Fucking CZ, just stop releasing awesome pistols all the time, you bastards. Some of us just can't* have them all. *legally

#AskNostr #GrapheneOS #TotallySane Been thinking about this a bit more, to see if I can find a way to definitely ditch the spyPhone (so maybe I can sell it and add a few sats to my stack, for instance). Would my fellow psychopath but definitely not paranoid at all GrapheneOS-using Nostriches consider the use of a 5G SIM-powered portable router, as a hotspot for the GOS device? I would obviously lose the ability to make cell network phone calls and SMS -- but I don't do those anymore anyway, and I would even consider it a positive. The vast majority of people I want to talk to either don't do voice calls, or they use WhatsApp (which I despise, but that's another problem for another moment), even people who call me locally. To summarize, I'm considering three set ups: 1. GOS device only, SIM on, normal use. Just fuck it, GOS keeps Google in check to a large extend and I can compartmentalize the worst stuff with User Profiles. Let's keep it simple. ~~No one is~~ Not many people are out to get you. 2. GOS, no SIM, airplane mode with WiFi + lockdown mode-spyPhone as hotspot. In the end I would assume carrying the two phones together all the time could easily establish an identity. But in terms of security, wouldn't this bring some added benefits? 3. GOS, no SIM, airplane mode with WiFi + portable 5G router with my current SIM for data. Isn't this inherently less leaky than carrying a spyPhone, lockdown or not? Ideally I would want a FOSS router, but after a quick internet search that seems like asking for a lot right now. View quoted note →

Holly Scheisse, Rogan brought Vance over too?

Judging Roger Penrose's intellectual production is simply way beyond my own ability and knowledge, so I wouldn't even dare judge whether he is right or wrong. But he always manages to say put forward ideas that appeal to me and purely intuitively make sense. I think we're incredibly lucky this man who attended classes by Dirac, worked with Hawking, met Feynman, etc. is still producing at the tender age of 93... and so present in media, leaving behind so much audiovisual material of him. Imagine we had had the same with Einstein.

So we didn't really break through the ATH (inflation disregarded). Do you think people are just piling at the start line in case Trump wins?

Perhaps this whole AI hype will have at least one good outcome in the public rehabilitation of nuclear power. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/energy-environment/amazon-google-microsoft-nuclear-energy.html

What's this stuff? Who is Bitcoin OS? https://cointelegraph.com/news/cardano-integrates-bitcoin-os-to-enable-trustless-btc-in-de-fi-apps

If you understand Spanish, @lunaticoin did a good one about MiCA and how it basically destroys stablecoins (and in my opinion, BTC as a currency) in the European Economic Zone (not simply the EU - Norway and Switzerland for instance belong to the EEZ, even if they're not EU members, and the same for EU members no in the Eurozone).

Working hypothesis: today's internet neo-stoics are yesterday's emos.

My first paid job as a teenager was building Frankenstein PCs for a friend just a bit older than I was who opened a computer shop in his neighborhood. He was DESTROYED by taxes and permits soon thereafter, but boy did we have fun. Once I forgot to put the little plastic dampers between the motherboard and the case. 🤷🏻‍♂️ View quoted note →

Two different approaches. Same Finn basedness. View quoted note →

Linus keeps being based, in the very Finnish based tradition of basedhood. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs