Saw someone over on the bird app say "stacking sats and slaying mids" and I don't think anyone here is doing either

I'm in Australia right now and it's kinda nuts how they've boiled the frog and no one seems to care that you have to ID yourself to the government just to read a Substack article #censorship #kyc #upsidedown

The only cool thing that *didn't* drop at Nostr Valley - View quoted note →

Really excited to try this out View quoted note →

There's an entirely new user-driven development pattern emerging with AI that stands to change everything about enterprise software engineering but most companies won't be able to adopt it in time because their programmers are too fixated on code and not building customer solutions

The FOMO was too much, booked my tickets for Nostr Valley

Nostr Valley

Nostr Valley III · October 17, 2026 · State College, PA

Third Annual Nostr Valley. Pennsylvania

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Introducing Groundhog 🦫, a private messenger for the Linux desktop, built on Nostr with GTK/libadwaita. The 0.12.0 alpha 5 release is out today. It's an early preview, so expect rough edges. What it does: 🔒 Private DMs (NIP-17 gift-wrapped), with read-only support for older NIP-04 messages 👥 Group chats over relay groups (NIP-29) and Marmot end-to-end encrypted groups (MLS) 🔑 Your keys never touch the app. Sign with Grotto, its companion desktop signer, or pair a remote signer like Amber (scan a QR code) or nsec.app (paste a bunker:// link) 📊 Polls, reactions, @-mentions, attachments and voice messages 🧅 Optional Tor mode for all connections 💾 Messages are stored locally in an encrypted database Packages for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04, Debian 13, Fedora, Arch, Flatpak and Nix:

GitHub

Release groundhog-v0.12.0-alpha5 · chebizarro/nostrc

Groundhog 0.12.0-alpha5 (alpha) with Grotto, its signer. Jobs that failed have no file here: deb (all releases) success, rpm success, arch success,...

Feedback and bug reports welcome! #nostr #linux #gnome #grownostr

Coming soon - Groundhog - a GTK/GNOME Messaging App fully compatible with Marmot/White Noise (and NIP-17 and NIP-29).

Coming along nicely