Max

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/

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.

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.

Finally my book The Praxeology of Privacy is available for bitcoin at @Bitcoin Infinity Media shop.
https://bitcoininfinitystore.com/product/praxeology-of-privacy/

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.
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqfx7un89e6x7unswfhk5etrwsh8vurwqyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtn6v9c8xar0wfjjuer9wcpzq7xwd748yfjrsu5yuerm56fcn9tntmyv04w95etn0e23xrczvvraqvzqqqr7pvtn8q3h

Marmot community call in 5 minutes, join us, lots to show and tell.
@White NoiseCommunity call in less than half an hour: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

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.

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.
https://riverside.com/studio/ipfs-studio?t=80327b608d616377f954

The next @White Noise release will be substantial.
Sorry that it's taking so long, but we're making some radical changes to get everything 10x better.
Stay tuned.

The Hanseatic merchants, Thurn und Taxis, Lysander Spooner, and the WWII escape lines all built private postal and shipping networks that outran the official mails of their day, and the techniques they perfected are sitting in the record waiting for the next generation of builders. Nostr marketplaces are ready to inherit them, and this post is the field guide for the translation work ahead.

Every Bitcoin private key generated this decade can be written down on a steel plate that survives fire and flood, but Nostr keys still live mostly in password managers and iCloud screenshots. The math to bring the same physical-backup workflow to Nostr has been sitting in every Bitcoin library since 2013, hiding inside a step of BIP39 that the NIP-06 flow happens to skip past. Below is the case for a backwards-compatible 24-word encoding of any existing nsec, the cryptographic reason it cannot collide with a Bitcoin seed, and the NIP that needs writing.

The math to do this has been sitting in every Bitcoin library for a decade. The Nostr community has spent that decade convinced it was impossible.

You see gems like this, the first digital ID app on zapstore:
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqdxxmmd9enk7an9wfhxj6m4wvhxzatnwajkjumpwpcryqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh85ctswd6x7un99ejx2aszypuvuma2wgny8pegfej8hf5n3x2hxhkgcl2utfjhxlj4zv8sycc86qcyqqq8uzc78wmqr
@MaxMy favorite Nostr feed algorithm is latest releases.

My favorite Nostr feed algorithm is @Zapstore latest releases.