I've moved almost all applications to be installed via Obtainium instead of Aurora Store (Google Play) and have removed F-Driod (although many Obtainium apps pull from the repository still). Down from five installer apps to four, it's not much, but it's a step.

If you're setting up a private Nostr relay with strfry, you can use this small plugin to only provide write capabilities for your own pubkeys.

GitHub

GitHub - braydonf/strfry-tools: A set of tools for strfry relays for the Nostr protocol.

A set of tools for strfry relays for the Nostr protocol. - braydonf/strfry-tools

It uses the strfrui library that can do a lot more if that is needed.

GitHub

GitHub - jiftechnify/strfrui: A framework for writing strfry's event sifter (write policy) plugin in Go.

A framework for writing strfry's event sifter (write policy) plugin in Go. - jiftechnify/strfrui

So apparently @Club Orange doesn't work with GrapheneOS w/o Google Play Services? The approximate location doesn't work, can it work without?

GN. Difficulties can make us stronger. ✌

North Cascades, Washington.

Looking forward to try running this soon:

GitHub

GitHub - ACINQ/phoenixd

Contribute to ACINQ/phoenixd development by creating an account on GitHub.

It could be a great, quick to setup and maintain option for use with an LN Address to accept payments for goods and services on Nostr.

Does #amethyst not have a setting to disable/cconfigure translations? I have most disabled individually, from incorrect tranlations, however it still does this from time to time. Seems kinda silly.

I am kinda surprised that watchtowers for running a Lightning node haven't become more popular. Perhaps LSPs are providing some of that functionality as well as providing inbound liquidity? It seems that if you're running you're own node on your own hardware, not in a datacenter, you'll still want to have a watchtower (perhaps your own) that is run in redundant datacenters with backup power and internet.

So is the Electrum server acting as a watch tower for Phoenix? Documentation isn't clear on the technical specifics of how the wallet doesn't need to be always-on. This is what has been mentioned: "Phoenix has been designed for less technical users, who don't know or want to run an always-on Lightning node on a server or to manage channels, with sensible trade-offs for those users." https://phoenix.acinq.co/faq#can-i-connect-to-any-node-can-i-connect-to-my-own-node "You can configure Phoenix to use your own Electrum server to watch the Blockchain and monitor your channels." https://phoenix.acinq.co/faq#is-phoenix-trustless

The use of docker containers often feels needlessly complex and cumbersome when system daemon scripts can easily be added. I think it has it's place, however recently I'm preferring the simplicity of just daemon scripts.

I can see why people like using Arch Linux for the flexibility of using AUR to keep specific software updated. Aside from adding additional software sources to apt, only sometimes provided, is it manageable with Debian and derivatives. Looking for a source for the latest Inkscape and the launchpad PPA doesn't seem to work with Debian, there are signature issues and looks unsigned. Perhaps including unstable and testing in the sources will include a much more recent version (however it's not application specific).

Does the @OpenSecret for Andriod use a websockets proxy server? There is a setting for it in 'Settings > Servers', yet it doesn't seem necessary as it could open sockets directly. 🤔

An HTML page with <script>location.href="nostr:npub..."</script> seems to work well for sharing a npub or nprofile and have it open in a native app (desktop and mobile). It provides a way to fallback if there isn't an app. I setup one at braydon.com/nostr Thinking about also hosting an njump or similar to display notes without a native nostr client yet.

In the last week, a similar graph to this came up in one of the Principles of Economics seminars with @Saifedean Ammous in relation to the chapter on labor: Source:

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Google Ngrams: unemployment, inflation, minimum wage, 1800-2019

It shows the rise of the word 'unemployment' from the early 1900s. I've added the keywords 'inflation' and 'minimum wage'. To quote a paragraph from the chapter: "It is telling that the concept of unemployment did not really exist as an economic term before the twentieth century. In a free market, people choose whether or not to work for the wage offered to them, so nobody can be involuntarily unemployed. With the introduction of monetary inflationism and minimum wage laws, a permanently unemployed part of the population became a fixture of modern economies, and blaming this unemployment on the market process became a fixture of the pseudoscientific economics dominant in modern academia, financed by those with vested interests in maintaining inflation in order to provide rationales for it."

One of the most important take aways from Part 1 of Principles of Economics is that value isn't a unit of measure like length or temperature. It is ordinal, not cardinal and is determined at the margin.

Principles Of Economics

Editing text on mobile and touch screens can improve! This video shows a different way, including gestures for copy and paste. I designed an OS interface in 2005 for large touch screens (that didn't exist) that used hand gestures for all input and interaction to improve efficiency and speed, similar to learning to type on a keyboard.