFp8Va.jpg
also, what the hell is going on with those tags??!
https://i.nostr.build/lzzA5hoWqyWgR5Yh.jpg

2024-09-14 11:07:10

trying to fix a bug, but it only happens when running normally, if I step debug, it never happens. 🤔

2024-09-14 09:26:54

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In here we're fishermen teaching others how to fish, over there they just distribute the fish to some and make everyone else watch while they eat

2024-09-13 21:05:07

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the first 2 paragraphs are ok, the last 2 are very confusing.

2024-09-13 19:31:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtQ9p25ek0&t=2555

2024-09-13 14:59:00

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nós triste :(

2024-09-13 13:12:32

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because that's the people that will show on my timeline, as my follows interact with their follows. I'm not processing after that, but it's the bare minimum to have a more complete feed. it's not needed as nothing happens automatically, you need to run the query manually..

2024-09-13 11:17:13

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thanks, will take a look

2024-09-13 11:16:30

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on my way :)

2024-09-13 10:58:23

my follows list is 210 pubkeys long (very small in contrast to others), after processing all my follows follows I end up with 15k+ pubs to cram into my db. this is the single choke point of alphaama right now and only a problem because indexedDB is shit (my code as well probably...)
working to fix this as it makes the browser unresponsive (sometimes crashes). it usually only happens the first time you run a query for your follows kind:3

2024-09-12 09:17:29

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still very rough around the edges and sometimes freezes or crashes because of indexedDB. need to find a better alternative, thinking of going back to cache only and create my own index. thank you for trying it :)

2024-09-12 08:34:33

building a micro-app a day keeps centralization away

2024-09-12 07:51:19

https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZzcVNJc6h4gcXWAAOpaQq

2024-09-11 21:20:32

needed a little break from alphaama today so decided to make a micro-app.
https://i.nostr.build/0R05Sclzlbx3WgqP.png

2024-09-08 16:31:18

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they'll just adjust the timestamp to circumvent this..

2024-09-08 16:29:38

hey everyone that uses Amethyst, you should be aware that the app sends a reaction note (⚠️) when you report another note as spam, the same way as if you reacted with 😀 or 😂 or 🤙 or 🤮. the dev thinks it's the same thing and doesn't want to change this behaviour that only his client does, so when other clients ask for the notes you reacted to, they get the spam notes you were trying to get rid off, effectively spreading them to your audience. Is this the behaviour you expect when reporting?
#asknostr
you can check the discussion here: https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/88

2024-09-08 09:35:35

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a knife and a lighter

2024-08-27 19:58:04

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https://github.com/mattn/algia

2024-08-16 17:21:31

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https://alphaama.com/

2024-08-14 09:39:06

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sprout

2024-08-14 07:08:46

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2024-08-11 13:57:00

it's been a while since I could open my Quicktime player, it automatically crashes after launching. there are 3 videos that open with the app and I can't seem to be able to clear that recent list and make the app open empty. tried some terminal commands without success. Does anyone know of a way to clear the recent list with the app closed? Also deleted the app state folder but that also did nothing.. help

2024-08-11 10:36:20

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it does not prompt me to auth, and the relay page says it's public. I'm pretty sure I was able to post there before but not anymore

2024-08-11 10:27:26

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isn't this relay free / no auth?

2024-08-11 10:17:27

what does this mean: `wss://relay.snort.social/ not ok: no active subscription...` ?

2024-08-11 10:15:42

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what does this mean: `wss://relay.snort.social/ not ok: no active subscription...` ?

2024-08-11 10:13:46

2024-08-08 18:22:59

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up until now, people don't really see a difference between the paid and free because there's barely any... paid relays need to diferentiate themselves and actually survive and be performant so people trust them and not feel rugged by paying for 6 months and the relay disappearing after 2...