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Oh I just installed hermes last night. I'm going to get it running with local qwen3. How is the browser use tool? I want to automate some boring busywork.
Interesting idea to make the new people pay. I like it because readers are never going to pay much for curation.
High signal is so subjective though.
Every couple months I do a race where I have some agents go off and build a feature or fix a bug while I do it myself in Cursor. The time I spend reviewing and fixing the agent's work always end up being longer and more painful, which is I haven't switched over to an "agent command-center" style of software dev.
I do kick off worktree agents here and there throughout the day to make minor changes that come up while I'm working on a larger branch. But those are side quests while I work on the main thing.
Cursor's Composer 2 model is performing much worse for me than Composer 1 :( I feel like Composer 1 really hit a sweet spot for me between speed and quality.
For me the bottlenecks for coding with AI are:
- understanding all the code that the model wrote
- testing changes
Composer 1 really helped with the first because it could blast out small amounts of code that I could quickly review without my brain getting bored and context switching to something else. I feel like I'm an outlier in that I'm trying to stay heavily involved in the dev flow rather than having a multiple agents work on long tasks and then coming back in cold to review their work. Is anyone else using smaller quicker models in this way?
Haha I wasn't expecting to see Paul Frazee in there with the deep cut.
What kinds of worklows have you built? I don't understand the bottleneck this is trying to solve for.
Cc @nprofile…pqyq @nprofile…dgdk
What model(s) are you using with it?
Yes! DM me your contact info?
It's a bit out of date rn, but the broad strokes are there: https://github.com/mplorentz/horcrux/blob/main/NIP-draft.md
You can append a NIP-05 address to a njump URL for something more readable, like this: https://njump.me/mattlorentz.com
Do we have a NIP/tag that says to a relay "only serve this event to the authenticated author or p-tagged recipient?"
This behavior is mentioned in NIP-17 and NIP-9a and probably makes sense in a lot of cases, and I want it for my Shamir's Secret Sharing NIP.
WebRTC tries to make p2p connections but falls back to a forwarding server if necessary.
That's not handled at the application level. If you connect to flotilla over Tor or I2P or whatever then your IP should be obfuscated to the other participants and forwarding server as well.
😅 not sure what you are referring to. webrtc the open p2p protocol for real time communication.
Just had an hour long video call in flotilla (the video part is still in dev, not released yet). The call quality was actually really impressive, better than Jitsi or Keet I would say. Props to Livekit for the killer open source WebRTC toolkit.
Why does new Mickey show up above old Mickey? Does old Mickey get some special deprioritization because you marked it as leaked?
I'm going to be hanging out in in the "Voice Chat" room in Flotilla today in case anyone wants to jump in and try it out! Here's an invite to the space: https://app.flotilla.social/spaces/meta.spaces.coracle.social/trarghstroyno6
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TIL the fairphone people make airpods with replaceable batteries: https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds
This looks great!
I have joined 5 relays in flotilla, but nostrord is only showing 4 of them. It's missing meta.spaces.coracle.social. I haven't looked at the raw Nostr events yet to see what they look like, but maybe there's a bug here.
This blog post about the end of the American Empire has been living rent-free in my head since Saturday. It's quite long but it touches a lot of ideas that have been rolling around in my head like: how quickly will the American Empire fall apart, is it worth trying to reform the current system, how can we molt into better forms of governance through it?
The idea that territorial sovereignty as a concept is on its way out is totally new to me but very intriguing.
https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/a-farewell-to-empire
If you're curious what I've been working on for the past month, I published my quarterly report for Opensats on my blog: https://mattlorentz.com/2026/03/30/opensats-q1-grant-update.html
Welcome Bart! Nice to see another DWebber here.
The navigation stuff hasn't been too bad. In fact introducing friction into every part of using my phone has made me really mindful of how I use it, which has been welcome. The worst part has been text messages. Some messages I don't receive, some still go to iMessage on my Mac, some won't use RCS, and some will. Thankfully most of my friends are on Signal so that minimizes the damage.
Lifetime iOS user 3 days into using GrapheneOS as my daily driver. AMA.
That sounds good to me! We can always move later if we really want to.
I talked with @nprofile…k8pn today and they are interested in participating. Maybe we could do a call sometime to sync on ideas?
I think direct democracy here would be disastrous. To move into a better situation than the current developer oligarchy I think looks something like elected councils that represent the different kind of network participants (client developers, relay operators, regular users) and follow some constitution/rules of order. The cool part about the internet is that there can be multiple competing councils/institutions.
I think it's much more of a social problem than a technical one. Despite this I want all the governance tools we can think of on Nostr.
This guide was so useful. Especially the app recommendations as a user coming from iOS.
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It's so obvious in the photo, but I don't notice it while using the phone. Maybe there is some magic going on with the hardware or software because yeah even here in Amethyst the horizontal lines look perfectly straight. Maybe its a trick of the brain.
Thanks! I will check that out!
I'm up for this too!
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Hello funny square phone.
https://image.nostr.build/e57b4cb7d160e5580cb31b3132227a2d096f89e208926dc6cf245c45e257e6e9.jpg
I'm planning out my trip to DWeb camp in Berlin this year. I've never been to Germany. Does anyone have recommendations of things to see while I'm there or places to stay? Any advice on traveling in Germany?
One part of Star Wars that always seemed unfuturistic was how disconnected all the tech was. Like they talk to each other on radios and carry data around on chips and pay with cash a lot of the time. But watching Andor today it doesn’t seem so silly. Like I could totally see a world where AI accelerates offensive capabilities so quickly that as a defense we just turn off the internet and computers become simpler tools again.
Yeah I have a dev instance deployed at https://shipwreck.scuttle.works. The two relays that I know support livekit atm are wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com and wss://relay.scuttle.works. I'll DM you an invite to the latter.
Yeah he's been building it for like a year and a half. I have been helping out for about 3 weeks 😂
❤️ makes sense! I will keep you posted then.
I am really hoping to find some collaborators who would be excited to help build, figure out the processes, and share the stewardship and sysadmin work. But there is room for more consumer roles too who pay some money, get to use the services and vote on major things.
Summoning @nprofile…6htl @npub1w4j…30zp @npub1c87…8avm @npub176p…vgup @npub1x8r…ptks @npub138h…rdr2 @npub1qlk…yayc @npub1x82…5yd5 @npub1tvw…s44n @npub1n8g…ufd0 @npub1wmr…g240 @npub1yau…vjmf @npub1vjh…ejkd @npub1j4g…fuu4. Any interest in this idea? (don't reply to this message tho it will ping everyone tagged. Reply to the message above)
I've had this idea for a while to start a Nostr-native cooperative to do things like run a reliable relay, host a multi-sig signer, and dogfood Nostr tools for organizing. Also it seems to me like a cool way to find and meet other lefty Nostr users. I'm a member of the https://social.coop cooperative Mastodon server and I'm imagining something similar.
Is anyone else interested in starting or joining something like this?
I would love to, and maybe test compatibility with my flotilla integration.
I knew he was evil but I didn’t know that. TIL thank you.
And nice to see you around these parts :)
Support replied with this:
Your recent lightning send to Destination Node ID: <redacted> was cancelled by Strike as we have detected that the recipient wallet service provider may be associated with Cuba.
As stated in Strike’s Terms of Service, Strike does not allow transactions with restricted jurisdictions, such as Cuba, that are subject to U.S. OFAC sanctions.
Nope. I sent support a message so maybe they will reply with something.
Strike just locked my account (not the first time) for trying to make a lightning payment to @npub130m…l29s.
I think I'm done with them. Any other exchanges that play nice with US with <=1% fees?
Loneliness in a screenshot 😢 @npub107j…ncxg
https://blossom.lorentz.is/0c9dac66d7889cccded6a70613d28427ee5f3dd10f169129dbb1e709667db2a1.png
LiveKit is basically a set of open source code to do exactly this! That's the direction we are heading, there is a PR going here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2238