Europe and especially Germany are world champions in burning money. You have no idea how rich these people and institutions are around here, and how easily they can afford to just burn millions of Euros. But absolute no barakah in it. View quoted note →

Since everybody's talking about time and dates right now: #NoorNote

It's about time a real commercial market opens up for software that respects the user's privacy and sovereignty. Come on, it can't be that we're building tools that are way better in this regard than their proprietary competitors. But we give them away for free, while those guys with ties are stuffing their pockets with their crap. It needs to be the exact opposite.

The first time I’m seeing this feature in the wild. [By @Vezire ] View quoted note →

Btw, with #NoorNote you can participate in these NIP-88 polls. Jumble also supports them. View quoted note →

I should probably not keep quiet about the fact that this release also includes an experimental feature that's not exactly easy to pull off: Smart Identity Anchoring. Inspired by this post here: nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpraeg5qq8fvehvdnfupl4kumzdlkcrj6s596ypvkf0hywvkvee2fqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcqypjm5ha6utzccft28ek5ccepymwzwrqn9x0cq56m2km7rywja5d6sxqhwjd According to the feature story, it's supposed to solve this problem: "Help users recognize people they follow even after profile changes (name, picture). When someone you follow changes their profile, the app shows visual cues to help you remember who they are based on how you first met them. On Nostr, pubkey is the only stable identifier, but it's not human recognizable. Users change names and profile pictures frequently, making it hard to recognize people you know. This feature provides visual continuity during profile transitions." So this is how it looks for now. User npub1kppw9a5asyvz4c35d0kh8gzulvlealcyw28u0f2mau8n6auna84sdyf9y3 changes its profil pic (and username), and thinks he can get away with switching his identity, because who remembers npubs anyway? But the profile pic and name from that first encounter got saved, and so it blinks back and forth between the old and new profile pics. Right there in the timeline and on the profile page. I just thought: Show the old profile picture and name blinking for a while too, until the user gets used to the new one (or always). You can set this behavior in the settings. Well, it's not exactly intensively tested, but sometimes I'm just the 'shoot first, test later' type. What do you think? Good or bad feature? Unnecessary? Annoying? View quoted note →

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Man, I did it again, I just took a quick trip into Fiat Land. You know, X, LinkedIn, Facebook, or whatever those little city states are all called. It's awful. Way worse than when I left it back then. Just this impenetrable mess of slop, scams, and pointless trench fights that were doomed to fail from the start. The people - or are they bots, you can't even tell anymore - they're so strange, so weird. Folks, forget that saying about „weird Nostr," the ones over there are totally detached from reality. Like some little acting school full of crappy performers. Everybody's faking something, everybody's trying to play their part, to act like something they're not. The "successful" ones are just the ones who stay in character the longest. Like clowns, like entertainers. F*ck this sh*t, that's not what we built the internet for. We're not immune over here either, I see the first signs of people trying to carry that zombie virus from over there to here. But still, I'd rather keep building here for now. Though from now on, I'll be way more sensitive and call out anybody who tries to drag that crap over.

That's the way. Great article. View article →

Noted. 📝 View quoted note →

Man, I've gotten so boring when I look at my current timeline. Not even memes or anything. That's because I've been in developer mode most of the time. Developers are so damn boring.

No web servers, no domains, no ssl certificates … Just you, localhost and the relays. #NoorNote 😏 View quoted note →

Europe and the West in general are coming up short here again. Yet this would be a federation actually worth joining. And we wouldn't even need politicians for it. That could happen straight at the grassroots level. We own the most Bitcoin and do the least with it to gain freedom. We Westerners are just a bunch of brainwashed, fiat-rich, spoiled fat cats with no drive or flexibility. View quoted note →