I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream. Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration. Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy. My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say **we need to fight this**. Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them. It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant. I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts and ideas on just how we combat and effectively nullify laws like AB 1043. #tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity ⛵

# Gentoo moves too! In recent days, weeks, months, the fallout hasn't even begun - Microsoft is still weathering the blast itself. Even in the last couple of days viral videos are racking up millions of views covering what many people are hailing as the demise of Microsoft itself - to be certain, no one is shedding any tears. The first two defectors? HP and Samsung (PCs and Androids). Samsung removed preinstalled Microsoft apps from their devices and now other Android manufacturers are following suit. When you go to purchase an HP laptop now it comes with Linux by default (or you can, upon request, pay more for a Microsoft operating system). Following suit were Dell (same thing, Linux by default or your can request Windows 11 and pay more money for it), then Lenovo, ASUS, and Acer - pretty much everyone that matters has abandoned Microsoft. Even the retailers are bugging out - Best Buy, Walmart, and even Amazon are jumping ship, and I don't even need to explain why, but again, you can pay more to be subjected to invasive privacy mining. CoPilot and Recall may be the straws that broke the behemoth's back. And the shockwaves of ever larger concentric circles have found their way to **[Gentoo, the latest prominent project to begin the migration to CodeBerg](https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/gentoo-charts-new-path-moving-away-github-toward-codeberg)** according to Linux Journal. Adherence to the values of privacy and open source are cited, and **[Codeberg](https://codeberg.org)** champions those values, themselves having moved to a hosted git software project that values those principles - **[Forgejo](https://forgejo.org)**. There's a huge paradigmatic shift occurring with respect to how people view their privacy, and especially their identities and intellectual property. They've had enough of the dismissive subjugation and are realizing they can do much better, faster, with more privacy, and without tracking or malware pre-installed in their systems, for much less money. It will be interesting to see how the Redmond Dreadnought manages to maneuver this time; have they even the use of their rudder to persuade all of the major manufacturers of Android devices, desktop and laptop PCs to come back from the pasture into the slaughterhouse? #tallship #Gentoo #Codeberg #Forgejo #FOSS #Privacy

Just a **hog on a log**, enjoying a trip down the river on a sunny day.

I've seen her before, in that movie, **Ghostbusters**, w/Akroyd, Belushi, and others I think. She wasn't pink then, she was the traditional white w/the little navy boi getup as the **Sta Puff* Marshmallow man. View quoted note →

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The DNS isn't a problem, I have several suitable domains and have read a couple of tuts on the Lightning and NIP-05 aspects of that: [Guide to create Lightning Address redirection on your domain](https://orangepill.dev/bitcoin-guides/guide-to-create-lnaddress-redirection-on-your-domain/) [Guide to verify your Nostr profile with a NIP-05 identifier on your domain](https://orangepill.dev/nostr-guides/guide-to-verify-nostr-profile-nip05-identifier-with-your-domain/) ### Here's what I'm looking to do, and pls feel free to respond with links and or your recommendations... * I usually work with XLM, ZEC, and XMR. I only trust non-custodial wallet solutions (I use CEX's, **do not trust regulated **CEX's like binance, coinbase, etc.). * I'm using nos2x and looking at *Alby*, but I'm looking for a non-custodial wallet solution for Lightning - basically, I do not "trade", I use the cryptocurrencies listed above for day to day retail and wholesale commerce solutions where I sell or buy goods and services - I think **Zaps (SATs) sounds kewl for paywalling articles I publish (and just about everything including candy bars and beer), or anything that includes personal and business transactions for everyday commerce... Just like reaching into my pocket to buy a can of Bang liquid crack containing 300mg caffeine. Again, satoshiwallet is a custodial wallet and I'm looking for non-custodial wallets - Do they exist and which ones do you recommend for Lightning? Currently I run a couple of non-custodial full chain wallets for Monero (XMR) and Shielded ZEC, and my fav for many years is XLM; so I'm no stranger to cryptocurrency as ***cash money**. I do not *trade* or *speculate* on crypto either. * Solution: I want to set up a non-custodial lightning wallet solution for myself under one of my domains, use that same domain for my NIP-05 verification (puts me in the nostr directory, right?) and then set up my DNS and Nginx/Apache servers to accommodate those virtualhosts and be done with it so I have my easy to share nostr and Lightning aliases (i.e., joeschmoe@SLD.TLD). I can use some fav DEX's that I like to swap assets between other cryptocurrencies that I currently use and BTC/SATs/Zaps/whatev without touching any regulated CEX's in the world of *fractional reserve, regulated KYC bullshit*, and be free of the dystopian hand in my pocket bitches. * Finally it appears that I'm already verified, to some degree - I have a blue checkmark [here at Iris](https://iris.to/tallship), can find myself via [Satellite.Earth too here](

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etc., but I'm not convinced that I'm actually NIP-05 registered/verified. Any advice, suggestions, links, etc., are much appreciated, and I'll be sure to author an article or series of articles for the benefit of the nostr community (free - no paywalls) once I find a, or a few, solutions to this particular requirement. If there's something I cannot do (say, Lightning with non-custodial vs custodial wallets), or even if I need to run fullchain solutions on a box, this is most particular stumbling block and, well... I guess I'll have to accept that for the time being, but I'm hopeful that whatever services I need to set up and host on the infra in my data center will suffice. Okay, I'm still new here, relatively speaking, so I'll post the hashtags that I think are expected here at swarmstr.com and be confident that I won't need to go to one of the deprecated, privacy disrepecting silo networks like *Reddit or Serverfault / StackOverflow* for answers... and truth be told, most of my colleagues in the *ActivityPub powered portion of the Fediverse* aren't really amiable to the mission or visionary optimism here in the **nostr* world - so I'm asking the community here :) I'm hoping that my stated goal here (as an privacy advocate of self-hosted FOSS solutions) is clear, but I'll be more than happy to clarify anything if there are lingering questions, or if I wasn't already clear on the objectives I'm trying to achieve. One more thing... * **Damus** is not a solution in this case, as **I am NOT** *a Mac or Apple user* - **Linux and Android please** - I'm a 3 decades long FOSSie, and if you look at my profile, I'm a committed **UNIX** head (xBSD and Linux). Apologies, if Markdown doesn't work and my post is ugly as a result. Okay I guess I'm supposed to leave some hashtags now :) #asknostr #nostr #FOSS #Linux #UNIX #Slackware #Debiantard #OpenBSD #nostr #plebchain #tallship I look forward to hearing your thoughts, suggestions, and especially, links to tuts with #solutions.

I've been seriously traumatized. My friend @indieterminacy basically #rick_rolled me with the most horrific images that I will never be able to unsee... I feel so violated! #tallship #Oh_the_horror! #the_smell_of_napalm_in_the_morning .

@tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub Fedi test... To me, myself, and I. No pic this time

Test #7 iris in browser to @tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub #[0] #[1] Okay I let it wait a really long time and it finally showed the attachment via nostr .build (much better than a cheesy imgur link that Amethyst uses and doesn't render as an actual image on a #Fediverse server when posted via internetwork bridge). I prefer the way that iris looks and feels, but do you think we might could get a progress meter of some sort for attachment uploads? 🙂 #tallship #iris #nostr #Fediverse #Soapbox #Mostr.pub

I liked this photo a lot

@tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @tallship_at_social.sdf.org@mostr.pub @tallship_at_public.mitra.social@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub

Test #6 with amethyst @tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @tallship_at_social.sdf.org@mostr.pub @tallship_at_public.mitra.social@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub

Test #5 🙂 from iris app @tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @tallship_at_social.sdf.org@mostr.pub @tallship_at_public.mitra.social@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub #tallship ⛵ .

Attempt #3 was successful to Gleasonator. @tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @tallship_at_social.sdf.org@mostr.pub @tallship_at_public.mitra.social@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub This is attempt #4... With a pic 🤡 For whatever reason, I can't attach a pic this time #tallship #nostr #test

Trying these addresses again. Attempt #3 @tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @tallship_at_social.sdf.org@mostr.pub @tallship_at_public.mitra.social@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub

@tallship_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub @tallship_at_social.sdf.org@mostr.pub @tallship_at_public.mitra.social@mostr.pub @alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub A pretty picture going ask the way to the #Fediverse. Hit me back, k? And... Why did you name it Mostr instead of Fostr? Let's see if it gets there! #tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #Mostr #nostr ⛵ .

#[0] , I've run across a few threads specific to nostr, but central to other protects, such as #Umbrel. I've offered this in their community, but was wondering about your thoughts on his we can bring greater awareness to those folks 🙂

Umbrel Community

Introducing the official Nostr Relay app

Perhaps this is a consideration you might want to consider? i.e., you’re specifying: ws://MyTailscalePrivateIP:4848 But maybe you should ac...

I hope that helps! #tallship #umbrel #FOSS ⛵ .