༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ gib all range-based set reconciliation. View quoted note →

This guide was so useful. Especially the app recommendations as a user coming from iOS. View quoted note →

While I put the finishing touches on Horcrux I'm starting to contribute to Flotilla, and one of my goals is to get Discord-style voice channels added before their age-verification policies go into effect. If you are a user of Discord voice channels, what's one thing you would change about them? I've always been interested in Discord voice channels because they are a rare combination of ephemeral, porous, serendipitous social space on the internet. Most of our internet communication happens in low-bandwidth, structured spaces where the contents are saved permanently. So in that sense Discord voice channels share more in common with IRL spaces than something like microblogging. If you're a user of voice channels or otherwise would like to give input on them, I'd love to interview you. And if you'd like to be an early tester or to collaborate on the implementation please reply here or send me a DM!

Ok hodlbod has been COOKING on his frost signer thing with email login. I just got a demo from him and it has me more excited about Nostr than I have been in a long time. - users can sign into Nostr apps via email (or someday any other identity system they like. Phone? Facebook? snail mail? Āhau?) but behind the scenes they still have a private key - no server or company ever needs a full copy of their private key - at any point they can extract their Nostr key from the system to use another one (like a bunker, hardware signer, or just a different group of signing servers, etc.) The big problem with Nostr onboarding is that people need to put in a significant amount of work to understand and manage keys before they even get a chance to get any value out of the software. But pomade enables someone to join without thinking about keys, *and later* start caring and still be able to take full custody of their key. It is the second part that nobody has really done before, on Nostr or anywhere else that I know of. It's not bulletproof, but it combines all the best tech we have to balance ease-of-use, security, and user control.

I just posted a project update video for Keydex that shows the current features and future plans. Plus an announcement that I'm renaming the project from Keydex to Horcrux! Check it out:

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Keydex Thanksgiving Update

This is the thanksgiving progress report for my app Keydex. Read more at https://github.com/mplorentz/keydex.

Spent a couple hours setting up the Keydex repo with Github spec-kit. No code yet but I have 1000 lines of markdown to show for it 🤷‍♂️

GitHub

GitHub - mplorentz/horcrux: Backup sensitive files to friends and family

Backup sensitive files to friends and family. Contribute to mplorentz/horcrux development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm thrilled to share that I'm receiving an OpenSats grant to work on social key backup and a new Nostr groups/communities app. I'll be building both in the open and this account will probably get filled up again with posts about that work. I think one of the primary things the world needs right now is to move our social sense-making out of big social media platforms and back into community spaces that reflect our values. I'm so blessed to have the opportunity to chip away at these social/digital problems for a while longer. My intention is always to build in solidarity with folks who need these tools most. If you're interested in using these sorts of tools and want to help - I'd love to do an interview with you! Send me a DM or reply to this note and I'll be in touch.

I had a great time at DWeb camp last week as always. I sat on an "Open Social Web" panel as the Nostr representative and I think what I had to say about Nostr was generally well-received alongside Bluesky and Mastodon. People were mostly drawn to the loose governance and the scrappy "good enough" approach to protocol design. But, like last year, it still feels like the energy folks have for "social media" as we typically think of it has been completely sucked out of the room. Few people are interested in putting more energy into some public virtue-signaling town square. I think Nostr has an advantage over Mastodon in Bluesky in this area because it really does have the most non-microblogging experiments going on, and the protocol is the friendliest to encrypted private spaces.

In the future all food will be made with a microwave, and if you can't deal with that then you need to get out of the kitchen.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen – Random Thoughts

I really feel like I'm missing something about Cashu. @calle calls it digital cash, but you are reliant on a bank (mint) to cash out. They say it works offline, but it doesn't really because it doesn't prevent double-spending offline. This makes it a glorified IOU tracker, right? Privacy-preserving IOU tracker is cool, and a network of banks that used them would be even cooler, but calling it offline digital cash seems totally disingenuous to me. Tell me why I'm wrong? View quoted note →

Yesterday I finally took the plunge and downloaded Blender and started learning how to use it. I have been #3dprinting for a while but mostly I just print designs others have created, or made a few very simple designs using TinkerCad. But I finally found a project small enough to feel manageable and the time to do it. We have a sliding barn-style door in our kitchen that our two toddlers insist on slamming shut, often while the other one is in the doorway. I decided to design a simple clamp to fit on the top to keep it from closing. Here is the evolution of the design. The first was the wrong size and just fell off, the second added a little hat to keep it from sliding off but quickly broken, so the third beefed up the thickness and infill to make it stronger. And here's a video showing how it fits on: I'm already working on a second design to toddler-proof a couple of our cabinet drawers that the regular spring locks wouldn't fit on. This may be a slippery slope.