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2024-09-12 13:06:00

!! Chrome introduces Digital ID !!
Warning: Google attempts a huge power grab
Chrome devs rolled out a new digital ID feature, that they are touting on their blog. This corrupt power grab is an attempt to legitimatize Google being the overseer of all identification through their browser and mobile platform. They are rolling it out for mobile first via Chrome.
This power grab is broken down into:
a) Presenting their rotten technical solutions
b) Pushing on legislators and partners to force adoption
https://developer.chrome.com/static/blog/digital-credentials-api-origin-trial/dc-diagram_856.jpg
Their propaganda even admits to collecting information completely UNRELATED to a web browser, such as driving a car. Quote:
“Age verification: Request age to verify a person's age before serving age-restricted content or purchasing age-restricted items.
Identity verification: Request name and address to verify a person's identity for legal compliance or fraud-prevention.
Driving privileges check: Verify a person's eligibility to drive (for example, when renting a car).”
Since when does Chrome browser need to check if I can drive?! The web browser is a horrible place to store unrelated data from a security perspective. I urge everyone to remain vigilant and call this out for what it is, they are doing a coup. It’s the deliberate attempt to gain power in society, through unnecessary changes and manipulative practices. Boycott Chrome browser if you’re not already, and tell your friends and family to do so as well.
Source: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/digital-credentials-api-origin-trial

2024-09-09 16:14:10

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Odysee is on cloudflare, and the subscriptions/delivery is disconnected from the Arweave wallet. You could be on there for social purposes and marketing, but not self-sovereign.
I will present to you 3 solutions,
Solution 1,
Host a website with your videos and have a third party CDN. Use a service that isn't as mainstream on cloudflare, such as Bunny.net has CDN streaming videos with anonymous bitcoin. This is a centralized service, but isn't literally the same thing as everyone else.
Solution 2,
Bastyon has videos (like peertube) for their pkoin crypto you can buy on tapbit. It's using nodes paid to stream it just like peertube, so you don't have to setup a whole thing. Then you can link from your website (or Nostr) to Bastyon videos
Solution 3,
Upload to Arweave directly using the ArDrive CLI.
You can then post the videos on nostr or your website with links for different countries.
If you are up for the technical challenge, you can get an ArNS domain name and then update an RSS feed with the Arweave videos, but this RSS feed part is fairly difficult if you don't know how to use the Linux command line. Hopefully in the future, myself and others will come up with graphical apps to do the backend work for people.

2024-09-08 04:26:30

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oh yeah you're right, that's why we are trying to make it easier

2024-09-08 04:16:42

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why is that gay?

2024-09-07 16:45:32

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the steamdeck has made linux the most popular of all time for games

2024-09-07 00:23:16

Be honest, you're using Big Tech because:
a) You think it's hard to switch
b) You think there won't be the software you need on Linux
c) You think nobody is using encrypted messengers
d) You say privacy is a nice idea, but I don't really need it
e) You tell yourself you'll learn later, which turns to never.
But every one of the statements is a lie.
It's NOT hard to switch,
Linux is easy man, my mom uses it, and she's older than computers existing. Linux Mint looks just like Windows. System76 PopOS can be made to look just like Mac iOS. The same way Apple has an "Apple store" for software, Linux also has an app store! And you can even use it in a graphical box. You don't need the command line.
The software you need IS on Linux.
Linux has software for web browsing, chat, and editing text (even microsoft word files can be opened). Adobe Photoshop is actually HARDER to use than open source GIMP, and it does the same things. Kdenlive is FASTER to render videos than Adobe Premiere of EQUAL OR BETTER QUALITY.
You don't have to go cold turkey, if you want to still chat with your friends on Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, that stuff all works on Linux and Degoogled phones. But you'll be surprised at who you will meet on freedom apps..
You are scared away because you think there's no help, no support group. But there's more of a Linux community than anywhere else, because the people genuinely care. Our SimpleX room has 600 people, and you will get replies. We also host an active Linux group on Session. There's the Linux.org forums. There's dozens of companies with paid support including mine.
You tell yourself you'll learn under better circumstances later, but eventually you have to realize that nobody is coming to save you.
The political situation is only getting worse. The data collection and the overreach from big tech is only further chipping away at your freedoms every day. You think you have Bitcoin, but without privacy you don't even own those private keys. You think you have a Nostr account, but you need open source operating system for that to have meaning. Otherwise, it's just the same as a big tech platform because Google, Microsoft, and Apple see your private key, your conversations, and the sum of every thought in your brain. They own your life.
But it doesn't have to be this way. I'm telling you that you have way more power than you realize. You're telling yourself you're not good with tech, but you're smart enough to read my words on Nostr now. That's better than like 95% of people out there. You know to an Amish farmer, you're pretty slick.. It's all about what you're used to.
Every one of the those starting statements is a lie. And the only obstacle is in your mind.
Love you bro, stay safe.

2024-09-07 00:15:55

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In this case, they were ruling out Monero spend outputs as not the real decoys. However, this Monero only information doesn’t have any value, until it exits Monero into something tangible. This happened to the darknet market guy they traced when he switched to Bitcoin, and the swap website had these poison outputs.
Bitcoin is ok. I'm just saying the "Bitcoin only" hazing narrative

2024-09-07 00:13:26

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If the goal is just to store value, there already is a gold ETF. And if there's no privacy, if fiat's value collapses, one has to pay the absurd tax on the hyperinflation. How's that preserve value if you're bleeding out capital gains from them printing? Ironic a guy named “god” is saying he wants to obey because he’s powerless
Wouldn't you agree that having more privacy would increase the comfort of people to use cryptocurrency for real world cash over speculation when it's bought in their name?

2024-09-07 00:09:02

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You're wording it like a single event battle,
"who fired first" And there are generals saying it is offensive, which is enough justification to fear it.
It's them forming on the left border over time. The USA would not tolerate Russia building bases with drones in Mexico. And flying the drones into the US

2024-09-06 13:39:09

Leaked Chainalysis Monero Tracing
There's a video that's being so weakly censored that it might be on purpose, of an internal meeting of Chainalysis presenting to law enforcement of how they trace Monero.
I'm NOT going to link to the video because it's got some IP addresses of the malicious nodes that Chainalysis runs, which will bring unwanted pressure on our clearweb Linux tech support website. The goal of our organization is NOT to get you to run a darknet market, it's to get fundamental privacy rights with technology.
But I must say this, the way Chainalysis was effective in catching darknet market guys, was when they swapped Monero to Bitcoin. And so the people who push for Bitcoin only, are really pushing for a world where you need a ph.D in computer science to be private.
Now you're saying "oh but I'm not running a darknet market, so why do I need that level of privacy?" But if Bitcoin goes to the moon like you say it will, there will be tax implications of this. Everytime you buy a coffee, there's capital gains tax up or down. This will crush the use of it in the real world as money, unless it's private enough that it can't be enforced.
If Bitcoin becomes as popular as you say it will, there will be a violent response from the state to crush it. And so I'm telling you if you don't care about privacy for people with low technical skills, then Bitcoin is really just an ETF.

2024-09-05 13:05:14

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The issue with fiat money is the money itself is debt.
Debt exists in time.
So yes you’re correct you borrow against time, but the bond yield curve is really a measurement of how much money exists now vs the future. When the liabilities are now, and the assets are in the future, it’s a bust.
It’s not “impossible to avoid”, the answer is the money supply has to be an asset... and not debt

2024-09-05 00:13:42

Before Bitcoin was officially released,
Friedrich Hayek warned of the dangers of custodial bitcoin wallets
In his book, he laid out the boom-bust credit cycle, which happens when banks create money through lending. For example you deposit $1, but they lend it out. Now you think you have $1, and so does that other guy.
Some hate altcoins, because they are just venture capitalists printing money out of bullshit. But what people should be more aware of, is that 90% of the US money supply comes from private banks doing fractional reserve lending. And this is far more dangerous than the measly Federal Reserve, because it creates malinvestment, that causes depression when it bursts.
When you use custodial bitcoin wallets, these are really fractional reserve bank accounts, and the very thing you hate, (printing money) is being done in a sinister new way....
Because the more volatility that comes from these credit busts, the less cryptocurrency will be used as real world money. Which causes capital flight on the "real" lightning liquidity, making it even harder to self-custody due to the cost of capital. You see, Bitcoin's enemy isn't altcoins, it's fake Bitcoin.
If Hayek were alive today, he'd say "Not your keys, not your economy"

2024-09-04 00:11:54

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2024-09-03 13:57:45

!!! Warning:
"Hackers abuse Google sheets to impersonate tax authorities"
If the government emails you asking for money, I can finally legally advise you (for security purposes) to ignore them.
There's a new 0-day in negligent Google sheets that is YET ANOTHER reason to completely abandon their invasive Workspaces. The bug allows hackers to remotely mass email, by enabling a Python script to masquerade as a PDF on Windows, from Google sheets. [1][2] Hackers have been abusing this to impersonate government officials and ravage private businesses in many countries. And since use of their Workspace products is so common among many institutions, this has serious risks for stolen funds (on top of regularly scheduled government theft).
According to Bleeping Computer, "Google Sheets is used as a command and control server, pinging it to get new commands to execute on the infected device and as a repository for stolen data". [2] This is surprising to see this type of attack has not been fixed, given that a year ago Chinese hackers abused Google Sheets as a command and control in a similar way. [4]
Not only is it the government, but hackers are also targeting insurance, aerospace, transportation, academia, finance, technology, industrial, healthcare, automotive, hospitality, energy, media, manufacturing, telecom, and social benefit organizations. [1]
The Google sheets bug is only able work if you're using Microsoft Windows. Ironically, Google came under heat a year ago for trying to have Chrome force the operating system to attest that it's a "secure environment" (called Web Environment Integrity API) [3], which would lock Linux users out of many services as there's no company to verify identities.
But now, ironically Google sheets is only vulnerable on what they told us was the secure environment of Windows. Just imagine if Chrome's plans to haze Linux had went through, how much worse this current situation would be.
So I once again urge you to transition to Linux. And:
For your safety, please ignore emails from governments
Sources: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-sheets/hacked.html

2024-09-03 13:56:31

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yeah german gateway went down, sorry about that, I guess I need to develop a client to deal with that issue
other ones work

2024-09-03 00:53:22

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It's code that functions by taking in revenue and paying out in a trustless way. That's a business without a manager.
Bitcoin "Core" had a core team of devs too, (who did nothing but purposefully wreck it) so just having devs doesn't make it centralized unless you're saying Bitcoin is/was centralized as well.
Further, Bitcoin is free floating also, as are all assets including the US dollar. Value is subjective and exists in the mind of consumer. This can not be fixed in time.

2024-09-02 22:42:55

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Your disrespectful attitude doesn't change the underlying fact that self-custody self-liquidity Bitcoin lightning is harder and more expensive to use for a new user than alternatives. Since when is it logical to call better products shit?
You've only demonstrated the ability to type the word shit, with no real argument. I predict your next strategy will be to walk away as though engaging with real debate was beneath you, as a cover for your pathetic logic.

2024-09-02 15:26:45

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lol good one

2024-09-02 15:24:14

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Arweave is a decentralized business taking in revenue. It does NOT compete with Bitcoin for general purpose money. In fact, Arweave sucks for money with slow transactions and horrible privacy. Arweave transactions are linked to the same wallet you used for your content, which everyone can see
Nobody in their right-mind would use Arweave to buy a bag of coffee. But nobody in their right-mind would deny the great value that Arweave offers to HOST a website selling coffee, that then collects Bitcoin from customers.
So Arweave enables Bitcoin businesses to defy oppressive censorship. Which after these Samarai wallet and Telegram incidents, they seem to be interested in doing. So while I dislike shitcoin venture capitalists printing money, at least they are doing a Proof of Work single-business coupon that improves my life, with no downside for me beyond education.
We outlined the benefits here:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/arweave-amazing/ar.html

2024-09-02 15:21:44

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This is true, I do not fully agree with this decision, however I do see some rationale behind it as outlined in that article. The main protocol is Proof of Work, so you can not get voted out.

2024-09-01 13:54:52

The Fountain podcast app is corrupt bullshit
It's NOT "Powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network"
It's a custodial bank account, closed source app, hosted on Amazon, with Gmail verification, letting you insert an RSS feed to one government domain.
Unlike the Arweave RSS system I presented yesterday,
Which is true and genuine freedom and censorship resistance by transcending physical locations with the files served on a 30+ gateway global CDN, going directly peer-to-peer,
With Fountain, you're putting your private Nostr key in a closed source mobile app, served to you by the censorship oppressors Google and Apple. They use the word "open" on their website, but their github doesn't have the code itself: https://github.com/fountain-fm
You think you're using peer-to-peer Bitcoin? It's a custodial bank account.
Look at this bullshit:
"Fountain charges a 4% transaction fee on top of every payment you make to a podcast but you can join Fountain Premium to reduce your fees to just 1%. We also charge 10 sats for comments and replies to reduce spam."
In Summary:
--Not Bitcoin, it's a bank account.
--Zero Censorship Resistance, Regular Files
--Insert Private Nostr key into closed source
--Heavy integration with Big Tech
--Surveillance of who is listening
--Leeching Bitcoin fees for RSS feeds and Nostr, which are both peer-to-peer without Fountain
You're being manipulated to reject real solutions like Arweave RSS, so these institutions can maintain power and control.

2024-08-31 13:14:48

Revolutionary Privacy from New RSS feed!
Normally websites force you into submission,
Which usually means a rectal exam by Cloudflare, Google capcha, and AWS,
Instead with Arweave, the visitor picks the terms.
Arweave has:
No Forced Locations
No Lag
No DDoS
No Cloudflare
No Censorship
No Tor Ban
No IP Logs
No Cost to View
No Government
No New Software
No New RSS Reader
The SAME RSS readers work! You do not have to download any new software.
You get as much speed and privacy as you want.
The ONLY obstacle is in your mind. Let's dive in and learn:
Germany:
https://privacy.arweaveblock.com/arweave-amazing/ar.html
New York:
https://privacy.exodusdiablo.xyz/arweave-amazing/ar.html
India:
https://privacy.arns-gateway.com/arweave-amazing/ar.html

2024-08-31 13:13:44

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media wants to eliminate criticism of politicians by showing videos or audio of them doing or saying something. and deepfake education is the path to reduce the power of this. For example Joe Biden falling down a staircase

2024-08-31 13:09:49

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Thanks for this explanation. If one uses foreign liquidity, and they go out of business, the seeds can be backed up and restored on a new node? (to not lose the L2)

2024-08-30 14:24:40

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Could one:
borrow a million sats,
Setup the L2 node
Send a million sats with the new node to a swap website for L1
And repay the loan
And if so, how long can one keep that open for?

2024-08-30 14:22:22

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can you please explain a little more your issue with it

2024-08-30 14:20:05

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Yeah that's why I didn't insert my key into it. I agree 100%

2024-08-30 14:08:07

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It depends on how you define censorship
Is it state-level? There having no government domains helps.
Is it individual? There Nostr wins, as there's no vote on illegal content like Bastyon has for child porn and such

2024-08-30 14:05:32

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Yeah of course, a lot of people in our group recommend it. But I think it needs servers to avoid the both people online issue

2024-08-30 14:04:23

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is this an audio leak or he publicly said it?

2024-08-30 14:03:24

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We have a Layer 1 node and will be adding lightning to it later,
what is the Bitcoin Layer 1 minimum requirement to open channels for minimum liquidity?

2024-08-30 00:10:22

Russian Nostr:
Make Money Off Telegram's CEO being Jailed!?
I must say this first:
I promote the USE of cryptocurrency, and less so gambling on price.
However,
it's a struggle to get people to give a shit about freedom tech.
So,
With this extreme pessimism in mind, I pitch this amazing social network as an investment.
Bastyon is dubbed the "Russian Nostr",
Unlike Nostr, which is easily banned by Russian & Chinese authorities because it uses websockets to relays with known government domains… Bastyon nodes use torrents for files which functions completely independent of government DNS and works on nodes with constantly changing IPs.
Given the effectiveness at Bastyon’s proven ability to penetrate government firewalls in China and Russia, we can essentially guarantee that Bastyon will beat out Farcaster, Nostr, and Lens for the RUSSIAN MARKET when many Russians won’t or can’t even access the competition. In fact, even many US Big Tech companies are completely shut out of Russia. Even if just 1 or 2% of Telegram’s userbase moves over to posting on Bastyon, the coin would have to dramatically increase to even allow them to post daily.
Let's dive in to this trend:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/bastyon-telegram/investment.html

2024-08-30 00:07:52

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It's very amusing that in the same thread, some people attack me for requiring too much technical skill to switch off WordPress.
And others bitch that Hugo is too normie, and build your own function

2024-08-30 00:04:12

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Hugo theme depends on the person's taste, that's art
Filezilla or other FTP clients would work for windows.
I hear you on getting people off it. It's a battle for anyone doing freedom tech. including nostr, monero, messengers, ect.
Keep in mind that the bulk of these WordPress sites don't just suck because it's WP, but the content

2024-08-29 23:58:58

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thanks for sharing

2024-08-29 23:57:14

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I hear you, and I personally think if the relays filter at a low threshold it should be fine, but if they up that, then you'd likely want a majority of the client devs (including mobile) to be on-board in education of whats going on

2024-08-29 13:56:01

The "Center for Countering Digital Hate" has a plan to silence criticism of the government
Here's how their plan works:
Step 1) They use AI to make politicians do fake stuff (nicknamed "deepfake")
Step 2) They infiltrate left-leaning media to spread their "educational materials".
They'll say "Look at these deepfakes! That is possible! So we must educate the public on election disinformation"
Step 3) They put in people's minds that all digital evidence can easily be manipulated.
And since everyday voters can not ever access first-hand sources or interview key-people,
Then:
The everyday person can't trust online sources
Therefore:
They can only trust authorities telling them what is real.
You see, the book 1984 had them literally burn books,
The new strategy is to propagandize people to the point that they won't accept what's written.

2024-08-29 04:03:13

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how they dealing with the phone issue?
Gossip has PoW already

2024-08-29 00:54:01

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does it make copies on the relays?

2024-08-29 00:53:35

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right on bro, thanks for your time

2024-08-29 00:53:21

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Google fonts makes a call to their server to load, revealing your IP. There's no reason to not have a local font, why do we need the internet for a font? What do we call it when someone does something to slow you down, with no benefit to you, but benefits them a lot?

2024-08-29 00:50:06

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lol not terminal. markdown in a text editor.
if one uses the basic default stock hugo templates, then it's gonna be easier than WordPress imho. If they want a custom design, then yeah your solution with Nitro is likely going to be easier for most people. I wish you a lot of success with it.

2024-08-29 00:46:40

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Well you don't need php for text and pictures static. In fact, even the "simplystatic" plugin for WordPress had 20+ javascript calls on the final output

2024-08-29 00:45:04

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I consider WordPress malware because it's doing all of these calls to each plugin creator and the various big tech participants, but in a way that slows your VPS machine. So it's not serving you or the visitor, it's serving the software creator to benefit them. They want to monetize your data and are willing to hurt you to do so.
In fact, even the "simplystatic" plugin for WordPress had 20+ javascript calls on the final product. So they could not even just display the text and pics
Local hosting means it works without internet using "hugo server" where you go to "localhost" in a browser
As far as woocommerce, it depends on how much data you're looking to collect from the customer. If you're okay with fields for email, name, address then Opencart, Abantecart, or one of the other similar ones in that family, that hook up to BTCPay or fiat processors.

2024-08-28 13:14:18

Why does WordPress suck?
a) Slower for visitors
You're selling less business, people are walking away from your malware that loads slow.
Search engines punish slow speed.
b) Slower to make
I hope you like carpel tunnel. WordPress forces you to go in a browser and manually modify shit with a mouse, which is proven to hurt your hands in the long term. Plus it's slow load speeds to work on something constantly reloading on a remote server, so you're urinating on your own time. On top of network issues with Tor
c) Leeching Big Tech malware.
You're leaking to the government your income, your sales, and reducing your freedom of speech. While it's technically true WordPress is "open source", it has malware Google fonts by default on the front end, jsdeliver to function, and Cloudflare and Google on the backend. Then to do most tasks, you to install 3rd party plugins which are often closed source and have security vulnerabilities. This is because WordPress suffers from mission creep, where they want to do everything.
d) Hypocrite
You say you want decentralization, but your customers think you're a hypocrite. Most uBlock Origin users immediately see the google fonts and JSDeliver and know you're using WordPress. Now you're trying to sell them on your expertise, but you're using amateur tools.
e) WordPress plugins need constant updates for security, but your setup has a unique combination of plugins. Therefore, as time passes by, the probability of a unique failure increases, which costs more money to solve.
Instead, ditch bloat WordPress, and go with Hugo.
Hugo is a static site generator. This means it generates static content locally on your computer, then you upload and serve a finished static thing. On the other hand, malware WordPress has a live database, and then dynamically creates that content on the site while your visitors wait for it to load.
With Hugo, you don't need any coding knowledge to easily and effortlessly format text, add pictures, and change the layout of your articles, on your local offline computer with the keyboard like an alpha male, as opposed to a worthless carpel tunnel bitch clicking a mouse in a remote browser using Big Tech malware.
Consider reaching out to Simplified Privacy's on-staff graphic designer to help you transition your content over to Hugo, to become a master of your domain. (DM me)

2024-08-28 13:03:55

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for desktop, proof of work is great.
for mobile phones, most people won't want to do it

2024-08-28 13:02:54

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LOL ok you got me

2024-08-27 14:54:37

Now the real question is will the mainstream left turn on Zuck, and accuse HIM of misinformation?
#nevent1q…kzwf

2024-08-26 13:27:19

Why was Telegram's CEO arrested?
Depends on what network you read:
SimpleX: To get user data
Nostr: To censor
Farcaster: Crackdown on crypto trading
Bastyon: Israeli data breach. Blame the jews!
Twitter: They are coming for Elon next!
Lens: Must be evil capitalism. I paid $10 of Ethereum to type about money being evil.
Telegram itself: He must have done real crimes. We gotta stop crime right?

2024-08-25 16:57:22

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It starts with not being a bitcoin maxi, because bitcoin has no binding contract
While as something like hosting websites on Arweave is a decentralized business that takes in revenue:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/categories/arweave.html
Arweave isn't competing with lightning for general cash, so should not trigger the insane "shitcoin" response.
But hey, I expect to be ignored with this post. Since I think you’re looking for likes and not solutions.

2024-08-25 16:17:34

Telegram's CEO arrest is likely over Israel
--Israeli data hacked
--Leaked on Telegram
--Arrest is likely a response to a refusal to censor
Quotes from Anadolu from Aug 21st:
‘The leaks are likely the most severe in Israel’s history -- an unprecedented looting of gigabytes upon gigabytes of information of all sorts,’ says Israeli daily
"The leaked data has appeared on platforms like Telegram, prompting a series of takedown attempts by Israeli authorities. However, Telegram’s limited moderation policies have complicated these efforts."
Source:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/anti-israel-hackers-have-released-troves-of-classified-data-haaretz/3308994

2024-08-25 13:48:59

It's insane Telegram's CEO was jailed for allowing Russian disinformation,
When even the mainstream US news covered the CIA's violent coup of Ukraine. (before the Russian invasion)
This is my previous writing with the citations:
The corrupt Biden administration’s unwinnable war in Ukraine has bankrupted the nation. Even mainstream propaganda outlets such as The Guardian, Reuters, and the BBC reported on leaked audio of Barrack Obama’s head of Ukraine policy Victoria Nuland. [9a] This leaked phone call revealed that the US backed an illegal and violent coup of Ukraine’s Democratically elected leader. [9b] The Obama administration admitted the leaked audio was true, which demonstrated the US picked the supposedly democratically elected leaders that resulted from their planned uprising. [9c][6]
Funding Nazis
Barrack Obama funded violent Nazis to overthrow Ukraine’s government. [11a] The media tries to brainwash voters by calling it “Russian propaganda”, but the evidence is clear in an FBI indictment of Americans involved that’s posted on the New York Times website. [12b] To quote from journalist Max Blumenthal:
“… an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia” [12a]
[9a] The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-diplomat-victoria-nuland-phonecall-leaked-video
[9b] Reuters
Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
By Doina Chiacu and Arshad Mohammed
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1601K/
[9c] BBC
Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
[10] NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/world/europe/islamic-battalions-stocked-with-chechens-aid-ukraine-in-war-with-rebels.html
[11a] Scott Horton Podcast
11/27/18 Max Blumenthal on U.S.-Funded Neo-Nazism
by Scott | Nov 29, 2018 | Interviews
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-27-18-max-blumenthal-on-u-s-funded-neo-nazism/
[11b] Consortium News
Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists
[12a] FBI: Azov Battalion Trained Rise Above Movement
By Max Blumenthal
[12b] New York Times
FBI: Robert Rundo Complaint
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/421-robert-rundo-complaint/0f1e76cdeef814133f24/optimized/full.pdf

2024-08-25 13:36:37

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Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov. The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military. There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the CIA.
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Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.)
And the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence.
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Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.
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Also the violent coup from a few years earlier we wrote about, wanna comment on that?

2024-08-25 13:09:28

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#nevent1q…0ca9

2024-08-25 02:59:47

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It is truly disgusting that you are accusing anyone of criticizing US foreign policy as automatically a “Putin puppet” to oppress knowledge. You should remove the Bitcoin symbol from your profile, as the primary purpose of separating money and the state would be to starve the central banking from funding the exact thing you’re right now a cheerleader for.
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
Zerohedge covering it:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt
My writing:
The corrupt Biden administration’s unwinnable war in Ukraine has bankrupted the nation. Even mainstream propaganda outlets such as The Guardian, Reuters, and the BBC reported on leaked audio of Barrack Obama’s head of Ukraine policy Victoria Nuland. [9a] This leaked phone call revealed that the US backed an illegal and violent coup of Ukraine’s Democratically elected leader. [9b] The Obama administration admitted the leaked audio was true, which demonstrated the US picked the supposedly democratically elected leaders that resulted from their planned uprising. [9c][6]
Funding Nazis
Barrack Obama funded violent Nazis to overthrow Ukraine’s government. [11a] The media tries to brainwash voters by calling it “Russian propaganda”, but the evidence is clear in an FBI indictment of Americans involved that’s posted on the New York Times website. [12b] To quote from journalist Max Blumenthal:
“… an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia” [12a]
My sources:
[9a] The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/07/eu-us-diplomat-victoria-nuland-phonecall-leaked-video
[9b] Reuters
Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
By Doina Chiacu and Arshad Mohammed
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1601K/
[9c] BBC
Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
[10] NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/world/europe/islamic-battalions-stocked-with-chechens-aid-ukraine-in-war-with-rebels.html
[11a] Scott Horton Podcast
11/27/18 Max Blumenthal on U.S.-Funded Neo-Nazism
by Scott | Nov 29, 2018 | Interviews
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-27-18-max-blumenthal-on-u-s-funded-neo-nazism/
[11b] Consortium News
Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists
[12a] FBI: Azov Battalion Trained Rise Above Movement
By Max Blumenthal
[12b] New York Times
FBI: Robert Rundo Complaint
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/421-robert-rundo-complaint/0f1e76cdeef814133f24/optimized/full.pdf

2024-08-25 01:17:30

As you likely already heard, Telegram's CEO Durov was arrested for spreading misinformation
But what you might not realize is that the New York Times literally leaked that the CIA lied about starting the war with Russia, by building bases on the border and firing into Russia, way before the invasion. So it's the US media that is spreading misinformation.
Quote Lying MSN:
"Durov’s preference for hands-off moderation has also helped make it a haven for misinformation, with the site only controlling its content when it’s forced to do so by other governments and organizations."
This only further demonstrates the need for better technology and more anonymity to defy irrational tyranny.
Start preparing your devices and accounts for privacy,
Start getting off the fiat banking system,
Start learning how to do peer-to-peer economics,
In an empire of lies, the truth is treason

2024-08-24 00:06:09

Who decides what to censor as spam?
Nostr and Lens solve the "spam and scam" problem by having the client decide. For example Amethyst for android will hide posts from accounts that others report as scams. These "others" are defined by people you follow, but this essentially puts it up to a community vote of large influencers to silence you.
On Lens, once you're labeled spam, you appear in the "show more" of comments. This is a huge turn-off to new users with no followers, who are treated like lower class citizens.
Farcaster solves it in a similar way, but by having the official team label it, and then since their client is so large and influential, their list is often distributed to other clients. This is absolutely horrible and way too centralized. While it's true that posts to your followers would still show up, they are effectively silencing your comments.
Session has zero censorship for mass DMs in the way I use it, even under outright sanctions. The nodes don't even know I am the sender, and I'm assigned new receivers if they drop me. That's why I like it. But the market likes simpleX more because it rotates encryption keys, so it's tough to get new followers. Can't fight the market.
Bastyon solves the problem by a community vote for outright illegal content, to get it off the nodes, such as child porn and narcotics sales. The voters are picked based on their total upvotes, called "reputation". I disagree with this approach, as if we're going to vote, it should be the nodes hosting it (like Arweave does)...
Files on Arweave have an unofficial vote, where the nodes can opt out of storing it. And if all the miners chosen in a block opt out, then there's no financial penalty for dropping the content. But if they have the content and others don't, then they have a financial advantage to mine that block over competitors. This approach is good for websites, but for a social network with permissionless replies, it's way too passive.
Therefore:
I disagree with all these solutions.
In my view, the best way to handle spam (in a permissionless system) is to allow the original poster to decide which replies are spam. Then the end user can decide to toggle on or off "criticism and spam" for the replies. After all, if you're following someone, you trust their judgment on the subject they are speaking about. And this decentralizes the decision to each individual poster.
Now I do the ironic thing, and turn it over to my replies. Do you think this approach is right?

2024-08-24 00:02:37

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It is not END to END encrypted unless the same provider.
Therefore:
You are promoting centralization. Everyone on the same provider.

2024-08-23 18:10:18

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Understood, that's why we're trying to help people to make it fast and easy. Now does that have trust in us? Yes.
But the goal is to get people in a place where they are more self-sovereign

2024-08-23 18:08:51

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First,
If a Protonmail user emails a Tutanota user, it is NOT end-to-end encrypted.
Therefore,
Your solution of there already exists all these options is bullshit, because the options contradict each other.
Further,
It is unclear why a Nostr user, who promotes Bitcoin, (decentralized social media and money), would be opposed to decentralized email.
Finally,
I reject your entire worldview of having people self-host Bitcoin nodes, which add no value to their lives.
Yet, you dismiss people owning a VPS with their communications, emails, docs, files, ect.
Conclusion,
Given your complete failure to acknowledge basic facts, you're essentially spamming. To say you're worthless would be an improvement, currently you are sucking up my resources to respond to low level dribble. So fuck off and let's end this convo

2024-08-23 18:07:43

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Maybe, might not hold up. decent points

2024-08-23 12:58:57

"Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees"
Previously Amazon avoided working with unions, by classifying employees as "third-party contractors". Now a regional National Labor Relations Board director said that the company is really an employer. And so this ruling will essentially force Amazon to work with unions.
You know it's ironic that left-wing Jeff Bezos, who tries to force an agenda of government control to supposedly protect the everyday person, is actually the one who is trying to dance and bullshit his way around the very "Big Brother" laws he promotes.
Even his own paper the Washington Post admits defeat:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/22/amazon-teamsters-delivery-drivers/

2024-08-22 22:50:56

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We can take your logic a step further, if Tutanota's CEO were here on Nostr today promoting his product, you'd say "Oh don’t self-host your own thing, we already have Protonmail, Mailbox, Countermail, and Startmail".

2024-08-22 22:46:42

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Look how many choices you listed. Proton-to-Tutanota isn't E2EE, so it's only among that provider. If the person you're talking to is cool enough to use privacy email, they are cool enough to use a REAL private protocol like simplex. The purpose of email is the people you're reaching out to don't care. And the businesses you sign up for are forcing you to your account to it.
Also take a step back and think about what you're really standing for right now. You're literally trying to haze me for telling people to be decentralized and as self-sovereign as they can be .... and you're instead trying to degrade what I'm doing to promote millionare Protonmail. Like what's your goal?
Clearly we would be in a better place if everyone and their mother had their own VPS with email. So it's unclear your agenda.

2024-08-22 22:41:14

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I hear you on the tinfoil hat. Part of this is not per say they are getting your data, but also about control. One of the members of our chat group was talking about being banned from proton for sending business emails in small bulk. He was saying how it was fairly small amount, but he lost the account.
So it's about privacy yes, but also control over your digital home.

2024-08-22 19:49:05

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I have not researched into fedora. But the question is not is any provider per say compromising you, but if you have root access to control it.
My message is: Don’t trust external services, run it yourself. Have a digital home, not just for email. for docs, chat, ect.

2024-08-22 19:46:48

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There is no "turning on E2EE" with email. It's SSL, like regular websites. Unless you're saying using PGP, which most people are not doing and the metadata is cleartext.
When you say "there are simpler solutions out there", yes Mailu is open source email. We are setting it up for people who do not want to read technical docs. And setting up other services on the same VPS, so you get the most out of having one.
Your argument is unclear. Are you suggesting people should NOT be self-sovereign and have a digital home?

2024-08-22 18:21:53

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Thanks for your time in writing in for an educational opportunity.
First, Proton is NOT end-to-end encrypted. As per own their blog:
https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained
(Please note, I only changed the CAPS)
Quote:
"The email is encrypted in transit using TLS. It is THEN UNENCRYPTED and re-encrypted (by us) for storage on our servers using zero-access encryption. Once zero-access encryption has been applied, no-one except you can access emails stored on our servers (including us). It is NOT end-to-end encrypted, however, and might be accessible to the sender’s email service"
</end quote>
Second, they do scan it for spam and phising.
They repeat this with:
Source: https://proton.me/blog/encrypted-email-spam-filtering
"Emails that come from third party email providers obviously CANNOT be delivered with end-to-end encryption, but upon reaching our mail servers, we will encrypt them with the recipient’s public key before saving the messages(new window). All this is done in memory so that by the time anything is permanently stored to disk, the email is already un-readable to us. This gives us a very limited window to perform spam filtering on incoming messages."
Then they further elaborate,
"Secondly, the message is passed through our customized Bayesian filters which marks suspicious messages as spam.
Next, we generate checksums of incoming messages and check them against a database of known spam messages. If there is a match, we mark the message as spam. The checksums are done in such a way that it is also effective against mutating spam emails."
</end quote>
So they claim to have it unencrypted, then have a "limited time" to stop spam, but then also claim to encrypt it, and then after compare the hash to spam hash. If their own claims were true, then why do they only have a limited time?
Third, they hand over huge amounts of data. If it's encrypted, then what do they have to hand over?
From their own transparency report:
https://proton.me/legal/transparency
"2023
Number of legal orders: 6,378
Contested orders: 407
Orders complied with: 5,971
2022
Number of legal orders: 6,995
Contested orders: 1,038
Orders complied with: 5,957"
</end quote>
Fourth, you imply that I am not trustworthy but proton with a World Economic Forum board member is. It's not logical to trust a government regulated and registered entity to resist government, over a pure crypto provider. We've registered our PGP key with XMRBazaar so no customer funds are risked when all customers are given a receipt.
What you're really saying is you wish to attempt to haze and oppress alternatives that aren't registered with the government.
If so, why do you have bitcoin glowies on your eyes? As there is no purpose in bitcoin if you still only trust government money.

2024-08-22 18:20:56

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If you email someone on gmail, that one email is compromised yes. But not the entire sum of all your activity.
So you're protecting against someone seeing everything you're doing.
And further, the vast majority of websites will force you to register using email. So just controlling that email is all the stuff you own. Traditional social media accounts, fiat banking, websites, forums, crypto exchanges, dexes, ect
Also you can use something like anonaddy to hide that it's even you that's emailing gmail. So gmail would only see each conversation in isolation, and not even know your real domain

2024-08-22 18:20:23

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And tell google what you're buying and where you live?
If you have a self-host, easily one of the many addresses can be for junk.

2024-08-22 18:19:23

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Yes picking a good VPS provider is important, and that is a flaw with email.
We could re-word your statement as "Email isn't good for active threats, but if the provider wastes money, then information can be obtained"
However, you do not present an alternative.

2024-08-22 13:26:00

Email ain't designed for selling fuckin cocaine.
I promote the idea of self-hosting email on a VPS, to stop passive surveillance. Meaning:
No AI is scanning this stuff. Then you can use aliases like anonaddy to hide from services that it's even your email
Proton openly admits to scanning btw. So without a VPS, you got Cloudflare, Gmail, Proton, and the WEF glow boys shoving the AI scan up your rectum, and seeing the SUM of your online activity, because almost every service out there demands an email.
Is it air-tight end-to-end-quantum-nuclear-shelter? No. But it's a little digital home for your work (docs, files, content):
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/index.html

2024-08-22 13:25:10

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The line between personal and means of production gets blurred to become meaningless. For example even right now I'm talking in a personal sense, but I'm also selling a business.
I am not willing to comply with your call to action, so it's pure violence if you get your way. I will resist to the best of my ability and try to kill you.
If your violence does work, then
To get around your violent call to action, I would declare everything personal. And then use barter trades to avoid money. Everything is personal.

2024-08-22 03:02:58

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Agreed. But if you control your identity, why would you pick the Rook over the Queen or King?

2024-08-21 12:10:36

Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
Just when you thought you could try Linux out, and still have Windows with dual-boot as a back-up for some use-cases, Microsoft is out to screw you over again. Their new update to "secure boot", which fixed their previous issues with GRUB and Windows together, which Microsoft allowed to be abused by hackers for 2 years before finally patching, now is breaking Linux machines.
"Ars Technica reports that multiple Linux dual-boot users are seeing “security policy violation” messages, along with “something has gone seriously wrong” errors. There are reports of issues across Reddit, Ubuntu forums, and elsewhere. Distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux have all been affected by Microsoft’s patch."
It looks like you may have to finally pull the plug and wipe even your back-up Windows that you left for compatibility. Microsoft is so corrupt and worthless, they can not even be trusted as an alternative at boot time.
Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225108/microsoft-security-update-windows-linux-dual-boot-errors
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/

2024-08-21 00:22:58

Joe Biden pushing forward rapid "Digital ID" program.
According to NOTUS, they previewed a draft executive order that Joe Biden is trying to push through on his way out, [1]
This unconstitutional, insecure, and objectively-invasive program would force states to issue digital identification on smart phones instead of physical driver licenses. What is not mentioned in any of these articles, is how they are going to deal with hackers only having to steal a file. And then once the "file" is stolen, there would be rampant fraud that would be difficult or impossible to stop.
Are you going to tie it to only be used by that physical phone? That would force US citizens to buy certain phone brands, which a US Federal Court already ruled unconstitutional with Obamacare attempting to force young people to buy private insurance. [2] In fact, with health insurance, even with the fines, millions of US citizens preferred to pay the fines than take action. [3]
So how will sleepy Joe Biden force compliance, as he's forced out of office, due to being too senile to speak in a debate? He could not even maintain the illusion of being in charge, while his puppet masters were really in charge.
Here’s an idea: Let’s Phone-Digital ID the White House, so we can see who is really pushing the buttons. Because to say Biden is in-charge, is fraud.
Sources:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/joe-biden-id/index.html

2024-08-21 00:22:21

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excited for this

2024-08-20 19:46:12

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Ha, I guess. But why would they trust me over just saving up in a wallet they own? It's sort of like a weightloss deal to themselves? "I will become private"

2024-08-20 15:00:02

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For a phone being shipped for monero, how would that work? Because we're not collecting credit info the way those companies do. It's not like I'm gonna show up at your frontdoor

2024-08-19 13:56:18

"Google Play is axing its Security Reward Program"
The program paid devs up to 20k to locate vulnerabilities in popular Android apps. Google says they’re "winding down the program due to a decrease in actionable vulnerabilities reported by security researchers"
In other words, they no longer give a shit if there's malware on Google Play, because now they changed the legal liability to be on the app dev. Over a year ago, they changed the legal wording so the dev has to self-report what permissions are used. This shifts responsibility away from the Play Store onto the dev.
But if Google shifts the responsibility on the dev for the bad side, but they keep the good side (collecting user data), then why do we even need them? We don't. Avoid Google Play... switch to F-Droid, APKs, and Obtainium.

2024-08-18 20:35:57

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Bitcoin has no binding contract, so Arweave is required. Do not think of it as money, but a decentralized service that takes in revenue. It's more like a coupon.

2024-08-18 12:52:09

Why should I care about Arweave websites?
Arweave offers unprecedented freedom for both the website visitor and the content creator.
For the website visitor, it’s unprecedented privacy. Never before in the history of the internet has the website VISITOR been able to pick the location, ISP, and jurisdiction where they want to RECEIVE the content FROM. In other words, you pick what gateway (and therefore under what terms) you will look at their stuff.
Normally, you’re forced to submit to whatever server the content creator wants. Which usually means forced Cloudflare and AWS.
Even better, once it moves out of testnet, you’ll be able to self-host your own gateway. In other words, you can SELF-HOST THEIR website, and then only you see your VPN/Tor exit.
Creator
For the content creator, it’s unparalleled power with: censorship resistance, a CDN, a DNS identity, with no clear-path to a take-down. You can do whatever you want, and governments can’t control you. Even better than that, because it’s permanent, it can serve up unmodified code in a Github type situation, or it can be a legally binding contract for full-blown crypto-anarchy.
How’s it work?
It’s file storage directly on the layer-1 blockchain, so it works like Bitcoin Ordinals but it scales. It can store anything, including websites or videos. And it has gateways around the world, acting as a CDN.
Who cares about this CDN?
The problem with the regular internet is Cloudflare acts as the middle-man for all websites and sees all passwords. However, to not use centralized CDNs exposes one to DDoS. By putting it on the blockchain and having different gateways serve it up, it frees the visitor and the creator from Big Tech, censorship, and having Cloudflare own all passwords.
How’s the blockchain work?
So there’s two aspects to this, first is how is it stored on the blockchain (Proof of Work). And second is how is it distributed to the website viewer (Proof of Stake).
Proof of Work Storage
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/posts/arweave/Arweave-QA/images/proof-of-work.jpg
The storage runs on modified Proof of Work using RandomX (Which Monero also uses). Just like Monero, Arweave uses RandomX to force mining to be done on regular computer hardware, and keep out abuse that can rig the way data is put into blocks. But unlike Monero which is just cash, Arweave is a decentralized business that generates revenue.
BitTorrent Pool
Customers pay for 100 years of storage which goes into a pool (they use the word “endowment”, but it’s not controlled like that). This pool pays out nodes to store the data. They share data with each other using BitTorrent, in a way that incentivizes them to share it with as many other nodes as possible. Then they are randomly asked to produce data, to prove that they have it.
Proof of Stake CDN
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/posts/arweave/Arweave-QA/images/arweave-global.png
The CDN gateways are run by a different project, ar.io (IO tokens) which are Proof of Stake. The gateways stake IO, which gets slashed if they serve malicious fake content. Like say you put up your Monero wallet or PGP Key, and they serve up their own wallet or key. The other gateways can decide what defines malicious content in a vote, and so having the coin be Proof of Stake keeps out malicious attacks. One CAN run a gateway WITHOUT staking, but then the gateway doesn’t get rewarded.
PoS debate
Proof of Stake is controversial, because you’re raising the requirements to scale new locations. However, if there was 0 barrier to entry, then the government could run unlimited malicious gateways with no defense mechanism. The main part of this system I disagree with is the subjective and unclear deciding of what defines malicious gateways. In my personal opinion, it should be mathematical comparison of the files, done in a purely systematic method, without voting.
End Flow Chart
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/posts/arweave/Arweave-QA/images/gateways.png

2024-08-18 00:23:29

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It's possible you had issues with a Monero node, sure. It's possible.
But without a doubt, the end user using a Monero wallet is easier than self-custody Bitcoin lightning, especially if we're talking self-liquidity. And this is why it's more easily controlled, because the end users give up custody/control, to make it easier.
There are other reasons as well, such as privacy, censorship, and legal complexity of layer 2 middlemen.

2024-08-18 00:05:04

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Thanks for your time. Yeah XMRBazaar is glitched on the 2-of-3 multi-sig, so we offered an alternative and they were down

2024-08-17 00:10:37

Simplified Privacy is now regulated...
Just not by the government.
People pay the government to register a business, but when the customer is cheated, does the customer get any of those corporate registration funds? No, the gov squanders it, and then more must be collected via violent threats.
Even worse, "privacy" companies register to get fiat investments, which then forces them to compromise their product at arbitrary corrupt request. Their "innovative" technology can't resist the violent registration, and so they have no purpose.
But how can customers be protected if cryptocurrency transactions are irreversible? Today we present a new path.
Simplified Privacy deposited 2 Monero with an arbitrator from XMRBazaar and registered it with our PGP key. Regardless of if you use XMR, Bitcoin, or a different currency: All customers get a PGP signed receipt for decentralized email combo clouds, private DeGoogled phones, or other tech services. And this is regardless of if you use the the Bazaar website, Nostr, or any messenger. In the future, I am open to doing a Bitcoin deposit as well to bridge the gap.
If we fail to deliver on our promises, you can contact the arbitrator (AilliA), and show your PGP signed receipt. If we fail to respond or provide proof of delivery within 2 weeks, AilliA will pay you XMR from our deposit. My message is clear:
You are not defined by the dirt upon which you stand.
But by the value you add to society.
Deposit info: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/how-pgp-insurance/index.html
Learn how to verify PGP: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/how-to-verify/index.html

2024-08-16 13:37:35

Big Win for Freedom:
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional
Up to one third of all inquires to Google are for user geolocation data. This is where law enforcement asks for the data on all phone users in a given geographic area, because they want to know who might have done a crime. The issue with this is that it violates the fourth amendment, as they are getting a huge amount of other data on other people, completely unrelated to the crime.
This is the exact type of stuff we advocate avoiding with Simplified Privacy’s educational materials on DeGoogled Phones, WiFi hotspots, and VoIP. However, it appears we are not the only ones against the practice. In the Fifth Circuit case of the United States v. Smith, the Federal Court ruled that geofence warrants, which involve blanket requests for all user data in a given geographic area, are unconstitutional and violate the 4th amendment.
Now will this stop the practice? Maybe, but I wouldn’t cancel your VoIP subscription yet.

2024-08-16 13:36:34

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Bitcoin is more easily controlled than competitors like Monero, and lightning is more difficult for the average person to self-host, then a self-host wallet that just works. This degrades the use of crypto for the real world transactions.
Therefore, the point is that being a Bitcoin Maxi is in the US government’s interest.
And so you being a cheerleader for this defeats the purpose of uncensored technology.

2024-08-16 10:28:46

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And..?
Dodging the main point

2024-08-16 10:27:44

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Not delist. Haze and degrade

2024-08-16 00:00:48

As Monero is delisted from exchanges,
The SEC told Coinbase to "delist everything but Bitcoin"
So if you're repeating the government's wishes,
What is the purpose in Nostr's "censorship resistance"?

2024-08-15 13:10:12

Florida woman sues Google for deplatforming after she sent pro-life email through Gmail
This is yet another example of why you should not be using the infrastructure of your enemy for critical functions to your life. A 76-year-old woman in Jacksonville is suing Google for deplatforming her about an hour after she emailed members of her pro-life group calling for a peaceful Catholic Mass and gathering in front of A Woman’s Choice, an abortion business in Florida.
Trudy Perez-Poveda says Google targeted her after she sent the correspondence through Gmail. Google refused to allow Perez-Poveda to access her more than 11-year trove of stored emails, photographs, calendars, contacts and other data, her attorneys say.
People will say “oh, but I’m not protesting”, but here’s the thing: Google is involved in so many different industries and causes, across both the left and right, that the number of triggers is beyond what can be avoided. In fact, any industry, even if not political, has the potential to shake up competitors and cause them to want to stop this change. If Google will always side with the powerful incumbent, even if purely economical, then if you’re using Gmail, you’re essentially saying:
“I do not now, and never will, have anything of value to say”
Sources:
https://evilgoogle.news/2024-08-12-florida-woman-sues-google-deplatforming-prolife-email-gmail.html
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/florida-woman-sues-google-for-deplatforming-her-shortly-after-she-sent-pro-life-email

2024-08-15 01:06:31

My impression of Monero users who won't come on Nostr:
"I hate Bitcoin Maxis because they are biased against new technology that is better...
By the way I hate Nostr, so I want to obey and tie my life's work to a single government domain, and listen to socialists on Mastodon, which are the same people who want to tax me, which btw Monero is trying to evade. And I submit to have Twitter shove a captcha up my rectum, all because these Bitcoin Maxis don't care about privacy."

2024-08-14 16:06:11

Congrats to @npub1exv…d828 for the new $1.3m pre-seed investment from Jack Dorsey and Asymmetric Capital Partners
Great work, we wish you continued success,
https://simplex.chat/blog/20240814-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v6-private-routing-new-user-experience.html
If you're not already in our SP simpleX group, join as he's dropping gems:
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2024-08-14 16:05:13

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great article link, thanks so much. we'll discuss this

2024-08-13 13:37:24

“Pre-Crime” is taking action BEFORE a crime is committed:
New Documents Show the FBI Implemented Nationwide Social Media Monitoring Ahead of the 2022 Midterms
Fast Key points:
--FBI ordered social media companies to save user data on targeted political individuals, even though no crime had been committed
--Goal was to “maintain relevant user information until legal actions could be formally initiated”
--America First Legal (AFL) initiated the lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration FBI National Election Command Post (NECP)
--It had lists of social media accounts posting what they considered “misinformation,” extending from New York to San Francisco. This included the Right Side Broadcasting Network, cited by Matt Taibbi as targeted for “additional action” by the FBI
So we’re talking about pre-crime surveillance of political adversaries that are just sending messages they dislike. Many in the privacy space warned about pre-crime, ironically we were “pre-crime flagging the pre-crime” but now here it is:
Sources:
https://reclaimthenet.org/new-documents-show-the-fbi-implemented-nationwide-social-media-monitoring-ahead-of-the-2022-midterms
Matt Taibbi:
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128

2024-08-12 22:34:58

Big New 0-day vulnerability for Web Browsers
(for Linux & Mac)
Researchers at Oligo Security have disclosed a logical vulnerability to all major browsers (Chromium, Firefox, Safari) that enables external websites to communicate with (and potentially exploit) software that runs locally on MacOS and Linux. Windows is not impacted by this issue.
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Oligo Researchers have found that public websites (like domains ending in .com) are able to communicate with services running on the local network (localhost) and potentially execute arbitrary code on the visitor’s host by using the address 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost/127.0.0.1.
Remediation In Progress: Browsers Will Soon Block 0.0.0.0
Following responsible disclosure, HTTP requests to 0.0.0.0 are now being added to security standards using a Request for Comment (RFC), and some browsers will soon block access to 0.0.0.0 completely. 0.0.0.0 will not be allowed as a target IP anymore in the Fetch specification, which defines how browsers should behave when doing HTTP requests.
Source:
https://www.oligo.security/blog/0-0-0-0-day-exploiting-localhost-apis-from-the-browser

2024-08-12 09:09:57

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PoW on Tor nodes?

2024-08-12 09:07:41

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is this real?

2024-08-11 13:17:01

Who knows what Github is actually giving you?
New PGP Directory August Update:
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Bitcoin Electrum (4.5.5)
KeePass XC (2.7.9)
Session (1.12.5)
Tor Browser (13.5.2)
Whonix (17.2.0.7)
Feather Wallet (2.6.7)
Monero-Official (0.18.3.3)
VeraCrypt (1.26.7)
SimpleX (just have key)
You can use:
SimplifiedPrivacy.sol
SimplifiedPrivacy.x
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2024-08-10 15:57:59

Beast Linux Tip:
To avoid having to scroll through your history to find something, do this command:
history | grep what-you-want
the "|" is pipe and it takes the first command and feeds the output into the 2nd one, and "grep" searches for something, so you're literally taking your history and feeding it into a search