This is my current #grapheneOS setup.

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

𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: 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.

𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: 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.

𝗖𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: 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

The sky, vast and free, reflects the discord within, like a mirror to the soul's unrest.

The earth, solid and enduring, trembles when balance is lost, as if even the ground beneath us recognizes our inner turmoil.

The fire within, a force of passion, can burn all in its path if left unchecked, a reminder that our deepest desires and pain can both create and destroy.

Water, ever-changing and resilient, can drown in its abundance, showing us that too much of even the purest element can overwhelm.

Air, guiding change, can devastate in an instant, as unpredictable as the wind that shapes the course of a life.

At the heart lies the true path to harmony, but even it can lead to ruin if swayed, for the heart is as vulnerable as it is powerful.

All things must remain in balance; without it, everything falls apart. Balance is the foundation of all. And like a ship on the open sea, we navigate the storms of existence, knowing that it is in the delicate equilibrium of all things that we find our true direction.

#spiritual #faith #unknown #truthstr #elements #nostr

Main fun objective of the image is the triangle sizes/scales are accurate to each other—worth a think

Fun back-of-the-napkin #bitcoin gymnastics:

Global currencies’ M2 (money supply plus less liquid assets like deposits) guess = $113 trillion USD equivalent

19.7 million #bitcoin in circulation

Implied value per circulated #bitcoin = $5.7 million

…then again…

~300,000 #bitcoin traded on exchanges around the world (pretend this is all that is available to acquire)

Implied value = ~$375 million per traded #bitcoin

Somewhat bearish, but even then why sell? Study #bitcoin and have fun. Credit to nostr:npub14s6q5rl6fpvfax90s4mh23ffarze7l73zrcmeqedp6x5cnfarpfss0pq47 for the scaled inverted triangle image inspiration scaled to these numbers

Everyone should read about the Nazis, it really, really makes you realize how much of a grift collectivism is.

The idea that you have to submit your will for the good of the collective is not just tied to the Borg from Star Trek, people in Nazi Germany actually used to think like this.

Then the people who tell you that "the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit..." turn around and steal EVERYTHING from you.

Marxism and socialism in all its form is just a giant con which only benefits the people running the show. Fuck collectivism. The state must protect the rights of the individual, which are self evident and come from God (or birth if you are atheist). You are not here to serve as a cog in a giant statist machine.

Thank god for #bitcoin

Jokes aside. There's a very real threat of retaliation violence in the US. Don't let them-- whoever "they" are--pit us against each other. If we do that, "they" win, and we lose.

This Elon’s tweet about the illegal European Commission secret deal proposal got 46 million views so far.

How many TV channels and daily papers does it take to match that audience?

Hehe censors rekt

On-boarding people to Nostr now is like: Well, you can use Amethyst, which by now is so complicated only devs can enjoy it but still you won't be able to tag a profile in a note and have to copy the npub over from another app, like Primal! ...which can't do the most basic things like blocking accounts on this bot infested protocol of ours. Oryou get an iPhone to install Damus which they say is slick but that's of course only to be loved by the guys locked in the Apple panopticon but with just some hacky workarounds you get the cool functions too. Then there are web clients that require browser extensions for the login, which of course don't work on your smartphone. Sometimes you see NIP or other Lingua Nostr on options and buttons, then you just have to research on github & wiki do learn what it is or better not click it.... But yeah. Welcome to

Event no found.

🇩🇪The german government is now left with only $750M of Bitcoin after dumping 8,853 coins today!

After having $3.6B of Bitcoin last week, they've now sold over 80% of their Bitcoin.🤯

The fact that Bitcoin has just absorbed $3B of sell pressure this week is MASSIVE!🚀

Economic incentive, I don’t think any. The only incentive to use the protocol would be to take away the responsibility of being held accountable to governments that ask for censorship or access to information that large social networks currently administer. Jack explained this in an interview months ago.

I personally believe that the only way for #Nostr to reach a critical mass of users will be only if a large social network with more media reach decides to use the protocol as its communication base. Otherwise, without all the necessary media, economic and advertising power, I do not see it feasible to achieve that goal.

(Come to #Nostr if you don't get bored reading an irritatingly long post:)

Left LinkedIn, left Facebook, left Instagram. Never started using Tiktok.

Using WhatsApp and Telegram only because of professional reason.

Reducing the use of X (Twitter). Will use Discord for only 8 weeks. Don't know anything about any other social media.

Reducing the use of YouTube and Google search but haven't find any reliable alternative yet.

Not because I hate them. In fact, I love them more than Nostr. I found most of these social media platforms pretty decent and usefull in many ways.

For example, Facebook was the first social media I used. I found a lot of good friends there, got a lot of knowledge and informations from different Facebook groups.

YouTube is still my first priority for a detailed To Do video about almost anything. Found all the Bitcoiner communities and all the other Bitcoin related things on Twitter first. In fact, Twitter was the place where I first got introduced to Nostr.

But every decission comes with a trade off; Most importantly an opportunity cost. When we use something or decide to use something, we take the risk of loosing the next best thing we could have instead. And by looking at the opportunity cost of our decision, we can have an idea of how good or how bad the original decision was.

From Fiat to Bitcoin, from Facebook to Nostr, this phenomenon applies to everything. when we accept fiat as money, we loss the opportunity of accepting Bitcoin, hence loss all the advantages of a far superior, more reliable sound money. But when we accept Bitcoin, we just loss the opportunity (?) of using a less reliable, far inferior fiat money or any other crypto that are not capable of providing all the advantages of Bitcoin any way.

Something similar can be seen in case of social media. When we use any traditional, centralized social media, we get some nice looking features, a fancy feeling, some nicely done UI and a relatively smooth experience. But in return, we gradually become a puppet of algorithms, unwillingly become a target of marketing gimmicks, a source of personal data and we also loss the opportunity of getting all the benifits of a totally decentralised protocol. Those "all the benifits" includes thing like sensorship resistance, which is a nice way of ensuring freedom of speech. And vice versa when we actually start using Nostr instead of all these social media platforms.

Of course nostr is not perfect and not yet capable enough to immediately replace all those platforms at once. but just look the trade off! I mean getting non-kyced verified ticks, not having the risk of personal data leak, not having to worry about getting banned, not having to be a puppet of algorithms, a target of advertising, a victim of server demage/hacking etc, just for a little inconvenience of using the nostr client apps/websites?

I don't think there is any logical explanation of not using nostr over other social media platforms, unless we consider being addicted to a certain social media platform (other than nostr because it doesn't have an addictive algo) as a "logical explanation".

If each person in #nostr put in 100000 sats we can use the money to buy a remote island and found a city state by buying the land from some willing country.

We've all spent more money zapping memes.

Who's in? #asknostr

In your opinion, what are the reasons #bitcoin won't see enough adoption to seriously rival & threaten The Banking System© and instead fade into irrelevance against the Fiat Empire maintained by the Statusquorians? Fire away. What sucks?

#blackorangepill

I do 5 grams a day - mornings because it is usually before a workout (or hours of tennis coaching) as well as a cognitive benefit.

In a smoothie, or I'll put the scoop of creatine and scoop of citrulline in my coffee mug...give it a whisk in some water...and slam it.

Mad and linux-ish suggestion: if you are very very very used to vim keybindings you can try qutebrowser, bit that's more a side-broswer than a daily driver.

Jokes aside, Mint is really good. My suggestion is to try to not to be dispersive with regards to the installation methods for the software you install, meaning that going with flatpak+.deb+snap+.AppImage+source ecc can make the update of dependencies and software very cumbersome. Instead, try to centralize into a few methods...for ideological reasons I would not recommend Snap, go for flatpak.

I don't know how the "windows emulator" market is for Apple products, for GNU/Linux you have mainly Wine. But overall Wine is not very good, try to avoid emulation if possibile. If you're using Gnome as a DE I suggest to proritize the utilities that Gnome bundles in its suite...they're very nice and well done.