All the best for 2026? 🥂

aka company owned phones

GM 🧡💫

Me elsewhere:

‘I wish you all [redacted]’

Me here:

I wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful 2026 🕊️

Love 🧡

GM #nostr 💜

#cakestr on #nostr 🧡💜

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All they do is talk shit about Afghanistan

Currently trying to reset and reboot a 10 year old MacBook Pro. Will try to use dual boot with #Linux on this device later on. At the same time I am using a brandnew Macbook from 2025 with a new Apple user . (Promisimg to leave Apple feels like just another New Year’s resolution. Bad old habits..)

I am not a system hacker and I have never used Linux before. However, the events of the last 3 years force even average users to better take care of personal security, privacy and online hygiene.

Simple steps in my journey include:

- to minimize or even eliminate Google Services of any kind

- to minimize Apple services. Apple is still leading on design and UX, however privacy is a serious concern. Many users won’t give up convenience for some lack of privacy

- get in touch with new solutions outside big tech suite universe (only office, libre office etc. instead of MS Office/ Veracrypt instead of proprietary encryption solutions from big tech/ open source local password managers/ clearing your iCloud with lots tons of data that is more than a decade old for more privacy focused cloud solutions is very tough and a challenge for the majority, self hosting almost impossible to achieve for the average joe

- get used to TOR and VPN basics

- give up your iphone for a pixel phone running on grapheneOS? I am still struggling with that one…

For some strange reason the new Macbook still feels like a brandnew Mercedes when compared to Windows machines. Amazing that I have been using the old Mac Book Pro Machine since 2015 without any issues (try that with a Win Computer.. ) until I bumped into the problem where you cannot update iOS anymore. Many tell me that Ubuntu loves old Mac Devices.

Let`s see about that. If Apple asks what happened to my unconditional brand loyalty, I will tell them I was moving on to other things. I will try to clean up the screen from the old Mac, looks like a mess compared to the new one on the right..

What are your experiences as a former Apple User? Special thanks goes to Timo Volkov.

#nostr

#bitcoin

#security

#winstonsmith

#edwardsnowden

#privacy

#linux

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2025 was an incredibly rewarding year, full of unexpected gifts and meaningful opportunities. With Open Dialogue Foundation, we continued supporting people where it mattered most.

We assisted in delivering hundreds of bionic hands to veterans in Ukraine, exposed in the U.S. Congress and European Parliament the weaponisation of behavioural data, Silver and Purple Notice of #INTERPOL and shed light on transnational financial repression by authoritarian regimes like #Kazakhstan, #Kyrgyzstan, and Russia reaching EU and U.S. citizens and entities.

We contributed proudly to stopping Chat Control regulation again and shared personal stories reminding why we should be especially active in protecting the privacy of payments, communications, and their developers in the digital era.

Encryption of communication and #Bitcoin are the two tools serving as fundamental guarantees for human rights in the digital era.

On a personal note, after years of separation and health challenges, long-pending divorce papers were finally granted this year, and I fully regained my health.

I'm deeply grateful for the people, lessons, and moments that shaped this year. Looking ahead to another wonderful one.

Photo credits: @mkphotons

In 2026, should we kill the fiat rails on our webshop and become bitcoin only again?

Currently shop intake (couple $100k) is 70% fiat.

We convert it all directly into bitcoin when we sell items.

It’s now been almost 2 years since a payment provider for fiat granted us the use of fiat rails again. We lost that back in 2022, because we were “doing something with bitcoin”.

So many people are paying with creditcards or Apple Pay while your data is spread through payment provider and banks into a lot of databases you don’t want to be in… Especially in EU.

We’ll make them obsolete.

There is no reason to fear CBDCs or digital IDs when a better alternative exists.

#BITCOIN IN SELF CUSTODY!

I genuinely do not understand why so many people feel stuck. Get out of your own way, learn a few things, take a few steps forward, and move forward instead of complaining.

Merry Christmas 🎄 🧡

Very good deal. Much cheaper than being invaded by Russia.

Curious if revolut explained why they debanked Mir, i just added her to my contacts maybe I reach out to Mir directly.

it is so unreal, i need to undergo eye surgery in Belgium early November hopefully by then i can still use revolut to pay for the surgery, if the eye center knows I am debanked they might as well refuse the surgery or seen the cost revolut might find such a high transfer suspicious and block my account 😉 I wonder what it’s going to be 😁

bankers have ruled the world since very long time and they won’t give in without pulling has many they can down with them 😉 All the best to you Efrat

nostr:nprofile1qqszxnz9l7z6x8qehacs3f68lfa7nn22l9w86cs7quyqegkkvwa505spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuq3gamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdau8gu3wv3jhvj7czpk was recently debanked from revolut…

Stay humble. And practice gratitude. Thanks God there is #nostr. Thanks Satoshi for #bitcoin.

Make 1984 fiction again!

This is where my wife and I grew up, where we used to live & work with the farmers for many years. Last year we decided to leave, it was a plethora of reasons.

Seeing this in our (ex)local newspaper today is shocking:

“Farmer is not allowed to milk his cows in the night anymore”

Done :)

Gavin Newsom owns 2 homes

Both homes have a total estimated value of $12.8M, with the most recent home purchased at $9.1M

His salary as Governor?

$234,101 a year

How can he possibly afford this?? 🤔

GM ☀️

Israel 🇮🇱/Iran 🇮🇷: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has officially designated Iran’s Central Bank as a terrorist organization.

Katz stated that the move was made in coordination with the Mossad and Israel’s National Economic Warfare Headquarters, aiming to directly target the financial infrastructure of the Iranian regime.

He accused the bank of funneling billions into what he called “bloody terrorism,” alleging it finances the IRGC, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Shia militias in Iraq, Hamas, and armed groups in the West Bank.