Edward Snowden
Snowden@Nostr-Check.com
Bio: I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public. Author, "Permanent Record": https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250237231/permanentrecord
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lontivero
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May 30, 2024
#WasabiWallet is going to remove its dependency on a central server. There will be two independent components:
* Wallet API, the one that provides compact filters for wallet synchronization, and
* WabiSabi API for coordinating coinjoins.
Privacy warriors can run one or both. On the client side, In the settings page, users will be able to select the Wallet service provider and the Coinjoin service provider. Other services such as transaction fee rate provider and exchange rate providers are configurable too.
* Wallet API, the one that provides compact filters for wallet synchronization, and
* WabiSabi API for coordinating coinjoins.
Privacy warriors can run one or both. On the client side, In the settings page, users will be able to select the Wallet service provider and the Coinjoin service provider. Other services such as transaction fee rate provider and exchange rate providers are configurable too.
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lontivero
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May 31, 2024
There are currently **five** Wasabi coordinators:
```bash
echo '["REQ", "coordinators", {"kinds":[15750]} ]' \
| websocat -n wss://relay.primal.net \
| jq 'select(.[2].tags[] | .[0] == "network" and .[1] == "mainnet") | {content: .[2].content, endpoint: (.[2].tags[] | select(.[0] == "endpoint") | .[1])}'
```
```bash
echo '["REQ", "coordinators", {"kinds":[15750]} ]' \
| websocat -n wss://relay.primal.net \
| jq 'select(.[2].tags[] | .[0] == "network" and .[1] == "mainnet") | {content: .[2].content, endpoint: (.[2].tags[] | select(.[0] == "endpoint") | .[1])}'
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kevskewl
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May 16, 2024
Today it's a given that permission is required. 
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jb55
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May 4, 2024
I suddenly find myself much more interested in coinjoin protocols. funny how being attacked tends to do that. fucking with bitcoiners is not going to work out well for them.
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OpenSecret
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May 30, 2024
Announcing: Harbor, an ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/
Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.
Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.
Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.
Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/harbor/
Privacy for the common person is a value worth fighting for. When we see a lack of freedom tools, we must build them into existence. They don't appear on their own.
Much has been said about privacy at the Bitcoin protocol level. For now, we build it on higher layers where we can be more nimble.
Ecash is a tool available today that combines with Bitcoin to bring new levels of common privacy. Cashu and Fedimint are two existing implementations we're interested in.
Harbor Privacy: All communication runs over Tor. Mutiny is not in the middle of any connections or transactions. Funds in the wallet get a Privacy Score to show how the mints provide privacy over time. More to come on this in the future.
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Max
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Jun 1, 2024
New Wasabi Wallet release v2.0.8
https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.0.8
📌 Exclude UTXOs from autocoinjoin
🌎 Coordinator selection in GUI
❄️ Tor bridges
💥 Tails & Whonix OS support
💾 Install Linux udev rules for hardware wallets
https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.0.8
📌 Exclude UTXOs from autocoinjoin
🌎 Coordinator selection in GUI
❄️ Tor bridges
💥 Tails & Whonix OS support
💾 Install Linux udev rules for hardware wallets
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final [GrapheneOS] 📱👁️🗨️
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Jun 1, 2024
#GrapheneOS version 2024053100 released. Duress Password is finally here.
- add support for setting a duress password and PIN for quickly wiping all hardware keystore keys including keys used as part of deriving the key encryption keys for disk encryption to make all OS data unrecoverable followed by wiping eSIMs and then shutting down
- disable unused adoptable storage support since it would complicate duress password support (support can be added if we ever support a device able to use it)
- increase default max password length to 128 to improve support for strong diceware passphrases, which will become more practical for people who don't want biometric-only secondary unlock with our upcoming 2-factor fingerprint unlock feature
- disable camera lockscreen shortcut functionality when camera access while locked is disabled to avoid the possibility of misconfiguration by adding the camera lockscreen shortcut and
- add support for setting a duress password and PIN for quickly wiping all hardware keystore keys including keys used as part of deriving the key encryption keys for disk encryption to make all OS data unrecoverable followed by wiping eSIMs and then shutting down
- disable unused adoptable storage support since it would complicate duress password support (support can be added if we ever support a device able to use it)
- increase default max password length to 128 to improve support for strong diceware passphrases, which will become more practical for people who don't want biometric-only secondary unlock with our upcoming 2-factor fingerprint unlock feature
- disable camera lockscreen shortcut functionality when camera access while locked is disabled to avoid the possibility of misconfiguration by adding the camera lockscreen shortcut and
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mrecheese 🧀
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Jun 2, 2024
#GrapheneOS duress password in action. This is on a sacrificial Pixel 6a. I did it a few times, and let me tell you, DO NOT screw around with this. You get no second chance. It's gone. Instantly. And it's beautiful.
@final [GrapheneOS] 📱👁️🗨️ @sommerfeld
@final [GrapheneOS] 📱👁️🗨️ @sommerfeld
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brah
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May 26, 2024
Have no concept of time. Carry a sack of wampum shells. Leave your buffalo blow horn at home. Head out into the land like this once a week and enjoy life without any analog bullshit. Thank me later.
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Meredith Whittaker
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May 31, 2024
Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.
It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.
See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @Patrick Breyer
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.
It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.
See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @Patrick Breyer
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jb55
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May 28, 2024
Interesting thread on faraday pouch testing to completely hide your phone from cell towers, which can triangulate you even when your phone is off:
https://x.com/mattblaze/status/1459317933566578690
https://x.com/mattblaze/status/1459317933566578690
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walker
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May 28, 2024
When I criticize Biden, NPCs assume I’m pro-Trump.
When I criticize Trump, NPCs assume I’m pro-Biden.
The NPC mind cannot fathom that someone can be critical of *both* parties.
There is no red.
There is no blue.
There is the State.
And there is you.
When I criticize Trump, NPCs assume I’m pro-Biden.
The NPC mind cannot fathom that someone can be critical of *both* parties.
There is no red.
There is no blue.
There is the State.
And there is you.
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Edward Snowden
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May 28, 2024
Replying to @Edward Snowden
I'm not trying to make you guys wrap yourself in tinfoil— almost nobody needs to be as paranoid as I am, and even I am tremendously lazy about opsec these days. The key is *awareness*: to simply be cognizant of what kind of records you're generating as you go about your life, so you can make informed, reasoned judgments about how much of it you can leave hanging out, and what parts of it you'd rather pay an effort-tax to shield from appearing in somebody's (or everybody's) database.
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Edward Snowden
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May 28, 2024
Replying to @npub13fce6
If you take your phone between even just your home and work —doxxed locations— it is trivial to associate it with your true-name identity even if all of the hardware and services are perfectly anonymous. Even journalists have managed these kind of investigations. "Anonymized" location data is unfortunely not anonymous — it *can never* be anonymous. And yet it is sold like any other product.
Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, the movements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work in the same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying.
Your phone's movements through physical space are unique. Even if you live in a building of 400 people, the movements of 399 of them are not going to match the tower records of your phone's movements. Even if you work in the same office. People's geographic movements are unique—and identifying.
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Edward Snowden
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May 28, 2024
Replying to @Uno
GrapheneOS is good if you've got to carry one. The point is never to forget that if you're carrying a phone, you're still being tracked, even if you're limiting the damage from app-based threats. It is baked into the design oftheinfrastructure: if you can see the network, the network can see you. And it takes notes.
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Edward Snowden
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May 28, 2024
Replying to @Uno
Your phone could be made of magic, but it's still gonna leave a record of your movements with the cellular towers.
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Edward Snowden
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May 28, 2024
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets
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Jeff Booth
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May 23, 2024
It seems like only yesterday that #Nostr started. Was surprised to learn that we’re already over 1,600,000 users. Thanks to all people here that make this place special and all of the developers creating ever improving user experiences and utility.
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Laeserin
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Apr 23, 2024
Let's normalize Tor integration on Nostr.
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Gigi
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Apr 23, 2024
Oh, how low reddit has fallen. 
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Lyn Alden
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Apr 22, 2024
The Congressional Budget Office expects about $20 trillion in net new federal bonds to be issued over the next ten years (cumulative deficits). This assumes that 1) interest rates will be lower than now and that also 2) there will be no recessions during that time. If either of those scenario are untrue, bond issuance is likely to be higher than that.
In comparison, at current production rates and prices, about $2.5 trillion worth of new refined gold is expected to be mined over the next ten years. Production can go up a bit, but gold production changes are generally pretty slow within a given decade, especially with current capex. However, price could change a lot depending on how much capital wants to flow in/out.
Finally, at current prices, about $70 billion of new bitcoin will be mined over the next ten years. The production rate
In comparison, at current production rates and prices, about $2.5 trillion worth of new refined gold is expected to be mined over the next ten years. Production can go up a bit, but gold production changes are generally pretty slow within a given decade, especially with current capex. However, price could change a lot depending on how much capital wants to flow in/out.
Finally, at current prices, about $70 billion of new bitcoin will be mined over the next ten years. The production rate
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jack
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Apr 23, 2024
global search is critical
npub1wmr34
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Apr 22, 2024
Hey did you know most relays don’t support the nip-50 search which means that search isn’t working well on Nostr? We need to make search better and perhaps help users make sure they’re connected to at least some search supported relays. Otherwise nostr feels broken and empty.
I think this is because strfry is so good at most relay tasks it has come to dominate, but it doesn’t do search. That’s not what it’s optimized for.
I think this is because strfry is so good at most relay tasks it has come to dominate, but it doesn’t do search. That’s not what it’s optimized for.
npub1j60x5
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Apr 22, 2024
In many of the “what should Nostr do next” threads over the past few weeks some users have noted search isnt great across Nostr.
This morning our team looked up the relays that support NIP50 - the search NIP and there are some but very few of the major ones folks connect to support search.
We have built our relays on strfry which prioritizes speedy return of npubs rather than indexing.
Curious if folks are relying on something other than NIP50 for search?
Also curious what is or is not motivating implementation of NIP50 amongst relay managers?
This morning our team looked up the relays that support NIP50 - the search NIP and there are some but very few of the major ones folks connect to support search.
We have built our relays on strfry which prioritizes speedy return of npubs rather than indexing.
Curious if folks are relying on something other than NIP50 for search?
Also curious what is or is not motivating implementation of NIP50 amongst relay managers?
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Edward Snowden
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Apr 20, 2024
Happy Halvening to those who celebrate.
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Edward Snowden
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Apr 18, 2024
Read just the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (free via Project Gutenberg etc) and tell me that he didn't have his finger precisely on the pulse — in the 1850s — of the root cause of the authoritarian war for majoritarian supremacy that we're witnessing today. Censorship, the compelled worship of an ever-shifting orthodoxy, the construction and desecration of idols before the temple of consensus— it's all the same thing, arising from the same source, and awaiting a similar solution. In times of trouble, we should look more to our history.
Read your Mill, brothers.
Read your Mill, brothers.
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jack
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Apr 17, 2024
rights aren’t given, they’re taken.
bitcoin and nostr help you take and defend them, peacefully.
bitcoin and nostr help you take and defend them, peacefully.
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Erik
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Nov 20, 2023
Relay operator using #cloudflare proxy, please do this to let people connect to your relay over #Tor
Go to your site settings
Click in "security" -> "WAF" -> "Create Rule"
Fill the fields like this:
Field: Country
Operator: equals
Value: Tor
Action: Skip
Scroll a little and click in "more components to skip" and select "Security level".
Go to your site settings
Click in "security" -> "WAF" -> "Create Rule"
Fill the fields like this:
Field: Country
Operator: equals
Value: Tor
Action: Skip
Scroll a little and click in "more components to skip" and select "Security level".
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Luxas
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Apr 16, 2024
Replying to @jb55
Yup that will fix it. You could check the WAF logs and it'd show previously Tor users were getting challenged. As it's a websocket connection this would've been a "silent" challenge as they never would have been able to see the challenge and it'd amount to be blocked entirely lol. Cloudflare really should have some better documentation around this.
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Edward Snowden
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Apr 16, 2024
I'm suddenly getting traffic from damus now. Thank you both! Other relay operators should take a look at this:
jb55
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Apr 16, 2024
No! I just enabled it. Thank you!
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jb55
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Apr 16, 2024
I just added this to the damus relay, let me known if you connect via tor now!
Erik
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Nov 20, 2023
Relay operator using #cloudflare proxy, please do this to let people connect to your relay over #Tor
Go to your site settings
Click in "security" -> "WAF" -> "Create Rule"
Fill the fields like this:
Field: Country
Operator: equals
Value: Tor
Action: Skip
Scroll a little and click in "more components to skip" and select "Security level".
Go to your site settings
Click in "security" -> "WAF" -> "Create Rule"
Fill the fields like this:
Field: Country
Operator: equals
Value: Tor
Action: Skip
Scroll a little and click in "more components to skip" and select "Security level".
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Edward Snowden
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Apr 16, 2024
Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?
Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and
Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and
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SimplifiedPrivacy.com
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Nov 16, 2023
Pro/Con of “Privacy” Phone Numbers/Services
JMP.chat
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP to XMPP (or Matrix) for anonymous Bitcoin, so you're using an open source client
Con: Only US and Canada numbers. They're just reselling Twillio VoIP, which means that not only are you just paying more just for anonymity, but many services recognize these as Twillio VoIP numbers and will block you.
Solutions: There exists the possibility of buying a real world physical SIM and then transferring over service to JMP VoIP. But you’re better off using 1 time burner services for most account registry.
Hushed
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP for Bitcoin, similar to JMP.chat
Con: Uses their proprietary client which isn’t private through the Google Play store. I’d avoid Hushed.
Silent Link
Type: Number + Service
Pro: No KYC Crypto SIM
JMP.chat
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP to XMPP (or Matrix) for anonymous Bitcoin, so you're using an open source client
Con: Only US and Canada numbers. They're just reselling Twillio VoIP, which means that not only are you just paying more just for anonymity, but many services recognize these as Twillio VoIP numbers and will block you.
Solutions: There exists the possibility of buying a real world physical SIM and then transferring over service to JMP VoIP. But you’re better off using 1 time burner services for most account registry.
Hushed
Type: Number
Pro: No KYC VoIP for Bitcoin, similar to JMP.chat
Con: Uses their proprietary client which isn’t private through the Google Play store. I’d avoid Hushed.
Silent Link
Type: Number + Service
Pro: No KYC Crypto SIM
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nobody
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Nov 9, 2023
Replying to @Edward Snowden
Here is this for you as of 2022
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Kajoozie Maflingo
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Nov 9, 2023
Replying to @Edward Snowden
Bruh you gotta ask for napkins now
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corndalorian
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Nov 9, 2023
Wouldn’t be surprised. Other cost saving measures I’ve seen at all our local McDonald’s:
- cash registers not manned and ordering kiosks are the preferred way to order now
- no more drink machines in dining area, so you have to ask for refills at the counter (which is sparsely staff due to the ordering kiosks)
- no condiments or napkins available in dining area, so you have to ask for them at the counter.
- cash registers not manned and ordering kiosks are the preferred way to order now
- no more drink machines in dining area, so you have to ask for refills at the counter (which is sparsely staff due to the ordering kiosks)
- no condiments or napkins available in dining area, so you have to ask for them at the counter.
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Edward Snowden
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Nov 9, 2023
OK, so you guys showed me McDonald's jacked prices at least 130% on the core budget item: the mcchicken. Mentally recalculating McDs as "literally more than twice as expensive is a doozy, sure but what I really wanna know: did they do any shrinkflation on top of that to really wring out the margin? Smaller patties, cups, fries, cheese or something? Or was it all just pure price action?
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corndalorian
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Nov 8, 2023
Dollar menu isn’t completely gone but the options aren’t pretty 😅 Took a road trip with my family and a quick stop at McDonald’s was over $30 for just me, my wife, and our 2 small kids. Blew my mind.
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Edward Snowden
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Nov 9, 2023
The replies here are crazy. Mom, Pop, and two kids getting hit by McDonald's for $30. You used to be able to get McChickens and Double Cheeseburgers off the dollar menu. I remember it being a lifeline for broke teens. We need a burgers-per-labor-hour inflation metric.
corndalorian
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Nov 8, 2023
Dollar menu isn’t completely gone but the options aren’t pretty 😅 Took a road trip with my family and a quick stop at McDonald’s was over $30 for just me, my wife, and our 2 small kids. Blew my mind.
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z2theach
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Nov 8, 2023
Interesting. Maybe even have the ability to time lock the post. Say, post anonymously for 24 hours to allow for neutral discourse, and reveal after a certain time lock.
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Edward Snowden
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Nov 8, 2023
It just occurred to me, due to a nostr bug, that it might actually be pretty cool to have social media hide *who authored* the posts on your TL to force a kind of double-blind perspective. You'd know the post or reply is (or probably is) from one of the people you follow, but you wouldn't be so quick to agree (and perhaps might even be more willing to disagree) if you aren't just smashing the heart button as a reflex because you like the guy. It might make discussions more communal and disagreements less personal if you knew that you're still talking to someone you generally like and respect, but you don't know whether it's "that one guy on the internet" or, like, your actual Mom.
(Nostr, due to ramshackle Tor support, often displays notes from people without correctly fetching their profiles for me, so I find
(Nostr, due to ramshackle Tor support, often displays notes from people without correctly fetching their profiles for me, so I find
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mcshane
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Nov 8, 2023
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Mike Dilger ☑️
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Nov 6, 2023
Replying to @npub1n9h6t
I don't have a workaround.
I think @Edward Snowden has experienced similar issues with his client (iris/daisy/?). A relay doesn't need explicit support for tor, but it mustn't block tor exit nodes. I suppose some relays are run at ISPs which block tor exit nodes by policy. It would be good to determine which relays are like that.
Tor will be slower because the service of onion routing isn't free, and network traffic is the slowest part of modern computing.
I think @Edward Snowden has experienced similar issues with his client (iris/daisy/?). A relay doesn't need explicit support for tor, but it mustn't block tor exit nodes. I suppose some relays are run at ISPs which block tor exit nodes by policy. It would be good to determine which relays are like that.
Tor will be slower because the service of onion routing isn't free, and network traffic is the slowest part of modern computing.
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Don't ₿elieve The Vibe 🦊
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Nov 8, 2023
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Lyn Alden
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Nov 6, 2023
A gave a talk at the New Orleans Investment Conference the other day. At 50 years and counting, it is the longest continually-running investment conference in the country, and possibly the world.
It is diminished from its heyday due to broader competition and online investment media, but it has a certain air to it. Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, and Steve Forbes have spoken at it, among many others. It is mostly a boomer/gold/resource/conservative/libertarian conference, and gets the best from that crowd, but otherwise is not huge. The guy who has run it for decades took it over long ago from the original founder, and he wants to freshen it up and modernize it a bit and throw some hand grenades into his own conference, so he invited me to talk. He is a gold guy, a resource guy, an old-school
It is diminished from its heyday due to broader competition and online investment media, but it has a certain air to it. Ayn Rand, Ron Paul, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, and Steve Forbes have spoken at it, among many others. It is mostly a boomer/gold/resource/conservative/libertarian conference, and gets the best from that crowd, but otherwise is not huge. The guy who has run it for decades took it over long ago from the original founder, and he wants to freshen it up and modernize it a bit and throw some hand grenades into his own conference, so he invited me to talk. He is a gold guy, a resource guy, an old-school
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Edward Snowden
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Nov 3, 2023
I think inertia is leading us toward a quantified state, in which the costs of tracking and categorizing objects — primarily people, phones, cars, and money — as they move from place to place becomes so low that most institutions are doing it by reflex, without either considering or caring for consequences. Eventually, somebody is going to exploit the gap in information (between what is available to ordinary people, and what is available to organizations) in a way that causes enormous, historic harm, as happened in WWII when a particular state realized that IBM had compiled a database that was perfect for populating a list of names of those who would soon be marched off to camps. And that was just census data. Now they know what you read, where you go, who you're with, and how you'll vote.
The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that
The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that
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Alex Li
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Nov 2, 2023
When @jack asked @Edward Snowden about ways the public can help bring him home, Snowden wasn't optimistic about his chances but used the opportunity to speak about the importance of #freeassange
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Edward Snowden
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Nov 2, 2023
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Edward Snowden
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Oct 23, 2023
"Stop resisting, Stop resisting!" is one of the most instantly recognizable phrases of the new American century. When you read the words, you can probably still hear them shouted in your head, the echoing memory of a generational trauma, the indelible recollection of the moment that the citizen became subordinate to the state.
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Edward Snowden
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Oct 21, 2023
Compliance is a dirty word.
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Edward Snowden
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Oct 21, 2023
Starting to see some nice lifestyle photos on nostr. Gentlest touch of an Instagram vibe, but less commercial. Positive.
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mcshane
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Oct 2, 2023
Julian Assange's wife & brother are now on Nostr. #freejulian
Stella: @Stella Assange
Gabriel: @Gabriel Shipton
Give them a warm welcome as they navigate our growing protocol 💜
Stella: @Stella Assange
Gabriel: @Gabriel Shipton
Give them a warm welcome as they navigate our growing protocol 💜
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Edward Snowden
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Sep 28, 2023
Angry about Armenia. Angry about a lot of things. So many feelings, so little to say.
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Edward Snowden
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Sep 22, 2023
People still really haven't appreciated how bad the car thing is. Or the phone thing. They think they do, but they don't. The full range of capabilities has yet to be used routinely — companies and states are both trying to keep it beneath the waterline. The public is intended to be unsure what it is that they're looking at, and why it matters. It is the news report playing in the background of a disaster movie. It is the half-glimpsed monster from a horror reel — implied, but never fully shown.
History is still going to look back at this period with enormous bewilderment that we did not do more to stop what is coming. The signs were there.
History is still going to look back at this period with enormous bewilderment that we did not do more to stop what is coming. The signs were there.
npub1r0rs5
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Sep 14, 2023
Our phones spy on us
Our cars spy on us
Our software spies on us
Our stores spy on us
Our social media spies on us
Our credit cards spy on us
Our banks spy on us
Our internet providers spy on us
3 letter agencies spy on us
We could do with less spying.
Our cars spy on us
Our software spies on us
Our stores spy on us
Our social media spies on us
Our credit cards spy on us
Our banks spy on us
Our internet providers spy on us
3 letter agencies spy on us
We could do with less spying.
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roya ୨୧
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Aug 25, 2023
really cool that in less than a year, nostr has become the main place i go to when i’m on my phone.
i used to post on instagram & twitter frequently, but i find it much more fulfilling to post pictures/notes on nostr. it’s not the zaps, or the clients doing, but rather the serene & solace feeling nostr encapsulates.
after being raised by the internet in its later years, i finally get the chance to breath and be able to experience what the internet felt like in the beginning. no utter dread. no engagement farming, & manipulation advertisement tactics.
this is how it was supposed to be.
i used to post on instagram & twitter frequently, but i find it much more fulfilling to post pictures/notes on nostr. it’s not the zaps, or the clients doing, but rather the serene & solace feeling nostr encapsulates.
after being raised by the internet in its later years, i finally get the chance to breath and be able to experience what the internet felt like in the beginning. no utter dread. no engagement farming, & manipulation advertisement tactics.
this is how it was supposed to be.
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Edward Snowden
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Sep 14, 2023
I'm never going to take a "recovered alien body" photo seriously if it looks humanoid. We flatter ourselves thinking they'd look like us. You want my attention, you need to show me a cuttlefish adapted for space. It better not be cute, either. It needs that "long-distance trucker estranged from his family" energy. I need to feel so sorry looking at that poor bastard that I get jet lag by proxy.
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Edward Snowden
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Sep 13, 2023
Sure! I'll get in touch.
jack
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Sep 13, 2023
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Edward Snowden
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Sep 12, 2023
yeah the fudge-rounds line was dumb but my man is singing his heart out
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Edward Snowden
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Sep 9, 2023
The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?
The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.
The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.
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Edward Snowden
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Aug 29, 2023
Every time I return to this app, it has improved.
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Edward Snowden
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Feb 18, 2023
The bad news: Twitter's insanely puritan algorithm just massively deboosted my tweets because I posted a baby picture.
The good news: nostr still works just fine.
The good news: nostr still works just fine.
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Edward Snowden
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Feb 11, 2023
Do you think the CIA still does this?
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