basantagoswami
Basanta Goswami

bitcoin maximalist • অসমীয়া

○ building freedom tech @ unsigned.in
○ teaching bitcoin @ xonghoti.com
○ non bitcoin dev work @ infini8tystudio.com

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ||

Public Key

npub1gmm2ehusvs35zgh6pq84m8hkj4ea0ygy3c9j2e3slzhjjce3kmns5tdaz2

NIP-05 Address

basantagoswami@unsigned.in

NIP-57 Address

basantagoswami@blink.sv

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsyda4vm7gxgg6pytaqsr6anmmf2u7hjyzguze9vcc03tefvvcmdecpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvlzuja9

Publishing to

nos.lol

relay.snort.social

relay.mostr.pub

Author Public Key

npub1gmm2ehusvs35zgh6pq84m8hkj4ea0ygy3c9j2e3slzhjjce3kmns5tdaz2

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Last Notes

2025-03-23 11:42:49

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I got depressed after watching the first season sometimes in 2020, took me like a week to get out of it

2025-03-22 22:16:38

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+ Interoperability. the reason i found nostr much more interesting over other systems like hypercore and web5 is that data generated by one app works with all the other apps as well (at least in an ideal scenario)

2025-03-21 07:48:05

https://m.primal.net/PnZq.png

2025-03-20 17:16:50

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nut tap https://m.primal.net/PmnO.jpg

2025-03-19 11:49:46

Anyone tried making a nostr and blossom based node package manager and registry?

2025-03-18 13:44:15

For Hindi speakers, Abhay and I are starting a (very minimal effort) podcast about freedom tech - nostr, Bitcoin etc
Do check it out if you understand the language
#nevent1q…whcu

2025-03-16 20:07:01

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I stopped a couple of years ago. The experience is horrible. Domestic flights offer a really good experience for the price that they charge

2025-03-16 19:55:56

What causes someone to be transgender? Are there multiple factors? Some mental condition (gender dysphoria?), hormonal imbalance, sexual kinks for some people, and people who are genuinely born with the brain of the opposite sex?
In India, the majority of transgender people you'll see are men dressed as women, going around begging for money from shops and vehicles in traffic stops (hijras). When travelling by train, if you are on in an AC couch, one of the biggest issues is these trans beggars getting into your coach on every stop and harassing you for money. They seem to have their own religious beliefs and rituals like a cult also the majority end up getting into sex work at some point
I stay in Bengaluru to I have taken many trains from here to Guwahati to visit my family in the past 6 years. There are about 40 places where the trains slows down significantly or comes to a complete stop. The number of times a trans has tried to grab my dick, or put their hands inside my pants, while sleeping at night during the train rides is countless. I am pretty sure most of them don't even believe they are women, but that's just something that their cult requires them to do

2025-03-11 21:57:52

what makes something freedom tech? i don't think anyone will call mastodon freedom tech, so what is unique about nostr and bitcoin, and potentially others?

2025-03-11 09:30:38

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gm @nprofile…wjy3

2025-03-09 09:46:28

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i feel like even the identity and signing key in nostr should have been two different things

2025-03-07 13:46:19

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I remember when we used to use the thumbs up to mean "you can't do shit" as children, then with the Internet came YouTube and Hollywood movies and the meaning changed to approval/agreement, and then social media changed it again to mean something passive aggressive for younger kids
This gesture on the coin is supposed to represent something from bharatanatyam if I am not wrong, I wonder if it ever meant "one" in some parts of India at any point

2025-03-04 20:59:22

has anyone meditated for a long time and taken psychedelics as well? what was the difference?

2025-03-03 18:38:22

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what about: democracy, but women have no voting rights 👁️ 👃 👁️

2025-03-03 07:46:31

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Unfortunately no. ente.io is great if you only want to store photos, but collaboration + privacy is a rare combo to see. I have started to work on something of my own, but haven't made much progress yet
https://hengdang-protocol.github.io/

2025-03-03 07:26:09

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It's ugly but very practical. But they should decouple the frontend from the backend, and give users direct access to their private keys like nsecs or as 12 word seed phrases. Otherwise the different instances aren't interoperable with each other. Also, without decoupling the client and server, you are forced to keep using their web implementation, which is not ideal for most privacy conscious people. Another thing is, they aren't very pro-bitcoin, so the paid instances only accept traditional fiat payments which is terrible for privacy.
Another thing is it's a product, not a protocol. So creating another compatible implementation is not going to be very easy, and forking the mostly JavaScript code is not going to be easy either

2025-03-01 17:53:49

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trying to create a self hostable end to end encrypted google drive alternative, not going too great, but still hopeful

2025-02-26 17:51:03

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i have to keep switching between calling claude a good boy and a retard every other day for it to keep working well, so it's understandable

2025-02-17 07:44:37

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linguistics, psychedelics, jungian psychology, fully reusable rockets, the history of assam
i have been thinking about some of these things for more than a decade now

2025-02-02 14:11:03

i'm not stuck in samsara, samsara is stuck with me

2025-01-25 18:37:36

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The biggest challenge was not screaming Bitcoin every few seconds while talking about nostr and freedom tech

2025-01-22 18:08:04

Reticulum is great and I wish more nostriches would take a look at it.
I have seen many people wonder if nostr can truly be decentralized if the underlying IP based Internet depends on ICANN and other central orgs. Reticulum offers a very elegant solution
https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html

2025-01-22 12:55:23

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We are going to be hosting Unfuck the Internet as a monthly event in Bengaluru. Not strictly a nostr event but it'll be mostly nostr and other similar stuff
https://lu.ma/7o7kmnjg

2025-01-09 12:36:47

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"Nobody uses iPhones to be flashy and proud of them… only an android user would say this 🤣"
Everyone buys iPhones just to show off in most other countries other than the US. I have a friend, who was begging everywhere for 30k INR to settle some loan, makes 50k INR a month, but bought an iPhone for 85k just to show off.
Apple products are luxury items in most parts of the world

2025-01-06 20:38:55

2024 was horrible. 2025 is going great so far. Never felt more alive.

2025-01-06 20:38:25

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https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

2025-01-02 05:26:35

@nprofile…llfh heya fund down?

2025-01-02 05:00:04

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No one wants a porn app on their phone

2024-11-22 11:19:53

https://x.com/bitshala_org/status/1859889131889049690
CC: @npub1m49…u22l

2024-11-20 09:24:49

Other than ZBD Social (which shut down already?), anyone else making a custodial social network using nostr?

2024-11-10 17:47:15

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https://m.primal.net/LyxR.png

2024-11-10 17:46:12

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8bt6fGQyA
Give it a watch, my own experience with psychiatrists validate the things said here.

2024-11-10 17:42:14

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On Primal web version
https://m.primal.net/LyxD.png

2024-11-09 04:27:48

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How much do you end up paying after a month? You are probably using it to generate code right?

2024-11-08 12:15:28

anyone working on any social nsec recovery mechanism?

2024-11-05 17:58:33

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fucking cursed
prompt: "mr bean, armed, riding a t rex, charging at an army of zombies alone"
https://storage.cdn-luma.com/lit_lite_inference_v1.6-xl/8e1569dc-6259-4fc1-891f-fcdf9f53db1f/925d2b3b-7420-4be0-ae39-8a4b8cdc5861_video0c9569ca2302a4c6b89a6edf9bd2c9773.mp4

2024-11-04 12:11:06

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https://m.primal.net/LsOM.png

2024-11-04 12:09:59

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I need to figure out how many hours of effort went into developing Zen, Arc and Brave's initial releases. Also I am just a web developer, don't have much experience messing with CPP code, but I think I have to do it. Don't see anyone else doing it because it's too hard

2024-11-04 11:58:38

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My thought is that because there's already a group of people willing to manage keys to access things - a group that's growing due to Bitcoin adoption - we might as well give them a single app that incrementally provides more and more features
While normies will primarily interact with these technologies through existing websites and apps (that adopt them), this key-managing group can start using a single app that makes all the needed technology available to them, whether for generating public social data or private data for work and communication
The app (browser) would decide whether to use Nostr, PubKey, Web5, or whatever protocol underneath. While power users will make these decisions explicitly - choosing to use Nostr or changing their DNS server to something that uses PKDNS - there seems to be a middle group that wants to use self-sovereign tech but doesn't want to invest time in learning about the underlying technologies

2024-11-04 11:48:38

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we have a bunch of new browsers that niche groups use anyway. brave, librefox, zen, arc, etc
also developing on top of the chromium embedded framework, or tauri which provides an interface over the system's webview, shouldn't be too hard... right? 🧐

2024-11-04 08:28:21

Should I create a new browser by forking Firefox or Chromium? The core idea is to provide users with a key pair that syncs existing browser data like saved passwords, browsing history, and open tabs
This would allow us to directly integrate NIP-07 (nostr.window) capabilities into the browser.We could also include a Bitcoin (Lightning) wallet, even if it's just interfacing with users' existing wallets. From there, we can continue adding key-based features that users need, be it Pkarr DNS resolution, Web5 support, and Pubky integration
We could also fork Proton Drive + Docs + Calendar, but replace email + password authentication to their servers with key-based E2EE user generated data. Some private communications tool could also be built directly into the browser using something like the protocols used by SimpleX
I believe that once we get private keys into the hands of many users, it won't matter which protocol(s) ultimately succeed - we'll already be on the right path and will have taken the crucial first steps
Tell me how dumb this idea is

2024-08-28 16:29:24

Anyone in need of developing traditional web or mobile applications, let me know. I have a bunch of designers and devs with me that can get it done
We charge at a rate of 250 INR (3 USD) per hour for our service
30% off, if paid in Bitcoin
(Just a few of us are Bitcoiners though, and I won't be doing development full time, so Bitcoin or nostr related projects might take longer than your traditional apps)

2024-08-26 02:40:26

Bitcoin is both the best and worst thing about nostr

2024-08-26 02:38:08

Is there any reason you would want to sign encrypted data, or encrypt signed data? We encrypt data to put them inside signed JSON in nostr because it was not supposed to be for private coms when it was initially designed
But otherwise I can't think of a reason you would want it, nostr should have probably had two kinds of events since the beginning

2024-08-26 02:31:01

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Morning
https://m.primal.net/KNKG.jpg

2024-08-22 04:44:54

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I think it's heading in a direction that will ultimately lead to centralization. I am still most bullish on nostr compared to anything else that exists today, but I believe we'll eventually see something else that will succeed where nostr is currently struggling.

2024-08-10 17:29:34

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I couldn't have said it better. I still hope nostr can change the direction it is going in, but not gonna hold my breath
But even if nostr doesn't work out, I hope we can move on to something better, with the knowledge we gained from developing nostr. It showed me all the things that can be done better compared to the traditional web, which is something that IPFS, SSB, Hypercore, ActivityPub etc hadn't done

2024-08-10 17:15:49

Not as bullish on nostr anymore

2024-07-16 09:51:11

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Working on it
https://github.com/Unsigned-Labs/chatapp

2024-07-06 20:37:55

This is gonna be a weekly thing in Bengaluru. We'll have nostr and Bitcoin meetups, workshops and more, every week from now on 🟠🟣
#note1pzr…s3rr

2024-07-04 22:31:31

MOOD RN
https://m.primal.net/JINT.mp4

2024-06-20 09:24:57

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Habibi come to Bengaluru

2024-06-18 14:01:35

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I find Nostrudel ugly, but still use it for the console stuff. I would switch to it if I could install some different theme. Definitely one of the well written web clients out there

2024-06-18 13:56:37

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Branle -> Astral -> Snort -> Primal
Will switch to something else soon

2024-06-17 21:48:07

JOURNAL ENTRY (Jun 17, 2024)
Went to a new bitcoin hub that's being created in Bangalore. It's a co-working space for Bitcoiners and I can already see the result of putting a bunch of Bitcoiners in the same place, I'll be mostly working from there from now on
As I lay on a bed, trying to sleep at 3:15 am, life feels completely surreal. In the last two decades, I went from not knowing what computers or the Internet was, to worrying about a dockerfile not compiling an app properly
Existence is way too absurd to be real, yet it is

2024-06-17 15:50:59

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@npub12vk…pugg I only use Primal on phone, would love to see nevents and event refs with relay hints work. Unless you are already working on it, I can try implementing it and raise a PR if you want

2024-06-16 18:04:37

JOURNAL ENTRY (Jun 16, 2024)
Missed a few updates, but I'm back again.
- Work:
Tested the latest releases of Bitkit and Foundation Envoy for reproducibility. Need to check a few more things before giving a verdict.
- Other stuff:
Last few days have been really interesting. But most of the things that have happened are deeply personal so won't make sense to write on nostr. Mostly been thinking about and working on relationships, boundaries, responsibilities etc with the people that I am close to and defining my definitions of right and wrong to be more clear to me than ever.

2024-06-15 20:06:25

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fuck yeah. i forgot about it

2024-06-15 19:33:56

this is what you should code to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kGTJfwPSzI

2024-06-15 15:51:24

the pinworms coming out of 6 year old me's asshole after i ate too many sugary candies
#note1svm…kxpy

2024-06-13 09:03:57

nostr the free screech protocol

2024-06-12 20:36:14

JOURNAL ENTRY (Jun 12, 2024)
Got some personal work done. Did nothing work related. Wanted to skip writing this entry real bad, but then what is the point of doing this if I only highlight my good days
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the role of religion on society and the individual's life. Also watching some philosophy related videos whenever I get free time
Listened to this narration by Alan Watts today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tikm0CsDB3c
I had internalized the fact that I am the universe itself and not a separate entity long ago. But only after reading and listening to Watts recently, I came to realize that what constitutes that "I" is itself a very interesting question

2024-06-12 07:10:05

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I didn't

2024-06-11 21:36:56

JOURNAL ENTRY (Jun 11, 2024)
Woke up kinda confused. Got some work done related to WalletScrutiny. But mostly spent my time in some type of mental fog. Not having mental clarity has been a problem lately, probably related to my diet? Hopefully tomorrow is a better day.

2024-06-10 20:40:15

JOURNAL ENTRY (Jun 10, 2024)
This is the first post of this public journal that I will be maintaining via Nostr. I will be sharing things that I read or watched, work that I did, and everything else that I'm comfortable making public. I don't know why you would find it interesting, but I'll be posting it nonetheless.
It's June 11th here already, but this entry is for June 10th.
Had a really bad stomach issue this morning. Couldn't sleep well last night, probably because of the same problem. I was at a friend's place, rushed back home, and slept most of the day. Managed to get some work done after dinner.
- Work:
WalletScrutiny:
1. I tried building the Envoy app by Foundation yesterday but failed to do so. Created an issue in their repo about it: https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/envoy/issues/1206
- Learning/Curiosity:
Learned a bit about HTMX:
1. HTMX Sucks (An essay read by Theo) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSDA0Nd_0I)
2. HTMX Crash Course by Traversy Media (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UvA7zvwsmg)
Watched some YouTube videos unrelated to work:
1. Covert Sexual Abuse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA_1fZ1Am8c)
2. A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX6NztnPU-4)

2024-06-10 14:55:46

I'm gonna start posting all the open source and public work that I am doing here everyday, starting today.

2024-06-09 13:08:43

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have you used bun?

2024-06-08 16:29:14

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I have attempted to create a bunch of nostr things since 2022. Never finished anything. This time will be different

2024-06-08 15:01:28

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Try installing Iris as a PWA

2024-06-04 14:20:53

Anyone working on a nostr client that doesn't show the newest posts first, but instead starts with the oldest posts that you haven't yet seen?
I like reading certain WhatsApp and Telegram group chats without saying anything, and would prefer that same experience for my nostr feeds

2024-06-04 04:27:03

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Don't use Electron, use Tauri

2024-06-03 05:54:40

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The comment wasn't for you, it was for other client devs. If the only content reports one sees are from a centralized entity people are going to be pissed, like they are already. Also, where are NIP-68 and 69? I have read through all the NIPs and pending PRs but can't remember coming across them

2024-06-02 20:37:54

This is not how you do reports on nostr, no one likes this shit, even if it's done with good intentions. A better way to do it would be to utilize WoT. Let's say you visit a profile, your client can show if there are any reports from your WoT about impersonation for example. Or hide a post from an algo driven feed if that post has been reported by some profiles in your WoT etc. There can then be moderation bots that auto generate reports for posts that people can follow if they want a cleaner timeline. Clients should also give people the option to turn off this feature.
#note1q72…7cmg

2024-06-02 07:46:20

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2024-05-30 16:08:16

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betting using nostr based oracles and dlcs sound like something that even i would use

2024-05-28 21:08:13

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Also duck.com and duck.co

2024-05-28 16:45:46

#note1m60…npjg
https://m.primal.net/IQUA.png

2024-05-28 09:49:26

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I know of a couple that do

2024-05-26 11:29:58

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wen nostr markup lang?

2024-05-25 22:01:41

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yup that's how i understood it

2024-05-25 18:57:12

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every like, zap, note, repost, etc is a nostr event

2024-05-19 04:37:45

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#note1rxl…xn77

2024-05-19 04:37:12

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eh replied to the wrong note

2024-05-19 04:36:41

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VR porn has been a thing for like a decade already

2024-05-17 07:14:47

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We are a few guys working on nostr shit at unsigned.in, I'm personally busy with WalletScrutiny stuff but I can get someone else to work on your stuff

2024-05-17 02:06:54

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anti follow > mute

2024-05-12 02:07:44

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Not funny I didn't laugh. Your joke is so bad I would have preferred the joke went over my head and you gave up re-telling me the joke. To be honest this is a horrid attempt at trying to get a laugh out of me. Not a chuckle, not a hehe, not even a subtle burst of air out of my esophagus. Science says before you laugh your brain preps your face muscles but I didn't even feel the slightest twitch. 0/10 this joke is so bad I cannot believe anyone legally allowed you to be creative at all. The amount of brain power you must have put into that joke has the potential to power every house on Earth. Get a personality and learn how to make jokes, read a book. I'm not saying this to be funny I genuinely mean it on how this is just bottom barrel embarrassment at comedy. You've single handedly killed humor and every comedic act on the planet. I'm so disappointed that society has failed as a whole in being able to teach you how to be funny. Honestly if I put in all my power and time to try and make your joke funny it would require Einstein himself to build a device to strap me into so I can be connected to the energy of a billion stars to do it, and even then all that joke would get from people is a subtle scuff. You're lucky I still have the slightest of empathy for you after telling that joke otherwise I would have committed every war crime in the book just to prevent you from attempting any humor ever again. We should put that joke in text books so future generations can be wary of becoming such an absolute comedic failure. Im disappointed, hurt, and outright offended that my precious time has been wasted in my brain understanding that joke. In the time that took I was planning on helping kids who have been orphaned, but because of that you've waisted my time explaining the obscene integrity of your terrible attempt at comedy. Now those kids are suffering without meals and there's nobody to blame but you. I hope you're happy with what you have done and I truly hope you can move on and learn from this piss poor attempt

2024-05-12 00:25:30

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be able to do these kinda stuff easily:
- fetch my follow list, join the kind 1 events based on the authors of the follow list
- fetch replies to this post, except from the p tags in my mute list
- fetch kind 1 notes with no e tags

2024-05-10 22:17:26

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They use private keys to encrypt stuff, there are no accounts in Anytype, so I wonder if we can replicate it using nostr and blossom

2024-05-10 22:13:14

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You give mins nostr key pairs, they connect to relays and all communication between you and the mint happen via end to end encrypted DMs (but we can use a different kind so that those don't show up alongside other normal DMs)
I don't know the special details of the implementation that Calle and team will be going with, but that's the general idea
https://m.primal.net/IFUN.jpg

2024-05-10 18:29:29

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https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/negentropy.md

2024-05-10 16:05:38

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I could run it on my phone in dev mode, so the issue is something to do with how the APK is packaged?
One question though, @npub1wf4…dgh9, how does zap.store figure out which apps are installed? Based on the package name?

2024-05-10 15:38:14

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running
> adb install 8540bd492064c17d83bcdc6d2a463c2aea46f13c2b0d13b8a96023df95bd0c9d.apk
gave me this:
Performing Streamed Install
adb: failed to install 8540bd492064c17d83bcdc6d2a463c2aea46f13c2b0d13b8a96023df95bd0c9d.apk: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-113]
i am not an android dev, so don't really know what's going on here

2024-05-10 14:58:00

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My device is Xiaomi Redmi 9i (m2006c3lii), will need to check the spec for the CPU type
Android version is 10 QP1A.190711.020
Play Protect was enabled, but didn't work even after disabling it. I will check installing some other apps from APK, the problem might not be specific to zap.store

2024-05-10 14:18:28

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Getting this while trying to install the APK. Any idea why?
https://m.primal.net/IFMM.jpg

2024-05-10 12:09:44

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Other lists as well. My mute list got nuked in Primal and it was as annoying as loosing the follow list

2024-05-10 11:26:15

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NII-01: Retaining Women

2024-05-10 05:44:41

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You are gonna dox yourself

2024-05-09 16:07:51

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He's just changing his nym, he'll be around

2024-05-08 22:35:25

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I did a heavy dose of LSD during the halving and there was a point where I was seeing multiple realities with different characters everywhere. And I was repeatedly trying to figure out if what I'm experiencing is real.
I have never been religious and growing up considered myself a atheist but I probably fit the label of agnostic more accurately. During the trip, I came to the conclusion that faith in God (the part of God that I experience everyday is my own consciousness), and trusting those that care for you is the only way out of a situation where logic and your senses fail you.
Also realized that, since we are born, we are always trying to figure out what is true and what isn't. And that starts with trusting that your mother will do the correct (true) thing.
Seemed very profound at that time, don't know how I feel about it now.