I’m on Damus running the zap script and so far so good, but yeah… le sigh

But if simply connected to Mutiny relay, I would only see what was sent to it right?

Who is your favorite Bitcoin dev and why are you not monthly-funding that person?

Genuinely did not know it was super bowl until one of you assholes mentioned it.

Nostr is good for staying focused.

When do you trust that your webcam and microphone are not spying on you?

Fo me, it's: when it is physically unplugged. And even then, I usually turn it away in case I made a mistake and unplugged the wrong USB cable.

It's not that I think the software protections I have set up are worthless, but I'm more confident in attackers' inability to get around physics than their inability to get around software restrictions.

Even a system that is security hardened AF, can have vulnerabilities. Xen has had vulnerabilities in the past, and a subset of them did affect Qubes.

Besides, unplugging things is **so simple** to do and so easy to verify, I just do that when they're not in use. And when they are in use, I trust #Qubes to keep the feeds limitied to the qubes to which I have granted access.

Oh after a search it seems this is a brand..

Glocks are cool but I'm a Sig guy so I don't know the market for Glocks. I'm specifically talking about the "ghost gun" pejorative people use for 3d printed personally manufactured firearms because it's being used to scare people who don't know anything about guns to ban them.

I take offense at the ghost part lol It's just a personally manufactured firearm.

Ghost gun is what they came up with to demonize making your own firearm, which has never been illegal.

Yeah the policies suck. Not gonna defend Apple on that front - don’t like it either. I guess I’m an industrial design + nice pixels maxi 😆

Honestly, I have many complaints about Google's Android too. It took using CalyxOS to realize how bloated Google's version actually is. So much of the device is dedicated to spyware bullshit.

GrapheneOS is probably too tight for many people. CalyxOS offers a good mix if you just want a cleaner version of Android. It's the FOSS stuff without all the Google crap. Of course, you can install the FOSS implementation of Play Services at setup and install those parts that you want if you absolutely want some Google apps or apps that require play services for whatever reason.

But it’s more fun to pretend the alternatives don’t suck and that Tim Apple is Darth Vader. Have you not heard of GrapheneOS and the Librem 5 bro? 😂

Just pointing out that no matter how you scale 1:1 or 1:? the next layers will always require belief in the ratio/extra trust.

Like fedi's? Cashu's? Or do those not count?