Know Your Enemy, Name Your Defenses
Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.
New to Nostr? It can be tricky to know where to begin. This carefully curated list offers a jumpstart to your feed, featuring a selection of highly active and engaging voices. Discover content spanning Bitcoin, privacy, insightful thoughts, art, memes, travel and much more - a solid foundation to explore the broader Nostr ecosystem. Think of this as a launchpad: Follow these accounts, then let your curiosity guide you to discovering even more through interactions and shared connections.
Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.
Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.
Developer KYC creates chokepoints that authoritarian governments ruthlessly exploit. Zapstore restores permissionless software distribution using cryptographic identity instead of government papers.
The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.
Garland turns Blossom blob storage into a virtual drive on your device. Your Nostr key is your password. No accounts, no cloud lock-in.
GrapheneOS plus Zapstore, Amber, Citrine, Amethyst, and White Noise creates the first phone free from corporate control over your digital life.
Wars persist because each generation consents to fight them; a generation that refused would be history's last to die in trenches.
Services no longer need to see data to compute on it. Cryptographic and hardware primitives make that contract a deployed reality.
Zero-knowledge proofs let Nostr users prove they're trusted without revealing their identity, enabling anonymous rate-limiting and reputation-gated relay access.
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
Testing earbuds, wired mics, and USB-C wireless systems revealed the Yealink BH71 as the best mobile podcast solution for GrapheneOS.
Decentralization does not prevent the adversary from acting against you. It ensures that his action accomplishes nothing.
Nextcloud can't sync busy times across separate instances. This bash script uses CalDAV to share availability between multiple Nextcloud servers without exposing event details.
FIPS makes your Nostr npub a routable network address, unifying identity across social and infrastructure layers in a single self-sovereign keypair.
Public debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge our wealth, bondholders knowingly invest in future theft, so repudiation restores justice.
Learned helplessness is the default response to prolonged state control; recovery requires demonstrating agency through deliberate action, not accumulating more theory.
Replace DVM request/response overhead with simple replaceable events. Publishers maintain feed lists, clients just subscribe. No round trips, no privacy leakage
Six protocol specs define how the Marmot Protocol delivers fully encrypted group messaging on Nostr without centralized servers or metadata leaks.
Nobody asks who will bake the bread because markets already do it excellently; the roads question reveals statist capture of imagination.
Three bash scripts to queue, cancel, and run Wasabi coinjoin payments from terminal - with smart denomination suggestions for maximum privacy.