Can you update the PWA in TestFlight please?

Did anybody else know there was a serious plan to install a gay Prussian prince as king of the United States in the 1780’s before the US constitution was written? This would have made history class much more interesting if they’d talked bout this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_scheme

We can rent the awake center for a couple extra days after nostrica if folks want to stick around and hack & build stuff? My feeling is we’ll come out of the conference super excited and it’d be fun to have time to code together after the talks.

The question is, who is interested so we can gauge scale?

This weekend there’s going to be an online conference on building decentralized social media protocols. It should have folks working on a bunch of different protocols there and it’d be great to have some nostr folks.

https://decentsocial.net/

Because that’s what people doing scams and impersonation would do. What could work is a system where by multiple people verify somebody else. So if I have five people I trust to verify that you’re bob, then I can be confident that you’re actually bob. I think it’d be useful to have that kind of trusted verification as well.

Here’s code to make it work: https://github.com/cblgh/trustnet

Yes and that’s ok. Or mastodon verification. We just need the links back to nostr.directory to show what’s actually known about this person.

And a well functioning economic commons needs gatekeepers be they mining or verification services. That’s how we create a trusted market without outside state regulation.

There’s a bunch of impersonation being done with NIP-05 because it currently just verifies to the domain name. This makes folks using directory services like nostr.directory, nostrplebs.com, and things like cash.app for verification difficult. Because I could be verified by those accounts and set my petname to jack or some brand name.

We’ve written up a updated proposal to add optional names that are verified at the service as part of the NIP-05 and a link back to the information that the verification service has about this nostr user.

Clients don’t need to implement this but it solves a lot of issues we’re seeing when people are using third party domains for verification.

https://github.com/erikwestra/nips/compare/master...nip-05-security-proposal

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "rabble"

Scuttlebutt basically works with personal relays and inter-relay gossip. That and the linked list signed log are the main differences between ssb and nostr. It does work but honestly it takes a lot of processing time and is a pain in the ass. I know, I built one. I think there could be unpaid but community limited access relays too. Host a relay for your friends.

The way we display NIP-05 verifications and how we allow users to check them needs updating. I’m damned sure that SBF is not actually raising money via nostr DM’s.

Hooking these verifications up to verified credentials and providing a page by each verifier with more information about who / what is actually verified is important.

Imagine if I also claimed to be Jack and verified with cash.app?

We’re working on a proposal update for NIP-05… I think there needs to be a bit more information both in what’s published and how it’s displayed. If I call myself Jack, and also have a cash.app account, it’ll show me as @jack cash.app… but it really should be showing me the name that cash.app knows me as and link to some page by cash.app that says something about me… same for nostr.directory, plebes, etc…

I know there are lots of bitcoiners here who have strong opinions. I’m agnostic. What’s the thoughts on ordinals?

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/01/31/bitcoin-community-erupts-in-existential-debate-over-nft-project-ordinals/

I know Fiatjaf doesn’t like markdown because he wants notes to be short and tweet like. But I think markdown let’s us have a richer textual experience. There are alternatives and also ways to make markdown that can be rendered as plaintext.

Yeah. That’s important. The idea of linking events is called a tangle. Here’s how it works in scuttlebutt.

https://github.com/cn-uofbasel/ssbdrv/blob/master/doc/tangle.md

I’m heading back to New Zealand after meeting the nos.social team for a week in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. It’s a 15+ hour flight and I wish nos.social was far enough along that it’d work in offline mode. The scuttlebutt app planetary.social we’re basing it on works offline, so nos will too.

I think a geo event type based on geojson would be great for nostr. You could have it point to the event it’s describing. A separate event is probably better than adding geo fields to notes and then all the other event types in the future that might need them.

https://geojson.org

Yea. My 80 year old mom thinks her iPad is amazing but hates finding wifi or not being able to make calls on it.

And iPad mini would be a good fit too.

I want to add support for calendar events to nostr. But until then. There are notes.

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Why isn’t there a big phone with lower resolution for old people? Seriously they set the font size to huge. They don’t want high resolution. They want big east to read text.