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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…

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/n…

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 t…

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 (w…

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) s…

nip01 defines the use of secp256k1. Again, the same as bitcoin.

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. n…

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 ev…

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, eve…

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. …

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.

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.

> 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…

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 …

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 conce…

> 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 e…

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 …

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…

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 r…

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 acces…

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 199…

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…

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 we…

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