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2024-02-22 07:23:46

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I'm a huge fan of the extended mix for "Come Together" by Nox Vahn & Marsh. It has some great snippets from Alan Watts. Much more upbeat and something I can't help dancing to, but also offers a lot of room for introspection.
If you like that, I'll have to think of some others. I love things in this realm of sound

2024-02-22 02:37:20

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I'd recommend the track "Sit Around the Fire" by Jon Hopkins. The recordings of Ram Dass sharing this were woven into a beautiful piece

2024-01-11 19:37:16

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Isn't that the exact logo as Github's Atom editor? I like it, just not sure if you were aware of that. I thought of it immediately upon seeing it.
Although, they somewhat recently sunset Atom to develop VS Code further.
https://atom-editor.cc
https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

2023-10-22 05:38:21

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I prefer the grey, because of things that can affect the user experience, like ghosting with pure black. Typically, the grey won't appear to ghost, while pure black will with scrolling/animations.
Full black is rough for reading text in my opinion. It also seems it might be subjectively harder to focus on pure black backgrounds for those with stronger astigmatisms.
I think an option for both could work. Maybe a new settings option to choose between dark and black for dark mode. Or an on/off switch to enable pure black in dark mode

2023-10-04 02:12:17

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#nevent1q…u38h

2023-08-10 14:38:26

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I came across this post from @npub1de6…q0sd. It might help you get started 🤙
#nevent1q…mj7c

2023-08-04 20:26:08

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This should help
#nevent1q…u38h

2023-08-04 20:11:40

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I'd recommend the Waking Up app from Sam Harris, it's full of guided meditations. The introductory course is free to do, and there's a bunch of different series on theories of mindfulness and life. Super high quality 🔥
I'll keep you accountable and we do one lesson a day of the introductory course together. I've been wanting to go through it again. Maybe we can get some other people to join in if they're interested.
#mindstr #mindfulness 🫂

2023-07-14 07:21:53

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Looks like #Brave is confirming efforts to bring native #Bitcoin support to Brave Wallet... I'm interested to see how this could pan out.
https://twitter.com/brave/status/1679558549158895633

2023-07-13 01:58:54

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@npub16c0…6nvr announced @npub12vk…pugg Android app has been released publicly in alpha.
If you want to add it to Obtainium to continue tracking the updates, make sure you flick the switch under additional options to "include prereleases" or a suitable release won't be found. This is because it's tagged as a pre-release on GitHub.
You can add it through Obtainium by searching for "Primal Android App" on the add app tab. Or alternatively, you can paste the GitHub link to the app source URL line:
https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app

2023-07-13 01:58:54

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2023-07-04 05:51:45

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Of course. Here's the easiest spot to dig in. I'd love to get into it myself some day
https://m3.material.io/get-started

2023-07-04 05:23:59

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I'm curious what android devs/designers think about Material Design 3, in particular Material You theming? From an outsiders perspective, someone who doesn't use the components as a dev, but interacts with them daily on Graphene as a user, I personally love it.
I see a lot of design issues coming down to color theming, would I be mistaken to assume that Material You might help mitigate some of those difficulties for Android clients? In my opinion, the dynamic color system feels really intuitive and easy to adjust for taste on the users end.
I'd be curious to hear opinions from anyone that's worked with the system

2023-06-27 21:56:01

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It's the default AOSP keyboard. It hasn't been updated in a long time by Google, because of GBoard and other OEMS developing their own keyboards, like Samsung. For the most part, Google just releases security updates for the AOSP apps. All of Graphene's apps (with the exception of auditor, pdf viewer, apps, and the camera) are the default AOSP ones that don't really get maintained by Google, except for the regular security patches.
Florisboard is the keyboard that the Graphene team was debating to replace the AOSP keyboard with eventually, I assume after it gets past an Alpha state. It's the closest you'll get to Gboard or iOS level from the open source options. You could always use Graphene's extended toggles to revoke sensor or network permissions from invasive things like Gboard as well

2023-06-27 21:37:36

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On the default keyboard, hold down on the enter button, it should show the emoji symbol, then release

2023-06-27 21:28:29

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Just use Google's Keyboard (GBoard), revoke network permissions. Works perfectly

2023-06-27 16:59:30

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This is the way, here's the source for that:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4196-webassembly-on-vanadium
I'd recommend checking their discussion forum or matrix rooms if you can't find any info on things. Their main website docs are really well written too

2023-06-27 15:45:38

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His portfolio is nuts, beautiful work. I really like the design universe he's working on for Block. I'm sure there's more people to credit, but his stuff has stood out

2023-06-22 06:55:37

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I've been a huge fan of Blocks Creative Studio designs. I did some digging to find out who works on this stuff, and I found Sekani! I love their work, I wonder if Sekani will be on nostr someday 🤔
https://twitter.com/sekani__solomon

2023-06-22 06:55:37

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2023-06-21 09:17:55

That's nuts, #GrapheneOS initial support for the Pixel Tablet has been released 🤯 that was ridiculously quick. Exciting times ahead
https://grapheneos.org/releases#tangorpro-stable

2023-05-31 17:32:47

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I use 'Feeder' and 'Read You'. Both free, open source, and for Android. You can export your subscriptions to OPML

2023-05-26 18:12:44

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#nevent1q…xtfh
I still recommend this tool, incredibly useful

2023-05-26 10:08:23

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I've used Session for some specific use cases and it's worked well, although it's not really been a fork of Signal for the last three years. They started from the same codebase as Signal in 2019, but the team has made it clear that it's deviated significantly since then. It seems like it became a major selling point for them, as they didn't believe Signal's protocol was a good fit for their decentralized environment anymore.
They migrated from Signal's encryption protocol and developed their Session Protocol, dropping Perfect Forward Secrecy behind along the way (which SimpleX grants). Relating to identifiers, the main difference between Session and SimpleX is that the IDs are fixed in Session between users you communicate with, while they can be random and require no identifiers in SimpleX to connect in the first place.
There's more that differs, including their decentralization and server ecosystem from what I understand. I believe SimpleX provides a structure for more interesting growth, but that's just my humble, unsolicited opinion, and based on what I value I guess 😂. I see it being more interopable and aligned with the goals of nostr. I'm sure the founder of SimpleX (Evgeny) could expand even more on their differences if people wanted to know.
Just thought I'd share in case you're interested, here's some links relating to Session's move away from Signal:
https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-explained
https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-technical-information
And here's an Opt Out episode from @npub1tr4…2y5g with Evgeny about SimpleX. Really interesting stuff:
https://optoutpod.com/episodes/s3e02-simplexchat/

2023-05-25 20:23:30

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Desktop GUI is on it's way in 2023 according to lead dev. Profile syncing like Signal (leader and follower device) is on the roadmap and mentioned here:
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/425#issuecomment-1349617910
https://github.com/orgs/simplex-chat/projects/3/views/1

2023-05-23 18:03:32

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I like the design direction. I'd be curious to see the triangle from the second iteration in the place of the circle. Or even the lightning bolt within an "amethyst", similar to the ostrich in the third rendition. I honestly have never liked the connection between nostr and ostriches. I understand the playful nature of it, the wordplay, but moving forward, I view it as an obstruction from a protocol branding and innovation perspective. The ostrich for Amethyst has always looked like a goose to my eye, and has no relation to what the possibilities of the protocol, platform, or app are capable of. This is all just my opinion, just thought I'd share. I could understand why some enjoy it and prefer to keep the design less straightforward.
A bit off topic from the design options offered, but I think I'm viewing design from a functional perspective, I don't feel any nostalgia for the ostrich. I believe it can and should play a role within the community, but it doesn't have to be the iconic symbol associated with every new platform utilizing nostr, nor does purple need to be the only color used (I think this is where something like Material You theming and monochromatic icons could actually be a great thing to take advantage for Android developers, as this will personalize their apps even more to all users. There's no need to figure out the universal consensus on color theming, users could just choose for themselves).
Same with the iconography and names being associated with Bitcoin lore, like Plebstr and their logo. I think starting out, these served as useful identifiers to unify efforts and goals, but now as we attempt to create an infinite micro ecosystem, I don't see how they would help. I believe holding to these design principles will prove to be an obstruction for creating the wild things we imagine with the protocol.
Hope this made sense, 🤙
(this emoji can serve as an example of something that can and should be a part of this movement going forward, but doesn't have to directly affect all the design and branding decisions. It's just another part of the social culture that we recognize and enjoy).

2023-04-03 18:14:14

Anybody tried out Mullvad's browser yet? They partnered with Tor for this project.. the concept intrigues me. Going to give it a deeper look soon.
https://blog.torproject.org/releasing-mullvad-browser/
https://mullvad.net/en/browser

2023-03-20 18:14:20

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As far as I know, some aliasing providers support PGP encryption, like SimpleLogin. Now that Proton owns SimpleLogin, it's a bit of a useful negotiation, as we can continue only trusting one party, if you're already using Proton Mail. Of course, it's useful, only as long as your threat model allows you to trust that party in the first place.

2023-03-18 11:21:46

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Currently it doesn't. Here's the devs responses on the issue tracker when asked about it in case you're interested:
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/issues/63
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/issues/255

2023-03-18 10:15:36

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Shout-out to Imran. I've got a bit over 80 apps in my feed at this point. I'm running GrapheneOS without Google Play Services and I've got most of my bases covered. It's allowed me to consolidate almost all my apps together. I still use Aurora Store for some things that have no external release path (like banks), but on his issue tracker it seems Imran recently said that he might look into adding Google Play as a source as well.
He originally created this with the intent to make apps auto (unattended) update like Google Play Store, but he's using Flutter and there isn't a compatible plug-in yet. But he's still planning for that it seems, even considered the possiblity of making his own plug-in.
Cool things coming for app distribution on Android. Checkout Accresent as well, it's still in Alpha, but it solves most of the security issues that F-Droid introduces. Molly is already being distributed there by their dev.

2023-03-18 10:03:16

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On the releases section of the GitHub repository.
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases

2023-03-18 10:01:16

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Yeah, y'all found it. Sorry for the late response, still figuring nostr out 😂

2023-03-17 22:22:50

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Checkout Obtainium. You can track your applications .APK releases (GitHub, Gitlab, Codeberg, HTML, etc.) and download/install them from within Obtainium. Kinda like an RSS feed for GitHub releases, but less manual work

2023-03-16 03:46:42

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What do you consider too much? You'll just have to source a Pixel. You can have a Pixel 6a for under $250 in my area. I got one new for $200. Although, location could drastically affect the price of course..
Their refreshed web installer makes it so the phone is unbrickable when flashing. No google services with privileged access by default is an incredible change, no need for any accounts in the first place. But the Google play services are optional and fully functional/sandboxed if you need them for any reason.
It's completely changed mobile device usage for me 🤯