vnuge

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by vnuge 1y ago
I guess it's worth also saying, there is no algorithm selection. Nip04 is dead for DMs. It doesn't need to be backward compatible. A user can't know which client another user is on, nor what their capabilities are, nostr is n
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by vnuge 1y ago
Kind of. They are standards for encryption, not the direct message itself. You'd be speaking about nip17. Which i've been mis-speaking as nip19. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master&#x2
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by vnuge 1y ago
We are obviously speaking from different understandings. I would say neither. I would need you to define your terms differently maybe. In all cases the client application chooses the algorithm used when the user writes a DM. What do you mea
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by vnuge 1y ago
Regardless of the signer interface the procedure call remains the same. The client application determines what method it wants to use, then the plaintext is passed to the signer (web extension, nip46 remote signing, android etc) with the ni
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by vnuge 1y ago
Hard to say how relevant that is. DMs are simply a collection of events sitting on a relay. It's not really a mutual tunnel, most clients implement nip44 via nip19 (giftwrap DMs) so your ni04 message wouldn't likely make it to the
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by vnuge 1y ago
nip01 defines the use of secp256k1. Again, the same as bitcoin.
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by vnuge 1y ago
nostr cryptographic developer here (author of libnoscrypt C library) Nip04 has been deprecated, and to be clear, in practice the nip04 payload is in a signed nip01 event wrapper. nip44 replaced nip04, which has been reviewed/audited. D
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by vnuge 1y ago
Since relays don't own user generated content, there is no need to "federate" client's generally rely on user-selected relay sets. The user chooses where they want to read/write events to/from. That said, many
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by vnuge 1y ago
All kinds of personal FOSS projects I have mostly yet to release. [1] noscrypt - portable C cryptography library for nostr [2] vnlib - C# + C libraries for server applications, eventual high performance alternative to ASP.NET. It's r
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by vnuge 2y ago
This is a huge step I took a few years ago as well. My mobile phone is still a smart phone but It can only do dumb phone things + email which I keep quiet and check on a schedule. No notifications really of any kind. No real social media an
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by vnuge 2y ago
To your last point, I like to think of modern professional software development as a trade, it's not much of a science anymore imo. For me it's outside looking in.
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by vnuge 2y ago
Why not? I can still mitm DOH now? I try to use DOH for everything I have. I did recently switch to self hosted recursive resolution.
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by vnuge 2y ago
> Practically everything is built around the assumption that software will be distributed as source code Yup, and I vendor a good number dependencies and distribute source for this reason. That and because distributing libs via package m
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by vnuge 2y ago
I think I would prefer 2005 web again. I'd probably be able to see more of the internet. I use heavy DNS filtering, no javascript on untrusted sites, no cookies, no fonts, VPN and so on. With cloudflare blocking me I basically can&#x27
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by vnuge 2y ago
I hope to keep seeing posts like these. I believe software "bloat" is a serious issue that should be handled, however if you look at SWE job listings it's not even remotely a concern for employers IMO. Your encouraged to unde
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by vnuge 2y ago
> It was the path of least resistance, so we took it. Well said. I believe many of the "hard" issues in software were not "solved" but worked around. IMO containers are a perfect example. Polyglot application distrib
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by vnuge 3y ago
Yeah, I don't want it. I spend the past 7 years in automotive engineering (firmware/controls systems stuff) I much prefer older stuff. Every time I hop in a newer car and it jerks the wheel from me or slams the brakes because a sm
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by vnuge 3y ago
I have my personal opinions with the pandemic, but I would have to agree as an opportunity to embrace more positive social behaviors. Surely didn't stick in my woods either. Plenty of things changed, but I would agree. The other part i
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by vnuge 3y ago
What point would you like me to hit? Surveillance even if it's passive and I have nothing to hide is probably the biggest reason for most of my habits. Money and trust. The other reason is probably mental health, reducing stimulus help
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by vnuge 3y ago
I recently have to reconsider this definition and set boundaries with my friends. Finding the ability to have a fun experience together that wasn't centered around paying for access to the experience, such as access to a place or event
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by vnuge 3y ago
I understand, like others have pointed out this will be an echo chamber result set. However it's nice to know I am not alone (especially being young). My newest vehicle is from 1999, my smartphone is going on 6 years old (still 2 days
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by vnuge 3y ago
For you and others following. Common in early nostr apps. The web-extension spec is defined in https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/07.md . Most apps check for window.nostr, then fail silent
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by vnuge 3y ago
I am glad Zach posted here also, I think nostr devs need some reality pull from "non-crypto normies". To be clear it is (hopefully) becoming more common practice to use a nip-07 web-extension for signing (hardware or software) or