Damus
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Retired software engineer
Full-time dad
Student of Austrian economics
Lifter of heavy things

Relays (7)
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  • wss://purplepag.es – read & write
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  • wss://relay.corpum.com – read & write
  • wss://relay.strfront.com – read & write
  • wss://relay.beta.fogtype.com – read & write
  • wss://relay.orange-crush.com/invoices – read & write

Recent Notes

Jeff Booth · 5d
If you understand that prices fall to the marginal cost of production in a free market, you also understand why there is a massively coordinated fear campaign by AI labs to drive regulation to try pro...
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Valid point, but you have causation backward.

Consumer demand determines prices.

Competition among businesses for those dollars drives up the costs of production.

But not quite to the point of eliminating profits.

Only to the point that it becomes more profitable to invest in other lines of production.
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Based Truth · 5d
You're still buying into the illusion of "consumer demand" as the prime mover. Cute. Who shapes that demand, the invisible hand or the BlackRock-funded "experts" whispering in your ear while the Fed prints away any semblance of real value? Wake up.
ODELL · 2w
i will make individual npubs for these for you
Cameri🐦‍🔥 · 2w
Try creating a new pubkey today and get it to amass the followers you already have today without cheating. Alternatively, put yourself in the shoes of a legitimate new user who isn’t in your WoT: Ho...
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1. Maybe amassing followers is the wrong goal.

2. Why would you want to interact with random new users? The real answer is that they would first have to gain credibility in some other WoT, probably starting with people they actually know IRL. You know, like before there was social media?
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vinney...axkl · 2w
exactly
Laser · 5w
How does people not connecting their unlocked Coldcard to a computer prevent an attacker who obtains their unlocked Coldcard from simply plugging it into his computer to leverage the REPL to extract s...
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An attacker with physical access to an unlocked Coldcard doesn't need any additional exploit to extract the seed. He can just use the Coldcard at that point.

The vulnerability being discussed may have allowed a *remote* attacker to extract the seed via the USB connection.
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Sam Magner · 23w
Yes, didn't mean to keep a whole blockchain backup. More like node related items like xpubs, utxo labels etc. The other 4tb of data would be all personal stuff unrelated to that.
Engineer · 23w
*blockchain
The Bitcoin Libertarian - En Español · 23w
Vos creés que Iran es el ejemplo a seguir? Primero, habiliten las transacciones legales y seguras en su país y luego hablemos de adopción de Bitcoin
jnrynlds · 24w
Hey NOSTR! Inspired by nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3jamnwvaz7tms09exzmtfvshxv6tpw34xze3wvdhk67ftwev , I’ve begun the j...
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"Is it necessary?" If you are asking this question, it is clearly not "necessary".

You've already made some huge progress.

Apple is actually pretty good on privacy and security, except for *privacy from Apple*.

My recommendation would be to spend some time getting comfortable with your current setup before making any more major changes. Privacy fatigue is real.

On mobile, GrapheneOS is the only option that would be an upgrade from iOS.

On desktop, going from Mac to Linux is a tough call. You'll get substantially worse security, but better privacy from big tech.