NO DOUBT!!!!

The world could use a bit more optimism, I guess it comes with the winter solstice.

This over-doomer shit is getting a little old.

Harsh modern truth:

If you're afraid of being viewed as different, or even crazy by those around you...

You will never reach optimal health.

Haha this has happened before and it sucksssss

It’s leg day, so I am once again sitting in my car dreading going into the gym lol 😂

A call to crypto flippers

Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.

You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.

I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.

But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.

I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.

So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.

We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.

Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.

Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.

So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!

Privacy routers, phones, and computers?

At the most basic level, this “privacy” stuff just means changing the operating system! It’s the same hardware and many of the same programs/apps are used. The only real difference is an open source operating system that isn’t spying on you.

So with a computer, we’re ditching Windows/Apple and using Linux.

With a phone, we’re ditching the “stock version” of Android (which is the version with Google’s telemetry), and using GrapheneOS (or other choices such as Calyx, Lineage, etc)

With a router, we’re ditching the ISP or manufacturers’ version, and putting on OPNSense, (or pfSense, DD-WRT, or Open-WRT)

That’s it. It’s not that complicated. You can use the same cell service. The same home internet provider. For phones, all the same Android apps. And for PC, most of the same software. It’s just that the OS has no telemetry.

Didn’t they make a game?

It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.

I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for end users.

If it REQUIRES the end user to run infrastructure, even if that is just a phone, it's going to be too janky to actually scale.

Not to mention that somehow lightning is already more ossified than L1...

If we continue down the custodian route people will get rugged or KYC d

I am ready for your hate, but this is my current take. Also would be happy to be proven wrong.

Now back to sshing into my node and working on chantools to recover a force closed channel utxo that lnd didn't report.

Totally easy for everyday users to solve if they run into this problem...

TWITTER BROKEN

NOSTR PARTY

NOT YELLING. JUST SPEAKING CLEARLY.

ALL CAPS UNTIL NOSTR IS THE STANDARD.

If people understood the amount of customizing, hand holding and automated mechanical turking that goes into LLMs so they seem magical they wouldn't be as worried about AGI skynet.

We are so far, so so so far.

damn 🫂💜

So this is basically the same as the known autofill issues but the attack is served from a malicious app?

So disable autofill is still best practice mitigation.

mac (lower latency no plugin issues ftmp)

your daw is a personal choice. ableton (or bitwig) for arrangement/electronic, reason for synths, and my preference is studio one pro for live tracking

so many typos 🫂

Look into GrapheneOS, iodeOS, /e/ foundation device or here's a quick guide to degooglize any ROM (taken from xda a whilr back).

"Note: This won't be too noob-friendly, so do your research before following this. If your phone catches fire, nothing I can do!

Also I'll be referring to LineageOS for microG as LMM throughout the guide

Safetynet also currently seems to be broken

Pre-requisites before using this guide:​

- A phone ready for custom ROM'ing (unlocked bootloader, custom recovery installed yada yada)

- A user willing to sacrifice 90% Google apps (microG still has it's limitations you know)

- PC with everything ready (just to make the process smooth)

- TWRP backup of your previous ROM (just in case something goes wrong)

Let's begin!

Stage 1: Check and download​

1) Check if your phone has official support for LineageOS for microG

2) If it's there; congratulations! Your life has been made 50% easier.

If it isn't, well, you'll have to check if you have official/unofficial ROM support for the standard LineageOS.

If that isn't there, you'll have to go with any other deODEX'd ROM (which means your results may vary compared to the one here)

3) Download the respective ROM zips, Magisk (for root) and Aurora Store.

If you're not downloading LMM, download NanoDroid Patcher (signature spoofing), NanoDroid microG (the microG package)

[Fun fact: If you're using the latest version of Magisk (which you should), rename the APK to "install.zip" to be able to flash it in recovery]

4) Copy the downloaded media to your SD Card (Internal Storage works too)

​

Stage 2 Option 1: If you have LMM support​

1) Boot to TWRP or your TWRP fork of choice

2) Go to Wipe; Advanced Wipe; Tick System, Data, Cache, Dalvik and swipe # This will format your ROM + your app data

3) Go back; Install; Search for the Lineage zip.

4) Flash it.

5) Then flash Magisk and reboot.

Stage 2 Option 2: If you don't have LMM support​

1) Boot to TWRP or your TWRP fork of choice

2) Go to Wipe; Advanced Wipe; Tick System, Data, Cache, Dalvik and swipe # This will format your ROM + your app data

3) Flash LineageOS / your ROM

4) Reboot your system

5) Do the initial setup

-> Check if you have Signature Spoofing support by installing this

-> If there's no Signature Spoofing support:

-> Boot to TWRP

-> Flash NanoDroid Patcher to patch your system

-> Flash NanoDroid microG and Magisk

-> Reboot your system

-> If there is Signature Spoofing support:

-> Boot to TWRP

-> Only flash NanoDroid microG and Magisk

-> Reboot your system

Stage 3: Post-Installation​

1) Open microG settings app. Press Self-Check

2) Make sure no checkboxes are unticked. If they are, tick them

3) Go back; Add an account, do Device Registration and enable Cloud Messaging.

Also configure the location backends if you need location

4) microG setup should be done!

5) Now install Aurora Store, and configure it. (should be simple enough)

6) Grab yourself a good VPN and a nice wallpaper

[-] That's it!"