Thomas Farstrike

Senior embedded developer. Lead developer for and @LightningPiggy. Working on #Bitcoin #Lightning projects. The future is bright!

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

GrapheneOS opposes authoritarianism. It's a core part of why we're building privacy technology as part of a non-profit open source project. We're opposed to it regardless of whether it comes from left, center or right. The flood of people lying about what we believe and have said won't change this.

Our beliefs are not defined by what people who use GrapheneOS or donate to it believe. We decide what's acceptable within our community and we do a lot of moderation. We don't police what's done fully outside it. We clearly won't only have users, donors and supporters with beliefs aligned with ours.

We don't usually allow much political discussion in our community unless it's directly related to GrapheneOS. Today has been a very good demonstration of why that's the case. Many people are unable to tolerate even a minor disagreement on semantics without being absolutely enraged over it.

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@PlanBpassport Why did you skip Paraguay 🇵🇾

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

The EU's Chat Control fight just reignited, and critics warn the worst case is back on the table: mass scanning of private messages, detection orders without a judicial warrant, and the end of anonymous communication through forced age verification.

Former MEP Patrick Breyer is warning of what he calls a "double attack" on encrypted messaging: EU government envoys met Friday to try to revive lapsed rules allowing "voluntary" scanning of private chats, and Monday June 29 brings the final trilogue on the permanent Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (Chat Control 2.0).

Parliament rejected extending the old scanning rules in March and they expired in April. Breyer claims EP President Roberta Metsola is maneuvering to force another vote, which Politico has also reported. Backers, including the Commission, call it child protection.

Civil society has relaunched https://t.co/BOffvuyohe to push MEPs before Monday.

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@HeroOfBitcoin First of all, stating the obvious: Adobe is a shitcoin 😜

But I would think they have browser-based versions of their tools nowadays? Or a competitor does?

You can probably run them (or a previous version) in Wine - ask opencode to set it up for you. But why?!

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@we_satoshis @arkade_os No source code 😬

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@SanjoinM @wsl8297 Chrimp

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@RichLassiterMD The word "trying" is doing a lot of work there...

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@ErikVoorhees What if you would accept Bitcoin payments...?

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@ErikVoorhees If only we could pay you in Bitcoin!

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@AVB_21 404 error on https://t.co/pDo8ep0JU2 - am I too curious? I can't handle the hype!

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@ericvoorhees why don't you accept Bitcoin? Would be so simple! Have you seen the UX of @PPQdotAI ? So smooth!

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

There's a reason we built Venice

[Smiffy Big Coin @noufsmith]

Happy Birthday PGP, 35 years.

We can use cryptography thanks to Phil Zimmermann.

25 minutes with him in the comments.

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@we_satoshis @arkade_os When open source?

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@jurbed @XMRVoid How so? I use it. Which alternative do you recommend?

[Lyudmyla Kozlovska 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @LyudaKozlovska]

At a time of constant cyberattacks, EU institutions should defend VPNs as essential tools for online safety, free expression, and secure communication — not echo authoritarian talking points against encryption.

Digital privacy is human rights infrastructure. Strip it away, and the rest follows.
@EP_EPRS @EP_Justice

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@NickSzabo4 @RadioGenoa You don't understand. That WAS the cousin! ;-)

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@ErikVoorhees I hear you, and I tried last week, but couldn't find any "pay with Bitcoin" option, only stablecoins iirc, and those were giving me a "failed to communicate with payment provider" error or something 😕

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

I don't know who needs to hear this but Robinhood originally was not "steal from the rich, give to the poor". It was "take back tax money", like "reverse taxes". So "reverse Robinhood" is actually just "taxes" 😅

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

@we_satoshis Where's the source code?

[Thomas Farstrike @ThomasFarstrike]

🐐

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

@BasilTheGreat Will she ban the letters F, U, V, D, and L?