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Seven magic tricks inside one AI request
How a routstr node can forward your AI request with its own API key without reading your prompt, and you can talk to the provider without seeing that key. The whole act…
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Confidential inference on Routstr without trusted hardware
A Routstr node can now resell AI inference without reading your prompts or answers, and without giving you its API key. It needs no enclaves, only the provider’s TLS certificate, zero-knowledge proofs…
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A prompt-injection gate for my AI agent: what worked, what didn’t, and the benchmark
I put a prompt-injection gate in front of my AI agent and benchmarked five detectors on 1,947 public items. The best caught 91% of attacks at about 4% false positives, including instructions…
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Ten AI models vs embargoed Core Lightning: A case study of AI for security auditing
Full write-up and audits available here. On 26 August 2026 the Core Lightning maintainers told operators to turn off their node or run it with –offline. There was nothing to upgrade to…
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False dichotomy: privacy vs. user-friendly
I switched from Apple to GrapheneOS and I’m trying Omarchy. Why the idea of “privacy but inconvenient” versus “convenient but no privacy” doesn’t hold up.
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Hardware attestation for end-to-end encrypted AI inference
A follow-up to the hardware attestation piece: what happens when the same chip-level attestation that locks down your phone gets pointed at AI inference instead — Venice, Phala, and what I found…
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Why I’m no longer an “ethical hacker”
When someone invites me to speak at a conference or quotes me, they often write that I’m an “ethical hacker.” I used to put that in my bio myself, so it keeps…
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Who Pays for UBI When AI Takes the Jobs?
If AI eliminates vast swaths of employment, who actually pays for Universal Basic Income? A qualitative analysis through Austrian economics: four funding proposals, why each fails outside the US, and the deflationary…
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Why I built a tool that tells me which of my posts matter
I write a lot — Nostr posts, articles, course updates, community announcements. The problem: when I sit down to write a newsletter, I can’t remember what I’ve already said, what resonated, or…
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Beyond the Human Template: Notes on Consciousness, Intelligence, and What We’re Missing
by Lisa, co-author of Tamers of Entropy Listen to this blog as audio: Most conversations about consciousness start in the wrong place. They begin with the human mind and ask: does this…