Me: Look this is a list of non-KYC VPS hosts linked below Nostr User: YES! YES! That's awesome! Me: But, keep in mind that both the EU and US have had proposed laws to force KYC in the future, that thankfully failed to pass so far, but someday they could. And emerging market hosts are less reliable for uptime/speed (asia, south america, & africa). Nostr User: What should we do? Me: Check out Arweave, it's a protocol that has no-KYC static file hosting, a CDN, domain system, and binding smart contracts. Nostr User: It's a shitcoin! Ugh I hate shitcoins! Me: Well, it's more like a decentralized stock, since the protocol earns revenue from hosting, that's locked into a pool to payout to the providers. Nostr User: Well I'm concerned that people will do payments in Arweave, instead of Bitcoin Lightning Me: That's unlikely, because Lightning is private and a commodity. While as Arweave coins are uniquely tied to the files you upload. So if you have a website, you wouldn't want everyone to see every non-website transaction you make. Nostr User: Well how does it work? Me: Arweave:

Meet ArWeb. Our new app | Simplified Privacy

& the regular internet VPS hosts promised:

Pro/Con of Anonymous VPS Hosts | Simplified Privacy

Linux surpasses over 6% of the desktop market!!! Article from ZdNet cites these reasons: --USA AI devs --European businesses shifting --European entrepreneurs shifting Of course, they left out HydraVeil's kickass beta launch, but that's because my users keep a low radar to avoid being part of "unique visitor" statistics.

ZDNET

Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

Donald Trump has national guard soldiers helping to stop homelessness in DC. In my personal subjective view, this a very dangerous situation, as using any military for local law enforcement turns the average person into an enemy combatant. Militarized police are a stepping stone to government authoritarianism and over-reach of power. I am NOT opposed to using the guard in actual crisis situations, such as the previous riots in LA. I am NOT saying that homelessness is not a serious problem, or being handled by Democrats wrong. I AM saying this is not the appropriate use of Trump's power. And homeless people sleeping in public is not the same type of violent crisis that the previous LA riots were.

Start the debate with food. You say to them, "Don't you agree that processed sugary foods are bad for you, but yet they are very popular among society, and in fact the norm?" The person reluctantly agrees. Then: "So these processed food manufacturers are willing to harm the majority of the population, and even though it's bad for them, the vast majority of consumers eat it. Now this same premise is how most aspects of our lives work. It's true for Fiat Money vs Cryptocurrency It's true for Social Media vs Nostr It's true for Keynes vs Hayek It's true for Windows/Mac vs Linux It's true for WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord vs Signal/XMPP/others It's true for iPhone/Stock vs Degoogled Android It's true for Tor/Mullvad Browser vs HydraVeil The majority is usually wrong, against their own interests. And society's gatekeeper "influencers" go along with it, because they profit from the groups that seized power. I'm not saying blindly follow my words. I'm begging you to not blindly follow the words of my enemy, and evaluate for yourself.

SimpleX tries to stop server-side metadata that would come from a targeted attack, beyond what XMPP can provide. And the example used for it is that the CIA compromised a Russian XMPP server, with the VPS provider's help (Hetzner), to get metadata only. But 99% of people should not be worried about their self-host XMPP server being targeted by the CIA for metadata only. On the other hand, HydraVeil tries to stop browser fingerprint metadata, for any service Tor Browser breaks. This is something literally everyone has to deal with regularly, as with a browser you directly interact with the enemy. And Librewolf, Brave, Firefox, and others are very leaky. A single use with a big tech site brands and fingerprints it completely. But yet "influencers" gush over SimpleX, for under 1% of the population, And disregard, censor, or ignore HydraVeil, for 99% of the population. Why? Because the SimpleX dev got funded by Bill Gates to literally PAY influencers like Techlore's “NewOil” Nathan Bartram with the Surveillance Report to shill it. And then what a coincidence, he literally tells his fans to ignore our project when they ask him about it, because we have no fiat bank accounts to rain on him. Nathan Bartram told his podcast fans that he sides with Google and Facebook, over me. How do you not see that the very purpose of HydraVeil is that you can continue to use those services in a more private way?

Nostr users respond more to memes than people's life work, So we'll put memes in the releases, !! HydraVeil 1.1.2 Release !! Fixed: Loading error for Arch & Fedora. Release notes:

HydraVeil 1.1.2: Fedora & Arch Font Loading Fix | Simplified Privacy

SHA-256 sum for 1.1.2: 390536af7ac32236f3f4ec71baf13173c25ffc6325b956452a63f08b5bc2c15f Of course, real Arch users be like, Debian users be like,

Whonix Compared to HydraVeil. Very different projects with fairly different goals, use-cases, tech stacks, problems, and philosophies. Whonix: Tries to make everyone the same. HydraVeil: Tries to make every profile different. Whonix: Biggest threat is state-level targeted attacks, with breakout of Tor browser HydraVeil: Biggest threat is the centralization of the internet, and a few huge giants overseeing your entire life. Where 99% of people can't avoid their invasive fingerprinting, without this tool. This article goes over not only the differences in the projects, but also differing philosophies on Tor itself:

Whonix Compared to HydraVeil | Simplified Privacy

The real test of a man, is not if he's always right But how he reacts and changes when he's wrong

TOTP leak ?! Vibe coding ain't working out for Proton already! Today Proton fixed a new bug in its new Authenticator app for iOS that logged users' sensitive TOTP secrets in plaintext, potentially exposing multi-factor authentication codes if the logs were shared. Source:

BleepingComputer

Proton fixes Authenticator bug leaking TOTP secrets in logs

Proton fixed a bug in its new Authenticator app for iOS that logged users' sensitive TOTP secrets in plaintext, potentially exposing multi-fac...

Protonmail is vibe coded They are dumb enough to put the cursor rules files on Github. Quote: "You are an Senior SWE at Proton and make sure you do not send any information that is potentially secure in nature. You specialize in building highly-scalable and maintainable Frontend Systems." The irony of telling AI not to leak sensitive info, when the fact that you've publicly told it, is the leak itself. And look at the first part with "an senior SWE". They can't even write grammatically correct AI rules. And that's who you trust to encrypt your life secrets? Proton Source: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/main/.cursor/rules Shout-out the Blogger who discovered it:

Pivot to AI

Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

Proton Mail is famous for its privacy and security. The cool trick they do is that not even Proton can decode your email. That’s because it never...

CalyxOS ends

A letter to the CalyxOS community

A letter to the CalyxOS community