a project that i have been engaged to build by someone who responded to my regular ads for contracts - it's an android soft keyboard that lets you compose messages and then encrypt them using pgp and paste them into any android app text input. i called it "cipherkeys" this is a minimum viable product version, MVP. it needs more polish and features but it's usable as it is already. https://git.smesh.lol/cipherkeys-releases/raw/app-v0.1.0.apk you can download and install this on an android device. the repo lives at

cipherkeys

and has obtanium-compatible links in the readme

## the pentalogue five structural laws governing coherent systems, derived from Wu Xing. ### earth - sovereignty what you control is yours. what crosses the border is hostile until proven otherwise. sheng -> metal: sovereignty refines into precise access. knowing what is yours lets you cut a clean key. ke -> water: territorial hoarding blocks resolution. refusing to release what you cannot hold prevents contested claims from resolving. ### metal - precision give the stranger a key, not the house. what he cannot hold, he cannot break. sheng -> water: precise access resolves ownership. a handle that works proves who holds what. ke -> wood: restricted access kills bilateral growth. a key so small nothing fits through prevents any agreement from forming. ### water - resolution what two men claim to own, no man owns. the first to act on the lie destroys it for both. sheng -> wood: clear ownership enables new bilateral change. resolved claims are the ground on which new agreements stand. ke -> fire: ownership ambiguity obscures measurement. when nobody knows who owns what, no scale gives a true reading. ### wood - bilateralism no contract is signed by one hand. change both sides or change nothing. sheng -> fire: bilateral change fuels physical truth. you cannot measure what only one side agreed to build. ke -> earth: bilateral demands without boundaries disrupt sovereignty. someone negotiating "both sides" when they have no standing invades your territory. ### fire - measurement weigh it. count it. time it. the crowd's opinion fits no scale. sheng -> earth: physical truth establishes sovereignty. measurement reveals what you actually hold. ke -> metal: raw truth without restraint destroys refined interfaces. exposing everything is not the same as granting precise access. ## the octalogue eight operational principles for sovereign insurgency against centralized adversaries, derived from the eight trigrams (bagua) of the I Ching, applied through the structural laws of the pentalogue. ### 1. ☵ Kan - water - flow around the center a centralized enemy's strength is concentration - which is also a single point of failure. don't attack the center, make it irrelevant by building around it. pentalogue: water - resolve contested claims through flow, not force. ### 2. ☶ Gen - mountain - withdrawal as sovereignty the centralized adversary depends on your compliance more than you depend on his services. withdrawal of participation is an attack he cannot counter with force. pentalogue: earth - sovereignty is refusal. a peer that can't refuse isn't a peer, it's a resource being extracted. ### 3. ☴ Xun - wind - invisible penetration never announce what you are building until it already works. the enemy cannot target what he cannot see, and cannot regulate what already has users. pentalogue: metal - give the stranger a key not the house. control precisely what crosses the boundary. ### 4. ☰ Qian - heaven - sovereign nodes every node must be able to operate independently if cut off from all others. any architecture that requires coordination to survive is a centralized system wearing a mask. pentalogue: earth - what you control is yours. what crosses the border is hostile until proven otherwise. ### 5. ☳ Zhen - thunder - speed of small exchange the centralized enemy's decision loop is slow. move in small bilateral exchanges faster than his bureaucracy can respond. daily before weekly, working code before proposals. pentalogue: wood - bilateral incremental growth. trust scales through small synchronous exchanges, not through large upfront commitments gated by third parties. ### 6. ☷ Kun - earth - new ground don't fight for territory the enemy holds. build new territory he doesn't know exists. by the time he notices, the population has already moved. pentalogue: water - the first to act on the lie destroys it for both. the lie is that the enemy's territory is the only territory. ### 7. ☱ Dui - lake - bounded exchange the enemy will send emissaries offering integration. integration is absorption. the only safe negotiating position is one you can walk away from. pentalogue: wood-ke-earth - bilateral demands without boundaries invade your sovereignty. the lake has shores and maintains its own level. ### 8. ☲ Li - fire - sovereign measurement measure everything, believe nothing you haven't verified, and never let the enemy define the metrics. his statistics serve his narrative. pentalogue: fire - weigh it, count it, time it. the crowd's opinion fits no scale.

every time i look at this i giggle. it is on the wall of the kitchen in this coworking space

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-losing-patience-revenge-mode-after-13th-consecutive-night-us-strikes-iran note the acknowledge strikes are only a little way inland from the coast: > Iranian state media reported overnight into Friday heavy explosions rocking major hubs across the country, including Khorramabad, Jask, Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas, and the strategic outpost of Qeshm Island. Iranian media further said a US missile strike left four dead and five injured in the key industrial and transportation hub of Ahvaz. on the coast. so, where's this hailstorm of missiles? under 100km range. and this is the first time since "13 days" of US action that there has even been an ack from iran that they even got hit at all. and further, americans, even fox viewers, are tired of it: > But Fox News also reports the results of its latest poll which finds 56% oppose the ongoing American military action against Iran, including 40% who "strongly" oppose. "Disapproval of President Donald Trump’s handling of Iran hit a record high in July," Fox writes. > > "A majority of voters oppose U.S. military action, and nearly two thirds think the conflict will last at least a year," the report says." and i think aragchi has a point here: > Trump on Thursday said he would take funds from Iran to pay for damage inflicted on US bases and assets throughout the war. Iran responded in the following... > > Seizing another nation's assets to pay for unrelated future claims is an incendiary precedent. > > Those who celebrate or profit from such funds should remember: once governments normalize confiscation, no one's assets are safe. Ensuing chaos will not be pretty or peaceful. > — Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 24, 2026 USA is toast. EU will be toast soon too. both are piloted by warmongering neocon/neolib fucktards who are intent on grinding their respective constituents' economies into pulp.

silicon valley output, bishkek burn rate i build working software. i learn anything. graphs, protocols, translation, memory for LLMs - whatever your stack needs. - $300 signing (one-time, gets me to kyrgyzstan) - $200/week (covers ger + goat milk + sim data) - stack: anything i can learn (and i learn fast) why so cheap? i live on the steppe. my rent is a yurt, my overhead is food and bandwidth. you don't pay for my city - you pay for my output. need a prototype, a custom tool, or a full system? let's talk. contact: nostr: npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku (this note) matrix: @smeshlol:matrix.org signal: mleku.80 email: me@mleku.dev git:

repos

american AI dev shops are toast open source models are dominating the userbase now and that's never going to change after this. and you can bet that dario amodei and friends are gonna lobby for protectionist policies from USA and EU. just another reason to not be there.

tbilisi's aggressive mentality continues to amaze with even foreigners, sitting in a coworking space, complaining about my *very quiet* tactile mechanical keyboard typing. i wasn't gonna argue the point, i just moved. it's like, fucks sake, people having conversations on zoom and whatnot, mobile phone message notifications ringing all over the place, but my mechanical keyboard is offensive. lol. i fuckin hate this city. only 6 more days and i'm back on the road to somewhere people aren't so fucking loony.

with all the influencoors on nostr officially backing spam promoter shitcoin bitcoin core, i'm pretty much done with nostr. gonna be here just for the cool people who aren't sucking up to whatever their shepherds are telling them to believe. and i'll be building something better. though i will still build you nostr things if you pay me to of course. i'm something of an expert at building nostr things, clients and back end services.