Love this, kinda want to see more philosophical discussions around privacy. It sometimes is a bit much to only argue over objective protocols and methodologies for better privacy and security. Let's argue over the principles now 🤣 Just kidding, it really is about all angles... there is not really one without the other. Great piece @Hans Koning "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." View article →

@Zapstore badges published on GitHub!

GitHub

GitHub - YuurinBee/Nostr-Design-Resources: A collection of permissionless Nostr-based designs. Free for everyone.

A collection of permissionless Nostr-based designs. Free for everyone. - YuurinBee/Nostr-Design-Resources

Files are nice and organized, labeled, and the original design files have been included. This repo is not just for Zapstore or projects with Zapstore listings that may want to use the badges, but I will start to update it with other Nostr design resources. For now, if there are any questions about rights to use, please contact Zapstore or the respective project owners. I just want high quality assets easily accessible to the public. I'm happy to extend this to the community, if anyone would like to update or add their resources here, we can make things easier for designers, developers, and teams. Just let me know, submit an issue or a PR or message me. Hope you all enjoy them! Thanks again @Zapstore team for this epic experience and platform for Nostr users. @franzap @Pip the WoT guy View quoted note →

FUCKING INSANE. I don't even know how you pulled this one off @JSKitty but 0 complaints from me. Thank you for this, this is what gaming needs. Open-Source it all and decentralize it.

Not that most of you here are probably Meta users (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp largely), but they have announced that on May 8, 2026 your private messages will no longer be encrypted. Additionally, your messages will be easier to read and scrape to train their AI for you can assume the worst purposes people can imagine. More so sharing for those who don't know and also people you care about. Strongly recommend to everyone to start pivoting from these apps and getting friends, family, co-workers, etc. introduced to Nostr and other methods where their metadata is encrypted and more secure. I would also go ahead and delete all of your messages (request a backup first, may take 1-5 days to hear back) get your data to save and then delete your messages and eventually account. There is a trick you can swap to a business account and mass delete messages faster (15 a time instead of 1). Either way, there are no guarantees your data is wiped from their servers as is (safer to assume it is not), but there's no need to keep it there and make their lives any easier.

Sharing this from X, Dystopia keeps arriving folks. Oppo (Chinese Phone Company), yes the name is literally a phonetic knockoff of how "Apple" would be said in Chinese, but that's another story. Apparently, they have implemented intrusive ads inside of their own File Manager on their phones. Incredibly out of place visually and horrendous looking. If you are going to violate people in such a way, at least make it pleasant on the eyes lol. Insane times we live in to even witness ads inside of a file manager, but that is the direction the world is headed. Never a better time than yesterday to start making software without ads. Together we will make this the standard it should've always been.

Want a deeper insight into nprofile1qqst37fwv8n363vx4eh7d9c0w0wslkufqyy43830g9a773zmhw5jergut5jp4? Check out my interview that was just republished, originally on Fileverse. Expect a couple of more perspectives and interviews with @JSKitty and Hans Koning soon™. ————————————————— [Disclaimer] None of these responses from me are AI-generated, nor will they ever be because I enjoy speaking straight from the heart and enjoy the art of writing. Yes, the em dash — existed way before AI and there are actually some writers that use it and enjoy it because we can break grammatical rules and combine two completely different trains of thought without being considered "improper" or a run-on. AI is a great tool for suggestions, ideas, and proof reading. It's unfortunate I even have to put this as a disclaimer and mention it, but relevant at this day and age. Remember to enjoy the process... View article →

Playing around more with the "Vectorization" of Pixel Marmot. Privacy Mode: On (Default)

My favorite Group Chat avatar on Vector is the Vectorized Marmot. GIF Avatars look so good.

New design concept for @V E C T O R Something about the merging of worlds between physical and digital makes the virtual experience so much more immersive and engaging. The idea is to be able to allow people to download and have an image they can share on other platforms or elsewhere on the web, as well as their digital profile on

Vector

Vector - Private Messaging

Vector is a free and open-source private messenger app that allows users full end-to-end encryption and transfers encrypted data via a secure, glob...

In the future, we will likely allow for further customization so people can make their profile "ticket stubs" exactly how they want—like if you were to purchase physical tickets, you are given templates, can changes colors, text, etc.

Thank you for your last PR to @V E C T O R 🙏

⚙️One Critical Design Step: Iterate One is not enough. Create. Fail. Learn. Grow. Do not cling on to one style or one idea you think is the best. Some of your best, unexpected work can come out through the process of iteration. I used think that I've worked so hard on one design it has to be near perfect, I'm even afraid to alter it and lose it progress. This is an illusion and will prevent you from growing. Recreate it from scratch. You did it once, now do it again and learn along the way. There are cases where you don't even have to recreate like for design you can copy + paste. Iteration has never been made easier. Repeat: Do not cling. Iterate. So many times where I thought I was a good designer and had a pretty good eye for things—visually I could imagine what would look good and what would look bad. WRONG. Not that you are wrong about some of your assumptions, but your mentality and perspective is wrong. I have had situations where random people I've worked with or 100% non-designers have suggested something and if I was close-minded I would've stuck to my guns and just said, we're not going to try that because it would be ugly, inconsistent, break the style guide, etc. and whatever other reasons I wanted to justify. Instead I ended up just trying it to literally just see... you never know. Surprisingly, it actually worked and I preferred it more. In other cases, that specific idea may not have been good, but it got me to reevaluate the design from a different point of view, which lead to new ideas and progressive updates. I think one of the biggest benefits in this mentality shift as well is that often times we can't decide from the gate which option is best, but simply using the process of elimination it helps us to build confidence in our remaining choices, which eventually leads to your main choice. You now have logical reason why this design choice is superior, at least compared to your other iterations. This took me so many years to even open up to. I was so focused on being a perfectionist with the current version I had, it stopped me from experimenting and expanding my mind. Just let it riff.

Grade A Irony — Censorship 101 Speechless 🤣