It shows higher static pressure than the Noctua A4x20 and higher airflow, but the shroud probably changes all that

Okay nobody do this

Failed idea

Privacy Guru Michael Bazzell retires, what can we learn?

We liked his content a lot, and it’s a shame he stopped doing his podcast. One of our readers on Nostr asked us how our content differs. We respect him greatly and this is not a critique, but simply we are targeting a different audience.

His content targets a more novice user and our content is a little more anti-authority, more global, and less trusting of low-end consumer privacy products. For example Bazzell advocates for the use of Protonmail, while as we promote self-hosted email on a VPS. This is more decentralized and private, but requires more effort.

Bazzell suggests the use of Privacy.com cards, which mask your info to the vendor and your bank. This is convenient but ultimately not anonymous, which never was Bazzell’s goal or intent. On the other hand, at Simplified Privacy, we reject fiat money as legitimate, and only use cryptocurrency. We recommend crypto gift card vendors such as CakePay, CoinCards, and Bitrefill to avoid KYC. Some of these even have debit cards. Ultimately, we follow the philosophy of Agorism, and our goal is to create a parallel society outside the control of big tech and banks.

Bazzell is more focused on Signal using a Google Voice or Twillio number. This is practical for many users and his target audience. While as our philosophy is more focused on the broader picture, and we dislike Signal’s centralization and reliance on Amazon’s servers. Instead, we recommend Session for censorship and socialization with strangers, while as SimpleX or XMPP are preferred for pure security. We thought Bazzell’s statement in his book of “I like Session, but it’s not popular” to be reflective of his attitude of purely pragmatic low-level evasion. While as our philosophy is to actively influence society for individuals to self-realize their technological freedom.

Bazzell recommends NextDNS, because of their ability to block or evaluate your traffic. While we see the benefits of this, it’s not right for our particular audience, because then you’re trusting just one company to oversee all traffic. For example if you were to use Tor Browser, you’d be getting a new identity each time. While as NextDNS on one VPN would correlate all traffic as you.

When it comes to phones, Bazzell’s recommendations are a reflection of his focus on convenience to the end user and practicality for the most amount of people in their daily application. For example, he recommends SIM cards INSIDE GrapheneOS phones, and on a podcast he replied to a listener question about external hotspots and routers that it wasn’t that important.

While we acknowledge the practicality and appeal of this to the majority of users, our philosophy is very different and focuses more on those with a higher threat model. We completely dislike SIM cards inside phones because of malware and baseband modem vulnerabilities. Instead, we promote solely EXTERNAL hotspot/router WiFi with VoIP and keeping the hotspot in a faraday bag when you are home. Additionally, we view Google as so hostile, that they can’t even be trusted to manufacture the hardware required for GrapheneOS, so we’re open to non-Google phones with CalyxOS and VM phones on desktop to completely isolate spyware.

Bazzell on his podcast said he only uses OpenVPN, and never WireGuard because of WireGuard’s 2-minute logging of IPs in memory. We respect his decision to recommend this, but we believe it’s not really appropriate for his target audience of novice users. This type of recommendation be more appropriate for Tor users, anti-government journalists, or hackers under extreme or oppressive countries with VPN restrictions. In our subjective opinion, for the vast majority of average Americans (his target audience), the faster speed of WireGuard outweighs the 2-minute IP log.

Bazzell has done numerous podcast episodes discussing System76 Linux computers with PopOS. We think this is great, and would like to add on that System76 is our main recommendation for those coming from Mac/Apple. Not only is this specific audience used to getting both the hardware and operating system bundled together from the same vendor, but Apples can’t dual boot with Linux (easily) like Windows can. Additionally, Chris Titus has a guide on making PopOS aesthetically look like a Mac.

Regarding Bazzell’s pfSense recommendation, this was a good idea up until pfSense switched licenses and is shifting away from FOSS. Now we recommend OPNsense. But this happened AFTER Bazzell’s podcasts/books, so he gets no blame.

Wherever you are Bazzell, you will be missed. I listened to nearly every episode.

I can’t stomach the idea of charging a wristwatch. I will never buy one.

Automatic forever.

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Who’s ready for a new android client this year? 🤠

# And the exact same will happen with the ETF paper keyless bitcoin

Very much disagree with this, it’s a pretty naive take.

- Australia’s CBDC was outsourced to the private sector, mostly the banks, and it’s successfully passed the pilot phase - so much for not giving up their debt creation, they’re working hand in glove with central banks

- Privacy doesn’t override shit for normies. I’ll just point to Snowden’s revelations as evidence if any is needed. If CBDCs are tied to UBI they will jump in head first with no consideration for the implications on privacy and only later look for outside routes when they understand reality.

- We always had gold as a sovereign currency, no-one used it because it wasn’t fit for purpose in the digital age. Sovereign alone isn’t enough, it needs to work for what people/institutions want to use it for.

- There are already functional cross-border CBDCs (Singapore-China) and others have been successfully piloted (read BIS)

- Digital Currency already exists in every fiat system. It’s not that different to a CBDC, that’s just amalgamating them into a unified system.

If post WW2 monetary order was a design choice, what makes you think they’ll make a design choice for something they can’t control? Listen to saifedean or Lyn discussing the uptake of fiat / exit from gold standard in WW1 - once one nation went they all did because game theory effectively forced them to as you can’t win a war against a money printer if you don’t have one yourself.

We’ve got what, 1 country which has decided to take the hard route of getting out from under the IMF and they’re not even done yet - everyone else just keeps sucking that teat. Even Milei is going begging to them.

We’re not going to see CBDCs on Bitcoin-backed fedimints - this is delusional.

Bitcoin will be used but not in this way. It will be the hedge system between the USD world and the BRICS world for countries that can’t/wont go all in on either and simply occupying that position will see it eventually eat both (not Gresham’s law - you’ve made the common mistake of inverting it). It will also form the black market currency for individuals for any transaction people want to make outside the government’s purview which initially just replaces cash but will eat all the usecases they try to impose their dystopia on.

To say you’re unafraid is fine. I’m not afraid of money either. But I see what they’re trying to achieve and given there is no greater prize than control of the money (per Rothschild himself) I think it’s pretty shortsighted to just claim this is “doom-circle-jerk analysis”.

They ARE playing for sheepstations, they’re not going to fuck this up coming from incumbency against a rebel network with 1% uptake.

Bitcoin will win eventually but CBDCs are coming and freedom is going when they do.

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government n greenfleece literally forced people to buy the damn things. subsidy ...

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If they actually release the Epstein client names

I might actually become a normie and consider voting

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