Holidays are over, but the mission has just begun. 🏰⚡️
While others were resting, I was busy getting my hands dirty—studying, learning, and building my own "Invisible" infrastructure on a recycled 2017 Acer laptop. True digital independence is a skill you cannot delegate; otherwise, you'll always choose convenience over freedom. 🧠📚
Here is the progress report on my stealth stack:
🔐 Identity & Encryption (PGP): I’ve taken control of my PGP Key Pair. Strategic advantage? Google Drive is now just "dumb storage." Sensitive docs are encrypted locally before upload. Privacy now depends on math, not corporate promises.
👻 Privacy Layer & Stealth Stack: Consolidated a local ecosystem to kill tracking and secure metadata:
AdGuard Home: Network-wide DNS filtering. dnsleaktest.com confirms my house now communicates exclusively with 2 encrypted/secure DNS servers. My ISP is officially blind.
Vaultwarden: Sovereign management of passwords and WebAuthn Passkeys.
Syncthing: P2P cloud syncing all my devices without central servers.
⛓️💥 Financial Sovereignty: With a new 2TB SSD installed, I’m finally in the game. Currently at 15% of the Bitcoin blockchain sync. Once finished, I’ll fire up the Lightning node and look into setting up a WatchTower.
🤖 The AI Mentor: Ironically, I made heavy use of Google Gemini—a centralized and "noisy" LLM 😅. However, thanks to deep learning, I was able to quickly source info on what I was putting "under the hood." I used AI as a driver to validate my hypotheses on the robustness and invisibility of the solutions I was deploying. 🤝
The lesson from these holidays? Stop being a passive user and start being an owner. The road to 100% is long, but the view is beautiful.
Goal for 2026: Dive even deeper. 🚪🚫
#DigitalSovereignty #PGP #SelfHosting #Privacy #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork #Linux #Nostr #Pleb #StackingKnowledge
Percy and Athos ❤️❤️
Se ho ben capito, questa è l'Operation Red Sunset:
1) Bitmain (cinese) costruisce ASIC per mining Bitcoin
2) Tali ASIC (Ant miner) contengono backdoor che permettono lo spegnimento remoto
3) Uno spegnimento simultaneo di n kWh può causare un eccesso di energia elettrica nella rete, quindi un sovraccarico, quindi un blackout
4) C'è una mining farm vicina ad una importante base militare in Wyoming, stracolma di dispositivi Bitmain
5) Molto dei dispositivi Bitmain in Wyoming sono di proprietà della ABTC Corporation, fondata da 2 figli di Trump
6) ABTC ha comprato 314mln$ di dispositivi da Bitmain in agosto 2025, usando Bitcoin come collaterale
7) I fatti dall'1 al 6 sono verificati
Grazie @Guybrush e @Rikki del Bitcoin Italia Podcast
Sunday is #pizza and German #beer 
Eremo Monte Ricco, colli euganei, #Padova #Padua
#Veneto 
https://video.nostr.build/71552ed4f5fe97bd23e023ebc86f71753e7f862691a310eae9ab165052e04b12.mp4
Happy birthday #Bitcoin
In 2026 the plan will be the same than 2025: stack sats.
With an improvement: more digital sovereignty (I already have my own DNS, password manager and cloud).
I want to deploy a lightning node and try to go deeper in the rabbit hole and find if and how I can use lightning network for meaningful purchases.
#bitcoin #lightning #2026 #DigitalSovereignity
HAPPY NEW YEAR BY Athos and Percy ❤️
Drones in Prato della Valle, #Padova #Padua
#NewYearsEve #Veneto
https://video.nostr.build/0ceddd8320923889600c01431c704a65d1c01d5dd7c4bdbc5fc473815e9be281.mp4 https://video.nostr.build/0eaa5f6f46ef8ee444c8039bae48d6fb7bba2341161f7272631bac1945a991c5.mp4
Hike from Vetriolo (Levico Terme) to Malga Masi (1,747 m above sea level), passing by Marco Martalar's Lupa del Lagorai.
The Lupa del Lagorai is located at 1,600 meters above sea level, in the hamlet of Vetriolo (municipality of Levico Terme, the highest spa town in Europe). Standing 6 meters tall and made from approximately 2,000 pieces of scrap wood, it is a work by sculptor Marco Martalar.
A beautiful trek through the areas devastated by Storm Vaia. The effects of the storm are still visible, but so is the impressive restoration work carried out by the local population.
#hiking #trentino
https://video.nostr.build/51c45b3f559f743b0479c554f76251da441e9e8ed6b020a3365ee3808cdd7e8c.mp4
#Hiking in Levico Terme, catena del Lagorai (TN)
#Trentino #Italy
We could visit the Wolf of Lagorai made by artista Marco Martalar and drink a beer at Malga Masi.
The Lupa del Lagorai (Lagorai Wolf) is located at an altitude of 1,600 meters in the hamlet of Vetriolo (municipality of Levico Terme, the highest spa town in Europe). Standing 6 meters tall and made from approximately 2,000 pieces of scrap wood, it is a work by sculptor Marco Martalar.
A beautiful trek through the areas devastated by Storm Vaia. The effects of the storm are still visible, but so is the tremendous restoration work carried out by the local population.
https://video.nostr.build/e2b5fa6d31aeb6bf15c34ea22fc3031bd7c3539ee34eb39931a8bb81ee12d0c6.mp4 
Reverse searing experiment
#barbecue #asado https://video.nostr.build/24e3eccfca9ff64344fb0bb3bbac9132e1d4736f7c6f1e3ed88e5a0ce9d7e74e.mp4
My #dogs, Percy and Athos
#collie #scottish
https://video.nostr.build/ef4dbdcde027e225284c51fa0b73f4966d47c2b87fa15110a06e65ea9bea83ff.mp4
#X (former #Twitter) is now just propaganda of the kremlin, pro-pal, anti-EU
Fuck that algorithm and fuck #Musk.
#Nostr makes more sense every day
GM
Is digital privacy a luxury? No, it is an architectural choice.
It’s Boxing Day (Santo Stefano) and, being unable to sit idle, I decided to take back my digital keys. 🗝️
It all started with a paradox: I wanted to change my Wi-Fi password, but I was "held hostage" by my solar panel inverter (no password, no local access, only proprietary cloud).
That’s when I decided I had to become the sole master of my information again. I already had a hunch, but there it is.
Many think that to protect oneself, you have to become a digital troglodyte. Error. The problem isn’t technology, but our competence and the control of the servers on which the data runs.
Investing time in privacy is a civil act.
Because privacy is freedom, and freedom implies individual responsibility. To be free means to stop delegating our identity to third parties.
As a tech enthusiast, I started building my "Digital Fortress" on Debian.
🎯 Why start with DNS, Cloud, and Payments?
Because these are the three faucets from which our most intimate data flows: where we go (DNS), who we are (Cloud), and how we live (Payments).
Here is my plan:
🛡️ Block 1: Sovereignty (Data & Finance)
I turned an old laptop into a home server:
• AdGuard Home (DNS): Browsing filtered at the root and encrypted queries, invisible to the ISP.
• Syncthing (Cloud): P2P synchronization of photos and documents. Files remain under my physical control.
• Bitcoin & LND (Next step): Lightning node for instant and private payments without intermediaries (now I just need to find someone to pay me in Satoshi! 😅).
💰 Cost: ~€250 (Hardware + 2TB SSD). An investment that eliminates subscriptions and surveillance. In reality, I recycled an old laptop that works excellently with Linux Debian.
🧠 Block 2: Private AI (The future with Ollama)
The goal is cognitive independence: running LLMs locally so as not to send thoughts and code to Silicon Valley.
⚠️ Note: This is where things get serious. You need computing power (GPU/RAM). The hardware investment will be significantly higher and the technologies are constantly evolving. We shall see.
In 2026, my goal is to take back my privacy. It is possible and costs little. If we don’t do it, it’s only for convenience... then let’s not complain. 🛡️
#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #Debian #AI #Ollama #SelfHosting #CyberSecurity #FreedomTechnology
It also says in USA there are a few huge companies. If European Union gives freedom to their companies... They will invade the world