Announcing #Squalk Personally, I’m not a fan of real-time communication at all costs; I believe that an asynchronous approach based on more in-depth content is often more effective and healthy. So why not breathe new life into good old-fashioned forums? They seem like the perfect solution and I really don’t understand why something like this didn’t already exist on Nostr, so I created it! The basic idea behind Squalk is to offer a tool through which anyone can build their own community, where the main focus is on thoughtful discussion. Each forum includes a chat feature in the right-hand sidebar, which is useful for quickly interacting with other users in spontaneous and temporary discussions, thus combining the best of both worlds. Squalk supports both single-room and multi-room setups. It’s also possible to add resources in the form of articles and customize specific pages (homepage, contact page) to offer a unique and distinctive experience to your users. You can format and tag your posts, and there’s full support for quoting. Squalk is based on NIP-29 and NIP-7D, with some minor implementations that are fully backward-compatible. I’m also exploring how to extend NIP-29 for better permission management, so that various types of groups can be created. After refining these parts, I will add an admin interface for the admins. You can play it here: https://squalk-test.dtonon.com Source code and setup details are available at

GitHub

GitHub - dtonon/squalk: A forum + chat built on Nostr to manage your community

A forum + chat built on Nostr to manage your community - dtonon/squalk

Have fun and let me know what you think! :)

This is absolutely crazy. I can't believe it's just a procedural error, given Sparrow's reputation. View quoted note →

Are you also wondering whether Nostr is the best protocol for your next project? What are the tension points for you? View quoted note →

Screenshot of my new favorite long form client: Thanks @fiatjaf, nak is a gem.

I reinstalled a mac from scratch. As a first step, as usual, I go on installing Homebrew. I searched for the website, blindly clicked the first result, copied/pasted the usual installing script, entered the admin password, and... strange error in an even stranger modal. I repeat the operation, same error. Then I noticed that the copied script has a weird string, suspect, checked the page URL and https://sites.google.com/blablabla WTF?! I went back, and everything was clear: I was tricked by a sponsored result that links to a site containing malware: The website is an exact copy of Homebrew's official one. Sure, I was foolish not to check more carefully, but the first search result and a bit of fatigue threw me off. It drives me crazy how Google treats us like children when it comes to security, it develops AI that’s supposed to prevent dangers and problems, and then… it fucks us over with its own tools (which, by the way, it makes money off of).