Damus is a native iOS app.
Damus tech stack is nostr + lightning + iOS + other stuff.
If iOS refuses to comply with the lightning + nostr combo, there isnt much you can do, because that part of the Damus tech stack is owned and controlled by Apple Inc.
Are these corporate properties and decentralised protocols compatible? I think it’s hard to bridge.
It’s a major headache for Will, and 14 days isn’t much time to plan a new strategy and get it implemented.
I’m not convinced by Apple’s view about zaps, but trying to define / legally categorise zaps produces a lot of contradictions and 14 days isn’t much time for Will et al. to change Apple’s view whilst also creating a fallback position for the app.
Pretty sure there is more value in rolling back the zaps feature, than there is in dropping iOS development altogether.
Do Apple want 30% of the bitcoin?
Or do they want USD?
Even if there is a zapless native app, and a zap-enabled PWA.
Interestingly, zaps allow someone to build an entirely PWA based web store with a full decentralised (unmolestable) payment mechanism built in.
I’m confused as to why zaps are different from a wallet? Or banking app?
Zaps aren’t an in-app purchase. What if Damus was also a non-custodial wallet? Is the problem that Damus receives a cut from zaps?
Everyone is very much on new ground with zaps.
Ouch, that’s a pretty big blow to Damus entire biz model. Apple really throwing some shade at “decentralised” claims.
Only realistic option for Will is to remove zaps from the iOS app, which is a problem because thats the revenue stream.
Nostr needs an app store, and PWA versions of apps.
Nostr really desperately needs a nostr based code repo. Wonder where I have seen one of those sketched out before?
Exactly, just faster and more productive to type in landscape.
This split keyboard then gives you more screen area for visual stuff.
I wonder if a simple scrolling centre column with preview feeds on right and left that you can swipe to centre would feel more immersive than the single rolling feed?
Does anyone here use a virtual split keyboard, ever?
I would prefer my iPhone to be able to do this. If using your device in landscape I feel like there is an entire UI/UX genre to explore around this.
3 columns, or 2 rows, or 3 rows?
Maybe not great if you use big text, but I tend to use tiniest text size, dark mode, etc, etc.
Here’s a stock picture of an older iPad with a split keyboard. 
I’m all in on this, I even have bareboot Oxfords
“Made from naturally scarred leather from free-roaming cattle, sourced from small scale farmers in Ethiopia.” 🇪🇹 
It’s not just US change, I think LLM’s probably weaken the rationale for Industrial Clusters in general, maybe with the exception of heavy industry where transport / shipping cost can be a significant issue and also extraction industries where location is determined by geology.
Things like finance, life sciences and software are suddenly freed from talent hubs. I don’t think this is obvious from outside boardrooms yet.
Also, embodied AI (robots) probably only a decade away and that’s the end of large pools of cheap labour as an economic engine. Robots are a real challenge for Chinese manufacturing.
Lots of things are going to move around / change in quite a big way. Many unique challenges for many countries.
I see a16z are opening an office in London?
This immediately gets around the 1933 Securities Act and allows them to do a whole host of stuff with non-US customers (96% of world population).
Pretty sure London will be their main office by 2030. California seems like a strange place to do tech these days? It’s very premature to call it, but the winds of change are howling.
CA definitely has the talent, but LLMs totally break that grip. Open Source AI just shreds SF’s raison d’etre.
Not before the 1970’s they didn’t. But sure, since then capital has made hay and labour has flatlined in share of the surplus.
Open boarders deflate the cost of labour.
The climate used to change, thats why the planet had ice ages, etc.
We’re now trying to stop that, and “lock” the planet into an interglacial high.
An unstable quasi- ice age status, because that’s what best suits humans.
Kinda arrogant, but also pointless to try it now. Why not just do that when we have the means to do it easily?
It’s probably true, but who cares?
What difference does it make? None.
Locking the planets climate into an interglacial high to suit human comfot, is a problem for future humans who will have nuclear fusion and 10’s of millions of robots in LEO.
It’s not a problem for today. We have more immediate problems to figure out.
No. Go and read Claude Shannon.
A two way switch has information.
In 1937 at MIT, he wrote what is widely regarded as the greatest masters thesis of all time (by some distance), where he invented electronics, digital logic, and digital programming all in the same paper, he went on to invent cryptography in the Appendix of the same paper.
Pretty sure he got an A.
Behold…
Dark matter has never been observed. Ever.
Mass and gravity doesn’t allow for the existence of galaxies, the math said galaxies should tear apart as they rotate, so science added a bunch of invisible / never observed mass to balance their equations. With this extra invisible mass, the math now says galaxies can exist.
That’s what dark matter is. That’s why it was hypothesised.
Dark matter is probably a bust theory, because the scientific method explicitly says not to add such (m+m.delta) fudge factors to your calcs, just to get the desired result. Especially if it requires adding something that has never been observed, ever. But dark matter hypothesis allows the rest of science to continue pretending gravity is real.
I know you asked about time, but I don’t think time is real, not how we understand it. Physics has the spacetime continuum now and there’s a nuance there that time is different in every location in space.
What that means is that time is more like temperate than a universal thing. Every point in space has its own time that is independent.
The older the universe gets the more scrambled up time becomes. Eg the core of planet Earth is today 2.5million years closer to the big bang than the Earth’s crust. This is also what entropy is (things becoming more disorderly), entropy is a law of thermodynamics and so its more robust a phenomenon than time. So it makes sense to try and think of time as behaving like entropy.
There is no universal time to travel back through, and entropy is irreversible.
I call it “time” like everyone else! 😂
But I think in fullest understanding of physics long in the future, physicists will say time is not real. Same for gravity. They’re both rooted in human experience and its hard to comprehend a model without them.
All the galaxies that we observe don’t behave according to gravity, gravity is too weak to hold any galaxy together as it rotates, so people invented dark matter as a fudge to preserve the theory of gravity at galactic scale.
In our hearts we know gravity is not right, the same applies for time.
There is no universal reference for time, unlike energy which has the universal reference point of absolute zero.
Even the speed of light, which we think of as distance and time, is in reality means the photon just has a single energy level in its quantum field.
We have a Euclidian experience and all of our models are still anchored in that. It’s extremely difficult to escape because it requires tremendous abstraction.
A fish would have a lot of difficulty discovering / inventing fire. We have the same challenge trying to understand reality.
Picture below essentially shows Newtonian and Einsteinian limits. But there’s obviously more beyond this. 
No, not like people today comprehend it.
I think eventually we will figure out that time isn’t a thing, just like gravity isn’t a real thing, it’s the broken part of physics. There is no universal time, it’s a local state a bit like temperature.
There’s only energy and entropy.
If you think about entropy it makes more sense if it flows in the opposite direction, from disorder to order. That would take work.
But instead order to disorder produces work.
Goes back to information, can the universe create information or was all the information created with the big bang? Physicists can’t decide.
What difference would it make?
It’s irrelevant isn’t it?
It’s just solipsism with a new analogy for gamer generation to grasp.