So for FOSS design / development, I would not look for design help to validate the initial product.

Use existing frameworks to cobble something together. Get early users and listen to their feedback carefully.

If there’s potential, get a designer who will improve the overall UX. Don’t worry about styling yet.

If product already validated and has users then design is the product. You want a product designer who positions the product, helps refine UX. Design cannot be an afterthought. It’s not lipstick on a pig.

Designers have to consider the foss project they would like to contribute to. It’s hard, because you have no idea what the team is like unless you contribute here and there and observe to see if your contributions are implemented. Sometimes they won’t be for the right reasons. What designers want most is to see their work come to fruition in as close to perfect as possible. This goes on their portfolio and it sucks if design is good but implementation is potatoes.

But we also have to stay humble and realize when we make mistakes. Developers often have good UX insights because they are constrained by code and frankly laziness. Laziness is a friend of UX sometimes. Not always. The designer who doesn’t see acknowledge their own blind spots is not advancing themselves or their goals.

My 2 sats at this late hour.

Good night! 😴

Gn #Nostr

Remember: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

— Wayne Gretzky

I have been using Nostr for two years now, and the lack of a NIP-09 (event delete) or its equivalent standard on Nostr is, more than ever, a significant privacy and safety issue built into the current version of the protocol.

Snowden warned us of the dangers of a permanent record. Have we not learned anything?

Nostr, as it is right now, is a permanent record that seeks to tie all of your apps and your coin transactions to one key pair.

If that key pair is ever compromised, EVERYTHING is compromised.

If you accidentally doxx yourself, you are HOSED.

It's bad OPSEC. And it sounds like a honeypot waiting to happen.

Amber (event signer) is a decent workaround, but it has not passed a third-party security audit, and I still believe a parent/child key system is the way to go as it does not expand your attack surface by having to depend on a third party to keep all of your Nostr business safe.

Now back to event deletion...

The protocol is the protocol. Relays must use the protocol to participate in the network.

If the protocol requires honoring event deletion requests to participate in the network, then Nostr will have avoided this festering security and safety issue.

If certain #Nostr devs don't stop saying universal post deletes can't happen because of xyz (insert biased limiting belief/excuse here), and start figuring out how it can be done... it's a protocol design that's dead in the water to anything but mostly nameless, faceless anons.

The future is privacy-first, client-side computing, not relays. The clock is ticking.

GM weird NOSTR

In a truly free market, money finds its value naturally—no central planning, no manipulation, just pure, voluntary exchange. Freedom in currency choice empowers individuals and drives innovation.

I used to trade these a lot for clients but I haven’t seen this before..

I honestly thought more of the anarchists here would know about archive.ph

It's the Olympics ffs. jump over those paywalls.

A better name for ‘deep state’ is ‘permanent bureaucracy.’

When people think ‘deep state,’ they imagine super capable elites planning painstakingly effective psyops.

A more accurate visual is thousands of mediocre DMV employees doing the bear minimum yet never getting fired, but rather, getting more funding each year, until it swallows up the entire private sector and a reset occurs.

... and even if the wealth distribution would be discussed, it is blamed on "capitalism" and only a forceful redistribution of the wealth is seen as a solution.

Instant regret 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🥵

This is Sarco, a 3D-printed suicide pod that uses nitrogen hypoxia to end the life of the person inside in under 30 seconds after pressing the button inside.