Super slow days at work pre-New Year, following an online course.. π΄
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Came here for the technology, staying for the vision. (backup: jon_bk@saibeaks.com)
Episodes like this one keep me coming back to WBD for more πͺ 

Fountain
What Bitcoin Did β’ How Broken Money Distorts Reality | Seb Bunney β’ Listen on Fountain
Seb Bunney joins the show for a conversation about broken money, distorted reality maps, and why Bitcoin might be the only force capable of realign...
Monday started okay, then some email servers were added to a spam list and emails started bouncing.. π’
I hadn't heard from RBL black lists in years! #email
Home sweet home π‘.
What did I miss? π
And yet another excuse to procrastinate doing more important stuff, bookmark folder hierarchy best practices here I come. GN
Little downtime during Xmas rest lets me do some random homework like reviewing my password manager contents, prune unused accounts, etc.
After "Xmas cleaning" I have only about 300 entries. Only 300...π€
Found accounts from forums back in the day., where I would happily enter my full name and birth date.. π΅βπ«
GM. Last few days of 2025. π
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It's that time of the year when you have a bit of bandwidth to update a gazillion (va. 250) accounts to new email aliases:
- login to website, often 2FA, create alias, set new email address on site, verify, login with new email, 2FA again, next.
Today was a good day, so much that the alias service has rate limited me hahahah.
End goal is a simpler, more granular setup and cheaper than my previous setup. #privacy #identityAttribution
"No, no, it's not because of rare minerals (that China is a major producer of...)"
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My home servers became unreachable all of a sudden and I bet it's just the broadband modem that needs power cycling.
Anybody has a smart plug setup to automate this "turn it off and on again" functionality? #IFTTT
Refreshing my memory about GnuPG and what's changed in the last x years (where x > 10). #encryption #OpenPGP #gnupg #privacyMatters
Reading about ways for SIP/VoIP to work around Network Address Translation because..
(edit: NAT is evil π)
Currently reading "How to make your brain your best friend", by Dr. Rachel Barr. π #reading #books
Startpage Search Results
"Startpage.com - The world's most private search engine"
"Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary" #IrishTimes #USsanctions


The Irish Times
βItβs surrealβ: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independen...
GM plebs. π
More reverberation to #bitcoin becoming more accepted by tradfi institutions (banks) to an extent it's not news as it used to be.
How long until the rest start wondering why they are NOT embracing it?
I enjoy many interviews of #WBD's, but this one is top notch π#SeedSigner #btc #bitcoin
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Fountain
What Bitcoin Did β’ What It Really Means to Be Sovereign | SeedSigner β’ Listen on Fountain
SeedSigner is an open-source Bitcoin signing device.
In this episode, SeedSigner breaks down why trustless hardware matters and why Bitcoin secur...
Doing some reading on virtual phone numbers. I want to trial a couple of systems.
Having different email addresses is relatively easy, but phone numbers feels a bit more convoluted.
How many phone numbers is enough?
Do you use an IAM systen? Open source? Self hosted?
Looking to authenticate a couple of users using SAML or potentially OIDC re: #tailscale, but could extend to other apps.