Freakoverse

*Lets out a deep breath The design for a game's store page on DEGA is done. There were A LOT of things to consider/design x3 But it's lookin good, as I designed it in a way / added a bunch of stuff that's for the great benefit of the user/customer/gamer =3 The next logical design step is the game/other publication page. Work on this will slow down for a bit, though; other work came in that needs attention (you know, so I can get money to buy hummus and satiate my hunger x3).

It'll still be a while for me to get a new phone (maybe sometime next year), so still researching everything, but I might get a BraX3 that's running iodéOS. I'll be honest, while Graphene may be the best out there, I'll take the supposed second-best instead, because it seems like leadership of it (Graphene) appear to be nuts from what I looked into, and it rubs me the wrong way that I'm restricted to a Google Pixel, a phone from the company I'm trying to get away from, to use that OS (i know i know, it's safe/all good, but still =P) and only have that single brand of phone to use it, and also Graphene will have a harder time with itself and new Pixel phones starting with Android 16 and up considering what google decided to change. iodéOS is hardened like Graphene, from what I understood, but simply doesn't have the same extreme security measures that graphene does, but it can have them if someone or a group wants to develop/implement it. That's my current mindset so far. It might change by the time I do end up getting a new phone, but so far, that's the goal

So who's building NOS-OS? #asknostr

We need more Brazilian Miku posts in these trying anti-freedom times https://video.nostr.build/020b00e9b1d91592b5e85f0917fa2de3876264e41aed0225b37a4e23af996757.mp4

I just installed the FUTO (I was going to type futa x3) keyboard on my Android mobile device, and definitely prefer it more than any other keyboard so far, and puts my mind at ease knowing it's not by Google and is privacy and offline focused.

What's good about designing a site or an app before actually having it developed, and of course knowing the tech used for it (in this case, knowing how nostr works, but not necessarily knowing how to code), is you get a clear picture on how to actually develop it and consider multiple different scenarios of which a user may encounter during their use of the site or app. With that said, if anyone's working on a store that sells digital (maybe physical too) products, if the author has requested the event deletion of the store page, where users have already purchased the product on that page and they'd like to revisit what they've purchased, it would be difficult for the user to even know what they've purchased and difficult for clients to showcase that / help them with it, so I'd imagine one has to put some information, that was previously within the product page, inside the purchase receipt event file and not just the product event ID, which would result in providing those who purchased the product to still have some information of what they've purchased and for clients to know how to deal with something that has been deleted, yet purchased. This results in respecting the two sides of an intersection, where the original author would have (hopefully) the store page deleted and no new people seeing it, while those who purchased the product before then to still have some basic information about it without having that information exposed by default to the general public that hasn't purchased it.

Side note: DEGA (Store, Client, etc) has the best shot, out of all other stores/clients (itch, gog, egs, uplay, win store, ea, Bethesda, battlebet, etc, at actually being a real competitor, assuming cards are being played right, as it provides what small and large game publishers want (them being in control, not giving a cut of the revenue, and taking benefits of the accumulated shared market eyes of a hub), while also providing what customers/gamers want (game ownership, absolute clarity of license/rent/non-ownership, no base DRM, no base forced updated to play, much higher chances of playing older versions of games, and modernized physical game copies), as well as providing both publishers/developers and customers/gamers with censorship resistance, being permissionless, and zero worries about the store/company/DEGA getting shut down (as it wouldn't matter if it did). The only friction there will be in regards to game producers and consumers from using Steam over DEGA is simply "all my games are there / I'm already on Steam", with overwhelmingly positive benefits on the other plate of the scale that wouldn't be feasible if it was being developed traditionally. Not to say the DEGA will overtake Steam, that won't happen anytime soon or in the decent future, however, it'll overtake everything else and be the closest to a competitor that has ever been launched or will launch, and if something happens to Steam, well, DEGA is there to take the top spot. Steam is the "ultimate destination" for games. DEGA is the inevitable destination for games. On a side note for this side note: Pretty much completed the landing page's design after 30 to 40 hours (yes, that long x3), now onward to other pages.

Slowly designing the store, looking at all stores that I know and taking all the best bits and leaving out the worst ones (or fixing them), and designing the solutions to the problems that both publishers/studios and gamers have with all of them (not just about censorship), with a sleek look but also not compromising on functionality and information scanning... Man, it's still nowhere near ready to showcase, but damn I'm already going "can I switch now? I want to use this x3" and the feeling will only grow as I continue it's design progress. But ya, still a decent while until it's done (DEGA is way bigger than DEG in scope), and I'm not rushing it because I want to do this really right, to have people look at and go through it and have a desire to really want to use it, just by the design alone, but so far so great. Speaking of DEG Mods, the filehosting system is coming along. It reached a point where I was able to do a quick test, me as an admin deleting a zip file and having able to still download it from a mod post as an average user. So fucking cool! (Still need to test it with larger files, though a similar result might not happen for larger zip files, but the more popular deg gets, the more this infrastructure also gets popular, the more this becomes less of an issue)

Made that coming soon page for the store, and will probably stay static for a decent while. Anything unclear or missing / nice to have? (Send a wishlist item of a feature kr system that other stores don't have or would live improved, if you have one) https://degastore.com

Every now and then I see someone reply with the concept of zero-knowledge proofs as a privacy and non-doxing method of ID verification. I haven't really looked into zkp before, so I did some digging to better understand it, and that more to see its application and ID verification, and if I understood everything right, while it is cool, however, because there is a "trusted source", then that can be abused to all high hell because in the end a "trusted source" would be targeted to reveal the connection made between my personal data and the encryption output and my digital footprint history, at which point I can be fully abused by all parties involved.