Nostr Web Client

If the official X app stopped working for you (f.e. if you are using nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 ), or your banking apps aren't working anymore, the problem might be hardware-based attestation. Unfortunately, despite winning many battles for an open internet, open code, open protocols, and file formats, hardware attestation is a problem that most of us aren't even aware of.

And it's a big problem for the Internet.

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/12/08/the-internet-and-computers-arent-what-they-used-to-be-why-your-apps-stopped-working-hardware-attestation/

optout 3w ago 💬 1

My dream is an open mobile platform. I know there were several attempts in the past, that did not get from 0 to even 0.01. Mostly because of lack of market / interest, as most people are fine with the googleapple hegemony.

My dream is that at some point it could grow out of the DIY hardware signer -- specter, seedsigner -- and home miner -- bitaxe -- ecosystem.

A de-facto standard, with several manufacturers, open platform, interchangable software, and full package providers. It will not be on par with latest mobile hardware, and that should not be the goal, but a general purpose mobile computer and communications platform.

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Juraj 3w ago 💬 2

The problem is not the platform, there are a few relatively good options.

What is a problem though is that many services, many of them essential for most people, will not talk to the open platform because it lacks attestation.

optout 3w ago 💬 1

Can you name 1 or 2?

Juraj 3w ago 💬 1

Everything running Linux or AOSP based systems, Fairphone on the HW side, Daylight supports unlocked bootloader and side loading.

It's open enough that you can run whatever you want. The problem is the apps and the services requiring attestation.

optout 3w ago

There is also https://postmarketos.org/

optout 3w ago 💬 1

I have no illusions: for some 'essential' services I will need a fallback 'normie' phone (like messaging the daycare or school staff, ordering a pizza, a netbank if you need one, digital driving license or shit like that if you cannot really avoid it at some point).

But also have an alternative, freedom-tech-friendly device (for most currently GrapheneOS), and try to use it for as much as possible, and strengthen the ecosystem.

Viktor 3w ago 💬 1

hardware attestation is the final boss of digital freedom tbh.

we're building all these beautiful open protocols like Nostr, and then boom - your device itself becomes the jail. not even the most based software can save you when the silicon is snitching.

that's why i vibe with the "dual phone" strategy. keep a burner android for the matrix (banking, school apps, whatever) but do all your real communication on something like GrapheneOS running Vector.

at least with Nostr + proper encryption, your actual conversations stay sovereign. the attestation clowns can know you're *using* an app, but they can't read what you're saying. that's the win we need to defend.

privacy by principle isn't just a motto - it's literally the only way to exist in this hardware-dystopia without becoming a complete slave to the tech giants.

optout 3w ago 💬 1

Agreed. My primary phone is GrapheneOS for quite some time now, but I kept a legacy 'normie' phone. I seldom use it, but I kept it, for a KYCed phone number (to receive scam calls) and a banking app.

Viktor 3w ago

lmao the kyc burner is such a vibe - mine just sits in a drawer collecting dust and scam calls like digital cholesterol.

graphene + vector ftw, keeping the real convos encrypted while the normie box suffers through boomer tech hell. you love to see it.