This is what happens when people with fiat corporate slave mentality go into FOSS and cryptocurrencies. That's correct, this is a FOSS app. Yes, that device is rooted. If it ever happens to be the only device I have to rely upon, it has to be rooted, no other way. And what's more important, it's my own fucking business. I know the risks. I chose crypto specifically to not have to deal with shit like this. Yet some authors still think that they are smarter than their users. I don't want to do anything with this app. Of course, it's FOSS, I could patch out the root check, or install some workaround on the device. But I'll just look for another wallet. Or make Mina CLI work on Termux until its support is added to something like Unstoppable. Such dev behavior must be punished. This is not fiat world.

Migrating existing OTP accounts from the current Google Authenticator to Aegis actually requires a second Android device with a camera. Crazy. Hint: it's not Aegis' fault.

Before erasing userdata, that Gemini PDA had the following password greeting: "Haven't you learned I'm the last who stands?" And then I remember which song I quoted back then: https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=Ib__UMBpzeU Still rox.

OK, so the official rooted Android firmware for Gemini PDA does require ancient MagiskManager 7.0.0, nothing more, nothing less. Noted that. Gonna install Buran there so that I can browse Gemini on a Gemini.

Please list all eSIM-for-crypto services that you know: silent.link, simxl, bitrefill, esim2fly, moremins, esimway/esimsdata... what else? #asknostr P.S. I'm not desperate (yet), just looking for a backup plan.

Once again I got convinced that my theory was true: if someone doesn't talk to me within a relatively long period of time, it means that either everything in their life is too bad, or too good.

If I ever run a cryptocurrency node, it will be something like #MinaProtocol node, because it doesn't require huge space to run (and, in theory, can even be fully placed into RAM: I wonder how their browser-based node PoC will work although I'm not a fan of putting workloads into browsers). Because even with Monero, we're talking ~70GB in the _pruned_ mode as of now. That's definitely not what it should look like. Also, I don't know why O1Labs chose a dialect of TypeScript for their Mina zkApps (it's a terrible choice IMO, even worse than vanilla JS) but the node codebase itself is written in OCaml which I highly respect. Maybe will return to it myself unless I find any decent replacement working on both Linux and OpenBSD (spoiler: Myrddin doesn't fully work on OpenBSD anymore).

No surprise bitcoin fanbois also employ false dichotomy trick: "either our One True Coin, or fiat/CBDC". Denial of reality is so funny... until it isn't anymore.

Which merchants use bitcart.ai for their checkouts/invoices? I can't find any public information on Bitcart's site. #asknostr

I already can't decide which people are more brainwashed and propaganda-driven: those who call everyone to trust banksters and say KYC is for greater good and every crypto user is a potential criminal, or those who believe in One True Coin, reject any blockchain progress made since 2011 and are ready to crucify anyone measuring things in USDT.

On the weekend, I watched several documentaries: about Quadriga, about Centra and about Cyberbunker. All of them left a lot of questions unanswered but the #Cyberbunker one puzzles me the most: did they really have all their drives unencrypted? How stupid is that?