One of the strangest things I didn't count on when I started developing Vega was how much I uncousously adopted Hyprland's paradigm of doing things on desktop through my Omarchy use. For some reason it never dawned on me that this might actually be a problem since most people have never even seen much less regularly used tiling windows manager... And so... I found myself in need of not just simply developing and testing it on my Omarchy linux but developing it on Omarchy and then testing it on Windows and some other non-tiling wm Linux. Because so many things one takes for granted just don't always play nice ... So.. I would be cracking my head about why deep down in threads notes become so incredibly small in horizontal size and then it dawns on me that I have been using Vega by default on only half my screen :) Of course I did, because in the other half Ive been developing it!And like an idiot I believed this to be a general expirence of a user! :) So.. I go on Windows... and there's no problem.... because a fucking window was large and in the center :) I knooow :) I knooooow!!! :) See the brain..... just didn't seem to click the obvious because it was just how I was doin g things for months before .. so it became a habit and habits.. they make themselves sometimes invisible - because they're habits! :) Anyway... the solutio is of course obvious: you click super + shift + [free workspace number] or simply just SUPER + T and you can read even text deep down the thread. Once finished you just click SUPER +T again and youhave the usual tiling in the middle of the screen and a trusty Vega returs to the it's rightous right side. And all is well with world again :)

Tiananmen Square is Shut Down!

The day has finally arrived. The working title of my nostr desktop client 'wrystr' is no more. The new official name of the application is now Vega, a nod to a Slovenian mathematician baron Jurij Vega (1754 – 1802). He was also a physicist and an artillery commissioned officer. His book Tentamen philosophicum covers problems that include topics in logic, algebra, metaphysics, geometry, trigonometry, geodesy, stereometry, the geometry of curves, ballistics, and general physics. Vega participated in several military campaigns. In 1788, he served under Austrian Imperial Field Marshal Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790) in a campaign against the Ottoman Empire at Belgrade. His command of several mortar batteries significantly contributed to the fall of the Belgrade fortress. Between 1793 and 1797, he fought against French Revolutionary forces under the command of Austrian General Dagobert-Sigismond de Wurmser (1724–1797) as part of the European coalition allied with Austria. Vega participated in battles at Fort Louis, Mannheim, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Kehl, and Diez. In 1795, he designed two 30-pound (14 kg) mortars with conically drilled bases and larger charges, increasing their firing range to up to 3,000 metres (3,300 yards). By comparison, the older 60-pound (27 kg) mortars had a range of only 1,800 metres (2,000 yards). Vega also published a series of books containing logarithmic tables. The first volume appeared in 1783. Much later, in 1797, it was followed by a second volume that included a collection of integrals and other useful formulae. His Handbook, originally published in 1793, was later translated into several languages and issued in over 100 editions. You can read more about him on his Wiki page here:

Jurij Vega - Wikipedia

I'll be posting details about the new release later today as an article. Later this week we're also opening up the official Vega website. Wrystr is dead. Long live Vega!

I can relate - on a smaller scale. I'm trying to fix what I see as a hole in desktop nostr, something I've been personally missing since I don't like to have my phone on all the time. I want something that I can use for actual daily reading of articles and regular article posting, while also having other basic stuff implemented (like a connected wallet or background podcast playing) so I don't have to keepconstantly switching here and there and everywhere for them. I need basic zaping, basic podcast playing and fast swiotching between notes and thread-views and half the stuff is done already. If one day I manage to also fix so I on't have to keepseeing obvioius "America bad m'kay" propaganda then I'll be a happy camper. Everything after that.... will just be a happiness bonus :) View quoted note →

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Remember Iraq? #giggity

Checking out the Hermes-agent...

I posted an article on the major improvements in the 0.9.11 release.

Just had to mute another useful idiot claiming a fcking communist flag is a 'beautiful sight'. It is just sad to watch how many in the West are so fcuking indoctrinated that they think they are 'resisiting' by doing a fucking suicide pact while trying to pull everyone else with them. And yes... that communism is. I know, because I've seen it in real life and not just in fucking Hollywood actor's bulshit fantasy

Oh man oh man oh man!!! I managed to speed wrystr significantly !!! This next version is gonna make the flow soooo much better

The 0.9.9 release is using Vertex for reputation. You can see iot working under profile. Also.. this is how Settings look like now. BTW: the screenshots are from Omarchy Linux, which is of course using Hyprland and in mostof my shots the app is on the half of the screen

Test of appending image in Wrystr in Hyprland (Omarchy Linux)

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in a way nostr is trying to bring us back to the era of original decentralised wild west of the internet, thus making it more human like. But I think we have a serious dead internet problem on our hand here as well. The number of bot accounts or just plain propaganda accounts trying to manufacture consent by making us feel like normal opinions are abnormal is staggeringly high. So maybe proof work solutions are really the only way we lessen the influence of nefarious actors among our midst

The next wrystr build will also finally have a nice separate section for image attachments and the URL will not be showing anymore

This is a cool video...and you should probably watch it :) Especially the part at the end where some guy doing the sciency thing and proves that tap water in China is totally drinkable by using pool strips and the air is clean by measuring CO2 :)

Ok.. I believe I have solved the problem when user needs to set wrystr to extremely large fonts. The top badges all stay in their places, the bottom left user's badge is there and the resizing of the application window works nicely. The funny thing is, I missed this problem entirely because I tested the large fonts only on Omarchy at the beginning. Like an idiot I didn't connect in my head the fact that Omarchy's window manager (Hyprland) just can't have this particular resizing problem !

Question: Should a Nostr client have a special feature you could turn on, which would make anyone claiming to be Elon Musk muted and therefore automatically invisible? :) I mean.. Personally I can stomach 3 to 5 Musks per day, but more than that is just too much ...

one of the few sane takes I've seen recently on social media. I'm gonna add why I think the BRICS (because it's always not being just Russia, but Iran and China as well) propaganda works so well: It's really simple: the bots are exploiting our significantly higher free speech while clamping down on their own criticism within those countries. It's really easy to do this when you can stop your own citizens from criticizing. I remember this from Communist Yugoslavia and I've been trying to explain people how obvious it is and practically nobody understands that they are tapdancing for the exact enemy that wants to destroy them. Look how nice and clean Moscow looks! Well.. so did fucking Belgrade in Yugoslavia and so is Pyongyang in North Korea ffs! All the big cites have always been monuments to dictators. "Look how united are Russians!" screams a Western man not knowing a Russian can't say much else but to praise the government. Everyone else is locked up already. This is btw why we have Westerners demonstrating with fcking pictures of a dead Iranian dictator who just a month ago killed 35000 of their own citizens, while Iranians are literally DJing on the roofs of their houses while the bombs and rockets are crashing IRGC. They get it. We don't. We can't understand the difference between the 'one-opinion state' (aka only one opinion allowed) and what we have here. Here we have whole media centres operating exclusively for propaganda of non-western bullshittery. And it doesn't even matter what kind as long as it sees the West as 'evil'. When I realized this to be an actual fact I decided for myself that I'm gonna become a radically self-interested person, by which I mean I'm gonna err on the side of Western ideals because, well.. I'm fucking living here! It really is that obvious once you read through all the mud that is being thrown at you daily View article →