Made my first Nostr account one year ago today. It's been truly inspiring to experience all the developers build — and the helpful community grow this protocol in to an enclave of freedom and decency without centralised algo's fueling hate and division. Very excited for what the next year will bring. Thank you all for being a part of making this possible 🙏

Global War On Barbarism

This year, every time major cracks in the banking system reveal itself, my fiat bank seem to have this high system-risk counter-measures system implemented – where they send out emails to customers suggesting to deposit money and lock it up for 2 years with fixed interest. They sent out one on the Sunday in the weekend during the SVB collapse. And they just sent me one again yesterday. Assume it is in relation to the risk surrounding the UBS liquidity issues (the Swiss bank that recently absorbed Credit Suisse). Shit-fiat alert system.

This newly released HIKSEMI Future 4tb NVMe SSD TLC drive — have endurance TBW of 7200tb(!). For comparison the upcoming Samsung 990 Pro 4tb will have a TBW of 2400tb and will cost 2-3 times as much. It also comes with a solid 5yr warranty. Picked it up for under $230.

Finally a CoreBoot (and remove Intel_ME) #FOSS BIOS implementation for a decent current 13th gen Intel i7/i9 consumer grade desktop platform with the MSI Z790-P motherboard. DDR5 ram / PCI-E Gen 5 ATX motherboard with 2.5G LAN / WiFi 6E and 4x NVMe (gen 4) slots — CPU's with up to 32 threads that can reach 6ghz (on performance cores turbo). It's listed at $209. Linux support should be pretty good already, looking forward to flashing and testing it next week. 2023 is turning out to be an amazing year for #privacy ✊

Coreboot Lands Support For The MSI PRO Z790-P Motherboards - Phoronix

Upstreamed into the Coreboot Git repository this week is the ability to run on the MSI PRO Z790-P DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards for enjoying a latest-...

Nuclear Now (2023) — by Oliver Stone lays out a clear path for a realistic transition to abundance of stable, clean and safe energy that can move all global civilizations forward and enable the whole of human kind to prosper 🫂 Watch the whole movie here for free: #filmstr #movies

After a few failed payments to the @Blockstream store — Mastercard called me up and asked about suspicious blocked transactions (no pun). Asked her if it was cause of VPN usage? She said: «NO, it's cause of the merchant’s name getting the transactions flagged.» She confirmed this clearly two more times before agreeing to unblock it and hanging up. Payed instead with BTC/⚡ #Bitcoin fixed it