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 Well articulated article:

https://stacker.news/items/766688 
 Haha yeah, here I was like an idiot trying to find it online somewhere to read. 
 #grapheneos help me out...

I set up a new user profile with a new PIN. I was thinking this could... 
 That's an amazing idea, I use 4 profiles, and would love to make two of them invisible. I 100p make use of this.

Even if it only applied to guest profiles. You still unlock the owner profile, which could be the decoy, and have a single sub profile login page, that would not disclose how many (if any) sub profiles existed. 
 Yes, I am aware Cellebrite specifically publishes their ability to (or lack theorof really) to access GrapheneOS devices, which is a bit of a unique honour.

A different set of security practices is required for sophisticated adverseries. For instance a duress pin that immediately restarts the device and disables the USB port or resets the secure element.

I had this more in mind as a defense against unsophisticated physical threat actors, the proverbial $5 wrench attacks, thugs, unsophisticated or informal law enforcement etc. 
 Am I blind or is there not an option for custom search engine on Vanadium? #asknostr #GrapheneOS 
 Yeah, I use a self hosted searxng instance  and Vanadium uses it as the default search.

However it's not obvious from the interface because it does this by using OpenSearch metadata gathered from an already completed search.

1) Open Vanadoum and go to your search engine of choice.
2) Conduct a search on the site and view the results page.
3) Got to Vanadium's settings > Search engine
4) The recently used search engine should be listed there at the bottom. 
 Oof, that one hits in the feels. OG seasoned psychopath here, never met another maxi. 
 This is not a political post. I already regret writing this post. Isn't it interesting they call ... 
 Comparing people to Hitler is like bitcoiners refering to things they don't like as fiat. It's just a general insult disconnected from the actual political positions Hitler himself took on any particular issue. 
 Most glarrying issue is the placement of the stock in his shoulder. Which suggests a scope bite is incoming. Also looks like one of the guns on the table is facing backwards, barrel away from the targets. Hard to tell.

I don't see a suitable backstop behind the targets, but maybe this whole setup is in a gravel pit or something, can'really say from the photo. All that shit on the tables should be behind the firing line, but that's more of a safety preference than a huge issue.

If we want to start nitpicking, his eyepro won't do any good on his forehead. Food/beverages should not be kept or consumed on the firing line due to lead contamination, and his stance will not adequately support the platform for follow-up shots. 
 There is no red there is no blue. There is the state and there is you. 
 When I'm typing in Amethyst using the GrapheneOS stock keyboard. I have a strange issue that has been around for months.

When I make a typo mid word, and hit the backspace key to correct it, it removes the space between the word I am typing and the previous word. It's incredibly irritating, anyone else experience this or have a fix?

#Amethyst #GrapheneOS 
 No, it's been around since the start of using Amethyst on GrapheneOS. 
 Ah, interesting. I have only has the issue with Amethyst, but I don't have the AirBNB app, and I only have used GrapheneOS for years. 
 That's the solution, thanks. Some combination of the stock GrapheneOS keyboards text correction settings and some apps like Amethyst and AirBNB cause this issue.

Thanks for the tip. 
 Can anyone running #GrapheneOS confirm they are receiving #ntfy notifications from ANY unified pu... 
 I have grapheme OS, I installed ntfy yesterday when I SAS your post and subscribed to ntfy.sh/phils_alerts and just got a few german notifications successfullly. 
 #grapheneos stock pdf reader a little subpar. recommendations? #asknostr 
 Nothing that is nearly as secure:

From their github description:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer/releases

Simple Android PDF viewer based on pdf.js and content providers. The app doesn't require any permissions. The PDF stream is fed into the sandboxed WebView without giving it access to content or files. Content-Security-Policy is used to enforce that the JavaScript and styling properties within the WebView are entirely static content from the apk assets. It reuses the hardened Chromium rendering stack while only exposing a tiny subset of the attack surface compared to actual web content. The PDF rendering code itself is memory safe with dynamic code evaluation disabled, and even if an attacker did gain code execution by exploiting the underlying web rendering engine, they're within the Chromium renderer sandbox with no access to the network (unlike a browser), files, or other content. 
 Correct, 66% of your capital gains over 250k are 'included' in your income for the purpose of calculating your income tax.

It's a 66% inclusion rate, not a 66% tax rate. 
 Trying to refollow everyone that follows me. Repost if I do not follow u. 
 You can be my first follower :)

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 You’re all going to be using BBSs and IRC soon anyway 
 What do you mean? 
 The only way to access your direct messages (DMs) and IP addresses on centralized social media pl... 
 This is a problem.

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 Yeah, I've bought those consistently for years from Costco in Canada, that's a misprint by 10x, never come close to that price, not even in the midst of covid. 
 I've had this happen twice, both times it occurred immediately when I opened the wallet. 
 I don't think I'll ever get to 6.25 BTC :( 
 Me either 🫠

That's an ambitious goal 
 Blackrock doesn’t own Bitcoin. The Bitcoin protocol now has a position in Blackrock. They have ... 
 Are you familiar with "The Great Taking" the laws around property rights with respect to financial assets has changed. You merely hold an interest in the custodied bitcoin, and not primary or secured interest.

It's a free book, available online, that can be read in a day easily.

https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download 
 Why are Property Prices High.
A Canadian Perspective.

Things were not always like this... Housing prices used to reflect the "utility value" of the building and property. In that free market system "supply and demand" kept housing mostly in line with the cost of construction and the scarcity of the land.

A few things have all contributed to the issue, ranked in the order I believe they contribute.

1) MONEY PRINTING
Prices go up and down for various reasons, certain sectors of prices going up isn't inflation. (War in Ukraine, scarcity of fuel/wheat, prices go up, not inflation) Inflation is when ALL your prices go up across the board. The ONLY cause of that type of inflation is the central bank creating more money and the government injecting it into the market in their budget items. This tactic, makes all the money in the market less valuable by a small percent. It's a hidden, unaccounted for tax on everyone who holds government "fiat" money. Every government that issues fiat has done this, since the invention of fiat, going back thousands of years. This means, that hard assets (real estate, precious metals, a pile of gravel etc) need cost more and more fiat currency, as the fiat currency is worth less and less every time the central bank prints more it dilutes the value. So if your stock portfolio goes up by 5%, but inflation was 8%, you've actually lost 3% of your purchasing power. However, if you have a rental property, that rental property, will always hold the same "utility value", it can still keep the occupants warm and dry. So it may not track inflation precisely, but over the decades, it protects against the erosion of the dollar. Saving dollars makes you poor, buy hard assets in an inflationary environment. (Consequently this acts as a wealth transfer tax from the poors without assets to the wealthy with assets.)

2) ZONING LAWS
The people in politics, both at federal and provincial levels, but also all the way down to the municipalities, and the (generally older) citizens that are meaningfully active in politics ALL are massively and disproportionately made up of people who own at least one, if not multiple properties. For most of those people, property makes up the majority of their portfolio.
Consequently, they are systemically bent to protecting the value of their properties. You see this in the NIMBY movements, and puplic hearing on zonings and such. The result is that municipalities artificially limit the number and types of buildings that they approve, no one wants a big "affordable housing" complex built in their nice neighborhood. This creates artificial scarcity and keeps prices high, because builders can't make all the cheap housing that the market demands. This will not change, because as by the time someone gets there life in order enough to influence politics, they have their financial affairs in order and benefit from it.

3) BUILDING CODES
Progressives in the past 3-4 decades have been aghast at the conditions some people lived in, packing into a rooming house with shared washrooms for instance. So in cities across north America, they have changed building codes to ensure that new builds have certain minimums, like bedrooms must have a window and a closet, each suite needs to have it's own washroom etc. These restrictions, don't improve peoples living conditions, they remove peoples free choices. Some of the people that would be ok in these conditions needs to rent an apartment and are financially stressed by it, some of them go homeless, despite having modest employment. Removing choices, doesn't magically change the economics of it.

4) CHINESE MONEY
Specific to the Lower Mainland in British Columbia. The Chinese underground banks are taking advantage of Canada's lax financial laws to circumvent the Chinese limits on exporting money outside of China. By getting street cash from the fentanyl crisis addicts, and then washing it through BC casinos, and then using the "winnings" to buy property in Canada. This is all documented in great detail in Sam Coopers book "wilful blindness" 
 As a canadian bitcoiner, also living on the land, this may be my favorite post of all time. It's a pretty specific niche you itched there. 
 I imagine one of the phones are compromised, not the signal app or system. An app, including SimpleX, is only as secure as the environment it is being executed in #GrapheneOS 
 My lawyers have just confirmed that Craig Wright has had his final appeal denied by the Supreme C... 
 I'm relieved on your behalf, what a fuck twit, so glad that this chapter is closed for you. Congrats! 
 Anyone use different profiles on #GrapheneOS ? If so, what are your use cases? #askNostr #privacy 
 The main profile when you boot the phone is a generic one with a bunch of random web history and data poisened contacts, logins savedtlo cloud accounts I don't use etc.

I also have the account I actually use all the time, and a seperate crypto wallet profile 
 The media lies 
 “If there’s two great evils in the world it is centralization and complexity”

-George Hotz