Max

Max

Praxeologist ~ Cryptoanarchist ~ Cypherpunk

max@towardsliberty.com

It doesn't need to be fancy.
It just needs to be free.
6h ago
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Still the apple prison guards have not approved our update to White Noise, it's both hilarious and sad...
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11h ago
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Most people start chaining agents too early. They have a vague task, they split it into planner, writer, reviewer, tester, maybe even critic, and then they wonder why the result feels bloated, circular, and strangely fragile. The answer is simple: the chain did not remove uncertainty, it only distributed it across more participants.
The Ralph loop matters because it forces the system to keep working until the task crosses a clear finish line, which means the chain has to serve a concrete result instead of producing a polite pile of intermediate artifacts.
Chaining Agents Needs a Spineby Max
11h ago
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You can make @Amethyst search 100x better by adding these to your search relay list:
wss://antiprimal.net
wss://relay.ditto.pub
wss://nostr.wine
wss://nostr.wine

Thanks @Vitor Pamplona for that tip
16h ago
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Decentralized encrypted group messaging has been called impossible by the people who built the best encrypted messengers on earth. Moxie Marlinspike designed Signal as deliberately centralized because he concluded that federated protocols freeze in time while the world moves forward, and even the IETF's multi-year effort to build MLS still required a central delivery service.
Now the Marmot protocol offers the first credible specification for solving this problem at the protocol layer, and interoperable implementations are already shipping.
The Problem They Said Could Not Be Solvedby Max
1d ago
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You must use nostr with Tor or a VPN.
It is so easy for anyone to link your npub to an IP, and it better not be your real IP...
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1d ago
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Hilarious that the prison guards have still not reviewed the update...
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1d ago
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The latest @White Noise release works well for new npubs, but if you have a lot of follows, the app connects to too many relays and gets overwhelmed, messages don't get sent or received then.
Even when you log out of that large account, the error will persist, so you'll have to wipe the storage completely and log in with a fresh of low follow count account.
Please have a bit of patience, the next release should fix that, sorry!
2d ago
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Ok ok, let's be real & stay humble, it's not really working, just less broken... 🙃
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3d ago
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Now with amber support I'm finally using White Noise on my main account, shoot me a DM please if you want to test!
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3d ago
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Only out on @Zapstore for now.
Apple prisoners will get it when the guards allow us to send them a letter into the gulag.
Use a real computer if you want to use the cool stuff.
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3d ago
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Finally White Noise release is out!
This is the first release that I'm actually comfortable with to recommend to friends.
Insanely proud of the team, so much work was done!

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We also switched to date based release numbers.
3d ago
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About to go live, join and learn more about #GrapheneOS
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3d ago
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The next White Noise release will *actually* just work.
I know I said that about the last couple releases too, but now it might actually be true!
3d ago
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marmot-ts v0.3.0 is released! #03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/marmot-protocol/marmot-ts/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#03

This is how you chat with your friends encrypted in the browser.
3d ago
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The blind signature is the oldest and most consequential trick in privacy cryptography, yet most people who benefit from it daily have never seen how it works. This post traces the full family tree: Chaum's RSA construction, Wagner's elliptic curve variant, Schnorr blinding and the attack that nearly killed it, BLS threshold signatures, and the algebraic MACs that replaced them all. Each scheme gets an intuitive walkthrough showing why it works and which real systems chose which construction.
Sign What You Cannot See: A Field Guide to Blind Signaturesby Max
4d ago
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MDK v0.7.0 is out on crates
4d ago
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Doing a webinar on how to secure your grapheneOS phone while traveling, March 5th 1700 UTC

http://shopinbit.com/webinar
4d ago
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@J.G.Montoya.Hodl looked at PAI, decided he could build it better, then rebuilt the entire thing from scratch with a cleaner codebase and first-class opencode support. He kept all five of PAI's structural primitives. That a ground-up rewrite preserves the same architecture is the strongest argument that the architecture is correct.
The vibes are strong with this oneby Max
5d ago
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Today I learned about 3 new marmot clients.

We're at 7 interoperable clients now!

Blows my mind.
5d ago
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We have a group with four (!!!) different marmot clients chatting with each other.

Absolutely insane!

I declare the Nostr DMs fixed.
5d ago
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Live now, won't be recorded, join or you miss it!
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5d ago
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We have lots to report, get your questions ready!
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5d ago
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First messages delivered between @White Noise and Marmot-ts web app, interoperability achieved!
1w ago
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