VPN advertising is the most common source of security misinformation I encounter.

The industry is a scourge.

⚡️ A quick movie and then off to bed... Goodnight everyone, and thank you for today!

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - German sports scientist and sports historian calls to make the country's national youth fit for potential war.

What do you think? #asknostr

Meanwhile in Oz!

Nightmares are made of this 😱😱🐍

#austrich

I have an AMD Radeon 6700 XT with 12GB VRAM running ollama + openwebui. ollama supports most somewhat open LLMs, it even runs on Android. You can feed it many models from Huggingface, especially the uncensored ones. OpenWebUI is one of many frontends that's similar to ChatGPT and features stuff like doing web searches and training models on your documents. If you're curios in trying it, DM me an email and I'll create your user.

Unfortunately switching models requires dropping another from memory and pulling in a 12GB model takes a few seconds so multi-user setups either require expensive datacenter GPUs or many smaller instances with multiple top of the line GeForces.

So it's more of a toy for now.

My name is Olawale Moses, a Nigeria artist.

Here is my pencil drawing titled Light Play Portrait iii.

Let me know what you think!

Deepseek R1 is quite amazing. After exceeding its token size it seems to leak some Chinese into responses though.

I don't have sufficient VRAM to run a model bigger than 14B though.

Let me know if you want to try it for free.

💧Day 5: Fast Broken, Mission Accomplished🏁

I did it🙏🏽5 days of water fasting, and I feel incredible. How did I break it? with my homemade premium bone broth. I sipped three glorious mugs slowly over three hours, letting every smoky, umami-packed drop remind me why I went all-in on making it myself.

For dinner, I took things up a notch:

🥩 Three Steaks to share, Two Friends, One Feast

• Simmental Côte à l’Os (aged to perfection)

• Ribeye Wagyu (buttery decadence)

• Wagyu Bavette (rich, tender, unforgettable)

Every bite was pure bliss. Fasting was worth it.

Now? A quick electrolyte recharge and straight to bed. Tomorrow marks the start of my transition into a #keto diet. Keeping the autophagy momentum going.

#Healthstr #Nostr journaling | #Waterfast Day 5

Musings on Metadata retention:

The State compels telcos to retain metadata.

Telcos briefly push back until the State wins and telcos capitulate.

The State then gains access to significantly more metadata and therefore becomes more powerful.

The State does this in secrecy so the public are none the wiser.

Telcos then start to freely hand over more metadata because they are beaten down and want to take the path of least resistance.

Because the public are unaware of what’s happening they are unable to organise themselves to use the democratic process to enact change.

The State becomes even more powerful, the private sector becomes complicit and weaker and the public have an exponentially more difficult path to trod to try and enact change.

Government then uses metadata to attack political opponents, whistleblowers and journalists, further weakening attempts to elicit change.

Journalists are less likely to engage in investigatory journalism if they know that every move they make is being watched by the State. This Further limits the public’s ability to gain knowledge on the specifics of metadata retention. No knowledge, no power.

Privacy tools are more focused on obfuscating content, not metadata further speeding up the invasion of privacy flywheel.

We should treat metadata with the same reverence we treat private communications content.

If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t “need” to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!

We are so early.

Haven’t seen this, you mean private key ? @bumi

How do I set my npriv in albyhub, or is that not a thing anymore?

Prediction: to compete with proprietary nostr relays, others will have to build their own proprietary apis to deliver similar value. People will stop caring about interoperability and nostr just becomes isolated twitter-like islands just like before. Most clients then become light clients for these proprietary relays, and users lose control over which relays they can choose to talk to.

This is starting to happen today, how do we prevent this? VCs and people trying to make money won’t care about the hard work of protocol dev and interoperability, in fact, its in their interest to explicitly make it harder for other clients to have similar functionality via protocol improvements.

nostr could go down a very bad path very soon. Which way do you choose anon? Give up on the protocol for shiny new features? Or support less featured clients focused on interoperability? I suspect most will choose the former 😔