2026-02-20T17:20:19Z https://yabu.me aut0tor https://yabu.me/npub1e0unm90yfh9gr7n39xp28zwmq4vrvyhulajs2ud3cakw9yq3cweskvaut0 https://image.nostr.build/8061f8a5ab3ec3d528e7c2a98e933a40aeb02ad557c9875ce5367979146aa2c7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8061f8a5ab3ec3d528e7c2a98e933a40aeb02ad557c9875ce5367979146aa2c7.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswqlqv7esu9u3dk8dyyy65c02aeceq8h2t6fejawyv5x9kjv7mvcczyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxujwgly these parts are indeed &#34;tough and tricky&#34;, but the real HARD part, spiritually and emotionally, is that if you&#39;re doing it right you can never tell anyone - which means &#34;you&#34; never get credit or acclaim. <br/>my forthcoming manifesto goes deep into this topic. the key takeaway is you won&#39;t have reliable privacy before you have deep personal virtue. the desire for social acclaim will undermine your pseudonymity eventually. <br/><br/>only a virtuous people will have deep privacy. and a private people will be encouraged to develop deep virtue. <br/>it&#39;s a .... virtuous cycle .... one that is self-directed, Auto-torically. one that is practiced based on principles, Praxi-gnomically. Autotoric Praxignomia.<br/><br/>Getting it yet? <br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp4f4g7n5a7glmu434aw3kll9dkhtsv7l93as3enk0ht2eczdygt4qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzph3agc67fjudktmj8x6d583ct05tjlzw6tjaq6p8adw0t34h4wej2h4u5c" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…4u5c</a></span> </div> This is how they bleed us:<br/>Going Pure Pseudonym With Strong Privacy Is Slow and Hard. <br/>Amnesiac Tails OS. Encrypted volumes. Tor everywhere. Memorized passwords. Managing GPG keys and KeePass databases. Only recording enough information to re-find your own breadcrumb trail but not tip off a Snooper. Cashu wallets, Email aliases, Anonymous payments for VPS and domains, Self-hosting services for the things where Third Parties would require KYC.<br/>That's all just to get a Nym Booted up and baseline operational; none of it can be shared with other nyms. If this identity is going to be Long-running or acquiring any Credibility or Business connections this is just the beginning of the picture. Writing and deploying code, Providing customer service, Delivering timely responses to business contacts without the use of mobile devices or realtime notifications. Physically doing all this in your home or out of the house without tipping off those around you that something is odd about your computer use... You have any idea how hard that shit is while maintaining untraceably pseudonymity on ONE nym? It compounds enormously with each additional one.<br/><br/>This is how the Enemies of #privacy win the long war of attrition. This process is slow, error-prone, full of friction, not for the faint of heart, requires focus and dedication and some degree of disposable funds. All the Enemies have to do is insure the "Easy Way" gains area under the curve, while the Hard Way gets a little harder every day. Even just the loss of productivity and patience due to Tor speed vs clearnet speed is enough to move the needle on the overall struggle.<br/><br/>For us to lose, the Businesses and Services nyms provide for each other and for the namedoxxed public only have to be slightly less successful and slightly lower velocity than the offerings of the Enemy. Combine that with the broad "Don't worry about Privacy" spell cast over the majority of the population, and the Picture is bleak. <br/><br/>Yet - here We are. We find new patches of digital land to plant our #secondRealm flags on. We persist DESPITE the friction, we sound the alarm DESPITE the unhearing ears of most NPCs. If we didn't think we had a chance we'd already be hollowing out our skulls staring at Instragram and neatly stacking our monopoly monies. But no - we're here, building and learning and teaching. <br/>Insist that the software you use is no-kyc. Pay for your services and tips with private money. Follow nyms. Support your local pseudonymous developer. Carve out a space. <br/><br/>That's all for now.<br/><br/>#agora #anarchy #cypherpunk #cryptoanarchy </blockquote> 2026-02-20T17:16:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9v4gdsy59wvf8h3w6k6c8ynl9qrzfg0vju4tknxjapnv8n48fvqqzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxztueph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqqqqnp9w8vle9f6uu8qg6vsccchlq2pu9gxewjzpyety5zkw7wlcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtc7akzza'>nevent1q…kzza</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it&#39;s the timeouts that are the problem. either on the gossip side or the relays - or maybe both. <br/>all my traffic is already forced over tor thanks to Tails 2026-02-20T17:11:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2sgtrhvvxmprh9ns4anr8n2ckyc3m07sgu9znwykg2nev58fjs4gzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxv3naz7 Proton mail has gotten to be a real little bitch about &#34;verification email addresses&#34;. 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 &#34;you need to add a recovery email address **in order to use your proton account to sign up for third party services**&#34;. <br/>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? <br/>Fuck proton mail. 2026-02-06T04:18:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrdq6qvmd0pakr79ysvt7nncvd45eat7ltjlaxmq8kjhrz7n3lmvszyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxpek2ne <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qqswuyd9ml6qcxd92h6pleptfrcqucvvjy39vg4wx7mv9wm8kakyujgua442w" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Mike Dilger ☑️</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…442w</span>)</a></span> the gossip readme says it works over Tor, including in Tails, Whonix, etc. I&#39;m getting zero connections though. Not even finding my profile, nor connecting to any relays. Any advice? 2026-02-06T03:30:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstnrnx2vljas4ey5spdaq424ndmag33ex98hwgpttakqe80rkracqzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmx8vkxx3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxpgnr2axklp6gqyhmdmgh3zjp8a6k8ejwphg2tjrp0y2yquv7escpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsq9q0e2'>nevent1q…q0e2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agreed it&#39;s not easy, but with wider tor support in clients it wouldn&#39;t be bad. Again, see the Amethyst example.<br/>What you&#39;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.<br/><br/>What are the other privacy concerns? 2026-02-04T02:55:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdc7zw66vhhyxfj2p7sqxawfnfjwcp4e79gggptgxh5q630et7z2qzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxyq3zes In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdvc4l30vmh95n2v5zrngr8aapteavz6awcr8tesrvhhde56m2rfqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0w6m7gc'>nevent1q…m7gc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Now if only I wasn&#39;t sequestered away into one or two relays that don&#39;t completely fail when using nostr web clients in Tor :( 2026-02-02T04:58:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdvc4l30vmh95n2v5zrngr8aapteavz6awcr8tesrvhhde56m2rfqzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxy5428f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspazrengtjs5ezauvljn9cp6pwaywevtewcg0v6phh4w0wx6pyvegppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0t628cq'>nevent1q…28cq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10u76a5allqxv9egzqj8wu6y2p7n3fd9c5ncqvwf2gmjnqzeeaqeqs9urt5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>ASCOT ↯</span> (<span class="italic">npub10u7…urt5</span>)</a></span> 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. 2026-02-02T04:57:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8n7um0slgzhvmkdxeye6jwcmp94geu05p5crrsplvxnvpw5t2qcqzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxa7qqdm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrjdwkrhcvtnwvq7uqacsw7gzcpjcvr30f8jaegmr9l2l62cc075qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0eqyttq'>nevent1q…yttq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Any advice for relays to use in web clients in Tor Browser would be appreciated. Most relays don&#39;t work. 2026-02-02T02:04:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvkpcquldqd2dc5xreszxplkdq86xs02y6gm357yhr3esaw70293qzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmx9awg7p <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Derek Ross</span> (<span class="italic">npub18am…p424</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>semisol</span> (<span class="italic">npub1226…grkj</span>)</a></span> - the &#34;set up your NIP-05&#34; guide at nostrplebs.com is broken. At least in Tor Browser.. 2026-02-02T01:58:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvfh28vhsv98m6yqtk5nzax0ms9zmu2uc4mnqwkpsmnqthprkh8fszyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmx7xctwv Do npub.cash lightning addresses still work?<br/><br/>A zap in this general direction would be greatly appreciated and refunded, as long as I notice it<br/><br/>#cashu #ecash 2026-02-02T01:57:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lv7r0uw7qc5duesa939u5y04ppn58takctddztjvnzsdjlrmxpqzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxmlgeem Using nostr web clients in Tor Browser is basically impossible?<br/><br/>#tor #privacy 2026-02-02T01:25:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst9tlw82fsuru6zq2gr8yemurc9vssjw93qj5ckgrmmjyfm0ntv9szyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxt754yv A placeholder: Autotoric Praxignomia 2026-01-31T02:56:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspazrengtjs5ezauvljn9cp6pwaywevtewcg0v6phh4w0wx6pyvegzyr9lj0v4u3xu4q06wy5c9gufmvz4sdsjlnlk2pt3k8rkec5sz8pmxk5cn06 Hello world.<br/><br/>A nym, a nym<br/>is a beautiful thyng 2026-01-31T02:50:40Z