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@NiklasSinclair @TFTC21 An ISP can't gain much knowledge of your encrypted activity, especially if you take an extra step of shaping the traffic (like AmeziaWG). The ISP can however log every prefix they assign you and hand that info to whoever. VPNs are useful, mesh VPNs like Tor and NostrVPN are too.

ISP rotates prefixes. Starlink rotates them on every power outage and then randomly... SO prefix rotation can be automated by you. Device generates IP from prefix. Over time they absolutely prevent tracking eventually cause logs to be useless in any sort of tracking, increasing over usage and time. But, from an ISP perspective you cannot prevent them from knowing what you are doing because they are in fact your ISP. Even if you use VPN, ISP knows this and they know what the encrypted traffic signature is and so basically what apps you are using. Privacy advocates want you to think there is silver bullet. If you aren’t at least rotating your behaviour you create a signature regardless of privacy tech.

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

@danheld Nice, but its utility increases with price.

If you liked Bitcoin at $125,000, you should love it at $77,000.

@NiklasSinclair @TFTC21 The IPv6 address prefix is still an assigned identifier though (by the ISP) so 'privacy addresses' don't help much.

This is an advertisement and not information based on reality. If they want you bad enough this crap won’t protect you, just the same as ToR has failed to protect, it works until it doesn’t and is mostly illusion. If you control the exit nodes you control the information. Stop using ipv4, generate a new IPv6 privacy address for each outbound connection and destroy them when the session is finished.

@matthew_d_green Meta reportedly & logically are very keen on age verification mandates as they improve ad targetting. Have they transitioned from age verification lobbying to lobbying about whose responsibility it is? Surely they would love to gather the age verification data themselves?

There’s been some reporting that Meta contributed an unfathomable sum to promote age verification laws globally. This is broadly true, but actual situation is a bit more complex. Figured it was worth an update.

@ProfSteveKeen Where do the prices of their costs come from?

Slowing demand growth is supposed to let supply catch up and bring prices back to normal. Sounds tidy. Sounds reasonable. The problem is the whole framework assumes the textbook model of supply and demand actually describes the economy. It does not. Firms do not set prices by clearing a market. They set them by looking at costs, sales, and profit. Full breakdown in the comments. #SteveKeen #Economics #EconomicTheory #SupplyAndDemand #RealEconomics

Fiat currency is stock in the nation state - that's it - stop thinking about it like it's anything else. (Except it's worse as it doesn't come with voting rights, dividends or any claim on assets.) Would you use GME as currency and expect to have a good time? No, same with FIAT.

@danielcolonnese Right, yes, not surprising. My train of thought is basically that since they maybe aren't leaking these mandated compromises to the public - that's a signal of just how entangled they are with the state.

@oscpacey I hate to break it to you but all the large tech companies already offer law enforcement portals that provide everything legally available, front-door access

If tech firms are lent on by intelligence agencies to include backdoors against customers' interests, they might choose to leak those backdoors as anonymous 'hackers'.

At first I thought you were a paid plant, but then I saw the three chocolate buscuits in every shot of you in your self consciously working class kitchen studio set that's never been used and realised despite being the best paid global FX trader you've got total integrity.

@garyseconomics At first I thought you were a paid plant, but then I saw the three chocolate buscuits in every shot of you in your self consciously working class kitchen studio set that's never been used and realised despite being the best paid global FX trader you've got total integrity.

The ONLY way to stop the far right from taking power in your country

@TFTC21 @cryptoquick It's just... y'know... Jack prints those shares he's selling in that ad.

Twenty One billboard lights up Times Square. "No man should work for what another man can print."

Has anyone studied Cerebras and can answer this question for me?

@gregory_nico I always tend to favoir the amateur over the professional opinion

@oscpacey I am no expert, an amateur when i comes to this stuff...

Last year I did a secondary investment in $CBRS. Never expected them to IPO just over a year later. As a software guy (not hardware), I read their Wafer-Scale Engine paper and it instantly clicked, it felt like the massive compute grids I used to work on. After years with CUDA, I knew the communication bottlenecks between cards all too well. Cerebras basically solved that obvious networking problem at the hardware level by scaling on a single wafer. Loved it. Wishing them the best on the IPO and beyond. I'm hodling long-term.

@ZackPolanski The gap between low wages and high bills is the cost of the state. So, how are you going to make the state cheap? I haven't heard a policy from the Greens yet that achieves this.

There's a toxic combination of low wages and high bills. We need a Prime Minister who understands the need to tackle the cost of living crisis and the urgency of the climate crisis. We need to end Rip off Britain.

@samwobot @rcolvile You've got some convincing to do then. I'm always happy to be educated for free, but so far I'm sure that there are very real constraints and they can be expressed as bond yields.

@oscpacey @rcolvile Regardless of where I stand on the pros and cons of hard vs soft money, we are in a fiat world. There is no 'legitimate' vs 'illegitimate' money. Whether or not the gov chooses to match deficit with bond sales does not matter in the way portrayed.

Bond markets don’t have political views. They think inflation is going up and the finances look dodgy, and they want a higher premium to lend to us as a result. It’s not a constraint of ‘democratic choice’ if the people you’re begging for money impose conditions on the lending.

@samwobot @rcolvile Money printing devalues the money. Investors believe that, politicians believe that, I believe that. You, I think believe that too but also believe it's easy for governments to judicially invest productively to outpace the devaluation with growth. Reeves hasn't managed that yet

@oscpacey @rcolvile It's not the bond markets' fault. It's the fault of the politicians who claim, or genuinely believe, they are constrained by the bond markets.

@samwobot @rcolvile Richard is blaming the bond markets for constraining politicians. He's a propagandist.

@rcolvile Bond sales are a political choice, not an economic necessity.

Yes, it's the preposition wrench and golden nut you've been looking for.

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