Interlay has released the Minimum Viable Product of its BOB solution, a Bitcoin Layer-2 network that enables the development of decentralized applications on top of Bitcoin. The release includes a demonstration application for token bridging and features Interlay's trustless Bitcoin bridge, integrated Bitcoin light client, and support for Bitcoin primitives. Interlay plans to launch a public testnet before Christmas and have the mainnet live before the Bitcoin halving, aiming to unlock more use cases for Bitcoin's global adoption.
Help friends and family audit their #privacy settings or install #encryption apps. Teaching multiplies impact.🤙🏻 nostr:note1kxa82ac895kkvmvqxldkscuwc8t5q3pcuq7wx93qs2sh66levc4q6yvgyc
>Owning Your Digital Life;
Our online lives are increasingly #public. The #data trails left by our browsing, shopping, messaging, and more generate insights prized by tech giants. But convenience has a cost. Loss of #privacy changes how we think, create, explore.
What if we reclaimed control? Below I'll share resources to help safeguard your digital #rights, make informed #choices about #tech, and participate in building a more #decentralized web. Small steps by many can reshape our relationship with technology.
>Know Your Rights;
· Review the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our rights to privacy, free expression, and more apply online.
· Understand laws that protect online privacy where you live. In the EU and UK, GDPR is a key framework. In the US, state laws are expanding.
· Follow organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation that defend digital rights through advocacy and legal channels. Their guides explain key issues.
>Take Inventory;
· Catalog where your personal data goes. Make a list of accounts, apps, services you use. Who can access what you share?
· Try a privacy audit. Document your security settings, terms of service, app permissions. This illuminates risks.
· Deactivate and delete unused accounts that hold your data. Start fresh where you can.
>Enhance Privacy;
· Use encrypted messaging apps like Signal or SimpleX for your sensitive chats.
· Switch default search engines to more privacy-focused options like DuckDuckGo, StartPage, or roll your own Yacy or SearxNG node.
· Use a VPN to cloak your browsing. ProtonVPN and Mullvad are vetted choices.
· Opt out of the data broker economy. Sites like https://www.datarequests.org/ facilitate this.
>Get Savvy;
· Learn how tracking technologies like cookies work. Browser plug-ins can help identify them.
· Understand how your data gets used for advertising or algorithmic profiling. Follow experts like Finn Myrstad.
· Discover digital security basics through training resources like Security First.
>Explore Alternatives;
· Instead of Google Docs, try encrypted open-source office suites like CryptPad.
· For video calls, Jitsi Meet is a more secure open-source option than Zoom or Skype.
· Try decentralized social networks like #nostr instead of Twitter or Facebook.
>Teach Others;
· Help friends and family audit their privacy settings or install encryption apps. Teaching multiplies impact.
· Advocate for digital rights, online privacy and media literacy education in schools and communities.
· Support initiatives that increase access to secure technology for disadvantaged groups.
Our digital autonomy rests on individual and collective action. We can nurture a future where technology serves human dignity, not surveillance capitalism. What steps will you take today? Share your ideas!
I’m looking for a remote-only CTO/CISO role, preferably with a startup. I’ve been on the offense for many years, I think it’s time to focus on defense. 😎
Good
Morning
#nostr
🌱🌻
☀️☕️
If only #flowers could #scream.
#truefacts #quotebot #zaps
#memes #memestr 
Yes. However, I did use the Photos app on my iPad to make the colors pop better on screen. 😎
I love to watch the #hummingbirds
#pollinator #garden #wildyard
#wildlife #art #nostrat #grownostr
#painting #drawing #zaps 
The (p|f)light of the #Bumblebee
#pollinator #garden
#painting #art
#nostrart #grownostr
#drawing #zaps 
#Monarch #Butterfly
#crayon #art
#nostrart #grownostr
#pollinators #garden
#zap 
now we’re talking 🤙🏻
AI can do more than transcribe videos and make art. Just saying…
Data vending machines on #nostr are so boring and basic. Time to flip this script on its head. #dvm
Good morning #nostr 🌱🌻☀️☕️ Pictures don’t do the blue morning glory wrapped up among the sunflower any kind of justice. 😍
Turns out you can run #Linux on a Commodore 64 using a virtual RISC-V32 CPU, but the boot-up process takes hours and requires a RAM Expansion Unit. The code has only been tested on an emulator. https://hackaday.com/2023/08/27/linux-on-a-commodore-64/
A #dragon guarding it’s #bitcoin 🐉
#art #nostrart #zaps #crayon #drawing 
Ah, the haiku form,
Delicate words in three lines,
Meaningless, yet art.
I have written and posted a new #blog over on #Tumblr called "The Call of the Wild: Inviting Nature Home Through Sustainable Gardening", please give it a #read. #garden #nature #zaps
https://www.tumblr.com/geeknik/726838587047493632/the-call-of-the-wild-inviting-nature-home-through
I agree, just been a minute since I’ve seen any around here.