My Nostr haters be like: "Do you really think people give a shit about this level of privacy? Email or VPN server decentralization? Just use Mullvad or Proton" And my response is: Do you really think people give a shit about this level of censorship resistance? Social media decentralization? Just use Elon Musk's X"

Youtuber Mental Outlaw loves Mullvad Yet he said Proton is a honeypot. Proton & Mullvad both just pay M247 to service their New York location, which is closest to where Outlaw lives So the same WireGuard protocol, through the same M247 NY, one day is the NSA honeypot, but another day it's the "chad" king? Mullvad is propaganda. Their service was resold by radical-left Mozilla, while they ignored that Mozilla inserted AI and "Pocket" advertising malware into Firefox. So Mozilla VPN was just re-branded Mullvad, which was just re-branded M247. And Mullvad happily collected the funds, as they spew dribble about "privacy is a right". Why is M247 bad? Well, if you haven't yet seen our article on VPNs, it's time to escape the Matrix:

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German Journalist Faces Prison Over Memes Mocking Interior Minister For this one, I won't be writing anything. I'm quoting external sources, that I can't be held responsible for. Quote EuropeanConservative: The editor-in-chief of the conservative news website Deutschland-Kurier has been heavily fined and could even face prison time for mocking the German Social Democrat Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in a couple of satirical memes that he shared on his X account. Quote ReClaimtheNet: He was sharing satirical memes – including that featuring Interior Minister Nancy Faeser “holding up” a sign reading, “I hate freedom of expression.” Sources:

Reclaim The Net: Free Speech, Privacy, Digital Rights

German Journalist Faces Prison Over Memes Mocking Interior Minister

A tense battle over freedom of speech and government criticism unfolds as satire collides with censorship accusations in Germany.

German Journalist Could Face Prison for Mocking Government Officials

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser filed a criminal complaint over a photo that was obviously a work of satire.

It's been proven that gratitude improves optimism And if much of the technology we need already exists, then pessimism is the real enemy So the best way to win, is to be thankful for what we already got. Thank you to everyone who participated in Simplified Privacy. Either as a direct contributor, customer, alpha tester, or even just hanging out in our group chats. Without you, Simplified Privacy would not exist. And of course, thank you to all the Nostr contributors and community. Best place on the internet

Sound like a creepy sci-fi movie? Your phone number and home address are visible to strangers as you walk by on the street. It's actually Meta's new Camera Glasses with AI facial recognition. These new glasses appear to be regular sunglasses, but... under the surface, they record video, and allow that to be hooked up to AI. [1] A few Harvard students, with practically no budget, hooked this data up to a people finder database. This was used to instantly doxx people walking around the campus in real time. Further, using People Finder databases, it can display to the person wearing the glasses, someone's home address and phone number, as they walk by in public. [2] Once again, I encourage our readers to consider VoIP, keep the number out of databases, and trying to minimize what real information is public. You have to assume it will be abused. Sources: [1]

The Verge

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.

[2]

Malwarebytes

Not Black Mirror: Meta's smart glasses used to reveal someone's identity just by looking at them

Smart glasses that use facial recognition can instantly reveal the identity of someone you're looking at.

ok so maybe I was a little early with the 100k congrats

Dear Bitcoin Maxis, Arweave is NOT a currency The protocol earns REVENUE that's locked in a pool, To algorithmically deliver the SERVICE of file storage. So it's a decentralized trustless service provider, and NOT a central bank. The earned revenue is locked in the pool, to pay out the providers. To an investor, Arweave is like stock in a decentralized company, You're betting on the protocol earning (or locking in) more revenue. To a customer, Arweave is like a coupon, and NOT a currency, because it's priced in US dollars. Arweave sells service for 100 years of storage at the current US DOLLAR rate. The price customers pay for 1G of storage on Arweave, goes up or down with the fiat value of storage. Since when does a currency set prices in a DIFFERENT currency? It's a coupon! The reason you'd want to use it, over just paying someone in Bitcoin, is because the program has a binding contract. It's trustless access to the entire protocol, and not just paying some dude, who can bounce. Arweave does NOT compete with Bitcoin or "currencies". Because Arweave's only value is in the amount of revenue it sells of it's own service. Nobody would use Arweave for general purpose money, because it's NOT private and slow. Arweave can IMPROVE the lives of Bitcoin Maxis, without competing. As Maxis can host websites, own domains, and host podcasts in a completely uncensored way. And they can visit websites without Cloudflare or Government surveillance. You have a moral obligation to learn about this before dismissing it. By outright dismissing it, you aid the empire in censorship and oppression.

Seth for Privacy podcast just had an episode promoting Kagi, which was marketed as an alternative to Google search: But a DNS lookup, shows they are literally hosted on Google Cloud: I like Seth, so I'm sure this was an honest mistake. But nothing helps vigilance like competition. So add our team's podcast to your RSS feed to encourage healthy debate: RSS:

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