Do you know Calendly? That fiat calendar service that cult gurus, wellness coaches, and divorce lawers always put on their websites so you can book an initial consultation with them? Screw that. Nostr has something like that now too. First of all, to honor the historical order, here's npub1gmeu0wenescpjpymwmwgnkaedc6vy3aamf5tdtvxxf5z0yll3gdqatwl3v's:

Kün

Kün is an open-source, Nostr-native booking page. Pick an open time and book it without an account.

It's a cool project and I've liked it for days. It also inspired me to add something similar to NoorNote, specifically to the existing Calendar addon. If you're a cult guru or divorce coach, define your available times in the addon under the new "Booking Calendar" tab and publish it directly on your profile page. A new icon will appear there, taking people to your booking page. When someone books (or cancels) an appointment, you'll get a NIP-17 DM right away. And you can import and export your calenders to .ics files. Now out in version 1.7.0.

Calendars are now available in NoorNote! It’s an addon with a regular NIP-52/NIP-52E calendar that lives entirely on relays. NIP-52E is a nonstandard proposal for handling private calendar events. NIP 52 by itself doesn’t cover that. So I used npub1cgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cql9kfex’s NIP-52E, which runs on https://calendar.formstr.app/. NoorNote’s encrypted private events are therefore compatible with Formstr’s. You can select different events and combine them into your own calendar. That calendar will then be displayed on your profile page. You can add public or private events, which are encrypted, to your calendar. You can also share public events in your timeline while creating them. Or you can share them later, after the event has been added. Shared events look like this in the timeline. When you click on one, you’ll see more details, including how many people have already said they’re coming. You can also import the event into your own calendar. Have fun!

New release cooking...

@The Fishcake (nostr.build) what's up with nostr.build these days? Lately, other users and I have been getting CORS errors when uploading an image.

Which idiot creates a web page footer under an endless scroll list?

Did I mention that NoorNote can now un-like and un-repost notes? Just click on that icon again.

@Private Provider , @routstr , @redshift , am I doing something wrong here? "Retry Error Internal Server Error: Your mint

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is unreachable or is blocking your IP. Please try again later or switch mints." Wallet is topped up, using same model as always (GLM 5.3 Flash).

A bunch of arrogant, self appointed wannabe world saviors. They think they have a monopoly on justice and can lecture everyone else, and in this more extreme case, even tell people how to behave. That unjustified arrogance is what makes them so incredibly unlikeable. View quoted note →

As some of you may have noticed, the 1.5.1 update for #NoorNote is out: • No new features at all. • Lots of stability improvements under the hood. • Overall performance has been improved across the board. Posting and replying feel snappier. Timeline refreshes and mute or NSFW toggles now update instantly instead of rerendering everything. Additional pages load faster. Reply and like counters appear all at once. Login is smoother, with fewer background requests. Mini avatars load as you scroll. • Feeds now recover automatically after sleep, switching networks, or spending a long time in the background, so you no longer get an empty timeline after opening your laptop. Posts that fail because you are offline or a relay is down are queued and sent automatically once you are back online, with their original timestamp. Gaps after long absences are filled in completely instead of being silently skipped. The reaction flicker on double tap is gone, and long sessions no longer gradually slow down. • And my favorite part: instant reactions and zap indicators. When you have a note open and like it or zap it, your emoji or the zap pill appears under the note immediately. No reload needed. And there are plenty of other improvements under the hood too. This was originally supposed to be version 1.5.0, but I spotted a bug right after the release and quickly followed up with the 1.5.1 fix. Please let me know if you find any bugs.

NoorNote - Nostr Desktop Client

A slim yet feature rich Nostr client for Linux & macOS. Personal websites, marketplace, Zap Streams, tribes, drag & drop bookmarks — no Google se...

Jumu'ah mubarak!

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Just look at everything that’s happened on the AI front over the past 12 months. The progress has been unbelievable, even with the tiny scraps of AI that trickle down to us ordinary people. Gemini was a pain to use (and expensive af), and Codex was expensive too and terrible. Claude worked for a while, but it needed massive safeguards to keep it from going off the rails, and it couldn’t even write automated tests 6 months ago. Now the Chinese models are showing up, they don’t need all those safeguards, they write automated tests on their own in the background, and they cost a quarter of what the US models do. The US economy, which is 70 % built around its AI companies: poof 💨. That bubble is going to burst soon. And to all the people who spent last year whining that “AI sucks,” well, too bad. You missed the development and it’s going to be hard for you to catch up. We told you so. It reminds me of the early days of the World Wide Web. My father was at a board meeting of the 2nd largest construction company in Germany, where he was a leading senior engineer. The topic was, “Should we take the internet seriously?”. This was in 1999. The conclusion was, “The internet is just a toy”, while his son had already launched 5 websites. Well, that company never recovered from that mistake. It never played a role on the World Wide Web again.

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I think Nostr clients have pretty much reached a point of saturation when it comes to the number of features. Most of the extra features are only used by a small number of people, and some might not even be used at all. From a UX perspective, they’re still in an experimental stage. A few will stick around and become standard, while we’ve simply gone overboard with some of the others. I also hardly hear anyone saying anymore that we urgently need this feature or that feature. Consolidation phase. Personally, I’m going to focus on the timeline, display more event types when they show up, and generally optimize and stabilize the client (like introducing automated tests right now). That is, until the next big thing comes along and supporting it becomes somehow mandatory.

We need to make ourselves and the average person out there understand what kind of corrupt internet age we’re living in right now. It’s like the Wild West, with basically no regulation and no laws that can actually be enforced. Out there, 99% of internet companies are simply evil. They steal users’ privacy data from them against their will. No, tiny print buried in 10 or 20 pages of terms of service does not count. Someone once calculated that if you read all the ToS for every software agreement you sign, you’d spend about 8 years doing nothing but reading them. So hiding things in the ToS isn’t practical. That’s exactly why nobody reads them. You can’t do that. They sell the data to every “partner company” willing to pay for it. That includes everything from location data to audio recordings captured by Alexa and similar devices. It’s all done casually because, apparently, it says so somewhere in the fine print of those 20 pages of ToS. They hand all of this data over to corrupt governments whenever they feel like it. They call it “law enforcement,” without any independent body checking whether that law enforcement is actually justified. On top of that, government agencies and courts lack the necessary competence. And I don’t just mean technical competence. I also mean the long term judgment needed to properly understand and evaluate themselves and the consequences of their own actions. Like I said, it’s just like the Wild West of the 18th and 19th centuries. Oh, and now you can locate enemies and blow them up using rigged cell phones. That’s nice too, especially when you consider that you’re the one paying for your own potential death trap. And all of this is completely normal with 99% of the phones out there, whether they’re Android, iPhones, or whatever else they’re called. It's crazy if you think of that. Everyone is paying an insanely high price just to participate in the digital age. And nobody seems to realize it or even listen. I can’t even get my own mother to stop using WhatsApp. It’s the main way she communicates with me. Isn’t that just infuriating? Why am I writing all of this here, even though a lot of people here are already aware of it? Well, we’ve built walls around our cozy, somewhat protected or fully protected corners. We’re no longer the weakest or slowest animals in the herd, so we’re less likely to be picked off. But there are still plenty of potential easy targets out there, people in our own circles who somehow, and I know this sounds cheesy, need to be rescued from the hands of these plundering, godless, wandering gangs on the internet. And that’s exactly why we’re here. That’s why we’re doing all this in the first place. And we aren’t getting paid for it. The people who are being paid by someone somewhere are usually broken floodgates. They let more corruption from out there flow in than they help build a real safe harbor. No matter how much they act like 'freedom fighters', follow the money. If it comes from dirty industries, there’s a good chance I’m right. So stay clean. Even if you don’t accomplish much, stay clean. And let's make internet history.

That’s such BS. I don’t want AI or biometric data collection features built into the operating system, whether they’re open source or not. I want them as isolated components, as separate software that I can install and uninstall. Just because this TikTok damaged generation wants stupid convenience features doesn’t mean you throw privacy principles overboard. Ubuntu just keeps screwing things up by chasing after commercial systems. That’s always been their mistake. They should have taken the opportunity to be genuinely different from the ground up. View quoted note →