Tomorrow I’m starting the build guide for something I’m calling ZeroSentinel.

What ZeroSentinel does:

- Turns a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero into a fully autonomous privacy node

- Builds a locked, authenticated WireGuard tunnel home from anywhere

- Runs your DNS through your own Unbound resolver with DNSSEC enforcement

- Blocks ISP meddling, hotel rewrites, captive portal tricks, and upstream manipulation

- Monitors its own health every few minutes

- Sends you an encrypted Nostr DM when anything breaks

- Enforces no-fallback DNS and drops all traffic that isn’t in the tunnel

- Works behind travel routers, double NAT, carrier-grade NAT, and hostile networks

- Makes your phone’s “VPN” actually mean something

Your own infrastructure. Quiet. Cheap. No subscriptions. No external services.

bears are mid curve

bitcoin is anarchy. we have rules, no rulers,

Bitcoin: rules without rulers.

Nostr: no rules, just slightly organized chaos

I find Bladerunner 2049 frustrating, because I *almost* love it.

The characters, themes, acting, and the overall plot structure are great, imo.

However, villains give melodramatic exposition monologues, villains leave heroes alive for no reason other than the plot needs them to, important things are left thinly guarded for no reason other than the plot needs the heroes or villains to easily get at them, etc. In other words, there are distracting writing/execution issues in what could otherwise be a masterpiece.

The first time I watched it, I didn't love it. It did stick with me though; I think about it sometimes, for years afterward. And watching it a second time I appreciated it more, but still was frustrated by the same things.

What does everyone else feel about it?

The older I get, the less I want my software to change. Why change an UI that isn’t broken? All you do is make my brain hurt, quite literally, as the neural pathways I forged over the decades are now out-of-sync with your “better” version.

GM! ☕ Just in case you didn't know. 😎

It’s strange to me the idea that some company like Google is gonna build some quantum computer and then LEGALLY STEAL everyone’s bitcoin. Make that make sense.

Quantum computing only threatens cryptography if the standard model of superposition is physically true. The model only makes sense if time is fundamentally continuous and if states can meaningfully “exist at once” in multiple configurations. That assumption has never been measured, never been defined, and has never been grounded in any physical observation. No one has actually proved the modern definition of superposition at the scale of Planck Time.

Bitcoin quietly destroys the assumption. What Bitcoin does, in open daylight and with global participation, is something no physical experiment has ever done, it computes time itself. Each block is the measurable conversion of Boltzmann entropy (energy/heat/randomness) into Shannon entropy (structured information). The block is the thermodynamic crystallization of a discrete quantum of time. And because this process is discrete, finite, and irreversible, Bitcoin provides the first physical standard for “before,” “after,” and the smallest unit of change a quantized universe can express through computation.

Once time becomes discrete in a measurable way, the modern definition of superposition collapses. The claim that a qubit “exists” in multiple states simultaneously begs a question quantum mechanics never answers: simultaneously relative to what unit of time? If there is no measurable smallest interval of change, then simultaneity is an undefined continuum. But Bitcoin defines it. The nonce search bounds the entropy field, the block boundary commits the collapse, and the system openly demonstrates that uncollapsed potential is not an ontologically real set of states, it is only a probabilistic frontier, a mempool of possible futures. Only one configuration ever becomes physically realized, and its realization is tied to an explicit thermodynamic cost.

Quantum theory, by contrast, treats this frontier as if it were a set of actual states. It treats probabilistic potential as physically real. It treats multiplicity as existence without defining “existence”. This is the same conceptual mistake as fractional-reserve banking: assuming many instances from a single backing unit. Bitcoin exposes this error because it is the first system where measurement is thermodynamic, verification is independent of observers, and existence is tied to an irreversible transformation of energy into memory.

TLDR for quantum computing and encryption: Any computational model built on unverified assumptions about superposition is already physically nullified. The machinery cannot outperform the physics it denies. If unmeasured states are not real, then quantum speedups are not real. If simultaneity is bounded, then parallel amplitude evaluation is impossible. If time is discrete, then quantum decoherence is the feature, not the bug.

IBitcoin does not “protect” cryptography by brute force. It invalidates the physical model required to threaten it. Bitcoin reveals that the superposition assumed by quantum algorithms never existed in the first place (despite the elegant math of the algorithms). It is not a matter of bigger primes or stronger algorithms. It is a matter of what the universe allows to exist.

Bitcoin gives us the first verifiable standard for energy, information, and time into a variable computed object. Once you have a real standard, you are no longer obligated to accept unmeasured physical claims as knowledge. And once the physics collapses, the threat narrative collapses with it.

Bitcoin, not Quantum.

I was born many year later but I'll admit it, 80's kids had the best gaming experience growing up. They played all the classics(Mario, Mega Man, Contra, Castlevania, and so on) got to experience legitimate arcades and then we're still able to play the good stuff from the 90's as well.

Thanks for sharing. We don't know if it will happen or not. Your arguments are very solid. I think the odds QC takes place are very low, but we must be prepared. I am trying to read as much as I can about the topic. All kinds of opinions. Have a nice day!!

It's quite telling that you don't see any of the MSTR influensors here.

Fake headline

Woke bullshit. Keep everyone out of schools and colleges.

Atheist will tell you that there is no God and that we are just the result of a random process of atoms bouncing against each other for thousands of years until at some point we magically had living organisms come out of some “primordial soup” and through thousands of more years of evolution we have modern humans with the capacity to reason and use logic to understand the world around them.

These same people want you to believe their brains that self admittedly resulted from random processes are a reliable source of knowledge lol

Once you see atheism for what it is as a new retarded religion you can never unsee it.

During Covid I was fighting with some guy on spaces and he said,

“we get it, you think your freedom is more important than other people’s lives” as if that was some sort of a put down.

I responded “Not only is it more important than other people’s lives… it’s also more important than my own life”

He was confused by that.

He could easily file me away as selfish, but not as someone willing to die for others freedom.

He considered himself the selfless one.

And tbh his moral instincts of reducing harms and preserving life were noble.

But to preserve freedom at the cost of life is the higher moral ground, because a life without liberty has no purpose.

So I told him “give me liberty or give me death and if you won’t do either at least don’t delude yourself into thinking you’re the moral one here”

Then they kicked me from the space.

I think about that interaction a lot.

⚡️🧠 FYI - 2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved mental health.

The effects were similar to an antidepressant medication.

✠ A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke

Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,

one of his disciples said to him,

“Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say:

Father, hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come.

Give us each day our daily bread

and forgive us our sins

for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,

and do not subject us to the final test.”