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  • Loaditfor.me – experiment with AI

    Loaditfor.me – experiment with AI

    Audio version of this blog: I am doing some coding experiments with AI. This one is now public, although I don’t know how long I will run it in this form. Anyway,…

  • Encrypted communication between programs and mobile devices

    Encrypted communication between programs and mobile devices

    Listen to the blog as audio here I’ve already written about the need for encrypted communications and encrypted communicators. However, my focus has been on communication between people – whether written, voice,…

  • You don’t have to do it, a better life awaits

    You don’t have to do it, a better life awaits

    Listen to the blog as audio here. Today I read this: “You can simply walk away from the modern systems of slavery.Why don’t you?” – Max Hillebrand Of course Max wrote it…

  • GDPR – How Not to Protect User Privacy

    GDPR – How Not to Protect User Privacy

    Today, I have read a tweet praising positive impact of GDPR on security and privacy. As a founder of several security companies (being on the “receiving” end of this regulation – clients…

  • How I save my time and attention with value4value podcasts

    How I save my time and attention with value4value podcasts

    Audio version: I switched to podcasting 2.0, which allows you to send micropayments to a content creator over the Lightning Network, a long time ago. In my Slovak language podcast, at the end of…

  • Rich people don’t (have to) pay taxes

    Rich people don’t (have to) pay taxes

    The core of this text is a thought experiment, not science – and it’s perfectly OK if you disagree with it. I found this thought experiment to be an interesting take on…

  • How to start with Nostr using Primal

    How to start with Nostr using Primal

    We are all waiting on Nostr social network for you. If you don’t know how to get on, I’ve prepared a video tutorial. First, install the Primal app. Then follow this video…

  • Situational awareness on A(S/G)I – a (somewhat) cypherpunk perspective

    Situational awareness on A(S/G)I – a (somewhat) cypherpunk perspective

    After reading (well, listening to) Leopold Aschenbrenner’s set of essays (more of a book) called SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead, I decided to: First of all. Leopold Aschenbrenner is an industry insider,…

  • Lightning network – the payment network of the Internet

    Lightning network – the payment network of the Internet

    This text is a part of my new book The Orange Flash of Freedom: Understanding and using the Bitcoin Lightning network Although most bitcoin users look primarily at price and earnings, bitcoin…

  • Orange summer: slow down, turn on, tune in, drop out

    Orange summer: slow down, turn on, tune in, drop out

    TLDR: Bitcoin prolongs time preferences. Fiat mine (job) is short time preference. Bitcoin class of 2018+ have experienced Bitcoin, and what it leads to – peer to peer instead of hierarchy, decentralization,…