Nos is using kind 10,000. That’s what’s listed for the mute list on https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips and in the example of a mute list in NIP-51. Does Amethyst use 30,000?

I’m curious if anyone has any active NIP-172 communities they like? I look through a few every few days but most just have one or two posts. Are there any you have noticed? nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1alpha9l6f7kk08jxfdaxrpqqnd7vwcz6e6cvtattgexjhxr2vrcqk86dsn

Nos supports it. And somewhere between ⅓ and ½ of my relays do too.

I'm going to try moving my Mastodon account to social.coop. I haven't had any problems with my current host but the tools and processes used to cooperatively manage social.coop are things I have been wanting to try! I think similar governance structures would work well for Nostr relays.

nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj can we get a direct link to the page on satellite with the upload file button? “http://satellite.earth/cdn” makes me wait for an animation to play. Which is very pretty, but I don’t want to watch it every time.

And a sneak peak at something I’m excited for in the next build: better link previews. I switched to using Apple’s system link preview component instead of rendering both the link and a preview in the note body. It isn’t perfect but it does a lot better than what we have currently, rendering previews for many types of links other than jpg images including gifs, videos, blog posts, and more. Eventually we’ll build custom link previews that better integrate with our design and UI. But baby steps are good.

nostr:npub1rq9x6sk86e8ccw2cm8gsm4dyz9l24t823elespupaxjnzdk026fsca2r93 also recently translated Nos into Dutch. Unfortunately we are having some problems with our Crowdin integration and didn’t get the translations into this release, but they’ll be in the next one!

Also, as we do with most of our work, we open-sourced the server we are using to send these notifications. It accepts registration requests over web sockets like a relay and then listens to registered user’s relays for posts mentioning them. When it sees one it sends a silent background notification to the iOS app which can then download the events for itself and display the appropriate notifications. It’s a slick piece of engineering by nostr:npub1uucu5snurqze6enrdh06am432qftctdnehf8h8jv4hjs27nwstkshxatty. https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-notification-service-go

Build 57 of Nos is out with support for push notifications! Now you can get a notification instantly when you are mentioned, even when the app is closed. This build has been in the oven for a while, there a quite a few more goodies in it as well:

- Added beta integration with the Universal Name System. Edit your profile to link your Universal Name to your Nostr profile.

- Added the number of connected relays in the top right corner of the Home Feed.

- Updated design of the relay selector

- Added a confirmation dialog when deleting a note.

- Fixed several bugs around muting users

- Fixed high cpu usage when the app is idle

- Fixed a bug where expired messages could be published to relays that doesn't support them

- Fixed an issue where Nos sometimes couldn't find the user's key on startup.

- Fixed an issue where you could have duplicate relays: one with a trailing slash and one without.

Paradise?

Wow, what is the source on the outgoing links from Twitter stats? I’m surprised Nostr is third already.

Here’s the code I just wrote for it:

extension URL {

func strippingTrailingSlash() -> String {

var string = absoluteString

if string.last == "/" {

string.removeLast()

}

return string

}

}

(I’m dumb, don’t look too hard at the first screenshot. Look at this one instead. Need more coffee)

What’s weird is that url.absoluteString preserves the slash or no-slash of the original URL. And the two aren’t equal 🤦‍♂️ this is probably what I’m remembering.

Ok I just checked and Nos *doesn’t* append a slash. Not sure what I’m remembering, maybe it did in an old build 🤷‍♂️. We are using absoluteString also.

Hah, I think Nos automatically appends slash if you add a relay in it because iOS’s URL type does so when you convert it to a string.

I hadn’t heard of the Xreal Air before. How is the resolution on it? Can you use it comfortably as a monitor replacement for work?

One thought I can’t shake after watching Apple’s VisionOS stuff is how much I want the eye tracking functionality in their headset. From what I’ve heard from the few people who have actually tried the device, it works amazingly well and some described it as the most magical part of the whole experience. For anyone who hasn’t seen it there are four infrared cameras on the inside of the headset that are pointed at your eyes. They can very precisely track exactly the point your eyes are looking at in the VR/AR world. In VisionOS to click on something you look at it and then touch your thumb and pointer fingers together to “click”.

I don’t want the whole headset, or a whole new OS. Just give me some eyeglasses with the infrared cameras and let me replace my mouse with them. Imagine a world in which your hands never have to leave the keyboard because left and right click are just keys on your keyboard and your computer knows which element you are looking at to click on. You can sit with better posture because you don’t have to move your arms between the mouse and keyboard. You can fly around your operating system with incredible speed, because your eyes move way faster than your arm and fingers. You don’t need to learn as many keyboard shortcuts because looking at something and pressing one key is much faster than contorting your hands to get that arcane shortcut. It feels like a desktop power-user’s dream.

Apple made a good point that what your eyes are looking at is traditionally private information, and they took pains to conceal what your are looking at from the applications your are interacting with (of course their closed-source OS has access to that data). In my ideal device I think I’d be ok with forgoing the “hover effect” on the element or button you are looking at in exchange for my eye position only being transmitted to the operating system when I click.

I did some web searching for people working on this and found a few products, but the consumer priced ones like the Tobii Eye Tracker 5 are apparently not accurate enough to replace a mouse. There is some medical-grade hardware aimed at making computers accessible for those with motor disabilities that looks better but it costs around $15k. I also found that Apple has a head tracking mouse built into macOS as an accessibility feature, but it wasn’t precise enough to be quicker than a mouse in my testing.

I think it will take a couple years but surely this is the future of pointer devices for general computing. The unfortunate casualty will be FPS games, but it’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make for the greater good.

It hasn’t been released to TestFlight yet, should be out on Monday though.

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