fiatjaf

If this doesn't work on your phone browser let me know what browser is it, but also be warned that I won't fix it because I tried and it's impossible (it works on Firefox for Android, by the way).

2024-11-12 01:16:21

Tired of not having any good options to generate QR codes in your terminal because you have no way to transfer data from desktop to phone except via QR codes?
Your problems are over.
Hurry up and type `go install fiatjaf.com/qr@latest` and be happy forever.
https://media.primal.net/uploads/5/54/8c/5548c0882d758d0bc99b427800e34720e05ae578dbce121fc81b9061de8af058.png

2024-11-11 11:32:49

You asked, we delivered!
https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/#/outbox now runs on phones and other demonical devices.

2024-11-10 21:53:37

Concrete example of centralizing effects in action:
#nevent1q…cael
It looks like Peter Todd is still right about Nostr.

2024-11-10 21:48:16

If you are a bored developer maybe you will be interested in implementing simple NIP-23 Nostr sources support on some open-source RSS reader apps out there for something like $800 each.
The goal is to make it work, record some screencasts and open PRs. If they will merge or not that's their decision and we don't care.
The feature is just to support pasting npub, nip05 or nprofile URIs, use relay hints if available or fetch write relays from kind:10002, then fetch new kind:30023 articles from these relays periodically just like the app already fetches RSS feeds from URLs. No need to bother with comments, likes, anything for now.
Eligible apps:
- https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk
- https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
- https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
- https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
- https://github.com/RSSNext/Follow
- https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
- https://github.com/miniflux/v2
- https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou
- https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer
- https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
- https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
- https://github.com/msasikanth/twine
- https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea
- https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
- https://github.com/nextcloud/news
Message me on https://t.me/fiatjaf or using NIP-17 if you are interested or have better ideas.

2024-11-09 02:28:47

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Luckily you are the CEO.

2024-11-08 19:27:47

#nevent1q…hnlc
I heard a story according to which the reason why the "." prefix makes files hidden on Unix/Linux is because some lazy intern had the task to remove "." and ".." from `ls` file listings. Or something like that, I don't remember.

2024-11-08 00:45:24

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If ye love me keep my commandments and do not use the edit button. (Json 14:15)

2024-11-08 00:40:35

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The idea is that you write a longer text thing, it lives there in its own place, you can edit it as much as you want, and in the meantime you can refer to it many times in your short notes for bigger reach.

2024-11-07 22:50:06

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What you're doing there is the use case of NIP-23 long-form articles. Amethyst is confusing you by making you think short notes can be used as Markdown long-form editable articles. If kind:1 notes are supposed to work exactly like kind:30023 articles then I don't know why we are bothering to make all these NIPs and specialized clients.

2024-11-07 22:46:51

https://snapnostr.app/ is pretty good, it event worked with #nevent1q…wfmg

2024-11-07 20:46:35

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We are late.

2024-11-07 15:13:30

This is all I can do at this point:
#naddr1qq…uthw

2024-11-07 14:59:11

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1565

2024-11-07 12:30:14

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What do you mean by diff algorithms? Why do you think diff algorithms are even needed in this case? Maybe I'm missing something, but both text and video and images could all just be replaced entirely, therefore the difficulty is the same everywhere.
If the edit was actually a diff on Nostr it would make more sense.

2024-11-06 18:08:03

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If we are going to damage the decentralization potential of Nostr so badly just to have one stupid feature what is the point?
Instagram, TikTok and YouTube do not allow editing the main content of a post once it's published, by the way.

2024-11-02 12:04:17

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Yes.

2024-11-01 16:10:19

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I don't know why, but these image URLs you're posting all look broken to me.

2024-11-01 13:31:14

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Audio chat rooms in a decentralized way? How?

2024-11-01 12:39:25

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OK, answered on that other thread, but now I am curious about why you think Nostr has problems with "scalability and delegation" and how Pubky deals with these questions that you choose to point as being Nostr's weaknesses (even if the article was written by ChatGPT someone still has to own its contents, right?).

2024-11-01 12:36:03

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I haven't looked too deeply into it yet, so I may be talking complete bullshit here, but so far my impression is that Pubky is 3 things:
1. signed entries published on a DHT that associate a pubkey with an HTTP server
2. HTTP servers that can host any file
3. a superstructure for reading content from these HTTP servers and turning them into a global social network
It's a very elegant structure that sound very compelling to me, but ultimately I don't see how it improves much upon anything Nostr has, and it has significant downsides and unsolved (hidden) problems that Nostr either solves or is trying to solve right now.
2 is cool, but not a very hard problem to solve once you have a way to find these user servers (and, also importantly, someone to host these servers mostly for free). Blossom is doing a similar job with files as first-class citizens.
2 is also not very useful by itself. To make a social network you need a way to efficiently pull content from user servers and display them to users. There is where they came up with 3, which sounds very similar to Bluesky's central big server which they call "Relay". It's a centralized system that cannot possibly become decentralized. It looks like Pubky has accepted that as the only way to do things, and they seem to be planning on hosting one such big server.
1 is trying to be the most decentralized, censorship-resistant system ever for putting out information about public keys -- and we may discuss if it achieves that or not (I am personally very skeptical that DHTs can scale, even though @npub1jvx…qzis going to boldly claim that this is not a topic worth discussing because "Mainline has already proven itself with its bazillion nodes and centuries of existence" truth remains that Torrents do not work without trackers, and no one knows what will happen with the DHT if it has to store billions of records from people all over the world -- https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a is one scenario), but all of this mega-decentralization is completely useless if you don't have a decentralized way to load content from people you follow and have to rely on a giant central server hosted by one big corporation.
Pubky's idea seems to be that centralization on content distribution is unavoidable, so they aren't even trying. The idea of Nostr is that such thing isn't unavoidable, so we are trying.

2024-11-01 10:52:53

I liked this so much that I wanted to host it directly as the homepage of a khatru relay.
So I started trying to extract the electron stuff that was hardcoded into it and ended up rewriting all the Nostr-related logic and some of the other parts too and ended up with https://git.fiatjaf.com/jouble
It's hosted at https://jouble.surge.sh as a standalone web client, and embedded in https://pyramid.fiatjaf.com/browse for browsing just that relay (although it will load metadata, replies, reactions and parent posts from elsewhere when you click).
#nevent1q…gfra

2024-11-01 10:34:18

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Can you expand on why you think Nostr has problems with scalability?

2024-11-01 10:33:19

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Where is the Nests NIP, sir?

2024-11-01 03:01:30

test

2024-10-31 01:33:05

@npub10xl…ge6d I don't know if you realize, but you are using the default secret key from nak, which is 01, so everybody knows your secret key and most people debugging stuff with nak will create events under your name.
You can set up the environment variable NOSTR_SECRET_KEY to use a different default key (or you can pass the --sec flag every time).

2024-10-30 20:09:42

I just learned that there is another instance of pyramid running at https://inner.sebastix.social/.

2024-10-30 18:29:01

I had a Twilio account registered with my email address many years ago, now I'm trying to register a SendGrid account, but it says that email is already taken, and it sends me to a Twilio sign in form. I successfully sign in with my Twilio account and it redirects me to SendGrid, where it asks me for my username, but I don't have a SendGrid username, so I try to create one. At this point it realizes I'm already logged in to Twilio, so it says I'm logged in successfully and redirects me to SendGrid where it asks me to input my username. This time I try to input my Twilio email, but the page just redirects to the same place, so I try my username, now it asks me for a password. I try my Twilio password, but it says it's incorrect.
This is what absolute top UX looks like.

2024-10-30 13:26:15

Outbox model, you say?
#nevent1q…86pa

2024-10-30 13:23:51

Not a bad frame.
#nevent1q…6qmq

2024-10-30 00:14:58

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Khatru should be handling the CORS but no one ever knows how to do that and I forgot to test so please send a patch.

2024-10-29 16:56:30

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If Lyn Alden tweeted "hello" she would get 100x more engagement than my most elaborate work. Such is life.

2024-10-27 03:15:37

Some Mastodon people are seeing the truth: #nevent1q…9sc2
Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952994

2024-10-26 22:14:49

How reliable is browser fingerprinting these days?

2024-10-26 21:56:15

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All the 3 solutions in the post assume this. And I agree it's not the case all the time, that's why solution-c at least gives the microblogger the option to not talk about his other stuff in his microblog, if he is aware of the fact that the people following him might not be interested. Not all people who have podcasts also send a note on X.com about their latest podcast episode every time.

2024-10-26 20:53:03

Some fundamentals of Nostr and where exactly we should strive for most decentralization and why were never very clear to me, as well as how should we go about dealing with microapps and "other stuff" that isn't microblogging, but today I got this better understood (although the article might not be as clear to readers):
#naddr1qq…295e

2024-10-26 10:32:06

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I'm glad I got to keep my consistency. Please let me know if you notice me failing on that. My plan is to always make it clear whenever I change my beliefs.

2024-10-25 23:38:55

So this was merged:
#nevent1q…z7fg
#nevent1q…mvz4
Try opening this note on https://nostter.app/ then clicking on
- wss://algo.utxo.one
- wss://catstrr.swarmstr.com
- wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
- wss://yabu.me
- wss://questions.swarmstr.com
- wss://labour.fiatjaf.com

2024-10-23 10:43:18

https://dearrow.ajay.app/ is a very good thing that exists.
It not only makes browsing YouTube much better and saner, it also makes it very clear right to your face how retarded things can become when everybody is desperately trying to cater to some platform algorithm.

2024-10-23 10:36:42

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Yes, there is slicestore which is just in memory, but it has no indexes, it's just for testing.
Implementing an eventstore is just exposing some methods, so it can be easy or hard depending on what you want to do. To compute multiple indexes and traverse them manually can be very hard. Take a look at the badger query implementation, for example.

2024-10-22 21:34:36

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https://labour.fiatjaf.com/
The PoW requirement is supposed to be adaptive, but since there are not many notes it has almost no effect.

2024-10-22 21:20:51

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I think you should, but we don't have a NIP yet. Can you write one? I like the idea of having ingredients stored as structured data instead of unparseable free text.

2024-10-22 03:29:37

https://www.econtalk.org/the-underrated-bruno-leoni-with-michael-munger/

2024-10-22 03:29:25

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Well, what I want is not a fully-featured client, but a client just for the notes in that specific relay, so people can click on relay URLs and browse the contents of that relay for whatever purposes.
Thank you for the source code, I'll see what I can do.

2024-10-22 02:53:31

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/829 this one, I think.

2024-10-22 02:26:22

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The goal is not to improve performance, but to give relays based on khatru and even relays based on stryfry a nice page for browsing events. That is badly needed and I will have to make my own in 2026 anyway if I can't get yours to work. Is the code for this frontend open? Where is it?

2024-10-21 19:32:07

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I see what you have in mind. That would be good to have, but might be too much for nak, I don't know.
I might still do it at some point, but can't promise when.

2024-10-21 18:58:53

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The Matrix laugh was good.

2024-10-21 18:42:48

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4ef40a189f22264b7b1f852eadce9dba65e212efb6a3555a807e4795e60f75d6.mp4

2024-10-21 18:35:43

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https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

2024-10-21 18:35:16

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I was just thinking today of making nak bunker have a database because it's super annoying whenever I have to restart it (and also because @npub1000…vwqk was complaining to me).
You want it just for one signing key, multiple client keys that can be given more or less access to signing privileges? But how do you intend to add or remove keys from that list? Maybe just a JSON file would do it?

2024-10-21 18:32:16

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Translations are a scam.
@npub1v4v…xwu8

2024-10-21 18:31:16

https://cdn.satellite.earth/b959f1fc30ed6f4a93a5e41c3f618e4a9556150653bf454aec9432e505d5f600.png

2024-10-21 16:28:21

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If there is any well-defined behavior expected from a group of relays -- like generic search, for example -- then we must define another kind just for it in the 10xxx range. 30002 is for user-defined sets which are meant to be browsed as far as I understand, what else could they be used for?

2024-10-21 13:37:28

https://github.com/penpenpng/rx-nostr looks pretty good.

2024-10-21 12:28:03

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What do you have to say about relay.nostr.band, nostr.wine, relay.noswhere.com and search.nos.today?

2024-10-21 11:04:03

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Khatru doesn't have any restrictions on by default so it depends on the relay operator.
But wait, what is the size of these a-tags? An a-tag should generally never be bigger than 5+1+32+1+16=55 characters, so 80 is a pretty reasonable limit, no?

2024-10-21 10:58:32

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Hey, how do you have a @nostr.com NIP-05?

2024-10-21 00:14:10

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

2024-10-20 16:26:40

Nostr needs key rotation like Bluesky, where you can rotate your compromised client key using your compromised master key to a new key, all by just clicking buttons that will instruct a compromised cloud server to perform signatures that no one will ever see and that no other user will ever check.
Without that it will remain an absolute joke.

2024-10-20 13:13:53

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Why did they rename BGS to "Relay"? That is very unpolite, we took that name first. Also BGS ("Big Graph Service") sounded better.
Maybe we should rename Nostr relays to something cooler.
NDU: Note Dissipating Unit
CXS: Content Exchanging Server
ANN: Availability Named Node
RSS: Reachability Spreader Service
LGBT: Local Graph Broadcasting Transmissor

2024-10-20 13:05:34

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Interesting that you decided to name your episodes after Brazilian highways.

2024-10-20 13:03:33

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@nprofile…r6c3 please fix.

2024-10-20 02:18:35

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So your parents pick the relay for your and you're not allowed to leave and you have to keep going back to the same relay every day?

2024-10-18 15:48:36

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It's not bad but I think Blossom is superior because most of the time clients can just do the simple dumb thing and load an image from a URL (which they already do) instead of having to load a NIP-94 event.

2024-10-18 15:47:25

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The Blossom specs are not clear on its potential. This is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFndK4BZME

2024-10-18 15:06:16

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I've tried @npub1zfs…w445's https://github.com/lumehq/coop but it never worked for me, I wish it did.
And I've been waiting for futr to be ready.
I did https://git.fiatjaf.com/nchat but it's still very barebones.
Meanwhile https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip works.
The most critic situation is mobile now. Amethyst works super well for NIP-17 messages, but I kinda wanted a still smaller, leaner, just DM client. 0xchat could have been that, but it has too much bloat.
Of course all of that has to be paired with a relay list of just one or two reliable relays that don't leak your incoming DMs.

2024-10-18 00:49:14

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I have already deleted Telegram on desktop, now I must delete it from the phone.

2024-10-17 20:52:12

I've just opened the Bluesky app where I follow no one and their algorithm has decided to show me 20 shitposts from different fake anime girls.

2024-10-17 20:46:44

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I did, but please don't use these horrible Markdown links, they look very broken.
I think cjdns uses a DHT, which makes me automatically against it, and Yggdrasil doesn't have an explanation of how it does routing anywhere I could find, which is sad because I don't want to spend my life studying it and if they had a big new idea on that front I assume they would have put it in bold text at the landing page, right? Do you happen to know how it works?

2024-10-17 12:29:08

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Thank you, that makes sense.

2024-10-17 12:17:05

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I say that because I'm trying to use what essentially are DMs in a thing, but are not real DMs, so I wanted to use a different kind -- but then the external wrapper would be the same kind anyway, and I still need a relay list to know what relays to publish these things.
And then https://github.com/nbd-wtf/go-nostr has each NIP as a different subpackage and it kinda makes no sense to split functionality between them if one always necessarily depends on the other and the other isn't used anywhere except with the one.
At least we should expand NIP-17 to include other use cases, because having stuff explicitly saying "direct messages" there is awkward when the same "nip17" package must also be used when you're passing around other kinds of stuff.

2024-10-17 12:12:28

@npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1jlr…ynqn are there other use cases for gift-wraps happening besides messages?
If yes, are these using other kinds for the rumor besides 14, but aside from the shouldn't they work exactly the same way? Like the flow for subscribing and publishing these should also use the kind 10050 relay list and everything else is the same except for the kind number?
If that is the case, shouldn't we merge NIP-17 and NIP-59 to simplify things, and then add a table of kinds being used besides kind 14 for all the other use cases?

2024-10-15 22:06:36

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a

2024-10-15 21:56:24

It's time for big public relays to start adding some restrictions on the content they accept and from whom.

2024-10-14 13:36:21

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Is this made from cow poop?

2024-10-14 13:35:31

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bolt11 was a mistake, bolt12 is that mistake plus 1.

2024-10-14 13:33:23

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Stop reading my notes you stalker!

2024-10-14 13:28:45

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If only we had a way to publish podcasts on Nostr!, but that is impossible, too hard, we will never be able to.

2024-10-13 15:02:58

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Thank you, but now I'm curious on what you saw on Google+ that was so interesting. To me it felt just like a Facebook copy at the time.

2024-10-13 15:01:47

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This is special.

2024-10-13 14:58:45

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Since when you do you have concerns? Coinos has been online for 4 years straight and it's offline once today so you're vindicated? Wait, it's already online again.

2024-10-13 14:56:03

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let thing
try {
JSON.parse(stuff)
} catch (err) {
console.log("what should we do now?")
}
thing?.whatever?.inside?.()

2024-10-13 14:53:01

Nostr is pro-censorship.
#nevent1q…h9m5

2024-10-12 20:16:49

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It's only sad that all donations are charged ~5% directly to the pockets of credit card companies and payment processors.

2024-10-12 15:02:20

#nevent1q…sjp2
To verify OTS proofs like the event above on your terminal, do
go install github.com/fiatjaf/ots@latest
go install github.com/fiatjaf/nak@latest
nak fetch nevent1qygkuetjdaehgu3w0pkhytnjda3kkucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0vf6xxtntd3jkuerp0f6jucm0d5hsqgzr82la8ch7yq7yhpn48lu7cxdghug7enlqudjcqh7vm99y9hpgdctec5lz | jq -r .content | ots verify

2024-10-12 14:23:10

Some timestamping fun here, for those of you who asked:
#nevent1q…pf9t

2024-10-12 01:31:33

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGtjr-U5bT4

2024-10-12 01:29:16

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I don't think I ever met one of these people.

2024-10-12 00:58:19

This video is how I feel when people try to convince others to use Nostr by highlighting the Nostr experience as it is today, not realizing that with so few people here this is all a bunch of nothing and very uninteresting to most.
"Look, on the internet you can listen to a baseball game or share automobile statistics!"
Maybe Bill Gates had no idea of what could the internet accomplish as it gathered more users, but I like to think we have a lot of ideas of what Nostr can accomplish as it grows, and I feel that talking about those can be much more interesting than talking about the fact that you can get a 50 sats zap today.
The potential is so much bigger that it might end up inspiring the newcomers, while the present might just depress them.
#nevent1q…zsuv

2024-10-12 00:32:11

Apparently AI sucks: https://shenisha.substack.com/p/are-ai-coding-assistants-really-saving

2024-10-10 20:34:50

It's weird to see external people that are aligned with Nostr's goals and even the overall design to complain about petty bugs or small details -- well, even big issues.
"Oh, I like the idea of Nostr, but it's so bad because I tried a random client and the search button doesn't work, therefore I will assert that Nostr is retarded and will never succeed."
The thing is: to whom are you complaining? Nostr isn't an organization trying to sell you anything, and if you are aligned with the goals then that supposed "Nostr problem" is also your problem so start trying to solve it. Or maybe you have a better alternative?, otherwise the tone of the complaint doesn't make sense.

2024-10-10 19:21:43

The internet is a place where any comment about B being better than A will immediately face a response claiming that the market will decide.

2024-10-08 20:02:13

https://privatelawsociety.net/know

2024-10-08 15:12:20

Too many developers trying to make the superapp of Nostr when the best approach is too have smaller apps doing less things and a better compatibility layer between them.

2024-10-07 13:17:30

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_numerals

2024-10-06 21:41:35

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After using it for a while my conclusion is that it isn't very good.