@Terry Yiu I'm curious, since you have some experience with our codebase, do you see any high value areas in Nostr SDK that we could take advantage of in Nos? Besides the NIP-44 stuff of course. And do you have any ideas on how you would integrate Nostr SDK with a persistence framework? Is there one other than Core Data that you like?

I just heard that the Swift Nostr SDK from @Terry Yiu and company hit 0.1.0 and is ready for folks to start using. I just opened a PR to pull it into Nos, we're going to take advantage of the new NIP-44 encryption code right away. Has anyone else started using it on a project?

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Add Nostr SDK by mplorentz · Pull Request #1045 · planetary-social/nos

This adds the Nostr SDK as a dependency. The main reason we need it is for its native Swift implementation of NIP-44 encryption which we need for #...

Just got this email from Amazon: “Your new pharmacy is Amazon Pharmacy”. What a dystopian way to phrase it. What PR department thought this was good phrasing for a product announcement?? Aren’t they under investigation for anti-competitive behavior?

Testing video upload from Nos!

Working from home with two kids under two has been rough lately. I did some research on the noise-canceling headphones that are best at cancelling out babies crying, and the consensus seems to be the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultras. They cost way more than I have ever spent on headphones, but man do they sound great, and they do a very good job of cancelling out the crying. It’s not 100% but with my door shut and music playing I can’t hear it at all. When nothing is playing I can still hear things faintly but so far it hasn’t been enough to pull me out of a flow state.

Just set up borg on a new macbook for backups. I use it for all my computers and servers, and I highly recommend it if you want to self-host! It ticks all the boxes for good backups: - open source - nice GUI and CLI (Vorta for the GUI) - encryption - deduplication - compression - backup to multiple destinations, including any SSH destination. I use borgbase.com and my home server. - works on Linux and macOS - robust scheduler - alerts when backups don’t run

Dune Part Two at the 70mm IMAX was amazing. Probably the best cinematic experience I’ve ever had (Avenger’s Endgame is probably my second). It’s been so long since I’ve seen such a confident, epic, serious movie that wasn’t trying to use nostalgia, brands, sarcasm, and breaking the fourth wall to get me to like it. I haven’t read the books but it’s clear the Dune world building is on par with LOTR or Harry Potter, and it’s refreshing to see some producers apparently get the keys to do it right.

Hey folks, I was gone for a bit taking care of our new baby. What did I miss?

@fiatjaf do you host

Nasa45

It’s been down for a few days.

I feel like a lot of the problems with social media today have to do with people participating in groups of humans that are too large. If a tribe/community is like <100 people you can probably have relationships with a lot of them and appreciate the diversity within the group. If your tribe/community is like 10 million people then views and identity seem to homogenize and breed problems: us vs them mentality, large volumes of feedback, echo chambers, etc. The human brain doesn’t work very well at that scale. (side bar: I have pet theory that a lot of the celebrities we see slowly losing their minds in public on social media is caused by their social media addiction. Looking at you, Elon) Part of the reason we ended up with a bunch of “large group” social media apps is because they mirror Web 2.0 technology architecture. All the data goes on one server and is owned by one company. Web 3 tech like Nostr actually has the opposite architecture, and imo we should be leaning into the scale that humans are optimized for: friends, families, and third space communities like clubs, churches, local activist groups, etc.

Today is my one year anniversary on Nostr 🎂. I’ve been thinking a lot about my own social media and Nostr usage lately, in large part because @Linda has been leading us through product workshops at @nos . In the past year I think we've found solutions to most of the technical problems I was most concerned about when we pivoted our company from Secure Scuttlebutt to Nostr. These problems being spam, abuse, and scaling. I think relays are doing a good job mitigating spam, the decentralized moderation system we've built at Nos seems very promising for dealing with abuse, and some innovation has been done to support scaling (like the outbox/gossip replication model, and various set replication schemes). On the culture side, I'm just going to say it - I don't like Nostr's culture. There are loads of lovely people on here, that's not the problem. I think there are two factors going on for me: - Nos and much of Nostr is designed to work like Twitter. I personally don't like Twitter or the global-town-square feeling. - I feel like no matter who I follow my feed is full of Bitcoin content. Bitcoin is cool, but I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm going to take another shot at finding folks on Nostr who don't talk about Bitcoin. So far I have settled for people who talk about things I'm interested in *and* Bitcoin but that's not working. This means today I'm unfollowing a lot of people I really like. If you are one of them, don't take it personally. I'm looking forward to 2024 being the year I find "my people" on Nostr. And you know what, if this resonates with you maybe we can make it easier to find one another. I added #nocoin to my Nostr bio, if you want to do the same I will be searching for other profiles that use this hashtag and give them a follow. They are easy to see using the Nostr.band search engine: https://nostr.band/?q=nocoin+++kind%3A0

Plant inventory. Most of these are in desparate need of repotting which is why they are all line up. I’m trying to make up for a year of neglect this week 😅