I've been using the upcoming new @White Noise app more than signal for the last couple weeks.
Not just testing stuff, actual real use cases.
The hermes connector is amazing, it makes the app so useful. Can't wait to get this over the finish line and share with y'all.
Sorry again that it's been forever since the last whitenoise release, but we really want to get it right this time.
The main issue still is group reliability, we've made massive progress, but we can still make it better, and it's better to do these consensus changes before we release.
We're spending most time now to make sure group convergence is solid, and we keep adding cool UX and features to the app until the underlying spec and library work matures.
This means when we release, the apps will not only be reliable in sending messages to large groups, but also that it'll have more features than most messenger apps.
It'll be a massive release.
Give us two more weeks ™️ and you'll see.
Max
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Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk
An amazing lecture by Hüllsmann with a good overview of Austrian economics from 2005 is published on the Property and Freedom Podcast, check it out if you want to dive deeper.


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The Property and Freedom Podcast (PFP) contains the audio portions of speeches delivered at past and future PFS Annual Meetings. This includes the ...
Update your btcpayservers.
And set up an ai watchdog to screen for security announcements of your software, we'll be getting a lot of critical patches for a while.
Anyone who relies on free software can now audit it: aim an agent at the repository that guards your keys, and for a few thousand sats a month it will review every pull request and publish reproducible findings where everyone can see them. The many-eyes promise of free software finally has the staff it always needed.
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Anyone who relies on free software can now audit it: aim an agent at the repository that guards your keys, and for a few thousand sats a month it will review every pull request and publish reproducible findings where everyone can see them. The many-eyes promise of free software finally has the staff it always needed.
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Finally my book The Praxeology of Privacy is available for bitcoin at @Bitcoin Infinity Media shop.
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If you're using Orbot, try out the new Tor VPN app, its based on the new arti rust tor implementation, much faster and more modern.
Still in beta, so beware.

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Beta release: The VPN that fights back Tor VPN Beta puts control back in your hands when others try to cut you off from the world. This early-acces...
Marmot community call in 5 minutes, join us, lots to show and tell.
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Free software lets rival manufacturers test and ship improvements to the same security-critical foundations, turning competition into an additional review system. Coldcard benefited from that freedom, restricted it when a competitor did the same, then introduced a catastrophic seed-generation defect while replacing the shared GPL code it wanted gone, years before anyone noticed.
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Recording the @Nostr Compass podcast, if you want to join and talk about any of the mentioned project, here's the link, we go in an hour at 16 UTC.
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