Max

I think I found a nice sweet spot of AI tools at the moment. Hermes is great for background running tasks and whenever the agent needs to initiate something. But open code / claude code / codex are better for sprints towards a specific goal. So I just use both of them via @White Noise
It's so refreshing to use the same interface to talk to different agents, harnesses, and humans as well.

It's kinda crazy that the @Zapstore feed has more self signed apps than not.
Nostriches are shipping hard.

It took a little while, but finally here is the audio book of The Praxeology of Privacy.
15 hours of economic reasoning and cypherpunk implementation, read by yours truly, available for free on Nostr.

https://relay.towardsliberty.com/9bc667e1e9dc125c4e7d6c513e7d8570501bc7b9d4231ecce0cb49e367cf9ebb.mp3

I think we did it...

Marmot v2 support landed in @Amethyst
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/4073

We replaced a single constrained cross-platform codebase with native implementations for Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux by delegating the raw coding labor to autonomous agents. This radical shift removes humans from rote syntax production, proving that a small team can orchestrate machines to build software while retaining responsibility for the final outcome.

The speech to text transcription workflow in @White Noise android is the most incredible I've seen. I cannot wait until we get this release out. Hopefully very soon. This is the best chat app I've ever used.

Liquid promises private transfers backed one-for-one by bitcoin held behind a federated threshold. An incomplete cache key let forged L-BTC pass validation, then ordinary peg-out machinery moved nearly the entire real reserve, exposing failures in cryptographic context, operational release discipline, withdrawal controls, and the claim that seizing $320 million first was the least harmful path.

LUKS decryption password sent via @FIPS
We're fixing the internet so hard.
https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips-initramfs/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Seems like most money is sent back to the liquid bridge. Disaster averted.
https://mempool.space/tx/3a3eac4a26395b8c2563aaf1eb8b1b77798c81c7d6337f51321827a244a480aa

Seems like liquid is in trouble.
Peg out if you can, I'm not sure if still possible.
https://mempool.space/address/bc1qdlld6antmv4xug242ed83q7k4rqw50cwfns38szx4qu2f4jwaxxsuhwxxr

/goal doge rain, but with cashu

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.

The next version of @Zapstore will be insane.
The most private app store ever.
I'm so bullish!

Cool to see @Qlango - The Language Learning Application self signing on @Zapstore

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.

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.

What holidays?
anyhow, we talk marmot now, join us!
@marmotThe holidays are over, but we’ve never stopped 💪 September is going to be a busy month full of EXCITING news. Stay tuned and see you today at Marmot community call at 16:00 Here: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot https://blossom.primal.net/bf4e5bb2a265f124c96ef1253958192394e4203714a9155386e45ccf24589434.jpg

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

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!

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.

I can't wait for the @npub1kwa...e0nj compatible Motorola phone. Google hardware sucks.

@marmot over @FIPS will be so good.
Truly decentralized encrypted group messaging is right around the corner.

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.

I really enjoyed this conversation with CK.
@CK-All in BitcoinFor years, I wanted to understand the difference between Austrian and Keynesian economics. I searched for that conversation everywhere, but I never found it. So I created it. I sat down with Hillebrand to record the conversation I wish I'd found years ago. Max masterfully explains the foundations of these two very different schools of economics and what truly separates them. This is one of...

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.

If you have two unread messages.
One from your agent.
The other from a human.

Which do you read first?

Fantastic lecture by Hans Hermann Hoppe from 2005 on why not to shitcoin.

Property and Freedom Podcast: PFP347
Lecture 4: Hoppe and Hülsmann, Weekend Seminar in Austrian Economics, Copenhagen Institute (2005)
https://propertyandfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/media/pfp/2026/pfp347-hoppe-hulsmann-austrian-economics-lectures-2005-lecture-4.m4a

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/