Concord vs. Nostr Relay Infrastructure
What Concord asks of a Nostr relay: why NIP-17 inbox relays are incompatible, what happens when relays prune or expire events, how invites work, and other consequences of its key-derived design.
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Hollistic Rabbit Hole 🐇🌀🛸[OG]
[Original] Listing some cool and/or controversial accounts on nostr. trying to put people in here with different viewpoints and vibes to keep it as hollistic as possible for debates, arguments, reasons, discussions, controversies and contradictions. open to suggestions as well.
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Why GrapheneOS Matters To Bitcoiners (Part II)
Every major surveillance infrastructure in modern history has been introduced through the same mechanism, the convenience trap. A new technology offers a genuine improvement in daily friction. Adoption is voluntary, optional, frictionless. The infrastructure spreads until it becomes the default. Then the default becomes the requirement. Then the requirement becomes the only option. By the time the surveillance implications are widely understood, the infrastructure is load-bearing, embedded in employment, finance, travel, healthcare; and opting out is no longer practically available.
What The Flock? Pt II
The surveillance state isn't coming, it's already here, quietly assembling itself through a web of AI-powered cameras, data brokers, financial monitoring, and smartphone tracking that most people never notice until it's too late. This is a deep dive into the infrastructure reshaping the relationship between citizens and power, and why understanding it may be one of the most important acts of self-preservation in the digital age.
#UnplugBigTech: Eigene Nextcloud statt Google Drive & Co. – Teil 5
1. Einleitung In Teil 4 der Serie #UnplugBigTech haben wir E-Mail vom Werbe-Ökosystem entkoppelt. Das war wichtig, weil an E-Mail fast alles hängt: Logins, Passwort-Resets, Verträge, Tickets und Behördenpost. Als Nächstes geht es um die Cloud. Denn auch hier sammeln sich viele private Daten: Dateien, Fotos, Backups, Kontakte, Kalender und Notizen. Wer dafür Google Drive, […]
What The Flock?
Right now, tens of thousands of unmarked black boxes are bolted to poles across your city, silently photographing every car that passes and feeding it into a searchable national database that any of a thousand police departments can query without a warrant, without probable cause, and without you ever knowing. The ultimate dystopian nightmare arrives when this physical panopticon merges with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and predictive AI, in a pre-crime world, driving to an unapproved political rally won't just put you on a watchlist; a Flock camera ping will instantly throttle your digital wallet, starving you of your own money for stepping out of line.
Concord and NIP-29: Two Designs for Group Chat on Nostr
What the relay can see, how spam gets stopped, and whether push notifications work — the same three questions asked of both nostr group-chat designs, and the different strengths each buys with its foundational bet.
TEBS Test
The Emergency Beaver System
The Couriers Knew
Centuries before encrypted email existed, merchants and dissidents moved letters and packages through private courier networks that outran every imperial monopoly.
Twenty-Four Words for an nsec
Every Nostr private key ever generated can be losslessly encoded as twenty-four words, recovered byte-for-byte forever, stamped onto Bitcoin steel plates.
Vom Blogger zum Redakteur mit MEDIA.EINUNDZWANZIG.SPACE
Nostr-Apps für Blogger gibt es inzwischen in großer Zahl. Aber media.einundzwanzig.space bietet weitaus mehr als das.
Die Vorteile von no-KYC Bitcoin
Finde heraus welche Vorteile no-KYC Bitcoin haben, wie du sie anonym kaufen kannst und warum sie für Privatsphäre & Freiheit wichtig sind...
Privacy Einsteiger Guide
Der Privacy Einsteiger Guide mit praxisnahen Tipps und Tools, um deine digitale Privatsphäre und Sicherheit Schritt für Schritt zu verbessern — ohne Technik-Vorkenntnisse.
Papers Please!
Keir Starmer wants to ban children from social media, and he's promising it as a gift ; more childhood, more safety, more freedom to grow up. What he isn't saying is that the only way to enforce a ban on some users is to identify all of them, which means the actual product on offer isn't child protection but a national identity checkpoint wearing a parenting costume, built one biometric scan and one device-level filter at a time. This is the oldest move in the state's playbook: when confronted with a technology it can't yet control, slap a permission slip on it, and call the leash a seatbelt
The Cost of Borrowed Maps
Google Maps charges you in surveillance on every trip. OpenStreetMap and Organic Maps let your phone route locally, third parties excluded.
Capital Destruction Is The New Business Model
Today's $1.75 trillion SpaceX IPO isn't just the largest in history, but it may be the clearest signal yet that American capital markets have become completely detached from the profit-and-loss system that's supposed to govern them. So before you pile your savings or pension into this IPO, ask yourself: if AI is a "national security priority" and your subscription doesn't cover the real cost, who's actually footing the bill and who's the real customer being served?
