Vitor Pamplona

https://vitorpamplona.com

Nostr's Chief Android Officer - #Amethyst

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2024-09-14 13:48:37

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I ran Gentoo in my main machine for many years. Don't recommend. :)

2024-09-11 20:46:51

Testing an old idea: NFC-based transient accounts: accounts that log off as soon as the app goes to the background, deleting all traces of the account from the phone.
It looks like this in debugging speeds: https://video.nostr.build/ef4274d150303fd28f5e7b6b02a7b0102176263dfb1b491969a0caab6b61e6ad.mp4
If you are an activist and if your phone is confiscated, they will never find anything on the phone. Not even your public key.
Walk around with Amethyst installed and an NFC tag hidden in your clothing. When you need to use Amethyst, tap the tag, insert your password and login. Lock the screen to delete everything.
The NFC has a NIP-49 password-encrypted nsec. If you need, destroy and dispose the NFC tag.

2024-09-11 18:14:30

First look at the iPhone 17 Fold Max. https://image.nostr.build/01bc28c7f2cc20853d8c2aed9e9de407b8b7c9b344c57dae3dc65b0b5a91327c.jpg

2024-09-11 07:55:39

If it's not open source, it's not private.
If you can't choose to use your own server, it's not private.
If you can't use it when the company is gone, it's not private.
If you can't create anonymous accounts, it's not private.
Stop trusting the marketing. Start verifying.

2024-09-10 20:13:43

Nostr smart contracts are coming.
Then we add verifiable computations.
And boom. Trustless machines for everyone.
#nevent1q…aqz2

2024-09-09 23:40:30

If you can see this, Tor is now inside of Amethyst.
No more Orbot.

2024-09-09 09:53:53

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Has any client tried it? People have been talking about this language tag for more than a year now. I'd love to get some data to see if it actually works or if it's going to be more messy than a local relay.
I don't think it will work because nothing that requires the writing client to change works in Nostr. But I am open to the idea.

2024-09-08 20:38:29

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Nice! Can you go 5 levels of follow's follow? That's where I think most of the real game will be played. But it's a massive graph.

2024-09-08 18:45:43

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I agree with you. I just don't think this particular instance is representative of an actual attack. Whatever we code for it can be circumvented by a smarter player. Not that we shouldn't code it, but let's be mindful of what we are solving for.
Real bots with WoT (because people will gladly sell their nsec to a bot maker and restart their accounts) will be much more demanding than this simple attack. They are going to look, act and work as a real human.
Every message in Nostr with immediately get 200 replies with products and opinions from people that are paying for it by nsecs of previous real users with WoT and so on. Any serious defense on this will need to include a complete understanding of the entire network or it will be something selected by the user, like just people that I follow.

2024-09-06 21:53:41

So, is the spam completely gone? 😎

2024-09-06 19:39:42

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We show flare videos on our Stories :)

2024-09-06 13:42:20

Challenge accepted Reply Guy.

2024-09-05 19:20:43

Broke: Build things so complicated you are the only one that can fix it
Woke: Build an AI to fix things
Bespoke: Build things anyone can rebuild in a weekend

2024-09-05 00:17:12

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That's what I meant by evaluating the operator.

2024-09-04 12:59:11

Let's say there is a company whose sole purpose is to evaluate relay operators and offer relay list recommendations to the best ones.
How much would you pay for that service?

2024-09-04 00:16:21

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No, that is how it should work. Did you lose everyone or just a few?

2024-09-03 19:25:41

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Faz sim. Eu uso um pessoal da relays.tools

2024-09-03 13:46:57

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The best app that just so happens to be on Android :)

2024-09-02 21:42:47

Today's P2P Nostr using phone-running Relays trough Tor in production apps (works with no hacks) will be remembered as a key milestone in Nostr's history.

2024-09-02 21:03:50

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My phone -> Tor -> His phone
No public relays.

2024-09-02 20:53:47

DMing @nprofile…7cz8 from my phone directly to his Citrine relay via Tor. https://image.nostr.build/1ad95bd258670354a25a031e9dcd1ed710794078ba1a06466fdd1dad05303b12.jpg

2024-09-02 16:31:35

Everytime I hear Brian Armstrong, I feel like he is trapped in 2018. He still talks about blockchaining everything (land, votes, tickets, etc) as if none of these things have been tried and failed miserably.

2024-09-02 02:38:08

https://image.nostr.build/462c30ba3477a20db420d43a7225ec4c94c54031d1c217874ddfbd7a8f14301c.jpg

2024-09-01 21:15:55

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Have you chosen 1 or 2 home relays that MUST have all your posts? That's the first step.

2024-09-01 21:15:19

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It should do that if you add it to the local relay section.

2024-09-01 20:53:30

Your inbox and outbox relays are for your followers, not for you.
I know, 🤯
The list tells your followers where to get your posts. Not where your app should send/receive yours.
So, the smaller the list the better.
Your app should have an additional setting, separate from the Inbox/outbox setup, where you can add extra relays to save your posts, in addition to the inbox and outbox relays.
So, if you want to send/receive to 30 relays... fine. But don't ask your followers to download/send from 30 relays for each person they follow.
That's not cool.

2024-09-01 20:46:33

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No, you should get only DMs and Zaps. The other stuff is too heavy.

2024-09-01 20:42:28

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Main issue is the 800,000 sat (500 USD) requirement to open a channel with some (all?) LSPs.

2024-09-01 20:37:54

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I think it worked now. But keep an eye on it. I am watching for the timeout behavior from the NTFY server

2024-09-01 20:29:37

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Amethyst

2024-09-01 20:28:11

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Go to the phone's Settings/Apps/Amethyst and hit force close.

2024-09-01 20:27:35

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Can you force close the app and reopen it? I want to see if there is a caching issue

2024-09-01 20:24:46

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Do you see from anything else?

2024-09-01 20:11:53

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It depends on the server implementation. With NTFY, you don't need to create a topic.

2024-09-01 20:06:45

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In theory, all you need to do is to have the notification app running on your phone, connected with your server.
Then go to Amethyst's Fdroid version, go to Settings in the left drawer and select the app as a distributor. That will create a topic in the Notification app and you should be able to see our server sending notifications.

2024-09-01 18:38:40

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Do you guys run your own servers? I think the ntfy.sh is blocking channels after the initial free-pricing limits.

2024-09-01 16:15:45

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Amber and nsec stored in a password manager. Ncryptsec if I need to move the key around.

2024-09-01 15:58:01

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Hum.. yeah, they should work. I will run a few test as soon as I get home

2024-09-01 08:19:51

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It's the AI model to translate in device. You should see a new download for each language pair that shows on screen.

2024-08-31 20:21:53

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You can disable the anti spam filter in the left drawer.
But yes, we will always block spammers by default.

2024-08-31 16:15:15

What scares me in Brazil's X ban is how overly broad the wording in the judge's decision is:
"Internet providers, on behalf of their presidents (makes it personal legal liability), must add technological obstacles (literally anything) capable of making the use of X unfeasible."
It's not about blocking IPs or domains. It doesn't prescribe any specifics. It names companies that must comply, but only as examples. And it seems to strip corporate protections and goes straight into personal liability. All in just a few sentences.
Too broad. No one should have this much power.

2024-08-31 02:10:39

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It's a lesson to not be idiots.

2024-08-30 23:26:45

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They can ban by IP as well

2024-08-30 23:20:49

And yes, governments can't ban Nostr, but they can ban individual relays and remove apps from app stores.
Not your relay, not your data.
Not your app store, not your app.

2024-08-30 22:25:12

Banning X only affects influencers. That's why I think it's really cool. Regular people don't use X. They don't lose anything.
WhatsApp on the other hand... 😱
Yes, he just needs an excuse to ban WhatsApp as well.

2024-08-30 21:31:37

Super cool that Brazil has banned X.
These are the types of actions that truly wake people up on how extremely weak their social media presence is.

2024-08-29 14:42:59

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In amethyst, we do compress video and images using two different libraries.

2024-08-29 12:18:12

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More importantly, free relays will never be decentralizing.

2024-08-29 11:44:27

Not your relays, not your data https://image.nostr.build/09b00a7b43ad04e84c0b285614a4e85c102440a5c4aa5a9856575725c6981413.jpg

2024-08-29 11:39:19

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Does it work all the time. Our current compressor is also ffmpeg, but I don't think it compresses really well most of the time. ☹️

2024-08-29 11:11:48

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Mint operators can run away with people's money. ☹️

2024-08-29 04:40:08

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Dumb me, it's already adjusted.

2024-08-29 04:37:47

This chart goes up, but if you adjust for inflation it goes down by nearly half (5000 in the 70s is 40K today). So is this actually good? 🤔 https://image.nostr.build/2a1c56eb47dd4e6af426b5be7bb726dbd6fa9b66199646e9deaf4c058586cd96.jpg

2024-08-29 03:43:05

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People just create new accounts and keep switching them. But If you a looking for a specific impl, I am all ears :)

2024-08-29 03:41:32

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What's the right price on your mind?

2024-08-29 03:37:09

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At some point Primal will start charging a similar amount as well, there is no way around it. These types services can only be free for a short amount of time.

2024-08-29 03:23:16

Primal-style wallet integration, but through single-click creation of a self-custodial, non-kyc @nprofile…qvd6 Hub instance with in-app channel management directly on Amethyst through Nostr Wallet Connect? 🤔
Would you use it at the current Alby hosting prices?

2024-08-29 02:18:01

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Hopefully an educator will turn this shitty post into a real guide with ways to evaluate relays out there.

2024-08-29 02:01:20

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Nice! I hope this dynamic relay command can help you change those limits on demand and let Clients adjust their queries.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1434

2024-08-28 23:45:07

Devs this new comment structure is getting ready to merge. Please take a look on the new ways to reference root and parent posts in reply threads. It won't replace kind1 replies, but it will work for everything else.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1233

2024-08-28 18:03:11

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Last one was 9 days ago. So I don't expect anyone to see them in the feed.
but here it #nevent1q…g3xc

2024-08-28 14:28:28

"<thing> doesn't scale" is one of the dumbest things you can say to any new idea. Everything scales. If there are users using it, humans will find ways to scale it.
Scaling issues are always the best problems to have.
Now, if no one uses your thing though.. then it really won't scale. But not because it can't.

2024-08-28 12:02:27

So, who is developing the Nostr-native Shopify?
Not shopstr, but a way to develop one's own store as a separate website as a service.
GM.

2024-08-28 02:14:26

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Easier format #nevent1q…gr94

2024-08-27 20:25:40

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click on them and mark to not ask anymore

2024-08-27 14:19:30

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Let's give the pope a nostr key and see if god can break it.

2024-08-26 01:55:20

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Maybe one day... There are too many posts for the server to keep track on :(

2024-08-26 01:17:08

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Probably just regular variance?

2024-08-26 01:04:04

Let's hope this is true. https://image.nostr.build/26099af4deeb297737c8a5ea0fd85ba995a3c24b9133c8dcbb892196c8f2343d.jpg

2024-08-26 00:23:21

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A friend has the equipment to make it. It smelled the entire house 😀

2024-08-25 21:24:57

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Every dinner time when we need to get out of the basement.

2024-08-25 21:02:50

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Test worked.

2024-08-25 20:59:28

Looks like no Nostr dev will be able to fly to Europe very soon :(

2024-08-25 15:54:52

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Click and hold the zap button and press the paste button on the dialog

2024-08-25 13:24:28

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Something like https://pyramid.fiatjaf.com/ but for DMs?

2024-08-25 13:17:47

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Humm.. I know mine has been slow for sure. I will run some tests on this.

2024-08-25 13:01:42

One-click zapping from ecash works!
#nevent1q…3tmz

2024-08-25 13:00:25

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It's the same I have been using :)

2024-08-25 12:59:10

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What do you mean be done with the pay to dev work? Implementing Monero doesn't solve income for devs. 🤔

2024-08-24 19:09:05

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Hopefully somebody will build a DVM for that

2024-08-24 18:14:49

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Too heavy to track all new follow notifications from all relays. Primal does that through a centralized service that we will never build.

2024-08-24 12:45:44

High motivation and average skills > high skills and average motivation.

2024-08-24 11:57:15

Nostr > BTC
GM.

2024-08-24 00:42:48

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You have to manually add them. Just open the image in full screen, click on the share button and add to gallery.

2024-08-23 21:58:01

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In theory, yes.

2024-08-23 21:43:11

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yep... this whole thing is quite alpha yet. :(

2024-08-23 21:22:55

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Somebody needs to help me out converting the Kotlin code to Kotlin Multiplatform :)

2024-08-23 02:22:00

Me: meme fun.
Them: let's get crazy rich. https://video.nostr.build/bc2e45de93ab42c722509198e14b6c2ea9f7ee8db9df93a2ff76ea1210af58fd.mp4

2024-08-22 22:56:38

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Thank you!

2024-08-22 22:25:50

The Amethyst of iOS is getting ahead. I gotta pick up my pace. 🚀
#nevent1q…u8uw

2024-08-22 22:20:14

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ok, got a new channel. I think we are back :)

2024-08-22 19:35:27

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Hum.. alby did close my channel this morning.. let me check. I do have another one with 2M inboud but maybe it's not picking that one up.

2024-08-22 13:54:08

4m dollars in fees alone in the past hour? 👀

2024-08-22 13:12:54

Warning for all the new devs... https://image.nostr.build/a6d507ec2fe963c4994546b1ad7b13af4f4833a30eef44c1e1d8c01207c0edff.jpg

2024-08-22 12:51:49

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New version has a fix for the Ntfy registration. Hope that solves it.

2024-08-22 07:08:35

Story of my life https://image.nostr.build/850102fa53524f319ea37f6434becff6e89ea0a4f8a68c99bcc3af1d49c0a279.jpg

2024-08-22 06:53:44

https://video.nostr.build/664bbef152cfcffc492b5916ca57e18dc22a45293e901aa4f820190a972e9a22.mp4

2024-08-21 00:22:28

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Thats what the DM inbox relays do :)

2024-08-20 22:35:14

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It already works. Just use Amber sign on Android via NIP46 bunkers.

2024-08-20 17:02:52

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Nice! Congrats!