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TheFuzzStone
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Agorist ┃ FOSS enthusiast ┃ Co-founder: XMR.RU

Damn, I got an email from Warren Buffett. Anyway, I don't have WhatsApp. If he had SimpleX, I would have written to him.

+1 cool project in the Monero ecosystem: https://goxmr.click/ (made by @SlowBearDigger).

A "link-in-bio" service where you can add links to your socials, PGP/GPG key, XMR wallet address, etc.

Support the project with some XMR. 🧡

Black&White: https://goxmr.click/thefuzzstone

🐔 “kokoko-kooo, what a terrible state and its employees are…”

These idiots gave away information about themselves. There was no surprise.

That's the price of having democracy, and the society.

Thanks God we have survived that zombie-virus-Covid19™️

Don't pay taxes.

Don't save in fiat.

The essence of Hawala is that money from country_1 is not transferred to country_2.

This is especially true for large sums, which would immediately be noticed and confiscated at the airport.

Read about Hawala. It is a huge piece of human history that involves voluntary trade and resistance to the state and its regulations.

Wow, the dude doesn't even understand how Hawala works, but he's suggesting how to "stop Hawala".

That's just the best joke I've heard in the last few months.

https://x.com/JayFivekiller/status/2009464295663321237

I'm not gloating about the early inflation bug in 2010 because the technology was new. But then there was another inflation bug in 2018... And that's a skill issue.

At the moment, only Bitcoin had this problem. But, as always, "Monero is bad". :)

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Hey nostr:nprofile1qqs9uc95nwq3qc0zkfreugs8t43kpezuyzyy7p9ctcnlgpqtngmuuhc8np7un Those notifications are from people you follow. Anything they post (other than notes) triggers a notification. I checked your settings and the “Following” option is enabled. If you don’t want these, just disable that option. PS: notifications you already received are cached. If you want them gone, do a hard refresh using the arrow above, after that you’ll only see what matches your current notification settings.

I turned them off, but now I also don't get notifications when someone new starts following me...

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The good old psyop days. Those were good times. I miss them.

If you are a leftist, but your brain is not yet completely damaged and there is a chance of recovery, I recommend starting with reading: "Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School" by Gene Callahan

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This situation showed how many lunatic leftists there are in Bitcoin and the crypto community as a whole.

Once again, slowly:

1) a group of people (white people) decided to create a personal website (with their own money), and set their own rules on that website;

2) a leftist non-binary-genderfluid-turbo-diesel creature invaded (yes, invaded, because no one invited this creature), destroyed someone else's work, and other non-binary-genderfluid-turbo-diesel creatures applauded him at the CCC conference.

I am not trying to appeal to the common sense of leftists or explain things to them from the perspective of economic analysis. If leftists understood economic analysis, they would not be leftists. nostr:nevent1qqs9vg6usvvd68xgphp5fr6qm3e6x0x2y6es4mjlljleg823f68mspq7h8zvr

For about 10 years, I've been saying that hardware wallets are, at best, fancy USB sticks.

At worst, they're an additional attack vector for the owner.

#Ledger

I once wanted to visit CCC. I heard about the leftism of the brain of a large number of participants...

In other words, there was a website where white people wanted to meet... *check notes* other white people. And according to modern leftists, that is forbidden.

What was demonstrated cannot even be called a vulnerability, but simply the incompetence of the site's chief administrator. nostr:nevent1qqs9vg6usvvd68xgphp5fr6qm3e6x0x2y6es4mjlljleg823f68mspq7h8zvr

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I'm deeply concerned about what I saw from CCC this year, though CCC is just one example of a broader pattern. A journalist hacked a white supremacy dating site, extracted all data, and destroyed their infrastructure live on stage. The crowd celebrated. This seems to be the direction society is choosing, and I'm not sure it's leading anywhere good.

I need to say this clearly: I despise white supremacy. But I'm not writing about them. I'm writing about what's happened to hacker culture, and what this approach actually accomplishes.

The hacking ethos used to be about resisting power itself, not about wielding power against the right targets. We opposed surveillance, censorship, and centralized control as structural problems, not as things that were bad only when used by the wrong people. The principle was simple: concentrate power anywhere and it will be abused, so build systems that distribute it.

Somewhere along the way, that changed. "hacker culture" has become increasingly collectivist, increasingly comfortable with using force and control as long as it serves the correct ideology. The logic is seductive: we're the good guys, we're targeting bad people, therefore our use of power is justified. But that's exactly how every authoritarian movement justifies itself.

Here's what nobody seems willing to ask: what did this actually accomplish? I'd never heard of this white supremacy dating site before. It was probably a handful of people in their own corner of the internet, doing nothing of consequence. Now they're martyrs. Now they have a story about persecution by the powerful tech elite. Now they have proof that "the system" is out to destroy them, which is exactly the narrative that radicalizes people further.

This is basic human psychology. When you attack people's identity and destroy their spaces, you don't make them reconsider their beliefs. You confirm their worldview. You give them grievance. You push them deeper into their ideology and make them more willing to fight back. Every authoritarian regime understands this: if you want to eliminate an ideology, persecution is the worst possible approach. But it feels satisfying, and that's what matters to the crowd.

What we're doing is pouring gasoline on cultural and racial tensions. We're creating cycles of retaliation where each side sees the other as an existential threat that must be destroyed. The white supremacists see this hack as proof they're under attack. They'll radicalize further, recruit more effectively, and be more willing to use violence because they have a persecution narrative that's actually true. And when they retaliate, the other side will use that as justification for more aggressive action. This is how tribal conflicts escalate into wars.

Hacker culture used to understand that the tools we normalize using will eventually be used against us. When we cheer for infrastructure destruction targeting racists today, we're establishing that infrastructure destruction based on ideology is legitimate. What happens when the political winds shift? What happens when the people with power decide that anarchists, or activists, or minority communities are the "dangerous ideology" that needs to be hacked and destroyed? There is no principle left to appeal to, because we've already agreed that power is fine as long as we like the target.

The shift toward collectivist thinking, toward "solidarity" as the highest value, toward celebrating power when it's used against acceptable targets, this creates exactly the tribal dynamics that lead to conflict. When your identity is bound up in your collective, and the collective has decided who the enemy is, questioning the tactics becomes betrayal. Dissent becomes treason. And anyone pointing out that you're creating the very cycles of violence you claim to oppose gets treated as an enemy themselves.

Hackers used to be about building systems assuming those systems would be used against us, so we made them resilient and distributed. That required uncomfortable consistency: defending infrastructure neutrality even for people we despised, because the alternative was endless cycles of retaliation. We understood that you can't build a free society by normalizing the destruction of spaces you disagree with, because eventually someone will disagree with you.

The question isn't whether white supremacists are bad. Obviously they are. The question is whether we've become so focused on winning the current battle that we can't see we're creating the conditions for endless war. And whether we've forgotten that the point of hacker culture was to build systems that made such wars unnecessary, not to become better warriors in them.

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In today's world, does a "white supremacy dating site" simply mean a website where only white people can meet?

If that's the case... What's the problem?

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Some people will spend New Year's Eve locked up in prison simply because they didn't have the money to buy their freedom from Zelensky's dictatorial regime.

https://video.nostr.build/14de8df4eea1758f48819c16041ed9b4ac1e71a450fd594f75cf3e64cbafd3e4.mp4

YouTube threw me a few videos like: "I'm done. Leaving the USA."

And in each of these videos, you can hear that "the government doesn't care about people."

I don't understand, what's so surprising about that?

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Add a pinch of agorism to this, and teach people how to use GrapheneOS, SimpleX, and Monero instead of your local shitcoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-56EsjlkvY

Escape from the concentration camp called "Ukraine".

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In the Odessa region, border guards shot and killed a man on the border with Moldova as he attempted to flee Ukraine.

The victim was a 23-year-old man from Kharkiv.

Border guards noticed men climbing over protective structures and, after unsuccessful calls to stop, fired several "warning shots" in the direction of the men.

Subsequently, the body of one of the men was found with a fatal gunshot wound. The second man was detained.

#politics #Ukraine #war

I'm thinking of abandoning F-Droid as a source of apps and using Obtainium to install FOSS apps/updates.

Lately, something terrible has been happening with the speed.

Here are two videos showing attempts to update via 5G and WiFi.

https://blossom.primal.net/70a0b23dca3e35618804df1e1e9a6f871da57145103e7848e558ae526dd878e2.mp4

https://blossom.primal.net/d16774b4f0aead99fcdf67cf1561e7c2db4139b3f9ade279f7c270437d10cd1a.mp4

This is a notification from Kucoin (web version).

I wonder how true this is, or is it just an attempt to influence people by saying "FOMO is here, go!"

I hope that nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ks3f750r will manage to release a good, high-quality device that will be pleasant to use, and that it won't be a "typical FOSS" with poor build quality.

#StallmanWasRight

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/