Luxferre

https://luxferre.top

Yes, that one. A voice from outside the echo chambers.
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2025-03-03 11:52:19 UTC

@npub1hxx…g75y do you still think IMEI editing is not real for Pixels? Think again.
https://codeberg.org/luxferre/lexipwn
https://hoi.st/posts/2025-03-03-the-graphene-saga-part-3.txt
https://hoi.st/docs/own/pixel-6-imei.txt
I'm always back with what I promise.

2024-06-09 08:51:47 UTC

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It's not POS, it's POW.

2024-06-05 10:15:10 UTC

Don't let your life turn into a cloud of hashtags.

2024-06-04 18:37:12 UTC

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I'm just too busy solving my local problems here (and won't be active again until I solve at least the base layer of them), but if I had one word to say, it would be Kaspa.

2024-06-04 18:26:33 UTC

I am silent not because I don't have anything to say.
I am silent because there's nobody to listen to me here.
It's interesting how the words "listen" and "silent" are anagrams.

2024-05-30 11:26:42 UTC

Is it moral to scam the scammers?

2024-05-24 06:52:45 UTC

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I used one (RAZR 2019). The cons are obvious: fragility and battery life. Very stylish though.

2024-05-21 11:57:58 UTC

Ok, now my triad of watch-related software tools is complete, with Databankr joining the party:
https://git.luxferre.top/rcvd-py/file/README.html
https://git.luxferre.top/jjy-py/file/README.html
https://git.luxferre.top/databankr/file/README.html

2024-05-20 12:32:12 UTC

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What do I think about emojis? Hmm... Don't even know...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnj49/this-string-of-emojis-is-actually-malware
https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-can-use-emojis-to-deliver-exploit-to-the-target/
First two results by searching "emoji exploit" on the webs.
I have nothing against the other two things but they are not to be in any program source code either.

2024-05-20 08:05:06 UTC

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I've had a writeup on it some time ago: https://hoi.st/posts/2023-07-24-syntax-off.txt

2024-05-20 04:43:27 UTC

> In 2024, a phone (as well as a paper notebook, for that matter) is much more likely to be searched or confiscated than a cheap Casio digital watch (unless it says F-91W, because, you know... stereotypes).
https://hoi.st/posts/2024-05-20-a-look-from-another-side-again.txt

2024-05-20 04:32:11 UTC

If a programming language is unreadable without syntax highlighting, it's pretty much useless with it as well.
#syntaxoff

2024-05-16 07:05:54 UTC

And... I now have something to sync it with. https://git.luxferre.top/jjy-py/file/README.html

2024-05-09 10:00:05 UTC

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Well, then you know what I'm talking about. Just compare Ted Nelson's ideas with this cryptobro hipster level-7 pseudo-decentralization circus that some of them are calling none less than "internet 2.0".

2024-05-09 09:13:10 UTC

Being a visionary is not enough to get things going.
Remember Xanadu?
Just as I thought. Because if you did, it would be the bane of your existence.

2024-05-09 08:42:45 UTC

Is it just me baffled about how many scam exposing videos promote other scams as their sponsorships?

2024-05-08 09:27:58 UTC

The word "scarcity" sounds like a city of scars. Maybe that's what it really is.

2024-05-07 13:16:22 UTC

Received my last watch today, and yes, I do plan for it to be the last for me within forseeable future. The phlog post is coming on Monday. I surely am going to have a lot to say about this watch. However, the mere fact that the rechargeable battery there is supposed to last for 20 to 40 years does say something about how quality gadgets really should be made as opposed to what we have on the mass market.
Stay tuned.

2024-05-07 10:25:14 UTC

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I mean, mp3s are usually not recompressed by any CDN, so the question is whether or not the excess is truncated.

2024-05-07 07:19:01 UTC

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Now try the same with mp3 files.

2024-05-06 07:08:43 UTC

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Yes, this one does work.

2024-05-06 07:05:04 UTC

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I daily-drive Arch on my main PC which happens to be a NUC/nettop, and Alpine Linux on even weaker machines, even a rooted Kindle (in chroot).

2024-05-01 13:56:23 UTC

Modern rule of thumb: avoid any brand, thing, technology, person or movement that has a cult-like following.

2024-05-01 13:45:31 UTC

A famous saying can now be surely updated:
If you think that Bitcoin/Web3/AI/Nostr is the solution, then you don't understand the problem.

2024-04-30 16:01:47 UTC

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Some free speech is freer than other, it seems, if one puts enough resources into it.
Those who shout the loudest (e.g. with a gov't sponsored botfarm) will always mute the voices of sanity.
I've spent enough time on unregulated media to confirm this: where the mainstream propaganda is silent, "anti-mainstream" and equally absurd propaganda rises.
Nostr doesn't seem to be an exception as of now.

2024-04-30 15:41:36 UTC

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The internet 1.0 was designed by real engineers, not hipster cryptobros who don't know anything lower-level than JSON and websockets and piggypack off the ready-made inventions taken for granted at OSI level 7.
Remove internet 1.0 et voila, Nostr, at its current state, is nothing. Recreate all the levels and then you'll be able to call it like that.

2024-04-30 15:36:34 UTC

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Tell this when it's able to function *without* the internet 1.0.

2024-04-30 15:33:02 UTC

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#sned

2024-04-29 15:52:19 UTC

I mean, if it was truly censorship-resistant, the files would go to the note body itself, not to a third-party uploader service.

2024-04-29 15:44:09 UTC

Censorship-resistant, you say?
https://media.nostr.build/av/e257c74735fec912e7129d2496679dacb26aa53e838c6a1a11cdc63dd92534f3.mp3 https://media.nostr.build/av/e7694fc69016f05145d0fec66c7f14e40c5497d49d67f63e49c7c327ea3137c5.mp3

2024-04-28 09:06:38 UTC

For the context, the previous post was about Citizen PMD56-2951 I still haven't got, but I have got a Pixel Tablet and the first thing I did was installing GrapheneOS on it. Luckily, this is the instance where there's no IMEI to change and where rooting isn't so relevant for me.

2024-04-28 07:24:47 UTC

"Aren't you afraid to experiment with such expensive things?"
"No. I'm afraid to have them and not be able to experiment with them"

2024-04-25 07:32:41 UTC

Halving-shmalving. Your privacy has been cut in half, then again in half, then eaten and shat out a long time ago.
How much more arrests, seizures and restrictions before people switch to privacy-first cryptocurrencies once and for all?
But of course, sheeple will continue using their #1 fiat in disguise (removed from its original vision as far as possible) and think that it makes them free to any extent.

2024-04-25 07:18:37 UTC

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Holy fuck, that would have never happened if they ran something saner, like a Monero node.
Again, let me repeat: too many people are proud of creating problems themselves and then heroically overcoming them.

2024-04-24 14:15:57 UTC

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By the amount of shit its fanatics talk about everyone else, Bitcoin is the OG shitcoin.

2024-04-22 14:39:24 UTC

Those who view the time on their phones, by the way, represent a pre-wristwatch era of pocket watches, only now they are much bulkier, less reliable and allow their manufacturers, governments and various third parties to track their owners.

2024-04-21 07:36:46 UTC

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In the beginning of April, I got myself a full-steel version of Lamy 2000 EF. Same feeling, considering it has a white gold nib.

2024-04-18 05:30:43 UTC

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I still doubt you fully got the point, but OK. Let's consider HTTP as a baseline, I have three questions then:
1) Why JSON? HTTP itself offers a wonderful way to transfer metadata, it's called headers. They require much less CPU cycles to parse and shape. They are naturally separated from the request/response body. All specific headers can start with X-Nostr- to not interfere with anything current. Even the digital signature can be put there if it's short enough.
2) Why TLS? Aren't signatures themselves enough to prevent tampering with? Isn't current centralized PKI prone to censorship as well? On top of that, TLS over e.g. Tor isn't necessary at all.
3) Why a single (and not very popular) signature algorithm instead of the wide choice offered by OpenPGP, where we can reuse existing libraries/tools (that have been working all this time even on DOS) for both signing and, if necessary, asymmetrical note encryption (to mitigate number 2 completely)?
P.S. "Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful" Being different from mainstream is not enough to automagically guarantee yo're doing things right.

2024-04-17 13:52:20 UTC

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Well, that's already something.

2024-04-17 13:48:09 UTC

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"Junk on top of junk" is exactly what JSON on top of WebSockets on top of HTTPS is. At least in terms of wasted CPU cycles and energy watts.
SMTP is just as censored as the underlying infrastructure. Run it e.g. on the Tor layer and you won't have to deal with DNS, DMARC etc. I only gave it as an example of an already established transport that everyone can build upon (and it's not the protocol's fault it has been heavily misused by big players on the clearnet). And more importantly, it's plaintext, human-readable (except MIME extensions for attachments) and can be debugged without all those fancy tools. And this example was given because, from what can be seen from outside, Nostr tries to reinvent the same functionality + mailing list servers' one. Just wrapping everything into more opaque binary layers than it should.

2024-04-17 12:57:32 UTC

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Or rather of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

2024-04-17 12:56:49 UTC

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The same data, over the same websockets, wrapped into the same json, signed with the same irreplaceable algo (as opposed to what's offered by OpenPGP)?
It's cool that there is an SDK to take care of all the low-level stuff. But it still won't run where S/MIME-enabled mailing lists would. Because the protocol itself still is too fucking bloated at the core level.

2024-04-17 10:34:51 UTC

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Just insert a wallet address into your mail signature (not S/MIME signature but the one under the text) and have clients recognize it as a clickable one. There you go.

2024-04-17 10:22:00 UTC

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That's why someone must fund a glorified overcomplicated parody on SMTP, right?

2024-04-17 08:52:00 UTC

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I have ready answers even though I haven't seen the particular list of questions, but I don't want people to lose the reason to exist. They genuinely believe they're working on something innovative and useful. Truth can be hard.

2024-04-16 19:44:14 UTC

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No one controls email.
Stop asking for permission... the rest of the text is the same.
Host your own email servers and mailing lists. No need to reinvent the wheel.

2024-04-16 16:29:05 UTC

Damn it, they really are trying to reinvent what I just mentioned: mailing lists.
#nevent1q…vecj

2024-04-16 15:03:41 UTC

Today was the first time in my life I had ever mailed anything physically. Ever.
I'm not a merchant, and prefer giving things in person, especially valuable ones.

2024-04-16 13:56:06 UTC

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Are we still talking "user-friendly" or "noob-friendly"? I think an email client is something everyone got used to.
Mailing lists do have web interfaces as well. Essentially, this is how the first Web forums started. Some of them still operate that way.
Topic subscription model also has been working since the beginning. "Following" someone would essentially mean subscribing to their personal feed topic.

2024-04-16 13:46:49 UTC

Let's get real.
Notes == PGP-signed emails\*.
Relays == mailing list servers.
Feeds == filtered views on those servers.
What's new here, besides all this json/websocket/ecc bloat and cryptobro-hype?
Everyone can run a mailing list server. All this stuff has been around since 1990s.
#NIHsyndrome is so NIH.
\* (offering much more signature options)

2024-04-16 12:52:40 UTC

I'm still genuinely stunned with the amount of effort some people put into constantly creating problems for themselves and then heroically overcoming them.
It gets, however, much worse if others have to be involved in this too.

2024-04-15 14:36:43 UTC

Today, I've lost a nice text. Yes, that happens. But the key takeaway from it is: don't blame the FOSS model itself for how it's being used nowadays by the people two generations away from the people who started the movement. Also, even if you have a public repo with an OSI-approved license but all you think about is to how sell yourself with this, then you're not a FOSSer, you're a slut.

2024-04-14 16:52:20 UTC

When you see that the libtinfo6 package is being updated and your brain automatically appends "il" to "libtinfo", it's time to reevaluate something in your life.

2024-04-14 06:09:31 UTC

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What is VC? I already am too old so VBA is Visual Basic for Applications for me, and VC is something like... Vacheron Constantin, idk.

2024-04-13 19:29:29 UTC

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Which OS do you run? Because for me, everything worked from the first time even in the bare Alpine CLI.

2024-04-13 18:39:07 UTC

To the people asking why I have a collection of 8 Victorinox knives while only using two of them on a daily basis: don't worry, I also use one calculator out of 7, one fountain pen out of 9, one watch out of 31 and three phones out of ~60 at any given moment.
That's, like, the whole point of a collection: being able to rotate your tools.

2024-04-13 18:09:40 UTC

JFYI, I'm not anti-bitcoin. I'm anti-propaganda.

2024-04-13 16:52:52 UTC

Cyberpunk not cyberdead. #DWB5600
https://image.nostr.build/2266ef86a295c766bad4e8d768e370688d9803adb00c75fb857c2cd008648900.jpg

2024-04-13 15:15:17 UTC

Ported my BLE-enabled Casio watch synchronizer from JS to Python. https://git.luxferre.top/rcvd-py/file/README.html
Planned for this for almost two years but it took half a day.
The protocol is a canonical example of how not to design protocols if you don't want the devs to curse you.
Don't get me wrong, it's still cool but far from elegant.
Do you know which watchmaker made an elegant sync protocol? Timex. With their first Datalinks. They were purely optical. That's what I call elegant. No additional hardware required from the PC side. And yes, the protocol is now out in the open (along with other repos from the same author): https://github.com/synthead/timex_datalink_client
Many years later, Longines tried to replicate this optical calibration in their Conquest VHP line. As a result, they made a total mess. And instead of opensourcing the effort, they just abandoned it, and now you can't even install the app on newer Androids. Some research is ongoing, but of course such watches are much more scarce and short-lived.
Thanks, I'll stick to my BLE Casios instead for the time being.

2024-04-13 06:24:19 UTC

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Amethyst is a product (as in a consequence, not in a sense of market goods) of the exact newspeak-induced vision I was talking about. It will only remain fully FOSS as long as it can lure enough people to eventually make it a product (in a sense of market goods). Afterwards, some dubious binary blobs, ads and "premium features" are inevitable. To sum it up, it's the absolute opposite of the artwork I was talking about. And again, it's not a problem of the FOSS model itself that some people use it this way.
Maybe I'll dedicate my next phlog post to this entire question, there's too much to say about it.

2024-04-13 06:06:54 UTC

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Could you give a particular example of the project you're talking about?

2024-04-13 05:54:25 UTC

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Who said it's for sale in the first place?
There are many things in this world that are not supposed to be monetized yet still remain useful.
Of course, if you're talking solely about Nostr clients, it's very far away from art. Starting with the protocol itself.

2024-04-13 05:49:13 UTC

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There's no fundamental problem with FOSS.
There is a problem with the modern pandemic that (regarding software) started back in 1990s, I guess. When megacorps began turning art into "products" as a part of their anti-individuality vision.
People also got used to "products" instead of engineering artworks. And now, whenever they essentially look at a Jacquet Droz automaton, they expect it to perform like a Teslabot. Of course, not even realizing that Teslabot is mostly vaporware.
The true art and the remaining hope for the software world now lies at the intersection of FOSS and demoscene. Doing this for your own amusement, as optimized as you can, making it work on the weakest hardware, not being bothered that some square-minded rookies can't read what you write, and sharing your knowledge with the rest of the world, for those who can and do understand and appreciate it.

2024-04-10 07:09:02 UTC

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The best political party is a warehouse party.

2024-04-08 12:55:25 UTC

As much as I dislike Perl, I still need a Nostr client that can run on Perl 5.8.8.
Or on Regina (Rexx).
Or anything else that runs on DOS.
#asknostr

2024-04-08 12:45:09 UTC

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Except some (at least two) of your subscribers are spreading fake news.

2024-04-08 08:11:56 UTC

Unpopular opinion: [Free|Svar]DOS is underrated.
https://hoi.st/posts/2024-04-08-a-few-more-words-about-dos.txt

2024-04-08 02:13:24 UTC

Ok, I'm back. Doesn't look like I have missed anything here.

2024-03-24 16:30:02 UTC

I need to take a break from Nostr and other media for about 2 weeks. The phlog post is gonna be published but then see y'all on April 7, I hope.

2024-03-24 15:03:21 UTC

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Visual Basic for Applications?

2024-03-24 04:16:58 UTC

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Yeah, too many people are blindly trusting their gadgets and proprietary OSes now. I got myself called an insane paranoid several times when I tried to deliver the same exact point: cybercollapse is inevitable and we better be prepared.

2024-03-24 04:06:42 UTC

English is not even my second language but it keeps me amazed at how "laughter" is a subset of "slaughter".

2024-03-22 17:14:21 UTC

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Bitcart is fully self-hosted. Servers Guru uses it, as an example.

2024-03-22 16:29:15 UTC

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Servers, domains (although that's more rare), virtual numbers (even esims), refills or vouchers for many existing services, and, in some countries, there even are proxy stores that allow you to buy anything physical from ebay/amazon without disclosing your payment data to them.

2024-03-22 16:25:02 UTC

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I don't see bitpay as often as coinpayments, cryptomus, bitcart, whitebit and others that just allow you to send crypto directly from your own wallet to the specified address.

2024-03-22 14:35:52 UTC

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You can search for some examples at cryptwerk.com, but the list is quite incomplete there.

2024-03-22 14:34:55 UTC

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Still, your address isn't tied to your name (and it won't if you do everything right) and if your balance doesn't exceed six figures (which it shouldn't if you do everything right) then you're much less likely to be noticed by Tether than by your local bank/govt in case of paypal.

2024-03-22 13:36:56 UTC

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Ok. I studied the USDT contract again and it looks like yes, the contract owner has a possibility to blacklist individual Tron addresses as well. Nasty. https://tronscan.org/#/contract/TR7NHqjeKQxGTCi8q8ZY4pL8otSzgjLj6t/code

2024-03-22 13:18:26 UTC

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AFAIK there is no possibility of targeted freezing of USDT-TRC20 transactions on the token smart contract level.
Is there any proof that it can ever be done on the Tron network?

2024-03-22 11:15:02 UTC

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Signal is available outside of Android, but you still need Android (or iOS) to use it outside of Android, which kinda defeats the purpose. As far as I remember, this BS was modeled after WhatsApp.
The issue with spam is mostly related to numbers leaking elsewhere.

2024-03-22 10:33:07 UTC

While packing a bunch of keypad phones (16, to be exact) and three androids to bring to my best friend tomorrow, I caught myself in the following thought.
There exists only one kind of people I really envy nowadays: those who can live without a cellphone at all.

2024-03-22 08:32:41 UTC

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Spam deterrence? There is a lot of Signal-targeted spam these days, specifically through the leaked number databases. It has almost reached the WhatsApp/Viber level of scale where I live. Convenience and security rarely go hand in hand.
If someone uses iOS, what kind of privacy are we talking about, regardless of what's being offered on the application level? It's like typing in the most secure password manager on a keyboard with a hardware keylogger embedded into it. Those who use iOS look like someone who deliberately wants to get pwned, and if one really is privacy-serious, any apple (as well as m$ and google and xiaomi/huawei/etc) products are the first things to get rid of unless you can install a fully custom FOSS system on them. If possible, I'd advise to get rid of anything with non-removable batteries either (unless you can Faraday-cage those things when necessary), but, alas, as of now I can't follow this recommendation myself.
Don't get me wrong, I salute any privacy-improving effort, but a service running on top of the the stock irreplaceable vendor's spyware and collecting phone numbers (which are sometimes totally KYC in some countries, luckily not in mine... yet) upon registration hardly looks like any improvement. And to those who don't know the real deal (and don't buy temporary SMS verification specifically for this purpose), such services can give a false sense of privacy and an illusion of safety. Because you know, there are some places where you can get arrested just for using encrypted calls. With exposed numbers, it is too easy to confirm that you are you (even if they are not KYC but used for PSTN calls or other signups). So, even to noobs, I'd recommend Linphone or SimpleX instead.

2024-03-22 03:51:22 UTC

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Yep, something like that. Except it's not 2009 anymore and we have some cryptos that suit the cypherpunk philosophy much better. They even get delisted for this.

2024-03-21 17:53:12 UTC

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Thanks.

2024-03-21 17:43:29 UTC

Why is SimpleX praised so much here if it offers no desktop client, let alone CLI?
Again, this imposes obeying mobile duopoly for no real reason.

2024-03-21 09:40:00 UTC

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Linphone is integrating quantum-resistant algos into their ZRTP implementation (for now it would be in case of Linphone-to-Linphone calls, of course). How more modern can it be at the moment?
That's point number one. Point number two: SIP (and XMPP, for that matter) addresses look just like email addresses, sans the sip: part. Everyone has an email. Is it any harder than a phone number for normies to remember or what? I'd understand some people can dislike Tox for having long IDs, but this? Come on.
I guess they just want the Big Brother to choose for them. That's the main problem.

2024-03-21 08:13:44 UTC

Ok, Linphone-to-Linphone end-to-end encrypted (ZRTP) calls work just fine even across different providers (SIP2SIP and OpenSips, in my case), different networks (Starlink and my carrier's LTE) and different devices (Android and desktop Linux). One of them was connected via TLS, another one via plain TCP. The call still was end-to-end encrypted. So remind me again please, why do you need Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and other number thieves?

2024-03-21 03:29:21 UTC

The word "bitcoiner" is as pejorative as "youtuber": someone who turned the means into a goal of its own, sacrificing the quality of what it was initially used for.

2024-03-19 13:36:58 UTC

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Where is the source code?

2024-03-19 12:31:14 UTC

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Of course it is fast. People even implemented it in QBasic 30 years ago.

2024-03-19 12:23:29 UTC

I think RC4 is being treated unfairly.
If I post a gigabyte-large file and the only thing you know about it is that it's been encrypted with RC4-drop777, will you be able to crack it?

2024-03-18 11:16:24 UTC

Any cryptocurrency is just a tool. I might argue on whether or not it's just a payment tool, but it's a tool anyway.
Beware of those who keep saying it's anything more than that. Because that's a big lie.
No tool is ever going to change the human nature.

2024-03-18 09:08:33 UTC

Segfault's shells are extremely nice SSH jumphosts. But, unfortunately, they can't into IPv6. So I have to use a double jumphost at the moment.
If Segfault can add IPv6 support, I can even pay them but this process is non-automated and requires Telegram. No way.
Are there any other free shell services like them but with IPv6 out of the box? #asknostr

2024-03-17 08:33:34 UTC

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I put up a test AMPS and NMT base station using LimeSDR with varying success, and had more success with POCSAG on HackRF.

2024-03-17 08:27:36 UTC

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Get a life, seriously. Turning into a sect won't help the cause.
Your bitcoin is traceable by design, nothing can be done about that. You still need to move some funds on-chain to open a channel. That's the moment you're busted. Or your node operator, to start with.
I see posts about "no-KYC sats" here and there. Would that even be an issue which sats are KYC and which are not if the onion routing helped?
L2 "solutions" won't solve the problems rooted in L1. They are merely crutches. And crutches break over time.

2024-03-17 07:15:38 UTC

Casio fx-3400P. A solar-powered programmable scientific calculator. Yes, you can take the battery out and it will run completely on the solar cell. Even without it, the battery is projected to last for up to 7 years. It has some dozen microwatt energy consumption. It was manufactured _before_ 1989 (probably 1988 or even 1987) and still works perfectly fine despite how thin and fragile the PCB is inside. A friend of mine gave it to me in exchange for some other interesting calcs. He bought it at a flea market for under a dollar or so. Still in a mint condition in the stock holster.
This is how pre-consumerism era electronics looked like. 35 years, 1 battery change, still rocks.

2024-03-17 06:50:00 UTC

No, I'm not living in the past with all my fountain pens, keypad phones, pocket calculators and slide rules, cassette and CD players, longwave-enabled and mechanical wristwatches and dreams of bringing back POCSAG and NMT.
I'm living in a very probable future that will come when the bubble bursts.

2024-03-17 06:16:25 UTC

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"No-KYC sats" lmao...
My "no-KYC sats" are called XMR, you doofus.

2024-03-15 06:05:49 UTC

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No. Feels like it's tome to move on to better blockchains that cannot let them trace you.
I don't have a zap wallet attached but I have a Monero address in the profile description.

2024-03-13 09:30:14 UTC

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If you do need something as bloated as IDEA, then something is wrong from the start.
But that's not the point. The point is: "create a virus and then make users pay for the antivirus" business model always has worked on those who can't see any other option.