Anyone has an experience with this open-source reimplementation of Android Auto? Esp. on GrapheneOS.

https://github.com/prototux/AARE

Android Auto is a total gatekeeper and does not allow random apps from ZapStore. I did not sign up for this when getting an open-source OS, so we should do better. Any experiences appreciated.

🎙️ Súkromie: aký je správny level paranoje?

Jedni majú vypnutý Javascript a Qubes, druhí mávnu rukou, že "aj tak o mne všetko vedia". Obe skupiny sa podľa mňa mýlia, len každá inak. Podcast je o tom, ako sa na to dá pozerať triezvejšie, ako si pre seba určiť náklady a výnosy. A na konci je bonus o tom, čo robia Google Play services na GrapheneOS. A teaser na knižku Praxeológia súkromia Maxa Hillebranda.

https://juraj.bednar.io/podcast/2026/11/02/sukromie-aky-je-spravny-level-paranoje/

I updated my post on encrypted communication between programs and mobile devices. I now use White Noise primarily and SimpleX secondarily, and I talk to my Hermes agent over White Noise too. For that I built Third Ear, a voice-powered White Noise client for Android (open source, free on Zapstore). It is the best way to use speech to talk to your agent I know of.

Amazing how White Noise went from "barely works" to "the best way to communicate with your agent".

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/11/24/encrypted-communication-between-programs-and-mobile-devices/

Aktualizoval som blog o šifrovanej komunikácii medzi programami a mobilom. Primárne dnes používam White Noise, sekundárne SimpleX, a cez White Noise komunikujem aj s Hermes agentom.

Na to som vyrobil hlasového klienta Third Ear (Android, open source), s plnou podporou slovenčiny v rozhraní aj rozpoznávaní reči cez OSTT.

White Noise prešiel z módu "ledva funguje" do módu "najlepšia možnosť na komunikáciu s agentami".

https://juraj.bednar.io/blog/2024/11/24/sifrovana-komunikacia-medzi-programami-a-mobilnymi-zariadeniami/

A friend told me an observation: "Switzerland vs. the EU feels a lot like West Germany vs. East Germany around the time the wall came down. It's kind of obvious which model works better."

Just not obvious to the honchos in Brussels.

I'm still amazed at how out of touch with reality they are. I think many of them genuinely believe they're doing their part in making the world better. They're just not intelligent enough to see the structure of things. Regulating AI when you don't have any AI doesn't do much. It's just a competitive disadvantage. There will be good models in China, in the US, in the UAE. And there will be retarded models in Europe.

The funny part is that they do get approved in the end. It just takes three to six months. By the time the stamp lands, the model is two generations old. Nothing got regulated. It just got slower than everyone else.

European workers will carry the productivity disadvantage. World not saved.

But they don't see it at all, it's a total blind spot for brussels bureaucrats. They still live in a world where the EU has a moat and everyone wants access to EU markets. Except you can have access to EU markets while not complying with their retardation rules in other markets. That's what companies have been doing all along.

This isn't the cookie banner situation, where the easiest solution is to troll everyone with the pop-ups. Paid models need to determine whether you're in the EU for VAT purposes anyway. So they just serve you either a retarded model or a normal one.

What amazes me most is how fast we forget. Half a year ago the models were noticeably worse, and all of us adapted to the new level within a week. A six-month approval delay isn't a small tax. It's not getting a slightly worse model. It's getting last year's model, permanently, while everyone else moves on.

I love how cypherpunk/freedom tech converges. Each of these technologies is very cool on its own, but I always said that the power comes when you connect it together to create sort of network effects or different kind of positive feedback loops.

First "it's just money", "it's just a social network", "it's just a parallel communication network".

Now I do things like new Nostr client that integrates AI through Routstr paid for by Cashu e-cash built on Lightning. Or a navigation app that uses MeshCore and Nostr for road events, distributed through ZapStore (over Nostr) for all the amazing GrapheneOS users out there. Or interacting with self-sovereign Hermes agent through Whitenoise, with my own Third Ear voice transcription app, which is a native Marmot (Whitenoise) client (a group chat over Nostr), which uses Routstr or Venice (paid for by crypto with funny economic model), using uncensored open models, fallback on local inference, with self-sovereign memory, and the agent itself pays through Lightning, if it wants to order something for me. And will probably read this message on Nostr.

We have built a freaking good ecosystem that can do stuff the normie economy can't even imagine.

A friend, who is a bit left-leaning lately asked me how my liberatarian world view is doing. He was expecting me to be in total depression, because the libertarian political parties are not winning. I explained, that if nothing changed, it would be amazing. We have liberty and libertarian / cypherpunk world is as mature as never before.

Cypherpunk future is now.

P.S.: Adding two slop images for completeness :)

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Uncensored: now live on the Venice API
deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-uncensored

Oh-my-God!

Access it through routstr.cypherpunk.today @routstr

Turns out you can just do things

https://github.com/agamrossen/VolAnti

Turns out you can just do things.

But when you realize this, you start doing many things.