Privacy Checklist

Step 1. Learn Linux
It’s easier than you think.   You don’t need the command line, and the software compatibility isn’t as big a deal as it used to be, because a lot is in a web browser now.  Over the last 10 years, Linux has improved dramatically, while as Microsoft Windows has gotten worse due to their increased surveillance wasting more and more resources.

Step 2. Get a DeGoogled Android
It’s as easy to use as a regular Android!  You can have all the same apps (although you should ditch some of them).  You don’t need the newest and most expensive model, Pixel 6a or 7a are just fine.  We sell them cheap, or do it on your own.

Step 3. Slowly learn about open source alternatives.
There is a lot of alternative software out there, and our site covers most of them.  Kdenlive is just as good as Adobe Premier for 90% of stuff.  GIMP is just as good as photoshop for most people.  Try to replace one app a week or month, you’ll get there.  Patience.

Step 4. Get a VoIP line.
Stop using the number on the real SIM card of your phone, otherwise the phone company sees what you’re doing.  If you use VoIP with a VPN, then the phone company sees just a VPN tunnel.  And the VoIP company just sees a VPN exit.  The data is still unencrypted, but this is a huge separation of knowledge.

Step 5. Transition to Crypto.
Bitrefill, coincards, cake wallet, and many more vendors have a huge variety of stuff.  This depends on your country and needs.  But no country has no options.  Don’t let pessimism keep you trapped in fiat.

Step 6. Consider self-hosted email.
If you’re not going to just use a bunch of burners, and you actually have real content going through email, then self-host on a VPS is the best way.  It’s true that the VPS provider can still access it, but if you need business email, then this is your best choice.  We offer to do the setup for you, or you can read guides on your own.

Step 7. Start on-boarding your friends and family
It takes two to tango.  It helps to have the other side of your conversation secure as well.  Our site has guides on how to approach them, but the answer usually lies in increasing your value proposition and friendship.  And never in cursing them out.  Target your pitch on what they know and care about.

Step 8. Type your name in search engines.
See what comes up.  Are these accounts you can clean up, change, or delete?

Step 9. Make the plunge: Delete Facebook.
It’s a tough one.  And most won’t do it.  But I did, and I kept all the people I actually talked to in the real world in my life via different tools.  Good time to pitch Nostr.

Conclusion:
When you first see this list, it will be overwhelming with what you ought to do.  But I’m here today to tell you that I was once just like you, and I felt powerless with all this technical jargon I had to overcome.  But remember, to some people Nostr or Bitcoin is complex.  So it’s all what you’re used to.  If you go through this list slowly over the course of a few months, I promise you that one day you’ll look back, and be surprised that you ever let it intimidate you.

Now I need you to return the favor, and spread the knowledge you just learned.  For the more people that walk this trail, the easiest the path becomes.


GM. Happy Halvening!


Windows isn't an OS, it's a CS.

Windows isn't an Operating System. It's a Control System.


I pressed the heart button. Where's the hahahahahahahaha! button?


And off they go...

...like lambs to the slaughter.


What's better than for those women that hate men, dislike men, want to change men, take wealth and power away from men, than to simply ignore men (while men build their houses, install their plumbing, kill their meat, etc) and marry a bot instead?

For those women that like men - there goes the competition!

win-win.


100% Normies.


He's actually Chinese.


But I do like that fact that perverts are looking through your underwear and taking pics.


I'm more of an elbows man myself


You shouldn't say that.


You have a pillow.

And a mattress.

Weak.


Unfollowed...

Followed.


Ow! Ow! Ow! It hurts. Stop. Mean.


Just don't know. 'Don't know mind'.

I try to let the curiously on that matter go.

Just be and live with the question.

It doesn't demand an answer does it?


Reality is just word in the mind of human beings. So reality (in the way you or I conceptualize it) doesn't really exist.

Obviously, once you start to believe nothing you say, think or believe actually exists, you run the risk of becoming a nihilist.

But, 'I think therefore I am'. Most of us are conscious of our existence, anything else beyond that is just an educated, or perhaps 'dimwitted', guess. And so, most believe that they are perhaps alive (simulation hypothesis aside). Hard core mediators and psychedelic drug takers seem to think their existence extends beyond their ideas of 'the self'.

Thinking and talking and believing our thoughts and words relate to something real is very practical, useful and necessary to our survival. However, I my opinion, I think it's important to always remind oneself that we just live in our own heads, and make up, or perhaps make sense of, 'reality' in our heads.

Imagine for a moment, a world in which countrymen, men, women, races, ages (years of life) did not exist and no one had a concept of them. We sure would have a lot less to fight about!

So it's very beneficial to let all thoughts go - to not become too attached to them, and just 'be'.

Conversely, holding those ideas loosely can be beneficial as it allows us to accommodate apparent differences, improving everyone's lives. It's good to treat children differently from adults. Despite the fact that children and adults are only ideas.


Churlish.

Countries don't exist.

They're only an idea in the minds of human beings.

The real war is class war. A wealthy powerful minority (eg forming fascist corporation/governments or communist government/corps - they both amount to the same thing) against other wealthy powerful minorities, and against their own populations. Rulers control the populations that would otherwise kill them by focusing their attention on another ruler/population to go an kill them.

Psyop mind control.

That said, now I'm going to contradict myself and say - classes do not exist except in the minds of human beings...


Well, that's just about where I am at the moment tbh.


Normal. No different that the chats I have with my colleagues every morning.


Because of women, this is how most guys live.


Oops. Seem to be having a problem with my connect. Sorry. lol.


Good job. Great news!


retarded.


Breaking news! Jack Dorsey caught in massive pump and dump scam, dumping his entire btc holdings for Toyota!

Jack claimed Toyota was better than Porsche, BMW, Jaguar and Lamborghini. He even claimed Toyota was better than Toyota!

Jack scammed almost the entire user base in his new social media start up; 'Nock-Off Social of Twitter for Retards (or NOSTR) which he completely owns and controls, and is used by almost 100 people around the world, at least once or twice a month.

More news to come...


scamer alert (this is not the real Lyn)


I for one am very glad you decided not to join the military. 😃

“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

https://m.primal.net/HvTB.png


Remember a Nostrich can feel the Sauce flowing through him.

Stretch out with your feelings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X69NCLxwLEY

Or you can just use a good blaster...


To be fair. That's useful information to have.


lol. love it.


Loneliness really is just nothing more than an idea, that produces an uncomfortable feeling. It can come whether you're alone in the woods, or in a crowd of people. Single or married. So it has nothing to do with being alone.

Most people crave attention (care) from others, in order to change their own thoughts about being alone (eg. no one or everyone loves me kinda thing. If no one cares about me I'm alone, if everyone cares, or understands, or whatever, I'm not alone). This is what drives people to seek out friends and spouses.

However, many people who mediate regularly, over time, once their minds have become very quiet - ie, they really just stop thinking in words, experience an overwhelming feeling of comfort, love, if you will, and love towards many people and things. Including themselves. They just feel alright. It's the antithesis of feeling alone, because you feel just fine, more than fine, on your own. This is very much how people can feel when they feel loved or 'not alone'.

So the direction is opposite than most people are used to. Rather than love and kindness coming from others towards us, making us feel less alone, positive feelings and thoughts emanate from us, out towards others and all things.

Being loved by and cared for and understood and accepted by others is great. It's truly wonderful. But not necessary, and in fact, when you find the love already in you, and it starts to fill you, and radiate out to others, others will love you.

And I'm talking about thoughts and feelings here, which create our perceptions of the world, not metaphysical mumbo jumbo. Nothing spiritual. But profound nonetheless. I'm talking about Zen. I'm talking about the Way.

You are not alone 😃


He's quite the charmer. I wish my financial adviser would call me 'a motherfucker'.


It was me!!!

Na na na naah na!


That's some funky shitcoin shit right there.


Yep. That's chasing a dream alright.


lol. Thank you. Love it.


If only they had published that on nostr. Would have got a lot of zaps and GMs.


Research must have been sponsored by Coinbase.


Not bad!

And I'm pretty sure I saw your hardware wallet fall out of your pocket when you stood up too.

Tragic surfing accident.

Bonus!


Indeed. But in their defence:

1) They were deceived by a lie (and still are), as we all are to some extent. It was only a minority of boomers that made this mess. It is, after all a class system. Middle and lower classes (mostly the middle) are heavily indoctrinated to perform the will of the mega wealthy, virtually from birth.

2) We have the Internet they did not. This allows dissenting voices and access to information that simply wasn't available back in the days of TV/magazines (Hence the current totalitarian attempts to censor all wrong think on the net). We have the potential to be better informed.

3) If our lives were swapped with our parents - would we do anything differently than them? I think probably not. After Nazi Germany, researchers tried to find out why most went along with it. Checkout the famous Milgrim's shock experiments and Zimbado's prison experiment. Majority of people just do what they're told to do. Think what they're told to think.

4) One good thing about the 'death of God' is that it got rid of a lot of bad religion and religiousity (but admittedly, replaced with some equally bad, if not worse, religion. Like Consumerism, and now the great spectre on the horizon; Corporate Transhumanism. Blah!). Not saying all religion or theism is bad. You know what I mean.

Anyway, we have:
Internet (for a little while longer at least)
Bitcoin
Nostr
Freedom tech
Medical care and advancement (yes, I know, I bit of a mixed bag. And when I say we, I mean everyone everywhere, in the entire world, including outer space,  except America) *

* (yes, I know many in the developing world, and the poor generally, don't. It was just a joke)


lol. That's my icebreaker at the next DEI work meeting.


#Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (nostr:npub1np56htldvwng8tkrs2udtdxkvt8gye3esfg9l6z947ktndjrancqcpurfn) (nostr:npub100cvdyxn56frnz0p3hx5e2vnl82fphfy5ytw8qs3jpeh64zhwa6qsngkwp ) and/or #TorBrowser if you haven't done so already!

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Pro/Con of “Privacy” Phone Numbers/Services

JMP.chat
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP to XMPP (or Matrix) for anonymous Bitcoin, so you're using an open source client
Con: Only US and Canada numbers.  They're just reselling Twillio VoIP, which means that not only are you just paying more just for anonymity, but many services recognize these as Twillio VoIP numbers and will block you.
Solutions: There exists the possibility of buying a real world physical SIM and then transferring over service to JMP VoIP.  But you’re better off using 1 time burner services for most account registry.

Hushed
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP for Bitcoin, similar to JMP.chat
Con: Uses their proprietary client which isn’t private through the Google Play store.  I’d avoid Hushed.

Silent Link
Type: Number + Service
Pro: No KYC Crypto SIM card that separates billing and identity from the literal cell tower carrier
Con: Uses eSIM which requires Graphene’s Google Push service sandboxed.  No outgoing calls.

Calyx Institute Hotspots
Type: Service
Pro: No KYC WiFi hotspot for Crypto
Con: It’s just reselling T-mobile service, so if you use this in your home and your home is KYC, then T-mobile will likely figure out that it’s you since celltowers see geolocation.
Solutions: You can avoid this by putting the hotspot in a faraday bag, and only using it outside your home.

MySudo
Type: Number
Pro: Multiple burner VoIP lines
Con: Requires Google Play store JUST to PAY for it, but then can be used on a degoogled phone once you add credit.
Solutions: This can be sandboxed or put on a separate old device and you can use bitrefill to buy the credits with cryptocurrency

SMS.usmobilenumbers.com
Type: Number
Pro: Quick easy cheap burner anonymous SMS verification for cryptocurrency.  It’s real SIMs and not VoIP.
Con: US only.  They resell the number for OTHER services, which MAY trigger anti-fraud for SOME services including Zelle, eBay, PayPal, LinkedIn, and others.  So you risk a ban on accounts.
Solutions: Avoid putting money in any account for a few days to see.  Use a residential proxy IP instead of a datacenter VPN, especially for eBay.

VirtualSim.net
Type: Number
Pro: Great for abusing foreign numbers in poor countries such as Cambodia or Ukraine for Signal or Telegram.  Quick easy cheap burner anonymous SMS verification and/or longer term monthly numbers for cryptocurrency.  It’s real SIMs and not VoIP.  Their customer support is excellent and we highly recommend them for Telegram verifications.
Con: They may loose access to the burner number after a period of time (like a year) where you can’t renew and someone else COULD potentially verify the number.

Crypton.sh
Type: Number
Pro: Huge amount of countries for real SMS anonymous crypto.  Get sought after Western European #s here that normally have strict KYC rules on physical SIMs
Con: Overpriced setup fee for 1 time SMS verification, but if you actually live in (or desire) that country it’s okay.  There’s no real purpose in all their “at rest encryption” advertising, because SMS is unencrypted transport.

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He's Dan.


Danno. No idea.


Things are seldom black or white, but... Saylor is..?

1) Net good for bitcoin

2) Net bad for bitcoin

3) Net irrelevant to bitcoin


What's a TV?


The fact that you got depressed, means that before you got depressed, you were not depressed. That means your thoughts and feelings you are experiencing now are temporary. Even if that temporary is days, months, or even years, the depression will pass.

Remember, depression is not YOU. It's only something you experience. Given time, you will experience the real you again. Happy, calm, peaceful.

If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, if you haven't tried it already, people often find counting their breath can help.

The technique goes like this. Focusing on your stomach as it slowly rises and falls. count up to ten breaths, then start from one again. When you notice your mind has wandered - for example after just one count of the breath, just gently go back to focusing on your stomach and count from one again.

Think of it as a game. Every time you notice your mind wander and then come back to the breath - you score a point! It's a win. Slowly your mind will break free of the depressing thoughts and feelings. In the meantime, you just have to kinda sit with it.

And try to talk to someone you can trust if you can. Someone who can help. A professional if you can.


Harbulary batteries.


Great!

You and Max changed my life so much you wouldn't believe.

Or maybe you would.

Looking forward to more change 😃

Hope things are going well for you both.


To be fair though, obesity is just a visible manifestation of a  compulsive, self destructive behavior. And most people have all kinds of compulsive behaviors that control them.

You could even say that almost everyone is just a collection of compulsions.

Some are lucky in that their compulsions have mostly benefits - for example, healthy food and exercise compulsions.

But at the end of the day, we are often powerless victims of our compulsions.

Unless, of course, we learn to let go of and master those compulsions, through meditation, for example.

Then we can choose which desires and aversions we will act upon, rather than the desires and compulsions acting on us.


Well. Obesity is a socially communicable disease.


Well that would be ironic. People visiting a non-exclusive uncensored platform where anyone can say anything, feel excluded because 'it's all just bitcoiners'.


So basically, every time we fart we are emitting CO2 into the atmosphere.

Or talk shit, like I am now.


All selves are ultimately delusions. So the question is, who are you, really?


I clicked the heart thingy. But I still have to say - I love it.


Respect. Boss move.


Hey Whitney! Been following your work for a number of years. Excellent insights. Important info. I tell everyone I know to check out your work. Really cuts to the most important things to focus on today. Thanks for all your hard work. And enthusiasm for life! Real life.


Makes me want to take up smoking. lol. I hate smoking!


First they track you, then they missile you. Billionaires (Tech Emperors like Musk) and CCP (mafia) families etc., fighting each other in the race to run the global digital prison. Governments increasingly irrelevant.


I would have thought this would be the worst place to be?

Q. 'Hey there handsome. I hear you're a hodler. Wanna buy me a drink?'

A. 'Nope.'


I see... Got it. Harbulary batteries.


Over the last 5 years my hit rate is about 2 good movie releases/yr. the rest are just awful.

Currently working my way through a list of top 250 movies listed on a popular review website.

Watched Once Upon a Time in America last night. Four hours long. Never dragged for a moment. And the cinematography was gorgeous. Characterization and story all interesting. People struggling with life and themselves. In one way or another, destroying themselves.

Likewise, saw Ikiru (1952) last week. Wonderful.

I liked Dune part one and sounds like the 2nd will be great. But honestly, I suppose Hollywood movies are made for normies, just  corporate advertising/propaganda to a braindead masses. Analogous to Huxley's 'Soma'. Digitized. Digital soma.

Open sourced btc backed movies anyone?


Save for how long? Retirement accounts/401ks are useless if you don't spend it.


GM Nostr.

Thanks to Snowden, PlanB and ODELL, here I am!

Never had a Twitter or FB account so I'm absolutely clueless here. Can anyone see this?

Been reading trending 24h every day since joining a few weeks weeks ago.

Do you think it's time to quit?


qr code is a great idea. Better than wormhole I think. I haven't sent anything anywhere yet - still trying to figure out how to use nostr. I just found your reply now (two weeks later). lol.


"this is great ". Someone really needs to invent a sarcastic font...


Thanks for all your hard work. Would love to see you post more here on nostr now that nitter almost dead.


Makes it very simple to transfer nsec key from computer to phone. Don't have to have separate accounts for each device now. 😃


Pro/Con of “Privacy” Phone Numbers/Services

JMP.chat
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP to XMPP (or Matrix) for anonymous Bitcoin, so you're using an open source client
Con: Only US and Canada numbers.  They're just reselling Twillio VoIP, which means that not only are you just paying more just for anonymity, but many services recognize these as Twillio VoIP numbers and will block you.
Solutions: There exists the possibility of buying a real world physical SIM and then transferring over service to JMP VoIP.  But you’re better off using 1 time burner services for most account registry.

Hushed
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP for Bitcoin, similar to JMP.chat
Con: Uses their proprietary client which isn’t private through the Google Play store.  I’d avoid Hushed.

Silent Link
Type: Number + Service
Pro: No KYC Crypto SIM card that separates billing and identity from the literal cell tower carrier
Con: Uses eSIM which requires Graphene’s Google Push service sandboxed.  No outgoing calls.

Calyx Institute Hotspots
Type: Service
Pro: No KYC WiFi hotspot for Crypto
Con: It’s just reselling T-mobile service, so if you use this in your home and your home is KYC, then T-mobile will likely figure out that it’s you since celltowers see geolocation.
Solutions: You can avoid this by putting the hotspot in a faraday bag, and only using it outside your home.

MySudo
Type: Number
Pro: Multiple burner VoIP lines
Con: Requires Google Play store JUST to PAY for it, but then can be used on a degoogled phone once you add credit.
Solutions: This can be sandboxed or put on a separate old device and you can use bitrefill to buy the credits with cryptocurrency

SMS.usmobilenumbers.com
Type: Number
Pro: Quick easy cheap burner anonymous SMS verification for cryptocurrency.  It’s real SIMs and not VoIP.
Con: US only.  They resell the number for OTHER services, which MAY trigger anti-fraud for SOME services including Zelle, eBay, PayPal, LinkedIn, and others.  So you risk a ban on accounts.
Solutions: Avoid putting money in any account for a few days to see.  Use a residential proxy IP instead of a datacenter VPN, especially for eBay.

VirtualSim.net
Type: Number
Pro: Great for abusing foreign numbers in poor countries such as Cambodia or Ukraine for Signal or Telegram.  Quick easy cheap burner anonymous SMS verification and/or longer term monthly numbers for cryptocurrency.  It’s real SIMs and not VoIP.  Their customer support is excellent and we highly recommend them for Telegram verifications.
Con: They may loose access to the burner number after a period of time (like a year) where you can’t renew and someone else COULD potentially verify the number.

Crypton.sh
Type: Number
Pro: Huge amount of countries for real SMS anonymous crypto.  Get sought after Western European #s here that normally have strict KYC rules on physical SIMs
Con: Overpriced setup fee for 1 time SMS verification, but if you actually live in (or desire) that country it’s okay.  There’s no real purpose in all their “at rest encryption” advertising, because SMS is unencrypted transport.

Follow us on Nostr for more!  Repost this if you want us to keep doing them.