Off body carry is definitely lame. A company making a product that helps someone NOT use one of their other products is pretty crazy to me.

Ah, aka the "ID", right? Got it! Thank you 🤙

My current recovery plan 😰😂

Ok, now my #newbie -ness is showing...how do I get my public pgp/gpg key into this format? 😬

It’s so much worse when you’ve worked on a project and think it’s terrible. nostr:note16np293ndq2vuejpwgsyhralm0z03ej7s7juytrrdl2dap9964weswqq6c8

This may be a baptism, but we ain’t no church

#Capoeira

#Photostr

#GrowNostr

#Plebchain

#Zapathon

I'm in so far over my head right now figuring out my lightning node and I love it. I don't gamble but this is pretty fucking close 😂

A note for the #gpg newbies--from a #gpg (relative) newbie.

Caveat: I realize that OpenPGP and gpg are technically different, but--rightly or wrongly--I use "gpg" and "pgp" basically interchangeably in informal conversation.

There are two important aspects to encrypted messaging that are sometimes confused.

1. Encrypting the CONTENT of messages. Alice and Bob want to communicate securely, so they both create a public/private key pair. They then exchange public keys. Alice writes a message and uses Bob's public key to "shape" the content into the form of a lock that only Bob's key can open. This hides the content of Alice's messages from any prying eyes.

2. SIGNING a message. ...but, since Bob's public key is *public*, say badguy Charlie sends a message to Bob, properly encrypted with Bob's public key, but Charlie pretends to be Alice. Bob may inadvertently send information to Charlie that he intended to send for Alice's eyes only. Is there a way to ensure that the message really came from Alice? Yes: this is message SIGNING. Alice writes a message to Bob, and encrypts its CONTENT with Bob's public key--thereby forming it into the shape of a lock that only Bob's key can unlock. But then, Alice also SIGNS the message with her private key. Bob then receives an encrypted message from someone purporting to be Alice--is it *signed* by Alice's private key? Yes: OK, reasonably safe to assume it's actually from Alice. Now, let's decrypt the *content* of the message and see what she has to say.

There is CONTENT encryption, and there is message SIGNING. Both are important aspects of encrypted communication.

Side note: your NOSTR events are SIGNED by you, but the CONTENT is not encrypted. (Think about it--how could it be? You would have to encrypt it using each follower's public key, so only they could open it with their private key!) An exception might be the case of DMs, in which case your message is SIGNED by you, and the CONTENT encrypted--but I will let others chime in on the details there, as many have noted that NOSTR DMs are not as secure as they could/should/can be. I am not up to speed on exactly why, beyond the fact that "npub X is DM-ing npub Y" -- that is public information of necessity.

Just wanted to share an aha! moment I had a little while ago when trying to wrap my head around how encryption and signing works. (This explanation translates to bitcoin "messages" as well.)

Hope it's helpful to someone out there.

#encryption #gpg #pgp #privacy

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I just love doing SOTA. I made all my activations only QRP on 2m with my Icom ID-52 and a simple wire antenna on a glass fiber mast.

If terrorists were any good at negotiating, they wouldn’t be terrorizing people.

The Genesis block is the only premined block, and the only coins that aren't spendable

Because if they were spendable, it would mean there was an issuer and be much easier to argue Bitcoin is a security

Just one of many 9000 IQ plays by satoshi

CHA TD 2.0, inverter-ish V, feed at 50ft, ends around 20ft

I am not so concerned about hallucinations or just being wrong.

The point here is that it is changing (or deleting) history and lying.

Then why did it know that the DNC already happened? That Tim Walz is Kamala's running mate? That X is banned in Brazil?

This is not just a, "not trained on current thing" issue.

Also, the cyst thing is just a flat out lie.