Matt Lorentz

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.

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?

Strike just locked my account (not the first time) for trying to make a lightning payment to @routstr. I think I'm done with them. Any other exchanges that play nice with US with <=1% fees?

Loneliness in a screenshot 😢 @verbiricha

Just had the first flotilla design review meeting *in flotilla* using the voice rooms feature I am building. Fun times!

Re-reading the Declaration of Independence today. It's surprising to me how many of the grievances describing the tyranny of the king of England also describe the actions of Trump today: - He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. - He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither - For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: - For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States - For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world - For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent - For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury Nothing about pedophile rings in the Declaration though.

While I put the finishing touches on Horcrux I'm starting to contribute to Flotilla, and one of my goals is to get Discord-style voice channels added before their age-verification policies go into effect. If you are a user of Discord voice channels, what's one thing you would change about them? I've always been interested in Discord voice channels because they are a rare combination of ephemeral, porous, serendipitous social space on the internet. Most of our internet communication happens in low-bandwidth, structured spaces where the contents are saved permanently. So in that sense Discord voice channels share more in common with IRL spaces than something like microblogging. If you're a user of voice channels or otherwise would like to give input on them, I'd love to interview you. And if you'd like to be an early tester or to collaborate on the implementation please reply here or send me a DM!

I dropped a couple flotilla links on Reddit. Upvotes appreciated: - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1r08bd8/comm… - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1r0cffb/comm…

Here is a pretty detailed quarterly report on my Horcrux project for OpenSats, if that interests you: https://mattlorentz.com/2025/12/29/horcrux-end-of-year-up…

Maybe we should start a club. There must be at least three of us! 📝 a7899607…

Playing ambient audio to keep your Nostr signer alive on iOS is hilarious and definitely against Apple's rules, but I love it. More power to you 😂 📝 aaf9f21f…

Is anyone here going to EthDevner in February? I am not an ethereum person at all, but I have met a lot of cool people over the years (who are also not big ethereum people) who have been to this conference and loved it. I think I might go this year. They have a track for "Cypherpunks, Solarpunks & Communities". Idk what ethereum has to do with solarpunk but I kind of want to find out.

If I vibe code my own workout app will I actually work out or no? 👍 / 👎

Ok hodlbod has been COOKING on his frost signer thing with email login. I just got a demo from him and it has me more excited about Nostr than I have been in a long time. - users can sign into Nostr apps via email (or someday any other identity system they like. Phone? Facebook? snail mail? Āhau?) but behind the scenes they still have a private key - no server or company ever needs a full copy of their private key - at any point they can extract their Nostr key from the system to use another one (like a bunker, hardware signer, or just a different group of signing servers, etc.) The big problem with Nostr onboarding is that people need to put in a significant amount of work to understand and manage keys before they even get a chance to get any value out of the software. But pomade enables someone to join without thinking about keys, *and later* start caring and still be able to take full custody of their key. It is the second part that nobody has really done before, on Nostr or anywhere else that I know of. It's not bulletproof, but it combines all the best tech we have to balance ease-of-use, security, and user control.

@hodlbod I think at some point I heard you say you get a summary of recent Nostr events every day. Is that from a DVM? Have you written about this somewhere? I would like to try something similar.

I wrote up some instructions for running a promenade signer, if that's something that interests you. Promenade creates a cluster of servers that cooperatively sign of Nostr events without any of them knowing your Nostr secret key. Bleeding edge identity tech. Join us! nostr:naddr1qvzqqqrcvgpzp59pl7u8vxuhfnky5wlge09ja948pyxu73jll6kg8x4yegsvnfv7qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qq6wf6kumnfdenj6cfdwpex7mt9deskgefdwd5kwmn9wgvft2nc

Happy horrible software vulnerability day everyone https://react2shell.com/

This website speaks to the nerd inside me on so many levels. I think I'm going to give the "No S Diet" a try. https://everydaysystems.com/

I just posted a project update video for Keydex that shows the current features and future plans. Plus an announcement that I'm renaming the project from Keydex to Horcrux! Check it out: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/oyxzSzhocB3k6BNbVTdU7d

I'm so excited that Satellite is back. It's always had my favorite design of any Nostr app. 📝 7c5495e0…