One potential danger is that the “local” AI records all actions and when it comes across something of interest it phones home with an obfuscated payload.

These things can be trained to return a single plaintext vector that encodes what actions you took and then makes you a target. Unless you have the proper decoder network you won’t be able to decipher it. Doing it this way allows them to ship everything in just model weights.

ByteDance is a Chinese company…

The first amendment gives rights to citizens of the US not foreign controlled companies, right? Yes American citizens are posting on there but that doesn’t mean the company has a right to push their platform. Doesn’t feel like a violation IMHO but I’m not a lawyer 🤷

What’s your favorite thing to do when you get home from work?

Thankfully the community is starting to push back organically. A lot of us are no longer willing to use ad supported services that abuse us because of their bad incentives.

When a service uses ads for support, the person paying them is not the consumer but rather a disinterested third party. That creates very perverse incentives, but with a neutral censorship resistant digital money services can monetize without having to rely on ad revenue.

Here’s a great example:

https://blog.getalby.com/block-ads-and-pay-in-bitcoin-today/

Burned over 1 million sats by being lazy and copying the wrong address in a hurry. It’s a valid address but I think it’s for an old test wallet🤦‍♂️

Anyway. Consider it a donation to the network.

Setup a pihole on your network and add those domains to your blocklist. If you change anything on your OS itself then you risk it being thwarted on next update.

Are you sure? It seems to ask for an email verification…

Most of the private torrent communities require email for invite. If you run one of these sites consider supporting npubs!

#torrent #grownostr

Nostr feels like the early internet before it was commercialized to death. Regardless of stats we should celebrate this bastion of nerds and misfits while we have it ❤️

Wonder if this will be used as partial justification by the SEC to (rightfully IMO) reject the ETH ETF in the US.

Another hack: designating a portion of each day away from technology. No phone, laptop, podcasts, car, etc.

An hour or two each day does wonders for your brain and you’ll be surprised by how your thoughts change over time.

Have you considered the Pine Phone? It has hardware switches for everything that can spy on you and even has a LoRa attachment available.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

There’s also btcd

https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd

We need to open up the physical access points for these networks we’re building. Bitcoin, Nostr, etc are all great for people who have access but what if you can’t connect? We need more projects focused on p2p physical device connection. Could be over #wifi or #LoRa or even #bluetooth

This would be especially helpful for travelers or people who don’t have steady housing.

#lightning #nomad #value

Nostr is great and all but how can we enable people who don’t have their own internet service provider subscription?

One idea is for average people to setup a pay-per-use WiFi hotspot from their home networks. Authentication and payment via lightning. We need maybe an OpenWRT package that people can install and configure to pay their wallet?

Imagine earning sats by renting out your bandwidth. Let me know if anyone is working on this. Would love to help out.

Soon we’ll be able to bring a burner phone across borders and once settled in we just enter 12 words into a setup script and be done.

We’ll have all our contacts and lightning wallet ready to go. Let the border agents steal the blank phone if they insist.

If we can get enough people to open up their WiFi to the public (and earn sats?!) then we won’t even need mobile data plans when traveling.

He’s coming for our spice!

Any tips on how to avoid KYC on primal? A lightning wallet shouldn’t need a verified email.