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Josh

Hardware hacker who used to do submarine things.

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2024-04-18 14:39:10 GMT

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Let me make incremental progress, slowly, on this project that is large in scope but complicated. Vs: slogan, short platitude, good vibes.
It's not that surprising. The later gets likes, the former requires thought. Even bitcoiners are not immune to this tendency.

2024-03-07 17:29:47 GMT

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Are cans on the no-no list? I think cans are like the only thing that can be recycled cleanly in the US. Or at least that's what Ball Corp says whose name is on a hockey stadium.

2024-01-04 23:43:56 GMT

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I've found docker is not often the panacea it is advertised. Often times, things will failed to build unless the container is updated, which.... kinda is against thr point.
However, since distros are so slow to update its useful to have a container vs installing a bunch of reps that don't match. However, often, a static binary is preferred and usually easier.

2023-12-28 03:22:09 GMT

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Ah nice. I think with rectilum you can even route over IP networks perhaps, I might be able to connect 😜

2023-12-27 22:37:51 GMT

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Ah well, enjoy the club mate. How's the radios going? I'm still sitting on a bunch of LoRa modules. I should probably make them into something at this point.

2023-12-27 16:23:38 GMT

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Not there this year, it really is the worst timed conference... but enjoy! I'm curious to hear your thoughts about the vibe. Are the tradhackers still chasing CVEs? Was the attitude toward bitcoin?

2023-12-19 14:08:07 GMT

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Ah OK, yeah that's sad. There is a lot of potential for AI to replace the "let's go away" approach I'll agree.

2023-12-19 05:38:52 GMT

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If the treatment option is pain killers, than you don't need an AI, you need a parent. I once had this tech hubris on medicine too and about 10 years ago, before AI was cool, I did some grad research on predicting breast cancer survivability thinking that I would get some award for solving cancer. For various reasons that are obvious to an oncologist but not to a lunarpunk, it failed miserably. I have not tried to re run my hypothesis, it would be interesting.
But it sounds like you are hedging your bets Juraj. If you are so confident in your AI diagnosis why even waste your time with the human confirmation?! If you wanted to do this scientifically, pay some task rabbits to go various hospitals in various countries and report the same symptoms and gather the results :p

2023-12-05 15:31:53 GMT

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Je to škoda. Bolo mi jasné, že PP je dôležité miesto.

2023-12-05 15:27:38 GMT

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Máme prijať nestálosť Juraj :) Má vieru v zlato a nie v bitcoin. Musíme si vybrať svojich bohov. Problém je ako si povedal je rada. Ale kto dnes počúva "tvorcov obsahu" 😜

2023-12-04 19:09:37 GMT

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Are you looking for hardware wallet input? I've looked at a few.
https://image.nostr.build/a64bcbc152672c7d22496e53708eb486daf8fbfe9e21e3e7f6c1dc56da68ebb7.jpg

2023-10-11 17:07:55 GMT

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https://youtu.be/gcifHFhiYdI?si=NLvhH6yznp1vvGrX

2023-10-11 17:07:23 GMT

The #hcpp23 talks are now live on youtube and there are many interesting ones, like this:https://youtu.be/gcifHFhiYdI?si=NLvhH6yznp1vvGrX

2023-10-08 17:11:25 GMT

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The problem lies in your assumption of "intelligent people." If you change your assumption, what follows is not so surprising, although disappointing still.

2023-10-06 19:25:01 GMT

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I put on a meditation app, in my case peloton, but I think any would do. In anycase, I've been doing it for years now and my kids will now fall asleep in less than 10 minutes. As they say though in the US, "your results may vary." 😀

2023-10-06 14:59:43 GMT

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Nice. Are you still using WordPress to host these videos? At some point I thought you were using btcpayserver as your everything site.

2023-09-29 15:36:55 GMT

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Toto sa mi páči. Vyzerá to ako modry plán.

2023-09-13 20:03:37 GMT

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"Hopefully you won't agree with me so I can keep my edge" 😀😂

2023-09-08 13:10:43 GMT

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Have you looked into how this actually works? It's a bit odd IMHO. I think it's literally a line in the xml of the rss feed that has percentage values for two hard-coded addresses.
It works. So there's that. But idk, seems hard to change the address and also I immediately thought of publishing malicious rss feeds 😈

2023-09-08 12:56:36 GMT

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Gratulujeme! Super interesting.

2023-09-03 16:09:46 GMT

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I can't remember who said it, but my new favorite phrase is, "I stopped caring about politicians since Pontius Pilate."

2023-08-26 21:14:51 GMT

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Ecash is OG, it should make a comeback. However, I've always disliked "ethical hacker." First of all, for even the whitest of white hats, hacking is frequently gray behavior. Calling it ethical hacking feels like asking permission to hack something. Which, to your point, they might as well call it "cyber hacker" because it's lame.
There's no ethical plumber and "ethical banker" is equally ridiculous. So I just like to say hacker and let the cards fall as to the ethics. In Slovak, eticky hacker does seem to be the most understood term I've noticed (for me) unfortunately.
But when I'm dressing up, I use "security engineer" which for me, coming from a classic engineering background, is an apropos term I think.

2023-08-24 18:20:43 GMT

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So... you are trying to be the alpha gamma? 😜

2023-08-21 13:04:28 GMT

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Didn't oura switch to a required subscription model? I like the idea of some of these fitness trackers (although I preferred bands which seem to have falled out of favor to rings and smart watches). The issue with them is what company will eventually have a data breach first 😀

2023-08-02 12:43:54 GMT

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You finally found your prediction market thing! Will you now just encourage everyone to bet instead of giving their opinion of the future? 🤣

2023-07-29 20:39:18 GMT

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Cc @npub13ru…c9st, you should check the sats integrations :)

2023-07-28 17:16:03 GMT

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dobrú chuť! Any tips on making it? When I cook it it, it comes out less like a soup and more like a stew, and perhaps too salty...

2023-07-28 01:48:03 GMT

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Well, it looks like Reticulum has a pipe interface. So you could pipe the packet to asound or similar, and have it play on speakers into the radio perhaps. I'll have to give it a shot :)

2023-07-27 16:26:15 GMT

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I'm pretty sure they will allow it if you offer them just a single sat.

2023-07-27 16:07:01 GMT

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That's the hope :) and this is why people get so into the LoRa rabbit hole. It is, at best case, good for very small messages infrequently sent. In this use case, a radio can run off of a solar cell for years. You can get lora radios for the EU without any license and experiment. It is legitately fun and I'm a big fan, but they have limitations.
Ham radio I'm also into for the same motivating reasons we are probably on nostr :) (decentralized radio etc...) however it does require a license to use legally. Also the ham radio community is a bit frustrating. There are a small number of like minded hams, but most I feel just like to talk on the radio.
So LoRa I think will not transmit voice for example, but with ham radio you could potentially talk globally, directly, by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere.
In any case, it's useful to pursue if only for the appreciation of how radio works and to understand why not all radio is equal. I've been on again off again with it for many years.
Hopefully that helped :)

2023-07-27 15:47:02 GMT

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Ah sorry. I mainly work in electronics so I forget sometimes :) basically LoRa is this new-ish radio system. It's long radio (kilometers) and low power. It is really ideal for short messages, it was designed mainly for small devices. Because of the frequency it uses, it is essentially available to anyone which is why there is some excitement about using it for decentralized and distributed applications.
However, it does have limitations so it's not a wifi replacement.
Here's a decent, but slightly technical overview: https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/introduction-to-lora-technology

2023-07-27 15:10:19 GMT

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If you are into LoRa, there are sometimes nice boards available on Tindie, often with EU sellers so you don't have to pay the Atlantic tax. This one looks nice and cheap but might require some tech investigation.
https://www.tindie.com/products/wyld-things/lorawan-sensor-board/

2023-07-27 13:04:55 GMT

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I think you are really under appreciating the bandwidth limitations of LoRa... This will work if maybe there is one person sending announcements but LoRa is not WiFi. That being said, WiFi mesh with directional antennas would be fine.
However there is a project, but limited to typical ham radio restrictions called ribbitchat. It's pretty amazing actually, you hold your phone to a radio and it transmits the message :)
https://www.ribbitradio.org/#/

2023-07-26 18:57:31 GMT

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Are you posting this with a nostr private key supporting hardware wallet? Would you if you had one? (I think foundation wallet is considering support). I don't disagree with your comment but I think someone's reputation might be worth more than their stack and we all seem ok with private keys in our nostr clients.
I'm not sure I really want to constantly interface to the internet with two Turing machines, where one is just approving the requests of the other. But maybe that's needed.

2023-07-25 21:19:08 GMT

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N00b question if you don't mind. What's Chicago and Detroit style? :)

2023-07-25 03:23:00 GMT

If you wear a smart watch, the watch takes care of you. But if you wear a automatic mechanical watch, you take care of the watch.
#watchesofnostr #watches

2023-07-24 18:54:40 GMT

I gave a talk about an introduction to computers security to a bunch of electrical and electronic engineers. I recorded a version here: https://cryptotronix.com/2023/07/24/free-the-cpu-an-introduction-on-how-hackers-liberate-computers/
#hacking #infosec #security

2023-07-19 15:35:36 GMT

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I'm pretty sure there are still many places in the US where the recycling goes to the landfill. This is basically the cargo cult behavior -- maybe one day it will be recycled so if that day comes their behavior doesn't need to change.

2023-07-19 04:52:00 GMT

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781940

2023-07-19 04:51:14 GMT

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Best comment from this:
#nevent1q…xp6h

2023-07-18 18:37:27 GMT

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It was less a generalization and more anecdote, of which, my jaw dropped. Yeah, the route issuer is the obvious first thought. But I'm not sure the solution is the one everything box. If you reboot your AI-router-node-nas-wallet-mediaplayer every night I'm not sure that's a great experience.
Then, once you do have that one everything box, the next issue is backups, reliability, etc...
I'm not trying to be over critical. I spent a decent amount of time noodling a node like solution but when you put the dollar sign next to performance hardware to do all those things, its not as affordable as consumers would like.

2023-07-18 17:05:23 GMT

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Samozrejme! Je to pekná hackerská hudba.

2023-07-18 16:38:57 GMT

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Enjoying :) how do you like fountain? You are releasing these tracks as podcast episodes?

2023-07-18 15:23:36 GMT

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I wish home nodes were more popular, but unfortunately I think there is a ceiling. In the US I think there is a cost benefit calculation. I considered an umbrel competitor and from europeans I was told that since they turn off the wifi to save electricity at night (!), that they would probably not consider this.
There are lots of interesting things one can imagine if everyone had a node with compute to rent let's say, but I haven't figured a decent incentive model (besides shitcoins).

2023-07-18 14:26:11 GMT

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They should put it through the washing machine too! It does/used to have conformal coating so the pcb might survive (not the lcd). Idk, I still kinda want the gshock of hw wallets.

2023-07-15 15:08:04 GMT

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I think this question is a proxy for doxing for age 😀 But, the Commodore 64 used 5.25 but also it had cassette tapes as well!

2023-07-13 16:56:58 GMT

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But the GPDR will ensure that the data will be protected! 🥸

2023-07-13 13:10:23 GMT

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But you get to vote on the new colors! After all, it's "your" money. 🤣

2023-07-13 13:08:45 GMT

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I thought I heard that slovakia recently passed a law that cash must always be accepted. I remember the auto reporting to the tax office on the receipt, but is the same attitude towards cash there? I'm surprised you didn't use this opportunity to make your czech crown is used less than bitcoin joke 😀

2023-07-12 21:34:29 GMT

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Really nice vibes 😄

2023-07-12 21:31:14 GMT

I've looked at many hardware wallets. I'm currently convinced the best form factor would be a watch or a bracelet. The electronics of hardware wallets are a low powered MCU, small display, and buttons. It could even tell the time in block height. #bitcoin #hardwarewallet

2023-07-11 15:10:53 GMT

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I still wish they would make the apk available on github. Yes I know it's available on mirrors, but many privacy apps have the apk directly available. There is an open issue that seems stalled I think.

2023-07-11 15:09:21 GMT

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If you want to watch an Arnold train wreck, apparently the three part Arnold producer self decoumentary on himself on Netflix is pretty apropos.

2023-07-11 15:03:45 GMT

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But that is exactly the community vibe they want. Each a little fiefdom of like minded people with unwritten and ambiguous policies about what is allowed. But, if you are friends with the admin at the time, it will be good for you. I'm glad they found a home!

2023-07-07 11:52:39 GMT

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Don't overly complicate it. I don't think you have to preface the language. If the person is interested, they will translate it otherwise they will skip.

2023-06-21 22:50:57 GMT

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Alice also gave us the Red Queen's Race analogy. It is a book worth revisting several times I think :)