Tim Bouma

Reading “The Devil’s Chessboard” by David Talbot. I never realized how batshit crazy things were in the 60s and 70s. War has really transitioned from the kinetic realm to the psychological realm.

2025-10-30 13:12:46 UTC

I came for the protocol but stayed for the payments.

2025-10-24 01:15:48 UTC

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corresponding npub
@npub1myp…rfuy

2025-10-20 14:04:12 UTC

“with no one holding a trusted position, there’s no need for identities”
Grokking Bitcoin

2025-10-19 22:15:40 UTC

GN https://image.nostr.build/cc9637fac1f5ad1007d0eef1b52221096652e80a6acdd6d120d47d627e9a1653.jpg

2025-10-10 16:58:51 UTC

Money: a placeholder for value, to be redeemed later
Credit: fictitious money
Trade: equivalent value
Goodwill: opportunity to interact again
In kind: returned favours, promises, gifts.
~ Promise Theory

2025-10-07 20:21:32 UTC

Using the dig (40-yr old native internet tech) command line utility to look up nip05, website and lightning address information for any npub whose user has published their profile information.
#dnspub makes nostr info look like a part of the existing DNS system namespace.
https://blossom.primal.net/9c7c0507e4ed1da01384e568c172444fc67ee3f8daaa6c5b8f5d08ca3d3bb3f3.mov

2025-10-07 12:50:10 UTC

#dnspub enables instant global DNS resolution (except for Turkey) of your npub info. If you have published a kind 0 event for your [npub], the corresponding URIs become globally available within seconds (except for Turkey)
_nip05.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
_lud16.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
_nip05.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
_name.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
_display_name.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
_website.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
_banner.[npub].npub.dnspub.xyz
Why is this a big deal? DNS is baked in at the OS level, so without any additional software, it's possible to find out info about any npub. For example, the npub of @nprofile…u7e3 - resolvable everywhere (except for Turkey)
https://blossom.primal.net/9c6ef6eef866e48d475b25d2640cdcd4abeec8f085e1db763764c862c82eb1aa.png
https://blossom.primal.net/5576d3a7ec45cd65952a69e50a28935f54f4a545f1829ae3891a0ea6ac129691.png

2025-10-04 14:17:36 UTC

Compete with the dinosaurs? Think like a small mammal. Size doesn't matter.

2025-10-03 12:57:13 UTC

Protocols should leave moderation to the people

2025-10-02 20:55:26 UTC

Core: if it pays, it relays.
Knots: defend monetary purity.

2025-10-02 13:06:23 UTC

https://open.substack.com/pub/trbouma/p/common-infrastructure-building-without

2025-09-29 01:30:33 UTC

Just stick with the protocol...
The MCP Lesson: Why Protocol Stability Beats Governance Every Time
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mcp-lesson-why-protocol-stability-beats-governance-every-todd-price-ldgkc

2025-09-28 23:33:36 UTC

Think like a mechanical engineer… fail safely
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The “lethal trifecta”The Economist (North America)
Sep 27, 2025
Why AI coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers
Why AI coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers: leader,
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS ( LLMs), a trendy way of building artificial intelligence, have an inherent security problem: they cannot separate code from data. As a result, they are at risk of a type of attack called a prompt injection, in which they are tricked into following commands they should not. Sometimes the result is merely embarrassing, as when a customer-help agent is persuaded to talk like a pirate. On other occasions, it is far more damaging.
The worst effects of this flaw, as we report in the Science & technology section, are reserved for those who create what is known as the “lethal trifecta”. If a company, eager to offer a powerful AI assistant to its employees, gives an LLM access to untrusted data, the ability to read valuable secrets and the ability to communicate with the outside world at the same time, then trouble is sure to follow. And avoiding this is not just a matter for AI engineers. Ordinary users, too, need to learn how to use AI safely, because installing the wrong combination of apps can generate the trifecta accidentally.
Better AI engineering is, though, the first line of defence. And that means AI engineers need to start thinking like engineers, who build things like bridges and therefore know that shoddy work costs lives.
The great works of Victorian England were erected by engineers who could not be sure of the properties of the materials they were using. In particular, whether by incompetence or malfeasance, the iron of the period was often not up to snuff. As a consequence, engineers erred on the side of caution, overbuilding to incorporate redundancy into their creations. The result was a series of centuries-spanning masterpieces.
AI- security providers do not think like this. Conventional coding is a deterministic practice. Security vulnerabilities are seen as errors to be fixed, and when fixed, they go away. AI engineers, inculcated in this way of thinking from their schooldays, therefore often act as if problems can be solved just with more training data and more astute system prompts.
These do, indeed, reduce risk. The cleverest frontier models are better at spotting and refusing malicious requests than their older or smaller cousins. But they cannot eliminate risk altogether. Unlike most software, LLMs are probabilistic. Their output is driven by random selection from likely responses. A deterministic approach to safety is thus inadequate. A better way forward is to copy engineers in the physical world and learn to work with, rather than against, capricious systems that can never be guaranteed to function as they should. That means becoming happier dealing with unpredictability by introducing safety margins, risk tolerance and error rates.
Overbuilding in the AI age might, for instance, mean using a more powerful model than is needed for the task at hand, to reduce the risk it will be tricked into doing something inappropriate. It might mean imposing limits on the number of queries LLMs can take from external sources, calibrated to the risk of damage from a malicious query. And mechanical engineering emphasises failing safely. If an AI system must have access to secrets, then avoid handing it the keys to the kingdom.
Cross that bridge
In the physical world, bridges have weight limits—even if they are not always stated clearly to drivers. And, importantly, these are well within the actual tolerances that calculations suggest a bridge will bear. The time has now come for the virtual world of AI systems to be similarly equipped.
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2025-09-28 12:50:00 UTC

GM https://image.nostr.build/32c64d314cf7dbaa17f0cf6b711df8ee3684bcc8488716b9c536f1a7ae88522d.jpg

2025-09-28 10:10:55 UTC

- falling apples and celestial orbits (Newton)
- electricity and magnetism (Maxwell)
- space and time (Einstein)
- matter and energy (Einstein)
- logic and circuits (Shannon)
- code and machines (Turing, von Neumann)
- cryptography and finance (Nakamoto)

2025-09-27 22:09:18 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/1558e520c627961216e92f1b3c700cb0cb7573f22316f545c1d43c3b6a760945.jpg

2025-09-27 17:18:15 UTC

One day I want my npub to be my phone number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LERG_Routing_Guide

2025-09-27 10:30:58 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/79a26dd0318a054305c79c424944adb97ac7d1310c4227da1228028d9398da3a.jpg

2025-09-26 23:50:44 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/66ca239d09368baa2477713519bbb9d6bed717832174d2299303598c8fd623a3.jpg

2025-09-26 14:52:05 UTC

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The OP_RETURN Wars.

2025-09-26 13:44:33 UTC

The future…
#note1u02…mzfh

2025-09-26 13:39:55 UTC

Modern state be like:
https://image.nostr.build/a54e2f5a17e85908b806835a3a64957957f31cecf35d00c2f519f7f20c3aea56.jpg

2025-09-26 13:13:06 UTC

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Hooboy - I’m just in it for the tech.

2025-09-26 13:02:42 UTC

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Context?

2025-09-26 13:01:46 UTC

DNS/TLS is just a secure naming layer that runs on top of TCP/IP.
There is no reason why we can’t build a sovereign naming layer on top of TCP/IP.
In fact, it’s already being built in @npub1s0v…rmq5

2025-09-26 12:57:03 UTC

The State is waking up digital: mandatory digital ID and stablecoins.

2025-09-26 12:18:11 UTC

Ripping off apples using your baby stroller. How low can you go?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-apple-orchard-thefts-agri-tourism-1.7643467

2025-09-26 12:04:45 UTC

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwydl81dg13t

2025-09-26 11:58:31 UTC

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Right to rent
https://www.gov.uk/penalties-illegal-renting

2025-09-26 11:56:06 UTC

Digital threat modeling in an authoritarian environment
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

2025-09-26 11:47:24 UTC

Don’t confuse modality with morality.

2025-09-26 08:43:55 UTC

PM to set out plans for digital ID cards
Rowena Mason Robert Booth
The Guardian
Sep 26, 2025
All working adults will need digital ID cards under plans to be announced by Keir Starmer today, in a move that will spark a battle with civil liberties campaigners.
The prime minister will set out the plans at a conference on how progressive politicians can tackle the country’s problems, including addressing immigration concerns.
The proposals for a “Brit card” would require legislation and are already facing opposition from privacy campaigners. However, No 10 is understood to believe that it is necessary to make sure people have the right to work in the UK in order to tackle illegal migration, and that the national mood has moved on since Tony Blair’s plans for ID cards were abandoned in the 2000s.
Shabana Mahmood, the new home secretary, backs the plans, having said her “long-term personal political view has always been in favour of ID cards”.
Starmer said this month that digital IDs could “play an important part” in making Britain less attractive to illegal migrants and France has repeatedly claimed that the lack of official cards acts as a “pull factor”.
In advance of his speech today, Starmer spoke about the government’s goal of “patriotic renewal”, comparing it with “the politics of grievance, of toxic divide, which is what Reform are all about”. He dismissed the Conservative party as “basically dead”.
He will set out his view today that the far right is injecting a “poisonous” discourse into national life, saying: “At its heart – its most poisonous belief – on full display at the protests here in London, just a week or two ago, that there is a coming struggle, a defining struggle, a violent struggle, for the nation. For all our nations.
“Now – you don’t need to be a historian to know where that kind of poison can lead. You can just feel it. A language that is naked in its attempt to intimidate.”
But he will also explain his belief that immigration and borders need to be controlled, saying: “For too many years it’s been too easy for people to come here, slip into the shadow economy and remain here illegally.”
Starmer will add: “It is not compassionate leftwing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages. But the simple fact that every nation needs to have control over its borders.”
The Guardian revealed in June that Downing Street was exploring new proposals for a digital ID card to crack down on illegal migration, rogue landlords and exploitative work.
The idea came from a Labour Together paper given to the No 10 policy unit proposing a Brit Card, which it claimed could help avoid another Windrush scandal. The thinktank paper also said it would help reduce vast numbers of visa overstayers, saying half of those whose asylum claims had been turned down over the past 14 years were probably still in the UK.
It proposed a free, secure digital ID, stored on a smartphone using ministers’ planned gov.uk Wallet app, rebranded as the Brit Card app. That could then be verified by employers, immigration, banks and landlords using a free verifier app.
The report’s author and the thinktank’s director of technology, Kirsty Innes, is now a special adviser to Liz Kendall, the technology secretary. When the paper was published, she said: “A progressive society can only work if we have meaningful borders. BritCard would make it far harder to flout the illegal work and illegal rent rules, and far easier to identify and punish exploitative illegal employers and landlords.”
The plans were welcomed by the Tony Blair Institute, with its director of government innovation, Alexander Iosad, saying: “Make no mistake, if the government announces a universal digital ID to help improve our public services, it would be one of the most important steps taken by this or any government to make British citizens’ everyday lives easier and build trust.”
However, they were opposed by David Davis, the Conservative MP and former cabinet minister who led the charge against Blair’s ID cards decades ago. “No system is immune to failure, and we have seen time and again governments and tech giants fail to protect people’s personal data. If world-leading companies cannot protect our data, I have little faith that Whitehall would be able to do better,” he said.
The Liberal Democrats said they “cannot support a mandatory digital ID where people are forced to turn over their private data just to go about their daily lives” .
The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, said: “There are arguments for and against digital ID, but mandating its use would be a very serious step that requires a proper national debate.”
Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, pointed out that the digital ID card scheme was not in Labour’s manifesto, arguing that it is “the last thing this government should be embarking on during a cost of living crisis”.
“Labour are at risk of creating a digital surveillance infrastructure that will change everyone’s daily lives and establish a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are as we go about our daily lives.”
David Rennie, a former official at the Home Office’s identity cards programme and now chief trust officer at the startup Orchestrating Identity, said it was “absurd” to suggest digital ID would stop illegal migration. “Employers already have to prove a prospective employee’s right to work in the UK or receive a £45,000 fine,” he said.
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2025-09-26 08:42:55 UTC

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology for mass surveillance
Harry Davies Yuval Abraham
The Guardian
Sep 26, 2025
Move follows Guardian report that IDF accessed Palestinian civilian calls
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.
Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated its terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian last month. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.
In a joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the Guardian revealed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure.
The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel.
In response to the investigation, Microsoft ordered an urgent external inquiry to review its relationship with Unit 8200. Its initial findings have now led the company to cancel the unit’s access to some of its cloud storage and AI services.
Equipped with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity and computing power, Unit 8200 had built an indiscriminate new system allowing its intelligence officers to collect, play back and analyse the content of cellular calls of an entire population.
The project was so expansive that, according to sources from Unit 8200, a mantra emerged internally that captured its scale and ambition: “A million calls an hour.”
According to several
sources, the repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands. Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have moved the data out of the country.
According to sources, the data transfer occurred in early August. Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 had planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. Neither the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) nor Amazon responded to a request for comment.
The extraordinary decision by Microsoft to end the spy agency’s access to key technology followed pressure from employees and investors over its work for the IDF and the role its technology has played in the almost two-year offensive in Gaza.
A United Nations commission of inquiry recently concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, a charge denied by Israel but supported by many experts in international law.
The Guardian’s joint investigation prompted protests at Microsoft’s US headquarters and one of its European datacentres, as well as demands by a worker-led campaign group, No Azure for Apartheid, to end all ties to the Israeli military.
Microsoft’s vice-chair and president, Brad Smith, informed staff of the decision yesterday. In an email seen by the Guardian, he said the company had “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel ministry of defense”, including cloud storage and AI services.
Smith wrote: “We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades.”
The decision ends a three-year period in which the agency operated its surveillance programme using Microsoft’s technology.
Unit 8200 used its own expansive surveillance capabilities to intercept and collect the calls. The spy agency then used a customised and segregated area within the Azure platform, allowing for the data to be retained for extended periods of time and analysed using AI-driven techniques.
Although the initial focus of the surveillance system was the West Bank, where an estimated 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, intelligence sources said the cloud-based storage platform had been used in the Gaza offensive to facilitate the preparation of airstrikes.
The revelations highlighted how Israel has relied on the services of US technology companies to support its bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and created a profound humanitarian crisis.
According to a document seen by the Guardian, a senior Microsoft executive told Israel’s ministry of defence late last week: “While our review is ongoing, we have at this juncture identified evidence that supports elements of the Guardian’s reporting.”
The executive told Israel officials that Microsoft “is not in the business of facilitating the mass surveillance of civilians” and notified them that it would “disable” access to services that supported the Unit 8200 surveillance project and suspend its use of some AI products.
The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza.
The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services. The termination will raise questions within Israel about the policy of holding sensitive military data in a third-party cloud hosted overseas.
Last month’s revelations about Unit 8200’s use of Microsoft technology followed an earlier investigation by the Guardian and its partners into the broader relationship between the company and the Israeli military.
That story, published in January and based on leaked files, showed how the IDF’s reliance on Azure and its AI systems surged in the most intensive phase of its Gaza campaign.
After that report, Microsoft launched its first review of how the IDF used its services. It said in May it had “found no evidence to date” the military had failed to comply with its terms of service, or used Azure and its AI technology “to target or harm people” in Gaza.
However, the Guardian investigation with +972 and Local Call published in August, which revealed the cloud-based surveillance project had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza, led the company to reassess its conclusions.
The disclosures caused alarm among senior Microsoft executives, sparking concerns that some Israelbased employees may not have been fully transparent about their knowledge of how Unit 8200 used Azure when questioned for the review.
The company said its executives, including Nadella, were not aware Unit 8200 planned to use, or ultimately used, Azure to store the content of intercepted Palestinian calls.
Microsoft then launched its second and more targeted review, which was overseen by lawyers at the US firm Covington & Burling. In his note to staff, Smith said the inquiry had not accessed any customer data but its findings were based on a review of internal Microsoft documents, emails and messages between staff.
“I want to note our appreciation for the reporting of the Guardian,” Smith wrote, noting that it had brought to light “information we could not access in light of our customer privacy commitments”. He added: “Our review is ongoing.”
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2025-09-25 19:21:52 UTC

End-to-end freedom needs end-to-end problem solving.

2025-09-25 17:15:46 UTC

Good comparative summary.
#note1nxf…7ffp

2025-09-25 13:48:14 UTC

Comparing bicycles built 45 years apart.
There is a lesson here - the thread standard used to connect the pedals to the cranks (the primary power transfer) has not changed at all.
Like Layer 1 Bitcoin - the primary power transfer mechanism does't really need to change for all the downstream innovation to occur.
https://youtu.be/eig5mmGSSjQ

2025-09-25 13:14:03 UTC

This was a useful talk. The key takeaway for me was the concept of “Origin Binding”
https://youtu.be/XP-76tYy2m4

2025-09-25 13:07:33 UTC

Few things are certain in life except for death, taxes and 21M bitcoin.

2025-09-25 12:57:03 UTC

https://youtu.be/gcwzWzC7gUA

2025-09-25 12:52:43 UTC

crudmonkey
cypherpunk

2025-09-25 12:39:53 UTC

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Good video. Thanks for sharing!

2025-09-25 11:40:18 UTC

‘Pirate’ Is Gen Z’s New Resistance Symbol
BY JASON DOUGLAS AND JUNKO FUKUTOME
The Wall Street Journal
Sep 25, 2025
TOKYO—Monkey D. Luffy is a rubber-bodied pirate who battles tyrannical governments as he and his motley crew sail across the ocean. Young protesters in Asia, Europe and the U.S. have taken up his pirate flag as a protest symbol.
Luffy is the protagonist of a long-running Japanese comic and animated television show called “One Piece,” which follows his adventures in pursuit of a fabled treasure. Now, his distinctive pirate standard can be seen waving among the national flags, Free Palestine banners and homemade signs that dot the crowds in a run of protests from Indonesia and Nepal to France and the U.K.
A grinning skull and crossbones with a distinctive twist— the skull wears a straw hat with a red band—Luffy’s flag is the latest pop-culture touchstone to inspire protesters across the globe, whatever their cause.
Its growing presence shows the cultural heft among younger generations of Japan’s prodigious manga and anime output.
In Nepal, the Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger was hung from the gates of burning government buildings in Kathmandu, which was rocked this summer by protests against official nepotism and corruption. More than 20 people died in clashes with police.
In Indonesia, Luffy’s banner became so prominent during deadly protests sparked by $3,000-a-month housing allowances for lawmakers that officials warned that displaying it on the country’s Aug. 17 independence day could land people in jail. The government later withdrew the allowances.
The flag also has popped up in the U.K. during pro-Palestinian marches and at a protest against the recent state visit of President Trump. The White House didn’t respond to a request to comment. In France, people have taken Luffy’s flag to the streets in anger over public spending cuts and government dysfunction.
The symbol has been slower to catch on in the U.S., but was seen in social-media posts from protests in Los Angeles against Trump’s immigration crackdown. It was also visible Saturday during a New York City demonstration at an Apple store, where protesters criticized the company for using cobalt mines in Africa.
Apple didn’t respond to a request to comment. The company in an April report said in a decade of audits it has found no evidence that refiners or smelters in its supply chain benefited armed groups in Congo or Rwanda.
In his quest to locate the titular “One Piece” treasure and become king of the pirates, Luffy and his crew routinely drop anchor in places where people are struggling against what is depicted as a despotic ruler. His and other pirate crews are pursued by a World Government determined to stamp them out.
The “One Piece” comic has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide since Luffy first appeared more than a quarter of a century ago, and the show has aired more than 1,000 episodes. Characters such as Luffy and his crew are mukokuseki, meaning they lack a defined ethnicity and so are relatable to readers and viewers worldwide, said Roland Kelts, visiting professor at Waseda University in Tokyo and author of “Japanamerica,” about the popularity of Japanese culture in the U.S.
Shueisha, publisher of the “One Piece” manga series, Toei Animation, which produces the animated series, and Netflix, which is producing a live-action version of the show, didn’t respond to requests to comment.
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2025-09-25 11:17:07 UTC

https://blog.boscolo.co/3lxx6eqkga226/l-quote/9_0-10_238

2025-09-25 07:35:19 UTC

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/taproot-disaster-how-btcs-upgrade-became-its-civil-war-todd-price-us41c

2025-09-24 13:53:47 UTC

https://www.kuppingercole.com/blog/ashford/ghost-tapping-a-new-front-in-identity-security-risk

2025-09-24 13:47:34 UTC

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Oh, jeez… sorry to hear.

2025-09-24 13:17:57 UTC

NOSTR -> built by engineers to get people shitposting.
#note1p9m…2dw7

2025-09-24 13:16:31 UTC

Sometimes, ChatGPT just kills it: “build versus teach and explain”
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TCP/IP (4 layers) → built by engineers to get the Internet running.
OSI (7 layers) → built by theorists for a universal model.
We use TCP/IP protocols to build, but teach and explain with OSI’s 7 layers.

2025-09-24 13:10:08 UTC

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Blast from the past https://image.nostr.build/4935e04a8375df2e6f2cf10b88477e784ccf9502ea79932378a6bbcd4fc7f299.jpg

2025-09-24 12:56:01 UTC

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Yup. I remember x.25. My goodness, sna - that’s an IBM thing?

2025-09-24 12:54:24 UTC

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That’s because they didn’t actually implement anything.

2025-09-24 12:26:29 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/2fd0fb4df1c26b3b7ebd66fd8c103a22783e35704ebdfc39a9cd3132edbc08d0.jpg

2025-09-24 12:24:35 UTC

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Eventually the mints will need to have a native nostr protocol, something like NWC. Already thinking about that.

2025-09-24 12:10:35 UTC

All the agentic whatever will run atop this infrastructure. The mainstream has no clue that this is in the works. They are still stuck on dns/https/rest apis on commercial cloud.
#note1cv2…arf0

2025-09-24 11:39:34 UTC

Oxymorons:
military intelligence
decentralization committee

2025-09-24 11:38:13 UTC

In my opinion, #nostr solved in one fell swoop:
1. Sign your own stuff (with your nsec)
2. Define your own stuff (with kinds)
Of course, NIP-01 added a few conventions to bootstrap the protocol as a social media replacement. But that’s just icing on the cake.

2025-09-24 11:31:22 UTC

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I view ICANN/IP like the public roads infrastructure. Works for 99.999% of the time. It’s that 0.001% situation where all hell breaks loose if there is no alternative.

2025-09-24 11:28:55 UTC

jeez
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-mitigates-new-record-breaking-222-tbps-ddos-attack/

2025-09-24 11:23:46 UTC

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It’s a s###show in Africa
https://domainnamewire.com/2025/07/10/afrinic-under-scrutiny-as-icann-warns-of-compliance-review/

2025-09-24 11:22:19 UTC

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ICANN is still a necessary evil, but the idea is to make them as disposable or substitutable as possible. Same with DNS, a necessary evil, but there is a possibility of building an alternative namespace that resolves to npub resources.
This is a long game.

2025-09-24 11:18:27 UTC

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I’m quite happy to relegate DNS to the role front-door bouncer, so long as they don’t tell us what to do in the back kitchen.

2025-09-24 11:11:51 UTC

The big idea I see emerging is npubs being provisioned as computing resources that can accept and send ecash to independently sustain themselves.
Independent of DNS, CAs, and ICANN-assigned IP addresses.
This is the future I saw at @npub1s0v…rmq5 #sec05
https://image.nostr.build/a2d605cbfaa08866b14d35cc24310e30d0a12e6613634a248238a906cfa2f161.jpg

2025-09-24 11:06:00 UTC

Why TCP/IP won:
1. Flexibility: Worked across diverse hardware/networks.
2. Simplicity: Smaller, modular protocol suite compared to OSI.
3. Open & Free: No licensing fees; anyone could implement it.
4. Early Deployment: DARPA/DoD adoption and ARPANET “flag day” created momentum.
5. Scalability: Datagram-based design allowed the global Internet to grow organically.
6. “Rough Consensus and Running Code”: The IETF’s approach meant working software came before bureaucracy.
Sound like #nostr ?

2025-09-24 11:02:11 UTC

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Would polls be more fun with nostr?

2025-09-24 10:46:52 UTC

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‘Thanks for being a beta tester! Your reward, a window seat! Due to unforeseen issues on the last flight, we’ve added a ripping panel for easier exit.’
https://image.nostr.build/3df31d9962d558a7bf1d5d4c8c5c90516ca42314ce2034fd3e356afa662bbf6d.jpg

2025-09-24 10:27:28 UTC

TCP/IP - never been voted on since 1981.

2025-09-24 10:09:34 UTC

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Should be back up. Backend vpn logged me out. Looking forward to deploying a production-grade infrastructure soon!

2025-09-24 10:01:29 UTC

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Thanks for the heads up. Rebooting the server….

2025-09-24 09:50:28 UTC

Just updated my profile to |#OpenSats Grantee x 2|
Mucho Gratitude!
We’re gonna win! #nostr #safebox
@npub10pe…n34f

2025-09-24 09:31:04 UTC

Bitcoin solved decentralization by making rules immutable.
TCP/IP solved decentralization through ossification.
Nostr solves decentralization using a stupid simple event format.
Every successful protocol solved decentralization by removing the committees.
Keep Nostr Simple.

2025-09-24 09:17:39 UTC

Reading stories about how someone’s life can be destroyed or irreversibly altered because they lost their phone or some papers in their wallet.
We can do better.
That’s why I am building #nostr #safebox
https://image.nostr.build/eb1a033223f8c4edb9e2bc90b28f6855b3652a2886e203f28302d20c0b52e954.jpg

2025-09-24 09:10:51 UTC

Some good insights here.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/governance-risk-why-consortium-complexity-blockchains-todd-price-vwl6c

2025-09-24 00:49:57 UTC

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Cool! Any more detail?

2025-09-23 23:47:22 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/79a26dd0318a054305c79c424944adb97ac7d1310c4227da1228028d9398da3a.jpg

2025-09-23 23:20:20 UTC

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https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExMzN2ODAzZHU5NDU4cmYxajY5dmR1N2VhZjFkdXg0ZnR6eHhjYThmayZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/ImoticrbHdhNS/giphy.gif

2025-09-23 23:15:46 UTC

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Yeah. Just. Wow. 🤯

2025-09-23 18:39:16 UTC

Watching all those bananasats come pouring in.
Thank you!
https://image.nostr.build/da910d5a01fe96847f4ebfd02a69a84ae39eae70c3a4e0d1c30aaf4fb5841dfb.jpg

2025-09-23 18:25:20 UTC

$0.25 CAD per view
https://image.nostr.build/43ae9f8726d2ed0813cf58af54a43674cca5523ae2372cb0896ac8f1a75d2206.jpg

2025-09-23 15:00:31 UTC

Banana for sale. $0.25 CAD
https://image.nostr.build/5bcca7c0e534b85bf4d1a7a2f05cf9c46747eec749f67ab75a9200e2ef97b269.jpg

2025-09-23 14:15:53 UTC

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Good to know. I am also concluding that zero knowledge proofs are a waste of time for the purported benefits they give you.

2025-09-23 14:13:59 UTC

Unconditional love, gratitude and hard work is all you need.

2025-09-23 14:11:07 UTC

Nostr is so late, or maybe so early?
https://www.weboftrust.org/pdf/web-of-trust-map-report---the-global-infrastructure-of-decentralized-digital-identity.pdf

2025-09-23 14:10:24 UTC

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Schnorr, not Shor. I don’t know much about Shor, other than it’s regularly name-dropped to instill fear into the fiat followers.

2025-09-23 12:23:39 UTC

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Nostr is simple, it’s understandable and requires no permission to build. Nostr has the core primitives right: uniquely identifiable signed events with npubs. Nostr also solved the semantic interoperability issue with kinds. Define your own kinds, agree on others and get on with building. Finally, the relay architecture, along with uniquely identifiable events removes a dependency on any one database instance. Data can be anywhere.

2025-09-23 12:13:20 UTC

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I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist. I’ve heard some OG cryptographers talk about this, but I am keeping my ears, eyes, and mind open. There are more mundane compromises to deal with, like the mobile OS platforms enabling root access. The imperative in my mind is to build capabilities independent of the phone.

2025-09-23 11:59:03 UTC

Preach, @npub1rmz…xv06 I am 100% with you on this.
#note1eq5…ktzs

2025-09-23 11:55:37 UTC

*cough*
https://blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-reimagined-with-ai

2025-09-23 11:50:07 UTC

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Thanks. My mention got messed up. I am wondering if this could be a drop-in replacement for secp256k1, supports Schnorr and is “quantum-safe” (whatever that means)

2025-09-23 11:48:02 UTC

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I am intrigued that someone/some agency might know of a secret theorem that yields backdoors on all the curves.

2025-09-23 11:44:39 UTC

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Good luck. You’ll need as much endurance as doing a triathlon.

2025-09-23 11:35:47 UTC

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Eventually, we’ll need a new curve for nostr. Something that supports Schorr signature schemes.

2025-09-23 11:33:26 UTC

I need to make a T-shirt with this.
https://image.nostr.build/1ea97639a06f2fa6b733095fe578b97c7373c652e2de29e6f40e07913fc0b38a.jpg

2025-09-23 11:25:09 UTC

Some reading. You might be intereste, @waxwing
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1731

2025-09-23 11:12:42 UTC

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That made me lol!

2025-09-23 10:57:13 UTC

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-internet-coup-is-here-and-the-world-is-still-asleep/

2025-09-22 21:03:06 UTC

Microsoft Paint now has dark mode.
https://apple.news/ABSrwetsqQAOA1WLhejWymw

2025-09-22 19:05:17 UTC

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Interesting. It might have a problem finding a route from Cashapp