I upgraded @Amethyst for the first time in a while and my relay count went up 10-12X. Is this expected behaviour and a result of the upgrade? #AskNostr

Is a @npub1qy05...nsak Librem 5 USA phone significantly more private and secure than a de-googled android phone running @GrapheneOS? Or another way to #asknostr is by asking what risk profiles justify using the Librem over an android phone running Graphene? #FreedomTech #FOSS

vim or nano and why? #FOSS #LINUX

What makes @Maple AI a more secure and private alternative to the Venice or Duckduckgo AI tools? I'm truly looking for a reason to make the leak and am looking for the right motivation to break my inertia and get over the sign-up hump, as Venice and Suck don't require accounts to use.

Interacting with QuickBooks is a special type of hell

What's your favorite #onlykey use case?

I'm honored to not have been invited to the White House today and thrilled to have no pictures to share of the event I didn't attend.

Institutional capture is happening.

Do any Nostr clients have a screen lock option? This would be useful to help protect keys in the event a mobile device is compromised, for example. Extra useful would be an option to enter a self destruct pin that wipes keys up on entry or after a certain number of incorrect pin entry attempts. #asknostr

Common advice to people in the US looking to setup a de-googled phone is to buy it using cash or gift cards at Best Buy. What's the EU equivalent suggestion?

I've been dabbling with #veracrypt again and like what I see so far. Are there any similar FOSS alternatives worth looking at?

What's the current state of long form noatr-enabled #blog tools, i.e. a platform with clean andinimal text formatting where long form blog posts can live persistently in an easy to discover format? #AskNostr

If you can't deploy it, don't use it.

Each time I install an app on a mobile device I try and delete another.

Food is fuel

I feel fortunate to have the need to interact with the healthcare system on a limited basis. Today was a rare and fortunately routine office visit. Upon check-in, I was asked if I'd like to register by scanning my palm on a scanner run by Amazon. I have already seen these scanners at Whole Foods, which was somewhat disturbing yet not quite surprising. Seeing these scanners appear at the registration desk of a healthcare provider, prompting people experiencing a heightened sense of vulnerability to use them is something else. It struck me as disturbingly predatorial, even by big tech's standards, in an industry that is supposed to be at the forefront of data privacy.