Why does it feel so surreal to see a 1 year old Nostr post that I liked?


Notes On The MAGA Wars

He hath returned and vanquished all despite the threat of overwhelming lawfare. Yet now begins in earnest the fierce contest to define what exactly the Last Trump administration will stand for and what will it be its legacy.

Trumpism unwittingly and through organic unrest, leveraged postmodern mimetics online crashing into meatspace to vanquish the late and ailing media fiefdoms of the post-Cold War Administrative State. His uncanny charisma became a lightening rod not just for populist dissatisfaction from the dilapidated and impoverished slums of Middle America but also from within the Imperial elite from New Technocrats like Theil and Musk. Under Trumpian mimetics a MAGA working class coalesced around him, resonating with his promises to rescue Americans from corporate liberalism - mass migration cynically encouraged by traditional business elites and the insincere gutting of the country's workforce which was euphemistically called "free market economics". Sovereignty was demanded to return within the physical borders of the country and to no longer be diffused across the various Imperial nodes and vassals that may indeed benefit the project of Global American Empire but only brought ruin to the average American.

Coming late to the party is the class of New Technocrats from Surveillance Valley who have a long culture of funding both sides and ensuring multiple parallel networks of influence across partisan divides. Lately, they have become disillusioned with the incumbent elites but for entirely different reasons. The likes of Musk and Theil do not believe in the redundancy of American Empire nor do they necessarily disagree with the hyperfinancialism of the American Dollar that has left average citizens poorer, unable to afford a housing but nonetheless expanded the footprint of GAE. They simply believe the incumbent elites are no longer fit to lead, no longer in possession of the tools to guarantee American Imperial supremacy and believe they are now owed the keys to the Empire.

Amidst all of this are the various online meme factions that grew around the counter-cultural appeal of the explosive Banon-variety of Trumpian populism. An anthropology of both cyber and meatspace Trumpism is required and necessary to understand the formations of the Cybernetic State to come in the 21st century. The shattering of the divide between what is "Online" and what is "Real Life".

Beyond gross dissatisfaction around the performance of the Transatlanticist elites and their management of GAE there is little uniting these various trends and networks that have coalesced around Trump.

To take one small example, the MAGA working class are inherently bioconservative, skeptical of scientism, weary of hyper-intellectual utopianism and the optimistic faith in rule by intellectuals. The Surveillance Valley MegaCorp believe the exact opposite - mystical transhumanism, the complete disruption and breakup of biological form, unabashed faith in science and believe in rule by CEO/Founder.

The MAGA working class still cling on to the myths of Old American Republicanism - the mythology around the self-sovereign libertarian ethic of the Founders but the SV MegaCorp believes in Neo-China and it's clearly reflected in their choice of business model- free use in exchange for personal data - "free products" under the Panopticon. Under the SV MegaCorp you will be a permanent data serf, unable to own anything, a constant "subscriber" and must bow to miracles of Big Pharma 2.0. This is just one example of a clear conflict, there will be other areas and fields where there will be open warfare within the new Trump administration.

For the American Muslim, now is a time of chaos but also opportunity. Abandon Islamoleftism, embrace mercenary deal making, positioning, establishing supra-electoral party networks of influence and engage wholeheartedly with the various Trumpist factions for cold self-interest. For the next few years inshallah, enjoy the MAGA Wars.

And truly God knows best

https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-the-maga-wars/


NanoGPT now accepts Monero and doesn't require an account

https://nano-gpt.com/


What is it with Nostr users and not realizing that I'm replying to someone else in the thread (as clearly demonstrated by the response hierarchy)?


#Monero ban list

Ban list of IPs to mitigate bad actors, powered by Github Actions

https://github.com/rblaine95/monero-banlist


How does it feel to be retarded?


Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate


"mainnet-pat submits CCS proposal to complete XMR-BCH atomic swaps project"

https://monero.observer/mainnet-pat-submits-ccs-proposal-complete-xmr-bch-atomic-swaps/


"In living practice, every system resembles the people who carry it out more than the ideas and declarations to which it refers."


Testing PoW


Odd that I haven't seen this on my Nostr timeline yet

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements


In the early days of ecash a common narrative was that it provides "theoretically perfect anonymity", but there's more nuance to this.

It's correct that when the client presents an unblinded signed message, the mint cannot link this to any specific blinded cyphertext that it signed previously.

However, there is still three pieces of critical metadata that the client does reveal:

1. The number of inputs and outputs of the ecash transaction. Transactions with many inputs reveal that the same user got paid many times in the past. Transactions with many outputs reveal that one user is making many payments.

2. The value of each input and output. The mint uses a different key for each denomination value of the tokens. Thus a token worth 5 units is easily differentiated from a token worth 10 units. The anonymity set of a token depends on the number of tokens generated, so if a user is the only one with that specific denomination he has no privacy.

3. The IP address that connects to the mint to send the transaction api request. If the same IP address makes multiple payments, it's likely the same user, and his geolocation is also revealed.

Problems 1 and 2 can be mitigated on client side, but this adds substantial complexity in utxo management and transaction structure. If these mitigation are not specified and different clients have slightly different solutions, this opens up additional client fingerprinting attacks.

WabiSabi is designed to solve problems 1 and 2 on a protocol level. A WabiSabi transaction is required to have exactly two inputs and two outputs, and homomorphic value commitments hide the amounts of each input and output. The tradeoff is that the mint has to issue 0 value credentials, a user needs to make more transactions to prepare his desired amounts, and the proof size and creation time is larger.

Problem 3 is addressed by a client side networking anonymity layer. A VPN at least hides the actual users IP address, but if only one client uses this VPN to talk to this mint, it's still one IP per user. Tor is incredibly useful here, as it allows the creation of anonymous onion routes through the network with different exit IP addresses. A client can get a new IP for each api request! This does however increase bandwidth and latency cost.

We should assume "everyone knows what the mint knows", and so we need to be hardcore about privacy protections best baked into the protocol. If the protocol doesn't ensure the security of the user, client devs have to do an exponentially larger amount of research and development to fix the issues client side.


OK, a buddy of mine has just thrown down the #Meshtastic gauntlet, possibly without realizing it.

The challenge: transmit messages between central Illinois and northern Virginia, without any non-LoRa backhauls.

His take is that Meshtastic is merely a proof-of-concept and something that can not be relied upon. He also said he doesn't see any real world use case. Maybe he's right, but either way, I want to blow his mind by getting a message to him. Even if we both need to be outside, I still think that'd change his mind about whether it can be useful.

I might be able to get some tower space here in  Illinois, but we're going to need some high points in places like Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio and/or Virginia.

Who is down to help me do this or provide evidence to prove that it is not possible?

This has me all fired up now. I plan on joining the Meshtastic Discourse group to collaborate with people there and read up on what crazy rage tests people have done in my region of North America. Maybe the infrastructure is already partially in place? (I know it's not fully in place because I have done range testing where no mesh nodes received my transmission.)

#radio #LoRa #LFG #GrowNostr


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

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1g82047/malicious_node_ips_discovered/


Nostr needs key rotation like Bluesky, where you can rotate your compromised client key using your compromised master key to a new key, all by just clicking buttons that will instruct a compromised cloud server to perform signatures that no one will ever see and that no other user will ever check.

Without that it will remain an absolute joke.


Sorry, I meant to type saif.systems

It took me far too long to notice that typo
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saif.systems

Sorry, just remembered that no one has announced it on Nostr yet. Zones 3-6 have yet to be released


F-Droid breaks the Android security model- prefer IzzyOnDroid over the default repositories if you must use it, and check if the app you want is available on Accrescent first


saif.sytems

Sorry, just remembered that no one has announced it on Nostr yet. Zones 3-6 have yet to be released


New security review by Trail of Bits and new v6.1 released – better calls, better iOS notifications and better user experience!

https://simplex.chat/blog/20241014-simplex-network-v6-1-security-review-better-calls-user-experience.html


The Sufic Dark Forest
#nostrnotes

The Sufic Dark Forest is a recognition that in a world built on the cannabalising logic of parasocial monetization which enters into a Faustian bargain with Panoptic Technocapital; virtue is fragile. Virtue is precious. For the good to be enjoined, the Ishmaelite must jealously protect the integrity and beauty of what is good. Obfuscating and evading algorithmic coercion through cryptography and encryption is not so vice can be performed in atheistic anarchic spaces that are doomed for oblivion.


Cog War Futures

The legacy of gain of research function has clearly been an escalation in covert planning for biological warfare waged amongst unsuspecting populations as part of a larger theatre between nation state actors. It speaks to the expanding theatre of war as conventional military conflcit becomes increasingly a zero sum game with no clear winners, yielding to protracted political conflcits that fester on for decades.

Biological warfare thus forms part of 5GW, as a new shadow strategy of escalation that due to its relative low cost investment becomes accessible to non-state actors as well. It forms as a larger contest of neuro-cognitive conflict that seeks to rot an opponent from within - a slow burn towards decay. What this means is that for future Islamicate polities they must not only be cognisant of such scenarios but gain mastery to wage horrors of their own in order to stay as a "live player". Nature is but a series of conflicts and where there is offence there is also defence. The individual must discern the changing winds of war and raid the archives to biohsck towards greater cognitive fortification and spiritual opsec.

#nostrnotes


Post-Adamic Tasawwuf

Denial alone cannot be the basis of the post-Adamic moment which approaches us. Standalone platforms harnessing LLM capabilities will not be as destabilising as the fusion of biology and dataism.

I mention dataism specifically because most bio-computer initiatives, currently being evolved or developed by companies that have an inherent commercial bias on leveraging behavioral data that can be analyzed and incorporated into business models and algorithms. Dataism is premised on the assumption that biological behavioral patterns through cyberspace are a commodity that can be bought or sold and synthesized into "business models" for optimization and "priming".

However beyond biological data there is the more fundamental question of what happens when man is synthesized with machine and the Adamic form is absorbed by the augmented cyborg. Fiqh can certainly respond and react to developments as they unfold. But it cannot be relied upon to evolve a proactive spirit, an orientation ahead of time. At least fiqh in its current iteration and configurations of political economy and bureaucratic stasis vis-a-vis its orientation and troubled relationships with the nightmare modern states of the post-colonial Islamicate.

Now is the need for evolving post-Adamic Tasawwuf, where cyborg can be tamed to serve God - a sufic taming of the man-machine synthesis that denies biological dataism, panoptic supremacy.

#nostrnotes


I'm at Bitcoin Amsterdam, but spent half the day finishing some Signal-style double ratchet messaging.

Deployed an experimental version on https://iris.to. You can create chat invite links and give them to friends via QR or other messaging. The UI is still lacking and glitchy, but just had to demo at the conference.

The chats cannot be publicly linked to either participant, and even if your main Nostr key is revealed, the content and existence of past messages stays hidden.
 https://image.nostr.build/b4533acd973793f7114fd5c272ccd5b5045ea0bd127c214e8314fc4c8282a354.png
 https://image.nostr.build/ded8c0437548cb1359d34b43b966b64f798cd2f98ae5f859771f47cc551cd5bd.png
 https://image.nostr.build/4458f2de8f4d424aff137d2d7ed283dd27501e1abc0a43234405008614a5cb70.png

Also published npm package nostr-double-ratchet 0.0.1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nostr-double-ratchet

It's not actually double ratchet yet, but the single ratchet already achieves forward and backward secrecy.

The second ratchet would help secure the latest consecutive messages by same author, in case a message key for the most recent of their messages is compromised. That makes disappearing messages or manually deleted messages more secure. I guess we'll have to do it so we can say "Signal-level security".

This is obviously not tested or audited yet, but probably it's not worse than normal Nostr DMs 😅

You can take a look at the source code, but I'll write a better technical description later. It's using existing Nostr cryptography + some key derivation stuff. Chat invites use gift wrap -like arrangement addressed to the inviter's temporary session key. https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-double-ratchet


Used to put it in my milk at breakfast when I was younger


Gen Z & saffron was my answer too


Unix philosophy; do 1 thing & do it well


The fact that the root nameservers are still limited to old school unencrypted queries over UDP on port 53 should be mind-boggling to me, but my expectations have been getting systematically destroyed for years at this point


The fact that root nameservers are still limited to old school unencrypted queries over UDP on port 53 should be mind-boggling to me, but my expectations have been getting systematically destroyed for years at this point


You piqued my interest at ceph- I'll be stalking this saga from now on


It doesn't surprise me that,

SimpleX is under attack by corrupt liar Wired:

"Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat"
https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-flee-telegram-encrypted-app-simplex/

What DOES surprise me is the reaction of developer Evgeny Poberezkin,

Here's the quote from the article:

<quote>
"And Poberezkin believes that the current limitations of his technology will mean these groups will eventually abandon SImpleX.

“SimpleX is a communication network, rather than a service or a platform, where users can host their own servers, like in Open Web, so we were not aware that extremists have been using it,” says Poberezkin. “We never designed groups to be usable for more than 50 users and we’ve been really surprised to see them growing to the current sizes despite limited usability and performance. We do not think it is technically possible to create a social network of a meaningful size in the SimpleX network.”"
</end quote>

This is surprising because Evgeny told us that groups could scale by reducing the reliance on a single invite link, so anyone could enter via any group member or "super members".

In fact, even from his own tweets, just 2 days prior:

<quote>
"We agree that once group can scale, they will help growth."
</quote>
Source: https://xcancel.com/SimpleXChat/status/1841561127320199583#m

This is the danger of doing cypherpunk stuff, with government money venture capital and registered LLCs.  At the slightest push from the mainstream media, he changes his tune.

I like Evgeny.  He's a good guy.  And I DON'T blame him for trying to stop his company from being associated with bad actors.  But we need to be honest here, he's trying to have his cake and eat it too.  He wants to be a cypherpunk, but collect the paycheck of a corporation.

What he should have said to Wired is: "This technology is like the printing press.  It improves our lives and offers all of this freedom.  But once it's made, the inventor can't control what people say.  Do you really want to live in a world without the press, Wired?"


Enhanced privacy can play a significant role in fostering a deeper and more authentic religious outlook. When individuals are not preoccupied with the burden of performance, they can prioritize pleasing the Creator over seeking the approval of Creation. Privacy allows for the cultivation of sincerity and introspection, as individuals are not pressured to conform to social expectations or project a public persona for financial gain and social advancement.

In a world where surveillance and public scrutiny are pervasive, the quest for sincerity can be impeded by the constant need to manage one's image. By minimizing these barriers, individuals can focus on their personal relationship with their faith, free from the distractions and expectations imposed by society. This freedom enables Muslims to engage in genuine acts of worship, devotion, and self-improvement that are driven by a sincere desire to please the Creator rather than to maintain a façade for the sake of appearances.

By embracing privacy and eliminating the pressure to perform in a particular fashion, Muslims can develop a more authentic religious outlook that is grounded in humility, sincerity, and devotion. This approach allows for a deeper connection with one's faith, fostering a sense of spiritual fulfilment and inner peace that transcends the fleeting rewards of social approval and material success.


Decent list here: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/profiling.html
Highly recommend checking out this book in general


"...Spandrell..."

???

 "...Bioleninism..."


MythoAmerica's substack is very interesting to me as I was born and raised here, but something tells me that foreigners will find it interesting too

https://mythoamerica.substack.com/p/50-truths-on-the-hidden-metaphysics


as I was*

This mobile keyboard will be the death of my sanity


Likelihood of a common identity can probably be ascertained through stylometry & other methods of behavioral analysis— I'd be surprised if it hasn't been done already, to be frank


Notes On Sufic Rewilding

https://theiqrafiles.com/notes-on-sufic-rewilding/


MythoAmerica's substack is very interesting to me as I born and raised here, but something tells me that foreigners will find it interesting too

https://mythoamerica.substack.com/p/50-truths-on-the-hidden-metaphysics


In a few years these people will be campaigning for all of the menial workers who lost their jobs to automation


iptables man page? We thank you for your service


https://web.archive.org/web/20240424014903/http://hintjens.com/blog:19

Those of you who are engineers should give this a read- it'll save you countless headaches


We need clients to do something about this. It's getting hard to manually browse so many relays on nostrrr.com.

nostr:nevent1qqsxez89rcry9u3rqugwgcmxzkdfv9p948uf2twj4l3h5r3hpe45z3spr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9uejht90


nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 is aiming for the role of an email replacement IIRC, and I have to say that I would heavily prefer it over Nostr here


Making eggs at 11:44 PM because I'm too hungry to read properly. God I love being a college student


Answering the second question there- I don't use BTC so I can't offer much advice for the first beyond "use a mixer"


OrangeFren will help you there assuming you already have crypto. If not, just buy BTC through a P2P marketplace and then swap via OrangeFren.

Note: You should probably avoid USDT as it's a ticking time bomb— as always, DYOR


Wait, I was referring to nostr:npub1l59ulrx34m5rle67ds8al32rs309hsl4p5nd9409cmfl55slnrqq8jq78u- what made you think the comment was aimed at you?


I didn't realize that I was on the conversations tab on Amethyst/Garnet (it was the first post I saw & the reply UI is similar to the quote UI when on the feed page) & I didn't bother correcting it when I did notice- my apologies if you get offended easily.

I don't see what the personal attacks have to do with my point. Your initial post was categorically incorrect. These distinctions are necessary for productive discussions to take place, not that I would expect most BTC maxis to understand that


He doesn't understand the meaning of privacy. What he's describing is anonymity (or rather the potential for it). Why do people use terms without understanding them?


True but CT uses Pedersen Commitments. They are "perfectly hiding" meaning they are quantum computer proof. Lightning amounts are not technically hidden to routing nodes. And in practice most of the network goes thru a few large centralizing hubs that can see most network activity.

https://docs.grin.mw/wiki/miscellaneous/switch-commitments/#properties-of-commitment-schemes


Deeply offended at the fact that you assume Linux users are mentally stable


I should note that I say this as a (personal) homeserver administrator and someone who has been using Matrix for several years. I've had a lot of fun on the platform, but its encryption scheme is just atrocious from a usability POV


Matrix with normal people is a nightmare because Matrix with technical users is a nightmare

If there's one thing that Matrix does well, it's teaching you the value of simplicity the hard way


Haven't installed it yet unfortunately- got busy with other things (you will hear about one of them in a few weeks inshaAllah) & I'm considering migrating back to Qubes OS as my daily driver which would complicate the firewall setup significantly


Lol https://image.nostr.build/bb530ec5b8da72e3af3315160a958cb4990eff241cf97dbccf9a343e0fc9422b.jpg


He does


NoStrudel fork with Monero tipping

Very cool

https://mostard.org/


PoW. I'm sick of spam.


Opened this app 5 minutes ago and the spam has already annoyed me into thinking about putting a WoT relay online


It's a stupidly obvious attack vector in retrospect, and that alone should be enough to make you think


https://web.archive.org/web/20240423134349/https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

https://lukespademan.com/blog/the-dangers-of-curlbash/

PSA: Detecting curl piped into a shell from the server's side is way easier than you think.


https://dark.fi/insights/memetic-warfare.html

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/n1x-hello-from-the-wired?__switch_theme=1

Related to the SAIF team's spiritual opsec guide.

Note: This is not a wholesale endorsement of everything written on those pages- please use your brain.

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A list of nostr relays exposed as Onion services.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpvkkwr098vnkj8qvxsqzykm9cddzd5rqjw7vg86gllr3uzg8l822qqxnzde3xserjdfjxvurjvp497akz0

This is a list of nostr relays exposed as onion services. The list is currently actively maintained on [GitHub](https://github.com/0xtrr/onion-service-nostr-relays). Contributions is always appreciated!

| Relay name | Description | Onion url | Operator |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| nostr.oxtr.dev | Same relay as clearnet relay nostr.oxtr.dev | ws://oxtrdevav64z64yb7x6rjg4ntzqjhedm5b5zjqulugknhzr46ny2qbad.onion | [njump](nostr:nprofile1qqst94nsmefmya53crp5qq39kewrtgndqcynhnzp7j8lcu0qjple6jspz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7jxrgyy) |
| relay.snort.social | Same relay as clearnet relay relay.snort.social | wss://skzzn6cimfdv5e2phjc4yr5v7ikbxtn5f7dkwn5c7v47tduzlbosqmqd.onion | [njump](nostr:nprofile1qqsx8lnrrrw9skpulctgzruxm5y7rzlaw64tcf9qpqww9pt0xvzsfmgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skct9tyup) |
| nostr.thesamecat.io | Same relay as clearnet relay nostr.thesamecat.io | ws://2jsnlhfnelig5acq6iacydmzdbdmg7xwunm4xl6qwbvzacw4lwrjmlyd.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1wtuh24gpuxjyvnmjwlvxzg8k0elhasagfmmgz0x8vp4ltcy8ples54e7js) |
| nostr.land | The nostr.land paid relay (same as clearnet) | ws://nostrland2gdw7g3y77ctftovvil76vquipymo7tsctlxpiwknevzfid.onion
http://nostrland2gdw7g3y77ctftovvil76vquipymo7tsctlxpiwknevzfid.onion (for payments) | [njump](nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj) |
| bitcoiner.social | No auth required, currently | ws://bitcoinr6de5lkvx4tpwdmzrdfdpla5sya2afwpcabjup2xpi5dulbad.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd) |
| relay.westernbtc.com | The westernbtc.com paid relay (via Tor: hjar34h5zwgtvxr345q7rncso3dhdaryuxgri3lu7lbhmnzvin72z5ad.onion) | ws://westbtcebhgi4ilxxziefho6bqu5lqwa5ncfjefnfebbhx2cwqx5knyd.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1pc57ls4rad5kvsp733suhzl2d4u9y7h4upt952a2pucnalc59teq33dmza) |
| freelay.sovbit.host | Free relay for sovbit.host | ws://sovbitm2enxfr5ot6qscwy5ermdffbqscy66wirkbsigvcshumyzbbqd.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq) |
| nostr.sovbit.host | Paied relay for sovbit.host | ws://sovbitgz5uqyh7jwcsudq4sspxlj4kbnurvd3xarkkx2use3k6rlibqd.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq) |
| nostr.wine | 🍷 [nostr.wine](https://nostr.wine) relay (same as clearnet) | ws://nostrwinemdptvqukjttinajfeedhf46hfd5bz2aj2q5uwp7zros3nad.onion
http://nostrwinemdptvqukjttinajfeedhf46hfd5bz2aj2q5uwp7zros3nad.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1fyvwkve2gxm3h2d8fvwuvsnkell4jtj4zpae8w4w8zhn2g89t96s0tsfuk) |
| inbox.nostr.wine | 🍷 [inbox.nostr.wine](https://docs.nostr.wine/inbox/readme) relay (same as clearnet) | ws://wineinboxkayswlofkugkjwhoyi744qvlzdxlmdvwe7cei2xxy4gc6ad.onion
http://wineinboxkayswlofkugkjwhoyi744qvlzdxlmdvwe7cei2xxy4gc6ad.onion | [njump](nostr:npub1fyvwkve2gxm3h2d8fvwuvsnkell4jtj4zpae8w4w8zhn2g89t96s0tsfuk) |


Yes


Scamming


Scammers using SimpleX? I'm impressed, frankly.

nostr:nevent1qqs9xsvl7zkz7l0ax5tsy02pj0rgcgh609hfmcl8fs8usgmhm72zuwgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyrfwjlmnyp25uycxj5d8et47p3dfvtzxf523xf8vjcr9tvl2nfx3kqcyqqqqqqgl63lwx


njump.me has clickable tags now: https://cdn.satellite.earth/dd1712f9164738e30a06d98c6929764cef1ea071a28a18ef758d6bb47b235bc0.png

This is clearly an Earth-shattering event.


Mostly just for fun, though VLAN management is a lot easier with this setup. I'm also hoping to play around with Deep Packet Inspection (HackerFactor's No-NOC networking series got me excited about the possibilities there).

For hardware I just took a machine I had lying around (r5 3600 + 2x4GB DDR4-3200 + GTX 1070) & threw a cheap 4-port NIC in it. Costed me about $20 off of eBay. Access Point is a Linksys E8450 (bought it last year as it was the first WiFi 6 router with OpenWRT support)


Is there any way to create custom feeds on Amethyst?


Not being facetious there, I am absolutely immature enough to find MITM attacks funny


Example NTP attack https://gist.github.com/Dbof/178cf3c4b9eee423b293c51380cd311b


NTP is unencrypted by default. While MITMing it is kind of funny, it's not really something you should leave your machine open to


Tip: Start using NTS for NTP. Seriously, it only takes a few seconds to set up.

https://github.com/jauderho/nts-servers


Mostly just for fun, though VLAN management is a lot easier with this setup. I'm also hoping to play around with Deep Packet Inspection (HakcerFactor's No-NOC networking series got me excited about the possibilities there).

For hardware I just took a machine I had lying around (r5 3600 + 2x4GB DDR4-3200 + GTX 1070) & threw a cheap 4-port NIC in it. Costed me about $20 off of eBay. Access Point is a Linksys E8450 (bought it last year as it was the first WiFi 6 router with OpenWRT support)


Just redid my home network with OPNsense 🎉

My old (OpenWRT) router lives on as a dumb AP. Can't wait to break my internet constantly as I tinker with it over the next few weeks


Who said it has to? Just take a screenshot of nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6's complaint and make it the home page


This post was brought to you by the $5 wrench attack advocacy group


Just undid a boost on accident- sorry to whoever's post that was


Web of Trust Relay:

This relay looks at who you follow, and who they follow, and saves every note in this trust network automatically.

I added it as my only relay in amethyst and spam is now completely gone.

Anyone in my web of trust can use my relay:

wss://wot.utxo.one

But the much better solution for nostr is to run your own WoT relay

https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay

ps I'm faster than nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9us2xuyp


Yes, that's the one- thanks!


nostr:npub14a6q6xvt4wuv0wpdpfr336e4fweldtu6np3ehpw55h83xuw2h2zsgyz6rn wasn't there a project on GitHub for Monero node operators that kept a wallet of the admin's choice up to date so as to render sync times effectively nonexistent? I can't seem to find it but I swear I saw something along those lines a few months ago


too* | God I hate typing on mobile


All I can see are a bunch of zap receipts signed by nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq- the event json itself seems perfectly normal at a glance. I'm too lazy to do any more digging right now, I should be sleeping anyways
 https://image.nostr.build/2d4e0a8b15251e4c319f00502ed2b23333231418979fc4ed4ca9953427536732.jpg


All I can see are a bunch of zap receipts signed by nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq- the event json itself seems perfectly normal at a glance. I'm to lazy to do any more digging right now, I should be sleeping anyways
 https://image.nostr.build/2d4e0a8b15251e4c319f00502ed2b23333231418979fc4ed4ca9953427536732.jpg


If you really want to buy crypto without KYC, use some cash to acquire a prepaid card anonymously and rent some hashing power from a reputable place. The conversion rate won't be perfect but it should be tolerable.

Obligatory do your own research + this isn't financial advice + I lost all my Monero in a boating accident so you definitely shouldn't take advice from me


Just stumbled across this after it was shared in a Matrix room, and I'm a little too sleep deprived to look at it critically right now. I'll give it another look in the morning inshaAllah.


Thoughts?

https://rot256.dev/post/browser-crypto/


"What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?" - An article on "proactive" SIMs. Archive is linked because the original is now censored.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211109163211/https://scribe.rip/telecom-expert/what-is-at-t-doing-at-1111340002-c418876c212c


Europe is already more trigger-happy than America as far as internet censorship is concerned- there are fourteen eyes dynamics at play there that exacerbate that particular tendency. Things will get worse globally when we jump on the bandwagon


Seconded. PagedOut is a wonderful magazine

nostr:nevent1qqspgvs2qy28va6ann4yjk00qfk604n9f6l4sc3t7jyzcl408d2d7lgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxnp65cafj7j5ler2un76esafg7kv79qmu86j0kqzsnnthsp254zypsgqqqqqqsh5vxcu


Any OpenSnitch users out there? I'm considering installing it & I'd like to hear your comments


YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel - Enlarge (credit: Yubico)

The YubiKey 5, the most widely used h... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2046777 #ellipticcurvedigitalsignaturealgorithm #two-factorauthentication #cryptography #sidechannels #encryption #security #biz #ecdsa #2fa


thats 26 tx/minute.
monero regularly does 10% of BTCs tx volume.

all with strong privacy guarantees.
that is a good thing and you should reflect on it.


"Treat" yourself? Unfollowed


I use Logseq personally as it's FOSS- it works well for me but others may want to wait until their internal rewrite is done (will probably take ~1 year at the current rate)


I'll be sure to hand over my SSN too


The Restrict Act will make the Brazilians and Brits look like amateurs - pale imitations of the Original American Panopticon. A consequence of American triumph during the Cold War was the subtle distillation of surveillance into the fabric of liberal constitutional norms away from culture war polemics so that it became the ground on which everyone stands on.

Genius lay in outsourcing and obfuscating nodes of surveillance which the Soviets struggled with - outsourced to private companies, business, enterprise. Musk, Zuckerberg and Gates are the defacto intelligence commissars of liberalism with fans, stockholders, NGOs etc

Third world surveillance states implode because they are inherently fragile - everything is locked up by some configuration of a military junta. The Chinese learnt from the Americans and accelerated to its logical conclusion - techno-national splinternets that sustain commerce

Surveillance is better when done proactively like by Silicon Valley or the Chinese State - private sector partners that offer positive from ecommerce, to media to app based ecosystems and baking the Panotpicon in. If you want to use these "free" products you have to tick T&Cs

Unless your State can develop an Instagram or Google Pay clone, you cannot play the Surveillance Games at the level of the Americans and Chinese - you otherwise end up like Brazil, Egypt or Iran - clunky, heavy ans reactive


The Online Islamicate must increasingly build and plan for an increasingly fractured and hostile landscape of splinternets. Software should increasingly focus less on "democratization" but about security and integrity - the ability to function without State interference.

It means adopting adopting open protocols and money that can survive in adversarial environments. A great challenge lies in creating the cultural conditions for people to embrace Lunarpunk attitudes rather than stick to comfortable dekusions about creating with Solarpunk impulse.

American Surveillance Valley billionaires, the Chinese CCP, Old Islamicate autocracies - the list of enemies is large for the fair minded Ishmaelite - one can no longer depend on the goodwill and charity of others.


Over the last ten years there is negligible Muslim presence on the Fediverse and similar open protocol ecosystems - massive one on Meta. A people who simply do not want Sovereignty in any shape or form in any domain.


Ah, I misread- thanks for clarifying


I have my issues with the migration in the first place, but it's good to know that PFS is planned. The remaining flaws are all in the chart- I believe the article I linked goes over them in more detail


Session lacks PFS & other key security features. I wouldn't recommend it, personally.
 https://image.nostr.build/436b130ef91eb56f990ae978ab64021d9c24509ad046c2c4c6b6f050506000e8.jpg

Source: https://simplex.chat/blog/20240314-simplex-chat-v5-6-quantum-resistance-signal-double-ratchet-algorithm.html


Hi! 👋


Proudmuslim

19 | Islamist, software developer, cypherpunk


It took $70 and 24 hours for Ryan Castellucci to gain access to 200 MW of capacity. Breathtaking work from nostr:npub1gqsdu9w9y84dngkhj8hfk464nf7h7nhfe4n8ea3uxd3l4v8uh8hshj3qas

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/home-energy-system-gives-researcher-control-of-virtual-power-plant/


The government has sued Georgia Tech for failing to use antivirus software as mandated by a DoD grant for years, knowing it wasn't in compliance, and then submitting invoices for DoD projects anyway.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/oh-your-cybersecurity-researchers-wont-use-antivirus-tools-heres-a-federal-lawsuit/


https://securemessagingapps.com by is the great comparison of messaging apps, but there are several incorrect statements about @SimpleXChat there. Commenting in thread 🧵 below.


I really want to know what sort of brain damage causes someone to do this

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Few things are more irritating than making a post late at night and finding a dumb typo in the morning


Point #3 hardly makes sense here. The principle is that the public will happily vote for draconian measures once a suitable emotional climate has been manufactured


Personally, I've never really wanted a lot of followers on social media- give me a small circle of high quality accounts & I'll be happy


Please note: we do NOT control the domain simplexchat.org

It might be a phishing site to collect the data (it has an exact copy of our website https://simplex.chat).

We submitted the complaint to the domain registrar (GNAME).

Do NOT download anything from simplexchat.org, obviously.


Felt like sharing one of my favorite articles. I re-read every now and then, though I've never actually watched Death Note. It's just a fascinating example of information theory in action

https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity


We love Nostr as a publishing platform that offers unparalleled censorship resistance. But NIP44 does NOT provide most of the important qualities of e2e encryption:

- break-in recovery.
- repudiation (deniability).
- visibility of connection graph to observers.
- fixed message sizes (although it can be provided by the specific app)
- resistance to Shore algorithm (PQ encryption).

It's unclear whether it provides forward secrecy, but the spec implies that it does not - I might be wrong here.

We wrote this post about the qualities of e2e encryption and why they are important: https://simplex.chat/blog/20240314-simplex-chat-v5-6-quantum-resistance-signal-double-ratchet-algorithm.html


This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp30hwsvtxuv6zue4995pq4fujuy8whp9w4jscgcqpz8kyjg0smgjqqxnzdejxycngdpjxqer2vfh6rv6g5

To my mind, nothing more accurately encapsulates the "liquid modernity" of Baumant than digital payments systems. Ubiquitous, instantaneous monetary settlement intimately tied to carefully curated digital footprints that are forever etched into cyberspace and tied to your meatspace identity. The sheer convenience of Insert-Pay, the choice available and the almost silent death of physical cash is one of the defining moments of the early 21st century. I suspect, and this is only speculation but many a scholar in not too distant future will be looking at digital payments as the gateway drug from high-minded modernism to the cybernetic postmodernism of new technocratic aspiration.

The pact for digital payments system for the end user is a simple one - untold ease, the programmatic promise of counter-party risk minimisation but attached to the legacy brands of the 20th century for familiarity and comfort. The real genius of digital payments system is to tie the legacy brand and network effect of traditional hyperfinancialist iconography and imagery - the Dollar or the Euro for instance, with the aesthetics of "control". Users think that their generic Insert-Pay app or Paypal equivalent clone is "theirs" after all, they installed it on their phone, registered it under their IRL KYC-AML identity and then deposited their precious fiat into it.

However, what if this network effect, the legacy prestige of the Dollar could be cloned and replicated, packaged in a myriad of ways to cope with the seemingly splintered landscape of cyberspace? What if every social network on the planet created its own tokens built on the carcass and bones of the Dollar, and continued the Great Re-Dollarization Crusade through different means?

This is by no means a phenomenon restricted to American Empire - I suspect Digital Payments are no longer bound to one particular civilizational ethos, but is becoming part of a post-Fukuyaman consensus of postmodern commerce. For instance in [Asia](https://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-Digital-Payment-Revolution-GBIR2022.pdf), buoyed by the pandemic it witnessed in a few short years:

>   a revolution in the digital payments industry. Players across the ecosystem, including incumbent banks and financial services organizations, emerging fintech players, and established enterprises in adjacent industries like big tech and telecommunications, are expected to be seeking a number of expansion activities, particularly opportunities to cross-sell other financial services such as insurance, loans and wealth management services

QR codes, the plethora of apps, transparent ledger based cryptocurrencies with KYCd on and off fiat ramps - the postmodern cyber citizen of today is already conditioned to accept the dogma of meatspace identity linked to their cyberspace one, and furthermore also accepts the complete surrender of privacy from governments and corporations in exchange for ease and stability. Digital Payments systems represent the first building block of a much larger elaborate schemata of government monitored digital identity that seeks to rebuild the legacy bureaucratic institutions of the 20th century Administrative State in cyber. This is post-Fukuyaman WeChat Governance.

The Chinese, with WeChat and Alipay have led this breakthrough by showing aging rivals in American Empire that it is indeed possible to have seamless private-public sector partnerships that can orchestrate a complex web of interactions into a smooth "everything app" that bakes surveillance into convenience. Not just payments, but biometric identity in the form of prints and irises as the "authentication" layer, the privilege that must be yielded to participate in such systems. From there, it is a very short journey to tokenizing and etching into blockchains of undying permanency your entire history of transactions, government interactions, consumer habits and social media activity. This of course for those familiar is really just Cybernetic State formation, but using apps like WeChat helps to illustrate this in a more concrete and recognizable fashion.

What is fascinating is that this consensus is emerging both in "democracies" and "authoritarian regimes", that individual sovereignty, privacy are fictions that are best retired in exchange for participation in dynamic public-private sector ecosystems with contagious network effect. These are in effect, Network States that are seeking to create new layers of technocratic surveillance based bureaucracy in cyber - Panoptic-Technocapital. Who reads Rawls, Berlin or Habermas anymore - we are all downloading Google Pay, using Gmail, relying on AWS and paying yearly subscriptions to Microsoft. Our new social contract is the acceptance of the terms and conditions of the many apps of American Empire.

This irresistible force of Panoptic-Technocapital is practically now an uncontested global reality, with very few if any live players departing from it. In a sense, Fukuyama was right that we are approaching the End of History, but he was mistaken in his configuration of it. The End of History is cyber-serfdom, rent-seeking instant gratification in digital spaces, complete capitulation to corporations and governments. This is the new post-Fukuyaman consensus of FinTech. Everyone has fallen into line, pursuing the same paradigmatic and algorithmic monetary base structure for both the state and private sector. Nearly every country in the world today is trialling or seriously researching the implementation of a CBDC or public digital identity.

In that sense, are we philosophically and psychologically really heading towards a multipolar world? I suspect not, I would wager that multipolarity will be operating strictly in the realm of pure power politics in terms of Darwinian competition for influence and prestige. However, the conflicts to come will no longer revolve around grand ideological clashes or competing narratives as perhaps was the case at the height of the Cold War. Mankind has evolved and now agrees that its pretty good to have WeChat Governance, but perhaps the argument will now be which government or state gets to control the data, the spice that flows that makes all of this possible.

Even more important is the fundamental question of what is "backing this", what really is holding these structures together in a physical sense from a security perspective? None of these new digital payment systems are possible without an elaborate industry of KYC-AML biometric checking that is inextricably and intimately tied to Intelligence agencies.

The argument about whether data, whether this spice should be invasively harvested and collected in the first place, is for all intents and purposes dead. The Cypherpunks though they have still managed to create a legacy and a technological culture that has yielded tools to allow for a more discretionary digital existence have failed to generate the network effect to pose a challenge to WeChat Government. Even more so, now that in American Empire, Trump has appointed JD Vance, a man who is from the faction of elites who want to create an American WeChat Government (backed by Thiel, Musk, Balaji - the Paypal and Web3 circles).

Post-Fukuyaman WeChat Government if you look around for it, if you stop, pause and reflect is everywhere, no matter where you go in the world. It is the undisputed consensus global ideology of this decade and perhaps may seal its dominance in the century to come. The alternative - the genuine radical alternative of encryption maximalist, self-sovereign obfuscated identity, truly fungible digital currency (like XMR) is so niche at present that it cannot even be posited as a viable alternative. It has no cultural power, it has no network appeal, it has no urgency and few even are aware that there is a way to live beyond Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

It is delicious irony however, that this project though it started in American Empire, is being perfected by the Chinese Communist Party to such a degree that it has now become the standard of aspiration for the New American Technocrats like Elon Musk.

All of this poses extremely difficult questions to aspirations for Islamicate Sovereignty, and Muslim political theory in general - is WeChat Government inevitable? Must the Ishmaelite reconcile himself to it, accept it but simply quibble over the type of token, the owners of the network and the aesthetics of the whole thing? The alternative of radical individual responsibility seems distant and utopian, perhaps some pragmatic arrangement will have to be made to usher in an Islamicate Cybernetics that forges a new political theory of authority and data. A new understanding of sovereignty and technology.

And God knows best


"Annoy" is one way to put it


جمعة مباركة

https://m.primal.net/Jlwo.jpg


Here you will find every Monero resource imaginable ranging from how Monero works, how to run a node, where to spend it, tutorials, tools, blogs, technical resources and documents, statistics etc etc etc.
https://libereco.xyz/resources/


Finally got around to installing Garnet


I don't think I need to say anything here: we all know what the problem is.


> I read a post recently where someone bragged about using kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that’s 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spend most of its time asleep.

https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet


What exactly are those compromises in your eyes?


I doubt the screen is the issue, it doesn't give me any issues & swipe typing still works just fine


Gave FUTO a shot, it's just as bad if not worse than Gboard- really not sure what's happening here


Nope


Story is now live:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/


Is it just me or do all keyboards on Android suck? I'm using Gboard on GrapheneOS (seems to be the least terrible one) & it misses keystrokes constantly. I can type on iPhones without any problem, so I know my issue is not with mobile devices in general


Iodine tablets work for bacteria as well

You can also filter water using rocks/pebbles/dirt arranged in descending order base on size


For anyone who cares about Secure Boot: it's completely borked on hundreds of device models from some of the industry's biggest manufacturers. Some of the affected devices shipped as recently as this year. More details to come in a little more than an hour from now.


Notes on Panoptic-Technocapital and U(zla)/acc

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp30hwsvtxuv6zue4995pq4fujuy8whp9w4jscgcqpz8kyjg0smgjqqxnzdejxqunwdpexumnzve42qwzvu

U(zla)/acc is obfuscation as defence against Panoptic-Technocapital.

Attention-hacking is the name of the game. Cyberspace is a battle for attention using Anti-Ghazalian spiritual hermeneutics to attack the lower self using the promises of comfort, convenience and familiarity. All that the masters of the past had warned against have been institutionalised and baked into the largest platforms billions enter into unwittingly. This genie of spiritual decay has been loose not recently, but for decades, whatever chance of resisting it, brute-forcing it into a marginalised hobby has long since departed.

This circus, this asylum metastasizing through cyberspace is deployed as a weapon of mass distraction often by highly professional and dedicated large nation-state actors to achieve strategic ends. All the while, a higher network of surveillance watches unerringly which way the data, the spice flows. Which way does it bend, twist and strike. Attention-hacking is an exercise in surveillance and behavioural engineering. Engineering behaviour is not possible without data, without wilful and deeply invested participation on the part of subjects, without the time that is sunk into the whole process by enthusiastic partisans of cyber-asylums.

Panoptic-Technocapital is a more grounded and sober understanding of how technocapital operates - it understands that mundane but layered networks of bureucracy, technocratic agencies and the great post 9/11 intelligence empires in the shadows have just as much of a hand in building the Machine God as hyper-financialization and semiconductor manufacturing. It is also intimately and closely tied, the origins of much of what we take for granted in our civilian architecture of cyberspace has roots in the militarism of 20th century meatspace geopolitical intrigue. The Cypherpunks romanticised in part the creation of Cyber as an antithesis to meatspace not fully owing confronting its debts to the escalating and accelerating dynamics of intra-spook competition between the great metallic and clanking industrialised empires of the last century.

Liberalism in its intellectual genesis owed much to philosophers and men who were steeped in an entirely different moral code and spiritual psychology centuries ago now. The deism of early liberal theorists would in today wastelands, would likely resemble deep organic faith - time has snapped and wrought all our assumptions about the type of religious sentiments underlying early and proto-liberal thinking. Liberalism is nothing really but an extension of Christian heresies in response to unending sectarian conflict.

Today, however to call what we are experiencing as that same "liberalism" is foolishness. Today, what we refer to as "liberalism" is just an aesthetic wrapper, a charade, a shared delusion spread amongst the masses to hide something colder. A vast network of State-backed agencies, affiliated organisations in finance and pharmaceutical research, healthcare, commerce intimately tied with intelligence agencies that have formed an ossified, largely uncontested and reasonably stable layer of Administration that keeps marching along no matter who or which party is in charge.

U(zla)-acc is an acceptance of this process, it is an invitation to understand that we have bought our tickets and now must see where the train ends up, not much can be done to course-correct. We are heading towards Hyper-Intelligence with the promise that disease can be predicted and prevented but with the costs of precognitive criminalisation (precrime).

Legible Hyper-Intelligence writ large by the State and its partners, subsidiaries and outsourced contractors means that the social contract is now just saying okay to the Terms & Conditions, the cookies you accept to sign up to the newest and most exciting OpenAI or Google app. Soon it will be downloading a national ID app with access to banking services, where you file your taxes, download your healthcare records, sell your house, buy your car in exchange for surrendering your face, irises and fingerprints, whilst granting said app complete and total intimacy about what you do and where you go.


After several weeks of persistent effort, I'm excited to share Nostr Web Services (NWS).

NWS makes your web service reachable without having a publicly accessible IP address or DNS. All you need is an npub and a set of Nostr relays. A wide range of existing services could be run on NWS without requiring any significant changes. NWS achieves this by establishing a TCP connection between client and server which can be used by these applications.

Please keep in mind, that the software is in a very early state and not even released yet.

https://github.com/asmogo/nws


Any recommendations for good Android clients? Using Primal currently but I'm curious about alternatives


‘I believe that the new architectures of decentralization… will force an eventual culture change and force new strategies.’
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Didn't get an OEM unlcked device?


It is really interesting to experience how the internet and thus global communication is currently dividing into two camps.

One branch is legacy media, a natural consequence of the centralized commercialization of the internet that began in the age of weblogs in the early 2000s. Until around 2006/2007 we still had self-sovereign web publications. Most of the well-visited sites were run by private individuals and even modest companies like Google grew to their current size through these websites.

By the time the masses flocked to the WWW around 2010, the centralization and commercialization of the web was already in full swing, leading to today's algorithm-driven monoculture of fiat social media.

The other branch is, so to speak, a return to the Internet culture of the pre-2010 era, only with new technical means and protocols. While fiat social media no longer has much to offer apart from turning its masses into will-less dopamine junkies with ever more sophisticated algorithms and AI analyses, a revival of self-sovereignty is taking place in this branch. Self-sovereignty in everything; in publishing, in saving and paying, in the job and freelance market, in merchant marketplaces and more.

Development is booming. From funding to user communities, it's still in its infancy, but already exists. And we will have to adapt to a dual WWW culture in the future. One where both worlds co-exist. While some will lead a miserable online existence at the mercy of their landlords and have to be content with cheap rewards such as "fame" among the faceless masses, a bit of ego tickling and a few crumbs from ad revenues, others will be able to withstand centralized interference through the use of massive cryptography and retain their freedom and ability to act for quite some time.

And now is the time where every single Internet user must ask themselves which camp they want to be in.

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YouTube very recently started aggressively banning IPs, mostly non-residential and forcing sign-ins.

yt-dlp and many invidious, piped instances affected: 403 errors or "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community"

Google's concept of community is wanting you to swallow their sludge advertisement and control your speech.

I take this as a challenge.

Piped is great but it was obvious that proxying would be shut down one day.

Even though I'm busy AF, I started prototyping something to take back great Youtube content. Involves nostr, blossom and ecash. More soon

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128


An interesting thread from Twitter that I wanted to share

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


Honestly never understood the appeal of multi-column apps, especially when they're marketed to people with ADHD like myself. I have a tiling WM for a reason, I'll split my screen when I need to.

Making it the default is just a horrible idea, I'd be even more distracted than usual and I don't even want to think about the damage it would do to my attention span (which is somehow still higher than most non-ADHD kids my age- I blame TikTok and other ultra-short form content platforms, I've been avoiding those like the plague & consuming long-form content as much as possible)


nostr:npub175nul9cvufswwsnpy99lvyhg7ad9nkccxhkhusznxfkr7e0zxthql9g6w0 Want a NIP-05 ID from https://they-are-after.me? I finally put the site back online earlier today


Every time I watch governments enact more draconian legislation I remember the crypto-anarchist manifesto and smile.


An interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkazyv5WZQo


There's a newly discovered side channel that leaks encryption keys from a widely used CPU architecture. Details will drop in about 6 hours.


Part 2 of Imam Tom's series on Restating Orientalism is finally out, I know what I'll be watching once I'm done doing a few chores

https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=DMe8KCZOtYI


Presumably only checking the `pubkey` field of a given event and ignoring everything else

Sort of an obvious thing to miss, though. Shouldn't they at least check that the repost belongs to someone you follow?

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


So Canada just linked the bank accounts of their citizens with their social credit score system?

Are you ok, Canadians? You're just letting this happen?


Been using Twitter more recently and I've constantly been getting ratelimited/suspected of being a bot. No idea how anyone tolerates that hellhole of a platform. It's happened twice to me today


It's just because the Zionist lobby is panicking at the fact that they can't re-establish narrative control


These are some of the most unthinking people in the world, full of unjustified and baseless convictions that they are incapable of defending- don't waste your time with them


Ramadan mubarak!


Malaysia is beautiful. I'm considering living there once I'm done studying here in California


Personally I've been blackpilled on federated stuff in general- I want mesh-networked, grid-independent, secure messaging like what LXMF provides on Reticulum.

https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF

We need to start breaking our reliance on their infrastructure. We can't do that with XMPP or Matrix. It'll be far more expensive, but it will be worth it. I'm still a broke college student with no job right now, but inshaAllah I will soon have the money to start dumping thousands upon thousands of dollars into this. I've realized that I need to become rich one way or another- the path I've chosen dictates this.


Also the window in the top right seems to show part of a building that doesn't exist


The fan


Sounds disgusting honestly


GM
https://image.nostr.build/011b52ba47de8e53d20a7df57ee4e932351c327e6227ccf5f9a36747386396cf.jpg


I can almost forgive it for being Electron based


Turning notes into Flowcharts with Logseq, I'm enjoying this app more and more

https://m.primal.net/HhzE.png
https://m.primal.net/HhzG.png


Reticulum looks promising. I've downloaded the manual & intend to give building networks with it a shot soon inshaAllah

https://reticulum.network


"Join our community on Discord"

... is a request for me to immediately leave your website.


Been using neovim full-time for a while personally, none of these new IDEs really appeal to me. Zed might be interesting but it still won't be anywhere near as good


A gem of a nasheed

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CM0PnoglDKg


"In living practice, every system resembles the people who carry it out more than the ideas and declarations to which it refers."

Alija Izetbegović, Islam Between East & West (p. 136)

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


I suppose it's time to return to Nostr


I'm not playing your game. Do you condemn the reforms of MBS, or not?


Are you living under a rock? Everyone knows what the Saudi monarchy is these days


The analogy to email isn't strictly speaking accurate but I think you understand what I mean by it


Entirely valid critique, and not one I really have a great answer to. The best we can do for now is to attempt to decentralize things as much as possible at a design/architecture level.

Nostr takes something good from Email in this sense- it is monopolized, but the fundamental openness of the protocol allows for competition to exist (Protonmail, Countermail, etc).

Ultimately I think we need to "re-negotiate" the "social contracts" that make up the way we use the internet. I don't know what that will look like, but I do know that we have decades of mistakes to look back on. I am an optimist at the end of the day, assuming the global order doesn't collapse too soon and cause us to regress early technologically (which I would not really be opposed to, honestly).


https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/

Google's goal here is to wipe out inactive accounts and then begin implementing draconian "security" measures and identity requirements on all of their users. The direction is obvious, and the rest of the traditional internet dominated by big tech companies is moving in this direction as well.

The only way you can combat this is by joining platforms like Nostr, making the regulations that they will no doubt try to pass irrelevant.


Great to see you back on Nostr akhi!


PDF reader is Zathura, I can share the config if you'd like it


The excerpts are mostly philosophical, focusing on modernity and secularism. I've pasted an example below

> Our consumerist mass-communication society has stopped systematically promulgating difficult commandments; it now functions outside the concept of duty, beyond any corrective moral obligation or discipline. Such is the post-moralist climate of the new democracies.

 > These are the hallmarks of a society that no longer has ideals, a society composed of individuals without absolutes to aspire to. Post-moralist societies are societies without moral moorings, societies at the end of evolutionary progress overcoming all sense of morality in order to behave more and more like monkeys.

Winning the Modern World for Islam by Abdessalam Yassine (p. 99-100)

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

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


I have a lot of Islamic book excerpts (assembled by a few friends as well as myself) archived. I'm considering posting them here (maybe once or twice a day), but I can't decide whether to do it on this account or create a separate one. What do you think?


السلام عليكم!


"(The attitude of) Ribaa in and of itself is proof that someone is no longer concerned with the next life."

[From Tafsir 2:257 - 2:263]

"If we are really convinced, that Islam is a solution for modern day problems, then it should be us researching a modern day alternative to ribaa. We should at least explore the alternative. Because this is an evil that hurts all humanity."

[From Tafsir 2:264 - 2:277]

"And Allah does not love every single one of those who are excessively disobidient, excessively ungrateful and constantly in sin. Someone who engages in ribaa is engaged in an incredible act of ingratitude towards Allah. So they're constantly, always in sin (because ribaa is growing every second). What kind of dua they make will be answered to them?"


It's annoying IMO- not hard for the client to just add your pubkey to the authors filter in REQ messages, so following yourself is pointless.

Iris did it twice on my account, and attempting to unfollow from their UI doesn't work. Primal just filters out self-follows. I'd remove it by manually editing+republishing the event (nak is a great tool) but that's too much effort when I know it'll just keep happening whenever I open Iris


وَإِيَّاكَ


You really don't want to be supporting Ocean

https://iris.to/note1zfy60nkmfdy96ezd9egpadkrf94ua3ad449u5dquasy3jucc6vcs5xj9z9


P2Pool has existed on Monero for a long time and is a real solution to decentralizing mining, unlike the absolute circuses that the Bitcoin community keeps producing

nostr:note1zfy60nkmfdy96ezd9egpadkrf94ua3ad449u5dquasy3jucc6vcs5xj9z9


Use a Blastr instance, the official one is  wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com. Be sure to disable reading from it

https://github.com/MutinyWallet/blastr/


Resistance fighter Friday!! https://video.nostr.build/7332c0110385879178202704b3d250d32545f662bcba952a3a8fdbeb169766de.mp4


Been a Monero user for a few years; Muslim presence in these spaces is improving, but many who are involved in them aren't as public about it as myself. We're working on it as
@BTC/Zero said.

Our community is rebuilding on multiple fronts right now (political/intellectual/institutional), but we have the resources to make it work. We just need time to figure it all out. Crypto (alongside FOSS in general) is really only being focused on by smaller figures in the community but that will change in the coming years إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ.


May Allah grant them shifa and give the shooter a miserable, agonizing existence in this life and the life after


https://mostr.pub/ new landing page for Mostr bridge with an input box. You can type a Fediverse name to find them on Nostr.

https://media.gleasonator.com/89157a3e0c71e7f56b0c8359d01bb1095e9efd5097c7bd70bd2523bc075c9e0f.png


Finally!


The sahaba (RA) really were the greatest generation. Their sincerity never fails to strike one's heart


I have to say that nostr:npub1wnwwcv0a8wx0m9stck34ajlwhzuua68ts8mw3kjvspn42dcfyjxs4n95l8 has won me back with their UI redesign, I've switched back to it as my primary nostr client


I don't have a store, I was just curious- sorry, should've specified that in my first note


Divine command is all that matters. Ethics is inherently meaningless without God.


Deontology, obviously. Consequentialism and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race


A child from Gaza is happy that he's finally unable to hear the Israeli drones.

To you people reading this, you maybe can't understand it. But Israel is operating drones 24/7 over Gaza and the noise is very loud, annoying, and causes distress over long periods of time.
Drones aren't used only for security, they are also a very harmful psychological tool to Palestinian who have to hear its buzzing 24/7.

https://media.bassam.social/1f9de198918e542eb7152a96925ca0f00552f2b83bf896bf7e0fe252b9c68ec0.mp4


Does BTCPay have XMR support?


Why did the buffoons store the seed on a Windows machine?


Regardless, "Third-worldism" is just the latest in a series of misappropriated labels being deployed in a vain attempt to bring RWers back in line


I haven't really seen any client that supports NIP 39, why is that?

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/39.md


Israel committing genocide is only going to create another wave of refugees. Anyone with a brain doesn't want that to happen. When israel says that "Europe is next", that's a threat. It means that they will carry out false flag attacks and flood the continent with refugees. I am glad that the "alt-right" is finally waking up to this.


https://coracle.social has a built-in relay browser and https://nostrrr.com is another, but the experience needs improvements. Eventually we will get somewhere.


Does nos2x have support for encrypting private keys at rest?


🇫🇷France Macron's government approves a bill that will allow the remote activation of cameras and microphones of ANY citizen's cell phone.

https://www.20minutes.fr/justice/4040339-20230608-justice-cameras-micros-telephones-pourront-bien-etre-actives-distance


This is actually pretty cool, thanks for sharing


Most Americans wouldn't even be able to spare 5k USD to put into a brokerage account


Absurd. Never had to deal with this nonsense in America


What???


color_eyre is a derivative of anyhow, so you'll want to read anyhow's documentation first. color_eyre mostly just adds eye candy to it


Oh, and error handling in Rust is just great. There's no going back after you throw in crates like thiserror & color_eyre.


Rust is suitable for large projects, but it doesn't necessarily lend itself well to rapid prototyping. I think most would prefer to prototype in a language like Python or JS/TS and write the real implementation in Rust


Memory safety & high-level features in a low-level language. Learning curve is steep, but once you get over it you become very productive.

Ecosystem is still rough around the edges in some places, and async design choices are questioned by many, but ultimately I think the language is in a class of its own for now.


It's hilarious, they've proven themselves to be as skilled as Hindutva lunatics when it comes to propaganda production

nostr:note1u5a3c4qvaqdklug95l06ptnkp4dwae99s5eya7y89wjfdyfpuquqw5y0y6


based thinkpad enjoyers

https://media.bassam.social/732456249590bb8a12fa182c8a012e243737f1227c5546a1e93b01332ae1629d.png


First time I'm hearing about GitNestr- mind linking the repo?


I was gonna write a whole thing out about possibly implementing some standard for relays to support different "sets" of NIPs, but I feel like it would overcomplicate the protocol (which is the last thing anyone wants)- thoughts?


The Palestinian journalist Sari Mansour was killed after the bombing of his home in the Braij refugee camp. 18.11.23

ارتقاء الصحفي ساري منصور في قصف منزله في مخيم البريج
https://video.nostr.build/a681334fd5f54998d5209741107e308ef8d826ed72d8e4bc1054c11a09d66930.mp4


Originally posted on Twitter: https://nitter.net/RealHasanSpiker/status/1722188800942580193#m


October 7th, the Terminal Hypocrisy of a Crumbling West, and the Dawning of a New Age for Muslims
By Hasan Spiker
Wednesday November 8th, 2023

The War that has ensued in the aftermath of October 7th is the defining event of our generation, and a true turning point for all future relations between Islam and the West. We witness, in its unfolding, nothing less than the final dissolution of the post-WWII settlement, and of the ensuing Americentric and Eurocentric world order, whose centrepiece was a self-justificatory moral narrative centred on the liberal, democratic West’s virtuous triumph against ‘the paradigm of pure evil,’ Hitler and the Nazis. The core sacrificial victims symbolising the liberal-democratic right to moral leadership were the Jews, slaughtered in the Holocaust but subsequently rising up from the ashes to heroically assert their ‘will to survive’ in the construction of a new nation. That the very paradigm, indeed the veritable Platonic Form of embattled, irrationally maligned minorities had been ‘rescued’ from the death camps and culturally rehabilitated by the Western powers, became emblematic of the claim that a liberal, proto-Rawlsian Western relativism alone could safely host different minorities by dissolving them into a neutral humanity governed by an ‘original position’, from which vantage point previously fraught differences would finally be resolved exactly by treating the substantive claims of Jew, Muslim, and Christian as equally meaningless expressions of arbitrary, culturally constructed collective will. Yet the liberal order’s great claim to moral leadership is that they are nonetheless  protected cultural artefacts of constructed collective will.

In the successful imprinting of belief in the inherent relativity of all culture and opinion upon the masses, the illusion of bewildering self-expressive and self-identificatory diversity in the ‘melting pot’ of major Western societies has been essential. It provided the backdrop to the 1990s West’s ‘universalist’ self-presentation, as alone capable amongst the world’s civilisations of accommodating such pluralism and diversity, because of its unique trans-partisan ‘tolerance’. In turn, this prevailing impression was able to successfully dress the justification for its unquestionable hegemony in the pious raiment of moral self-evidence and necessity.

But following on from a long chain of painful shocks, chief amongst them the War on Terror, the October 7th War constitutes the final deathblow to any vain hope of saving this flagship moral claim of liberalism from ultimate and intrinsic failure; it has, like no event before it, fully exposed liberal secular society’s much-vaunted ‘diversity’ of cultural and intellectual expression, as no more than appearance. Granted, journalistic history is littered with all too great a surplus of opportunistic ‘turning points’; yet the power of the confluence of factors presented by our present circumstance, ensures that ours is quite a different case. The West’s vacant ratification of the most transparent Israeli evil, of arbitrary and unrestrained mass-murder, is for Muslims surely the final nail in the coffin of Western moral legitimacy, at a time in which the West is simultaneously devouring itself in culture wars, and in the frenzied worship of whimsical dysphorias. They no longer heed the wisdom-teachings of their own Book: 'Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.’

Yes, a ‘person of colour’ with an unpronounceable name may be allowed to enter Number 10 or the White House on the unnegotiable condition that he prove an even more intransigent neoliberal than his white mentors; but where are the Sufi Shaykhs or Hindu Pandits in Number 10? It is only that comedic, impossible image that could ever represent the true diversity that liberalism claims. To the contrary, having long forgone the genuine pluralism which the liberal order can no longer rouse itself to affirm even as an ideal, it has at length finally confessed the strict impossibility of its ‘neutral’ position. Populist movements in Europe and America wish to recreate assertive partisanship for a distinctly Western, even ‘Christian’ culture and identity, all the while doggedly refusing to repudiate the ethical and metaphysical arbitrarist voluntarism that itself guaranteed the giddy 20th century ‘melting of all that was solid’ in Western civilisation. This ungrounded arbitrarism can only result in the authoritarian imposition of pure will; and the awful truth is that the arbitrarist voluntarism of the Western liberal order is, and always has been, intrinsically authoritarian. And in the sense of impending doom from which the liberal order so clearly suffers, brought on both by the fantasy threat of “Islamism”, and the culture wars, the authorities are finding it increasingly expedient to visibly brandish their latent authoritarian powers.

Now, it is precisely in constituting one of the central pillars of this hidden authoritarian foundation that the importance of Israel lies, as the aggressive emblem and bulwark of the ‘neutral’ liberal order. By ‘supporting’ Israel, the liberal order mean to say that the existence of that Nietzschean Nihilistan, that Great Secular Nothing called Israel, is a key article of their creed: Created in the heart of the Holy Land in 1948, in the aftermath of the Allies’ precious World War Two, in which they so bravely firebombed Germany into oblivion from thirty thousand feet, while more easily expendable Slavic lives finally overcame the Nazis on the ground: That War which stamped and sealed our entrance into the very anti-ethical world of post-morality that has now culminated in the October 7th War. For it is that secular Nothing in the heart of the “Middle East” that symbolises the victory of the liberal secular ‘way of life’ of self-interested individualism and arbitrarist hedonism over the illusions of the ‘regrettably-still-backward’, namely, ‘those we tolerated in virtue of our enormous humanitarian sophistication, but can no longer tolerate.’ Of course, Israel is not and never has been a democracy —if it ever had been, the Palestinians would have voted the Zionists out before they ever had a chance to commence their Plan Dalet of ethnic cleansing, their destruction of 530 villages and their 50 massacres. But via Berdyczewski and others, the Zionists are fully immunised by their Nietzschean Will-to-Powerism against true and false, or right and wrong. It is indeed an inescapable fact, however ‘uncomfortable’, that the same post-ethical Will to Power that animated Nazism, now animates Zionism. As the political theorist Eyal Chowers notes, ‘Zionism emerged as a singular mixture of Nietzschean and Marxian themes … Zionism — as an all-embracing revolution — required the profanization of history and a generalized secularization in order to truly free the human sense of potency in the world.'

In addition to this Nietzschean component, the ‘logic’ and ‘ethics’ of Zionism amount to those of Darwinian survival and Spencerian ‘survival of the fittest’; and in the same manner as their Western intimates, in Islam they can only see a terrifyingly unyielding representation of all that they feel compelled to intransigently deny about reality. Since Israel’s whole constructed existence depends upon a lie, it will fight to the death to defend that lie; and it is an ‘existential’ and hence ‘moral’ exigency for it to annihilate anyone and anything that calls out the lie. And since the United States and Britain have founded their self-definitional moral leadership of the world upon ‘saving’ the Jews from the Nazi death camps, the survival of their own moral narrative also rests upon propping up the lie, at all costs.

Never mind that the United States and Britain had steadfastly turned countless Jewish refugees away at the outset of Nazi persecution, or that in 1940 Britain had interred Jewish refugees as ‘enemy aliens.’ For in the narrative retrospectively, but nonetheless powerfully and indelibly projected back onto events, the ‘tricky moral quandaries’ of the Second World War, the firebombing of Hamburg, the annihilation of Dresden, are justified as exceptional cases, warranted by the unprecedented genocidal evil of Hitler in destroying six million Jews. Again, never mind the history itself, which assures us that the deliberate targeting of German civilians in Hamburg and Dresden had precisely nothing to do with a ‘fight against the ultimate evil’ of the Nazi genocide of the Jews; no, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris’s stated aim in sanctioning those horrific crimes, in which over half a million civilians were crushed or burned alive, was to ‘break the spirit of the Germans’ to resist: simply to win the War at all costs. ‘The Government, for excellent reasons,’ Harris said in 1941, ‘has preferred the world to think that we still held some scruples and attacked only what the humanitarians are pleased to call “military targets.” I can assure you, gentlemen, that we tolerate no scruples.’ Indeed, the first ‘area bombing’ targeting civilians in the Second World War was ordered by Churchill, and carried out by the RAF in Mönchengladbach, not by Hitler as legend tells.

These disconcerting inconsistencies in the received moral narrative make far better sense in light of the unpalatable truth that Hitler and the Nazis, and the liberal West and Soviets who opposed him, are all merely so many sides of the same equation. The Holocaust was not an aberration from which ‘true’ Western civilisation is innocent, but one of the worst crimes of post-Enlightenment modernity itself; it was committed by the same people, and the same ideas, who firebombed Hamburg and Tokyo, nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who ravaged Vietnam and Iraq, and now serve as funders and steadfast apologists for the Gaza genocide. Yes, it was post-Enlightenment modernity itself that was the perpetrator of the Holocaust; just as it also perpetrated the chattel enslavement of the continent of Africa, the opium outrages in China, the annihilation of the Native Americans, the starvation and ‘economic cleansing’ of India. Far from representing aberrations, these depravities were each inevitable consequences of the spirit of the Age of Exploration and the subsequent Scientific Revolution, namely the Baconian inversion of tripartite soul and society —wherein intellect was subordinated to spiritedness and power — as well as the subsequent, Humean, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution progression of the inversion, in which intellect was subordinated to desire and the passions. And they are no less the inevitable consequences of Luther’s separation of faith and reason, of the extirpation of formal and final causes, and secondary qualities from nature, of the Cartesian Split, of ‘I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith,’ of ‘Render therefore unto Caesar such things which are Caesar’s.’

For a futile moment after October 7th, the Western powers attempted their own moral resuscitation by again invoking the time-honoured narrative of their moral saviourhood; only for it to fatally backfire this time, and only serve, instead, to demonstrate their terminal moral illegitimacy. Meanwhile, the invocation of the Holocaust has lost its power, for in surely one of the supreme ironies of history, Israel have themselves supplanted their own Nazi reference point of ‘supreme evil’. Western genocide apologism after October 7th has forever imprinted in our hearts and minds all that makes the declining, flailing post-Enlightenment West so dangerous: its lack of any stable, unnegotiable morality. For anything can be countenanced in that dismal anti-ethics of post-morality, the calculus of survival.


Why are people buying from CEXes, again?


Can we get an option to go back to the old UI? It felt better & the new one just feels even more like a Twitter clone


Tor's not enough if you want anonymity. Stylometry is the first thing that comes to mind for de-anonymization over Tor. Your writing style can give you away instantly, so consider using something like Anonymouth to rewrite your posts before you make them.

The way you (physically) type (as in typos, typing speed, etc) is also very effective at breaking anonymity, so use software like kloak to get around that. Whonix comes with kloak already, so if you're using it (which you should be) you don't have anything to worry about there.

Consider browsing over Nitter as nostr:npub14a6q6xvt4wuv0wpdpfr336e4fweldtu6np3ehpw55h83xuw2h2zsgyz6rn said, since you want to limit your exposure as much as possible (especially on proprietary platforms).

This isn't even the tip of the iceberg, just so you know. True anonymity online is a rabbit hole that you'll spend a huge amount of time going down if you're serious. It's stupid for me to even give this advice in the way that I am with an identity tied to so much of the stuff I do online, but I don't have any plans to utilize the info so I might as well share it before I end up forgetting it.

Have fun on the tinfoil road! You'll get burned out if you don't :)


nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg I think the old UI was better, honestly. This UI feels much less smooth and is just generally worse


Hilarious watching the dumpster fire as a Monero user


Use case seems pretty obvious- a lot of people have serious accounts and meme accounts that they want others to know about

Personally I plan on having multiple accounts down the line as there are different types of content I'd like to publish

Which makes me realize that news agencies would like this feature since they always have a ton of regional accounts (not that I'm a fan of mainstream media)


Super dangerous, can't BELIEVE this stuff is legal!


Yes, you can do MuSig or FROST and sign events with that. It's magic.

https://github.com/nickfarrow/frostr


Guess what the two top countries have in common?

https://m.primal.net/HQRa.jpg


Islam :)


Is it open source? Sounds like the sort of thing I'd rather self-host


Proof-of-Concept: onboardstr.vercel.app

Objective: billions must generate nostr accs

I think this should be the way we onboard 80% of ppl to nostr. i had a friend download damus then i proceeded to bore them with ‘follow this guy’ or ‘add this relay too btw’.

add your npub to the end of the onboardstr url, and when your friend generates an nsec they will have all the same follows/relays as you straightaway. instantly their feed is lively, and they can curate it themselves from there. https://image.nostr.build/a6f5d0feec8a10780414daaa180d700cd166dd3af405859dd9b023d35f6fa9e1.jpg


Am I the only one who is gonna point out that this new name sounds like a dating app?


Helping was never their goal.


I think the same way at the ripe old age of 18- I think it's more about being normal


Google pays Apple a 36% cut of search advertising revenue made through Safari.

This was accidentally disclosed in court this week.

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


the same people who voluntarily verified their identities on twitter for more engagement are outraged when a presidential candidate suggests it as policy

a common dynamic in modern society: people are much more willing for the state to step on them if there is a corporate middle man in between

big tech is slavery.
freedom tech is hope. 🫡


"A man is never morally neutral. That is why he is always either morally true or false, or both, which is the most frequent. People have acted and behaved differently, but they have always spoken in the same way about justice, truth, equality, and freedom: the wise men and heroes out of sincerity because of truth, and the politicians and demagogues  hypocritically and out of interest. Still, the false morality of demagogues and hypocrites is no less significant to the topic we are discussing. Their feigned morality, their moral mask, their centuries-old campaigning with the words "justice," "equality ," "humanity ," and so on confirm the reality of morals as do the noble sufferings of heroes and saints. Political history, especially that of recent times, is full of examples of how enemies of freedom, while maintaining the apparatus for repression and spying, maintain at the same time another one for speaking incessantly and loudly of freed om and justice. Hypocrisy, as false morality, proves the value of true morality, just as the temporary value of forged money is owing to the fact that there is legal tender. Hypocrisy is a proof that everyone expects or requires moral conduct from everyone else."

Same book (p. 110-111)


"We can distinguish two independent and separate activities: aesthetic shaping and technical perfecting. The one tends to fulfill man's inexplicable desire for beauty; the other tends to meet man's need for function. Aesthetic designing tends toward diversity and individuality; technical perfecting tends toward uniformity and leveling."

- Alija Izetbegovic, Islam Between East & West (p. 103)


"Every person on social media should be verified by their name "because of" national security."

Mask off. The uniparty wants to control speech on the Internet. The first step is forcing people to verify themselves on social media.

They're losing control and clamping down.

https://m.primal.net/HQHS.mp4


Some more propaganda to spread

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

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

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


Satoshi #Bitcoin inventor was dreaming about #Monero https://image.nostr.build/a0063565a2ccc4def9e58f7a3f6da2a6f641d4b85c3e3ad025e428ce9e405fcb.jpg


I wonder when Bitcoiners finally will wake up to Monero.

nostr:nevent1qqstdyct8nlekzt4v8gmqvmrnznm2y8jkkx8yg47s7gr224x27h5svcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzqpxfzhdwlm3cx9l6wdzyft8w8y9gy607tqgtyfq7tekaxs7lhmxfqvzqqqqqqy9q8d8f


This just exposes the BTC mindset lol; reflects poorly on your intelligence rather than Monero's viability.


Basic principle. I don't understand why BTC maxis can't grasp it. Fungibility is the most important requirement for digital cash


Is there a working bridge that goes the other way around? I want to get some friends started, it's alright if I have to self-host it


How owned #Canada is?
So much that the prime minister can't use certain words in his own country without being terrified of what #Israel can do to him.

A live example of a dignity free government.

https://media.bassam.social/93d455e7c248f704c040686b45e9bb741d64761e59e029ef1c975c105b8a5fee.mp4


اسرائيل_ارهابية

طوفان_الاقصى

Confirming the previous confessions, On October 7, the Zionist terrorist state used the Hannibal Directive or the Hannibal Protocol (Hebrew: נוהל חניבעל).

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth mistakenly published a video clip documenting the Israeli army’s killing of Israeli civilians during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

The newspaper said that the pilots carried out the bombing on their own without taking orders after they were unable to distinguish Hamas members from Israeli citizens.
Here we remember the confession of one of the settlements that said that the Zionist terrorist army was killing “Israeli civilians” so that Hamas would not be able to capture them, and then they showed pictures of their massacres as being the work of Hamas.
#gaza #palstine #hamas #AlaqsaFlood #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerrorist
#غزة #حماس #فلسطين  #غزة_تباد #طوفان_الاقصى #اسرائيل_ارهابية

https://media.bassam.social/5e94e438a809ee39a1fe34b6a0674b56d0b319b380b70227886054a82d458614.mp4

https://media.bassam.social/09163797a82524cc58a5f0131583b20fb5e768bec134156a4e03d83d28f62cc0.jpg


An Israeli high school teacher was assaulted and arrested by police for a Facebook post showing sympathy for Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza. He didn't even condemn Israel.

Nazi state.
#Gaza

https://media.bassam.social/99e2f7c273c3a476d21dd20b11fe3e4f6d2556c9962a140a31d5d326d51eb5a3.mp4


#israel and #Palestine

https://hispagatos.space/system/media_attachments/files/111/247/017/618/906/196/original/c891b5ab8ed503f8.png


Gaza 26

https://media.spinster.xyz/f2d697c1c179c4d73c7230b558df6d08ba89b42b0604095d4808452192f095bf.jpg


🇵🇸 Al Shifa bombardé au phosphore blanc

Plus tôt dans la journée, le ministre palestinien de la Santé, Mai al-Kaila a confirmé qu'"Israël" avait bombardé le complexe médical al-Shifa, à Gaza, avec du phosphore blanc interdit par la communauté internationale.

Al Shifa bombed with white phosphorus

Earlier in the day, Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai al-Kaila confirmed "Israel" bombed the al-Shifa Medical Complex, in Gaza, with internationally prohibited White Phosphorus.

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dont look away

this is what these blades do

see the bone coming out of his torn flesh??
#Gaza
https://twitter.com/holloswan/status/1723114235566182446

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The biggest problem with IPFS for me is the bandwidth usage. I have this absurd 1.2 terabyte data cap that was imposed by Xfinity during the pandemic, and I know it's complete garbage because states in the Northeastern US told Xfinity to shut up and roll it back. California didn't, despite being such a "forward-thinking" and "advanced" state.


No, just Sunni. Assad is a tyrant and a nusayri pagan.


He's pro-Assad and a Russia shill, I don't care much about the latter but the former makes me dislike him either way


Have fun paying taxes!


Interesting take on the body, haven't heard it before. The rest is pretty standard


your nsec (I don't even have lightning set up I just wanted to make this stupid joke)


Especially the ones who believe that a coin with no privacy is a viable option for digital cash


#Palestine nostr:npub13emhmgge49zxyu9mhakyk76alhvznqn5pfqgya4w2qzmzvtgx6wqzyflpf

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> Also, there will always be actors with access to more computing power than others, no matter how CPU based your mining is.

That's not a point against CPU-based algorithms. The point is not to make everyone equal in hashing power, it is to distribute the hashing power across more, smaller-scale miners and lower the barrier to entry as much as possible.

> Mining is an economic business which benefits from economies of scale.

Monero (and crypto in general) has an incentive to work against economies of scale in mining, as it just results in more centralization and consolidates  market share (hashing power) into the hands of a few entities. This is a rule for every industry, not just mining. CPUs do not lend themselves to the same kind of industrial-scale mining that ASICs do, and that's a design choice.


> The only way to keep an algorithm “ASIC proof” is to continuously keep switching it out through hard forks, which is what monero does.

This betrays an extremely poor understanding of Monero and mining algorithms in general. Perhaps take a look at the readme for RandomX, the algorithm Monero has been using for quite a while now?

https://github.com/tevador/RandomX


Primal has been quite fast for me, but if it's not working try Coracle or Nostrudle


Are you kidding me?!


Everything he describes in this tweet is terrifying.


Jason is describing a pre-installed keylogger as a good thing.
https://i.nostr.build/Lq82.jpg


This is not good.

https://image.nostr.build/a34c789052763eb5be2a22cfa6a61f2bd7db3423ec51907e33ffa9659911e3af.jpg


Call me old fashioned, but perhaps using nostr for comments & BitTorrent to host videos would be a stop-gap?


Solved by Monero


Yeah it's called being Chinese


Did you just fix Nostr?


on the second flight I finished writing the implementation (and modifications to NIP-46) to make the following possible:

1. Alice goes to App A (e.g. Coracle) -- she clicks "create account" and gets a NIP-05 "alice@somesite.com". She uses Coracle as she normally would.

2. Alice goes to App B (e.g. Primal) -- she clicks "login" and types in "alice@somesite.com". A popup comes up and asks Alice if she wants to authorize this application to access her account. In an advanced setting She can scope down what the application can do (e.g. only create short notes but don't change the profile data)

At no point is there any mention of nsec, npub, keys, NIP-07, nsecbunker. Nothing. It just works.

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It's nice but I prefer primal personally


Coracle has issues syncing relay lists sometimes


Israel has a right to defend itself!!!

One of the many lies piers Morgan tried to peddle on his show. https://video.nostr.build/282d5e38137c0b161089b0d37553ed7f4a6ac42dbbab97e1804206a085a556d0.mp4


Don't get me wrong, the Arab governments are absolutely traitorous in other ways. Zionists just stick to this false argument in an attempt to smear Palestinians. The majority of Jordan's population is Palestinian refugees and their descendants. Egypt contains no small number of refugees either.


Wall Street Silver's take is so disingenuous it's unreal. He knows perfectly well that the plan is to depopulate Gaza (though that frankly won't be possible as the Arab nations are refusing to play along, which Zionists are framing as Arabs hating their brothers).

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https://nitter.net/wikileaks/status/1719000849299407012#m


There is, I've just forgotten the names of the projects. Not a big deal to look them up again, though


I'm not completely convinced that a full migration off of proprietary/centralized platforms is the best move for us yet. Obviously it is the end goal, but the political influence we can wield through our presence on mainstream platforms is not something we can just let go. Another solution needs to be found as a stop-gap; I'm brainstorming but frankly I haven't come up with any really excellent ideas there


There needs to be an effort to reach out to more prominent Muslim accounts on Twitter and get them to at least mirror their posts to nostr. I'm considering re-creating my own Twitter account for this purpose- it's very hard to get in contact with the people that I want to reach, even the smaller ones like Bheria (@BheriaMS on Twitter)


Little-known fact: I don't drink! Just not my thing.


On this, you are entirely correct.