One of the advantages working from home

Alright, back in the studio. I'll be living here for a while and crush the work.

Let me share my plans for 2024.

● At least 8 new products and the creation of 2 new categories.

● The addition of a photographer to the team.

● Turn The LeatherMint into not only an hyperbitcoinzed store but a central hub for all things Bitcoin.

Learning

Articles

Informations

Culture

I want to build a place we can proudly point to when someone ask us "What is bitcoin?".

You know what people see when you talk about Bitcoin?

They See degenerate charts

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They See clickbait articles

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They see crypto..

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You know what they see? They see the $. They See very little work. Very little use outside earning more $.

I'm sick and tired to not be taken seriously.

I'm sick and tired of that cRyPtO vibe and I'm gonna do something about it.

Bitcoin is work therefore it's real.

Mullvad uses Gmail

The VPN company Mullvad mouths off “privacy is a right”, but deep down they really don’t give a shit. They don’t even bother to host their own emails for critical technical support, and point their MX email record to Google. (See attached image)

This is a potential privacy risk because many times people will not bother to use PGP and the technical support will ask for their account number. And you’re assuming the people who need VPN technical support even know how to use PGP, and they likely aren’t hiding their IP address because they need support. Often people may use their real email, so they don’t miss the reply on burners, and that leaks their name. Now Google, and therefore the government, know your mullvad account number…

From here, the government can sign in to Mullvad’s site as you, and see the timestamp of first sign-in on each device with the wireguard public key. Although Mullvad masks it will bullshit names, the government can sign-out of the device so when you re-sign in thinking it’s a random technical error, they now know which is which. This enables at a minimum, the identification of your other devices. Maybe you signed in at another location? For example your cellphone.

When you’re out using WiFi anonymously at a public location, the government signs you out of Mullvad. So then when you sign back in, they identify the public location traffic as you. If this is not enough, now the government knows which account to demand a court order for. What are you going to request technical support? Sounds like more info gathering.

Even if none of this is relevant to you. The basic fact remains that Mullvad is using primarily Google to talk to customers, and the customers aren’t even aware of it because it’s a vanity domain. I don’t think people realize just how difficult it is to avoid Google. It’s not voluntary dude, these companies are forcing me out to the fringe of society, to not have everything I’m doing piped into a company I so vehemently hate.

Google is literally paid by the US government to manipulate search results through their Jigsaw division and Moonshot CVE. They aren’t just doing ads dude, it’s a for-profit propaganda machine.

Other privacy influencers always recommend Mullvad, and for the most part I do agree with this for the “average joe”. But let’s keep it real here, if you check the servers, they use many of the same 3rd party providers. Mullvad, IVPN, and TorGuard all use M247 for New York and Los Angeles. So if you connected to LA Mullvad, then switch to LA IVPN, thinking you’re getting a “new identity” you’re not. It’s NSA passive surveillance on the size of data packets going in and out of places like M247 that reveal you, and NOT Mullvad backstabbing you.

Does using Gmail mean Mullvad is compromised? No! You’re twisting my words…

What I’m saying is that very few people genuinely care about privacy, and when you realize just how involuntary Google is, only then can you actually take steps to free yourself.

Is the point of this to smear Mullvad? Sort of. I want to create negative consequences for all companies that force Big Tech on us. All of them think they can cut costs because the public doesn’t care.

Well, I’m here today to say that I care. And even if I stand alone. Even if I’m shadow banned by search engines off the face of the earth. I stand my ground.

But I got a feeling I’m not alone. So if you spread this message, maybe… just maybe, we can get Mullvad to change.

So saddened to hear the news of the death of US journalist Gonzalo Lira — abandoned by US state dept and all western journalists to be silenced, tortured and killed in Ukranian jail for the crime of peacfull journalism. He explained accounts of previous torture and extortion in jail in his August youtube videos.

Two days ago his 80 year old father pleeded in desperation for his release or transfer to hospital for lifesaving treatment. He explained he was close to dying from pnumonia and a collapsed lung, that he initially contracted in jail in October of last year and was continously denied treatment.

He had two small children in Ukraine so he did not want to leave and he would not let himself be silenced from reporting on what he saw.

This could only happen cause socity allowed the ongoing torture and slow killing of Julian Assange to play out in silence.

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Hi all, new to nostr. I’m a kiwi (nz’r) living in Ojai, CA. Experienced software entrepreneur, ceo, and advisor. Love helping startup teams strategize plan for growth. Ive been an avid bitcoiner since 2013 but haven’t worked in the space. Plan to change that in 2024. Looking forward to meeting my fellow nostrites!

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Hey All

I’m so happy to be here to share my music journey with you all! I hope that somewhere along the line you hear something from me that you like and decide to listen again! 😁

#introductions

GM

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yeeah just to make a more nuanced comment

i think it was an error in Go's design to not make memory management more explicit

i tend to think of every var statement as an allocation instruction, but i don't think that's how it works actually

the trickiest thing is what to do when you produce values that you need to send outside of a function scope, and specifically when they are pointers, pointers make such a mess, but are neccessary, and at the same time extremely troublesome because it's nearly impossible to deduce until you actually execute it in every possible condition what actually happens to the memory

odin looks interesting but i'm too committed to Go tbh

it's just annoying the piss out of me new quirks in the modules system causing me a headache

i honestly wish there was an opt out for modules, i miss the old days, oh, there was problems with mangled gopaths if you worked on more than one unrelated project in the same gopath but tha could have been fixed so much more simply than modules, i still hate modules, took me a year to finally bend to them and i still regret it

PRETTY SURE MOST OF US HAVE NO DOLLARS LEFT.

GOOD MORNING NOSTR, STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS 🫡

WE LIKE THE COIN.

WE RUN THE NODES.

WE HOLD THE KEYS.

WE ZAP THE SATS.

i think that programmability is the main thing and that takes a really radical and radically sane philosophy of computer systems design, i don't think AI really helps that much if you don't have good fundamentals in the system design

this is partly why i'm a @golang maxi - to me, it is like the kind of language that we should be using to make the entire system with, with clear and clean and well structured code a lot things get a lot simpler to do, like adding and changing features without blowing everything else up

so, i got my monthly supply of milk today... 90L of whole milk...

was very pleasing to discover that i can carry 30L - 3x6 packs in my backpack and 2x sixpacks one in each hand for the 150m trip from my local general store to my house

my milspec backpack is supposedly 25L capacity but it can carry 18 at least

not advisable to carry cartons of milk this way for long distances however, they tend to get squished here and there and that often means leaking packages

#milkstr

What do you think about these wearable ai products? I don't see why a phone wouldn't just be a better version of it

Who was it that made side panel slide out nostr comments for any website?