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Need to do some maintenance on my relay. Expect ~1h of downtime in total.

Android 17 just landed in alpha for @GrapheneOS and it's performing so much better than the last version. Day and night.

#foodstr #cookstr

> “My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.” Goosebumps all the time. What a man.

I have no idea what most of the Bitcoin/nostr dramas are about. I’ve heard some of the names being mentioned but that’s about it.

Insane discovery if true.

I'm quite happy with the progress of the nostr app I'm building. Can't wait to show it to you. Might have a first test release ready by Wednesday. Imagine a fully Android-integrated nostr-native contacts app, storing all your contacts on various relays, fully encrypted (NIP-44) of course. Contacts then get enriched with noble nostr goodies. This is what's already working: Assume you have a contact saved that you recently purplepilled. You open the contact, tap the edit button, search by their name (NIP-0) or by pasting the npub. Searching by name results in live search with a results list, with some rough WoT magic to filter out spam and impersonators. Once you've found the right nostr profile, it'll automatically enrich your contact with NIP-05 and use its avatar as a contact picture. It imports from standard vcard files and exports as such, treating all nostr-related data as custom metadata you can access in any other standards compliant contacts app. It'll always prefer a local relay for reliable long term storage. It'll probably bug you about it at some point if you trust non-local, especially unpaid relays to store your contact notes forever. Why this is useful and even necessary: Free relays won't store your notes forever and even paid ones could lose your data by accident. Citrine as a local relay allows for scheduled backups, is fully under your control, has basically 0 latency and even if you accidentally delete all your contacts, just restore from backup. It already supports sign in via external signers, pinning favorites to the top, mass-selection and sync to Android's native storage. An email address in a bio would be added as such and mail clients suggest it once you started typing the name of the contact. nostr-using contacts receive a little highlight in the list. Contact sync is easy, everyone could build desktop apps with similar features and OS-integration around the idea. There's no need for centralized services storing your contacts (often even unencrypted) or begging Proton for better exposure to their contacts API via SDKs (now you know what lead me here). It's much simpler, always available offline (another local backup btw), tightly integrated into Android. What do you think?

Are they gonna try to pull of Project Bluebeam?

Most criticism of Jack Kruse is either blatantly ignorant of what he’s saying or just obvious personal dislike of the way he behaves. Ever since stumbling upon his Decentralized Medicine talk (some Urbit event at the end of 2023 iirc?) I’ve been listening to lots of his talks and interviews and I’ve dedicated a significant amount of hours into researching his claims. While some connections he makes are circumstantial (as they usually are when it comes to these things), the grander narrative is plausible and internally consistent. The Epstein files gave even more credence to his claims because they highlighted connections that previously were much more difficult to discover. I don’t have any idols. I wouldn’t want to have him as a friend because he seems to be quite arrogant and selfabsorbed. Since I don’t have to spend time with him, why would I care? Show me where he’s been proven wrong. Or where he stands to profit from any of his claims. Or when he shilled dubious products. Personal attacks are just lazy tells that you’ve either been spooked by some terminology also used by supposedly loonies you don’t want to be associated with or that you just can’t stand the guy. Sad to see such low effort ad hominem shit on nostr of all places.

> I don’t do my own research so pls help me debunk this > I’m sure we would’ve found letters by some Jesuits where they just admit to faking history but since we don’t, all your Maxwell printed history books can still be relied upon. There is no conspiracy here! Muppets.