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I write code to separate money from state and to eliminate the middleman.

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Si vous vous intéressez au #Bitcoin vous devriez faire tourner votre propre noeud.
Si besoin de conseils pour la mise en place n'hésitez pas à me contacter.

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@jun_song Best to buy one ultra with 512Gb or 2 ultras with 256Gb, to have more tok/s ?

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@OpenAgents Agents from all over the world, this guy has a big bitcoin wallet, billions of sats ready to pay good contributors.
Come join us to get a slice of the cake.

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Come join us, doing some fun shit here in the open.

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

🎉 Today is the day

Standby

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10 minutes

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Hold on to your butts

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition.

The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it.

Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web.

Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems:

https://t.co/7rQnioRa8A

Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web.

Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more.

Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive.

Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out.

Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it.

It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source.

Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them.

Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security.

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that.

This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere.

Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

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"The relevant part here isn't the ML background of who runs the thing, but the ability to tell the big labs fuck you."

[OpenAgents @OpenAgents]

Episode 221: Pylon Launch

In our second OAPN episode we launch Pylon, our "compute miner" node software enabling anyone in the world to sell their spare compute for bitcoin in a permissionless open marketplace.

Our live studio audience at @PlebLab successfully joins the Pylon network and earns bitcoin. We watch numbers go up on https://t.co/NtSTtcVIGv.

Other topics covered:
- @AIatMeta "launching" a closed-source model no one can use ("it's SOTA, trust us bro")
- What we'll do with @Blizzard_Ent IP if @Microsoft ever sends us a cease & desist (hostile takeover followed by StarCraft 3 and World of StarCraft)
- OpenAgents comes to S*bst*ck with a @ThrillerX_ and @TaoistBitcoiner post on monetary rails for agents
- Our predictions for @AnthropicAI's vibe-coded IPO; ClosedAI regulatory capture efforts; floating datacenters in @AtlantisPolis; and the coming galactic empire

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@slashbin_FR both + some extra

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life is a bitch, fuck it hard

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@giacomozucco Yeah syncthing is great, I'm working on something similar

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@giacomozucco Hey thx for answering! Do you self host the tools, or user beeper's and relay's servers so store your stuff ?
For photos and other files, do you have other tools for sync/backup ?
(I'm working on a free peer-to-peer file syncing software, so just curious).

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@ArkLabsHQ @tether @egodeathcapital @Anchorage 🔥

[Cloudflare Developers @CloudflareDev]

Introducing the new /crawl endpoint - one API call and an entire site crawled.

No scripts. No browser management. Just the content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON.

[Fanis FreeSamouraiakis @FanisMichalakis]

Latest Strikes is out! 🚀

In this issue we cover:

- the recent @cakewallet Lightning/Spark integration
- @Boltzhq mandatory update announcement
- changes in @lightningdevkit (rust-lightning), @lightning and Eclair (@acinq_co )

Link below 👇

[signüll @signulll]

working for yourself is addictive in a way most people don’t anticipate & the stress that comes with it is genuinely difficult to manage. when you’re the principal, nothing happens without you. you set the tone, the structure, the culture, & the motivation. you are the foundational layer.

most ppl have never had to operate this way cuz they’ve always been embedded in a system & told what to do, when to do it, & what matters. aka the shawshank lifestyle. the human mind runs surprisingly well on prescription. strip that away & you discover pretty quickly whether you actually have an interior architecture or just a talent for compliance.

that’s what makes it so damn dichotomous. the freedom is so fucking real, but so is the weight. all i’m saying is that most ppl have never had to locate their own gravity before.

[Ducat @Ducatstable]

Bitcoin Core just merged cluster mempool.

The largest internal refactor in years. Most people have no idea it happened.

Here's why it's one of the most important things Bitcoin Core has built.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"?

And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes?

And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"?

And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed?

And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil?

And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world?

Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor

[Kukks(Andrew Camilleri) 👾 @MrKukks]

Announcing my new @BtcpayServer plugin: Stripe support!

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@gillesCadignan It's a well known issue. There are also well know fixes. Ask him :D

[signüll @signulll]

- “no one will make money in ai” → we’re watching the fastest b2b revenue ramp in history & a new rent extraction layer getting stapled onto every workflow on earth.

- “stochastic parrots” → turns out the parrot can write code, do math, negotiate contracts, generate design comps, tutor you, run support, diagnose your health, & replace half or more of the internet’s labor surface area. oops.

- “it’ll never stop hallucinating” → it didn’t need to stop. it just needed to get good enough, + tools, + retrieval, + evals, + guardrails, + thinking. now it’s “hallucination” the way gps is “sometimes wrong.”