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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

GM Nostr. If you're an Android user, chances are you're using a virtual keyboard like Gboard, Samsung Keyboard, SwiftKey, etc... and they’re all collecting telemetry data and calling home. So, how do you fix this? Use a privacy-respecting keyboard like https://keyboard.futo.org/ Is it good enough? Yes Even for voice input? Yes (and it's improving) Should I pay for it? Again, yes Don’t like it or not happy with the licence? Try HeliBoard or Inkwell Keyboard instead. #GM #Android #Keyboard #Privacy #Telemetry

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

They ask for U$6.99 WinRAR style. I paid after using it for a couple of hours. This is how well it worked for me :)

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Thanks! Intention is what matters. Currently my lightining address is redirecting to Wallet Of Satoshi, it seems to be online and working well... 429 usually means you / your client is being rate limited (too many requests). If you're still having issues, could you let me know which Nostr client you're using?

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

First time I hear about it. The diagonal sliding thing appears to be very useful. Thanks for the recommendation. Just in case anyone else is looking for it: https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Interesting. I've changed the redirect to CoinOS for now, let me know if it helps. Someone really needs to write a solution to fall back between Lightning services, because no matter what, your main wallet will always be broken for someone lol.

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Got the Zap, many thanks! ⚡

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Got the Zap, many thanks! ⚡

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

I skimmed through the last sentence earlier and somehow missed it. Good luck with your setup. I gave up on non-custodial Lightning myself. My node has been down for a couple of months, and I may nuke it altogether soon. For my specific needs, managing channels is too much overhead and ultimately a loss-maker. Deep respect to the cypherpunks out there providing liquidity to the network, I appreciate you. But Nostr is already my "time consuminy loss-making activity for the greater good". I'm happy with custodial Lightning for zapping folks, and despite being annoyed when CoinOS or similar services decide to freeze my sats, I have never lost SATs and I'm okay with the risks. Any real amounts quickly get moved to a cold wallet in the Accioly household anyway 😅.

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

You can download it from the Zapstore, Obtainium, F-Droid, etc. They won’t really bother you to pay for it. For folks who want to buy a licence anyway, you can open the FUTO app and pay from there. AFAIK, all you get is this banner and bragging rights, but as a struggling dev myself, I'm all for paying a few bucks to keep devs well fed when I can 😅.

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

You didn’t at all. Plus, despite my usual commentary on Maxis and Nostr Influencers, I have nothing against them. I just keep repeating myself because folks keep losing money with stuff like Alby Hub and quitting Nostr, so I take every opportunity I have to say that custodial wallets holding a few hundred sats aren’t the end of the world 🤣🤣🤣

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Got it. Yes, 💯. Maybe open an issue regard paying with BTC. Otherwise, happy to buy a license for you and you can later zap me for it (just DM me your email).

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Sorry to hear that. Yeah, their channel management is atrocious. My main problem with Alby is that folks keep pushing new users to Alby Go without telling them the full story. The happy new user then obtains a Lightning address, gets zapped (under Alby's custody), and those sats end up locked to pay for Alby services. Then the new user, who knows nothing about Lightning, has to choose between: 1. Installing Alby Hub locally and praying it works, then paying to open their first Lightning channels 2. Buying a monthly cloud subscription from Alby 3. Getting out of Nostr and venting on the Fediverse or elsewhere that Nostr is just another cryptobro scam Guess which option they usually pick? And I can't blame them either. I’d think exactly the same if I were in their shoes.

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Thanks for the suggestions. Haven't heard of Thumbkey before, it looks promising once you get used to it. https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key Yeah, FUTO "Source Available" license isn't great. I mean, I get it but it would be much better if they used GPLv3 or something of the sorts.

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Anthony Accioly @Anthony Accioly - 2mo

Yeah, I remember learning "AI" and having fun with toy problems like "next word prediction" using n-grams, recurrent neural networks, etc. Before transformers and LLMs, you could get pretty close to what Gboard, SwiftKey, etc. had to offer with relatively simple tech. Now, I don't think a local-only keyboard can really compete with what Google and Microsoft provide by processing your data in the cloud. They're likely spending quite a bit of money and energy to do this... which they can happily pay for with your data. So unless another breakthrough happens, expectations on what a keyboard can do locally need to be realistic. Just like you, I'll take the trade-off. FUTO is good enough, and that's it. It's not meant to be the best. It still has a lot to improve on (gliding, multi-language typing, and many other fronts) but it's good enough that I mostly forget I'm even using it. So I'll take it. Voice input is working pretty well for me with the accurate models (see Multilingual-244 here in case you're still using the default English-29 model: https://keyboard.futo.org/voice-input-models). It works even with dodgy built-in tablet mics, as long as the surroundings aren't too noisy. The trade-off is that it's slow, even on state-of-the-art Snapdragon Elite processors. Still, I'm impressed with its accuracy. And this is coming from a Brazilian who spent a significant amount of time in Ireland and Scotland... I have to say, FUTO is doing better with my broken, all-over-the-place English than a lot of people around me 🤣.

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