“Verifiable redundancy” is a reliability metric, not a definition of decentralization.
Decentralization is verified locally: I can join without permission, independently validate the rules, and no one can override my validation.
You cannot globally verify redundancy in Bitcoin either—private, Tor, and non-listening nodes are not enumerable. Treating unseen nodes as nonexistent would invalidate every privacy-preserving network by definition.
If your standard requires global observability, you’re not describing decentralization—you’re rejecting privacy as a design principle.
Running one node doesn’t verify decentralization by counting others.
It verifies decentralization because I don’t need permission or trust to participate. I can independently verify the ledger, enforce the rules locally, and ignore invalid blocks—no registry, no coordinator, no approval.
Being able to count nodes is irrelevant. Privacy hides network topology by design; it doesn’t create trust.
By your logic, how many Nostr relays running behind Tor “don’t count”? Are they suddenly centralized because you can’t see them?
Decentralization is permissionless participation plus independent verification—not public visibility.
Node count visibility is not a requirement for decentralization.
Decentralization is about who can control, censor, or unilaterally change the network—not whether you can run a public census.
Bitcoin node counts are estimates based on voluntarily exposed peers. Hidden nodes exist there too. Monero simply makes all nodes private by default. That’s a privacy tradeoff—not a trust requirement.
You don’t “trust” Monero’s decentralization—you verify it by running a node, mining, or transacting without permission. No authority can stop you. That’s decentralization.
Monero—and it's far from an "altcoin."
If you reject Monero as decentralized, you must—by consistency—also reject Bitcoin.
Flipper can already clone and rewrite to many key fobs with no extra hardware—but cloning Paxton? That's pretty cool.
"The flipper board is in development. Future firmware and app updates to come, including brute forcing hitag2 password"
For those who don't know, Paxton key cards/fobs are common in commercial buildings—offices, gyms, apartment complexes. They use encryption that standard RFID tools can't touch.
This is why Flipper exists—modular, extensible, community-driven pentesting research. Stock hardware gets you far. Custom boards and firmware take you the rest of the way.
Dev post: https://www.reddit.com/r/flipperzero/s/Nmpve8ywoR
#IKITAO #FlipperZero #Pentesting
I liked Frankie. Sad to see him go so soon. Glad he and Mike were able to make amends in the end.
RF triangulation exists but requires either law enforcement + carrier cooperation or specialized equipment you probably don't have.
GrapheneOS doesn't include Find My Device because that's Google's surveillance infrastructure. No backdoor location tracking—that's the whole point. Privacy has trade-offs.
The good news in this case: GrapheneOS or not, if the radios are on, the phone is transmitting.
Your phone is still transmitting even when idle:
- Cell tower pings every few seconds (network registration)
- IMEI/IMSI broadcasts during those pings
- WiFi keepalive packets if connected
- Bluetooth advertisements if enabled
- Background RF noise from oscillators and processors
If the phone is nearby, here are some things to try:
If you've got WiFi on and it's connected to your network, check your router admin panel for connected devices. You can also use arp -a or ip neigh to see if it shows up on your local network, or try pinging it.
Bluetooth on? Use a BT scanner app on another device. Walk around and watch the signal strength. Range is about 30 feet. I've found lost earbuds this way.
Hope this helps!
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Blockstream Jade keeps Bitcoin secure in self-custody against all threats.
Discipline to HODL through volatility? That’s on you!
Probably.
I hate public ranges.
Y'all gonna leave soon?
#IKITAO #GunMemes
I hear you, and I respect your decision.
I don’t carry an umbrella because I want it to rain.
I keep a jack, a med-kit, jumper cables, and more in the car, at home, and on my person because it’s important to have essential tools at the ready—if not for me, then for someone else.
The same logic applies to bug-in bags, bug-out bags, supplies and reserves, EDC, and firearms.
Why is this meat-obsession so strongly promoted in this community, and freedom money seems not to fit into the view, that freedom is for everyone...
Why does this have to be celebrated like this? If you eat meat, hunt the animal yourself and look into its eyes before you kill it. Anything else is pure hypocrisy.
Visit a slaughterhouse yourself and talk to the workers. Most of them choose to wear headphones with music to block out the animals' screams of terror. Many are depressed, alcoholic and violent at home because they can barely cope with having to kill so many animals every single day.
If you decide to eat an animal, then pay attention and don't let others do the work for you. And above all, an animal doesn't just walk around with a steak! Associate yourself with your actions...
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I think we need to start with an uncomfortable truth: we're not as evolved as a species as we like to think we are.
And that shows up very clearly in certain online spaces like Nostr where meat-eating has stopped being food and turned into ideology. Not just carnivore, but raw carnivore—as an identity. If you eat meat—especially raw meat—you’re told you’re more “alpha,” more sovereign, more real.
Most of the people pushing this are men. Many of them are chasing the same fantasy: stack sats, get jacked, become a GigaChad, get a girlfriend someday.
Meat gets folded into that worldview as proof of strength. This isn’t accidental—it’s belief layered on top of insecurity, amplified by group reinforcement, and "justified" by biased biology.
That’s narrative. That's belief.
One of the main reasons this gets pushed so hard is distance. Most people are completely removed from the act itself. We don't kill the animal. We don't hear it. We don't feel the weight of it resisting death.
Language helps keep that distance intact: it's veal, not a calf; pork, not a pig; steak, not a cow. The animal disappears, and what's left is a product.
We even use the names of certain animals—the ones who didn't get the pass—as insults. Dirty rat. Fat pig. Calling someone a chicken, a snake, a weasel.
The language does double work: it erases the animal we murder, and degrades the ones we decided weren't worth protecting.
Anyone who has ever field-dressed a large animal knows this isn't abstract. It's intense. It's visceral. It demands attention and respect. There's nothing casual about it.
And let's be clear about the language: "field dressing" and "processing" are just softer words for skinning, gutting, and dismemberment. If you're talking about survival, that's one thing.
Humans have always made hard choices when there were no alternatives. But when alternatives exist, eating animals is a choice—and pretending otherwise is dishonest.
Factory farming exists so people don't have to face what they're supporting. Slaughterhouses are hidden for a reason. Violence is outsourced and sanitized.
Look at the dairy industry. A cow can live around 20 years. In industrial systems she's used up and dead by about 4–6. Forced into repeated pregnancies. Her calves taken from her almost immediately.
Anyone who's spent time around cows knows they grieve—mothers will walk for miles and cry for days searching for their babies.
Or look at the egg industry. Male chicks—millions of them—are considered waste. They're thrown into plastic bags and left to suffocate, or dropped alive into industrial grinders within hours of hatching, because they can't lay eggs.
All of this happens at massive scale. Most agricultural land isn't used to feed people—it's used to feed livestock in feedlots. Forests cleared. Water drained. Bodies broken early. Not for survival, but for preference.
And here's where the story people tell themselves really falls apart: which animals get a pass is almost entirely cultural.
At some point, people decided dogs were off the menu. Horses too. Cats became family. In other parts of the world, those lines are drawn differently. In India, cows are revered. In Japan, the Nara deer—sika deer—are treated as sacred. In Australia, you can buy kangaroo meat at the grocery store.
Ask the average American if they'd eat kangaroo and most would recoil. Ask them about deer, and it's completely normalized. Same animal. Different story.
Religion often functions the same way. Some people point to scripture and claim humans were given dominion—that we're the "top" species and therefore granted a moral pass to kill other living beings. But that's one interpretation, from one religion, written in a specific historical context.
It isn't universal truth—it's narrative authority. And even within those texts, stewardship and care are just as present as dominance. What gets emphasized depends on who's doing the interpreting—and what they're trying to justify.
That's why I say this isn't about necessity—it's about narrative. If dairy truly came from animals who were loved, respected, and allowed to live full lives, I'd be vegetarian without hesitation. But that's not the system we have. What we have is industrialized exploitation, justified by tradition, convenience, culture, and selectively interpreted belief.
There's also a reason this ideology has been marketed almost entirely to men.
The meat industry spent decades selling the idea that "real men eat meat." It worked. To this day, it's one of the only things many men are socially encouraged to cook.
That narrative wasn't accidental—it was profitable.
Even Arnold Schwarzenegger has spoken publicly about how deeply that myth was sold—and how, after multiple major heart surgeries, he was forced to confront reality, face the facts for himself, and shift to a mostly plant-based diet.
I'm vegan—not because I think I'm morally superior, and not because I haven't looked at the science, but because I have. And because animal rights actually mean something to me.
If you believe in freedom, autonomy, and sovereignty, those principles don't magically stop applying when the subject can't speak your language.
When alternatives exist, eating animals is a choice.
An animal doesn't just walk around as food.
And outsourcing violence doesn't absolve anyone of responsibility—it's still murder.
#IKITAO #AnimalRights #GoVegan
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Merry Christmas 🙏🏻💜
I do, and indeed he is.
Cousin Eddie's metal plate
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