I’m a fan of crypto but I happen to hold the strong opinion that BTC’s authentication algorithm shouldn’t have been chosen because it’s not secure enough for future proofing. Furthermore, that BTC tie-in will alienate many people including myself. Anyway, I’d love some help forking NOSTR to NOT use BTC authentication because that task is FAR beyond my skills.
Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript, Swift/Kotlin. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches
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Perhaps I’m the one who’s mistaken.
I came to this conclusion because: From my initial cursory investigation of NOSTR, in all of the instructions to get started I found, the first step was to create a lightning wallet. Maybe I’m incorrect but, from what I understood, BTC’s authentication is one and the same with NOSTR’s authentication.
If you want to have a go at using that NOSTR tech but stripping the lightning wallet thing out for another (less BTC maximalist but equally or even more secure) form of authentication, I’d be very interested. I’m obviously not going to roll my own auth from scratch….but as I see it, tying BTC to it could prevent MANY people from giving an otherwise very promising tech a chance. Besides, there are already far more secure cryptographic elliptical curves in use by other cryptocurrencies that NOSTR conspicuously passed over in favor of BTC’s.
I probably don’t have the resources nor experience to do it myself but I’d love for this tech to exist.
If you find that the fediverse isnt the right tech for this kind of thing, have a look at NOSTR. I recently learned about it in the context of my hypothetical Lemmy fork. For what I am trying to do with it (decentralized retail inventory), NOSTR was much better suited than Lemmy. My only issue with it is that it ties bitcoin lightning walllets into its authentication mechanism (a dealbreaker for me at least). My future uses for it would be FAR different than yours but it also seems more well-suited to activism as well.
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Technology@lemmy.world•You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry.English
16·2 years agoI got you, fam(ily). It has a real smooth, simple ring to it. ;)
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Technology@lemmy.world•You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry.English
1505·2 years agoTemu: contribute to the irreversible heat death of your own planet just to save some money on useless, piss poor quality trinkets created out of cancer-causing, hazardous materials using slave labor coupled with unfair market practices that are then shipped thousands of miles over the oceans using the world’s worst polluting container ships… like a billionaire.
That should be their slogan.
edit: added slave labor, unfair market practices edit: added hazmat
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Technology@lemmy.world•US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space programEnglish
9·2 years agoJudging by the state of the US, you’re much more likely to be right than I am, you cynical bastard!
😂
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you could split yourself into a copy of yourself, how many copies would you make to satisfy all your wishes?English
4·2 years agoI think I would just need one. We’d have to work in opposing shifts to get my billion Euro idea out the door in a more reasonable time frame than the one I have currently been working in.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Ghost in a car shell: Engineers make self-driving vehicles 'hallucinate' at will — MadRadar is worrying proof-of-concept that should get automotive companies on alertEnglish
18·2 years agoTrains are awesome and I fully support them but let’s not be idealistic here and pretend that self driving cars don’t exist.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Ghost in a car shell: Engineers make self-driving vehicles 'hallucinate' at will — MadRadar is worrying proof-of-concept that should get automotive companies on alertEnglish
1265·2 years agoSELF-DRIVING TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE STANDARDIZED AND OPEN SOURCE.
Any other implementation puts profits over human lives.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?English
31·2 years agoI think you’re probably just a dickhead.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?English
3·2 years agoIn my case, whether I’m wrong or not, they actively discourage me from using my brain.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?English
62·2 years agoI’m an intellectually overqualified filmmaker surrounded by anti-intellectuals (I routinely get made fun of for being interested in technical stuff)…and right now, I am on workman’s comp with a broken foot. So: exactly what I am doing right now is exactly what I would want to be doing.
What’s that?
Hanging out with my daughter in my lab,Learning
- Haskell/Plutus
- Purescript
- using Nix to glue them together
- hacking an espresso machine (either with a RISC_V Lychee Pi or an ESP32…haven’t decided yet).
Practicing:
- guitar
Blazing:
- chronic
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31·3 years agoThat’s a bummer. David Portnoy is alt-right.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Everybody is pointing at things that Lemmy is worse than Reddit. What in Lemmy is BETTER than Reddit?English
2·3 years agoI’m finding the signal to noise ratio is higher here. Much higher quality content at the moment. I even see some bots that post the entire article rather than just linking it. I hope that catches on.
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Programming@programming.dev•Is software getting worse?English
3·3 years agoIn my experience, Voyager is still pretty buggy too. For example, try editing a post then go to do anything else after the fact. I always have to restart the whole app when I go to edit a post I made. They have a ton more features than anyone else but there are still tons of bugs.
react native is another layer and lags behind the dev of swift by at least a year. This is a huge problem for new api’s like SwiftUI, in my experience. Ps. Native is ALWAYS better than an approximation of native.
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Programming@programming.dev•Is software getting worse?English
181·3 years agoYes. Case in point: there are at least 10 Lemmy iOS apps. I’ll give you ten guesses on which ones are actually native Swift…
There are a quite a few Android apps in progress too. How many are written in Kotlin?




Sounds great! Thanks for looking into that. I’m a bit of a jack of all trades. So, I tend to try and thoroughly vet a technology before I really dive in and commit my blood, sweat, and tears.
A couple of weeks ago, I found a previous implementation in Haskell. If I were really approaching the stack that I think will be best for the future, perhaps I should fork that one. I’m wishing Purescript was ready for prime time (was popular enough to have more educational material) because that would be a no brainer…especially the work they’ve recently been doing with a Chez Scheme back end.
I’ll start to look into it more in the coming week. Thank you so much! I have a community setup for this idea at https://infosec.pub/c/Lemventory
I may change it, though, since this is no longer Lemmy-related. As I realized, inventory is just not suited to Pub/Sub due to the need to have varying levels of security for the information being broadcast and subscribed to.