Sam Bent

Agorist. Counter-economist. Privacy maximalist. Student of OPSEC. Anti-authoritarian. Free speech absolutist. Logician. Ex-Darknet Vendor. Youtuber.

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2026-08-14 17:33:04 UTC

If your money came with a nutrition label you'd stop using it.
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2026-07-18 16:32:04 UTC

Real fuck you money doesn't ask permission from exchanges,
doesn't report to the IRS, doesn't get blacklisted by Chainalysis,
and doesn't care what any government thinks about your transactions.
Buy Monero
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2026-06-26 04:12:36 UTC

First they KYC'd your bank.
Then your crypto.
Now they want to KYC your phone line.
https://youtu.be/DqutBRd6q94
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2026-04-16 15:59:22 UTC

Basically, it really pissed me off that I HAD to use an app for my thermal printer, so I reverse engineered it, and made GhostLabel, in Rust.
It might or might not work for you, I dunno.
More details in the readme.
https://github.com/DoingFedTime/ghostlabel
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2026-03-20 20:08:07 UTC

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch,
got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself,
then watched Lennart personally block the revert after community outrage.
Unpaid compliance simp.
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/
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2026-02-25 21:00:02 UTC

In 1984 the telescreens watched you but couldn't stop you from moving.
Section 24220 puts sensors in your cars start button that read your blood chemistry and decide if you're allowed to drive.
It's for your safety. 🤡
https://youtu.be/U_6LZSd0KFk
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2025-06-10 14:59:37 UTC

New York Times couldn't innovate, so they sued the future.
Now a federal court forces OpenAI to store EVERYTHING you've ever typed to ChatGPT.
Forever.
When this database gets breached (not if), it'll make Equifax look like child's play.
https://youtu.be/vcNOUngrUsE
#OpenAI #DataBreach #TechNews
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2025-05-01 13:00:06 UTC

Keep OS and apps up to date.
Patches fix security and privacy flaws.
#PatchManagement #CyberSecurity #UpdateNow
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2024-11-25 15:38:28 UTC

Monero adoption is UNSTOPPABLE! 🚀
🔐 Private. 🏦 Secure. 💸 Future-proof.
#Monero
#XMR
#CryptoPrivacy
#DecentralizedFinance
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