I think I’m going to run Knots.

#Bitcoin is open and permission-less so if a group of clowns wants to use the fair-money protocol for jpeg fuckery I will counter that by using an open protocol solution.

Lmao still cant tag anyone in #Amethyst without it crashing.

Stop trying to use dice-rolled seeds unless you're an expert ❌

Just had yet another person (hard to count the total now) reach out about a low-entropy seed they generated and were allowed to import into a certain hardware wallet. A lot of the blame for these lost funds falls on influencers who shill users on overly-complex security setups without properly explaining the massive risks and tradeoffs associated for the average user.

What happened:

Less than 10min after funds were sent to what they thought was secure storage, they were swept to an attackers address.

They used <10 dice rolls, meaning the private key had <25bits of entropy when the minimum for strong security is 50 dice rolls (128 bits of entropy). Wallets should not allow a user to import a seed that they know is completely insecure.

Staying safe:

As I have said many times, if you don't know the ins and outs of dice rolls, entropy, verification of the resulting seed offline, etc. please do not use dice rolls alone for seed generation. 99.99999% of users are better off allowing good, multi-source, open-source random number generation like we do on Passport.

To date I have heard of zero compromised seeds that were generated using on-board RNG due to entropy issues, while there are countless examples of users losing funds due to improper dice rolls.

Stay safe out there, folks.

Well I didn't say it doesn't change anything. Every bit helps. That's what I mean when I say privacy is a spectrum. Propitiatory OS is where I draw the line but everyone is different.

My macbook isn't my only computer and I simply couldn't trust it enough to really use it until I had Linux installed on it. I still do most of my work on a PC that I trust even more.

I never bothered. MacOS is a black box. Anything you can do on top of it will only really give you the illusion of privacy.

Again, privacy is a spectrum. All you can really do is watch out and try to improve on all your mistakes as you learn.

Fair enough. Privacy is always a trade off.

It's perfect for me but I use mostly free and open source software. I love the macbook hardware (powerful, lightweight, silent, great touchpad) but I always disliked the system. This gets you the best of both words and very little drawbacks (you need to adjust the scrolling speed, get used to slightly different gestures and manually enable DRM support if needed).

I installed Asahi and never looked back

Yeah, I can't get passed all her conspiracy noise. Not saying none of it's true but it's all she has.

I thought I was the only one noticing how dismally blackpilled this discussion was.

Of course I don't trust Blackrock, of course I expect fuckery, and Bitcoin doesn't care.

I listened to more than half and didn't hear a single specific detail about how blackrock will 'defeat bitcoin' or actionable steps to avoid that.

Noise < Signal

Oooooofffff

Security.

pretend im a dumb guy named derek. please explain how i use this new nsec spec? what do i use to encrypt my private key?

Yes.

I'm reacting to the fact that you recommend a keyboard for privacy, I'm reacting that using a very comfy keyboard with fast typing and network permission off gives you privacy as well.

So I give different recommendation on Graphene. I've seen that you said that it's ok.

As a developer, I will continue to advocate for building on Apple and pushing them to do the right thing. They hold a nontrivial market share of the population who want to use that platform, because they arguably build high quality products and people don’t like change. If it was as easy as getting all Apple users to move over to Android by stopping freedom tech development on Apple platforms, it’d be a no brainer, but it’s not realistic. It’s important to ensure that they have access to freedom tech for the platform they choose to use. I understand it’s an uphill battle, but it’s worthwhile in my opinion.