Anton Isidore

When support tells me "try to turn of your VPN" they are telling me to compromise my privacy just because they do shitty job in spam protection/whatever. When they tell me, solve it without forcing your clients to compromise on privacy In case I am a paying customer be sure I won't ne one very quickly. If website/software does not work, because I have "bad IP" or I have an AdBlock I simply close it and lose interest.

Too much memes, too little signal here on Nostr. I decided to unfollow all who - post random shit from their personal life - post motivational stuff without clear lesson/action point - all "I've been there (usually conference), look at me" posters - all who do announcements of an announcement I fear I end up following just myself...

It is such a rewarding to build something physical. I am building/improving my house and every gadget, every project done here is such a reword. Once I am done here, I probably start building another one...

It is absolutely crazy how creative people are https://nostr.net/ And this page is such a good research place. So much has been done here! 👏

I was planning to have a diesel generator as a backup in my household in case shit hits the fan. Problem is, that diesel degenerates over time and has to be replenished frequently. Solution can be that you tank it into car from storage and refill fresh fuel. But I think I found another solution: propane. It can be stored basically indefinitely and there are electricity generators that runs on both diesel and propane.

If you ever came to Sal island in Cape Verde, you MUST visit Berdiana Ice Cream Rolls! Lovely lady with her husband are making BEST ice cream and guess what? They are accepting Bitcoin now. https://osmand.net/map?pin=16.59761,-22.90650#21/16.59761/-22.90650

Cape Verde Is interesting country. Two currencies are used here simultaneously: Escudo and Euro. Escudo is pegged to euro at rate 110.265. But sreet practice is to use 1 euro as 100 escudos so for tourists it's a bit more expensive to pay with euro. But to be fair, if you get change in euros (and it's fairly common, at least in tourist parts of the Islands) it's also is this rate. ATMs are limited to 20000 escudos per day. Bank will change you any amount but you have to show passport/ID. Paying with card will cost you 3-4% as merchants will usually pass this cost onto you. And finally, getting money into the country will cost 7-10% in bank/western union fees.

Using VPN to access X is threatened with draconic fines in Brazil. People will stop using it. Many can't afford to risk it. Big accounts will stop posting, content disappears. State rules the meat-space. Internet did not changed it. Bitcoin did not changed it. Don't forget that. Yes, both mentioned are great liberation tools, but will you risk jail-time/your family well-being for using it (too much)? Yes you can buy drugs, on black market, but what about food? What about health-care? What about insurance? State rules the meat-space and they still can make it a hell for us all.

Anton's Test of Service Sovereignty: *** If any of follow is true, the service is not fit for sovereign individual. - Can they shut it's servers? Will it break the service? - Can they jail CEO or developers? Will it break the service? - Has the service means to censor you if they are asked to? *** Signal won't pass this test. ProtonMail won't as well. So get yourself ready, they will come for them soon.

Payin with Bitcoin is in many countries a taxable event. Therefore using your real name, phone and email address is a bad idea. If you don't boast on Facebook, they probably won't target specifically you, but the ehop. They ask for data from it, and go for those who spend more then X in Bitcoin. So you don't need perfect anonymity, you only need not be linked to ordrrs in that eshop. You also need to separate your orders, to make sure they are not able cluster your data and figure out you spend a lot there and that you are therefore probably valuable target (and invest more resources to identify you). This can be done quite conviniently with https://proton.me/pass for free. It has also pretty good app for Android on F-Droid. 1. Create an email alias 2. Order stuff online 3. Provide random ‼️believable ‼️name, surname and address. You need to blend with the crowd‼️ 4. Use some delivery box, not your real address‼️ 5. Use random phone number 6. Use the alias 7. Make sure the code/pass for picking the goods in the box will arrive to the email and not just as text to the phone number - you don't have it, it's random. 8. After you pick-up the goods, delete the alias, never re-use them. There is also limit of 10 aliases in free tier of Proton.

I am off the Twitter from the begging of the year. I REGRET NOTHING!

A friend of mine created this killer app https://lofextra.com/ It is local-first expense tracker that you can sync over relay. Ideal for family expense tracking. - End-to-end encrypted - Zero knowledge on relay - Works as PWA More similar apps to come.

Building Bleskomat ATM https://github.com/bleskomat/bleskomat-diy

I really like the https://crypton.sh/ service. But it's quite expensive: $20/mo. I understand there are some costs. But it's a quite heavy price tag. Do you have any tips for something similar but cheaper?

Your phone tracks you. It broadcasts IMEI (phone identifier) and IMSI (SIM card identifier). Telco-company then tracks your EVERY move! Here is what to do to mitigate it: - Buy Pixel Phone - Install GrapheneOS on it - Turn on Flight Mode and NEVER turn it off - Buy Mudi router and install Blue Merle addon to it - Change IMEI of the Mudi and put anonymous SIM into it (with data tarif) - Use Mudi as hotspot for your Pixel Phone with GrapheneOS - Regularly replace SIM and hange IMEI of the Mudi 👉Read my article for more info and some important ‼️caveats: https://github.com/anton-isidore/articles/blob/main/articles/phone-and-sim-setup/phone-and-sim-setup.md