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Tone Bone
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Always imagining further possibilities of the creative mind to make life better for everyone.
Replying to Avatar calle

That sbout sums it all up nicely.

If that were true, the nice guys would have the supermodels.๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Sadly, life isn't like that.

Replying to Avatar Ryan

https://winamp.downisontheup.ca/

Webamp, with the playlist populated using nostr:nprofile1qqsph3c2q9yt8uckmgelu0yf7glruudvfluesqn7cuftjpwdynm2gygpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te009skyafwd4jj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcafljxq Nostr music nips.

What wonderful witchcraft is this?!

"It does not protect against a determined nation-state adversary with unlimited resources. What it does is raise the cost of surveillance dramatically. It removes you from the bulk data collection that treats billions of people as raw material for behavioral prediction markets. It forces anyone who wants your data to target you specifically rather than simply purchasing it from a broker."

Then it is of limited use.

Sadly, our biggest enemies in 2025 are often our own governments and state actors.

Replying to Avatar FLASH

โšก๏ธ๐Ÿšจ SCAM โ€“ Attempted Fraud

Every month, I receive these types of calls from people posing as support staff for various companies. I immediately recognize that it is a scam and end the call.

However, these calls are becoming increasingly frequent, and I believe it is in the public interest to raise awareness.

Here, a man recorded one of these calls. I find this recording very interesting because it helps us understand their manipulation techniques and how they get their victims to give them their money.

During this call, the scammers are posing as Binance and Ledger.

A first person (female voice) launches the scam. She claims to have detected several suspicious connections from an IP address located in London.

She then announces: "No funds have been moved, as long as we stay on the line together, all operations are suspended."

โžฅ The goal is to create a sense of urgency.

Next, she gains the victim's trust by using vocabulary and phrases typical of crypto security: "A security agent will never ask you for your password, login details, or 24-word recovery phrase."

Then, she hands over to a supposed "Binance cybersecurity agent."

"Do you have your Ledger with you? Can you authenticate yourself?"

The scammer then guides the victim step by step through the installation of a Trust Wallet, under the pretext of "securing their funds."

In reality, they are leading them to create a wallet whose seed they themselves know.

"You should have received an email with your 12 keywords. Copy them and paste them into the Trust Wallet app."

The victim plays along and leads them to believe that they are sending more than 7 bitcoins to this wallet.

When they reveal that they knew from the start that it was a scam, the scammer's response is chilling: "That's how you become a millionaire."

Some parts of the call, as well as some lengthy sections, have been edited out of the video. The original call lasted over 25 minutes.

โš ๏ธ IMPORTANT REMINDER

Binance and Ledger will NEVER contact you by phone or WhatsApp. Be extremely cautious of emails and fake support requests. In โ€œcryptoโ€œ, the basic rule is to be wary of everything.

https://blossom.primal.net/334fbe322583a9a184e068062a4ca1be0159586ff5a579ea7ee3f3eff4c65ef5.mov

Yes.

Thanks to Ledger's gross incompetence some 4 plus years ago where their system was hacked and names, thousands of tel and addresses were sold on the black market to crims worldwide.

They also spoof genuine Ledger SMS message origins, and insert their own 'warning your ledger account may have been compromised' scam from the same telecoms source as genuine Ledger texts.

Still, they have a strange vibe to them, most crypto people will flag up.

Nonetheless, I phoned the UK mobile number in tne SMS, and played along.

A right, 'Jack the Lad' Essex wide boy answered and began his scam attempt. The longer they prattle on, the more obvious it is that something isn't right.

The other massive problem here in the UK, is the ease which scam criminals spoof genuine police tel numbers.

And the UK police and telecom companies don't give a shit, either.

Mine was a clearly a rookie, but still a scumbag wanting to steal from you.

After 10 mins, he gradually realised I had clocked him, and ended the call.

It is unlikely the atypical 'dry stonewall' (seen all over Northern England, the borders - my native Northumberland - and Scotland) was from 1590.

It'll be lucky to be 100 years old for that matter, as the harsh weather, animals and people mean these need to be maintained.

Appalling vandalism, nonetheless.

Here's one behind my bike, on one of Northumberland's country roads

Neither.

I like my Android tablet:phones are too small a screen, even the giant ones, yet they're too big to fit into pockets as phones.

Desktop and laptop are good, but I like the tablet while chilling in my armchair.

I'd argue that isn't the problem, but rather the beauty of nostr!

Replying to Avatar HoloKat

Wow

That looks remarkably close to the sun.

So much so, a actual cadaver in space would be vaporised, methinks?

Understandably annoying.

But, we're all grown-ups here and of reasonable intelligence.

Sufficiently so to realise the spam is spam, and not of your doing or intention.

It does, however, illustrate where Nostr shines amidst the hubris of centralised and increasingly Orwellian social media platforms.

The porn is a good sign, actually. Ironically.

95% plus will either ignore it or report it, and it increasingly loses its disruptive, shock value the more originator keeps on doing it.

Get very rich, very fast.

Or.

Grab the pitchforks and flaming brands.

Frankly, I find Alby unintuitive and.....well, pretty crap.

Primal pushes it - for reasons best known to themselves - as security/ease of signing in via the extension.

Primal comes with a wallet, too.

However, no option to import my nostr keys could I find, the damm extension thing merely set up new keys and account in Alby, instead, it's so unintuitive! ๐Ÿคฆ

There's better options than Alby.

...but has no fillings left. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Talk about a bone shaker!

Hats off to him, though.

Chinese bipedal robots do this better, and do not require support straps or control handsets.

I think the Unitree ones move the most naturally. Especially walking, which most bipedal struggle with.

Optimus still walks like Joe Biden. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ