3rd conference, 3rd time speaking! Awesome to be back 💪 View quoted note →

WhatsApp never could be trusted in the first place. Telegram is even worse. No end-to-end encryption at all. Only if you use private chats and they break every time you switch the device. Signal, SimpleX and soon White Noise are the way to go if you want to protect your privacy. View quoted note →

@calle @jack Bitchat in Uganda: government is celebrating how they managed to contain bitchat. have you heard of this, anything true or just usual government speak?

Nilepost News

The IT taskforce behind the Bitchat block: Uganda’s homegrown cyber defense triumphs

The success of this approach was crucial in maintaining a stable digital environment during the elections, preventing the potential spread of false...

# Easy In, Impossible Out It's easy to fall into the trap of convenience. Signing up for a free online service, because it's much more convenient than setting up a self-hosted version and costs nothing compared to paid products. It's easy, but it's not simple to ever leave that service again. Over the years you added functionalities, expanded the use into even more interconnected free services, you even onboarded your small company or project. It's very practical. But you always know something is wrong. Things that offer so much can't be without costs. Even in economies of scale, where each user added comes at low cost. There is a price to pay. And you pay. With your soul, because you are the product. You gave up sovereignty over your data, over your deepest thoughts and habits. We don't see it, but every click, every scroll is being recorded. What you do, where you are, with whom you are. We have collectively lost power and the price is our dignity. It's hard to change. To disentangle all the services. Fighting against a system designed to make leaving impossible. The exit doors exist. Most of us just pretend we can't see them. #Dailyish

When as many LLMs as Altcoins?

Trump and Putin’s end goal is to split Europe between each other. Mark my words. After WWII Austria was split into 4 zones. The northeast where my family comes from was occupied by Russia, the northwest by US. South by the British and west by France. I wouldn’t want to live in a Russian zone after what my grandparents told me about this time. But it was better than the Nazis.

Nothing new in Uganda. Sadly the same tactics in all authoritarian regimes. Surveillance, brutality, lies, corruption.

the Guardian

Uganda’s president calls opponents

Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term but poll criticised by observers and rights groups over repression of opposition and internet blackout

Mood in Europe

Is there a tool that takes a website RSS feed and posts long-form articles on Nostr automatically?

Only when people have agency and security they can be resilient in the face of change. View quoted note →

Congratulations to all projects receiving a grant from @HRF! Especially to @Bitcoin Famba in Mozambique, we @Bitcoin for Fairness supported them from day zero and will work with them in Maputo. Bitcoin Indonesia @bitcoinhousebali. They went from zero to 38 meetups all over Indonesia educating people. Some of them are in our @Crack the Orange program. View quoted note →

Elections in Uganda today. View quoted note →

# The little things Small actions can have a big impact - either through volume, where repeating exercises during the day can be as effective as if you’d spent one hour in the gym, or because they eliminate one crucial component, like turning off location services on your mobile to protect your privacy. You don’t need perfection or a full privacy phone to get results. Taking small steps is better than doing nothing at all. #Dailyish

Wine is being named after me. 😜

Build relays. Challenge in 2026. Onwards! View quoted note →

# Privacy AI Is Possible Because of privacy concerns, I have been reluctant to use LLMs. I started experimenting in 2023 because I realized this is going to come either way - and I can make use of it, or be left behind. ## Power I started with ChatGPT, as everyone does, but soon stopped using it for political and privacy reasons. Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, is also a co-founder of the Worldcoin project. Worldcoin is a cryptocurrency that requires individuals to scan their iris to identify themselves. They have been rolling out their product aggressively on the African continent by paying anyone who signed up $25 in exchange for their biometric data. In Kenya, Worldcoin became the subject of a 2025 court case and was rightfully instructed to delete all data. I don’t want to share my data with companies showing no regard for dignity and privacy, and taking advantage of unequal bargaining situations. So no ChatGPT for me. ## Agency Claude was the first tool I used on a regular basis. Since I understood that if you use the free plan on ChatGPT your conversations might end up in Google Search - and this might be the same with other models - I decided to subscribe to a paid plan on Claude. I am using it with a nym (a fake name and email), but of course my payment data is still associated with my account. That’s why I was looking for more private options. The point for me is simple: I want to use AI, but I want to choose the terms. I don’t want “convenience” to mean “total surveillance.” ## Tools ### PayPerQ offers Bitcoin payments @PayPerQ allows you to pay with Lightning Bitcoin, which increases your privacy because your real name is not associated with your searches. It offers a variety of LLMs for chat, image, video, audio, and DeepResearch, which makes it easy to experiment. At the same time, it increases the number of my experiments, because I want to know what different models produce and what is best. I think it is essential to find out which tools are the right ones for your needs. Honestly, I haven’t found mine yet. I like Claude Sonnet 4.5 for editing texts. DeepResearch is incredible for doing what its name says, although the depth of results can be overwhelming. Z.AI: GLM 4.7 was great for strategic thinking, but then it failed my expectations in text editing. PayPerQ hides your identity in the purchasing process, but your prompts and conversations still land at the companies behind the models. I am not against them learning what I ask or the corrections I make - AI makes a lot of mistakes and it has a lot to learn from us. I actually want LLMs to crawl my work, but I don’t want them to save every little thing I do and mix it up with my private questions. ### Maple AI: privacy from sign-up to LLMs @Maple AI is the best solution I found. It runs on open source code and open models. It says it never uses your data to train AI, doesn’t log your chats, does zero data retention, and you can pay with Bitcoin. It offers many models (including OpenAI GPT-OSS — yes, OpenAI, but in a private way). Maple AI states that communications are encrypted locally on your device before being transmitted, that their servers can’t read your data, and that even during processing the pipeline is designed with privacy as the priority. I want AI as a tool, not as a trap. #Daily #AI