Posts by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
(DIR) Post #AkxXskMDcpraybdY5g by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2024-08-14T04:42:03.000Z
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That's been me for a couple of weeks. I usually have to refresh the page whenever I want nip05 names or profiles to show up. I rarely see pfps. I always have to refresh for content to load.
(DIR) Post #Axw7yoAvU8ooOb1Oee by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2025-09-06T17:09:05.000Z
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More than likely.
(DIR) Post #B2DLC8FR1CPPlBVtEe by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-12T16:18:44.000Z
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Found it. IPV6 bites again. On the plus side, I realize how many people are using ipv6 over ipv4 now.
(DIR) Post #B2EEqIk6ugWdN51qCW by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-04T01:39:33.000Z
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It's not always DNS sometimes it's SELinux
(DIR) Post #B2HXTlUYL8haTgbC64 by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-14T17:01:05.000Z
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Everyone's metrics are going to be skewed based on the algorithms they run. In the past platforms like nostr.band used pubkey activity/interaction, follow lists and so on. Since we can't know who's a real person, or what activity is real (in real-time anyway) we will never have accurate metrics on nostr activity. Just about every metric of nostr can be manipulated. Finally, may users are on "private" relays that aren't federated, outbox/inbox are further decentralizing this activity as well. Those metrics can't be counted either. The best you could do is work with a largely federated or used relay and apply your metrics algorithm to it. Again still only a portion of the network.
(DIR) Post #B2LbbGw50VTSTY9JfE by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T04:23:47.000Z
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Offline is going to be a symbol of the "rich". Those who can afford to be off devices. So many jobs (even blue collar) require interacting with smart phones for the day job. Interacting with banking, ordering food, paying for stuff. Having to pay inflation prices for experiences, travel, etc.
(DIR) Post #B2LbbKCUrvOAbKqyAa by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T16:06:53.000Z
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Also _my_ point. It's nearly impossible to communicate with the outside world without the internet in some form. Even life without a smartphone is physically difficult let alone socially difficult. I'm literally a walking, sometimes talking, edge case. I carry cash - stores don't have humans anymore. I don't carry a smartphone - restaurants only have QR code menus, or event's requiring tickets don't use physical tickets anymore. The local subway/train this year dropped all non-smartphone ticketing systems. They require a smartphone with internet, NFC, and GPS from what i've been told to ride the subway.
(DIR) Post #B2LbrpZvyQz8YGgdEG by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T16:10:10.000Z
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And just about every retired person I know (most don't retire till their 70s) spends a significant portion of their time on facebook. They do often socialize, mostly drive around town slowly and cause traffic backups though. Florida got too expensive so they can't afford to leave anymore XD Probably a poor area type of thing.
(DIR) Post #B2Li0VlLcM0hQPY0nY by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T16:44:26.000Z
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The OP is a prediction to be clear. I also believe it already _is_ a class issue. You will be treated differently by your friends and family, if you don't do things online or carry a smartphone. When someone asks me for GPS directions, I have to smile and say no, I cant. When someone asks me to look up when or where something is. Sorry can't do that, give me your phone. Bruh...Hey can you put on some music. Yeah what radio station do you listen to? Bruh... Where do you want to eat? Idk grab the phone book? Have any menus in your drawer? Bruh. It's already done.
(DIR) Post #B2Li0XAuMo3BnyVwHI by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T17:03:14.000Z
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I got into tech from the ground floor, electronics and circuits. Working my way up, I realized unless I write it all myself 99.999% of devs don't see every one of these issues a problem, nor a problem they can solve. It compounds. The only solution I can see right now, is to opt out. I don't don't want a Google device, I don't like them, I don't want to pay Google a dime. So I'm left with basically no options for a usable smartphone base. That's the TLDR. In college I worked with a team that was building a device to track packets. What we learned is that so long as a device had a radio in it and the radio/modem was powered on, we could know your physical proximity to a single array antenna within about 2 meters. Since then I realized there is no way out. I then learned how digital radios work, wrote firmware for them. Any antenna with an amplifier can pick up signals the analog end is tuned to. It's the system (os/driver) developer's job to filter out useless information. Which means that so long as you have a radio tuned to the same frequency everyone else is using (wifi, bluetooth, 4G-5G) the modem sees every packet that matches the preamble and decides to handle it, or drop it. So every wifi device, for example, reads every wifi packet from every device in it's radius. It sees the hardware (mac address) of every device and decides to pass it or discard it. If you wanted to listen, it's called promiscuous mode, most wifi hardware supports it and most linux and windows network drivers support it. You can install a program right now, on any wifi enabled linux device, and see the approximate proximity (based on rssi) and the hardware address of every wifi enabled device around you. You could record all day long. You can know who is driving by your house, how often, what direction they were headed (and approximately how fast they were going) if they stopped at a red light, or even how much wireless activity was happening and then suggest they were using their phone while parked. No special hardware required. If you have a radio, it can be monitored. If you record audio, they can recover the 60hz (and harmonics) noise from the power grid and determine your approximate location and time.
(DIR) Post #B2Li0XxpQvBMFhP0Wu by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T17:07:29.000Z
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Also, incase you were wondering, we were close to Washington DC. That project was sponsored, and the students running it were hired to government agencies and defense contractors.
(DIR) Post #B2LlO1mD3Z89Elr7bc by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T17:55:26.000Z
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I think the common pitfall is many assume you can still have the same level of conveniences simply with more security. I'm here to suggest it's not worth the effort. Finding alternatives to the same things often just complicates your life without adding any net increase in privacy/security. As long as you're working against natural human behavior, you're going to lose. For example, drinkers can become pot smokers when they want to quit. Pot smokers can become drinkers when they need to get clean for a new job. They substitute one vice for another to get the singular outcome they require for the moment while maintaining a similar level of "relief" but still having the same level of DUI risk. (remember this an example lol) So long as your device has a radio, I don't care how much nerds will sell you on buzzwords, like linux, encryption, and tor, lora, mesh networks, etc. If it generates a signal, it can be tracked, it just matters how that applies to your life. It doesn't matter if you cover your face or change your clothes, your gate identifies you no matter where you go. There isn't enough entropy in all human behavior to make it untraceable. If you're too random, you're unique and therefor traceable. If you're too similar you're tracked with the herd, so anytime you step out, you're again unique and traceable.On the few podcast episodes I did, I wanted to get across to the audience that the human behavior aspect. You could use any anti-tracking tool in the world, but if you open your browser at the same time every day, and look the same stuff up with the same tools, you've once again been identified. Now some of this is completely true. Some of this is only true if attention is paid to you. Right now... I'm arguing that a future exists where we're our human behavior is monitored by so many metrics, that it doesn't matter what you use, so long as it generates signals you're behavior is identifiable. I'm suggesting focusing on how you can control your interaction with tech. Limit the information that can be traced. It can be done, not all hope is lost, and not every action is futile, but if you don't understand what's being tracked, you can never fully understand how to protect yourself. You'd just be like everyone else in the cyber crowd that jumps from VPN or Email service every few years when they learn the service had a compromise or a bad privacy policy. So my advice is, If you're in tech for a living, you should really invest some time into how things really work. If you're not in tech limit your interaction as much as possible.
(DIR) Post #B2LmrasXj6N2SNTq8u by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-16T18:12:56.000Z
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The reason I couldn't get on a plane 5 years ago without getting a strip search and a groping is the same reason I assume I'm actively monitored by at least one nation state... For what? I wish I knew. I just try to have things that can't be used against me. I keep a physical receipt from any place I can, incase I ever need to prove my whereabouts. The issue is often that when an agency raids your house they take everything and you have to fight to get it back. Meaning they could easily tamper with your ability to defend yourself. You need multiple copies of things in different places. It's also useful to be awake between 4-6 AM on routine incase they try to kick your door in XD
(DIR) Post #B2mW3xfToCbLiChCfw by 036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58@mostr.pub
2026-01-29T15:19:33.000Z
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You can run Libre Office on Windows :)