No. 151EE1Wednesday, October 14, 202624h to 18:28

The Nostr Observer

Printed from one corner of the network

Ranked as EZ628 events through your lens207 voices

Amber 6.6.9 · Signing permissions

Revoked should mean revoked

The Android signer’s new release fixes permissions that could remain active after withdrawal, along with clipboard cleanup and a possible loss of key material.

From Amber’s release announcement

Taking permission away did not always stop it working. Amber releases version 6.6.9 with a fix for revoked permissions that could remain effective until the cache was cleared, and for reject rules being ignored when an app was marked fully trusted.

The same release clears a copied secret key, encrypted secret key or seed words after sixty seconds even when Amber is backgrounded or closed. Another fix addresses possible loss of the secret key and seed words when changing the setting that requires the device to be unlocked.

There are connection and interface repairs too. Connections approved from the multi-request screen should now receive their reply, on the relays named in the connection request. That screen groups requests by app, displaying its name, icon and request count, with remembered choices kept separately for each app.

These are changes to the signer’s handling of permission and key material. The announcement names three security advisories; its emphasis is on making the user’s choices take effect.

Wallet desk

Blockstream brings multisig back

Blockstream announces the return of multisig account creation in its app: a 2-of-2 account with two-factor protection, or a 2-of-3 Bitcoin account. The company describes this as the return of protection it introduced in 2019.

Messaging · Familiar rooms, different plumbing

Anagram wants the Telegram habit

Ben Arc introduces a Nostr-and-Iroh messenger with a familiar interface—and makes an explicit tradeoff over message history.

Ben Arc introduces Anagram as a replacement for Telegram, powered by Nostr and Iroh. A separate reply puts the emphasis on retaining the experience Telegram users already know.

That familiarity comes with a stated design choice. Asked about forward secrecy, Arc says Anagram does not have it by design because it complicates restoring conversations and opening them across devices. The explanation favours a simpler, Nostr-native approach to private groups: More generally Anagrams private group approach is just simple pragmatic and nostr native, so way easier to implement.

Forward secrecy and convenient restoration are different properties. The launch should be read with that distinction intact; a familiar chat window alone says little about the protection of its history.

Coincards · Delivery in beta

The gift card arrives in a DM

Coincards adds Signal and Nostr direct-message delivery for gift-card codes. Its announcement is clear about the stage of the feature: Both are in beta.

A follow-up points out the gifting use: enter another person’s npub and the card can be delivered to them. The change moves code delivery into a conversation, alongside the usual act of buying the card.

The workshop · A better next step

Flotilla 1.13.0

Bookmarks get folders. Spaces get checkout.

hodlbod ships Flotilla 1.13.0 on Zapstore and the web, adding bookmarks with folders and a manager, plus paid spaces with checkout and relay notifications.

The home feed and notification controls have been revised; notifications about the same note can be merged, and replies appear beneath the note they answer. Space content survives a reload, and the release is intended to keep working when local storage fails.

There are smaller comforts too: touch-screen list reordering, screen-share spotlighting in calls, and a limit on comment indentation on narrow screens.

KindBeamer 1.4.0

Print the page to your Kindle

Juraj adds two entrances to KindBeamer, the open-source Send to Kindle client. On Android it can appear as a printer; in Firefox and Chrome it offers an extension for sending articles and PDFs.

The Android route sends the page as the user sees it, including content behind a login. The release offers a choice between retaining the PDF layout and letting Amazon reflow it as an article.

The browser extension aims to keep article pictures while removing menus, advertisements and comments. The developer says it talks directly to Amazon without an intermediate email address or server.

Nostur 1.33.0

Paste the picture. Lose the leftovers.

Nostur adds pasted media and thumbnail previews to DMs. The release also cleans up abandoned temporary media and inactive web-of-trust snapshots.

Large GIF handling, media detection and image sizing receive attention, as do names that failed to refresh in reactions and the profile toolbar.

Rune reaches the package manager

Tim announces Rune 0.8.4, an ODF-first word processor with Arch, Debian and Fedora packages. The feature list includes headers and footers, an outline, story notes, four citation styles and AI edits intended to preserve whole paragraphs.

From the picture desk · Work worth noticing

Someone took the trouble to curve it

Looking down a pale painted staircase with curved walls, winding steps and a rounded handrail.
Anders pauses to admire the staircase in a house where they are working. The post notes how uncommon such curves have become in Norway and appreciates the effort that went into them.Photograph shared by Anders

A sunny year pays out in purple

A small purple flower with red and yellow parts grows among green stems over gravel.
Henry’s saffron has flowered after a particularly sunny year. A modest garden result, with the colour to make it worth stopping for.Photograph shared by Henry

At home · A task, an approval, a payment

Pocket money meets the family calendar

sperry connects a self-hosted family calendar to a familiar parental arrangement: do the chore, have it checked, collect the reward.

The calendar runs in Yuvomi on an Umbrel. Children mark tasks complete and earn points; once a parent approves the work, the points can be redeemed for sats paid through the family’s AlbyHub.

The author reports having tested the arrangement successfully. Nearby sandwich shops and a burger-and-shake spot now accept bitcoin, giving the children somewhere to spend what they earn.

The interesting part is the complete sequence. A tick on the calendar can become a payment and then a purchase, while approval of the chore remains with a person.

In brief · On the calendar · The exchange

Reading the manual

The missing buttons are off to the right

Dee Kay’s composing chapter of the Amethyst manual explains that the bottom action row scrolls sideways. Schedule, Location, Secret Emoji and the invoice button sit toward its far end.

The guide also stresses that scheduled posts are published by the phone rather than a server. It is a useful companion for a screen whose controls are easy to overlook.

Coral takes Lightning in Funchal

FREE Madeira announces Loja Coral as a new bitcoin-accepting merchant. The beer brand’s shop sells apparel, glassware and collectibles; the announcement lists Lightning payments and Bolt NFC card support.

195 book orders

NoGood marks order number 195 for The NoGood Book, with 205 of the 400 copies still listed as available. A print run finds its readers one parcel at a time.

Dates ahead

Tonight · Oct 14 · 17:30 · Buffalo
Earn Bitcoin, 280 Porter Avenue. A free session on earning sats, running until 19:30.

Oct 15 · 18:30 · Frankfurt
Frankfurt Bitcoin Meetup, Kuli Alma, Zum Jungen Straße 10. A private room is reserved.

Oct 15 · 18:00 · New York
COIN BASED: Ledger, Hardware Hacks, PubKey, 85 West Washington Place. Thomas Pacchia and Rob Hamilton are on the announced lineup.

Oct 21 · 17:30 · Austin
Sovereign AI Club, Bitcoin Park Austin, 601 Congress Avenue, Suite 250. Local AI and open models; RSVP requested through the listing.

Times are local to each venue. Links lead to listings and organiser updates.

Classifieds

A miner and a phone

A listing naming seller KillerD4 offers a Bitmain Antminer S21+ 235 TH/s for €1,500 in Penedès. The seller describes six months of use.

Another offers a gold iPhone 14 Pro Max, 256 GB for €450 in Barcelona, described as unlocked and original, with battery health at 85%.

Prices, condition and availability are the sellers’ descriptions.

The Instrument

Three notes in common

The ranked notes desk and anonymous control each returned 400 events. Three appeared in both. Across fourteen desks, this reading contains 628 events from 207 voices.

Twenty-four hours ending Wednesday, October 14 at 18:28, Europe/Vilnius. All editorial events fall inside that window. These counts describe the reading, not the whole network.

At the radio desk

Two requests went straight to the artist

Noderunners Radio reports 370 songs in its Tuesday tally, seventeen requested and paid for by listeners, including two straight to the artist. The selections include Harry Beckett and Paul Kalkbrenner.