Max

Max

Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk

max@towardsliberty.com

/goal doge rain, but with cashu
19h ago
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Work with people who's hype cycle is phase shifted with yours.
We all need someone else to pull us out of the rud sometimes.
21h ago
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The next version of @Zapstore will be insane.
The most private app store ever.
I'm so bullish!
22h ago
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The largest @White Noise simulation group on a single computer with many virtual machines is at around 200 members, without a fork!

Things are getting slow at that scale, so we're working on speed improvements and it's not a real test in production on different phones, but quite encouraging numbers.
4d ago
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GitHub api rate limits are insufferable.
#ngit is 100x better, you can just get ALL git metadata locally and browse through instantly and without constant network access.
5d ago
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It's been a good month for marmot, the spec is maturing, the libraries are getting more performant, and the UIs are looking sweat!
Come join us for the monthly Marmot community call to hear the latest and show of your demos!
1st September, 16 UTC:
https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot
6d ago
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6d ago
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The text to speech in the new @White Noise is so good!
We'll hold the release a bit longer, groups are still not as stable as they should be, we're getting there soon!
1w ago
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What would be next level if Framework makes a phone with first class @GrapheneOS support.
They're working with Ubuntu and redhat now to get official hardware support for those, not a big stretch for them to do the same with Graphene, if they ever build a phone.
@MaxI can't wait for the compatible Motorola phone. Google hardware sucks.
1w ago
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I can't wait for the @npub1kwa...e0nj compatible Motorola phone. Google hardware sucks.
1w ago
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@marmot over @FIPS will be so good.
Truly decentralized encrypted group messaging is right around the corner.
2w ago
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White Noise is now my most-used app, and in practice it has become the app that builds apps. I dictate a bug to Hermes in the same chat, the APK comes back there, I install it on my phone, and I keep testing until the behavior changes, which is why the upcoming release has me genuinely excited.

Building White Noise Inside White Noiseby Max
2w ago
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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.
4w ago
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If you have two unread messages.
One from your agent.
The other from a human.

Which do you read first?
4w ago
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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.
https://propertyandfreedom.org/pfp/
4w ago
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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.
Aug 7, 2026
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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.

Given Enough Agentsby Max
Aug 6, 2026
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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.

Given Enough Agentsby Max
Aug 6, 2026
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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.

Coldcard Rewrote Its Seed Code to Escape the GPL. Users Paid the Price.by Max
Aug 3, 2026
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