aut0tor / aut0tor is on Nostr

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2026-02-20 17:16:39 UTC

these parts are indeed "tough and tricky", but the real HARD part, spiritually and emotionally, is that if you're doing it right you can never tell anyone - which means "you" never get credit or acclaim.
my forthcoming manifesto goes deep into this topic. the key takeaway is you won't have reliable privacy before you have deep personal virtue. the desire for social acclaim will undermine your pseudonymity eventually.
only a virtuous people will have deep privacy. and a private people will be encouraged to develop deep virtue.
it's a .... virtuous cycle .... one that is self-directed, Auto-torically. one that is practiced based on principles, Praxi-gnomically. Autotoric Praxignomia.
Getting it yet?
#nevent1q…4u5c

2026-02-20 17:11:18 UTC

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I think it's the timeouts that are the problem. either on the gossip side or the relays - or maybe both.
all my traffic is already forced over tor thanks to Tails

2026-02-06 04:18:51 UTC

Proton mail has gotten to be a real little bitch about "verification email addresses". you have to get a code to SOME email just to sign up. and then once you think you have an acocunt, you try to use your new proton address to sign up for other things and you get a weird message in your inbox "you need to add a recovery email address **in order to use your proton account to sign up for third party services**".
The fuck? Proton nannies where you can use your email, notices you getting a new account email from another service, blocks the messages and then tries even harder to get you to KYC via email?
Fuck proton mail.

2026-02-06 03:30:48 UTC

@nprofile…442w the gossip readme says it works over Tor, including in Tails, Whonix, etc. I'm getting zero connections though. Not even finding my profile, nor connecting to any relays. Any advice?

2026-02-04 02:55:45 UTC

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Agreed it's not easy, but with wider tor support in clients it wouldn't be bad. Again, see the Amethyst example.
What you're talking about is spraying your IP out to tons of random relays, right? That can be mitigated either with all traffic over Tor, or by only publishing notes to an outbox relay you run yourself.
What are the other privacy concerns?

2026-02-02 04:58:49 UTC

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Now if only I wasn't sequestered away into one or two relays that don't completely fail when using nostr web clients in Tor :(

2026-02-02 04:57:52 UTC

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@npub10u7…urt5 you are the first npub to zap me. which means that this completely no-kyc identity now has an income and a net worth. nostr and bitcoin truly are the wedges keeping the exit doors open; how extremely encouraging.

2026-02-02 02:04:16 UTC

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Any advice for relays to use in web clients in Tor Browser would be appreciated. Most relays don't work.

2026-02-02 01:58:59 UTC

@npub18am…p424 @npub1226…grkj - the "set up your NIP-05" guide at nostrplebs.com is broken. At least in Tor Browser..

2026-02-02 01:57:25 UTC

Do npub.cash lightning addresses still work?
A zap in this general direction would be greatly appreciated and refunded, as long as I notice it
#cashu #ecash

2026-02-02 01:25:03 UTC

Using nostr web clients in Tor Browser is basically impossible?
#tor #privacy

2026-01-31 02:56:45 UTC

A placeholder: Autotoric Praxignomia

2026-01-31 02:50:40 UTC

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