GaryJordon
the BlindBitcoiner

Exploring the interface between those of us disbilities and the new digital world. Especially with regards to the new Bitcoin standard and related topics.

Public Key

npub1z7xjnmmzyn2ykwcjvn6gusfclrsuytn0ehm2zmtuyl6g3zrm8wwsrztm0r

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsp0rffaa3zf4zt8vfxfaywgyu03cwz9ehuma4pd47z0ayg3panh8g26f02w

Publishing to

nos.lol

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub1z7xjnmmzyn2ykwcjvn6gusfclrsuytn0ehm2zmtuyl6g3zrm8wwsrztm0r

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2023-05-26 04:05:09

Apple has release the logic pro for ipad. This is another step in decentralizing the production of music. Many blind and low vision people love music. some play various instruments. Others sing and still otheres like myself can compose music. As with most apple products it is from what I have heard from others is pretty accessable with voiceover. Hopefully there will soon be a censorship resistant and decentralized way for msicians and composers to take their love of music and make it at least a little profitable.

2023-05-06 19:11:19

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Es una buena idea. Yo hablo un poco espanol

2023-05-06 19:06:13

Well whatever happened yesterday I now have a nostr.builder account that is being verified. How does one use it it? This may be the most important. Part of building nostr and the clients on it. The education of how to use it. As well as placing such user manuals in the hands of those who start migrating outside the walled gardens of the centralized platforms.

2023-05-05 21:57:00

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When I copy my pub key when I pstedd it into nostr.builder it includes the word damus.. should I delete that word or is that part of the correct pub key?

2023-05-05 21:54:30

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Ok for the redord and my own score keeping On alreay on my iphone. I have not used my private key. I believe I’m using the correct pub. And I have not used ingognito mode before on anything.

2023-05-05 21:49:19

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Yep we aare all learning about nostr and how to interact succussfully with it. Welcome to the journey.

2023-05-05 21:46:43

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Yes that is a great thing. we just now need for the interface to be easy enough for for people and those with various disablilities to become part of a hopefully better world for all.

2023-05-05 20:29:00

Has anyone else had trouble loging into Nostr. Builder? I tried to login just now and despite using the exact password it kept having login again and again. I was hoping to pay for space to start building my nostr experiance including setting up a lightning address so I can finally give and recieve zaps.

2023-05-03 01:53:30

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No trouble. How else am I or you guys going to know what is and what is not accessable. I feel that is part of my task in life at this point. So I don’t mind.

2023-05-03 01:25:54

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Wow!!!! I had no idea there were all these different types of nodes. I a nontechnical user it both facinates and frightens me. Also I’m thyinking that most everyday people including blind and visually impaired users are not going to want to know all this. Such things may need to be abstracted into the background before large scale adoption is possible. Sorry if I’m stating the obvious.

2023-05-02 22:58:41

Guy Swann has posted several posts regarding AI that I find worth. Thinking. About. My question is how will the explosion of AI applications iether by one gigantic AI unit or by billions of little AI units affect the quality of life for those living various disabilities? How can we make sure that the AI revolution serves the wellbing of man rather than becoming a tyranical monster that harms humanity?

2023-05-02 22:50:42

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After relistening to it all I hear is a series of number/letters and at the end JPg

2023-05-02 22:47:36

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I haven’t found the puzzles yet. That is partly why I asked the question.

2023-05-02 22:42:48

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If this prediction comes true then that is more the reason for having billions oflittle AIs running around in the internet instead of one gigantic one. Also I would think by having billions of Ai units doing specific tasks the computational power requirements would be spread out over a large area. But that gigantic Ai would need to have its computational power more centralized. Making it more prone to failure or attack. Just a dumb users vantage point.

2023-05-02 22:30:26

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Interesting persective. For one I don’t see how AI could make manual labor cool. I know there will alwahs be those who like to do things with their own hands. But I suspect there are way more who either don’t have the. Skill or just like seeing cool gadgets do the work.

2023-05-02 22:25:00

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Are these puzzles visually oriented or verbally oriented?

2023-05-02 20:15:34

For those who might believe that all these posts are my whining that is not true. It is my attempt to document what I am going through to make this work. I feel that in the long run many blind and visually impaired people might benefit from what developers and entrepreneurs may gleam fromwhat I say here.

2023-05-02 20:06:52

WELL IT LOOKS LIKE I DO HAVE TECHNICAL TROUBLE SETTING UP ZAPS. I’M TRYING TO UTILIZE BOSTR.CBUILDER IN HOPLES OF GETTING MY LIGHTNING ADDRESS SOLIDLY ON DAMUS. BUT I’LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A FEW DAYS TO TO HAVE ENOUGH FIAT TO PUT SATS IN cash app Simply because for some reason when I tap open wallet in nostr.builder it doesn’t let choose which wallet it will open. It auto opens to cash app.

2023-04-27 18:44:13

One thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to send and recieve zaps. I tried sending a zap and the window that one video I watcedsaid should pop opendidn’t pop open. so I’ll try again and see if I need to use the container command to find this pop up window.

2023-04-27 18:38:43

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I just figuted out how to to repost Voiceover calls out boost . So I decided to click on that and it asked me if I wanted to repost. so now I know how to repost. It might be nice if the wording was repost.

2023-04-27 16:21:38

I know of a couple of fellow students at braille Institute who prefer the interface of instagram. Does anyone know if there is a instragram like nostr client for IOS? That might help grow the nostr ecosystem. Just a thought.

2023-04-27 16:19:19

Has anoyone else found that they can’t coppy their nostr pub to twitter anymore or is it just me and possibly a voiceover issue? I would appreciate it if someone would let me know so I can hopefully get more nostr followers from twitter.

2023-04-27 15:50:15

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WOW! That took a lot of courage and I’m glad someone is doing that. I don’t honestly think I could do that at this point in my. Bitcoin journey.

2023-04-26 11:30:42

Guy Swann in one of his bitcoin audable episodes made a rather interesting suggestion. This suggested idea is that instead of migrating AI to one gigantic centralized monster. We should strive to have billions of little AIs competing with each other. This makes sense as many useful assistive technologies for the blind already use AI. So the goal should be in my humble opinion is to keep. AI on humanity’s side. and Guys suggestion may be the way to do it.

2023-04-23 17:17:37

Somethig that most people especially developers might realize is the a large majority of people with sustantial vision loss including those who are legally blind are senior. In fact the average age of students of Braille Institute of Southern California are seniors. I believe is something like 70 years old. That means many are not going to be as tech savvy as younger people. Just something to keep in mind.

2023-04-23 16:21:36

I have another question how do you repost something you want to share on Damus? It that what the broadcast button in the share menu is for?

2023-04-23 16:12:39

I would like to know gowever how or if it is possible to create a custom lightning address. This whole lightning address thing is quite new to me. So I hope to learn enough to be able to explain it if that should become needed.

2023-04-23 16:10:51

A few days ago a learned that someone had asked if I had technical problems with setting up zaps. It looks like at this point not. I have a believe set up a lightning address. I would appreciate any feedback letting me know if in fact I have correctly set up to receive zaps. Thanks in advance.

2023-04-20 22:30:48

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Wow that sounds like a real challenge. I would be happy to have some sort of pdf that tells me what each button on the damus app does so I don’t feel like a 2 year old just pressing butttons and seeing what happens and hoping I don’t do something seriously wroing. this sadly a methood I have had to use on many apps I have encountered.

2023-04-20 22:24:19

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At this point I don’t know about a technical obsticle. But I just plain don’t know how to do add a lightning wallet for zaps. Maybe someone can teach this 55 year old dog a new trick.

2023-04-20 18:21:52

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Since i’m not a coder iI’m not certain how things work under the hood but what I ususally do is iether swipe to the left or right or if using a bluetooth enabled typing keyboard I use the arrow keys. Most upps I have noticed have at least one or two usually more unlabeded buttons. So what I hear is most often button or sometimes button unlabed when I encounter those. I have never encountered buttons like what you have on the babs portion of the app that has graphics called out. so I don’t know what the graphics sybmbolize. Let me know if this feedback is of any use.

2023-04-18 19:44:02

I really appriciate that the pictures were audio described when I went to upload a picutre. It appears that this feature at least is voicover campatible. way to go Damus.

2023-04-18 19:41:58

I have to say I lke the fact that one can now upload or take a pic and put on one’s Damus profile. That is a very good improvement.

2023-04-18 12:28:04

Can someone please describe how I can manually search for someone if I have their public key? I do not know where to search for new people to follow using the Damus client. Thanks in advanced.

2023-03-11 17:59:14

The one other thing that I have found rather different wit the interface is that the tabs on the buttom of the home screenwhile voiceover still doesn’t say any words. It does describe some pics. For example the tab just right of the add button says night skey. What does that mean. I wish that there was some sort of legend for those icons that voiceover describes so I can know what they mean. The other buttons in the middle. Area are just saying button,

2023-03-11 16:56:22

I must say that the more I think about it themore I’m convinced that once a client is voiceover friendly it won’t take too much effort to convince many blind and visually impaired people that nostr is a good choice. I think more. People will get nostr than they currently can get bitcoin.

2023-03-10 13:37:23

To thise who ae develoing damus I would like to say that so far my biggest issue is that many of the buttons are not labeled. GUI is fine when you can see but it is useless for people like myself who are totally blind. Please add texts so that Voiceover can tell me what the buttons are for. Thank you in advanced. Voiceover is the built in screen reader on Apple devices. This can be found in settings then click accessability. then you will be able to get an idea of how frustrating it can be to hear button button most of the time.

2023-03-08 20:38:33

Hello world this is a test post. I’m totally blind and I am trying at Damus and seeing if blind and visually impaired people like myself can use this first NOSTR client for IOS devices.