The age of personal apps is fully here. @urza made his own text editor.

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GitHub - urza/editor: and why shouldn't I vibecode my own text editor

and why shouldn't I vibecode my own text editor. Contribute to urza/editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you don't like them, do not use their money. If you don't use their money, do not use their rails to get your money. It's very simple. What are you afraid of?

Another app that I like is Tally by @npub1k7cwt3kmvahdtzc8n2ek08n9c7fz7n2zq88yzyqmjxmjehvdykfqwtu78y It is an Android app that is fully offline and counts the days you spend in each country, to keep visa and/or residency requirements according to your goals. It will tell you which country you need to visit or when you need to leave in order not to overstay your visa. It can also keep track of your documents (passport, drivers license, residency card, ID card...), so you plan on renewing it in time. Encrypted, fully offline, but you can import a standardized json file for both new documents or new stays, so you don't have to type things manually. People have been doing this in cloud (with services such as nomadlist), but telling a third party where you are in the world is not the way. We can do better. And we do.

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Tally — Zapstore

Tally records border crossings and counts the days you spend in each country. Crossings can include separate departure and arrival dates, local tim...

Black Friday yourself into privacy++. I company I founded was operating free mail services for years, so I know something about running an e-mail service. But at some point, I stopped running my own SMTP servers, because Proton's network effect at least in my circles is just good enough - autodiscovery of PGP keys works quite well. And I'm quite satisfied with the service. Running on surveilled big corpo "free" infrastructure? No thanks. Free mail is paid for with your inbox. Someone reads it and builds your profile. And sells what they learn. I would rather be the customer than the inventory. Proton's Black Friday runs from October 26 to November 30. Mail Plus is 60% off the yearly plan, and Proton Unlimited, which bundles Mail, Drive, VPN and Pass, is 50% off. Privacy tech still not only exists, it is thriving. https://go.getproton.me/aff_c?offer_id=7&aff_id=9011 BTW: Proton also has Drive (which has photo backups) and other services, include AI inference. Check them out. We also use Proton Calendar, it has become quite good recently. BTW: If you are already using some private service, or still deciding, check out Praxeology of Privacy by @Max Very good.

The Praxeology of Privacy | Towards Liberty

Privacy is the precondition of every voluntary arrangement a free person enters into, and it is being engineered out of daily life. This book is ab...

- also available in Slovak!

I am vibing my own apps now, as is everyone I know. But there are some cool apps developed by others that you should definitely use. One of them is Offline Speech to Text (OSTT). It is a keyboard and voice recognition service, that other apps can use (White Noise can use it by default for example, which I use a lot, since I interact with my agents using White Noise). If you are bilingual (send messages in multiple languages): Choose Canary V2 instead of default Parakeet, it will allow you to steer language detection. Go to model preferences after it downloads, set language to Automatic and under it choose "Languages I speak" (I set English and Slovak). This way the languages is detected and it won't try for example Czech, because it knows I speak either English or Slovak. Fast, fully offline, your speech (or the text) never leaves your device. It is super high quality and fast. Another pro-tip: For lower latency, increase number of threads to 4. Available on Zapstore. Cypherpunk future is now.

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Offline Speech to Text (OSTT) — Zapstore

Offline Speech to Text turns speech into text on your Android phone. After downloading or importing a speech model, recognition works without a net...

Routstr ( @routstr ) confidential mode update, live on routstr.cypherpunk.today and in the demo PWA (v0.1.31): - The node's signed offer now defines which request parameters it pins. Clients enforce one rule: a pin may only switch an extra off. - Fairer billing: idle connections can't block paying clients, a long response gets time to finish, only attested usage is charged, the node's own provider-key errors cost only the session fee, prompt-cache writes are billed correctly, and a failed database write is retried instead of charging the full reservation. - Hardening: the proofs also bind the record's content type, proof connections need a per-session token, clients refuse unsafe offers and limit how much the node can make them buffer, and the browser pre-warms only after your first message. - Sidecar: session files are deleted after 24 h, and the container is built from digest-pinned base images with no package installs. - Upstream: the v2 PRs are rebased, plus six separate fixes for every Routstr node: admin login, revoking credentials, startup reservations, log redaction, no caching of API keys, private logs. - Paper: every figure is backed by archived receipts and runs, or marked as unarchived. Your prompts and the model's answers stay private from the node, and you never get its API key.

Confidential Chat

Localhost Recording Studio 0.5.0 — the app now tells you what it is doing, and the catalogue tells you which takes you liked. Against 0.4.9: - The song page answers. Open a take while it is being made and you get the phase — LISTENING, SCORING, RECORDING, MIXING, MASTERING, FILING — the time left, and a rule under the words that fills as the job moves. The ring of the disc carries the same progress. Before this, the phase lived only in the studio and a song page said nothing at all about the job that was running. - Hearts. Mark a keeper from its page or with a long press; the index shows a filled heart next to every take you liked, so a batch of variations can be scanned for the good ones. - NEW. A finished take nobody has heard yet is marked NEW in the list. The mark goes when you play the mix or like the take. - The hole in the disc is a play/pause button. It used to seek only on the ring, and did nothing on the song page. While a take is still mixing, it plays the preview. - Covers remember their score. The score written down from a recording is kept, keyed by the recording's own bytes, so covering the same file again skips the listening and goes straight to the song — in a later session too, or after the first take was deleted. SCORE and MELODY stay apart.

Localhost Recording Studio

Full songs from a style and lyrics, and covers of a recording, made on your own device, offline.

Android on Zapstore, Mac and Android builds on GitHub:

GitHub

Release 0.5.0 · jooray/studio-localhost

The app learns to speak about the take it is making, and the catalogue learns to say which ones you like. The song page tells you what it is doing ...

And check this nice hallucinated song playing in the interface :)

Emanator 1.4.0 is out — Android and web Interactions is now a primary view instead of a menu item. On the phone it takes Calendar's place in the bottom bar (Dashboard · Posts · Interactions · Messages · More); replies are a daily errand, the calendar is something you look at now and then. The bigger change: you can mention people while replying. Type @ in the Interactions reply box and you get the same suggestions the composer has — your own accounts first, then people your accounts follow. The pick becomes a real Nostr mention, so the person is notified. It works in the Android app and in the web app, whose inline reply boxes got the same treatment. Both clients also share a set of retry fixes. A failed post that was never signed now goes back to your signer instead of answering “Cannot retry publishing.”. A note no relay accepted, signed more than 15 minutes ago, is signed again dated now — sending the old event would only bury it — with its reposts rebuilt after the new time and previously failed reposts brought back. A note some relay did take is resent unchanged, so retrying can't duplicate it. Retried replies are dated now rather than the day they failed, and replies can no longer be rescheduled (that path built a plain note and dropped the reply tags). Replies also show what they answer: “In reply to: view the note” on the post page, in both clients. Get it: · Zapstore —

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Emanator — Zapstore

Emanator schedules posts and reposts for every Nostr account you manage. Write with AI help that knows each account

· GitHub release / Obtainium —

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Release Emanator for Android 1.5.0 · jooray/nostr-emanator

Emanator 1.5.0 — Android and web Start a private conversation Until now Messages could only answer threads that already existed. Messages → New...

· Direct APK — https://emanator.cypherpunk.today/android/emanator-1.4.0.apk · Web app —

Emanator - Give every Nostr identity a head start

Emanator schedules your Nostr posts and coordinates reposts across the accounts you run.

The web is already updated — same features, no install.

Another day, another set of patches - BTCPay (because of rtl/nodejs/brotli), NodeJS everywhere, Bind (although I do not run vulnerable configuration). This is fun :) I am token poor until reset, so my daily driver is DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017 and it is amazing. I barely feel any difference. And I used to be a professional sysadmin, so I could do it myself, but this is way faster.

PSA: turn off PHP now. Mitigations you find on the internet are not enough. Only patched release fixes the bugs. Exploits already in the wild. Watch php.net and your distribution update channels and only enable PHP after you install patched release. This is not a drill.

Confession: Something that I can't unsee lately and it's probably one of the best indicators of intelligence - does a person immediately see second and third order effects, understands emergence and structure of described phenomena (qualitative analysis)? I don't want to be picky about things I understand, there are many things I am not good at (intellectually), but I think this quite well maps with exceptional intelligence and it's very rare that people understand these things, or even see them as something to understand. And then there's this "feeling" when I am explaining this to someone and they just don't get what I am talking about. Or I meet someone with exceptional intelligence and they see it immediately. It's a two minute IQ test. I don't know at what IQ (roughly, IQ is not perfect) there is this "switch', but I just can't unsee it. And I find myself using this probe a lot lately.

Kamarát mi povedal, že Bitcoin už nemôže urobiť 100x, lebo na mining nie je dosť elektriny. Tak som si to prepočítal. Pri 100x po ďalšom halvingu by mineri zarábali okolo 1,8 miliardy USD denne, čo zaplatí približne 500 GW miningu. To je asi 14 % svetovej elektriny, alebo nejakých 500 jadrových reaktorov, a to za jeden halvingový cyklus nikto nepostaví. Kto dostane minerov prvý? Krajiny, ktoré vedia povoliť priehradu alebo reaktor za mesiace, alebo tie, kde povolenia netreba vôbec? Pozrite si, ako súvisí cena s nákladmi na mining (investícia do ASICov a elektrina) a prečo hashrate ide za cenou, a nie naopak.

Ak Bitcoin urobí 100x, kde vezmeme elektrinu? – Juraj Bednar

A friend told me Bitcoin can't do 100x anymore because there isn't enough electricity to mine it. I ran the numbers. A 100x after the next halving means miners earn about $1.8 billion a day, enough to pay for around 500 GW of mining. That's about 14% of the world's electricity, or some 500 nuclear reactors, and nobody builds that in one halving cycle. Who gets the miners first: countries that can permit a dam or a reactor in months, or ones that don't require permits at all? See the cost of mining vs. price correlation, about how hashrate follows price (not the other way around), based on mining cost (capital cost of ASICs and electricity)

If Bitcoin does 100x, where does the electricity come from? – Juraj Bednar

Localhost Recording Studio got covers. Give it a recording and it sings the tune back in your style, with your words. First it listens and writes down the score: melody and chords, or just the melody. Then it makes a new song from that score. The original voice and instruments don't carry over, only the tune. It all runs on your own device, Mac or Android, offline. On a Mac a 30 second cover at sketch quality takes about a minute. On my phone a 20 second one took 20 minutes. Slow, but it's a phone, with no server and no account. New since yesterday: - Covers, with a Style knob from 0.5 to 2.0 that sets how hard your style and words pull against the original tune - Quality presets (sketch, standard, final), each with a time estimate - Refine a sketch to full quality without starting over - At standard and final quality you can hear a preview a quarter of the way through - Tap the middle of the circle to play or pause - The song list sits behind the studio now, and "New entry" starts the next song - The time-left countdown actually counts down now - On the Mac, songs no longer fail after you switch precision Free software, MIT licence. The YuE2 model is CC BY-NC.

Localhost Recording Studio

Full songs from a style and lyrics, and covers of a recording, made on your own device, offline.

Android on Zapstore, Mac and Android builds on GitHub:

GitHub

Release 0.5.0 · jooray/studio-localhost

The app learns to speak about the take it is making, and the catalogue learns to say which ones you like. The song page tells you what it is doing ...

Politici z doby bronzovej idú kampaň, druhá časť civilizácie interaguje s novou formou inteligencie, lieta do vesmíru a robí nové vedecké objavy. Realita sa rozdelila. Akurát nie na polovicu, väčšina ľudí je v dobe bronzovej. Úlet 8000

Pro tip: run the new deepseek 4.1 flash October release and space bunny as both security and functional audit of your code. Yes, it finds things the frontier models have missed. For auditing model diversity>benchmark numbers.

Confidential AI image generation, paid in sats, where the node you pay never sees your prompt or your picture. Your browser opens the TLS connection to the provider itself. The @routstr node (routstr.cypherpunk.today) only relays encrypted bytes and adds its API key, without ever giving you the key. Zero-knowledge proofs make sure the request it relays is exactly the model, size and number of images you paid for, and you get a signed receipt for a flat, pre-agreed price. No trusted hardware or account. It works today in the browser: switch the demo app to Image mode, pick a model, and the image comes back to you encrypted end to end. A cold request takes about 10 to 17 seconds, mostly the provider drawing. App:

Confidential Chat

Code and paper:

GitHub

GitHub - jooray/routstr-confidential: Confidential and verifiable upstream inference for Routstr: the node relays TLS and never sees prompts; ZK-proven credential record, model pinning and usage-based billing

Confidential and verifiable upstream inference for Routstr: the node relays TLS and never sees prompts; ZK-proven credential record, model pinning ...

How well do representations of outside assets hold their peg? Note: This is history, not prediction of the future, crashes are very possible.

How well do wrapped bitcoin and stablecoins hold their peg? A year of DEX prices – Juraj Bednar

The zombie apocalypse started on a Tuesday. You're alone in a forest, running, and the cell towers went down on day one. It should feel like a movie. It doesn't, and it takes you a minute to see why: there's no soundtrack, just your breathing. So you pull out your phone, open Localhost Recording Studio and make one. Run, run, run. It's a free, open-source app that makes full songs from a style and some lyrics, on your own phone or computer. You don't need an account, and once the model is downloaded you don't need a signal either. The punk track in the video came out of the same engine. On a phone it's slow, a few minutes for every 10 seconds of music, so keep running. It runs on Android (arm64, Android 14 or newer), on Macs with Apple Silicon, and on Linux. Zapstore:

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Localhost Recording Studio — Zapstore

Write a style and some lyrics, press record, and your phone makes the whole song. Everything runs on the device. You don

Website:

Localhost Recording Studio

Full songs from a style and lyrics, and covers of a recording, made on your own device, offline.

Code:

GitHub

GitHub - jooray/studio-localhost: Make full songs on your own phone or computer, offline. Model-agnostic, free software (MIT).

Make full songs on your own phone or computer, offline. Model-agnostic, free software (MIT). - jooray/studio-localhost

KindBeamer (a FOSS desktop app/Android app/browser extension to send content to your Kindle) is now listed as a Firefox add-on:

Client Challenge

More about KindBeamer:

KindBeamer

Open a document with it, press Enter, and it lands on the Kindles you picked. macOS, Linux and Android.