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Alex Li
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Replying to Avatar BTCPay Server

๐ŸŽ‰Announcing nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td as a special guest at #BTCPayDay in Riga!

Alex is one of our longest-standing supporters who has helped numerous activists raise millions of dollars by setting up BTCPay Server instances.

Thank you, Alex, for all your invaluable contributions!

One of our favorite crowdfunding campaigns: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/10/16/nigerian-banks-shut-them-out-so-these-activists-are-using-bitcoin-to-battle-police-brutality/

This year weโ€™ve booked a chill venue in a historic villa with a beautiful garden located in the heart of Riga! Lots of outdoor areas to chill!

Capacity for the event is limited so make sure to sign up as soon as possible.

https://day.btcpayserver.org

Shooting my type 24 Chinese maxim machine gun, short bursts to snipe distant targets #gunstr https://video.nostr.build/1c180afcb02e4f54804218e216b5d59422208f8c4540d30744de49b66db6b561.mp4

Powering it with the outlet in my jeep in the photo, bought a battery pack + USB C to DC cable to use for future outlets so I don't have to keep my jeep running

The new Starlink Mini is quite nice, super portable and it's just cool to have high speed satellite internet anywhere you go

Few things beat the smell of gasoline + classic cars, was fun to see the hot august nights car cruise in Reno

https://video.nostr.build/f2e6dcbf8a4b516687c7473577df87afd3191b19d3c29ef80c4d7d41e781b72e.mp4

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This is my current #grapheneOS setup.

I have three distinct profiles on my phone, each serving a specific purpose.

๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ: This is my daily driver, free and open-source apps only. It has everything I need for my daily needs. For privacy reasons, I've excluded #bitcoin and #nostr related applications from this profile to maintain a low-profile and avoid leaking my online identity if someone were to snatch the phone out of my hands.

๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ: This secondary profile is designed as a decoy. I've installed a bunch of normie apps to make it more realistic, and some closed-source ones that I occasionally need. I rarely use this profile. I only switch to it when absolutely necessary, if you know what I mean.

๐—–๐˜†๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ธ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ: This is where my true online identity lies, and where all the bitcoin and nostr apps reside. TOR, E2E chats, secret notes, and files are all here. I only access this profile when I'm alone and confident it's safe to do so.

All profiles have different passwords, obviously. Fingerprint disabled. And I've customized the color scheme of the menus for each one of them, so I can easily tell which profile I'm on.

While inside the Decoy Profile, you cannot see the installed apps from the other two profiles, but you can see that there are indeed two additional profiles on the device. I've taken extra steps to obscure this information by changing the profile picture on all three profiles to solid dark color that blends with the UI, and removed the profile names by using a invisible character, making them appear identical (i know it's not 100% fool proof but it's the best we can do).

All profiles have a pure black wallpaper, and the home screen has no icons, folders or widgets (except on the Decoy Profile). To access an app, I simply scroll up and open it from the default drawer, which displays all installed apps on that profile. This approach saves battery life and adds a slight bit of privacy.

Each profile has its own VPN running continuously, using different IP addresses, with killswitch turned on. All my free and open-source (#foss) apps are installed via Obtainium (aka downloads straight from the source). The closed-source 'normie' apps used in the Decoy Profile are from the Aurora Store (aka downloads from Play Store without needing an account).

Every app installed has most of its permissions stripped away, leaving only the absolute minimum required. Storage and contact scopes are always used.

Microphone, camera, NFC, bluetooth and location services, always turned off, unless absolutely needed for a brief moment.

Finally, I have disabled auto-updates on all apps and the operating system itself (by disabling 'System Updater' app). I want to be in control of my device, I choose when to update. I can't risk crowdstrike-like updates, so I wait a few days before updating.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec

I'm running graphene OS on a pixel 8 pro. It's very nice to have maximum privacy but remember the tradeoffs are not having lots of convenient features like tap to pay, kinda crappy UI/UX at times, and random bugs.

Beware of fake tokens! Wait for the real Trump token so we can pump and dump it on you and scam our supporters! Anyone who even discusses altcoins is a scammer who should be kicked out of Bitcoin but an exception will be made for daddy trump because NGU!

I'm shocked that a serial scammer and conman would also delve into shitcoin scams. If your favorite maxi influencer who supports Trump because NGU doesn't call this out you really need to reevaluate who you follow.

https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1821606504061116542

So in the UK they have "dedicated police officers who are scouring social media" for insulting or abusive material. Even retweeting is a potential offense. Thankfully in America we have the 1st amendment so we can tell wannabe bootlicking government officials and the thought police to get lost.

https://video.nostr.build/c10f9a293458dad3f69da9ad171236d72e0bcd88bb5aa974c16bf5caacf76b6f.mp4

So the wallet doesn't work over VPN, requires a phone number, and has 0.01% the users of altcoin products. Galaxy brain idea

How does one vett Fedi communities? I'm comfortable trusting small amounts of sats to community custody, just need to find a reputable community to join.

Breez wallet is a great alternative if you don't want to use Phoenix or Zeus

Embedded LND using the Olympus LSP