I'm just going to shill F-Droid today. Wanted a pedometer app without tracking or ads. Easy! This is just one example. Sure, the app selection is smaller, but there's a lot of good stuff there.
Made sure to ask it what an xpub is. Cool stuff.
Now running my own private Nostr relay, thanks to Start9 :)
The memory technique used with Border Wallet is amazing, but a moments reflection on the trade-offs makes me skeptical. Problems with Border Wallet:
1) It just substitutes having to keep track of a word list for having to store one's entropy grid. The entropy grid is unique to you. If lost, the memorized the pattern is useless. One can argue that this is a security feature, but it's still misleading to say that you have "memorized" the wallet. The 12 or 24 words would also be useless if the BIP39 word list was lost, but since that list is a public standard, individuals don't need to store it.
2) The current method requires you to create a new seed. If you already have a seed, you have to sweep your funds to the new wallet. This is problematic for those trying to keep their UTXOs private.
3) You have to trust a lot more software for generating the entropy grid.
4) The process of creating a Border Wallet, taken as whole, is unnecessarily more complicated than just memorizing words on paper. If you are struggling, it's likely because you trying to cram to many words in a single day. A few minutes of daily spaced practice will work better. Practicing in chunks of 8 and then 12 words also helps.
#Bitcoin
Related concept: Principle of Charity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I recently earned my PhD. Made sure to handle my certificate with gloves because of this: https://youtu.be/M5hI6VY_rmE
#video
This is absolute horse shit nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu and fuck you and any of your staff who supports this for pretending it means anything. You are scamming your customers. 
Wow
I wonder if Blackrock will start another fork war in the future. Started thinking about this after listening to WBD with Alex Thorn.
Randomness and mistakes are not necessarily a waste of time.
When learning a new skill, it's not always a good idea to immediately force the "right" technique. You should allow for random exploration and mistakes. Why?
Highly supervised learning may seem more efficient on the surface, but it can end up producing fragile behavior. By fragile, I mean that the learner will struggle to adapt when something unexpected happens. Random exploration may seem like an inefficient way of learning, but it has been shown to produce more adaptive and flexible behavior.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.715375/full
#psychology
Contrary to woke ideology, being privileged doesn't mean that your reasoning skills are somehow compromised. If the arguments are sound, they are valid regardless of privilege.
To be clear, I'm on the fence on this. I'm curious about GrapheneOS. It sounds like a cool project, and I've heard that a lot of people like it. Like @QnA says, the brand and the tech are different strictly speaking. The question is whether that is true in practice. Here are the video links:
I wanted to try GrapheneOS, but hesitated after watching Techlore and Louis Rosssman's take on it.
GM (can't believe I haven't said that on Nostr yet!)
Here's another except from my "Why You Should Keep a Diary" series:
"Careful attention to concrete examples and context helps you identify things that can be changed. It can also end up making a mockery of any personality test you may have taken. Abstract and context-free self-descriptions are at best over-simplifications."
#psychology
This is a re-post. Apologizes if you are seeing this twice. The first post only appeared in Primal and not in Amethyst or Iris, due of relay differences I assume.
Made this visual in response to blanket statements such as "If the state wants to get you, there's nothing you can do". Not necessarily:
Cost on the y-axis can refer to time, money, body count, etc. I think of #bitcoin as being situated very high along the y-axis while a #CBDC would be almost at the bottom. The x-axis would in this case represent adoption.
Yes – this is an over-simplification, but I think it gets the point across.
Thought about this when you said route around them:
"A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add." – Marcus Aurelius