The Moral Case for Debt Repudiation
Public debt differs fundamentally from private debt: politicians pledge our wealth, bondholders knowingly invest in future theft, so repudiation restores justice.
Your Nostr Key Is Your Network Address
FIPS makes your Nostr npub a routable network address, unifying identity across social and infrastructure layers in a single self-sovereign keypair.
When Can We Meet? Cross-Server Busy Sync for Nextcloud
Nextcloud can't sync busy times across separate instances. This bash script uses CalDAV to share availability between multiple Nextcloud servers without exposing event details.
The Action That Accomplishes Nothing
Decentralization does not prevent the adversary from acting against you. It ensures that his action accomplishes nothing.
The Mobile Podcast Setup That Actually Works
Testing earbuds, wired mics, and USB-C wireless systems revealed the Yealink BH71 as the best mobile podcast solution for GrapheneOS.
The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable
When AI handles compilation and patching tasks, source-based computing finally escapes the domain of experts, ending decades of binary distribution monopoly.
Proving You Belong Without Saying Who You Are
Zero-knowledge proofs let Nostr users prove they're trusted without revealing their identity, enabling anonymous rate-limiting and reputation-gated relay access.
Computing on Secrets
Services no longer need to see data to compute on it. Cryptographic and hardware primitives make that contract a deployed reality.
The Colossus Falls - How to End All War
Wars persist because each generation consents to fight them; a generation that refused would be history's last to die in trenches.
Your Phone Without Permission Slips: The GrapheneOS Nostr Stack
GrapheneOS plus Zapstore, Amber, Citrine, Amethyst, and White Noise creates the first phone free from corporate control over your digital life.
Garland: Your Keys, Your Files, No Trusted Third Party
Garland turns Blossom blob storage into a virtual drive on your device. Your Nostr key is your password. No accounts, no cloud lock-in.
The Predator's Pedestal
The state is not society's protector but its predator, surviving through ideology and intellectual capture, growing through war, vulnerable to withdrawn consent.
No Papers Required: How Zapstore Breaks the App Store Checkpoint
Developer KYC creates chokepoints that authoritarian governments ruthlessly exploit. Zapstore restores permissionless software distribution using cryptographic identity instead of government papers.
The Anatomy of Aggression
Rothbard's typology classifies all state intervention into autistic, binary, and triangular forms, revealing the common thread of coercive aggression beneath policy complexity.
Know Your Enemy, Name Your Defenses
Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.
The Machine Cannot Want Your Job
Smart machines relocate comparative advantage; the weaker worker keeps value only where human judgment, ownership, and presence still command a premium.
Bitcoin Address Lookup: A Question of Privacy
Bitcoin wallets face a fundamental tradeoff: how to discover your transactions without revealing your addresses. Full nodes (2009) provide perfect privacy by downloading everything but require ~700 GB storage. Electrum (2011) achieves instant sync by transmitting your addresses directly to servers, exposing your complete transaction history. Block filters (2017-2019) restore privacy through client-side filtering - you download compact filters, check them locally, and only request matching blocks, revealing just block-level interest. Utreexo (2019) compresses the UTXO set from 11 GB to 480 bytes using cryptographic accumulators while maintaining full-node privacy, but requires 20% more bandwidth. Each approach trades privacy, storage, bandwidth, and convenience differently.
Trust Without Ceremonies: How Nostr Fixed the Web of Trust
PGP's web of trust failed because it demanded explicit rituals. Nostr succeeds by extracting trust from ordinary social behavior.
Garland: Exploring the Architecture
We're exploring an architecture for Garland: Cryptomator for encryption, Blossom for blob storage, Nostr for state. Your nsec becomes your Cryptomator password. We think this works - but we'd love your feedback before we commit.
When They Come for the Protocols
Governments cannot kill open protocols, so they imprison the humans who write them, spending $275 billion per year to catch nothing.
