Sorry if I get a little emotional, immense gratitude, lov y'all #sovEng 🥹

The first cohort of Sovereign Engineering was amazing.

When I went to nostrica about a year ago, I felt a profound sense of being among "my people". This is something I've never experienced before.

When I signed up for Sovereign Engineering I expected it to be something like two months of nostrica; two months of being around "my people".

But it was SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.

Dude openly admits to bribing customers to change their reviews

Keet as app itself is not but the p2p tech holepunch and pear runtime is. Only these two apps so far have been built with the tech.

Just need more builders and devs to review pear and holepunch protocols

Lol Nigerian government blames #Binance for contributing to currency devaluation, good grief what a reach, you blew up your currency and people just want to get out, and you can't blame them

While this story is a silly, I think it foreshadows how #Bitcoin is going to be blamed for a lot of failing government policy over the next few years

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I’m a big fan of local first software. It doesn’t always make sense, but it does put the user in control, it’s permissionless, it scales horizontally, and it’s pretty nifty.

Some nostr apps with embedded relays ARE local first software.

There’s a new podcast about local first software which I think would be interesting to nostriches.

I’m a big fan of local first software. It doesn’t always make sense, but it does put the user in control, it’s permissionless, it scales horizontally, and it’s pretty nifty.

Some nostr apps with embedded relays ARE local first software.

There’s a new podcast about local first software which I think would be interesting to nostriches.

🔥 Hello again, new #GrapheneOS Update 2024022600. This time we have a new security feature that's been worked on for a while: USB-C Port Security. This is a significant security enhancement.

This feature allows users of Tensor Pixels (6 and later) to have fine grained controls on USB controller functionality including totally disabling data lines or the port when the OS is in use.

There are 5 modes:

- On (current)

- Charging-only when locked except in BFU (before first-unlock)

- Charging-only when locked

- Charging-only

- Off (which even disables charging while booted into the normal OS mode).

This is different from the previous existing USB control features including the Android 12 USB HAL toggle which only disable high-level kernel functionality which still left all the low-level kernel driver, USB protocol and USB controller attack surface enabled.

Other changelogs:

- kernel (5.10, 5.15): add support for ignoring USB alt modes

- kernel (Tensor Pixels): extend max77759 USB-C controller driver used by Tensor Pixels with support for a sysfs node providing fine-grained control over the USB-C data path at the USB controller level

- Setup Wizard: fix crash for SIM locales not recognized by com.android.internal.app.LocalePicker

The last two months in #Madeira with the #SovEng cohort, building freedom tech have been absolutely incredible.