Vitor Pamplona

Blue Cross Blue Shield had just introduced the policy for covering anesthesia only to a pre fixed number of hours they defined in a big table. If surgery too long, it would not be covered. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/418a1264e758266d2faaae9db125493e763641567e125025d7ec128dc66d7b68

2024-12-05 22:35:25 GMT

Substack writers... I never want to subscribe. I just want a quick "pay 1000 SATs to read". Don't collect my info. Don't make me your recurrent revenue. I just want to pay for the thing that is in front of me. I don't care about your other stuff.

2024-12-05 15:10:03 GMT

I just want to thank Andreas Antonopoulos for orange pilling me.

2024-12-05 04:19:32 GMT

The state of New York: "the gunman fled the scene using an electric Citi Bike", which has more trackers than cop cars.

2024-12-03 23:04:05 GMT

Took some time today to see how far up on my family tree I can go. I found the first Pamplona from 1370, linking the names of 17 grand parents up.
< 1370 in Pamplona, Spain
1370 in Porto, Portugal
1530 in Azores, Portugal
1770 in Florianopolis, Brazil
It's weird how many old documents you can just find on the web...
I guess I should add Boston to the list... 🚀

2024-12-03 22:31:49 GMT

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Fiatjat posts a regular item and then blasts 400 edits with random stuff. The last one always shows up right now, but I am making an option to see the original post first for each user. So, people can keep seeing fiatjaf's original post while seeing the regular edits for everyone else.

2024-12-03 22:17:55 GMT

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Yeah... Lots of people already blocked him because of that.

2024-11-28 03:37:35 GMT

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Thank you for the report. Do you have google services enabled?

2024-11-28 03:03:29 GMT

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Probably not. I am not sure how @nprofile…34p3 handles their location services.
I will need to make an option for folks to manually insert.

2024-11-27 17:30:10 GMT

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Yep, posts will only show if they mark the location you are in. Those location-exclusive posts will not show in any other feed.
This is the new NIP-22. So, there is literally no posts anywhere yet.

2024-11-27 16:53:55 GMT

If you are using today's version of @nprofile…s8dt go to the Around Me feed and say hello to your neighbors (+/- 5km, 3 mi). We are going to be using local feeds to onboard new users in the future.
https://image.nostr.build/29dce9d89401f87344dbf1732f231b150a27e5341fb25d839337099deb6b0452.jpg

2024-11-26 18:52:58 GMT

One of the most interesting learnings from this Edits conversation is knowing how much some devs want to control what users can and cannot do in this network. So much so that they spend days trying to break working implementations, that people are actually using, just to impose their opinion on everybody else.

2024-11-25 22:50:03 GMT

This is going to be fun. I just made it so that stories can be developed over time by multiple people. Worlds can merge and authors can add more and more detail over time.
Next:
- Collect secrets from certain rooms in the reader's stash
- Rooms that react to secrets in the stash and open more options
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1606

2024-11-24 22:12:37 GMT

@nprofile…c9z9 is determined to find all of Amethyst's easter eggs. I need to add more. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/1c03271f6697b3e47ed90b0f0fda1070013299528f25d257bb6fabc422a95096

2024-11-23 22:42:27 GMT

Build Your Own Story, tweet edition 🤯 https://video.nostr.build/3be38941d3123f8b72f13cac9ed46ae4f158edf52e4afdfdfbffc77abdd402c8.mp4

2024-11-22 07:55:13 GMT

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You still don't get it do you? It doesn't matter what the repo says. The repo can only document what exists to avoid duplications of fields that do the same thing with different names. That's all it can do.

2024-11-20 02:24:09 GMT

I finally understood why Bluesky is booming.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1590

2024-11-19 19:52:52 GMT

Devs, we are on relay.nostrtalk.org on flotilla.social or nostrtalk.org

2024-11-16 13:05:59 GMT

The things I find when I can't sleep https://image.nostr.build/06bd7a609c2544f14159f61b954096b109f0271de7e18ac17cff107385628840.jpg

2024-11-16 05:44:16 GMT

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Git is already decentralized, but the GitHub stuff (issues/merges) is already on nostr: https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qvzqqqrhnypzq3svyhng9ld8sv44950j957j9vchdktj7cxumsep9mvvjthc2pjuqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqqsctdv46xs7tnwsuwyheg

2024-11-16 05:14:35 GMT

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Have you tried to publish apps there? You can also just download the APK directly if you want... FDroid is always weeks late anyway...

2024-11-16 05:04:39 GMT

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I gave up on FDroid last year. They are worse than the Play Store in terms of centralized control and app censorship.
Use Obtainium or @nprofile…tdq0 if you truly care about freedom.

2024-11-16 04:01:13 GMT

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? You know it doesn't do anything if you do t click on that link right?
And if you use Tor, that link is also protected by Tor.

2024-11-15 23:17:59 GMT

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That no one cares about censorship resistance.

2024-11-15 16:04:11 GMT

Feed algorithms on Nostr should not only be signed, open source and free to choose, but those running those algorithms must provide cryptographic proofs they are running them without any changes.
Trustless feeds for the win.

2024-11-14 03:53:48 GMT

Do we all agree that X is now state-"owned" media again?

2024-11-12 02:39:08 GMT

Me going after relays for not implementing nips correctly. https://video.nostr.build/d35f67c6d5c13f956c01748e179668e33b85e6e2970fe957de8e6281e28064e8.mp4

2024-11-12 02:16:46 GMT

Lol https://image.nostr.build/b616fcbbc2792d6e18090f188587408ddb8fc0db863b14d3771673c802018977.jpg

2024-11-11 09:05:55 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/06f00193b2638a406bbe21f945dcf11285a27468b1f91797e5565913683371fb.jpg

2024-11-11 02:49:08 GMT

Bluesky showing how their decentralized platform flies https://video.nostr.build/9949acfa8c3b16b0179dc86fa63dac8f4f8f7b8e643cfc64552ec0c8ad355537.mp4

2024-11-09 09:47:34 GMT

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Huge privacy implications when using third-party services for translations. They get to see and potentially track everything you translate.
Also, they cost $ 9/mo/user in USD which is not in the budget for most of all users.

2024-11-08 22:33:12 GMT

bitcoinprediction.market should have been Nostr-native. Just saying...

2024-11-08 03:27:56 GMT

Some people are living in the year 3000
https://video.nostr.build/f8a5d3ab5a3719b87ba6ac302dc728b89fc58d1f76393d7d784273d982fc8c77.mp4

2024-11-07 21:04:45 GMT

Lol
#nevent1q…q85n

2024-11-06 11:59:48 GMT

Now let's see if Free Ross was real or if he scammed us all again.
Keep pushing. Nothing is guaranteed.

2024-11-06 11:17:42 GMT

And yet again we learn that between a fake puppet and a scammer, the scammer wins.
Let's go.

2024-11-06 00:23:12 GMT

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We always show all hashtags. Looks like you are adding a bunch of them without linking in the content of the post. So Amethyst adds it for the user.

2024-11-03 23:59:25 GMT

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Ohh it could be your inbox relays. Amethyst requires the NWC service to send the zap event to ALL your inbox relays. And many NWC relays will not support 30 relays. Many limit to 10 max.

2024-11-03 00:31:48 GMT

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https://image.nostr.build/6ff38cf145d177e9f0d5e8d518df3ec44b60631d69027b373b60207e60720467.jpg

2024-11-03 00:30:07 GMT

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I have a pixel 8 as well and mine doesn't do this. I am not really sure how to reproduce it 🤔

2024-11-02 08:01:15 GMT

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Amethyst has built-in Tor now. It will use it, if it needs to.

2024-11-02 02:34:54 GMT

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Here's one
#nevent1q…xjt6

2024-11-01 19:09:25 GMT

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There is no need for globally unique names, IMO. We have them just because of the market economics when bootstrapping the Web.

2024-11-01 18:23:18 GMT

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Welcome to pain.

2024-11-01 18:03:41 GMT

Apple is pre-paying 1.1billion USD to retain 85% of Globalstar's satellite services capacity and buying 20% equity of the company for another $400million.
Globalstar provides the infrastructure for the Emergency SOS via satellite.
Looks like a lot of money for "just SOS" 👀
https://investors.globalstar.com/node/15606/html

2024-11-01 15:20:49 GMT

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By DNS packet encoding, do you mean RFC 1101? Or something else?

2024-11-01 13:16:11 GMT

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But how do we keep paid relays, or relays that restrict who can post, out of the inbox section?
Similarly, how to we keep relays that restrict who can download from the outbox section?
It's not even about restricting them because some users actually want that. For instance, if they use nostr.wine for Inbox, only notifications from paid users of nostr.wine will show up. Which is great if the person is getting spammed.
But the average person adding nostr.wine to inbox just gets pissed because they don't understand how nostr.wine works.
Explaining that has been our main issue. The Inbox/Outbox difference seems to be fine with users. But even when they understand the difference, they misinterpret what happens when setting up each relay in each section.

2024-10-31 21:39:27 GMT

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It says token already spent. But the distance between zaps were around a minute or so. I wasn't stressing the mint.

2024-10-31 20:56:02 GMT

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Maybe... But there are so many things that can go wrong that I don't know the tool would test it all.

2024-10-31 14:43:03 GMT

Who knew that in order to create a $50B business you don't need to have any good product. You just issue shares and debt to buy Bitcoin and everybody will give you their money.
Silly me.

2024-10-31 13:54:22 GMT

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Yeah, we were more upfront in the early days but users thought it was too annoying.
What I realized is Nostr seems fine with not verifying any attached content. Devs tends to be highly dismissive about it and leads to a userbase that is not used to verify attached content.

2024-10-30 18:41:08 GMT

Is filtering notifications by location (those around you... say +/-50 miles) something interesting or not?
I don't know if I can find a good use case for it.
Send me your ideas

2024-10-30 17:13:05 GMT

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Then it just means that you are in the pre-seed stage. You are just playing with money with no regard for it. Anyone that has even grown anything knows that growth is all about proving you can do the next step over and over again.
In my eyes, you have a LOT to prove. You talk a big game but talk is cheap. And these days even code is cheap. Demo apps are not proof of anything.
> Web servers need proofing?
You are not proving Web servers, you are proving your pitch. You are not pitching Web servers. Those are already out there and have already been proven. You are pitching a very specific use of Web servers. That must be proved it not only works but that there is nothing better that can easily replace it.

2024-10-30 16:54:55 GMT

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NIP-65 is likely enough and I agree that it is going to take at least 30 years to replace DNS, but Nostr could serve as the test ground for pubky. If you can host all Nostr events via pubky records, faster than what relays can do, then Nostr gets better and pubky gets the testing station that it desperately needs to take on the bigger system.

2024-10-30 16:07:47 GMT

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The NIP-65 records, which is the Nostr's DNS in a way, should be in all relays. Clients should spread that record far and wide.
There are indexing relays like purplepag.es that you can use all fallback, but usually there is no need to.

2024-10-30 11:20:08 GMT

Woke up from a dream where Apple was shipping an Android iPhone solely because Nostr had taken over and iOS didn't have any of the cool apps people wanted. Tim Cook even called @nprofile…hcpn with threats to stop funding Nostr or Square would suffer.
Lol.

2024-10-29 21:41:01 GMT

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Yeah, we should create a new event kind where relays can post an event to advertise that they are a relay for search. :) Then the client just need to get all the advertisements and list them on the screen.
FYI @nprofile…qdrm

2024-10-29 15:39:24 GMT

Are there any new reliable NIP-50 relays?
I know nostr.band, nostr.wine and noswhere.com
But I can add more to Amethyst's bootstrap list.

2024-10-29 14:09:08 GMT

If every car is tracking its owner, a bus is like a coinjoin.
Maybe that's how we should explain joinstr to our kids.

2024-10-29 13:36:32 GMT

The worst part of tech invading the car market? Now every review covers engine power, acceleration, and... screen size.

2024-10-29 00:44:34 GMT

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Because each connection duplicates every post you download. So, instead of downloading EVERY post just once, you are downloading a copy for every relay you add, using a lot of your data plan and battery.

2024-10-29 00:31:15 GMT

One person has 127 relays it their list.
127 connections... 🤦‍♂️

2024-10-28 23:26:19 GMT

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Are you on primal or amethyst? You have way too many inbox/outbox relays. If you are on Primal go to https://metadata.nostr.com/ log in, click relays and pick 3 that you are SURE to have all of your posts and mark them as WRITE. Then pick 3 (it can be the same) that ANYONE can write into (no paid relays) and select READ.

2024-10-28 21:00:07 GMT

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I gave up trying to understand how their stuff actually works.

2024-10-28 20:43:57 GMT

Two people talking about essential oils on the train:
...
P1: Try this one... it's from an Amethyst
ME: <whaaaat?>
P2: Does it smell like Amethyst?
ME: <WAT????>
P1: Yeah, it's good when you need some peaceful time for yourself.
ME:
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/mace-windu-900x506.jpeg

2024-10-28 20:20:42 GMT

They grow so fast https://image.nostr.build/d975b188a4bef05f061ad6884b8cb25f237b5ad7670302be7cd1c2948b028c5d.jpg

2024-10-28 03:21:06 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/70cec609cf5c57f07d9634b98fcbcdcce5603c9d8aa361a3c26cdf29355374a9.jpg

2024-10-27 20:41:19 GMT

What makes standards standards is their stubbornness, not how good they are.

2024-10-27 13:50:47 GMT

How many Nostr apps are currently installed in your phone?

2024-10-27 11:48:36 GMT

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Agree, it's not about event kind, it's about app brand right now. My fountain follow list is not the same as my amethyst follow list

2024-10-27 04:05:08 GMT

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Yep, but in nostr you have to hash every single item you publish, making checks very easy to implement, compare and reshare. You don't have to think about that before you start using the service. It's backed in.

2024-10-26 22:57:51 GMT

lol, detecting nip04 scammers is a lot easier with @nprofile…tdn2
https://image.nostr.build/23718db8d690a6b4434b21ffe48e9bae823d042f636e058d5f1f653d258a782b.jpg

2024-10-26 22:06:03 GMT

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Desktop is so far out... We still need to build everything over there. We don't even have a desktop-native signer right now.

2024-10-26 21:36:18 GMT

Pokey is now on zap.store
Super cool to see it there before the PlayStore.
https://image.nostr.build/63170c3c20cd9ed2ae4f777359b70b7277714f8d9bc584db2de94e1c0f6468cb.png

2024-10-26 21:19:22 GMT

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We must have follow lists for each kind. The kind 1 follow list is different than a blog post follow list. So, all of your options are wrong. :)
Other kinds should never be rendered as root posts on kind 1 clients. But kind 1 clients must render or forward them when they are quoted into a kind 1.

2024-10-26 14:09:40 GMT

If Nostr wins, I expect any user to have at least 30 clients being actively used in a single phone. If Nostr "micro apps" win, I expect over 100 clients for a regular user.
This is why App management clients are so important. No one will install 100 clients one by one. We must have some form of bundling that facilitates the integration of micro apps to do specific tasks.

2024-10-26 11:11:13 GMT

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Pasting nsecs inside Clients is crazy. And signer apps should not have permissions to use the Internet.

2024-10-26 02:17:54 GMT

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https://image.nostr.build/76ea97837138e540d15ac2100d1175648cb85deaf6a53e03034f90c5c01be862.jpg

2024-10-25 17:33:13 GMT

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Nevermind, I can test on void.cat directly

2024-10-25 14:47:15 GMT

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Yeah, he needs to while list you @nprofile…hspy

2024-10-25 14:37:24 GMT

Lol just 4 days in.... 🤪
#nevent1q…k6x6

2024-10-24 19:00:15 GMT

Your desire for freedom is incompatible with iOS

2024-10-24 18:40:33 GMT

Why is Pokey so good?
Pokey connects directly into your inbox relays and keeps the connection open at all times.
Every other notification system is using a server that watches relays for new events and sends them down via Google/Apple/UnifiedPush systems.
It's WAY faster than ANY of these push systems.
There is no restriction on message sizes or frequency. No payment plans for servers and no algorithmic delays from push providers.
It can authenticate in your Private Inbox relays for DMs because it can get Amber to sign as of you. No watching server can do that.
It also decentralizes notifications from Clients. There is no need to run 15 different notification systems, one for each client you want to use.
Once notifications are downloaded, it can pass those events to the appropriate apps to display. You can choose a default app per event kind. And if you don't have an app registered for the event, it can display the notification itself.
It's a win-win-win-win-win situation.

2024-10-24 14:02:26 GMT

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The main issue is that nip-04 leaks way too much data not only to the relay, but to the public in general. On top of that, the encryption procedures of NIP-04 are laughable. The lack of padding alone is a major problem. Imagine saying "Hi" on a DM and that gets converted to 4 encrypted chars. Besides letting everyone know your message is small, how hard is to break the encryption of a 4 char cipher text? Not that hard.
If you repeat GMs around, now you have 100s or 1000s of 4 char encrypted messages. How hard would it be to recover your shared key knowing all those little messages? Not that hard.
With enough shared keys, how hard would it be to figure out somebody's nsec? It gets in the realm of "possible" with today's available computing power.

2024-10-24 11:18:23 GMT

Would users be too annoyed if Amethyst removed the "Create Account"/"Log in with nsec" and added a button to download Amber instead?

2024-10-23 23:03:36 GMT

App bundles are the only way to make a micro app ecosystem work.
#nevent1q…xl9u

2024-10-23 21:48:21 GMT

Nostr over Gmail https://image.nostr.build/51c0b44c940310be333111c2b28ee12cc84205e3259e7c8824212d84268126bc.png

2024-10-23 19:17:04 GMT

What if we start sending nostr: URIs in the end of our emails with a signed copy of the message and a little extension verifies the Nostr signature in the email and replaces the unsecured email text with the signed one without even pinging any relay? 🤔

2024-10-23 13:30:25 GMT

Who funds Bitcoin Core devs? Great report by @nprofile…vd4l
http://1a1z.com/fund.html

2024-10-22 16:43:14 GMT

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ohhh I just logged into your relay and it sent ALL the past versions of your own 10002 events. There are 44 10002 events coming down to Amethyst just for yourself. For each one of the 43 outdated events, Amethyst replies with the new one.
@nprofile…x66a something is wrong with haven's replaceable code. A filter by kind 10002 should only return the latest event, not all versions.
You can test it here: https://lightningk0ala.github.io/nostr-wtf/query
with filter: [{"kinds": [10002]}]

2024-10-22 15:39:34 GMT

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No, it only reverts back to the relay that sent the outdated event. So, this usually only happens when somebody had permissions to insert, the relay received a bunch of 10002s and then the relay closed that permission.
That being said, I would keep a copy of everybody's 10002s in my outboxes because it helps clients figure out where to send things if your relay has seen them before.

2024-10-22 15:00:46 GMT

Note to relay devs/operators: Don't hold outdated replaceable events. Either delete them or allow us to update them. Locking the relay to an old version is not cool.
Imagine locking the metadata event to an old ln address the user doesn't have control anymore. All zaps to that address and are lost.