Too much risk with #BTC revealed. #Coldcard could signal bad actors playing a long hack game. #AI is showing everything #digital is vulnerable. #BIP-110 showed #bitcoin is software that will be changed and those changes are controlled by big corps (of miners, Saylor and Blackrock flavors). Bottom line is like a Piccaso painting only rich can apparently now safely secure. Worse they have no issue making paint modifications all the time to the original! And now data center power demands will cause more critical eyes on energy hogging POW protocols.

When I first started with bitcoin I stored my crypto on paper wallets with qr codes and legacy addresses. I rode bitcoin down the last crash and waited it out when it bottomed in mid teens back up towards new highs. This time there is a big difference. Most regular people and businesses have no interest in it. I come from a marketing background and this looks more like brand / tech rejection. Kind of like people losing interest for good.

I cashed out today at a small loss and surprisingly don't plan to return ever. Only thing I'd be interested in is a quantum secure peer to peer token that is exchange independent and accepted by my local grocery stores and fuel stations.

I can't see how bitcoin will be useful for anyone other than big international Wall Street entities. The libertarian/privacy/freedom tech communities need to come up with a better AI proof solution now.

Not with mine. Try this. Create a new user and go check what your default permissions are. Are nearby devices and sensors on for apps now? Check to see if apps are allowed use of background data. If so, turn them off for several apps. Then end session and go back in to see if your changes stuck. Look at your system apps for Bluetooth and see its default permissions. See if you can turn them off (location, etc). I couldn't. I can't do a lot if things I could before now. Let me know if after this your UX is the same as before.

They give default permissions for all apps which let them spy on you. All my apps had my settings overwritten and allowed sensors, background use of data, a number of system apps like Bluetooth you can't turn off location, nearby devices, access to your call logs and contacts, network access and SMS access. GrapheneOS is now like a Canadian / Five eyes spy device I paid for. 😤😤😱

Not anymore. New grapheneOS went Orwellian with new upgrade. Just realized. 😭

Boomers had lots of children, but they sure had their share of self focus. As a whole they did not leave a great future for their children. Contrast that with the generation before them who went through wars and the depression. Hard times make better people and I think having a child gives you something really meaningful to fight for during the hard times.

Happy 10th Anniversary! We are all better off cause of your contributions. Ben your life made a difference! 🕴👏🕴👏🕴👏🕴👏🕴👏

So would you be thinking instead of using a client that supports UnifiedPush to receive notifications. In that case I presume the route is to download and install ntfy from F-droid, select Element (uses Matrix Protocol) or Conversations (XMPP protocol), and then use UnifiedPush as the method with choose ntfy from list of distributors?

Thoughts are appreciated as hardening my notifications is new to me. I've been using de-googled phones since 2020 but I was not aware that Google still got my notification flows.

Looking into things with lump, it seems that with a phone XMPP is an intermediary. Notifications are still routed through Apple (APN) or Google (FCM). Quote: "The difference with your own server is simply that you hold the API keys and control the routing logic - not that the path avoids Apple / Google." When asked it says same thing with Matrix. On the other hand it seems that this is not the case with GrapheneOS phones that don't run Google Play services sandboxes.

Again it seems like you have to take a college course to do this. Perhaps ntfy is an low brain expense alternative.

Thanks for this secure your hive tip!

Problem now is them darn lone star ticks targeting us meat lovers. Meat = privacy.😉