Yes, you are right, they all do.

That's the point.

Was Sydney Sweeney not available for the Bitcoin promotion shoot? 😂

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Welcome

If you'd like some help about this weird protocol we call NOSTR I wrote some guides here:

https://mikehardcastle.com/

I would start with this one here for some basic concepts:

https://mikehardcastle.com/2024/08/26/nostr-a-social-media-protocol-for-the-next-epoch/

If you have questions, the tag #asknostr is a good place to start.

Enjoy freedom speech and money.

Does Chucky accept Bitcoin? 😂

Just so you know, there are more than 5 sites on the Internet these days 😂

👀

That's a cool building 💜

I can spot at least two brunettes and a baldy 😂

💜

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I feel shame 🥹

I'm not touching that bloody Polymarket again 😂

And I thought I liked NOSTR 😂

😂

Trying throwing it in the air! 😂

Does the conference hall have an iron available?

That Damus sign needs a good going over 😂

Have you heard?

Bluesky has Weird Al Yankovic on their platform 😂

If you go too far down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, you end up with a flat earth and IPv6 😂

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I think the problem is your phone / computer. It's telling the site your visiting everything it needs to know.

Whether the site bothers to enquire is what I was discussing in my post. Some sites are incentivised to believe your lies, others are not.

For the ones that are not, they can either find out all the information they need, or simply block you for not being honest in the first place.

Your VPN, is doing nothing worthwhile unless you are using it to connect to your home / office or view regionally locked content on sites that are deliberately oblivious to your dishonesty

I run my own private VPN across multiple sites using Tailscale, I am trusting Tailscale, but if I were incentivised I could build out my own Wireguard VPN.

I then run Mullvad within that setup to allow me access to public VPN exit nodes and I am trusting Mullvad. And yes, I trust that they don't log me.

I can't easily replace Mullvad because I don't have servers all around the world to exit from. This is where MysteriumDark has an advantage, it is peer to peer VPNs whereby you exit from other users home or business broadband connections.

This is great as it is nearly impossible for anybody to log these exit nodes affectively as there are around 50,000 nodes online at any time and they are constantly changing.

The problem, however, with Mysterium is they recently made being an exit node a lot easier by including browser extensions, meaning you don't need to permanently run a Raspberry Pi to earn their Crypto token $MYST.

What's great for earning is not great for using as nodes come on and offline all the time, meaning as a user, your connection may be disconnected at any time without any notice.

I've noticed this happening a lot recently which is why I've mostly stopped using it as a client from my Fedora Workstation box.

And that day will be the day your government follows mine and wants to know who's doing what and where, all the time 😂

Bog standard VPN using something like the Wireguard protocol, but being NOSTR, you hold and manage the private encryption key, not a trusted third party.

Yes.

The original function of VPNs was to give you a secure backhaul to your office when you are off-site. This is still a valid use case.

Then people started to discover they could consume regional content by using a global, public VPN. This is still a valid use case, however content providers could easily detect and block this if they were incentised.

The last case, which was never true was security. Stopping your ISP or government from monitoring what you are doing. Yes your path to the exit node is probably secure, but with the 14 eyes agreement as well as many other agreements, this simply means you are being observed and reported back by a different agency to your home agency.

How many VPNs do you hold the private encryption key for?

Now, NOSTR VPN's, where you hold your own key 🤔

But you're still being observed at the exit node.

I have recently become an expert due to the UK's over reaching government.

It looks like these policies are like being replicated by other countries governments rapidly.

YouTube is up to all sort of fucktardery, I was watching this the other day about them automatically adding AI touchups to shorts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nhP8tvbLY

I don't use Audible nor do I have an account with them, so that was particularly noticeable. I simply followed a .com link somebody posted here and it redirected me to the .co.uk site despite me being VPN'd to Belgium at the time.

I suspect they are using cookies or Mac addresses or injection testing to identify your real location. These are relatively complex things to do, but if you are incentivised to do it, very possible.

After seriously using VPNs for several weeks now, I have realised they are an illusion.

Sites like ChatGPT get stuck in an infinite Cloudflare loop verifying your humanity while using a VPN, the second you turn off your VPN, the test completes. I have noticed this on several sites served by Cloudflare.

Other sites like Audible redirect you to your physical country of origin even when using a VPN and on a desktop machine without the aid of GPS.

This means any site is capable of detecting which country you are physically in and whether you’re using a VPN or not, the only question is whether they are incentivised to do so.

For sites like YouTube or X, they don’t currently care so will reflect the country your VPN reports to them in terms of country logo and content language.

For sites like Porn, who actually want your business, they will happily accept your VPN status.

But for sites like ChatGPT or Audible, who generate a better service by knowing where you are, they easily detect your physical location despite a VPN.

Lastly VPNs used by default degrade your general online experience.

Search results are returned in your VPNs exit node location and language, so if your VPN is set to Finland and you’re asking for coffee shops, you’ll get results shown in Finnish for coffee shops in Helsinki.

YouTube will bias recommendations based on your VPNs local language and location

Shopping sites will show products priced in your VPN exits country.

And many sites know you’re using a VPN and will simply refuse to show you anything while you continue to do so.

As an experiment, I set my VPN exit node to the UK, where I’m actually based, and suddenly many UK sites, like the BBC, stopped working because they knew I was using a VPN.

Peer to peer VPNs, like MysteriumDark mitigate this by exiting through users home broadband connections, but this is still easily detected by any service such as Audible who know where you are physically located. N.B. this knowledge is not based on GPS data, as this happens on desktop computers with no GPS.

In conclusion, VPNs only work to bypass restrictions because the service providers are either ambivalent or incentivised to ignore them.

GM Dave

I am a shitcoin deviant 😂

😂😂😂

It was in Lisbon, which is in Europe. It is the done thing in those parts 😂

We aint sofistikated or European enough to have a Beeday 😂

My last Airbnb had a urinal tho, another true story

Funny you should say that, our builder is scheduled to repair our en-suite toilet on Monday.

True story 😂

Please guv, don't dob me in 🙏 😱

😂😂😂

Damn, I had chilli con carne the other night while using my VPN to access YouTube.

I've not only destroyed South America, but I've put billions of vulnerable children at risk 😂

I'm watching miners react to it 😂

GM

The new Proto miner from nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n appears to be open source, modular, upgradable and comparable to the S21 for a power efficiency

Around 4KW per module and 14.1 joules per Terahash (J/TH)

The first step to decentralise Bitcoin hardware.

https://proto.xyz/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbalP0R3zE

I remember saying I admired him for napping in the commons 😂

Also, I don't really have a cat called Rees Mogg, I was just saying that for comic affect.

We used to have two cats years ago, a brother and sister called Jambo and Zanzi 💜

That's not her eyes you can hear rolling along the floor 😂

That's huge and looks amazing 💜

No I definitely didn't 😳

But my cat says meeeooow 😂

You want to see pictures of my cat? 😳

Nobody gets rich by being intelligent 😂

I'm literally doing it now.

NOSTR posts don't shit themselves.

I'm here grinding every day making sure I meet this months shitpost allocation 😂

I am, I'm waiting to receive the hate in about 20 years when all the boomers are dead 😂

I'm sure all the boomers, currently sipping champagne on their world cruise are very grateful 😂

It is quite cute, I didn't know the species tho, thanks.

On it now 🫡

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In your exploration of social media, have you come across this book?

https://www.amazon.com/Transparency-Society-Byung-Chul-Han/dp/080479460X

If you want the TL;DR, this video might help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D14aAUE1-4

Is this the ASMR people go on about? 😂

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Yes 😞

GM 🫂

OK, I'll share my availability on Google calendar, book yourself in when you're ready 😂

I'm quite adept at them now, if you'd like to give it a go with me 😂

I'm comfortable not reaching enough people 😂

GM 🫂

Cellphones, Radio beacons, Satellites, Meshtastic and Ham radio are going to bugger up spying for ever 😂

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GM

I got dragged into 2 rows yesterday. That takes my tally to 5 in the nearly 3 years here on NOSTR.

That's a rather unpleasant indicator of increasing adoption 😂

It's not even relevant.

You'd have to be a genius to tie a dark joke about Hitler to the Bitcoin Lightning Network 😂

What is this?

#asknostr

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Check their email headers.

True story 😂

The inventor of the rabbit hole 😂

Remember when the Bart Simpson used to watch cartoons on TV? 😱

Am I following a script, or do I have free will?

Today, in particular, I'm thinking about this a lot 🤔

Yes I'm being smug and condescending because that is the environment you set. You set the tone with your original question.

If you prefer a different environment then go ahead and change your tone and I'll change also.

I'm also being smug and condescending for all the responses you give like "handwaving".

I'm following your lead.

Also, my answers are correct whether you like them or not and your experience of running a node is extremely limited and you have built an entirely false narrative based on your very limited experience.

If you are unfamiliar with my normal style, perhaps this response to a different thread will help. Here is me flipping from being smug and condescending to helpful and very cooperative when prompted.

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He should be so lucky, you're talking to "Mike the Bastard" 😂

We need better criminals 😂

Or is it worse? 😳