I'm glad to see so many of the developers of apps I use, refusing to comply with Google's lockdown mandate. #KeepAndroidOpen.

If you want a dedicated ride on a #SpaceX Falcon 9, you better have 223,194 #Monero on hand.

If you want a dedicated ride on a #SpaceX Falcon 9, you better have 223,194 #Monero on hand.

#Meshtastic

Or 3.01 million #Monero per day View quoted note →

The Iran war is costing the US 34.7 #Monero per second.

Iran War Cost Tracker

Iran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 Billion

The Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time.

The Iran war is costing the US 34.7 #Monero per second.

Iran War Cost Tracker

Iran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 Billion

The Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time.

Anna's Archive came through though only with an EPUB View quoted note →

If somebody could point me to an audio version of "Fed Up: An insider's take on why the Federal Reserve is bad for America" by Danielle DiMartino Booth I would be really appreciative. I've found it in several places, but they all seem to require either subscribing to a service or downloading a fucking closed source app. So far, I've seen it on Audible, which requires the Audible app. I've seen it on Barnes & Noble, which requires the Nook app. And I've seen a bunch of hardcovers, but I can't read hardcovers because I'm blind. What I'm really looking for is a version on CD or some sort of audio file download such as an MP3. #Books #AudioBooks

Remember, an easy way to help #Monero is to subscribe to the #XMRBazaar RSS feed and if you see someone price an item in fiat send them the following message: "if possible, please price items directly in Monero.". Every item priced directly in Monero helps break the backs of the exchange cucks. Their manipulation game is completely toast when people price items directly in Monero instead of in fiat shitcoin.

#Apple releases new cheap Macbook Neo at only 1.945 #Monero. For Apple, that is a surprisingly cheap device.

One thing I do not see on Android is a good Nomadnet browser. So if anybody knows one, LMK. #Reticulum

Man, a good UI can make a world of difference. I am playing with #Reticulum again and discovered an #Android app called Columba

GitHub

GitHub - torlando-tech/columba: Native Android messaging app using Bluetooth LE, TCP, or RNode (LoRa) over LXMF and Reticulum

Native Android messaging app using Bluetooth LE, TCP, or RNode (LoRa) over LXMF and Reticulum - torlando-tech/columba

which is an LXMF app like Sideband but actually looks like it was designed to work properly on mobile and seems to abstract a lot of the technical stuff away properly while still giving access to it if needed. My address: 07c9142db22fbc1c06003069ac0f4a65

Man, a good UI can make a world of difference. I am playing with #Reticulum again and discovered an #Android app called Columba

GitHub

GitHub - torlando-tech/columba: Native Android messaging app using Bluetooth LE, TCP, or RNode (LoRa) over LXMF and Reticulum

Native Android messaging app using Bluetooth LE, TCP, or RNode (LoRa) over LXMF and Reticulum - torlando-tech/columba

which is an LXMF app like Sideband but actually looks like it was designed to work properly on mobile and seems to abstract a lot of the technical stuff away properly while still giving access to it if needed. My address: 07c9142db22fbc1c06003069ac0f4a65

Man, a good UI can make a world of difference. I am playing with #Reticulum again and discovered an #Android app called Columba

GitHub

GitHub - torlando-tech/columba: Native Android messaging app using Bluetooth LE, TCP, or RNode (LoRa) over LXMF and Reticulum

Native Android messaging app using Bluetooth LE, TCP, or RNode (LoRa) over LXMF and Reticulum - torlando-tech/columba

which is an LXMF app like Sideband but actually looks like it was designed to work properly on mobile and seems to abstract a lot of the technical stuff away properly while still giving access to it if needed. My address: 07c9142db22fbc1c06003069ac0f4a65

Oh fun. Some researchers found a way to exploit the Tor onion proof of work system. It's supposed to keep an adversary from doing a denial of service attack on the server by exhausting all of its resources, and for that job it does work. However, it introduces another denial of service attack where the attacker doesn't actually overwhelm the server with data, but it just tricks the server into thinking it's being overwhelmed and causes the difficulty to rise to the maximum possible value and keep most clients from being able to connect. The researchers created their own algorithm that exponentially increased the amount that it would cost to perform the attack from a trivial low amount to something like 1.06 Monero per hour per onion service. So a website with a single address would cost 1.06 XMR per hour to attack, which is still pretty low, but a website with 30 addresses would take 1.06*30 = 31.8XMR/hr to attack. spinning up a bunch of addresses is not a particularly hard thing to do so that's one mitigation and would keep anybody with extremely limited resources from being able to pull off that attack In the example above 31.8 Monero per hour to attack the service is a pretty steep cost. #Tor

So Alaska Anon brought this to my attention:

GOBLIN CARD - Non-KYC Physical Crypto Debit Card

The only Non-KYC physical crypto debit card. Deposit crypto, spend worldwide. NO FX fees, NO ATM fees.

"THE ONLY NON-KYC PHYSICAL CARD Get a Physical Mastercard with no KYC. Deposit BTC, ETH, SOL, XMR, or USDT, spend in USD, EUR, MXN and more worldwide. Essential for ATM cash withdrawals." $350USD setup fee + $100USD renewal fee (every 3 years) + $100USD lost card replacement. 4% deposit fee. Ofrnxmr mentioned that the cake pay master cards can be shipped to you physically and need name and address to activate and the goblin card would also need name and address because otherwise how would they know where to ship it. #Monero

Well damn View quoted note →

So I actually gave them a call and was told that the throttle speed was increased from 128 to 256 kbps and that the website just had not been updated to reflect that change. I did simulate 256 KBPS and was able to stream audio podcasts, load, nostr, and mastodon and Lemmy worked fine. #CloakedWireless here I come. I am super excited to be able to pay my bill directly in #Monero. View quoted note →

So, #CloakedWireless throttles to 128kbps after you exhaust your high-speed data allotment. Android has functionality to simulate slow network speeds, and 128 is one of the options, so I gave it a try to see what would and would not work. I was unable to stream audio podcasts in any form, even when I tried putting it down to 0.9x speed. My nostr clients absolutely refused. Mastodon and Lemmy both worked, though Lemmy was quite slow to load at first I was able to browse the cloaked wireless website, so I assume that I should be able to get into my account dashboard and add a data pass if I needed it. And last but not least, I noticed no problems with messaging apps such as SimpleX or Signal whatsoever.