Jameson Lopp
lopp@lopp.net
npub17u5d...t4tp
Insights on security, privacy, technology, & money · Casa Co-founder & Chief Security Officer · https://bitcoin.page
Is Google just phoning it in with new Pixel hardware?
Comparing Pixel 8 Pro to 10 Pro specs and most of them are the same, some like display and battery are actually a step backward...
The only obvious improvement is the CPU which I don't really care about. Not compelling to upgrade!
Nature is healing.
Oof.
Why day trading is retarded:
Looks like it's Have Fun Staying Poor season.
Today I'm publishing stress tests of several more metal seed backup devices. I expect this to be my final update on this project, as it's onerous, becoming uninteresting, and yielding few new insights.
NGRAVE GRAPHENE:
Overall Grade: A
Heat Grade: A
Corrosion Grade:A
Crush Grade: A
Detailed review:
Seedfan:
Overall Grade: A
Heat Grade: A
Corrosion Grade: A
Crush Grade: A
Detailed review:
VaultKi:
Overall Grade: A
Heat Grade: A
Corrosion Grade: A
Crush Grade: A
Detailed review:
The Morse:
Overall Grade: D
Heat Grade: F
Corrosion Grade: A
Crush Grade: F
Detailed review:
NGRAVE GRAPHENE Review
NGRAVE GRAPHENE can be purchased at ngrave.io. Claims to be: Fire resistant up to 1375°C / 2507°F Waterproof Corrosionproof Shockproof ## Setup G...
Seedfan Review
Seedfan can be purchased from resellers listed on seedfan.io. Claims to be: Fire Resistant Water Resistant Impact Resistant ## Setup Setup was stra...
VaultKi Review
VaultKi can be purchased at vaultki.com/. Claims to be: Fire Resistant up to 1400°C / 2550°F Waterproof Rust Resistant Hackproof ## Setup Setup w...
The Morse Review
The Morse can be purchased at themorse.net. At time of writing, it makes no durability claims. ## Setup Using the center punch for the initial inde...
My TV started constantly losing its WiFi connection and after trying all the standard stuff I finally dug into the system logs on the WiFi router to determine that the router was sending control commands to tell the TV to upgrade from the 2GHz to the 5GHz band and when the TV didn't respond appropriately, the router would deauth it for some stupid reason.
I can only assume something changed in the TV firmware because I haven't upgraded my WiFi firmware in 6 months.
So I found the config to disable "smart connection upgrades" and now everything is stable. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be for a normie without deep networking knowledge to run into this bullshit.
Whip your hare back and forth.
Just whip it.
While querying Grok 4 to do some deep research about using zero knowledge proofs with Bitcoin, it started pulling in articles from CoinGeek
NOOOOOOOOOOOO GROK NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Fun protocol fact: the HTTP header which contains the referring url is called "referer" because the developer spelled "referrer" wrong and nobody noticed, so it made it into the official standards and now it's ossified.
Oh, good. I wasn't looking forward to prison / fleeing America.
https://www.theblock.co/post/362013/treasury-department-irs-remove-controversial-crypto-broker-tax-rule-requiring-non-custodial-service-providers-to-file-customer-transaction-info
249 years ago America declared its independence from Great Britain, motivated by tax disputes. Today I wish to bring to your attention how inflation's interaction with our tax policies results in even greater theft from citizens.
Cypherpunk Cogitations
Inflation is Multiple Taxation
How the interaction of inflation with the tax code results in even greater theft from taxpayers.
Ozempic, but for legislative bills.
It's difficult to imagine a more limp-dicked response to someone than telling them to shut up. Especially online, where you have no power to make someone shut up.
If you want someone to shut up, the best tactic is to intellectually eviscerate their arguments.