Start here: https://application.oshwa.org/apply

What's your project? 👀

Also, if you restrict people's rights, such as "nobody in such and such country can use this project" or "you can only make this for personal use"... not #OpenSource.

It's about protecting the users' #freedom, and @oshwassociation@mastodon.social seriously goes to bat for those users.

If this sounds good to you, check out the listed projects at https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html or become a member here: https://www.oshwa.org/memberships/individual-members/

Today is another #Signet #Saturday and the exciting news is that Signet is now **certified** #OpenSource #hardware

https://certification.oshwa.org/us002683.html

And @oshwassociation@mastodon.social does not have a low bar, either!

Publishing your gerber files so others can make PCBs... not good enough. You need to publish the files that generated those gerber files so others can make modifications to the board design. As it should be

Very proud to be recognized for the caliber of project Signet is

#infosec #security #passwords

🤔 That's brilliant.

Naw, I just like sharing pictures of my homegrown Greek Oregano, encouraging people to use their brains and maybe pick up new skills/hobbies.

Sounds like you already understand the tradeoff between trusting your ISP vs trusting a VPN provider. I'd say Tor is better, but sometimes you can't use Tor for one reason or another.

I'd suggest RiseUp when you want a VPN. You don't even need to give them an email address. Pay what you think the service is worth. Homor policy.

I know people who personally know and vouch for the crew that run it (and the other RiseUp services).

That's nuts

You're half right. Chocolate mint is native to Europe & the Middle East. This is the mint that is native to North America.

You may have heard of the "slippery slope"

First, you discover #nostr, then #LoRa and #Meshtastic, then things built on top of these like #reticulum and #nomadnet

After that, you decide to stick it to the closed source software. You purge Windows and macOS, switch to #GrapheneOS and #Linux.

Then you start purging the simple closed source #hardware starting with all those IoT devices. #Nest ain't hoovering up your data anymore. You tell #Ring to GFY. #OpenSource everything.

Next thing you know, you're driving around with your #phone in airplane mode. Good luck tracking your every move now, overlords.

Then you're biking & walking with your phone in airplane mode instead of driving. High gas prices, drivers licenses, car insurance, #ALPR systems... they ain't gonna stop you.

Then you start your own #garden and learning how to preserve food. 50% inflation on food? Not a huge deal. You got this.

Later your leaving all #electronics at home and paying for everything in cash. You know the routes that minimize exposure to security cameras. You're nearly a ghost.

I'm not sure what comes after that, but I'll let you know when I get there.

These may happen in a slightly different order. Each person has their own path. But once you start going down the "STOP FUCKING EXPLOITING ME" path, and stop paying the people who are doing it, it's extremely hard to stop. It feels so good to be free from all that nonsense. You want to keep going and never look back. #cypherpunk

Take the plunge. Start with just some small things. You won't regret it. And if I'm wrong, you can always turn back anytime.

Nailed it! You get a gold star. ⭐

And if I ever bump into you in the city, I can bring a native mint plant too.

I like the idea, but there are serious problems with leaking metadata with #nostr DMs. Not sure people care, but having the ciphertext available to everyone is a risk.

It can be mitigated by having a unique relay for each group, but requiring people to do advanced relay management is not a recipe for success.

This could be fixed at the protocol level. E.g.

Client: give me the encrypted notes for key ID 0xabc123

Server: Sign this nonce with that key and they're yours

Client: here's the sig

Server: here's the encrypted DMs

It still lets the relay see who is messaging whom, when and how often, but that is very much like Signal. But unlike Signal, nostr could pick a different subset of relays for each message so no single relay has all the information. As long as everyone in the group is using the same set of relays, that should be reliable.

Here's another one that is probably easier.

Hints: This one is native to Illinois, and it will take over if you're not careful.

If you don't recognize either of these, don't fret, I'll have the easiest one coming up tomorrow!

#garden #gardening #homestead #homesteading #prepper #prepping #food #foodstr #farm #farming #farmer #preservation #homemade

Who can recognize this #homegrown plant? 😋

Bonus if you know which kind it is.

#garden #gardening #homestead #homesteading #prepper #prepping #food #foodstr #farm #farming #farmer #preservation #homemade

Soy un perdedor

OK, I'll admit that this is better than I realized, but I still don't see any files that would allow anyone to get a PCB made.

Nor do I see the original source files which would allow anyone to modify the PCB design and contribute back to the project.

Until I see this, I stand by my statement: BitBox is not open source hardware.

There are more than a dozen consolidation transactions in the mempool that are willing to pay almost 4M sats (~$2500 USD) in fees right now. That's at 40 sats/vB. Clearly someone is expecting the on-chain fees to go up from here!

#cbase is amazing. I had the pleasure of getting a tour when I was in town for a hacker con years ago.

Artificial scarcity, hard at work

Fun fact: #BitBox is NOT #OpenSource #hardware. Take a look at their git repos. You'll only find the firmware and apps. No electronics schematics there.

https://github.com/BitBoxSwiss/

Prove me wrong. Reply with a link to a .kicad file that lets you build your own hardware.

Do it

The latest batch of apple chips are done. This quart jar was full yesterday. 🧐🤔😋

#garden #gardening #homestead #homesteading #prepper #prepping #food #foodstr #farm #farming #farmer #preservation #homemade