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Nerd, ruby dev, systems theory adversarial thinker/arm chair general, Bitcoin enthusiast, toki pona 🗣👍 and other language barrier breaking methods advocate relays = [ relayable.org, nostr.wine, nostr.milou.lol, paid.spore.ws, nostr.uselessshit.co, nostr-pub.wellorder.net ]

Its way worse than you think.

These glasses in the hands of law enforcement would be nothing but a neat toy. They already have your picture in your drivers license. They can already subpoena social media for IP addresses.

In the hacker methodology, this information would be called the footprinting stage. In law enforcement, it would be called digital investigations. The same techniques that this video automates has long been in use already.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/07/google-location-police-search-warrants

For everyone who saw this and became concerned about privacy, remember that it's only pulling publically available data.

If YOU post a picture of yourself on the internet with your name, where you went to college and all of these things, then YOU are at fault.

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

If YOU are posting this kind of information on publically facing websites of anykind, it is YOUR fault for not *selectively* revealing yourself to the world.

This should be a wake up call to scrub your digital footprint now.

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x.com

Its a pretty low signal high noise social media website where people go to yell at each other

Well Cigars and cigarettes

They're in cars. They have electricity.

Fun fact: The "car charger" port was originally put there to light cigars.

"The wallet pings an onion URL to check for a new version"

So let me tell you how this can all go wrong.

From clearnet to Tor username resuse, to social engineering attacks (and lastly actual exploits" there are a lot of ways to reveal the identity of the developers and get into the server that hosts the updated program.

If a whole userbase that doesn't want their ID tied to their Bitcoin transactions is using this software for that purpose, and among that userbase is a criminal of any sort, then a malicious update to deanonymize the entire userbase is a real and persistent threat.

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Thank you for the @ Gary.

nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn Would you be interested in starting an avairy

I don't recommend the RFC IP over avian carriers, but using pigeons (or runners or light flashes or post office snail mail, or whatever other transport layer you can think of) routed over a DTN (Delay Tolerant Network) leveraging the concept of a contact plant vs what IP uses (Border Gateway Protocol routes) it is feasible.

*It is feasible to use avian carriers, provided you have another avian enthusiast willing to join you within range and other transport layer options were considered less desirable.

https://stacker.news/items/330735/r/nerd2ninja

This is my series on this. I do believe a 1st worlder will prefer a dronenet aka faenet over avian carriers, but operating a drone without line of sight is not legal in the US, so if you prefer to have legal redundant high bandwidth (aka large file transfers) and driving it over isn't preferred maybe you would consider avian carriers.

Lol

Great. He reinvented the bionic eye. Will he at least improve the image quality or something?

https://www.visioncenter.org/resources/bionic-eye/

What's next? Neurolink restores hearing to the deaf? (aka reinvents cochlear implants?)

https://thesun.my/local-news/mcmc-addresses-misinformation-on-dns-redirection-internet-access-restrictions-BN12972452

Malaysians, this is your warning. Learn how to self host your own DNS, write down the IP of your favorite websites (add nostr relays by ip instead of domain name) learn to use tor something anything to insulate yourself from the government imposed internet use limitations you will likely see in the coming years.

Experimental releases of #GrapheneOS for the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL can already be installed with the web installer on our staging site:

https://staging.grapheneos.org/install/web

Can also use the CLI install guide with the releases listed on the staging site releases page.

Our USB-C port control feature with both hardware-level and software-level enforcement hasn't been ported to them yet. They temporarily have our old USB peripherals toggle not depending on changes to device-specific USB HAL and USB-C kernel driver. We aim to get this done soon.

These are production builds signed with the official keys with our standard update system. They'll get updated to future releases without needing to reinstall the OS.

For now, please report issues to our testing chat room rather than our issue tracker: https://grapheneos.org/contact#community-chat.

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Will the Pixel 9 fold be supported?

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I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡

"When Bitcoin is your bank account, when every dollar you earn is going into Bitcoin, you are disproportionately exposed to the net positive volatility of Bitcoin. You tend to spend more when it goes up, save more when it goes down. Do I regret spending 0.1 BTC on a cell phone? No. Everyone else should regret not putting their entire bank account in Bitcoin. It's not those of us living on Bitcoin losing out, it's those of you treating it like an investment." -Guy I know on discord.

Blood pressure man. Some people are way more chill just having a different diet