Reason #33 why I prefer physical music. When you turn on your car the CD immediately plays.

Waiting for your phone to connect is kinda lame.

Although, when in CD mode I can't listen to my phone navigation. I have thought about install a small mixer in my car just to route various audio sources ngl. 🤣

Yeah it's impressive. Some of these seminal papers are succinct presentation of ideas.

How many people have read the original ecash paper by David Chaum? Well, I've got you covered. In this short clip I read the introduction for you and it's quite interesting even today.

#ecash

https://video.nostr.build/2160233bc4e26e93568687734c2a1826bc8c18bd263d9ae52a1d9e6425a6bc39.mp4

Yeah you know what I'm going say... cassettes are the perfect physical format for long songs 🤣

I think I've got some demo tapes lying around with these.

What sell outs. I'm so pissed. I knew it would be lame but this is a new low.

Where's the punk btc conferences?

I wonder how satoshi would feel about the stage being named after him that prevents privacy masks? This is #btcnashville email from just now. The irony.

This is bullshit.

• No privacy masks will be allowed in Nakamoto Stage. They are permitted throughout the venue.

Prohibited Items: The following items are prohibited from entering the venue and Nakamoto stage:

• Outside food and drink

• Alcoholic beverages

• Large Banners, signs, placards

No privacy masks will be allowed in Nakamoto Stage. They are permitted throughout the venue.

- it keeps getting worse as I read further

Sigh. I think I regret going now. Oh well. I'm sorry that for the people behind me as they search through 30 cassettes in a briefcase 💼 😕

#btcnashville

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Oh ok, right on. I have never been a biker myself but that is a super interesting crossover. I have a military background and each unit typically has a similar patch. Is it like this? Or do the biker patches mean something else?

I bet there is a book ok this probably and I'm off to find it 😀

That is nice! I have this fascination with the golden age of pirates and gave a lightning talk on them once :) Most pirates (you probably know this) had their own flag as a kind of personal trademark. Rather the captains did.

So yeah, your own personal pirates flag is dead on. 🏴‍☠️

There's a super interesting book called the "invisible hook" -- about the economics of pirates. For this Crowe, highly recommended.

#bookstr

This is true. I don't mind the fragmention actually or I should say the diversity of options.

Actually I forgot to say, because I was in a rant mindset, that there is a project I'm excited about. Satoshi Labs Tropic Square company that is making it's own chip.

There are many details here, but overall, I think they are taking a risk and pushing a larger industry forward.

I think ultimately are a very personal choice and technically, they all mostly solve the one issue of key separation. But because they are a physical product you can buy, they get shilled to no end on podcasts, youtube, etc...

So that's the kind of stuff that drives me nuts.

I think, being in security, I tend to always see the negative things -- how to break this or how that will fail. I'm also a bit cynical person in general sometimes. A sincere thank you for bringing a positive reminder.

Ha :) yeah, I can't remember the qubes hypervisor at the moment but yes. I had many a issue with usb in just virtual box.

But yeah, qubes is also good.

You have a good point about the physical object. I can see that helping. Sometimes I'm a bit too close to the problem. Thanks for the persepective.

Yeah, incredible. This is sailing at 9200 feet or so on Colorado.

Ah nice. I have a nice #boatlife photo for you I took recently.

Aww it cut off. They never sleep 😴

Ok, this was fun. I remixed a propaganda video I found from the 1950s. I think it's better now 😀

https://video.nostr.build/52e7c5a321c1bf39f760ed9304f89e3d8601a804e73cdef92542522c9cb10291.mp4

Did they do a call for presenters? I'm pretty sure it was only invited talks.

Some talks, like the music v4v ones, I'm genuinely looking forward to. But if your conference is a curated experience of invited talks, that's kinda sus.

I do like BTC Prague, but I have the same complaint with them. (At least main stage).

I could have just missed the CFP, I do wear glasses 😎

Not saying CFPs don't have their issues too, but invited talks only is the definition of gatekeeping.

So basically all of them do the thing they claim which is, they separate the key from your main computer/tablet/phone. Most of them are pretty good we've only found minor issues since we gave that talk.

In that sense, I'd like to think the industry learned a bit from us. With the exception of tamper stickers. They are worthless.

But none of them solve the really hard problems of can I truly verify and trust this hardware. And some of them do shady things with licenses and cloud servers and what not.

So in conclusion, despite me earning money from the industry, I think people don't need a hww. I think a laptop running tails with persistent is fine for most people. Boot into tails, do your thing and disappear. Tails has had more eyes on that software than any hww code base. But nothings perfect.

Honestly, this is where nostr:nprofile1qqs09jtvjlmyrxjn37zv70a89csegcz7rpyqjmnw29cveedhv7vagqqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0xmkjg2 kinda wins. I don't use it personally but it's the embedded version of what I just described. And it's an actual open source project, not a product.

I could audit it but it's like, it doesn't store anything. So I could verify it does that but at worst case it is a malicious signer. But that's the same threat to all hww, every vendor could push a (unintentional) malicious update.

Some hww vendors also just shit on each other all the time. It's honestly a bit exhausting.

I get a bit sad tbh because I'm in all these chats about how to do self custody and it's all these cults of people saying Coke is better than pepsi.

So I'm a bit disillusioned with bitcoin hardware at the moment. I'm hoping to make some actually fun electronic project instead of watching people cheer for their favorite vendor.

Anyway, long rant. But this is kinda why I'm doing bitpunk.fm at the moment to find my spark again ⚡️

Independent music + independent money. 👨‍🍳🤌