nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll does this mean self hosted relay via tor on embassy can be added now?
Amethyst 0.46.0 (alpha): Tor Support
- Tor/Orbot support by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
- Added Farsi translations by nostr:npub1cpazafytvafazxkjn43zjfwtfzatfz508r54f6z6a3rf2ws8223qc3xxpk
- Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations by nostr:npub12358n500vfnf9j522nueg05k9yvhh97936smfgat6mledzegp5yskzrjdj
- Updated Dutch translations by nostr:npub1w4la29u3zv09r6crx5u8yxax0ffxgekzdm2egzjkjckef7xc83fs0ftxcd
Download:
- Play Edition with Push Notifications & Translations: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.46.0/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.46.0.apk
- F-Droid Edition without Translations: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.46.0/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.46.0.apk
Discussion
Idk if it's possible but can we connect to .onion relay even without orbot running for whole phone?
Yes, you can run orbot without the VPN option
You can easily install Tor and create a hidden service for your local node. Docker makes it a bit trickier tho. Does embassyOS have a Tor package you can install? If it's integrated you're sorted. If not, you'll have to look up routing Tor to a Docker container.
It does everything over tor by default, meaning to use one’s own relay running on it, the nostr client needs to be able to connect to a .onion relay address, right #[7] ?
Yes, your relay is already hosted on Tor. You need a client that can connect to relays over Tor, but mostly this is just a matter of configuring your browser properly.
#[6] can we add .onion relays to amethyst?
No idea. Can you?
I mean without orbot running as a tor vpn over whole phone
No, you have to have Orbot running for now. But you don't need to activate Orbot for all apps. If I understand correctly, you can select which apps you want to use it for.
Yes but phone can only do one vpn at a time and it’s currently being used for non tor, so would be awesome to have built in tor in this way 🙏 at your coding speed I bet it would take maybe 40 min 😅
you can use orbot tor-mode only
dont have to have orbot vpn turned on afaik, no?
I am not sure if it doesn't run in the same issue. The VPN setup is good because it remains alive. If we import a Tor library, the phone will kill the connection and thus every time somebody resumes the app it will take a few seconds to connect to Tor...
I turned on orbot and did NOT configure it to run in VPN mode and then I configured amethyst to use tor (on port 9050 which orbot is bound to by default) and it's working perfectly. None of the other traffic on my phone is going through tor.
Any app that is proxy-aware could send its traffic to port 9050 to use tor without the rest of the traffic on the phone using tor.
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z thanks for making Amethyst usable over tor - that's a great feature.