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2025-05-13 01:47:06There was a time when Bitcoin smelled like ozone and rebellion. When men wore hoodies because they meant it. When software didn’t come with a mission statement or a DAO-approved pronoun guide. When the only thing a Bitcoin dev feared was being wrong, not being unpopular. \ \ That time is dead. \ \ It died somewhere between the fifth Twitter thread explaining why putting JPEGs on the base layer was “valid use,” and the fiftieth PR that added complexity to the engine in order to simplify the cupholders. Now we’re here, ankle-deep in a pool of our own mediocrity, arguing over whether we should triple the OP_RETURN limit so a VC-backed sidechain company can offload its plumbing costs onto your Raspberry Pi. \ \ Welcome to the future. It’s paved in GitHub comments and smells like a WeWork bathroom. \ \ Let’s speak plainly. This whole drama is not about OP_RETURN. It’s about power. Not electrical power. Not hash power. Soft power. The power to redefine what Bitcoin is for, one pull request at a time. It is the power to turn the protocol from a blunt, uncompromising monetary weapon into a polite corporate middleware bus for protocol startups that couldn’t raise a Series B without a little help from their friends in Core. \ \ Jameson Lopp wants to increase the OP_RETURN limit. Why? Because his company, Citrea, needs to squeeze a few more bytes into every transaction. It's not a crime. It’s not even dishonest. It's just pathetically on the nose. They don’t want to pay miners directly. They want the mempool to be their free emergency broadcast system. They want to lean on the public infrastructure without sending flowers or even a thank-you note. \ \ And what does Core say? \ \ They say yes. \ \ Because of “technical merit.” \ \ Because it’s “more efficient.” \ \ Because the devs have long since stopped being guardians of the protocol and started being unpaid product managers for whoever can string enough buzzwords together in a conference talk. \ \ You can see it in their eyes. You can hear it in their interviews. The Core devs aren’t building Bitcoin anymore. They’re managing Bitcoin. They’re curating it. Polishing it. Nerfing it for mass adoption. Like a bunch of Brooklyn baristas trying to make espresso kid-friendly. Bitcoin used to be an espresso shot poured directly into the mouth of the Federal Reserve. Now it’s a lukewarm latte with oat milk and consensus-breaking sprinkles. \ \ The worst part? The refusal to acknowledge that this is not about UTXO bloat. It's not about cleaner mempools. It’s about upstreaming corporate convenience into the base layer under the halo of neutrality. It’s about giving polite names to ugly compromises. “Policy adjustment.” “Ergonomic improvement.” “Relay optimization.” They speak in this weird dialect of bureaucratic techspeak that means nothing and does less. \ \ Meanwhile, the only thing that actually matters gets lost: ossification. \ \ The holy grail of this protocol is ossification. Not stagnation. Not laziness. Not gridlock. Just stability. The longer Bitcoin can go without consensus changes, the more credible it becomes. The more unchangeable it becomes. Like gravity. Like rust. It doesn’t matter how good your argument is. The system won’t budge. That’s the point. The value of Bitcoin isn’t in how clever the devs are. It’s in how irrelevant they become. \ \ But ossification isn't something you declare. You sneak up on it. You approach it sideways, like a wild animal. You do less and less until eventually you’re doing nothing at all, and nobody even remembers how to change the code anymore. That is the goal. To make the protocol so boring, so petrified, that no one can move it. Not Lopp. Not Luke. Not even Larry from Legal. \ \ To get there, we need something devs hate: client balkanization. \ \ That means splitting the client into pieces. Break the codebase. Separate the consensus engine from the policy fluff. Let people run different implementations. Let the free market decide what filters they want, what mempool rules they tolerate, what behavior they’re willing to relay. You want a node that bans inscriptions? Run it. You want a client that auto-forwards every transaction with a JPEG of your left toe? Go for it. Just don’t make it my problem. \ \ Right now, Bitcoin Core is a monoculture. It’s the cathedral and the altar and the pamphlet all rolled into one. That’s not healthy. That’s a single point of failure. That’s a priesthood. \ \ And no, Bitcoin isn’t a religion. It’s worse. It’s a culture. Religion has rituals. Culture has habits. And habits are harder to break. Especially when your dev team gets drunk on the idea that their opinions are features. \ \ If you want to fix this mess, you need to kill the idea that Bitcoin Core is the final word. Strip it down. Remove every line of non-consensus code. Make it boring. Make it dumb. Let the client rot in peace, and let a thousand weird little nodes bloom. \ \ Let the spammers spam themselves into oblivion. Let the free-riders find someone else to subsidize their infrastructure. Let every operator set their own damn filters. \ \ You’ll know ossification is working when the devs start getting bored. When they stop showing up. When there are no more debates. When the politics dry up. When Jameson Lopp finally logs off. \ \ Until then, every line of code you don’t remove is a future argument you’ll be forced to have with someone who thinks “data availability” is more important than keeping the protocol boring. \ \ Bitcoin does not need to be exciting. It needs to be a brick. A self-righteous, opinionated, uncompromising, utterly stubborn monetary brick. \ \ Keep your hands off it. \ \ And take your startup with you.OP_RETURN and the Cult of Cleverness: Or, How Bitcoin Core Learned to Love the Smell of Its Own Farts
There was a time when Bitcoin smelled like ozone and rebellion. When men wore hoodies because they meant it. When software didn’t come with a mission statement or a DAO-approved pronoun guide. When the only thing a Bitcoin dev feared was being wrong, not being unpopular.
That time is dead.
It died somewhere between the fifth Twitter thread explaining why putting JPEGs on the base layer was “valid use,” and the fiftieth PR that added complexity to the engine in order to simplify the cupholders. Now we’re here, ankle-deep in a pool of our own mediocrity, arguing over whether we should triple the OP_RETURN limit so a VC-backed sidechain company can offload its plumbing costs onto your Raspberry Pi.
Welcome to the future. It’s paved in GitHub comments and smells like a WeWork bathroom.
Let’s speak plainly. This whole drama is not about OP_RETURN. It’s about power. Not electrical power. Not hash power. Soft power. The power to redefine what Bitcoin is for, one pull request at a time. It is the power to turn the protocol from a blunt, uncompromising monetary weapon into a polite corporate middleware bus for protocol startups that couldn’t raise a Series B without a little help from their friends in Core.
Jameson Lopp wants to increase the OP_RETURN limit. Why? Because his company, Citrea, needs to squeeze a few more bytes into every transaction. It's not a crime. It’s not even dishonest. It's just pathetically on the nose. They don’t want to pay miners directly. They want the mempool to be their free emergency broadcast system. They want to lean on the public infrastructure without sending flowers or even a thank-you note.
And what does Core say?
They say yes.
Because of “technical merit.”
Because it’s “more efficient.”
Because the devs have long since stopped being guardians of the protocol and started being unpaid product managers for whoever can string enough buzzwords together in a conference talk.
You can see it in their eyes. You can hear it in their interviews. The Core devs aren’t building Bitcoin anymore. They’re managing Bitcoin. They’re curating it. Polishing it. Nerfing it for mass adoption. Like a bunch of Brooklyn baristas trying to make espresso kid-friendly. Bitcoin used to be an espresso shot poured directly into the mouth of the Federal Reserve. Now it’s a lukewarm latte with oat milk and consensus-breaking sprinkles.
The worst part? The refusal to acknowledge that this is not about UTXO bloat. It's not about cleaner mempools. It’s about upstreaming corporate convenience into the base layer under the halo of neutrality. It’s about giving polite names to ugly compromises. “Policy adjustment.” “Ergonomic improvement.” “Relay optimization.” They speak in this weird dialect of bureaucratic techspeak that means nothing and does less.
Meanwhile, the only thing that actually matters gets lost: ossification.
The holy grail of this protocol is ossification. Not stagnation. Not laziness. Not gridlock. Just stability. The longer Bitcoin can go without consensus changes, the more credible it becomes. The more unchangeable it becomes. Like gravity. Like rust. It doesn’t matter how good your argument is. The system won’t budge. That’s the point. The value of Bitcoin isn’t in how clever the devs are. It’s in how irrelevant they become.
But ossification isn't something you declare. You sneak up on it. You approach it sideways, like a wild animal. You do less and less until eventually you’re doing nothing at all, and nobody even remembers how to change the code anymore. That is the goal. To make the protocol so boring, so petrified, that no one can move it. Not Lopp. Not Luke. Not even Larry from Legal.
To get there, we need something devs hate: client balkanization.
That means splitting the client into pieces. Break the codebase. Separate the consensus engine from the policy fluff. Let people run different implementations. Let the free market decide what filters they want, what mempool rules they tolerate, what behavior they’re willing to relay. You want a node that bans inscriptions? Run it. You want a client that auto-forwards every transaction with a JPEG of your left toe? Go for it. Just don’t make it my problem.
Right now, Bitcoin Core is a monoculture. It’s the cathedral and the altar and the pamphlet all rolled into one. That’s not healthy. That’s a single point of failure. That’s a priesthood.
And no, Bitcoin isn’t a religion. It’s worse. It’s a culture. Religion has rituals. Culture has habits. And habits are harder to break. Especially when your dev team gets drunk on the idea that their opinions are features.
If you want to fix this mess, you need to kill the idea that Bitcoin Core is the final word. Strip it down. Remove every line of non-consensus code. Make it boring. Make it dumb. Let the client rot in peace, and let a thousand weird little nodes bloom.
Let the spammers spam themselves into oblivion. Let the free-riders find someone else to subsidize their infrastructure. Let every operator set their own damn filters.
You’ll know ossification is working when the devs start getting bored. When they stop showing up. When there are no more debates. When the politics dry up. When Jameson Lopp finally logs off.
Until then, every line of code you don’t remove is a future argument you’ll be forced to have with someone who thinks “data availability” is more important than keeping the protocol boring.
Bitcoin does not need to be exciting. It needs to be a brick. A self-righteous, opinionated, uncompromising, utterly stubborn monetary brick.
Keep your hands off it.
And take your startup with you.
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2025-05-13 01:08:28There was a time when mining meant something. Not just the noise of fans and the stink of ozone, but a political act. An act of rebellion, like smuggling pamphlets under the nose of the king. You mined in the basement. You mined with pride. You mined because you could. Not because Fidelity wrote a whitepaper on it. Not because a hosting provider in Iceland offered you a bulk discount. But because you believed.
That miner is dead.
He didn’t die in a blaze of glory. He didn’t go down swinging. He was euthanized. Slowly, over years, by spreadsheets, subsidies, and a thousand tiny concessions. Killed off by a culture that said, “Why do it yourself when you can outsource the soul of Bitcoin to a pool in Singapore?”
Welcome to the age of industrial Bitcoin: a world where miners don’t mine, pools don’t just process. They rule. And the only thing sovereign anymore is the dividend.
The Sovereign Miner is Dead, And No One Mourned
The sovereign miner, the madman with a dusty rack, a full node, and a middle finger pointed squarely at the Eccles Building, is extinct. He’s gone the way of the dodo, the blacksmith, the outlaw. And in his place? A fleet of khaki-wearing ASIC clerks uploading hashrate reports to their VC lords like dutiful little interns. These are not revolutionaries. They are box operators. Corporate larvae wiggling around in server farms financed by pension funds.
Once upon a time, mining was an act of insubordination. You ran a rig to say "no" to Janet Yellen. You ran a node because you meant it. You didn’t need permission. You didn’t ask for subsidies. You didn’t file paperwork. You fought for consensus by living it. Every block was a punch thrown in a quiet, bloodless rebellion. Now? Now you’ve got KPMG-certified mining outfits measuring ESG impact and tweeting about carbon offsets like they’re trying to win a grant from the UN.
The eulogies for that old miner are full of oily euphemisms. They drone on about "efficiency," as if selling your vote for a cheaper power bill is some kind of virtue. "Economies of scale," they whisper, as though scale were some holy sacrament instead of the Trojan horse that delivered centralization to our doorstep. What they call progress, I call a back-alley mugging of Bitcoin’s soul.
The modern miner isn’t mining. He’s leasing his dignity to a pool that doesn’t know his name. He’s plugging in Bitmain boxes like a hotel maintenance worker changing light bulbs. The only heat he generates is for the benefit of someone else's node. Someone else's mempool. Someone else's idea of consensus. He doesn’t build the block. He just pays the electric bill.
And the worst part? He likes it. He thinks it’s normal. He thinks it’s “smart business.” He’s internalized the defeat so completely he brags about it on social media. He’ll tweet about uptime, about efficiency ratios, about hashprice curves—as if he were describing a well-run gulag. He’s the obedient prisoner who polishes the chains and calls it freedom.
The sovereign miner didn’t die in a blaze of glory. He died quietly, smothered under a fleece blanket of comfort and yield optimization. And no one mourned. No one wept. Because everyone was too busy benchmarking their ROI and counting fiat. The revolution didn’t end in a shootout. It ended in quarterly earnings calls.
Power Reversed: Pools Run Nodes, Miners Run Cable
Let’s be crystal clear: The pools run the nodes. The miners do not. This is not a subtle shift. It is a total inversion of power. A coup d'état wrapped in JSON-RPC and relayed with a smile. The pool clerks have become the governors of consensus, and the miners? They’re errand boys. They might control the heat, but they don’t control the protocol. They’re like engine pistons in a car they’ll never be allowed to drive.
Pointing hash at a pool and calling yourself sovereign is like renting a tux and declaring yourself royalty. It’s cosplay. At best. Pools decide what transactions are valid. Pools enforce the rules. Pools interpret consensus, not the miners, not the miners, and certainly not the plebs stacking sats on Raspberry Pis, who, through their economic activity and validation, still enforce the rules but are powerless to stop this creeping centralization in the mining layer. In a world obsessed with decentralization theater, pools are the centralized prop masters pulling the strings.
And when the curtain pulled back in 2021, it wasn’t some secret backroom scandal. No. Marathon Digital bragged about OFAC-compliant mining. They filtered transactions with state-sanctioned precision. They announced it like a new feature rollout. “Censorship-as-a-Service, now in beta!” The mining pool became an extension of the U.S. Treasury—while still waving the Bitcoin banner.
That wasn’t a red flag. That was a blood-soaked banner waved from the parapets of captured consensus. And the response? Nothing. No mass exit. No fork. No slash-and-burn rebellion. Just soft mewling from miners who’d already convinced themselves this was “pragmatic.”
Miners didn’t revolt. They shrugged. They shrugged because they didn’t feel it in their bones anymore. They’d been domesticated. Fattened on subsidies and mining-as-a-service. Pacified by dashboards and yield spreadsheets. When the pools took the steering wheel, the miners reached for the air conditioning controls.
This is the hard truth: sovereignty cannot be delegated. You don’t get to outsource rebellion. You don’t get to file a ticket and request autonomy. If someone else runs the node, someone else owns the power. And if you’re pointing hash at their rules, you’re not free. You’re furniture. Industrial-grade silicon furniture humming in tune with someone else’s politics.
ASICs Are Treadmills, Not Weapons
Here’s a bitter pill: plugging in an ASIC doesn’t make you a participant in Bitcoin. It makes you a battery. Yes, economic nodes still set the rules through their validation and transaction activity. But what happens when the mining layer, the muscle that enforces those rules on-chain, goes rogue? What happens when the mempool you built gets ignored because your hashpower is pointed at someone else's filter?
A node might define validity, but without aligned mining, it’s a lion without teeth. If economic consensus is the blueprint, mining is the builder. And right now, most builders are following someone else's floor plan. The node might say, "this is how we build," but the pool, with its centralized relay and selective enforcement, says, "this is what we’re willing to build."
Without a node, without building your own block, without choosing your own mempool, you’re a hamster in a high-voltage wheel. All that heat and noise? It’s not rebellion. It’s treadmill sweat.
Without a node, without building your own block, without choosing your own mempool, you’re a hamster in a high-voltage wheel. All that heat and noise? It’s not rebellion. It’s treadmill sweat.
You are not a general. You are a grunt. A CPU on contract to someone else’s war.
Fiat Habits: The Culture of Convenience
Bitcoin was supposed to be the great divorce from fiat thinking, a severance from the debt-ridden clown world where every moral principle is for sale if the yield’s high enough. But lo and behold, the fiat habits came slithering in through the miner’s back door. It started small. “Just a hosting service,” they said. “Just outsourcing the firmware,” they claimed. “Just using a pool for efficiency.” And before you knew it, the average miner was indistinguishable from a middle manager at an Enron reunion. Optimizing, spreadsheeting, begging for subsidies like a lobbyist on his third bourbon.
The culture is poison. It rewards cowardice, convenience, and cost-shifting. Small miners moan about volatility like day traders with arthritis. Big miners wine and dine regulators, sniffing after tax incentives and ESG badges like some filthy dog begging at the World Economic Forum’s dinner table. We’re no longer talking about building a sovereign financial system—we’re talking about quarterly earnings, power purchase agreements, and whether your server farm meets carbon neutrality guidelines. What the hell happened?
Take a look back at the New York Agreement in 2017. That wasn’t a negotiation. It was a ransom note. The largest mining outfits, including BTC.Top and ViaBTC, held SegWit hostage because it didn’t butter their bread. The principles didn’t matter. The technical merit didn’t matter. All that mattered was leverage, yield, and preserving their own stranglehold. They tried to shove a hard fork down Bitcoin’s throat like a goose being force-fed for foie gras. And if not for the sheer stubbornness of the user base, real economic nodes who still gave a damn, Bitcoin would’ve gone full Frankenstein.
But did those miners learn? No. They just shifted tactics. Today they ask for different forms of convenience: not block size increases, but subsidies, regulations tailored to their rigs, public-private partnerships. The song remains the same. It’s the fiat mindset dressed up in ASIC drag. Instead of defending neutrality, they demand special treatment. Instead of embracing the responsibility of consensus participation, they’d rather hand it off to a pool that promises good customer service and a Discord server with emojis.
What we’re seeing is the spiritual sequel to fiat monetary policy—moral hazard in overclocked silicon. Miners begging for insulation from the market, protection from volatility, and someone else to carry the political weight of consensus. That’s not sovereignty. That’s serfdom with a spreadsheet. These aren't rebels. They’re corporate supplicants doing yield gymnastics while the heart of Bitcoin withers under the fluorescent lights of their co-location facility.
Bitcoin doesn’t need more efficient parasites. It needs fewer of them. The culture must shift from comfort to combat. From optimization to obligation. A miner who outsources consensus is no better than a fiat printer optimizing bond auctions. The minute you make convenience your god, you become indistinguishable from the system Bitcoin was meant to destroy.
The Culture of Convenience
Bitcoin was born as a rejection of fiat habits. So naturally, miners dragged every last fiat habit into the server farm like rats carrying plague. Outsource the firmware. Outsource the hosting. Outsource the power contract. Outsource the node. Outsource the sovereignty. What’s left?
Mining today looks like Goldman Sachs cosplay. ESG reports. Carbon credits. Webinars on regulatory compliance. Bitcoin isn't being mined anymore. It's being monetized. It's being lobotomized by yield-chasers and spreadsheet cultists.
The New York Agreement was the test. The miners failed. They held the protocol hostage for a slightly thicker block and a fat slice of yield. They were willing to hard fork Bitcoin into a Frankenstein fiat-friendly platform if it meant a better power purchase agreement.
They haven't changed. They’ve just gotten better at disguising their cowardice as competence.
Software Will Not Save You (But Cowards Sure Will Sell You the Illusion)
Let me tell you a ghost story. A tale of silicon treachery dressed up as innovation. It was 2017. The air stank of backroom deals and nervous sweat. Bitmain, the ASIC kingpin of the age, had quietly embedded a little something into its hardware. A cheat code. A hidden rake. A parasitic exploit called ASICBoost, but not the honest kind. No, this was the covert variant, slinking beneath the protocol’s floorboards, exploiting transaction ordering for a tidy little edge. It wasn’t disclosed. It wasn’t debated. It was used. Quietly. Gleefully. While the rest of the ecosystem was busy arguing about scaling like philosophers in a house fire.
Bitmain wasn't interested in consensus. It was interested in arbitrage. They saw Bitcoin not as a commons, but as a slot machine they had rigged. And when SegWit appeared, when it offered scaling and immunity to covert ASICBoost in one surgical tweak, Bitmain panicked. Because SegWit would end the grift. Not softly. Not eventually. Immediately.
So they did what every entrenched parasite does when exposed. They lied. They stalled. They "compromised." They ginned up support for SegWit2x, not to scale Bitcoin, but to preserve their exploit. A hard fork with extension blocks would keep the legacy block structure alive and well, tucked into a cozy parallel track where covert ASICBoost could still thrive. It was a bait-and-switch. A con. A trojan upgrade smuggled in under the banner of progress.
But this time, the hosts fought back.
Node runners saw the ploy. They didn’t need fancy tooling. They needed guts. They didn’t negotiate. They didn’t flinch. They ran SegWit. They activated UASF. They drew a line—not in sand, but in bedrock. Bitcoin would not be held hostage by ASIC cartels. It would not bend for Bitmain. It would not become an extension block casino for rent-seekers in Shenzhen.
So no, software didn’t save Bitcoin. Men did.
Ordinary plebs with full nodes and no backdoor. They used the tool, yes, but what mattered is that they refused. Refused the scam. Refused the deal. Refused to bend the knee to an ASIC cartel dressed in business-casual and lies.
SegWit didn’t win because it was elegant. It won because enough people had the guts to jam it through in spite of sabotage. The protocol gave them a knife, and they had the moral clarity to use it. That’s the lesson. Not that we need better code, but that we need sharper men.
Because in the end, every exploit is possible when the culture is weak. And every fix is worthless if the people implementing it don’t care. The problem was never ASICBoost. The problem was what miners were willing to do to keep it.
The Pool Cartel is the New Central Bank
Middlemen were supposed to die in 2009. That’s the entire reason Bitcoin exists. To gut them. To render them obsolete. To salt the earth behind them so nothing like them could ever grow again. But here they are, reborn, not as banks, but as pools. Not in suits, but in server racks. They wear the garb of "infrastructure providers," but they function as gatekeepers, choke points wrapped in API documentation.
Pools don’t just process, they decide. They decide what gets into the chain. They decide whose transactions are valid. They decide what software matters, and what consensus looks like. They’ve become the central banks of the hashrate economy: unaccountable, invisible, and too boring to fear until it’s too late.
They don’t win power. They absorb it. They don’t need legislation or signatures. They just need you to keep pointing your hash in their direction. That’s the magic trick of middlemen: their power lies in being taken for granted. And in that, they’re the perfect parasite, one that feeds on your energy and then tells you they’re helping you digest it.
Every time you optimize for pool payout efficiency, every time you default to the biggest provider, every time you accept their mempool instead of building your own, you’re kneeling. You’re pledging allegiance to a cartel of block-builders whose loyalty isn’t to Bitcoin, it’s to operational ease and regulatory appeasement.
These aren’t neutral actors. They’re political animals. They hold the levers of consensus without bearing any of its weight. They’re the mortgage-backed securities of Bitcoin: abstracted, opaque, and one market panic away from becoming a systemic risk. We have, once again, created a class of intermediaries who profit by extracting value from a system they didn’t build and no longer understand.
Bitcoin didn’t kill the middlemen. It fed them. It made them smarter. It made them less visible. But their hunger hasn’t changed. And until we name them for what they are—cartels in priestly robes—we will keep mistaking the cage for the cathedral.
Stratum v2: A Rifle, Not a Revolution
Stratum v2 is the closest thing to a loaded weapon Bitcoin miners have been handed in a decade. It is, quite literally, the mechanism by which miners can wrench their dignity back from the clenched fists of the pool cartel. And what have they done with it? Mostly shrugged. A few pilot programs, some halfhearted integrations, and a handful of blog posts filled with the kind of cautious optimism you’d expect from a risk-averse actuary.
This isn’t a critique of the protocol. Stratum v2 is beautifully ugly. It’s messy, technical, and dense enough to scare away the very consultants who want to repackage Bitcoin into polite compliance middleware. But none of that matters if no one has the guts to use it. You don’t win wars by stockpiling weapons you refuse to fire.
Stratum v2 gives miners the power to construct their own blocks. Not just vote with hash, but wield it. Choose transactions. Set mempool policy. Actually participate in consensus instead of spectating like a retiree watching a soap opera. It is the rifle hanging over the mantelpiece. The one Chekhov warned us about. And right now it’s gathering dust.
The tragedy here isn’t technical. It’s cultural. Because this tool, this literal key to sovereignty, is being treated like a library dependency. Something for someone else to test, to vet, to implement. Meanwhile, miners continue to act like it’s 2015 and their biggest concern is firmware compatibility and finding a better power rate in Kazakhstan.
Ignore Stratum v2, and it becomes protocol theater. A museum piece. A tragic artifact of what could have been. But use it, and it becomes a wedge. A crowbar in the gears of centralized mining. A bright, shining middle finger to the entire architecture of compliance-friendly consensus.
But don’t fool yourself. Stratum v2 won’t make you sovereign any more than buying a gun makes you a revolutionary. It won’t beam liberty into your soul via Tor, won’t whisper “freedom” into your hashboard, won’t bathe your rack in the holy light of decentralization. It’s not salvation. It’s a tool. And tools don’t care who uses them—they serve the hand that holds them.
Stratum v2 is a rifle, yes—but even a rifle requires guts, aim, and the clarity to know what you're shooting at. In the hands of a coward, it’s a paperweight. In the hands of a rent-seeker, it’s a bargaining chip. But in the hands of a miner with fire in his gut and sovereignty in his blood? It’s a revolution.
This isn’t about technology. It’s about spine. About picking up the one weapon you’ve been given and refusing to keep it locked in the safe while tyrants build your blocks. Stratum v2 offers freedom, but it demands ferocity. You have to load it with your own mempool. You have to chamber every transaction. And then you have to fire.
No protocol, no BIP, no whitepaper will ever substitute for moral will. And if you’re too polite to use the weapon, too busy maximizing uptime to get your hands dirty with real consensus, then you deserve whatever filtered, censored, OFAC-compliant future you inherit.
Stratum v2 is not your savior. You are. And until miners act like it, until they treat this protocol like a weapon and not a toy, the pools will rule, and the timechain will continue to serve the highest bidder.
It’s just a rifle. But rifles have rewritten history when wielded by men who knew they weren’t free.
Ossification Without Decentralization Is Death
Everyone loves ossification, until they realize they missed their chance to do it when it mattered. We had a window. A golden, fleeting window to freeze Bitcoin in a state of clarity, minimalism, and neutrality. Instead, we blinked. We let upgrades seep in. Complexity crept through the back door, and with it came unintended consequences. Among the earliest and most corrosive: the rise of centralized mining pools. A structural outcome embedded in Satoshi’s original design, born from the brutal variance of solo mining. But if that centralization was unforeseen, imagine how many more we’ve introduced since, through every soft fork, every upgrade, every decision to keep tinkering instead of locking the vault when we had the chance.
Ossification isn’t just about code. It’s about culture. It’s a posture. A refusal. And we failed to assume it when it counted. We chose tinkering over tenacity. We chose cleverness over caution. And now the fruits of our hubris hang heavy on the vine: a mining layer riddled with capture points, a mempool hijacked by middlemen, and a user base quietly wondering why their transactions feel like applications.
Yes, economic nodes enforce the rules through validation and usage. But that power has a prerequisite: inclusion. If the only blocks being built are by pools with selective relay policies and a fondness for government compliance, then your economic activity is a shout into a soundproof room. The validation rules may be perfect, but if your transaction never hits the chain, it’s as good as invalid.
The trap we set for ourselves was gilded with good intentions. Soft forks meant to improve scalability. Relay policies meant to minimize bloat. Fee markets meant to incentivize good behavior. And now? Now we find ourselves staring at a timechain that functions—but no longer feels inviolable. The foundation wasn’t corrupted in a day. It was eroded, line by line, by developers trying to be helpful.
Freeze Bitcoin now, and we don’t immortalize virtue—we immortalize vulnerability. We lock in the flaws. We preserve a snapshot where the power has already been ceded to those least equipped to wield it justly. It’s like slamming the vault door shut just as the thieves finish loading the bags.
That’s not ossification. That’s embalming. That’s turning the timechain into a museum exhibit of the ideals we almost lived up to, before we traded principle for pragmatism and thought we could always fix it later.
Ossification is not neutral. It’s not some universal good. It is power, fixed in time. And if that power belongs to the wrong class of actors, the OFAC miners, the hosting conglomerates, the Silicon Valley startups that mine with ESG consultants on speed dial, then ossification doesn’t lock in liberty. It locks in them. It fossilizes a regime that already serves someone else’s interests.
We speak of ossification like it’s an event. One final commit. One last hardening. But in truth, it’s asymptotic. You don’t slam the door shut in one dramatic gesture. You inch toward it. You tighten the bolts over time until change becomes culturally, politically, and economically impossible. And that means we’re ossifying right now.
Picture it: a frozen Bitcoin where the rules can’t change, but the blockspace is filtered, the miners are compliant, and the pools relay transactions based on a government-approved blacklist. That’s not sound money. That’s a digital leash. A ledger of obedience masquerading as freedom.
If Bitcoin ossifies after it has been captured, it does not become incorruptible. It becomes irredeemable. Like sealing a vault before checking what’s inside, you don’t get resilience, you get entombment. You get permanence without virtue. You get consensus without sovereignty.
That’s not ossification. That’s embalming. That’s turning the timechain into Lenin’s corpse: glassy-eyed, sterile, and meticulously preserved in service of a state it was meant to outlive.
We may only have one chance to rescue bitcoin from the clutches of the fiat maximalists, before it is impossible to do so.
Core's Quiet Capitulation
Bitcoin Core was once the temple guard. Militant minimalism. Ruthless conservatism. The last line of defense against creeping bloat and protocol erosion. You didn’t have to agree with them, but by God, you respected the trench they were willing to die in.
Now? They’re white-gloving the stretcher for a dying protocol. Hospice caretakers tending to consensus rot with polite documentation and GitHub tickets labeled "enhancement." The keepers of the flame have become interior decorators for a collapsing cathedral.
They removed filters, the thin defensive crust that kept bad-faith actors at bay. They weakened defaults, the backbone settings that preserved network sanity. They bend policies not to protect consensus, but to please mining cartels and PR-sensitive operators. Every decision smells like appeasement baked in a think tank.
This isn’t some grand betrayal of principle for power or riches. It’s worse. It’s resignation. Exhaustion wrapped in technocratic humility. They didn’t sell out to the highest bidder, they just ran out of fire.
Where once they chanted ossification, now they mumble "flexibility." Where once they enforced sanity with zero tolerance for grift, now they entertain proposals that would’ve been laughed out of the room a decade ago. They say yes out of fatigue. They say no with asterisks. They commit code like bureaucrats signing off on a slow-motion demolition.
Core didn’t just get captured. It got comfortable. And comfort, in protocol stewardship, is fatal. The war for Bitcoin's soul isn’t being lost in some smoky backroom. It’s being forfeited in polite silence by maintainers who forgot the protocol doesn’t just need to run. It needs to refuse.
The Call: Rewild the Hash
This is the fork in the road. This is the final flare fired into the sky before the trench goes quiet forever. You either take back the hash, or you become a dependent serf in a digital fiefdom run by pool lords and relay priests. No more excuses. No more polite appeals. No more PRs begging middlemen to do the right thing.
Run your own node. Build your own block, even if it takes a lifetime. Not tomorrow. Not after the next bull run. Not when it’s convenient. Now. Because if you don’t, someone else will do it for you, and they will not share your values.
Stop waiting for permission. Stop tweeting at pool operators like they’re public servants. Stop optimizing for latency like it’s a sacrament. You are not here to impress compliance officers. You are here to enforce your damn sovereignty.
Don’t beg the cartel to behave. Starve it. Cut it off. Build the mempool you want to see in the world and let their VC primed and bloated relay network choke on their own paperwork. Let their blocks fill with NFT spam and chain analysis reports. You are not required to participate in their theater.
Use Stratum v2. Not because it’s clever, not because it’s next-gen, but because it puts the steering wheel back in your hands. It lets you carve your transactions from granite instead of begging for a line on someone else's spreadsheet. It is not optional. It is not academic. It is your rifle, and the target is consensus capture.
Rewilding the hash isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about survival. It’s about tearing up the artificial turf of corporate convenience and letting the hard, messy, glorious chaos of sovereign mining grow back. Every node a fortress. Every block a declaration. Every miner a free man with dirt under his fingernails and fire in his chest.
This is the line. Pick up your weapon. Run your own node. Build your own block. Or die watching someone else sell your freedom by the byte.
Murder the pools. Rewild the hash. And mine like it means something... because it does.
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2025-05-13 01:07:59มีคนเคยพูดเล่นว่า “ถ้าคุณอยากเปลี่ยนโลก ไม่ต้องปฏิวัติ แค่เปลี่ยนอาหารคนซะ" บรรดาเจ้าพ่อเทคโนโลยีชีวภาพก็เลยเริ่มจับมือกับกลุ่มทุนระดับโลก สร้าง “อาหารแห่งอนาคต” ที่แม้จะไม่งอกจากธรรมชาติ แต่งอกมาจากถังหมักในโรงงานได้แทน
หลังจากที่เราเริ่มมองเห็นแล้วว่า ช่องทางแทรกซึมเข้าสู่อาหารโลกอนาคตนั้น ตั้งอยู่บนพื้นฐาน "โปรตีน" ซึ่งถ้าใครตามซีรีส์นี้กันมาตลอด คงจำโพสเรื่อง "เรากินนมเพราะความกลัว?" กันได้ดีนะครับ ไวรัล และ ตีความหลุด theme กันกระจาย ซึ่งเป็นธรรมดาของ social media ที่มันจะโผล่ไปหาขาจรแค่ครั้งเดียว ดังนั้น ก้าวข้ามมันไปครับ
สิ่งที่ปูทางไว้แล้วก่อนจะแบไต๋ว่า เป้าหลักของโลกคือ โปรตีน นั่นคือ นมทางเลือก มาสู่การยึดพื้นที่นมโรงเรียน การเข้าตลาดของ Perfect Day โปรตีนนมที่อยู่ในทั้งนม ขนม ไอศกรีม แล้วทั้งหมดจะถูกปรับภาพล้างไพ่ใหม่ ในนามของ milk 2.0 ครับ เรามาต่อซีรีส์ของเราด้วยการทำความรู้จัก ผู้เล่น กันทีละตัวนะครับ หลังจากเราได้ เวย์นมตั้งบนชั้นบนเชลฟ์กันไปแล้ว
New Culture เป็นบริษัทสตาร์ทอัปจากซานลีอันโดร รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย ที่ก่อตั้งขึ้นในปี 2018 โดย Matt Gibson และ Inja Radman โดยมีเป้าหมายในการผลิตโปรตีนเคซีน (casein) ซึ่งเป็นโปรตีนหลักในนมวัว โดยไม่ใช้สัตว์ ผ่านกระบวนการ precision fermentation หรือการหมักด้วยจุลินทรีย์ที่ได้รับการดัดแปลงพันธุกรรม โดยการฝึกจุลินทรีย์ให้ผลิตโปรตีนเคซีนในห้องปฏิบัติการ เพื่อสร้างผลิตภัณฑ์ชีสที่ปราศจากสัตว์ ซึ่งโปรตีนนี้สามารถนำมาใช้ในการผลิตชีสที่มีคุณสมบัติใกล้เคียงกับชีสจากนมวัว แต่ยังคงคุณสมบัติของชีสแท้ๆ เช่น การยืดหยุ่น การละลาย และรสชาติที่คุ้นเคย เปลี่ยนนิยามของคำว่า “ชีส” ให้กลายเป็นโปรตีนเคซีนจากจุลินทรีย์ ไม่ใช่จากน้ำนมวัวอีกต่อไป
Matt Gibson ชายชาวนิวซีแลนด์ ผู้ก่อตั้ง New Culture ไม่ใช่นักวิทยาศาสตร์ แต่เป็นคนหัวธุรกิจที่มีปมบางอย่างกับการกินชีสแบบดั้งเดิม เขาร่วมมือกับ Dr. Inja Radman นักชีววิทยา แล้วตั้งเป้าผลิต “เคซีน” โปรตีนหลักในนมโดยไม่ใช้สัตว์เลยสักตัว
การที่เขาเลือกใช้ precision fermentation หรือการหมักจุลินทรีย์ที่ตัดต่อพันธุกรรม ให้ผลิตเคซีนออกมาจากถังหมัก ซึ่งไม่ใช่เทคโนโลยีใหม่ในโลกแล้ว (แม้บ้านเราหลายคนจะเพิ่งเคยได้ยิน และ ตกใจกันอยู่) บริษัทคู่แข่งอย่าง Perfect Day ก็ใช้แนวทางเดียวกัน ผลิต “เวย์โปรตีนไร้สัตว์” ไปก่อนแล้ว และตอนนี้ มหาเศรษฐีสายลงทุนยั่งยืนก็กำลังรุมแห่ใส่เงินสนับสนุนแขนงนี้เหมือนเห็นโอกาสใหม่ในโลก Fiat ทำให้ New Culture ปรับทิศไปที่ "ชีส"
ผลิตภัณฑ์หลักของ New Culture คือ มอสซาเรลล่าปราศจากสัตว์ ที่มีคุณสมบัติใกล้เคียงกับมอสซาเรลล่าจากนมวัว โดยสามารถละลายและยืดหยุ่นได้เหมือนชีสแท้ๆ และยังมีปริมาณโปรตีนเคซีนเพียง 50% ของชีสทั่วไป ซึ่ง "ช่วยลดต้นทุนการผลิตและผลกระทบต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม"
New Culture ได้รับการสนับสนุนทางการเงินจากนักลงทุนรายใหญ่ เช่น Kraft Heinz, ADM, CJ CheilJedang, และ Dr. Oetker โดยในปี 2021 บริษัทได้ระดมทุนรอบ Series A จำนวน 25 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ เพื่อขยายการผลิตและนำผลิตภัณฑ์ออกสู่ตลาด นอกจากนี้ New Culture ยังได้ร่วมมือกับ CJ CheilJedang บริษัทผู้ผลิตผลิตภัณฑ์จากการหมักที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก เพื่อเข้าถึงโรงงานการหมักที่ทันสมัยและลดต้นทุนการผลิตโปรตีนเคซีน
และแน่นอนเลยครับว่า ผลิตภัณฑ์ของ New Culture ต้องมาพร้อมกับการโหมประกาศว่า ปราศจากแลคโตส คอเลสเตอรอล ฮอร์โมน และยาปฏิชีวนะที่พบในนมวัว นอกจากนี้ การผลิตโปรตีนเคซีนผ่านการหมักยังช่วยลดการปล่อยก๊าซเรือนกระจกและการใช้ทรัพยากรน้ำและที่ดินเมื่อเทียบกับการผลิตนมวัวแบบดั้งเดิม เพื่อรับความดีงามจากประชากรโลกไปตามระเบียบ
มาดูรอบการระดมทุนกันครับ ยอดเงินทุนรวมที่ได้รับ จนถึงเดือนมีนาคม 2025 New Culture ได้รับเงินทุนรวมประมาณ $35 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ จากการระดมทุนทั้งหมด 8 รอบ ที่น่าจับตามองคือ Series A ในเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2021 บริษัทได้รับเงินทุน $25 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ จากนักลงทุนรวมถึง ADM Ventures และ Evolv Ventures ซึ่งเป็นหน่วยงานร่วมลงทุนของ Kraft Heinz
นอกจาก Evolv Ventures จาก Kraft Heinz แล้ว อย่าคิดว่ามันไกลเกินนะครับ CJ CheilJedang บริษัทจากเกาหลีใต้ที่เป็นผู้นำด้านเทคโนโลยีการหมัก ได้เข้าร่วมลงทุนในรอบ Series A เมื่อเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2022 แล้วเจ้านี้นี่บอกได้เลยครับ บิ๊กเนม CJ CheilJedang เป็นผู้นำด้านเทคโนโลยีการหมักและมีส่วนแบ่งตลาด 25% ในตลาดพิซซ่าแช่แข็งของสหรัฐฯ เป้าหมายการเข้าร่วมลงทุนใน New Culture ก็เพื่อสนับสนุนการพัฒนาผลิตภัณฑ์และการขยายกำลังการผลิตของชีสปราศจากสัตว์ของบริษัท
New Culture ยังได้ร่วมมือกับเชฟชื่อดัง Nancy Silverton เพื่อเปิดตัวผลิตภัณฑ์ชีสในร้านอาหารระดับเชฟชื่อดังในสหรัฐฯ กลางปี 2025 โดยเริ่มที่ร้าน Pizzeria Mozza ในลอสแอนเจลิส ซึ่งถือเป็นการเปิดตัวผลิตภัณฑ์สู่ตลาดผู้บริโภคครั้งแรกของบริษัท
การเข้ามาลงทุนของ Evolv Ventures กองทุนร่วมลงทุนของ Kraft Heinz ทำให้เจ้าพ่อชีสโปรเซสในตำนาน มีโอกาสเข้ามาร่วมมือเปิดร้านอาหารนำร่องกับ New Culture
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2025-05-13 00:58:11I rarely make black and white photographs. I usually find color more interesting. But sometimes, it’s wise to strip it away.
Color can be distracting. It can pull attention from what matters. Beauty, I believe, should be simple - something that’s felt, not overthought.
Removing the excessive, the superfluous, can do a lot. It reduces noise. It reveals what’s often hidden. What’s elusive becomes clear.
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@ eabee230:17fc7576
2025-05-12 14:38:11⚖️ຢ່າລືມສິ່ງທີ່ເຄີຍເກີດຂຶ້ນ ຮອດຊ່ວງທີ່ມີການປ່ຽນແປງລະບົບການເງິນຈາກລະບົບເງິນເກົ່າ ສູ່ລະບົບເງິນໃໝ່ມັນເຮັດໃຫ້ຄົນທີ່ລວຍກາຍເປັນຄົນທຸກໄດ້ເລີຍ ນ້ຳພັກນ້ຳແຮງທີ່ສະສົມມາດ້ວຍຄວາມເມື່ອຍແຕ່ບໍ່ສາມາດແລກເປັນເງິນລະບົບໃໝ່ໄດ້ທັງໝົດ ຖືກຈຳກັດຈຳນວນທີ່ກົດໝາຍວາງອອກມາໃຫ້ແລກ ເງິນທີ່ເຫຼືອນັ້ນປຽບຄືດັ່ງເສດເຈ້ຍ ເພາະມັນບໍ່ມີຢູ່ໃສຮັບອີກຕໍ່ໄປເພາະກົດໝາຍຈະນຳໃຊ້ສະກຸນໃໝ່ ປະຫວັດສາດເຮົາມີໃຫ້ເຫັນວ່າ ແລະ ເຄີຍຜ່ານມາແລ້ວຢ່າໃຫ້ຄົນລຸ້ນເຮົາຊຳ້ຮອຍເກົ່າ.
🕰️ຄົນທີ່ມີຄວາມຮູ້ ຫຼື ໃກ້ຊິດກັບແຫຼ່ງຂໍ້ມູນຂ່າວສານກໍຈະປ່ຽນເງິນທີ່ມີຢູ່ເປັນສິນສັບບໍ່ວ່າຈະເປັນທີ່ດິນ ແລະ ທອງຄຳທີ່ສາມາດຮັກສາມູນລະຄ່າໄດ້ເຮັດໃຫ້ເຂົາຍັງຮັກສາຄວາມມັ້ງຄັ້ງໃນລະບົບໃໝ່ໄດ້.
🕰️ໃຜທີ່ຕ້ອງການຈະຍ້າຍປະເທດກໍ່ຈະໃຊ້ສິ່ງທີ່ເປັນຊື່ກາງໃນການແລກປ່ຽນເປັນທີ່ຍ້ອມຮັບຫຼາຍນັ້ນກໍຄືທອງຄຳ ປ່ຽນຈາກເງິນລະບົບເກົ່າເປັນທອງຄຳເພື່ອທີ່ສາມາດປ່ຽນທອງຄຳເປັນສະກຸນເງິນທ້ອງຖິ່ນຢູ່ປະເທດປາຍທາງໄດ້.
🕰️ຈາກຜູ້ດີເມື່ອກ່ອນກາຍເປັນຄົນທຳມະດາຍ້ອນສັບສິນທີ່ມີ ບໍ່ສາມາດສົ່ງຕໍ່ສູ່ລູກຫຼານໄດ້. ການເກັບອອມເປັນສິ່ງທີ່ດີ ແຕ່ຖ້າໃຫ້ດີຕ້ອງເກັບອອມໃຫ້ຖືກບ່ອນ ຄົນທີ່ຮູ້ທັນປ່ຽນເງິນທີ່ມີຈາກລະບົບເກົ່າໄປສູ່ທອງຄຳ ເພາະທອງຄຳມັນເປັນສາກົນ.
ໃຜທີ່ເຂົ້າໃຈ ແລະ ມອງການໄກກວ່າກໍ່ສາມາດຮັກສາສິນສັບສູ່ລູກຫຼານໄດ້ ເກັບເຈ້ຍໃນປະລິມານທີ່ພໍໃຊ້ຈ່າຍ ປ່ຽນເຈ້ຍໃຫ້ເປັນສິ່ງທີ່ຮັກສາມູນລະຄ່າໄດ້ແທ້ຈິງ.🕰️ເຮົາໂຊກດີທີ່ເຄີຍມີບົດຮຽນມາແລ້ວ ເກີດຂຶ້ນຈິງໃນປະເທດເຮົາບໍ່ໄດ້ຢາກໃຫ້ທັງໝົດແຕ່ຢາກໃຫ້ສຶກສາ ແລະ ຕັ້ງຄຳຖາມວ່າທີ່ຜ່ານມາມັນເປັນແບບນີ້ແທ້ບໍ່ ເງິນທີ່ລັດຄວາມຄຸມ ເງິນປະລິມານບໍ່ຈຳກັດ ການໃຊ້ກົດໝາຍແບບບັງຄັບ. ຖ້າຄອບຄົວຫຼືຄົນໃກ້ໂຕທີ່ຍູ່ໃນຊ່ວງເຫດການນັ້ນແຕ່ຕັດສິນໃຈຜິດພາດທີ່ບໍ່ປ່ຽນເຈ້ຍເປັນສິນສັບ. ນີ້ແມ່ນໂອກາດທີ່ຈະແກ້ໄຂຂໍ້ຜິດພາດນັ້ນໂດຍຫັນມາສຶກສາເງິນແທ້ຈິງແລ້ວແມ່ນຍັງກັນແທ້ ເວລາມີຄ່າສຶກສາບິດຄອຍ.
fiatcurrency #bitcoin #gold #history #paymentsolutions #laokip #laostr
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-11 06:23:03Past week summary
From a Self Custody for Organizations perspective, after analyzing the existing protocols (Cerberus, 10xSecurityBTCguide and Glacier) and reading a bunch of relates articles and guides, have wrapped to the conclusion that this format it is good to have as reference. However, something else is needed. For example, a summary or a map of the whole process to provide an overview, plus a way to deliver all the information and the multy-process in a more enjoyable way. Not a job for this hackathon, but with the right collaborations I assume it's possible to: - build something that might introduce a bit more quests and gamification - provide a learning environment (with testnet funds) could also be crucial on educating those unfamiliar with bitcoin onchain dynamics.
Have been learning more and playing around practicing best accessibility practices and how it could be applied to a desktop software like Bitcoin Safe. Thanks to @johnjherzog for providing a screen recording of his first experience and @jasonb for suggesting the tools to be used. (in this case tested/testing on Windows with the Accessibility Insights app). Some insight shared have been also applied to the website, running a full accessibility check (under WCAG 2.2 ADA, and Section 508 standards) with 4 different plugins and two online tools. I recognize that not all of them works and analyze the same parameters, indeed they complement each other providing a more accurate review.
For Bitcoin Safe interface improvements, many suggestions have been shared with @andreasgriffin , including: - a new iconset, including a micro-set to display the number of confirmed blocs for each transaction - a redesigned History/Dashboard - small refinements like adding missing columns on the tables - allow the user to select which columns to be displayed - sorting of unconfirmed transactions - Defining a new style for design elements like mempool blocks and quick receive boxes You can find below some screenshots with my proposals that hopefully will be included in the next release.
Last achievement this week was to prepare the website https://Safe.BTC.pub, the container where all the outcomes f this experiment will be published. You can have a look, just consider it still WIP. Branding for the project has also been finalized and available in this penpot file https://design.penpot.app/#/workspace?team-id=cec80257-5021-8137-8005-eab60c043dd6&project-id=cec80257-5021-8137-8005-eab60c043dd8&file-id=95aea877-d515-80ac-8006-23a251886db3&page-id=132f519a-39f4-80db-8006-2a41c364a545
What's for next week
After spending most of the time learning and reading material, this coming week will be focused on deliverables. The goal as planned will be to provide: - Finalized Safe₿its brand and improve overall desktop app experience, including categorization of transactions and addresses - An accessibility report or guide for Bitcoin Safe and support to implement best practices - A first draft of the Self-Custody for Organizations guide/framework/protocol, ideally delivered through the website http://Safe.BTC.pub in written format, but also as FlowChart to help have an overview of the whole resources needed and the process itself. This will clearly define preparations and tools/hardwares needed to successfully complete the process.
To learn more about the project, you can visit: Designathon website: https://event.bitcoin.design/#project-recj4SVNLLkuWHpKq Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/903125802726596648/1369200271632236574 Previous SN posts: https://stacker.news/items/974489/r/DeSign_r and https://stacker.news/items/974488/r/DeSign_r
Stay tuned, more will be happening this coming week
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/977190
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@ d360efec:14907b5f
2025-05-12 01:34:24สวัสดีค่ะเพื่อนๆ นักเทรดที่น่ารักทุกคน! 💕 Lina Engword กลับมาพร้อมกับการวิเคราะห์ BTCUSDT.P แบบเจาะลึกเพื่อเตรียมพร้อมสำหรับเทรดวันนี้ค่ะ! 🚀
วันนี้ 12 พฤษภาคม 2568 เวลา 08.15น. ราคา BTCUSDT.P อยู่ที่ 104,642.8 USDT ค่ะ โดยมี Previous Weekly High (PWH) อยู่ที่ 104,967.8 Previous Weekly Low (PWL) ที่ 93,338 ค่ะ
✨ ภาพรวมตลาดวันนี้ ✨
จากการวิเคราะห์ด้วยเครื่องมือคู่ใจของเรา ทั้ง SMC/ICT (Demand/Supply Zone, Order Block, Liquidity), EMA 50/200, Trend Strength, Money Flow, Chart/Price Pattern, Premium/Discount Zone, Trend line, Fibonacci, Elliott Wave และ Dow Theory ใน Timeframe ตั้งแต่ 15m ไปจนถึง Week! 📊 เราพบว่าภาพใหญ่ของ BTCUSDT.P ยังคงอยู่ในแนวโน้มขาขึ้นที่แข็งแกร่งมากๆ ค่ะ 👍 โดยเฉพาะใน Timeframe Day และ Week ที่สัญญาณทุกอย่างสนับสนุนทิศทางขาขึ้นอย่างชัดเจน Money Flow ยังไหลเข้าอย่างต่อเนื่อง และเราเห็นโครงสร้างตลาดแบบ Dow Theory ที่ยก High ยก Low ขึ้นไปเรื่อยๆ ค่ะ
อย่างไรก็ตาม... ใน Timeframe สั้นๆ อย่าง 15m และ 1H เริ่มเห็นสัญญาณของการชะลอตัวและการพักฐานบ้างแล้วค่ะ 📉 อาจมีการสร้าง Buyside และ Sellside Liquidity รอให้ราคาไปกวาดก่อนที่จะเลือกทางใดทางหนึ่ง ซึ่งเป็นเรื่องปกติของการเดินทางของ Smart Money ค่ะ
⚡ เปรียบเทียบแนวโน้มแต่ละ Timeframe ⚡
🪙 แนวโน้มตรงกัน Timeframe 4H, Day, Week ส่วนใหญ่ชี้ไปทาง "ขาขึ้น" ค่ะ ทุกเครื่องมือสนับสนุนแนวโน้มนี้อย่างแข็งแกร่ง 💪 เป้าหมายต่อไปคือการไปทดสอบ PWH และ High เดิม เพื่อสร้าง All-Time High ใหม่ค่ะ! 🪙 แนวโน้มต่างกัน Timeframe 15m, 1H ยังค่อนข้าง "Sideways" หรือ "Sideways Down เล็กน้อย" ค่ะ มีการบีบตัวของราคาและอาจมีการพักฐานสั้นๆ ซึ่งเป็นโอกาสในการหาจังหวะเข้า Long ที่ราคาดีขึ้นค่ะ
💡 วิธีคิดแบบ Market Slayer 💡
เมื่อแนวโน้มใหญ่เป็นขาขึ้นที่แข็งแกร่ง เราจะเน้นหาจังหวะเข้า Long เป็นหลักค่ะ การย่อตัวลงมาในระยะสั้นคือโอกาสของเราในการเก็บของ! 🛍️ เราจะใช้หลักการ SMC/ICT หาโซน Demand หรือ Order Block ที่ Smart Money อาจจะเข้ามาดันราคาขึ้น และรอสัญญาณ Price Action ยืนยันการกลับตัวค่ะ
สรุปแนวโน้มวันนี้:
🪙 ระยะสั้น: Sideways to Sideways Down (โอกาส 55%) ↔️↘️ 🪙 ระยะกลาง: ขาขึ้น (โอกาส 70%) ↗️ 🪙 ระยะยาว: ขาขึ้น (โอกาส 85%) 🚀 🪙 วันนี้: มีโอกาสย่อตัวเล็กน้อยก่อนจะมีแรงซื้อกลับเข้ามาเพื่อไปทดสอบ PWH (โอกาส Sideways Down เล็กน้อย สลับกับ Sideways Up: 60%) 🎢
🗓️ Daily Trade Setup ประจำวันนี้ 🗓️
นี่คือตัวอย่าง Setup ที่ Lina เตรียมไว้ให้พิจารณาค่ะ (เน้นย้ำว่าเป็นเพียงแนวทาง ไม่ใช่คำแนะนำลงทุนนะคะ)
1️⃣ ตัวอย่างที่ 1: รอรับที่โซน Demand (ปลอดภัย, รอยืนยัน)
🪙 Enter: รอราคาย่อตัวลงมาในโซน Demand Zone หรือ Bullish Order Block ที่น่าสนใจใน TF 1H/4H (ดูจากกราฟประกอบนะคะ) และเกิดสัญญาณ Bullish Price Action ที่ชัดเจน เช่น แท่งเทียนกลืนกิน (Engulfing) หรือ Hammer 🪙 TP: บริเวณ PWH 104,967.8 หรือ Buyside Liquidity ถัดไป 🎯 🪙 SL: ใต้ Low ที่เกิดก่อนสัญญาณกลับตัวเล็กน้อย หรือใต้ Demand Zone ที่เข้า 🛡️ 🪙 RRR: ประมาณ 1:2.5 ขึ้นไป ✨ 🪙 อธิบาย: Setup นี้เราจะใจเย็นๆ รอให้ราคาลงมาในโซนที่มีโอกาสเจอแรงซื้อเยอะๆ ตามหลัก SMC/ICT แล้วค่อยเข้า เพื่อให้ได้ราคาที่ดีและความเสี่ยงต่ำค่ะ ต้องรอสัญญาณ Price Action ยืนยันก่อนนะคะ ✍️
2️⃣ ตัวอย่างที่ 2: Follow Breakout (สายบู๊, รับความเสี่ยงได้)
🪙 Enter: เข้า Long ทันทีเมื่อราคาสามารถ Breakout เหนือ High ล่าสุดใน TF 15m หรือ 1H พร้อม Volume ที่เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมีนัยสำคัญ 🔥 🪙 TP: บริเวณ PWH 104,967.8 หรือ Buyside Liquidity ถัดไป 🚀 🪙 SL: ใต้ High ก่อนหน้าที่ถูก Breakout เล็กน้อย 🚧 🪙 RRR: ประมาณ 1:3 ขึ้นไป ✨ 🪙 อธิบาย: Setup นี้เหมาะกับคนที่อยากเข้าไวเมื่อเห็นโมเมนตัมแรงๆ ค่ะ เราจะเข้าเมื่อราคา Breakout แนวต้านระยะสั้นพร้อม Volume เป็นสัญญาณว่าแรงซื้อกำลังมาค่ะ เข้าได้เลยด้วยการตั้ง Limit Order หรือ Market Order เมื่อเห็นการ Breakout ที่ชัดเจนค่ะ 💨
3️⃣ ตัวอย่างที่ 3: พิจารณา Short สั้นๆ ในโซน Premium (สวนเทรนด์หลัก, ความเสี่ยงสูง)
🪙 Enter: หากราคาขึ้นไปในโซน Premium ใน TF 15m หรือ 1H และเกิดสัญญาณ Bearish Price Action ที่ชัดเจน เช่น แท่งเทียน Shooting Star หรือ Bearish Engulfing บริเวณ Supply Zone หรือ Bearish Order Block 🐻 🪙 TP: พิจารณาแนวรับถัดไป หรือ Sellside Liquidity ใน TF เดียวกัน 🎯 🪙 SL: เหนือ High ของสัญญาณ Bearish Price Action เล็กน้อย 💀 🪙 RRR: ประมาณ 1:1.5 ขึ้นไป (เน้นย้ำว่าเป็นการเทรดสวนเทรนด์หลัก ควรใช้ RRR ต่ำและบริหารขนาด Lot อย่างเข้มงวด!) 🪙 อธิบาย: Setup นี้สำหรับคนที่เห็นโอกาสในการทำกำไรจากการย่อตัวระยะสั้นค่ะ เราจะเข้า Short เมื่อเห็นสัญญาณว่าราคาอาจจะมีการพักฐานในโซนที่ถือว่า "แพง" ในกรอบสั้นๆ ค่ะ ต้องตั้ง Stop Loss ใกล้มากๆ และจับตาดูใกล้ชิดนะคะ 🚨
⚠️ Disclaimer: การวิเคราะห์นี้เป็นเพียงความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของ Lina เท่านั้น ไม่ถือเป็นคำแนะนำในการลงทุนนะคะ การลงทุนมีความเสี่ยง ผู้ลงทุนควรศึกษาข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมและตัดสินใจด้วยความรอบคอบค่ะ 🙏
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-11 05:52:56Past week summary
From a Self Custody for Organizations perspective, after analyzing the existing protocols (Cerberus, 10xSecurityBTCguide and Glacier) and reading a bunch of relates articles and guides, have wrapped to the conclusion that this format it is good to have as reference. However, something else is needed. For example, a summary or a map of the whole process to provide an overview, plus a way to deliver all the information and the multy-process in a more enjoyable way. Not a job for this hackathon, but with the right collaborations I assume it's possible to: - build something that might introduce a bit more quests and gamification - provide a learning environment (with testnet funds) could also be crucial on educating those unfamiliar with bitcoin onchain dynamics.
Have been learning more and playing around practicing best accessibility practices and how it could be applied to a desktop software like Bitcoin Safe. Thanks to @johnjherzog for providing a screen recording of his first experience and @jasonbohio for suggesting the tools to be used. (in this case tested/testing on Windows with the Accessibility Insights app). Some insight shared have been also applied to the website, running a full accessibility check (under WCAG 2.2 ADA, and Section 508 standards) with 4 different plugins and two online tools. I recognize that not all of them works and analyze the same parameters, indeed they complement each other providing a more accurate review.
For Bitcoin Safe interface improvements, many suggestions have been shared with @andreasgriffin , including: - a new iconset, including a micro-set to display the number of confirmed blocs for each transaction - a redesigned History/Dashboard - small refinements like adding missing columns on the tables - allow the user to select which columns to be displayed - sorting of unconfirmed transactions - Defining a new style for design elements like mempool blocks and quick receive boxes You can find below some screenshots with my proposals that hopefully will be included in the next release.
Last achievement this week was to prepare the website https://Safe.BTC.pub, the container where all the outcomes f this experiment will be published. You can have a look, just consider it still WIP. Branding for the project has also been finalized and available in this penpot file https://design.penpot.app/#/workspace?team-id=cec80257-5021-8137-8005-eab60c043dd6&project-id=cec80257-5021-8137-8005-eab60c043dd8&file-id=95aea877-d515-80ac-8006-23a251886db3&page-id=132f519a-39f4-80db-8006-2a41c364a545
What's for next week
After spending most of the time learning and reading material, this coming week will be focused on deliverables. The goal as planned will be to provide: - Finalized Safe₿its brand and improve overall desktop app experience, including categorization of transactions and addresses - An accessibility report or guide for Bitcoin Safe and support to implement best practices - A first draft of the Self-Custody for Organizations guide/framework/protocol, ideally delivered through the website http://Safe.BTC.pub in written format, but also as FlowChart to help have an overview of the whole resources needed and the process itself. This will clearly define preparations and tools/hardwares needed to successfully complete the process.
To learn more about the project, you can visit: Designathon website: https://event.bitcoin.design/#project-recj4SVNLLkuWHpKq Discord channel: https://discord.com/channels/903125802726596648/1369200271632236574 Previous SN posts: https://stacker.news/items/974489/r/DeSign_r and https://stacker.news/items/974488/r/DeSign_r
Stay tuned, more will be happening this coming week
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/977180
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-05-10 09:50:45Information ohne Reflexion ist geistiger Flugsand. \ Ernst Reinhardt
Der lateinische Ausdruck «Quo vadis» als Frage nach einer Entwicklung oder Ausrichtung hat biblische Wurzeln. Er wird aber auch in unserer Alltagssprache verwendet, laut Duden meist als Ausdruck von Besorgnis oder Skepsis im Sinne von: «Wohin wird das führen?»
Der Sinn und Zweck von so mancher politischen Entscheidung erschließt sich heutzutage nicht mehr so leicht, und viele Trends können uns Sorge bereiten. Das sind einerseits sehr konkrete Themen wie die zunehmende Militarisierung und die geschichtsvergessene Kriegstreiberei in Europa, deren Feindbildpflege aktuell beim Gedenken an das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs beschämende Formen annimmt.
Auch das hohe Gut der Schweizer Neutralität scheint immer mehr in Gefahr. Die schleichende Bewegung der Eidgenossenschaft in Richtung NATO und damit weg von einer Vermittlerposition erhält auch durch den neuen Verteidigungsminister Anschub. Martin Pfister möchte eine stärkere Einbindung in die europäische Verteidigungsarchitektur, verwechselt bei der Argumentation jedoch Ursache und Wirkung.
Das Thema Gesundheit ist als Zugpferd für Geschäfte und Kontrolle offenbar schon zuverlässig etabliert. Die hauptsächlich privat finanzierte Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) ist dabei durch ein Netzwerk von sogenannten «Collaborating Centres» sogar so weit in nationale Einrichtungen eingedrungen, dass man sich fragen kann, ob diese nicht von Genf aus gesteuert werden.
Das Schweizer Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG) übernimmt in dieser Funktion ebenso von der WHO definierte Aufgaben und Pflichten wie das deutsche Robert Koch-Institut (RKI). Gegen die Covid-«Impfung» für Schwangere, die das BAG empfiehlt, obwohl es fehlende wissenschaftliche Belege für deren Schutzwirkung einräumt, formiert sich im Tessin gerade Widerstand.
Unter dem Stichwort «Gesundheitssicherheit» werden uns die Bestrebungen verkauft, essenzielle Dienste mit einer biometrischen digitalen ID zu verknüpfen. Das dient dem Profit mit unseren Daten und führt im Ergebnis zum Verlust unserer demokratischen Freiheiten. Die deutsche elektronische Patientenakte (ePA) ist ein Element mit solchem Potenzial. Die Schweizer Bürger haben gerade ein Referendum gegen das revidierte E-ID-Gesetz erzwungen. In Thailand ist seit Anfang Mai für die Einreise eine «Digital Arrival Card» notwendig, die mit ihrer Gesundheitserklärung einen Impfpass «durch die Hintertür» befürchten lässt.
Der massive Blackout auf der iberischen Halbinsel hat vermehrt Fragen dazu aufgeworfen, wohin uns Klimawandel-Hysterie und «grüne» Energiepolitik führen werden. Meine Kollegin Wiltrud Schwetje ist dem nachgegangen und hat in mehreren Beiträgen darüber berichtet. Wenig überraschend führen interessante Spuren mal wieder zu internationalen Großbanken, Globalisten und zur EU-Kommission.
Zunehmend bedenklich ist aber ganz allgemein auch die manifestierte Spaltung unserer Gesellschaften. Angesichts der tiefen und sorgsam gepflegten Gräben fällt es inzwischen schwer, eine zukunftsfähige Perspektive zu erkennen. Umso begrüßenswerter sind Initiativen wie die Kölner Veranstaltungsreihe «Neue Visionen für die Zukunft». Diese möchte die Diskussionskultur reanimieren und dazu beitragen, dass Menschen wieder ohne Angst und ergebnisoffen über kontroverse Themen der Zeit sprechen.
Quo vadis – Wohin gehen wir also? Die Suche nach Orientierung in diesem vermeintlichen Chaos führt auch zur Reflexion über den eigenen Lebensweg. Das ist positiv insofern, als wir daraus Kraft schöpfen können. Ob derweil der neue Papst, dessen «Vorgänger» Petrus unsere Ausgangsfrage durch die christliche Legende zugeschrieben wird, dabei eine Rolle spielt, muss jede/r selbst wissen. Mir persönlich ist allein schon ein Führungsanspruch wie der des Petrusprimats der römisch-katholischen Kirche eher suspekt.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-10 23:17:06- Install EtchDroid (it's free and open source)
- Launch the app, then tap What's Supported? to check compatibility with devices and disk images
- Insert the USB drive
- Tap Write An Image, then select the desired image file
- Tap Grant Access, confirm, and then tap Write image
- Optionally, allow notifications to be notified when the process is complete
- Your bootable USB drive is now ready
⚠️ This app has telemetry enabled by default. Make sure to turn it off in the app menu. If you trust F-Droid, you can get a telemetry-free version from there
⚠️ Avoid moving the phone during the image writing process
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-10 05:45:52Finale: once the industry-standard of music notation software, now a cautionary tale. In this video, I explore how it slowly lost its crown through decades of missed opportunities - eventually leading to creative collapse due to various bureaucratic intrigues, unforeseen technological changes and some of the jankiest UI/UX you've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqaon6YHzaU
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/976219
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-10 13:57:17- Install Grayjay (it's free and open source)
- Launch the app and navigate to the Sources tab
- Enable the desired sources (and log in if needed by tapping on the source and scrolling down to Authentication)
- Go to Android Settings > Apps, select Grayjay, and tap Open By Default and Add Link to automatically open supported links with Grayjay
- Enjoy
ℹ️ If you are using Obtainium to install apps, search for Grayjay on Complex Apps
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-10 05:34:46
For generations before generative text, writers have used the em dash to hop between thoughts, emotions, and ideas. Dickens shaped his morality tales with it, Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness flowed through it, Kerouac let it drive his jazz-like prose. Today, Sally Rooney threads it through her quiet truths of the heart.
But this beloved punctuation mark has become a casualty of the algorithmic age. The em dash has been so widely adopted by AI-generated text that even when used by human hands, it begs the question: was this actually written or apathetically prompted?
The battle for the soul of writing is in full swing. And the human fightback starts here. With a new punctuation mark that serves as a symbol of real pondering, genuine daydreaming, and true editorial wordsmithery. Inspired by Descartes’ belief that thinking makes us human, the am dash is a small but powerful testament that the words you’ve painstakingly and poetically pulled together are unequivocally, certifiably, and delightfully your own.
Let's reclain writig from AI—oneam dash at time.
Download the fonts:
— Aereal https://bit.ly/3EO6fo8 — Times New Human https://bit.ly/4jQTcRS
Learn more about the am dash
https://www.theamdash.com
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/976218
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
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- Bruno - API Testing Client
- ReDoc - Generate API Documentation
- Mockable, {JSON} Placeholder, jsoning, Mocky or MockLab - Mock APIs
- Mockae - Mock APIs with Lua Execution
- InstantAPIs - API Endpoint Generator
- Stein - Turn Google Sheets into Database API
- Lanyard - Export Discord Rich Presence to API Endpoint / Websocket / Discord
- Telegram Bot API / GitHub or PHP Telegram Bot - Telegram Bot API
- cf-workers-telegram-bot - Serverless Telegram Bot / GitHub
- Perspective API - Toxicity Reduction API
- Plaid - Financial Account API / GitHub
- PDF Bot - A Node queue API for generating PDFs
▷ Machine Learning
- 🌐 Awesome Machine Learning - Machine Learning Framework Index
- 🌐 Awesome ML or ML Resources - Machine Learning Resources
- ⭐ Hugging Face, LLM Papers or OpenML - Machine Learning Datasets / Papers
- ⭐ Deep playground - Neural Networks Playground
- ⭐ LLM Visualization - Learn how LLMs Work
- Awesome Generative AI Guide - LLM Research Resources
- Machine Learning Roadmap, SAAYN, machine-learning-zoomcamp, ML Engineering or LLM Course - Learn Machine Learning
- LLM Text Complation - LLM Finetuning / Text Complation
- DeepSpeed - Deep Learning Optimization Library
- Netron - Visualizer for Neural Network, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning Models
- MMDeploy - Deep Learning Model Deployment Toolset / GitHub
- ChatGPT-Next-Web - Cross-Platform ChatGPT / Gemini UI
- Nixified - Nix Flake for AI Projects
- Cyberbotics - Robot Simulator
► Game Dev Tools
- 🌐 List of Game Engines, Awesome Game Engine or Game-Engines - Game Engine Development Resources
- 🌐 EnginesDatabase - Game Engines Database
- 🌐 Awesome Game Dev or /AGDG/ Resources - Game Dev Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Game Production - Game Production Resources
- ↪️ Learn Game Development
- ↪️ Sound Effect Sites
- HiddenPalace - Game Development Media Archive
- Tommti Systems - 3D Benchmark Tools
- Tracy Profiler - Frame Profiler
- Doshaven Programming List - DOS Game Creator Tools
- Fantasy Consoles / Computers - List of Fantasy Consoles and Computers
- Xelu's Controller Prompts - Free Game Prompts / Video
- Basic Computer Games - Basic Computer Game Examples
▷ Asset Creation
- ↪️ Download Game Assets
- ↪️ 3D Models / Modeling Tools
- ↪️ Design Tools / Resources
- ↪️ Art Resources
- ↪️ Animation Resources
- ↪️ Writing Tools
- Nuklear - Game GUI Creator
- HUDSxGUIS - UI Design Concepts
- SPARTAN Procedural - Procedural Tile Generator
- Game Sounds - Royalty Free Game Sounds
- Bleeper or jfxr - Game Sound Effects Creators
- Engine Simulator - Engine Sound Simulator / GitHub
- The Sounds Resource - Game Sounds Examples
- EZ Conversion - Game Audio Converter
▷ Map Creators / Editors
- ⭐ SpriteFusion - Tilemap Editor / Discord
- MapEditor or Tilesetter - Level Editors
- LDtk or Ogmo Editor - 2D Level Editors
- CharPad - Commodore 64 Graphics Editor
- Fantasy Map Generator - Fantasy Map Generator
- Inkarnate - Fantasy Map Editor
- HexHTML - Hexagon Fantasy Map Editor
- ProFantasy - Fantasy Map Tutorials
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator - Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- donjon - RPG Resources / Tools
- RPG Map II - RPG Map Editor
- MapTool - Virtual Tabletop for RPG Games
- Inkwell Ideas - Free Map Tools
- Neighbourhood - Neighborhood Map Generator
- Laigter - Map Generator for 2D Sprites
- Dungeon Scrawl - Dungeon Mapmaking Tool / Subreddit / Discord / GitHub
- Dungeon Map Doodler - Draw Dungeon & Terrain Maps
- One Page Dungeon - Single-page Dungeon Map Generator
► IDEs / Code Editors
- ↪️ Text Editors / Notes
- ⭐ VSCodium or Visual Studio Code, 2, 3 - Code Editor / Extensions
- ⭐ JetBrains / Unlock / License Server
- ⭐ Neovim - Code Editor
- ⭐ Lite XL or Pragtical - Code Editor / Plugin Manager / Plugins / Themes
- ⭐ Emacs - Code Editor / Docs / Resources
- ⭐ WebDen, Sharplab, tech.io or CodingGround - Code Playgrounds
- ⭐ Android Studio / Guide, SupaBase or Plasmic - App Creators / Builders
- Heynote - Code Editor / Notepad
- Edna - Web App / Code Editor / Notepad
- Trinket - Web App / Live Preview / Sign-Up Required / Online Workspace
- Firebase - Gemini AI Cloud Webapp
- Helix - Kakuone / Neovim-Based Code Editor
- HaystackEditor - Canvas-Based Code Editor
- Brackets - Webapp / Live Preview
- Bluefish - Code Editor / Templates
- CudaText - Code Editor
- Lapce - Code Editor
- ecode - Code Editor
- Competitive Editor - Competitive Programming Editor
- JSON Hero - JSON Viewer / Editor
- Apache NetBeans, KDevelop, Mitosis, Lazarus or OpenShift - Cross Platform IDEs
- TidalCycles - Live Algorithmic Coding Environment / Discord
- SciTE - Source Code Editor for Win32 and X
▷ Cloud IDEs / Collab
- 🌐 cloud - Cloud Platform Index
- 🌐 Heroku-Alt or heroku-free-alternatives - Heroku Alternatives
- ↪️ Code Collaboration Platforms
- ⭐ goormIDE - Cloud IDE
- ⭐ Google Colaboratory - Cloud IDE
- ⭐ CodeSandbox, StackBlitz or GitPod - VSCode Cloud IDE
- ⭐ judge0 - Online Code Editor / Discord
- Fleet - Cloud IDE
- CodeTasty - Cloud IDE
- Atheos - Server Required / Cloud IDE / GitHub
- Datalore - Cloud IDE
- JSFiddle - Cloud IDE
- html-css-js - Cloud IDE
- Collabedit - Cloud IDE
- CoderPad - Cloud IDE
- zed - Cloud IDE
- Ideone - Cloud IDE
- PlayCode - Cloud IDE
- pad.ws - Whiteboard Style Cloud IDE / GitHub
- Openshift - Cloud IDE / Eclipse Che
- Arduino - Cloud IDE for Arduino
- Shell Cloud - Google Cloud Shell Environment
- Blazepack, Flox or DevPod - Development Environments
- bloop - IDE AI Suggestion Extension
- glot.io - Pastebin with Runnable Snippets, API & Compiler
- Notebooks.azure - Access Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code
- Jupyter Server - Jupyter Services / APIs
- Anywidget - Create Jupyter Widgets / GitHub
- CoCalc - Virtual online workspace
- CodePen, Web Maker or Liveweave - Code Sandbox
- Platform.uno or Enact - App Frameworks
- InstantDB - Collaborative App Framework
- Codeface, Monaspace, Programming Fonts or Dev Fonts - Fonts for Coding / Comparison
▷ Android Code Editors
- ⭐ Acode - Android Code Editor / GitHub
- Sora - Android Code Editor
- Squircle-CE - Android Code Editor
- Visual Code Space - Android Code Editor
- Spck Editor - Android Code Editor
- droidvim - Vim Code Editor
- VHEditor - VSCode Editor
- diohub, PuppyGit or OctoDroid - Android Git Clients
- GitSync - Android Git Remote Repo Sync
- Gidget - GitHub Notifications / Android
- FlutterMarkdownEditor - Markdown Editor
▷ Coding Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Creative Coding - Creative Coding Resources
- Prettier or codebeautify - Code Formatting Tools
- editorcornfig - Maintain Code Styles Across Editors
- ThemesElection or Dracula - Code Editor Themes
- Freeze - Generate Images of Code / Terminal Output
- myCompiler, Compiler Explorer, OneCompiler, GodBolt, ryugod or Wandbox - Online Compilers / Explorers
- DogBolt - Decompiler Explorers / GitHub
- Code2Flow or Flowchart.js - Code to Flowchart Converter
- tuc - Improved Code Cut
- massCode - Code Snippet Manager
- Meld / 2, Beyond Compare / Pro or WinMerge - File / Directory Comparison Tools
- 0xacab - Code Host
- OctoLinker - Turn Code Statements into Links / GitHub
- RTutor - Translate Natural Language to R code / No Sign-Up
- BrickHub - Share Code Brick Templates
- Sourcegraph or SeaGOAT - Code Searching
- Sourcecodester, Code Projects, Codastro, Kashipara or ItSourceCode - Source Code Projects
- ShortCode or CodeList - Script / Code Indexes
- AnimateCode - Create Code Animations
- DelphiTools - Code Profiler / Delphi Tools
- Adrenaline or Console Ninja - Code Debugging
- JBin or Replay - Collaborative Code Debugging
- Winddown or Sandman - Coding Break Reminders
- Decompiler - Online Decompiler
▷ Vim / Neovim Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Neovim or NeoVimCraft - NeoVim Plugins Collections
- ⭐ Vim Bootstrap - Bootstrap Config for Vim
- SpaceVim, NeoVim Kickstart, AstroNvim, LazyVim, NvChad or LunarVim - Neovim Configs
- DotFyle - Neovim Config Search
- Lazy.nvim or packer.nvim - Neovim Plugin Managers
- FireNVim - Neovim in Browser
- neovide, gnvim, nvui, Neovim wiki##gui - Neovim GUIs
- instant.nvim - Collaborative Neovim Editing
- chatgpt.nvim - ChatGPT in Neovim
- Vim Plug, vim-pathogen / GitHub or Shougo - Vim Plugin Managers
- VimAwesome - Vim Plugins
- nerdtree - Vim Tree Explorer
- VimColorSchemes - Vim Color Schemes
- The Ultimate vimrc - Vim Config
- Vim Markdown or Markdown Preview - Vim Markdown Plugins
▷ VSCode Tools
- 🌐 Awesome VSC Extensions, 2 - VSCode Extensions
- github-vscode-icons - VSCode Icons
- chatgpt-vscode - VSCode ChatGPT
- Open VSX - Open VSX Registry
- snippet-generator - Snippet Generator
- Dendron - Knowledge Managment
- Discord Tools
- vscode-smart-clicks - Smart Clicks
- code-server - Web Server / GitHub
- vscode-settings - VSCode Settings
- insiders.vscode - Insider Build
- VSCodeThemes or VSColors - VSCode Themes
- oslo - Theme Generator
▷ Coding AIs
► Programming Languages
- 🌐 Awesome Cheatsheets, QuickRef.me, HowDoI, OverApi, Reference / GitHub or Cheat Sheets - Programming Cheat Sheets
- 🌐 Awesome Go or Go Recipes - Go Resources
- 🌐 TheAlgorithms - Coding Algorithms / GitHub
- ↪️ Learn Programming
- ⭐ Benchmarks Game - Measure PL Speeds
- ⭐ Language Benchmarks - Benchmarks for PLs & Compilers
- ⭐ 30 Seconds of Code or FreeFrontend - Find Code Snippets
- ⭐ generatedata.com - Generate Test Data in Different Languages
- Try It Online - Programming Language Interpreters
- nunu - Build Go Programs
- Learn X in Y minutes - Programming Language Rundowns / GitHub
- OneLang - Convert Code to Multiple Languages
- Crystalline - Crystal Language Server
- icr - REPL for Crystal
- explaine.rs - Rust Syntax Explanation
▷ Python
- 🌐 Awesome Python - Python Resources
- ⭐ Automate The Boring Stuff - Python Automation Book
- Python Cheatsheet or SpeedSheet - Python Cheat Sheets
- Python Patterns - Python Design Patterns
- Clean Code Python - Clean Up Python Code
- RustPython - Python Interpreter
- uv - Python Package / Project Manager
- Thonny - Python IDE
- pylyzer - Static Code Analyzer
- Online Python Compiler - Online Python Editor & Tester
- ClipRun - Run Python Code in Browser / Chrome Extension
▷ C Languages
- 🌐 Awesome C++ - C++ Resources
- RoslynPad - C# Editor
- RoslynQuoter - C# Syntax Tree API Viewer
- The Algorithms - C++ - C++ Algorithms
- cpp.sh - Online C++ Compiler
- CP-Algorithms - C++ Algorithms
- cppreference - C++ Cheat Sheets
▷ Java / Kotlin
- 🌐 Awesome Kotlin - Kotlin Resources / GitHub
- 🌐 Obfuscator List - Java Obfuscator Index
- Recaf - Java Bytecode Editor
- bytecode-viewer, jd-gui, Krakatau, Luyten, Vineflower or Fernflower - Java Decompilers
- JEnv For Windows - Change Java Version
- jadx - Dex to Java Decompiler
- GraalVM - Advanced Multi-language JVM
- Adoptium - Download OpenJDK Binaries
► Web Development
▷ HTML
- 🌐 Awesome HTML5 - HTML5 Resources
- ⭐ HTML Reference, HTML Cheat Sheet or HTML.com - HTML Guides / Cheat Sheets
- HTML-Minifier - HTML Minifier
- HTMLRev - Free HTML Templates
- Markdown to HTML - Markdown to HTML Converter
- APlayer, DPlayer or xgplayer - HTML5 Video Players
▷ CSS
- 🌐 Awesome CSS - CSS Resources
- ↪️ CSS Framework Tools
- ⭐ You Don't Need JavaScript - CSS Demos
- CSS Cheat Sheet or CSS Tricks - CSS Cheat Sheets
- Easings - CSS Animation Cheat Sheet
- CSSLayout or CSS Layout Generator - CSS Layout / Grid Generators
- CSSPeeper - Smart CSS Viewer
- Project Wallace - CSS Analyzer
- CSS Protips, Modern CSS or CSS Reference - CSS Guides
- Water.css - CSS Styles
- Style Stage - Modern CSS Styles
- Glass UI - Glassmorphism CSS Generator
- Hover.CSS - CSS Hover Effects
- PixelArtCSS - Pixel Art to CSS
- Buttons.cool - Copy CSS Buttons
- CSS Doodle - CSS Pattern Generator
- CSS3 Transform - 2D & 3D CSS Transform Functions Visualizer
- css3patterns, gradienta, GradientMagic or heropatterns - CSS Patterns / Gradients
- FilterBlend - CSS Blend Modes
- Animista - CSS Animations
▷ JavaScript
- 🌐 Awesome JavaScript - JavaScript Resources
- ↪️ TypeScript Tools
- Vanilla List - Vanilla JavaScript Repository
- RunKit - Browser JavaScript Sandbox
- Component Party - Web Component JS Frameworks Overview / GitHub
- jsdfe, de4js, Deobfuscator, WebCrack, Deobfuscate or deobfuscate.io - JavaScript Deobfuscators
- Minify JS or JS Compressor - JavaScript Minifiers
- 1loc or Underdash - JavaScript Snippets
- Node.js Best Practices - Node.js Style Guide
- Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide or StandardJS - JavaScript Style Guides
- Discord.js Guide or An Idiot's Guide - Discord.js Bot Guides
▷ React
- OpenChakra or Plate - React Code Editors
- ReactBits, React Suite / GitHub, 21st / GitHub or Radix UI / GitHub - React Components
- Mantine - Components and Templates / GitHub
- Bulletproof React - React App Architecture
- Refine - React App Builders
- Alright - Generate React Apps
- Codux - Visual IDE for React
- React SVG - Convert SVG to React Components
- Zorm - Type-Safe Form for React
- Million - React Replacement
- novu - Real-Time React Notifications / GitHub
- React Use or UseHooks - React Hooks
- React Query - Fetch, Cache and Update React Data / GitHub
- MMKV - React Key / Value Storage
- Vision Camera - React Camera Support / GitHub
- React PDF - Create PDFs in React
- react-spring - React Spring Animations
- Create React App - Set Up React Web Apps / GitHub
- Codebases - Collection of Projects Written in React
▷ PHP
- 🌐 Awesome PHP - PHP Resources
- XAMPP - PHP Development Environment
- Clean Code PHP - Clean Code for PHP
- Valinor / GitHub - PHP Object Mapper
- Spatie / GitHub or 3v4l - Run PHP Concurrently
► Web Dev Tools
- 🌐 Website Creation Resources - Web Dev Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Tunneling - Tunneling Resources
- 🌐 Awesome list of secrets in environment variables - Environment Variables Secrets
- 🌐 Frontend Developers or Web Dev / Programming YouTube Channels - Web Dev YouTube Channel Indexes
- ↪️ Site Mockups
- ↪️ Archive / Scrape / Crawl Web Pages
- ⭐ Ray.st or Wappalyzer - Identify Technologies on Websites / Addons
- ⭐ GoAccess - Web Log Analyzer / GitHub
- ⭐ Formulaer, Tally, FormBricks, Formshare, Deformity or Stylr - Form Builders
- DataNodes - Webmasters Only File Host / Discord
- Website Planet Tools, Browserling Tools or WebCode - Site Development Tools
- shadcn-ui or shadcn-svelte - Web Component Libraries
- Web Developer - Web Developer Toolbar Extension
- GoatCounter, Rybbit or Umami - Site Analytics
- ElasticSearch - Search & Analytics Engine / GitHub
- Tabler - Site Admin Dashboard
- Octopus - Site Planning Tool
- WireFlow - Flow Prototype Maker
- Web Dev Checklist - Things to Remember for Web Devs
- Dagu - WebUI Job Manager / GitHub
- QuickEmailVerification, Email Marker or ZeroBounce - Email Validation Services
- Plow - HTTP Benchmarking
- http-server - No Config HTTP Server
- Apache - HTTP Server
- Observatory - HTTP Header Security Test
- Transform - Polyglot Web Converter
- BuiltWith - Find Out What Sites are Built With
- LibreCaptcha or mCaptcha - Privacy-Based Captcha Systems
- Media Chrome - Media Player Elements / GitHub
- OneLinePlayer - Vimeo / Dropbox Video Player
- Motion - Animation Library
- LDRS - Loading Animations
- Medusa - Digital Commerce Development Tool
- Can I Use? - Browser Support Tables
- Shuttle / GitHub or PocketBase / GitHub - Open-Source Backend Platforms
- Cloudflare Radar - Cloudflare Insights
- Check for Cloudflare - Check Sites for Cloudflare
- Caddy - Web Server
- Directory Lister - Web-based Directory Listing
- BawkBox - Website Widgets
- The SSO Wall of Shame - Vendors without Built-in SSO
- Remarkbox or HTML Comment Box - Site Comment Systems
- Typebot - Embedded Chat App
- Microlink SDK / GitHub, React Tiny Link / GitHub or Link Preview JS - Create Link Previews
- CORS Proxy - Free CORS Proxy
- frp, GoDoxy or YARP - Reverse Proxies
- WhatPWACanDo - PWA Examples
- Selenium, CopyCat, PlayWright or Huginn - Browser Automation
- Automa or Browserflow - Browser Automation Extensions
- PWABuilder - Turn Site into Progressive Web App
- Chaos Frontend Toolkit - Break Your Web Apps to Improve Them
- LocalHost - Connect Web Apps to Internet
- Shiki, tailspin or Sight - Syntax Highlighters
- ngrok - Introspectable Tunnels to Localhost Tools
- Bore - TCP Tunnel to Expose Servers Local Ports
- NConfig - Server Config
- Nginx-Admins-Handbook - Improve NGINX Performance
- Null PHP Script - Nulled Scripts
▷ Website Generators
- 🌐 Awesome Static Generators / GitHub or Jamstack Generators - Lists of Static Website Generators / Frameworks
- ⭐ Hugo or vitepress - Static Website Generators
- ⭐ Docusaurus, retype / GitHub, Zola, Jekyll or docsify - Static Markdown Website Generators
- Feather Wiki - Extensible Website Generator
- SouPalt - Static Website Generator with HTML Element Tree
- Barely - Python Static Website Generator
- Vvveb, Universe, Google Sites, GrapeDrop or Odoo - Drag & Drop Website Builders
- Tails - Tailwind CSS Website Builder
- 8b - Simple Online Website Builder
- Potion - Notion Website Builder
- Odie - Make Webpages out of Google Docs
- ProjectVisBug - Webpage Editor
- Anvil or Lowdefy - Web App Creators
▷ Color Schemes
- 🌐 Colorful - Color Scheme Resources
- ↪️ Color Palette Generators
- ↪️ Color Pickers
- ⭐ ColorHexa - Color Hex Encyclopedia
- ⭐ Realtime Colors - Preview Color Palettes
- ⭐ Color & Contrast - Color / Contrast Guide
- Colors & Fonts - Quickly Copy Colors
- Khroma or Paletton - Color Scheme Designers
- Palettte - Color Palette Editor
- Colouris - Color Model Conversions
- PaletteGenerator or Alwane - Color Palette Extractor
- Colorable / GitHub, color.review, accessible-color-matrix or Accessible Brand Colors - Accessible Color Pallette Builders
- Color Oracle, WhoCanUse or Toptal - Color Blindness Simulator / Tests
- Simpler Color - Create Web Color System
- Stylify Me - Extract Webpage Colors
- ColorZilla - Color Picker, Gradient Generator & more
- uiGradients - Hex Gradients
- MakeTintAndShade - Tint and Shade Generator
- Alphredo - Create Translucent Colors
- Contrast Checker or Colour Contrast - Background / Text Contrast Checkers
▷ Frontend Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Design Systems - UI Design Systems / Libraries
- 🌐 Awesome Web Animation - Web Animation Resources
- ↪️ Design Resources or Open Source Design
- ⭐ Design Checklist, Performance Checklist or Front-End Checklist - Frontend Development Checklist
- ⭐ ThemeWagon or Tooplate - Free HTML Templates
- ⭐ Boilerplate, html5up or TEMPLATED - Custom HTML Templates
- Templatemo or Free CSS - Free CSS Templates
- Repth Themes - Y2K Anime Themes
- Aspect or OpenUI - Make UI with AI
- Contentdrips or CreatorKit - Brand Design Tools
- SuperNova - Design System Manager
- Interplay - Product Design Tool
- CollectUI, Hoverstat, httpster, Wave Guide, Godly Website, ReallyGoodUX or Pageflows - UI / Site Design Ideas
- StoryBook, Akira or Mockend - UI Development Tools
- UI Design Daily or UIVerse - Free UI Design Resources
- Open UI - Open Standard UI
- Same.dev - Copy Sites User-Interface Code
- CodeMyUI or Semantic UI - User Interface Code Snippets
- Icon Shelf - Icon Manager
- Favicon Maker or Favicon Generator - Create Favicons
- Icon Horse, favicon-hash or Favicone - Download a Sites Favicon / Note
- Meta-Mapper - Website Metadata Thumbnails
- SREWorks - Operation & Maintenance Platform
- the component gallery - Design Components Gallery
- Scrollbar.app - Design Custom Scrollbars
- LogoTaco - Project Logos
- Emanote - Create Sites from Plain-Text Notes / GitHub
- Plunker or Bloo - Prototype / Test Websites Idea
- WebDesignMuseum - Website Designs Over Time
- Bootstrap - Mobile Site Creator / Icons / Snippets / UI Components / Templates, 2
- PsdRepo - Templates, Mockups, Logos, Videos
- Daft Page - Landing Page Creator
- LandingPage - Landing Page Tool Index
- SaaS Pages, SaaS Landing Page or lapa - Landing Page Templates / Ideas
- Zeplin - Design Templates / Editor
- vite or layoutit - Frontend Development Tools
- Frontend Development - Frontend Development Resources
- BoxCoding, UI Beats or MagicUI - UI Components
- Hydrogen - Online Store Templates
- CSS Bed - Classless CSS Templates / GitHub
- Beer CSS - Lightweight CSS Framework / GitHub
- RoughAnnotations - Webpage Annotations / Animations
- Lorem.space, dummyimage, Placeholdifier, PlaceHolder, PicSum or FakeIMG - Site Placeholder Images
- Visiwig - Copy / Paste Site Graphics
- WebDesigner, T3, Theatre.js / GitHub, GSAP, Stylie, RenderForest, Mantra or Lottielab - Create Motion Graphics
- useAnimations or LordIcon - Animated Icons
- NakerApp - Interactive Background Maker
- HTTP Cats - Put Cat Pictures in Your Status Codes
▷ Hosting Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Cloudflare - Cloudflare Resources
- 🌐 VPS Comparison Chart or Bitcoin VPS - VPS Comparisons
- ↪️ Free Webhosting Sites
- ↪️ Domain Tools
- ⭐ Check-Host, StatPing, Uptime, Uptime Kuma, Highlight, AreWeDown?, UptimeRobot or 24x7 - Site / Server Uptime Monitors
- ⭐ TLD-List, TLDES or SitePriace - Domain Price Comparisons
- GoodBadISPs - Best ISPs for Tor Hosting
- Server Hunter or ServerSearcher - Search / Compare Servers
- srvrlss - Search / Compare Serverless Platforms
- Host-Tracker or OONI - Check Site Location Availability / Bypass Paywall
- OpenPanel / GitHub, Sentora or Moonlight - Web Hosting Panels
- GetDeploying - Compare Cloud Providers
- Meta Tag Gen, OpenGraph or MetaTags - Meta Tag Generators
- DNForum - Domain Name Forum
- HaveIBeenSquatted - Typosquatting Discovery Tool
- iana, arin, lacnic, afrinic or apnic - Internet Registry Sites
- takingnames, GetFreeDomain or EU.org / 2 - Free Subdomains
- TheDev - Free Developer Subdomains
- is-a.dev or JS.ORG - Developer Homepages
- Homepage / GitHub, CasaOS / GitHub, Flame, Homer or Dashy / GitHub - Home Server Startpages
- redirect.name - URL Forwarding
- Kener or cstate - Self-Hosted Status Pages
- Sandstorm, Cosmos or CloudRon - Web App Hosts
- vichan / GitHub or overscript - Imageboard Hosting
- ProBoards - Forum & Imageboard Hosting
- MyBB, FreeFlarum or PHPBB - Forum Hosting
- WikiDocs / GitHub, Media Wiki, xWiki, DokuWiki, Miraheze, wikmd or Fandom - Host Free Wiki
- HumHub, HubZilla or scuttlebutt - Self-Hosted Social Network
- UNIT3D Community Edition - Private Tracker Hosting
▷ WordPress Tools
- ↪️ Wordpress Themes
- ⭐ GPLDL - Premium Themes / Plugins / 25 Monthly / Sign-Up Required
- ⭐ WPLocker or Weadown - Premium Themes / Plugins
- Babiato - Themes / Plugins Forum / Sign-Up Required
- WordPress Themes & Plugins - Themes / Telegram
- Visual CSS Editor - WordPress Site Designer
- LocalWP - WordPress Site Deployment Tools
- faustjs - WordPress Framework
- Timber - WordPress Theme Creator / GitHub
- KokoAnalytics - WordPress Analytics
- UUID Tools - UUID Generator
▷ Regex Tools
- Note - You can use AI chatbots like ChatGPT to create complex regex patterns more easily.
- 🌐 Awesome Regex - Regex Resources
- ⭐ Regex Vis, Regulex, Regexper - Regex Visualizer
- ⭐ RegexLearn, refrf.dev or learn-regex - Learn Regex
- ⭐ RegExr, Rubular or Regex101 - Regex Editors
- ⭐ grex or Regex Generator - Regex Generators
- RegexOne - Regex Practice
- iHateRegex - Regex Patterns
- Melody - Compile to Regex / GitHub
- PyRegex - Python Regex Playground
▷ Benchmark Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Accessibility - Accessibility Tools Index
- ⭐ LightTest, Yellow Lab Tools, PageSpeed, SpeedVitals, Geofetcher, GTmetrix or Websu - Test Webpage Speed
- ⭐ Geekflare Tools or Frontend Dogma - Site Benchmarking Tools
- LambDatest - Cross Browser Testing Cloud
- Accessibility Guide, Pa11y, Wave, Andi or A11ygator - Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Accessibility Insights - Fix Accessibility Issues
- Accessibility Cheatsheet or A11Project - Site Accessibility Guidelines
- Web Vitals Leaderboard, CodSpeed or Lighthouse Metrics - Website Performance Tests
- Prometheus - Site Metrics / Setup
- Carbon Calculator - Estimate Sites Carbon Footprint
- UX Check - Site Heuristic Evaluation
- Testmail - Site Signup Test
- Responsive Viewer - Test Site on Multiple Screen Types / Chrome
- Responsively, ResponsiveTestTool, Responsivize or Am I Responsive - Website Responsiveness Tests
- LightHouse - Web App Performance Test
▷ Image Optimization
- ⭐ ImageMagick - Image Optimization / Scripts
- RIOT - Image Optimization
- YOGA - Image Optimization
- ImageFoo - Image Optimization
- tiny.pictures - Image Optimization
- Ihancer - Image Optimization
- Waifu2x - Image Optimization
- OxiPNG - PNG Optimization
- Crunch - PNG Optimization / Self-Hosted / No Sign-Up
▷ SVG Tools
- ↪️ SVG / Vector Images
- Method, SVG.wtf, Boxy SVG, Mossaik or SVG Viewer - SVG Editors / Viewers
- SVGFilters - SVG Filter Builder
- Crayon or SVGArtista - SVG Animation Tools
- SVGO or SVGCrop - SVG Optimization / GUI
- SVG Tutorial - Learn How to Code SVG Images
- SVGX - SVG Assets Manager
- Vector Express or Vector Magic - Vector Converters
- svgco or IMG to SVG - Image to SVG Converter
- SVG2JSX - SVG to JSX Converter
- Pattern Monster - SVG Pattern Generator
- Blobs - SVG Shape Generator
- Broider - Create Border Designs
- ShapeDivider - Make SVG Shape Divider
- SVG Path - SVG Path Visualizer
- svg-path-editor - SVG Path Editor
- Get Waves, Wavelry, SVGWave / GitHub or SVG Wave - SVG Wave Generators
- Blobmaker - SVG Blob Generator
- AutoTracer - Image Vectorizer
- JSLogo - Logo Interpreter
► Cybersecurity Tools
- ⭐ pyWhat - File Analyzer
- Open Source Security Software - Cybersecurity Software
- osquery or Nmap / Results - Security Monitors
- Canarytokens - Network Breach Check
- Nuclei / GitHub, Synk or NVD - Vulnerability Tracking / Scanning
- Zeek, Kismet, ntop or Sniffnet - Network Monitors
- Crowdsec - Crowd-Sourced Intrusion Detection / Prevention / GitHub
- BBRadar or BugBountyHunting - Bug Bounty Trackers
- X-Force Exchange - Security Threat Intelligence Platform
- OpenSCA-CLI - Composition Analysis for Third Party Components
- Unblob - Extraction Suite
- Security Onion Solutions, Wazuh or Snyk / GitHub - Site Security Monitor
- spur.us - Block VPNs / Proxies
- Greenbone - Vulnerability Management
- Evervault - Security / Compliance Infrastructure
- DarkVisitors - Autonomous Chatbots / Data Scraper List
- Al-Khaser - Anti-Malware Stress Test
- CVE Details - CVE Details
- AllSafe - Intentionally Vulnerable Android App
▷ Cybersecurity Indexes
- 🌐 Awesome Cyber Security - Cybersecurity Resources
- 🌐 Awesome CI/CD Security - CI/CD Security Resources
- 🌐 Awesome GPT Agents - Cybersecurity GPT Agent Index
- Advisory Database, ThreatFox, Exploit DB or Att&ck - Cybersecurity Defense Databases
- VirusShare, Bazaar, MalShare, URLhaus, PulseDive or Malpedia - Malware Search / Indexes
- ThreatMap or CyberMap - Live Malware Distribution Maps
- The Void - Software Incident Reports
- Rawsec's CyberSecurity Inventory - Cybersecurity Resources
- CybersecResources - Cybersecurity Resources / GitHub
- Awesome List - Cybersecurity Resources
- Cybersecurity-Resources - Cybersecurity Resources
- Infosec Resources - Cybersecurity Resources
- CyberSecTools - Cybersecurity Resources
- My Infosec Awesome - Infosec Resources
▷ Pen Testing
- 🌐 Awesome Pen Testing - Penetration Testing Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Hacking - Pentesting / Security Index
- Metasploit / Cheatsheet - Pentesting Framework
- MobileApp-Pentest-Cheatsheet - App Pentesting Cheatsheet
- Pentest Contracts - Security Contract Templates
- OSCP-Exam-Report-Template-Markdown - Offensive Security Exam Report Markdown / GitHub
- Kali NetHunter or AndroGuard - Penetration Testing / Forensics Apps
▷ DNS Tools
- ↪️ Free DNS Resolvers
- ⭐ mess with dns - Experiment with DNS
- DNS over HTTPS - Encrypted DNS Providers & Resources
- DNSPerf - DNS Provider Rankings
- GRC DNSBench - DNS Benchmark
- DNS Propagation - DNS Checker
- MXToolBox - MX Record Lookup Tool
- DNSDumpster, DNS Watch, DNSHistory or WhatsMyDNS - DNS Lookup / Security
- Web Check, NSLookup or dog - DNS Information Tools
- DuckDNS, FreeDNS, dynu, NoIP, myaddr, nsupdate / GitHub or Desec - Dynamic DNS Services
▷ Web Security
- WebAuthn - Web Authentication API - Demo
- Hydra - OAuth 2.0 Server / OpenID Connect Provider
- SuperTokens or Lucia - User Authentication
- ZAP - Web App Security Testing
- IP Intelligence, AbuseIPDB or Proxy Check - Proxy / VPN / Bad IP Detection
- Fail2Ban - Protect Servers from Brute Force Attacks
- Tempesta FW - DDoS / Web Attack Protection
- IPv6 Leak Test, Test-IPv6 or IPv6 Test - IPv6 Test
- How To Turn off IPv6 - Prevent IPv6 Leaks
▷ Encryption / Certificates
- ⭐ Awesome Cryptography - Cryptography Resources
- mitmproxy - Analyze and modify HTTPS traffic / OpenAPI Converter / GitHub
- HTTPToolkit - Intercept, Debug, and Mock HTTP(S)
- Mozilla SSL - SSL Configuration Generator
- Tailscale - Secure Network VPN
- SSLLabs - SSL Testing
- BadSSL - Test Clients Against Bad SSL Configs
- Hitch - SSL / TLS Proxy / GitHub
- Let's Encrypt or Certbot - Free TLS Certificates
- SSL for Free or ZeroSSL - Free SSL Certificates
- CertAlert - TLS/SSL Certificate Expiration Alerts
- acme.sh - Auto Issues / Certificate Renewal
- mkcert - Locally Trusted Development Certificates
- SSLMate CAA - CAA Record Helper
▷ Reverse Engineering
- 🌐 Reverse Engineering Resources or ReversingBits / GitHub - Reverse Engineering Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Malware Analysis - Malware Analysis Resources
- ⭐ GHIDRA - Reverse Engineering
- ⭐ x64dbg - Debugger for Reverse Engineering
- Radare - Free Reversing Toolkit / GitHub / Discord
- Rizin or Cutter - Reverse Engineering Framework
- Frida - Reverse Engineering
- Flare VM - Reverse Engineering Environment Setup Script
- ROP Emporium - Learn Return-Oriented Programming
- MSTG or DVIA-v2 - App Security Testing / Reverse Engineering
- Malimite - iOS / macOS Decompiler
- challenges.re - Reverse Engineer Code
- horsicq - File Type Identification Tools / GitHub
► Markup Tools
- ⭐ Markdown Guide - Guide for Markdown (.md)
- ⭐ generatedata.com - Generate Test Data in Markup Formats
- markup.rocks - Online Markup Editor
- Markup Validation Service - Validate Your Markup Language Structure
- YAMLine - Online YAML Tools / Converters
- yq - Portable YAML Processor / GitHub
- readme.so - Create README.md Files
- Tableconvert - Markdown / Code Converter
- Linkspector - Check Markdown Files for Dead Links
- Table Magic - Table to Markdown Converters
- Clipboard2Markdown - Text to Markdown Converter
- gd2md-html - Convert Google Doc to Markdown
- MarkItDown or GetMarkdown - File to Markdown Converter
- Quartz, Perlite or FlowerShow - Publish Markdown
- Markdown Tutorial - Interactive Markdown Tutorial
- emoji-cheat-sheet - Emoji Markdown Cheatsheet
▷ Markdown Editors
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-10 11:08:51- Install FUTO Keyboard (it's free and open source)
- Launch the app, tap Switch Input Methods and select FUTO Keyboard
- For voice input, choose FUTO Keyboard (needs mic permission) and grant permission While Using The App
- Configure keyboard layouts under Languages & Models as needed
Adding Support for Non-English Languages
Voice Input
- Download voice input models from the FUTO Keyboard Add-Ons page
- For languages like Chinese, German, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese, download the Multilingual-74 model
- For other languages, download Multilingual-244
- Open FUTO Keyboard, go to Languages & Models, and import the downloaded model under Voice Input
Dictionaries
- Get dictionary files from AOSP Dictionaries
- Open FUTO Keyboard, navigate to Languages & Models, and import the dictionary under Dictionary
ℹ️ When typing, tap the microphone icon to use voice input
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@ d360efec:14907b5f
2025-05-10 03:57:17Disclaimer: * การวิเคราะห์นี้เป็นเพียงแนวทาง ไม่ใช่คำแนะนำในการซื้อขาย * การลงทุนมีความเสี่ยง ผู้ลงทุนควรตัดสินใจด้วยตนเอง
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-10 05:11:27Consider the following two charts from A History of Clojure which detail the introduction and retention of new code by release for both Clojure and for Scala.
While this doesn't necessarily translate to library stability, it's reasonable to assume that the attitude of the Clojure maintainers will seep into the community. And that assumption is true.
Consider a typical Javascript program. What is it comprised of? Objects, objects, and more objects. Members of those objects must be either introspected or divined. Worse, it's normal to monkeypatch those objects, so the object members may (or may not) change over time.
Now, consider a typical Clojure program. What is it comprised of? Namespaces. Those namespaces contain functions and data. Functions may be dynamically generated (via macros), but it is extremely rare to "monkeypatch" a namespace. If you want to know what functions are available in a namespace, you can simply read the source file.
Continue reading https://potetm.com/devtalk/stability-by-design.html
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/976215
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-13 00:23:34► Video Tools
- 🌐 Digital Video Intro - Digital Video Guides / Resources
- ↪️ AI Video Generators
- ⭐ Reincubate Camo - Use Any Camera as Webcam
- Deep-Live-Cam, Rope, SimSwap or Roop - Video Face Swap Tools
- VideoHelp Forum - All Things Media / Video
- ICAT - Video Quality Comparison & Analysis Tool
- videoduplicatefinder - Duplicate Video Finder
- VHS Decode - VHS Decoder
- VidClue - Short Form Video Inspiration
▷ Disc Utilities
- ImgBurn, DVDStyler, DeepBurner or Alcohol Soft - CD / DVD Burning
- MakeMKV - Create MKV From Blu-ray / DVD / Beta Keys
- VidCoder or DVDDecrypter - DVD / Blu-ray Ripping
- DGDemux - Blu-Ray/UHD Disk Demuxer
- PgcDemux - DVD Disk Demuxer
- BatchGuy - Blu-Ray Ripping
▷ Video File Hosts
- Note - Most file hosts remove files after inactivity, while some delete them regardless. Check each host if you're concerned about file expiry.
- ⭐ DoodStream - 5GB / 60 Days / Account Required
- ⭐ Litterbox - 1GB / 3 Days
- ⭐ Catbox - 200MB / Forever / Allows Hotlinking
- ⭐ Gofile - 100GB Monthly / 10 Days
- ⭐ Send.now - Unlimited / 30 Days
- Files.vc - Unlimited / 10GB / Forever / Discord
- VOE - Unlimited / 60 Days / 720p / Account Required
- MixDrop - Unlimited / 60 Days / 720p / Account Required
- FEX.NET - 100GB / 10GB Guest / 7 Days
- FileMoon, 2, 3 - 50GB / 40TB per account / Forever / Account Required
- Hexupload or AnonTransfer - 15GB / 30 Days
- Fastupload.io - 10GB / 30 Days (60 Days with Account)
- Vidoza - 15GB / 15 Days / Account Required
- Streamtape - 15GB / Account Required / .to
- Dubz - 100MB / Forever
- EarnVids
- Streamable - 250MB / 2 Days (90 Days with Account)
- uguu - 128MB / 3 Hours
- webmshare - WebM & GIF Hosting / 20MB / Forever
- Videy - 100MB / MP4 Only
▷ Screen Recording
- ⭐ OBS
- gifcap - Turn Screencasts into GIFs / GitHub
- Shinobi - Network Video Recorder
- MythTV - Digital Video Recorder (DVR)
- tldv or ZoomRec - Record Google Meets / Zoom Calls
- FFmpeg / Tools
- Vileo
- ShareX
- Screen Recorder
- vokoscreenNG
- Cap / GitHub
- Shar.ec - Online
- ScreenREC - Online
- ScreenRecorder.me - Online
- KazCap - Online
- RecordScreen - Online
- Google Screen Recorder - Online
▷ Processing / Encoding
- ⭐ HandBrake - Video Encoding Software / Guide
- ⭐ FFmpeg - Multimedia Processors / Converters / Tools
- ⭐ Shutter Encoder - Video Encoding Software / GitHub
- ⭐ MKVToolNix - MKV Editing Tools
- ⭐ archived-things, The Encoding Guide or Silentaperture - Video Encoding Guides
- ⭐ Disc Rip - Disc Ripping Guide / Mirror
- ⭐ Basics to the Art of Remuxing - Learn How to Remux Videos
- DDVT - Dolby Vision RPU Demuxing / Injecting / Editing
- MKV Muxing Batch GUI - Mux Videos
- staxrip - Video Encoding / Contact Sheet + Thumbnails Creator
- IFME - Video Encoding
- XMedia Recode - Video Conversion
- FastFlix - Video Conversion / GitHub
- NEAV1E or Av1an - AV1 Encoding
- Winnydows - Video Conversion Software
- sickbeard_mp4_automator - Automate Video Processing
- Seven Converter - Video Conversion / GitHub
- nmkoder - Media Encoding / Muxing
- selur - Video Encoding
- vvenc, vvdec or VVCEasy - VVC Encode / Decode
- Ingex - Tapeless (Uncompressed) Recording / Digital Tape Converter
▷ Online Processing
- Compress Video Online - Compress / Unlimited
- 8mb.video - Compress / 2GB
- autocompressor - Compress / 2GB
- Rotato - Compress / 2GB
- VideoSmaller - Compress / 500MB
- YouCompress - Compress / 500MB
- MP4Compress - Compress / 500MB
- VERT - Converter / Discord / GitHub
- Video Express Converter
- VideoConverter - Converter
- Restream Tools - Converter
▷ FFmpeg Tools
- FFmpeg-Builds or media-autobuild_suite - Autobuild Tools
- ffmpeg-web - FFmpeg Web App / GitHub
- FFmpeg Libav or ffmprovisr - FFmpeg Guides
- ASM Lessons - FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
- FFmpeg Cheat Sheet, FFmpeg Commander or FFmpeg Buddy - Command Lists
- WebMConverter - WebM Converter
- PureMPV - Info Copy Tool
- ffmpeg.lav - Preview Filters
- LLmpeg or idli - AI Commands
- FFmpeg Batch - Bulk Conversion Tools
▷ Live Streaming
- 🌐 Awesome Streaming or StreamerFreebies - Live Streaming Resources
- ⭐ OBS - Live Stream Manager
- ⭐ OBS Tools - Virtual Cam / Tweaks / Effects / Keyboard Visualiser / Background Remover / Web App / Phone Controller / Dock Layouts / WebRTC Server / Plugin Updater / Guide
- Stream Elements - Streaming Service Manager
- Streamlabs-OBS - Live Stream Manager
- StreamLabs - Live Stream Manager
- Restream - Live Stream Manager
- FBX - Live Stream Manager
- XSplit - Live Stream Manager
- TwitchChat - Live Stream Manager / Discord
- VDO Ninja - Live Stream Colab Tool
- LiveStreamDVR / Display Chat - Live Stream Recorders
- NVIDIA Broadcast - Stream Audio / Video Enhancer
- Owncast or Restreamer - Self-Hosted Live Streaming
- WDFlat - Stream Elements
- Twelve47Studios - Stream Overlays
- Strem - Stream Automation
- ppInk, glnk, Annotate Screen or Live Draw - Screen Annotation
- Amuse or Songify - Now Playing Overlays
- StreamPi or ODeck - ElGato Streamdeck Alternatives
- real-url - Copy Live Stream URLs
- Chat-Downloader - Retrieve Chat Messages from Livestreams
▷ VTuber Tools
- 🌐 Runa's Archive - VTuber Resources / Discord
- Best VTuber - VTuber Resources
- VTResources - VTuber Resources
- VTuber Assets - VTuber Resources
- VTuber Kit - VTuber App
- Inochi2D - VTuber App / Discord
- Vtube Studio - VTuber App
- Kalidoface 3D, VRoid, Animaze or TransTube - VTuber Characters
- avatarify-python or veadotube - Video Call Avatars
- VTuberized Logos - VTuber Style Logos
▷ Subtitle Tools
▷ Linux Video Tools
▷ Mac Video Tools
► Video Players
- 🌐 Awesome Video - Video Streaming Resources
- 🌐 Video Help - Video Player Index
- ⭐ MPC-HC, MPC-QT or MPC-BE - Video Player / YT-DL Support
- ⭐ MPV - Video Player / Frontends
- ⭐ VLC - Video Player
- Screenbox - Video Player
- AVPlayer, ICAT or GridPlayer - Multi-Video Players
- SPlayer - Video Player with Smart Translation
- PotPlayer - Video Player / Twitch Addon / YouTube Addon
- ImPlay - Video Player
- SMPlayer / 2 - Video Player / YouTube
- uView - Video Player
- Rise Media Player - Video Player
- Flyleaf - Video Player
- MoonPlayer - Video Player
- KikoPlay - Video Player
- Plyr - Online HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo Player / GitHub
- PiP-Tool - Use Picture-in-Picture on All Videos
- PlayVideo - Google Drive Video Player
- MotionMonkey - Stream Online Videos in Player
- StreamLink - Extract Videos from Sites to Players / Twitch Adblock / GitHub
- Hohoema - Nico Nico Video Player
- polsy.org.uk - Alt Players for Video Sites
▷ Stream Sync
- ⭐ SyncPlay - App
- ⭐ Watch2Gether - Online Player
- ⭐ SyncWatch - Online Extension
- ⭐ Kosmi - Online Player
- ⭐ WatchParty - Online / Virtual Browser
- ⭐ neko / GitHub - Docker Virtual Browser
- HyperBeam / VIP - Virtual Computer Embed
- Trast, OpenTogetherTube, TurtleTV or twoseven - Online Player
- bear.cat - Online Virtual Machine / Allows NSFW
- Metastream - Online Extension / Discord / GitHub / X
- Caracal Club - Online Video Player
- CyTube - Online Video Player
- VideoTogether - App
- baked.live - Online Video Player
- Rave.io - Online Extension
- MovieNight / Discord - Docker
- Kast - Screen Share
- Screen Share Party - Online Screen Share
▷ MPV Tools
- ↪️ MPV Shaders
- MPV Config Guide, 2, 3
- ModernX, tethys or uosc - Alt User Interfaces
- Simple MPV WebUI - WebUI Controller
- MPV Context Menu
- MPV Scripts - Userscripts
- VideoClip, 2 - Clip Tool
- MPV WebM - WebM Tool
- Play With MPV or ff2mpv - Open Videos with MPV
- MPV WebTorrent Hook - Torrent Streaming
- AutoSubSync MPV - Sub Sync
- MPV SponsorBlock, 2 - SponsorBlock for MPV
- ThumbFast - MPV Thumbnails
▷ VLC Tools
- 🌐 Awesome VLC - VLC Resources
- VLSub - Sub Downloader
- VLC Skin - VLC Skins
- VLC Slow Seek Fix
► Media Servers
- 🌐 Auto Download Tool Index
- ⭐ Jellyfin - Media Server
- ⭐ Kodi - Media Server
- TRaSH Guides / Discord or The Complete Guide - Server Setup Guides
- Self-hosted Anime - Anime Server Setup Guides
- Prowlarr, FlexGet or /r/softwarr - Autodownload Tools
- Organizr, Reiverr or Homarr - Media Server Managers
- Fixarr - Media Server File Renamer
- HTPC Download Box - Media Server Automation
- Emby - Media Server
- Plex - Media Server
- Universal Media Server - Media Server
- OSMC - Media Server
- Kawaii-Player - Media Server
- Streama - Media Server
- Gerbera - Media Server
- Homehost - Media Server
- Dim - Media Server
- Kyoo - Media Server
- WatchIt / GitHub / Discord - Media Server
- SimpleDLNA - Media Server
- Chocolate - Media Server
- Media-Hoarder - Media Catalog Frontend
- Seanime - Anime Server
- Frames - Google Drive Server
- HTPC - Home Theater PC guides / Subreddit
- MSX - Web App
- ErsatzTV or dizqueTV - Live Channel Media Servers
- YTDL-Sub - Add YouTube Channels to Media Servers / GitHub
- xTeVe - Plex / Emby M3U Proxy
- Ombi - Plex / Emby User Request Management
▷ Plex Tools
- Reddit Guide - Plex Setup Guides
- Tautulli - Server Monitor / Note
- SuperPlex - Plex Plugins
- Kitana - Plugin Frontend
- Plex Ripper - Merge Plex Libraries w/ Your Own
- PlexDrive or mergerfs - Mount Google Drive
- SyncLounce - Media Sync
- PseudoTV - Create TV Channels
- Overseerr - User Requests / IMDb Extension
- Pasta Tool - Audio / Sub Changer
▷ Jellyfin Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Jellyfin - Jellyfin Resources
- ⭐ Blink, Fladder or jellyfin-media-player - Desktop Clients
- /r/JellyfinShare - Jellyfin Server Sharing
- Jellyfin Forum - Official Jellyfin Forum
- Jellyfin Vue - Jellyfin Web Client
- Jellyfin "arr" Setup Guide
- Jellyfin Customization Guide
- Jellyfin Themes
- Jellyseerr - User Requests
- Jellyfin RPC - Jellyfin Discord Rich Presence
▷ Kodi Tools
- ⭐ Elementum - Torrent Streaming / Trakt Sync / Similar to Stremio + Torrentio
- EverythingKodi - Kodi Addon Tutorials
- Kodi Builds Chart
- /r/Addons4Kodi / Tracker / Trending - Kodi Addons
- Kodi Skins or WIP Skins - Kodi Skins
- Synko - Kodi Stream Sync
- Plex Kodi Connect or plex-for-kodi - Plex for Kodi
- quasar - Torrent Plugin
- IPTV Client
- Simkl - Media Tracker
- tinyMediaManager or MediaElch - Media Collection Managers
► Video Download
- ↪️ YouTube Video Downloaders
- ↪️ Twitch Video Downloaders
- ↪️ Download Managers
- ⭐ yt-dlp or YTDL-PATCHED - Multi-Site / Commands / Zoom Fix / Discord
- ⭐ cobalt - Multi-Site / Online / Instances / Playlist Support, 2
- ⭐ 9xbuddy, 2, 3 - Multi-Site / Online
- ⭐ Download Helper, FetchV or MPMux - Extensions
- CD(R)M-Project - DRM Tools / Discord
- VideoFK - Multi-Site / Online
- you-get - Multi-Site / CLI
- Hitomi Downloader - Multi-Site / Software
- SCrawler - Multi-Site / Software / Discord
- Musvkrobot - Multi-Site / Telegram Bot
- myfaveTT, SnapTik or tiktok-to-ytdlp - TikTok
- Threads Downloader - Threads
- Piner - Pinterest / Online
- hls-downloader, hls extension or hlsloader - HLS Downloaders
- GetWVKeys - Send Widevine Requests / GitHub
► Video Editing
- ⭐ /r/VideoEditing - Video Editing Subreddit / Wiki
- ⭐ Eyecandy - Visual Technique Examples
- ⭐ Waifu2x GUI, Video2x, Enhancr, Lossless Scaling or Dandere2x - Video Upscaling
- Codecs and Containers - Info on Codecs & Containers
- ALF FreeWare VideoCODECs, Codec Guide or Free-Codecs - Video Codec Collections
- VideoHelp Forum - Video Editing Forums
▷ Video Editors
- ⭐ LosslessCut - Video Editor
- ⭐ kdenlive - Video Editor / GitHub
- ⭐ DaVinci Resolve - Video Editor / Sign-Up Required
- ⭐ Shotcut - Video Editor
- Auto-Editor - CLI Editor
- MoviePy - Python Editor
- Webm Generator - Webm Editor
- avisynth or VapourSynth - Video Processors
- Source Filmmaker - Steam Movie-Making Tool / Resources
- OpenRV - Image / Sequence Playback Review
- Remotion - Video Editor
- Olive - Video Editor
- EZVid - Video Editor
- OpenShot - Video Editor
- Lightworks - Video Editor
- VSDC - Video Editor
- Pitivi - Video Editor
- Visla - Video Editor
- Windows Movie Maker, 2, 3 - Video Editor
- Avidemux - Cut / Filter / Encode
- suckless-cut or vidcutter - Cut / Trim Videos
- Opus - Clip Creator
- Kurku or FreeMoCap - Motion Tracking Tools
- VSeeFace - Face / Hand Tracking VRM
▷ Online Editors
- ⭐ wide.video - Discord
- ⭐ Pikimov - Use Edge or Chrome
- ⭐ Mastershot - Sign-Up Required
- VideoToolbox - Sign-Up Required
- VideoInu - Works Offline
- Panzoid
- vidmix
- Video Cutter
- Omniclip - GitHub / Discord
- Vididoo - Multitool
- VideoCandy - Multitool
- Video2Edit - Multitool
- Crop Video - Crop Videos
- LoopVid - Loop Videos
- Crossfade - Video / Audio Crossfading
- VidLouder - Increase Video Volume
- Convert2Video - Image / Audio to Video
▷ Video Enhancement / Effects
- Video Enhance AI - Video Enhancement Tool / Search "Topaz" on LR
- Gyroflow - Video Stabilization / GitHub
- Flowframes / Beta or SVP / Guide - Video Interpolation / Increase FPS
- VideoColorizerColab - Video Colorization Colab
- OpenColorIO - Video Color Manager
- FreshLUTs - Free LUTs (Color Filters)
- blur or Smoothie - Add Motion Blur to Videos / Tutorial
- ProPainter - Video Inpainting
▷ VFX Sites
- FootageCrate
- FreeVideoEffect
- VideoCoPilot
- VFXmed
- Team V.R releases
- flex_cg_vfx
- VFXLoot
- Download Pirate - Use Adblock / Avoid Fake Download Buttons / Discord
- ShareAE - After Effects
- HunterAE - After Effects
- Visual Effects Pack - After Effects
- AERiver - After Effects
- AEDownloadPro - After Effects
- Intro HD - After Effects
▷ Animation Tools
- 🌐 Creator Resources - Art & Animation Resource Index
- ⭐ Unreal Engine, MoonRay, cgsoftbox, SketchUp or Twinmotion - 3D Creation Tools
- ⭐ Immersity AI - 2D Image to 3D Animation Tool
- OpenToonz, Wick Editor, Clipnote Studio or Pencil2D - Animation Tools
- Animaker - Animated Video Creator
- 3DThis - 3D Animation Tools
- Mega Scans - 3D Scans
- Mixer - 3D Texture Creation Tool
- PlanetSide - CG Environment Generator
- cgplugdump - CG Software Plugins
- Physically Based - RGB Values of Elements
- AnimeEffects, enve, Cavalry, TupiTube or Synfig - 2D Animation Tools
- ScribbleDiffusion - Turn Doodles into Artwork
- MonsterMash - Sketch-Based Modeling & Animation Tool
- Storyboarder - Quickly Visualize & Test Animations / GitHub
- LuxCoreRender - Rendering Engine
- RenderChan - 2D Animation Render Manager
- Mandelbulber or FragM - Fractal Rendering Software / 3D
- JWildfire, IFSRenderer or Fractorium - Flame Fractal Rendering Software
- BestSnip, Sketch Machine, Plask or Rive - Online Animation Tools
- Glaxnimate or Trangram - Vector Animation Tools
- LibreSprite, GraphicsGale, Pixel Compresor, JPixel, Aseprite / Guide or SpookyGhost - Pixel Art Animation Tools
- Spritesheet Generator - Spritesheet Generator / Gitea
- Animated Drawings, FAIR Animated Drawings or MotorPen - Animate Drawings
- FlipAnim - Create Animated Flipbooks
- Viggle / Discord or Picrew - Animated Character Creators
- Mixamo or Cascadeur - 3D Character Animation Tools
- MMHuman3D - 3D Human Model Creator
- Talking Face Avatar - Talking Avatar Generator
- Blender Open Movies - CGI Assets
▷ Stock Videos
- 🌐 Awesome Stock Resources or CuteStockFootage - Stock Video Indexes
- Pexels - Stock Videos
- 4K Media - 4K Stock Videos
- Dareful - 4K Stock Videos
- Monzoom - 4K Stock Videos
- BeachFrontBroll - Stock Videos
- Videvo - Stock Videos
- veed.io - Stock Videos
- VidsPlay - Stock Videos
- MitchMartinez - Stock Videos
- MixKit - Stock Videos
- ineedfx - Stock Videos
- MotionPlaces - Worldwide Stock Videos
- DroneStock - Drone Video Footage
- MovieTools - Video Loops
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2025-05-09 17:13:22lista #descentralismo #compilado #portugues
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Modelos de IA e Ferramentas
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Iniciativas de Bitcoin
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2025-05-09 09:20:28My last article, I wrote about DePIN, a passive income that is easily accessible and something to consider as supplemental income. This week I want to discuss another form of finance. Let’s face it: when most of us hear the word “finance”, our eyes glaze over faster than a donut in a Krispy Kreme factory.
It conjures images of Wall Street suits, casino type crypto scams, and incomprehensible jargon. What if I told you that finance could be regenerative? Could your money heal the world?
Regenerative Finance is what I’m discussing; ReFi if you want to sound cool. Regenerative finance is a movement that’s quietly transforming how we think about money, investment and our collective future. Let’s dive down the rabbit hole and take a journey into a world where your money can make things better.
You’re at a party and someone asks what you do for a living. You say, “I work in sustainable finance.” Boring to most, they politely nod. But what if you said, “I work in regenerative finance. We invest in projects that restore rainforests, rebuild communities and make money while healing the planet.” How interesting, right?
What is sustainable? It is about not making things worse, just sustaining them. On the other hand, regenerative finance restores, renews and improves systems, making sure things are better when you leave than when you arrived.
Regeneration systems imagine every dollar invested helps a forest grow, a community thrive or a river run clear again. Remember sustainability is about keeping things as they are. Regeneration is about making things better.
Here’s a real-world example: The Savory Institute works with ranchers to restore grasslands using holistic grazing. Investors in their projects don’t just avoid harm, they rebuild the soil, increase biodiversity, and capture carbon. That’s money making a difference.
Regenerative finance asks, “How will the investment affect people, planet and profit, not just today, but decades from now?” Another real-world example, Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, invests profits into reforestation projects worldwide. Their financial model considers long term ecological health, not just quarterly returns.
ReFi isn’t about faceless corporations. It’s about empowering local communities and restoring ecosystems. Think of it as crowdfunding Mother Earth.
How does all this magic happen? Here are a few ways to invest.
IMPACT INVESTING As examples from above, this is where you put your money into projects that actively restore ecosystems, empower communities or fight climate change. FUNDING BONDS These are bonds issued on blockchain platforms to fund sustainable projects. They are managed by smart contracts and investors get digital tokens representing their share. Think about this as an early adopter.
TOKENIZATION This is taking real-world assets and turning them into digital tokens. Think carbon credits. There’s no Wall Street middleman which makes it easier to track, invest and trade in regenerative projects. You can have fractional ownership with tokenization which means easier access to more assets.
Real estate has moved into fractional ownership using tokenization. The threshold to invest has lowered immensely with this practice.
The world is facing some big problems with climate change, inequality, biodiversity loss and I could go on. Traditional finance hasn’t exactly been successful. Regenerative finance offers a new way forward.
By focusing on restoring rather than just sustaining, we create resilient, equitable and thriving systems for future generations. As someone who is 64 years old, I was taught to leave the world better than you found it.
There has been much speculation over the years about the next evolution of the internet and business. How will we adapt? What will financial systems look like?
Let’s look at some projects that are already making a difference: Eden Reforestation Project Employs local communities to plant millions of trees, restoring ecosystems and creating jobs.
Kiva Community lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries, empowering them out of poverty.
Mosaic Solar projects, investing, earning returns while helping the planet.
KlimaDAO This DAO uses blockchain to buy and retire carbon credits, driving up the price of pollution and funding climate action.
Look for reputable ReFi projects or platforms that align with your values. Many platforms have low minimum investment thresholds making it easier for anyone to participate.
You don’t need to be a billionaire or a blockchain wizard to get involved in the regenerative finance revolution. Individuals can invest in ReFi initiatives through several accessible pathways, any of which leverage new technologies and community-driven models to make participation easier and more transparent.
Regenerative finance changes the way you think about money, value and your place in the world. Putting your dollars to work for people and planet, you can be a part of building a thriving future.
Regenerative finance addresses the shortcomings of traditional finance which often prioritizes short term profit over long term environmental and social costs. The core idea behind ReFi is that financial systems should restore, and grow society’s economic, social and environmental systems.
Regenerative finance represents a transformative shift in how capital is allocated and managed. By integrating advanced technology, community participation, and a focus on ecological and social renewal, ReFi seeks to build a financial system that not only generates returns but also restores and strengthens the foundations of a sustainable and healthy future.
As the world moves forward in different ways of finance and business, I hope this information was useful for you. The different monetary systems and financial markets are growing. ReFi is an alternative finance system becoming a movement. If you are interested in other financial systems or know of any, please let me know. Thank you for reading. Be fabulous, Sandra Abrams Onboard60 Founder
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2025-05-08 05:25:48Safe Bits & Self Custody Tips
The journey of onboarding a user and create a bitcoin multiSig setup begins far before opening a desktop like Bitcoin Safe (BS) or any other similar application. Bitcoin Safe seems designed for families and people that want to start exploring and learning about multiSig setup. The need for such application and use of it could go much further, defining best practices for private organizations that aim to custody bitcoin in a private and anonymous way, following and enjoy the values and standards bitcoin has been built for.
Intro
Organizations and small private groups like families, family offices and solopreneurs operating on a bitcoin standard will have the need to keep track of transactions and categorize them to keep the books in order. A part of our efforts will be spent ensuring accessibility standards are in place for everyone to use Bitcoin Safe with comfort and safety.
We aim with this project to bring together the three Designathon ideas below: - Bitcoin Safe: improve its overall design and usability. - No User Left Behind: improve Bitcoin Safe accessibility. - Self-custody guidelines for organizations: How Bitcoin Safe can be used by private organization following best self-custody practices.
We are already halfway of the first week, and here below the progress made so far.
Designing an icon Set for Bitcoin Safe
One of the noticeable things when using BS is the inconsistency of the icons, not just in colors and shapes, but also the way are used. The desktop app try to have a clean design that incorporate with all OS (Win, macOS, Linux) and for this reason it's hard to define when a system default icon need to be used or if a custom one can be applied instead. The use of QT Ui framework for python apps help to respond to these questions. It also incorporates and brig up dome default settings that aren't easily overwritten.
Here below you can see the current version of BS:
Defining a more strict color palette for Bitcoin Safe was the first thing!
How much the icons affect accessibility? How they can help users to reach the right functionality? I took the challenge and, with PenPot.app, redesigned the icons based on the grid defined in the https://bitcoinicons.com/ and proposing the implementation of it to have a cleaner and more consistent look'n feel, at least for the icons now.
What's next
I personally look forward to seeing these icons implemented soon in Bitcoin Safe interface. In the meantime, we'll focus on delivering an accessibility audit and evaluate options to see how BS could be used by private organizations aiming to become financially sovereign with self-custody or more complex bitcoin multiSig setups.
One of the greatest innovations BS is bringing to us is the ability to sync the multiSig wallets, including PBST, Categories and labels, through the nostr decentralized protocol, making current key custodial services somehow obsolete. Second-coolest feature that this nostr implementation brings is the ability to have a build-in private chat that connect and enable the various signers of a multiSig to communicate and sign transactions remotely. Where have you seen something like this before?
Categories UX and redesign is also considered in this project. We'll try to understand how to better serve this functionality to you, the user, really soon.
Stay tuned!
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/974488
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2025-05-13 00:22:27► Image Editing
- ↪️ Background / Object Removers
- Croppola, AutoCropper, Bulk Image Crop or Avatar Cropper - Cropping Tools
- Scribus - Page Layout & Typesetting Program
- FilmDev - Film Development Recipes
- Images.weserv.nl - Image Editing Server
- GradientArt or TailBlend - Gradient Editor
- Canvas - Turn Simple Art into Photorealistic Landscapes
- Image Splitter - Split Images into Tiles
- PicFont - Add Text to Images
▷ Editing Software
- ⭐ m0nkrus / 2 or GenP / Revolt - Adobe Software Archive / Use VPN / Block Adobe / Search / Telegram
- ⭐ GIMP / Discord / Subreddit
- ⭐ GIMP Tools - Photoshop UI / Texture Synthesizer / Batch Editor / Text Effects
- ⭐ Pinta Project
- ⭐ ImageMagick / Scripts
- darktable - Virtual Lighttable & Darkroom
- RawTherapee - Raw Image Editor
- StitchTool - Image Stitcher, Splitter, Upscaler & more
- PhotoDemon
- Paint.net
- PhotoFiltre
- Gimel Studio
- Luna Paint - VS Code Extension
▷ Online Editors
- ⭐ Pixlr - Simple Editor / Hide Premium / Unlimited Saves, 2
- ⭐ Polarr - Multi-Tool
- ⭐ Lunapic - Multi-Tool
- ⭐ Photopea - Photoshop Alt
- BitMappery - Photoshop Alt
- iPiccy - Photoshop Alt
- Stet - Photoshop Alt
- Resize Pixel - Multi-Tool
- ImageOnline - Multi-Tool
- GifGit - Multi-Tool
- Tom's Editor - Multi-Tool
- Peko-Step - Multi-Tool
- photo.codes/ - Simple Editor w/ Shareable Colab Codes
- Photomate - Simple Editor
- MiNi Photo Editor - Simple Editor / GitHub
- BeFunky - Simple Editor
- Polotno Studio - Simple Editor
- OIE - Simple Editor
- ILoveImg - Simple Editor
- UpperPix - Simple Editor
- Online Photo Editor - Simple Editor
- Picverse - Simple Editor
- webp2jpg - Simple Editor
- edit.photo - Simple Editor
- Image Resizer - Simple Editor
- PicSynth - Multi-Tool
- Ribbet - Multi-Tool
- RedKetchup - Multi-Tool
- Img2Go - Multi-Tool
- fffuel - Multi-Tool
- Mara - Multi-Tool
▷ Upscale / Restore
- ⭐ Waifu2x - Anime Image Upscaling / WebUI, 2, 3 / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- ⭐ WaifuXL - Anime Image Upscaling / Online / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- ⭐ Upscayl - Image Upscaling / GitHub / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- ⭐ chaiNNer - Image Upscaling / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- ⭐ OpenModelDB - AI Upscaling Model Database / No Sign-Up
- Real-ESRGAN - Image Restoration Algorithms / Face Restoration / Online / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- /r/estoration - Photo Restoration Requests
- image-upscaling.net - Image Upscaling / Online / No Sign-Up
- IMGUpscaler - Image Upscaling / Restoration / Video Upscaling / Online / No Sign-Up
- Bigjpg - Image Upscaling / Online / No Sign-Up
- Ilaria_Upscaler - Image Upscaling / Online / No Sign-Up
- Final2x - Image Upscaling / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- Lossless Scaling - Image Upscaling
- imgupscaler - Image Upscaling / Online / No Sign-Up
- QualityScaler - Image Upscaling / Video Upscaling / Denoising / Self-Hosted / No Sign-Up
- resdet - Detect Source Resolution of Upscaled Images / Self-Host / No Sign-Up
- InColor or Colorizer - Online Image Colorization
▷ Image Effects
- ⭐ PhotoMosh, jpg-glitch-electron, glitch-this!, glitch2, Image Glitcher or GlitchyImage - Glitch Images
- PhotoFunia, Pixelizer, Image Mage or Designify - Photo Effects / Filters
- distort-grid - Grid-Based Image Distortion
- Change Image Hue or Tinter - Hue Editor
- ordered-dither-maker, Ditherista or Dither Me This - Image Dithering
- Fotosketcher or PhotoMaker, Stylized - Turn Photos into Artwork
- AnimeGAN - Image to Anime Style Converter
- AIDraw - Turn Photos into Line Art
- Rutt-Etra-Izer - Scanned-line Images
- Geometrize - Redraw Images with Geometric Shapes
- PBNify - Paint by Number Tool
- Shimmer - Oscillating Wave Images
- CollidingScopes - Kaleidoscope Images
- Party-ify - Party-ify Images
▷ Linux Image Editing
▷ Mac Image Editing
► Image Creation
- 🌐 PuccaNoodles' Sheet - Image Creation Resources
- ↪️ AI Image Generators
- ↪️ Art Education
- ⭐ TierMaker - Tier List Image Creator
- ⭐ Topsters - Make Taste / Recommendation Collages
- PanosFX or Fix the Photo - Photoshop Actions
- imgsli - Before & After Slider Generator
- Hugin - Panorama Image Generator
- FlipAnim - Animated Flipbook Creator
- CharacterCreator - Character Generator
- Picrew - Animated Character Maker
- Mimi - Create Coloring Pages from Photos
- Text-Image - Text Image Generator
- Photovisi or PhotoJoiner - Collage Generators
- Tiler - Mosaic Image Generator
- NoiseDeck - Art Generator
▷ Painting
- 🌐 Digital Art Brushes - Download Brushes
- ⭐ Krita - Painting App
- ⭐ Krita Tools - Custom Backend / AI Generation / Forums
- ⭐ miniPaint - Browser Painting
- SmoothDraw - Painting App
- FireAlpaca - Painting App
- LazPaint - Painting App
- PaintOnline - Browser Painting
- jspaint - Browser Painting
- PinTor - Browser Painting
- Tegaki - Browser Painting
- Milton - Infinite Canvas Painting
- IOGraphica - Turn Mouse Movement into Art
- HeavyPaint - Water Color Painting
- Mixbox Painter - Realistic Paint Mixing
- Vervette - Realistic Fluid Painting
- ArtistAssistApp - Useful Painting Tools
▷ Drawing
- ⭐ Excalidraw - Drawing / Sketching / Sharing
- ⭐ AutoDraw, Co-Drawing or Magic Sketchpad - AI Drawing Tools
- DrawTab - Drawing Tablet Info / Wiki
- Inscribed / GitHub - Sketch-Based Slides
- inkscape - Drawing / Sketching
- Inkdo - Drawing / Sketching
- Sketch Toy - Drawing / Sketching
- Webchemy - Drawing / Sketching
- tldraw - Drawing / Sketching
- Ok! So - Drawing / Sketching
- Sketchpad, 2 - Drawing / Sketching
- Sketchbook - Drawing / Sketching / Mobile Only
- Paper - Drawing / Sketching / iOS Only
- Fresco - Drawing / Windows / iOS
- Concepts - Drawing / Sketching
- Magma, Magma, HelloPaint, DrawPile, LockDraw, World Draw or malmal - Collaborative Drawing
- Ink Workspace - Pen App Launcher
- Perfect Freehand - Draw Free Hand Lines / GitHub
- Eschersket - Symmetry Drawing Tool
- TEv2 - Share Your Drawings
- Virtual Graph Paper or minimator - Create Grid-Based Drawings
- Gridzzly - Print Custom Grid Papers
- Crayon Town - Infinite Online Canvas
- Perspective Tools - Interactive Perspective Grids
- x6ud - Animal Drawing Reference Tool
- Noodle - 1-bit Sketch Tool
- Tiny Sketchbook - Create and Share Doodle Art
- ScribbleDiffusion - Turn Doodles into Artwork
- MonsterMash - Sketch-Based Modeling & Animation Tool
- Animated Drawings, FAIR Animated Drawings, MotorPen or Scratch - Animate Drawings
- Mutsuacen - Create Moving Drawings
▷ Pixel Art
- 🌐 Awesome Pixel Art - Pixel Art Resource Index
- ↪️ ASCII Art
- ⭐ rx - Pixel Art Editor
- Piskel - Pixel Art Editor
- Pixelated - Pixel Art Editor
- PyDPainter - Bitmap Graphics Editor
- PaintWith - Pixel Art Editor
- PixelCraft - Pixel Art Editor / GitHub
- Kleki - Pixel Art Editor
- CSprite - Pixel Art Editor
- PixilArt - Pixel Art Editor
- Strike - 1-bit Pixel Art Editor
- Pixel Painter or Pixel Paint - Paint with Pixels
- pixels.land, EveryoneDraw, pxls.space or World of Pixels - Infinite Online Pixel Art
- dpixel - Pixel Art Remastering Tool
- Paint Of Persia - Rotoscoping Pixel Art Tool
- Dither Machine - Pixel Art Dithering Creator
- PixelMe, Pixel It, Pixelator, Img8Bit or Pixelart Converter - Image to Pixelart Converters
- Pixelorama - 2D Sprite Editor
- pixeldudesmaker, Pixel Sprite or Creature Mixer - Sprite Generator
- Pixelicious or PixelartVillage - Image to Pixel Art Converter
- Nasu - Spritesheet Editor
- Pixel Art Scaler - Scale Pixel Art without Quality Loss
▷ GIF Tools
- 🌐 Awesome GIF - GIF Resources / GitHub
- 🌐 Online GIF Tools - GIF Tools
- ⭐ Gifski - GIF Encoder / GitHub
- ⭐ EZGif, GIFCurry / GitHub, Giflr, GIFMemes, GIFnText, makeagif, Gifsicle or Pixteller - GIF Creators / Editors
- Giphy, Tenor, Gifer, Curlie GIFs, GifCities, Animations or GIFBin - View / Download GIFs
- /r/animegifs - View / Download Anime GIFs
- EatMyArt, DrawIsland or Sketch Machine - Create GIFs from Drawings
- Kinegram - Kinegram GIF Creator
- GifRun - Make GIFs from Online Videos
- ScreenToGif or Peek - GIF Recorder
- ugiffer or licecap - Create GIFs via Screencasts
- TokkingHeads - Face Movement GIFs
- petpet - Headpatting GIF Maker
▷ Meme Tools
- ⭐ Know Your Meme or FindThatMeme - Meme Databases
- ImgFlip, Meme Generator, Meme Town, MemeBetter, meme-generator, Classic Memes or Emacs Meme Generator - Meme Creators
- MemeCam - AI Meme Generator
- Memegine - Meme Search Engine
- MemeAtlas or Templates - Meme Templates
- GreenScreenMemes - Green Screen Memes
- iFake - Fake Text Conversation Creator
- Wojak Studio - Wojak Meme Creator
- Pokémon Battle Creator - Pokémon Battle Scene Meme Generator
- Master of all Science - Rick and Morty Meme Generator
- Frinkiac - Simpsons Meme Generator
- Morbotron - Futurama Meme Generator
- LowQualitymemes - Low Quality / Cursed Meme Generator
- YouWouldntStealAWebsite - "You Wouldn't Steal" Meme Generator
- BreakYourOwnNews - Breaking News Meme Generator
- AnimorphGenerator - Animorph Image Generator
- AwesomeCars - Drip Car Memes
▷ Animation
► Design Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Design, Design Resources or pilssken - Design Resources
- 🌐 archives.design - Graphic Design Books
- calltoidea, onepagelove, awwwards, thedesigninspiration, SMPoster, AnotherGraphic, theinspirationgrid or inspirationde - Graphic Design Examples / Inspiration
- PSDcovers, mockups-design, zippypixels, Mockups, medialoot or MockupsForFree - Product Mockups
- The Boolean Game - Learn Boolean Operations in Vector Editors
▷ Design Apps
- ⭐ Figma - Design Collab App
- ⭐ Canva - Design App / Giveaways
- lunacy - Design App
- ArtBoard - Design App
- VistaCreate - Design App
- PosterMyWall - Design App
- Kittl - Design App
- Kosmik - Design Asset Manager
- Venngage - Infographic Design
- CoverView - Blog Banner Design
- blush or IRA Design - Illustration Design
- SuperDesigner or Pattern Ninja - Background / Pattern Design
- Pixelied - Online Design Tool
- Evernote.Design - Online Design Tools
- Graphite or Recraft - Vector Editors
- MagicaVoxel or Goxel - Voxel Art Editor / Interactive Path Tracing Renderer
- Vectr or VectorInk - Vector Graphics Editor
▷ Icons / Avatars
- ↪️ Avatar / Logo Creators
- ↪️ Icon Drives - Icon Drives
- ↪️ SVG Icons / SVG Tools
- ⭐ Alphacoders Avatars - PFPs / Avatars
- PFP Finder - PFPs / Avatars
- Random Avatars - PFPs / Avatars
- pfps.gg - Profile Picture Index
- Innocenzi - Round Avatar Creator
- RealFaviconGenerator - Favicon Generator
▷ Textures / Patterns
- AmbientCG - Textures
- TextureTown - Textures
- 3D textures - Textures
- Textureking - Textures
- Texture Labs - Textures
- Transparent Textures - Textures
- Texture Club - Textures
- TexturesForFree - Textures
- texture4photoshop - Textures
- MatLib - Textures
- TextureNinja - Textures
- cgbookcase - Textures
- Texture Collection - Textures
- Subtle Patterns - Patterns
- Background Tiles - Patterns
- Pattern Collection - Patterns
- ArmorLab, Pixela, Texture Library or TextureLab - Texture Generators
- TextureLab - Procedural Texture Generator / GitHub / Discord
- Material Maker - Procedural Texture Creator
- DoodDad, Repeater, PatternPad, patternico, Repeater, more.graphics, Valentina, Patternizer or Haikei - Pattern Generators
- Noise & Gradient, PhotoGradient, BGJar, MeshGradient or BGGenerator - Background / Gradient Generators
- Tabbied or Slopes - Art Pattern Generators
- Generative Landscapes - Generative Landscape Blog
- Mixer - 3D Texture Creation Software
- The Textures Resource - Game Textures
- Trianglify.io - Low-Poly Texture Generator
▷ Free Assets
- ⭐ FreePreset
- UnliPresets
- Gumroad (Enter $0)
- psdkeys
- AvaxGFX
- Freeject
- Cg_peers
- PNGTree
- Dassets Design
- TianUI
- Designer Candies
- GraphixTree
- PSDLY
- Unblast
- CGArchives
- CGPlugin
- SearchGFX
- Quasual
- designersgan9
- Free_Design_Files
- WockupWorld
- OnlyGFX
- The GFX
- Graphics Materials
- desiignertm
- all_psd
- Playersdsg
- designbloody
- designarchiv
- outsideotf
- DOPE Editing
- desgang
- grphc dsgn
- creativemrkt
- freepsdvn
- PrivateDesigner
- Solutioonn
- ae-project
- godownloads
► Download Images
- 🌐 2ndBrain or designer - Image Download Site Indexes
- ↪️ Random Images
- ↪️ PNG Images / Clipart
- ↪️ AI Galleries
- ↪️ Media Covers / Posters
- ⭐ gallery-dl, RipMe, WFDownloader, ImgDownloader, SCrawler / Discord or Image Extractor - Image Download Tools
- same.energy - Visual Search Engine
- Dezoomify - Download Zoomable Images
- PicTriev - Find Look-Alike Images
- OpenMoji or JoyPixels - Emojis
- PixelJoint, Lospec or rsrcs - Download / Share Pixel Art
- PimpMyDrawing - Human Silhouettes
- FanCaps or Film Grab - Media Screenshots
- Footyrenders - Football Related Images
- PSDGraphics - PSD Files
- The NFT Bay or Extremely Fungible Tokens - Free NFTs
- Artvee - Public Domain Artwork
- Behance - Design Projects
- Placeit - Image Templates
- Worldvectorlogo, Logo Source, Logos & Badges Bundle, Brands of the World, Logos Download, Logodust, Logowik, Logo Wine, seeklogo, logospire, LogoSearch, logopond, SuperTinyIcons, logotouse, brandeps, logolounge, logomoose - Logo Search / Designs
- MariaLetta - Free Doodles
- Watercolor Collection - Download Watercolor Pictures
- googleimagerestored - Old Google Image Search
- Block Posters, PosterRazor or Rasterbator - Create Printable Posters
▷ Image Search Engines
- ⭐ Yandex Images or Mavink - Image Search
- ⭐ Search by Image - Browser Extension
- ⭐ SauceNao - Reverse Image Search / Extension
- ⭐ SmartImage - Reverse Image Search App
- ⭐ Google Lens - Reverse Image Search
- ⭐ TinEye - Reverse Image Search / Extension
- infini.wtf - Reddit Image Search
- Visual Search - Reverse Image Search
- IQDB - Reverse Image Search
- CopySeeker - Reverse Image Search
- MaxURL - Larger Image Search / GitHub
- VISE - Image Search with Search Queries
- Have I Been Trained? - AI Image Search
- RootAbout - Archive / OpenLibrary Reverse Image Search
- Multicolr - Color-Based Image Search
- trace.moe or Saucekudasai - Anime Reverse Image Search
- Image_Max_URL - Browser Userscript
▷ Stock Images
- Note - Royalty-free implies images free for personal or commercial use with some usage restrictions (see sites TOS). CC0 stands for Creative Commons Zero and means images are public domain. Sites not tagged have licensing that varies.
- 🌐 Awesome Stock Resources - Stock Photo Index
- ⭐ GetPaidStock, DownPic, Downloader.la or istock - Paid Stock Photo Downloaders
- ⭐ EveryPixel, O-DAN or LibreStock - Stock Photo Search Engines
- Adobe Stock - Stock Photos / Royalty-Free
- Unsplash - Stock Photos / Royalty-Free
- Pixnio - Stock Photos / Royalty-Free
- Pikwizard - Stock Photos / Royalty-Free
- diverseui - Human Face Photos / Royalty-Free
- themeisle - Stock Photos / CC0
- PxHere - Stock Photos / CC0
- focastock - Stock Photos / CC0
- Foodiesfeed - Food Photos / CC0
- freenaturestock - Nature Photos / CC0
- Burst - Stock Photos
- Hippopx - Stock Photos
- BarnImages - Stock Photos
- Pixabay - Stock Photos
- Lummi - AI Generated Stock Photos
- Smithsonian Open Access - Smithsonian High-Quality Photos
- desirefx - Stock Photo Overlays
- creativity103 - Abstract Background Photos
- Warren Photographic - Animal Photos
- PhyloPic - Animal Silhouettes
- iwaria - African Photos
- twnsnd - Vintage Photos / Public Domain
- PNGIMG or stickpng - PNG Photos / Noncommercial License
- gfxmountain - Stock Photo Collections
- FreePik Downloader or freepikuz_pro - FreePik Downloaders
- Flickr Commons - Public Photo Archives / Downloader
- Shutterstock Premium, freestockphotos or Shutter - Shutterstock Telegram Downloaders
- Nohat, FreeImages, cgispread, Vecteezy or FreeDesignFile - Misc Stock Photos / Vectors
- publicdomainvectors, Free Vector, VectorJunky, freevectors or vector4free - Misc Vectors
- VectorPortal - Vector Collections / Creative Common Attribution
- 123freevectors - Background Vectors
▷ Art / Illustrations
- ⭐ Kemono - Patreon Content / Some NSFW / Use Adblock
- ⭐ DeviantArt - User-Made Art / Fanart / Downloader / Frontend Instances
- ⭐ ArtStation - User-Made Art / Fanart / Downloader
- ⭐ Pixiv - Japanese Fanart
- ⭐ Pixiv Tools - Downloader, 2 / Rankings / Official Frontend / Frontend List / Preview, 2 / Android
- ⭐ Danbooru, Sankaku Complex or yande.re - Anime-Style Image Booru / Downloader
- ⭐ hydrus - Booru-Style Media Tagger / GitHub
- Buzzly - User-Made Art / Fanart
- Artfol - User-Made Art / Fanart
- Cara - User-Made Art / Fanart
- InkBlot - User-Made Art / Fanart
- Safebooru or TBIB - Image Boorus
- icons8, LostGeometry, 3D Illustrations or NS-illustration-pack - 3D Illustrations
- StorySet, unDraw, blush or Humaaans - Customizable Illustrations
- Pastel - Marker Illustrations
- Fresh Folk or lukaszadam - Illustrations of People
- free-gophers-pack - Gophers Illustrations
- reshot, freeillustrations, DrawKit, NiceIllustrations or manypixels - Misc Illustrations
- OldBookIllustrations - Illustrations from Old Books
- Plant Illustrations - Plant Illustrations
- Yummybooru or Animes Boxes - Booru Clients / Telegram
- Buhitter - X.com Illustration Search
- imgbrd-grabber - Booru Image Downloader
- Artbreeder - Image Discovery / Combining
▷ Download Extensions
▷ Wallpapers
► 3D Models
- ⭐ Thingiverse - Share / Download 3D Models
- ⭐ Printables - Find Practical 3D Models Ready for Printing
- Clara.io, PolyHaven, CadNav, Open3dModel or Archibase - Misc 3D Models
- Sketchfab, cgtrader, blendswap or 3dsky - Misc 3D Models / Sign-Up Required
- Cults, Thangs, MakerWorld or Pinshape - Printable 3D Models / Sign-Up Required
- 3D Warehouse - 3D Models Compatible with SketchUp / Sign-Up Required
- Pack 3D Models - Vehicle / Character 3D Models
- Figurosity - Human 3D Models
- Handz - 3D Hand Models
- Generated Photos - AI Generated Model Photos
- ripper.store - 3D Avatar Assets
- Archive3D - Furniture / Accessories / Vehicle 3D Models
- poly.pizza - Low Poly 3D Models
- RIGModels - Rig / Animate 3D Models
- NASA 3D Resources - NASA 3D Models
- 3D Find It - Industrial / Engineering 3D Models
- thebasemesh - Mesh 3D Models
- BlenderKit - 3D Model Library Integrated into Blender
- CosplayStaticFigure - Cosplay / Figurine 3D Models
- 3DBrute, 3DZip or DesignConnected - 3D Furniture Models
- Halloween.WannaThis - 3D Halloween Models
- Vertex - 3D Icons
- Ameede - CNC / Laser Design Vectors
- Skybox - AI Generated 3D Environments
- PoseManiacs, Anatomy Doc, Adorkastock or Anatomy360 - Pose References
▷ 3D Modeling Apps
- ⭐ Blender - FOSS 3D Modeling App
- ⭐ Blender Tools - Resources, 2 / Plugins / Tutorials / Textures / Renderer / 3D Nodes / AI Render
- ⭐ Shap-e - Generate 3D Objects based on Text / Image Prompts
- Goo Engine - 3D Anime Blender Mod
- Meshy.ai / Discord or TRELLIS / GitHub / HuggingFace - AI 3D Model Generators
- Wings 3D - Cross-platform 3D Modeling App
- JustSketchMe - Cross-platform 3D Pose Reference Tool
- MakeHuman - 3D Humanoid Modeler
- PoseMy.art, SetPose, DesignDoll, Magic Poser, Quickposes or JustSketchMe - Posing Tools
- Vectary, Womp, Bloom3D or Zdog - Online 3D Modeling Tools
- FaceMaker - 3D Face / Avatar Generator
- Recursivity - 3D Tree Creator
- CSS 3D Clouds - 3D Cloud Creator
- ModelViewer, 3DViewer or F3D - 3D Model Viewers
- Armorpaint - 3D Painting
- SculptGL - 3D Sculpting
▷ 3D Modeling Tools
- Embossify, Tripo3D or TripoSG - Image to 3D Model Converters
- Anaglyph Maker - Make 3D Images
- 3D Transformer - Rotate 3D Images
- 3DConvert - Online 3D Image Converter
- PaintUp - Make 2D Art into 3D
- Keygen - 3D Key Model Generator
- AliceVision - 3D Reconstruction / Camera Tracking
- Perspective Grid - 3D Perspective Tool
- Assemblr - Augmented Reality Image Creator
- MeshLab - 3D Mesh Processing / GitHub
- Ninja Ripper / 2 / 3 - Extract 3D Models from Games
- Ultimaker Cura - 3D Printing Software
▷ CAD Engineering
- Onshape - CAD Modeling with Real-time Collaboration
- Tinkercad - Educational CAD Modeling
- FreeCAD / GitHub - Parametric CAD Modeling
- BRL-CAD or OpenSCAD - Cross-platform CSG CAD Modeling
- LibreCAD or QCAD - 2D CAD Modeling
- Mayo - 3D CAD Viewer and Converter
- CadHub - Community Hub for CAD Projects
► Image Tools
- 🌐 Creator Resources - Art / Animation Resources
- 🌐 Awesome Colab Notebooks - Image Colab Resources
- ↪️ Color Scheme Tools - Guide
- ⭐ ImgOps - Image Operations Meta-Tool
- ⭐ AntiDupl or cbird - Duplicate Image Removers
- ⭐ Muzli - Design Inspiration Search
- ⭐ Slowpoke Pics, ICAT or Image Comparison Tool - Image Comparisons
- odiff - Image Visual Difference Tool
- PhotoFeeler - Get Photo Feedback
- Picviewer CE+ - Turn Webpages into Image Galleries
- Binternet - Pinterest Frontend
- /r/Photography Guide or Cambridge In Colour - Photography / Camera Guides
- PhotoEphemeris - Photography Sunlight Calculator
- PixelPeeper - Extract Lightroom Edits / Settings
- MagicLantern - Custom Canon EOS Firmware / Unsupported / X / Subreddit / Discord
- CHDK - Custom Canon PowerShot Firmware
- fSpy - Still Image Camera Matching
- DPReview - Camera Image Quality Comparison
- GlanceBack - Daily Webcam Photo Journal
- Image Color Summarizer - Image Color Summarizer
- Image Colors - Image Color Scatter Plot
- Image Pixel Sorter - Sort Pixels of Images
- Adobe Bridge - Adobe Assets Manager
- behind! - View Background Images
- Visual Center - Find the Visual Center of an Image
- Watermarkly, BatchWatermark or Watermarkup - Image Watermarking
- Watermark Remover, Unwatermark or DeWatermark - Watermark Removal
- Glaze or Nightshade - Protect Digital Art from AI Copies
- APNG Maker - Create / Optimize APNG Images
- JPEGMedic ARWE - Recover Ransomware-Encrypted Images
- CamScanner or Microsoft Lens - Scan & Digitize Documents / iOS
- FaceSwapApp / Discord, Swapface / Discord, faceswap, AIFaceSwap, Face Swapper, face-swap, FaceSwapVideo, facy.ai, Swapper or FaceFusion - Face Swapping
- WiseTagger - Image Tagger
- BooruDatasetTagManager - Booru Image Tagger
- Cluttr, Exif Sorter or TagStudio - Image File Organizers / Managers
- Allusion - Reference Image Manager
- Camera Wiki - Camera Model Wiki
- Canon Camera Museum - History of Canon Cameras
- Something to Draw - Find Things to Draw
- Make Photo Gallery - Collage Creator
▷ Image Compressors
- ↪️ Image Optimization
- ⭐ Caesium - Compression Software / Caesium Web App / GitHub
- ⭐ Squoosh - Compressor / Converter / GitHub
- ⭐ Seopix - Batch Compressor / Editor
- optimize.photos - Batch Compressor
- CompressImage - Batch Compressor
- CrushImage - Batch Compressor
- Bulk Image Compress - Batch Compressor
- minipic - Batch Compressor / Converter
- Compress JPEG - Batch Compressor / Unlimited Upload
- TinyPNG or TinyJPG - Batch Compressor / 20MB Upload / GitHub
- ImageSmaller - Compressor / 50MB Upload
- CompressOrDie - Multitool
- PNGQuant - PNG Compression Software / GitHub
▷ Image Converters
- ↪️ File Converter - Multi-Format Converters
- ⭐ minipic
- Knvrt
- Convertmyimage
- ImageConvert
- imverter
- Raw Pics
- Converseen
▷ Image Resizing
- PixelHunter - Resize Images for Different Sites
- Resize App Icon - Resize Square Images
- Simple Image Resizer
- ImageResizer
- PicResize
- Birme
- Bulk Image Resize
- ResizeNow
- BulkResizePhotos
▷ Image to Text / OCR
- ↪️ AI Chatbots - Most Chatbots have Built-in Image to Text
- ⭐ Capture2Text, tesseract or gImageReader - OCR Desktop Apps
- ⭐ Text Grab - Minimal OCR Windows Tool
- TextShot - Cross Platform OCR
- ImageScanOCR - Windows OCR Tool
- Handwriting-OCR - Handwriting OCR
- Project Naptha - Automatic OCR while Browsing Images
- i2ocr - Online OCR
- OCR.SPACE - Online OCR
- 2OCR - Online OCR
- Ocrify - Online OCR
- OnlineOCR - Online OCR
- NewOCR - Online OCR
- ImageToText - Online OCR
- OnlineOCR - Online OCR
▷ Image Viewers
- ⭐ IrfanView
- ⭐ JPEGView
- ⭐ FastStone
- ⭐ qView
- ⭐ XnView MP
- ⭐ Digikam
- ⭐ ImageGlass
- nomacs / GitHub
- qimgv
- oculante
- PhotoQt
- PicView
- ImagefanReloaded
- Image Eye
- Quick Picture Viewer
- Fragment
- HoneyView
- picturama
- narrative
- G'MIC
- BeeRef or PureRef - Reference Image Viewers
- HDRView or tev - HDR / Technical Image Viewers
- FlipFlip - Image Slideshow
▷ Self-Hosted Galleries
- 🌐 FOSS Photo Libraries
- Immich / GitHub
- Damselfly
- HomeGallery
- LibrePhotos
- Lychee
- Photoprism
- Photoview
- Photonix
- photos
- imagestore
- Memories
- Piwigo
- PiGallery 2
- PicoShare
- Up1
- Chevereto
- Photofield
- Google Photos Toolkit - Manage / Delete Google Photos
- Google Takeout - Export from Google Photos / Script
- GPhotos Guide - Unlimited Google Photos Storage Guide / Windows
- Google Photos EXIF - Populate Missing EXIF metadata in Google Photos
▷ Online Galleries
- ⭐ Postimages - 32MB / Forever
- Imgur - 20MB Image / 200MB Animated / Forever / Upload Limits
- Rimgo / 2 - Imgur Frontend
- tixte - 15GB Storage Total / Forever / Sign-Up Required
- lookimg - 20MB / Forever / Sign-Up Required
- Horizon - 75MB (500MB Storage) / Forever / Sign-Up Required
- imgchest - 10MB (30MB with Account) / Forever
- Piczel - 10MB / Forever / Sign-Up Required
- TurboImageHost - 20MB / Forever
▷ Image Hosts
- ⭐ PixVid - 32MB / Forever
- ⭐ ImgBB - 32MB / Forever
- ⭐ Catbox - 200MB / Forever / ShareX Config
- pixelfed - Decentralized Image Sharing Social Network / Sign-Up Required / Tools / Android / GitHub
- sxcu.net - Free ShareX Uploader Service / 95MB / N/A
- FreeImage.Host - 64MB (128MB with Account) / Forever
- imgbox - 10MB / Forever
- i - 8MB / Forever
- IMGPile - 100MB / Forever
- YourImageShare - 100MB / Forever
- pic.maxiol - 100MB / Forever
- GIFYU - 50MB (100MB with Account) / Forever
- IMGDrop - 50MB / Forever
- WebHotPix - 50MB / Forever
- ThumbSnap - 48MB / Forever
- Kepkuldes - 40MB / Forever
- FreeIMGHost - 20MB / Forever
- Pikky - 20MB / Forever
- imagebam - 20MB / Forever
- imagevenue - 20MB / Forever
- BayIMG - 100MB / Forever
- Lutim - 20MB / Forever
- FastPic - 25MB / Forever
▷ Screenshot Tools
- ⭐ ShareX / Image Hosts / File Manager
- ⭐ Flameshot / GitHub
- ⭐ Zipline / GitHub or yaass - Self-Hosted ShareX Server
- Greenshot
- KSnip
- Nimbus Capture
- PixpinApp
- ScreenshotX
- FRAMED - In-Game Screenshotting Tips
- Pika / GitHub, FabPic, OnPaste, Screenstab or Limus - Screenshot Editors / Mockups
- Screenshot Guru, Site-Shot or Pikwy - Take Screenshots of Websites
- Screenshot Rocks / GitHub - Create Screenshot Mockups of Websites
- paste.photos - Paste Image to Download
- How to Screenshot - Multi-Platform Screenshot Tutorials
▷ Palette Generators
- ⭐ Color Designer, TheGoodColors, Super Color Palette or Coolors - Color Palette Generators
- Clariss, Color Palette Generator, Palitra or Color Picker - Generate Color Palettes from Images
- Color Space - Generate Gradient Color Palettes
- Colors Wall or ColorKit - Generate Random Color Palettes
- Color Kit - Generate Color Palettes by Mixing 2 Colors
- Pigment, Eva Design System, Scale, copypalette or Huey - Simple Color Palette Generators
- ColorBox, hue.tools, Randoma11y, accessiblepalette or colorcolor - Advanced Color Palette Generators
- Good Palette, Huemint, AI Colors or PaletteMaker - Generate UI Color Palettes
- Couleur.io - CSS Color Palettes Generator
- UI Colors or Tints - Tailwind CSS Color Generators
- Poolors - Generate Most / Least Used Color Palettes
▷ Color Pickers
- 🌐 React Color - Color Pickers Index
- 🌐 BrandColors - Brand Color Palettes Index
- Material UI, OKLCH, Color Deck, Picular or ColorKit's Color Picker - Color Pickers
- Colorpicker, Just Color Picker or epick - Color Picker Desktop Apps
- Colorscales - Find Colors in Color Space
- ColourCode or Colordot - Find Colors by Moving Mouse
- Geenes or Leonardo - Find UI Color Palettes
- Sorted CSS Colors - Find Similar CSS Colors
- Color Hunt, COLOURlovers, SchemeColor, Culrs or Colorffy - Find Color Palettes
- Adobe Color - Find Color Palettes with Color Wheel
- Color Lisa - Find Art-Based Color Palettes
- Color Leap - Find Historical Color Palettes
- COLORWISE - Find Color Palettes from Product Hunt Products
▷ Photo Forensics
- 🌐 Photo OSINT - Image OSINT Resources
- ⭐ Fawkes - Facial Cloaking
- ⭐ FotoForensics, Sherloq or Forensically - Photo Forensics Tools
- Picarta / Discord, GeoSpy or GeoEstimation - Estimate Image Locations
- Image Identification Project - Image Identification Tool
- StegOnline, OpenStego, OpenPuff, Steganography-PNG / GitHub, ImSter, stegano, hide-text or stegpy - Images Steganography Tools
- Aperisolve / 2 or stegextract - Steganography Analysis Tool
- Redacted - Blur, Pixelate or Blackout parts of Images
- Image Scrubber - Blur Images / Scrub Metadata
- Schizoware - Image Name / Hash Randomizer
- ViewEXIF, Jimpl, ExifData, OnlineEXIFViewer, ExifLooter, CameraSummary or JPEGsnoop - EXIF / Metadata Viewers
- exiftool, 2, ExifCleaner, EXIFRemove, scrambled-exif, Metadata-Remover, exifpurge, adarsus or VerExif - Remove Meta / EXIF Data
- Pic2Map - Image EXIF data viewer with GPS support
- TheExifer, Photini or ColorPilot - Image EXIF Data Editors
- Base64 Image - Encode / Decode Images
- Faceagle - Face Recognition Search Engines
▷ Android Camera
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2025-05-09 00:06:23- Install LibreTorrent (it's free and open source)
- Search for torrents on various sources (see links below)
- Copy the torrent's 🧲️ Magnet Link
- Open LibreTorrent, tap the + icon, and select Add Link
- Paste the magnet link and tap Add
- The app will display the torrent's details and files; tap the ✓ icon to start the download
Some Sources
ℹ️ Magnet links start with
magnet:?
ℹ️ Tapping a magnet link usually opens LibreTorrent automatically
⚠️ Using a VPN is strongly recommended
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2025-05-08 05:08:36Welcome back to our weekly
JABBB
, Just Another Bitcoin Bubble Boom, a comics and meme contest crafted for you, creative stackers!If you'd like to learn more, check our welcome post here.
This week sticker:
Bitcoin Sir
You can download the source file directly from the HereComesBitcoin website in SVG and PNG. Use this sticker around SN with the code

The task
Make sure you use this week sticker to design a comic frame or a meme, add a message that perfectly captures the sentiment of the current most hilarious takes on the Bitcoin space. You can contextualize it or not, it's up to you, you chose the message, the context and anything else that will help you submit your comic art masterpiece.
Are you a meme creator? There's space for you too: select the most similar shot from the gifts hosted on the Gif Station section and craft your best meme... Let's Jabbb!
If you enjoy designing and memeing, feel free to check out the JABBB archive and create more to spread Bitcoin awareness to the moon.
Submit each proposal on the relative thread, bounties will be distributed when enough participants submit options.
PS: you can now use HereComesBitcoin stickers to use on Stacker.News
₿e creative, have fun! :D
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/974483
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2025-05-08 18:09:35🏌️ Monday, May 26 – Bitcoin Golf Championship & Kickoff Party
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada\ Event: 2nd Annual Bitcoin Golf Championship & Kick Off Party"\ Where: Bali Hai Golf Clubhouse, 5160 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119\ 🎟️ Get Tickets!
Details:
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The week tees off in style with the Bitcoin Golf Championship. Swing clubs by day and swing to music by night.
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Live performances from Nostr-powered acts courtesy of Tunestr, including Ainsley Costello and others.
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Stop by the Purple Pill Booth hosted by Derek and Tanja, who will be on-boarding golfers and attendees to the decentralized social future with Nostr.
💬 May 27–29 – Bitcoin 2025 Conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center
Location: The Venetian Resort\ Main Attraction for Nostr Fans: The Nostr Lounge\ When: All day, Tuesday through Thursday\ Where: Right outside the Open Source Stage\ 🎟️ Get Tickets!
Come chill at the Nostr Lounge, your home base for all things decentralized social. With seating for \~50, comfy couches, high-tops, and good vibes, it’s the perfect space to meet developers, community leaders, and curious newcomers building the future of censorship-resistant communication.
Bonus: Right across the aisle, you’ll find Shopstr, a decentralized marketplace app built on Nostr. Stop by their booth to explore how peer-to-peer commerce works in a truly open ecosystem.
Daily Highlights at the Lounge:
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☕️ Hang out casually or sit down for a deeper conversation about the Nostr protocol
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🔧 1:1 demos from app teams
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🛍️ Merch available onsite
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🧠 Impromptu lightning talks
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🎤 Scheduled Meetups (details below)
🎯 Nostr Lounge Meetups
Wednesday, May 28 @ 1:00 PM
- Damus Meetup: Come meet the team behind Damus, the OG Nostr app for iOS that helped kickstart the social revolution. They'll also be showcasing their new cross-platform app, Notedeck, designed for a more unified Nostr experience across devices. Grab some merch, get a demo, and connect directly with the developers.
Thursday, May 29 @ 1:00 PM
- Primal Meetup: Dive into Primal, the slickest Nostr experience available on web, Android, and iOS. With a built-in wallet, zapping your favorite creators and friends has never been easier. The team will be on-site for hands-on demos, Q&A, merch giveaways, and deeper discussions on building the social layer of Bitcoin.
🎙️ Nostr Talks at Bitcoin 2025
If you want to hear from the minds building decentralized social, make sure you attend these two official conference sessions:
1. FROSTR Workshop: Multisig Nostr Signing
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🕚 Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
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📅 Date: Wednesday, May 28
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📍 Location: Developer Zone
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🎤 Speaker: Austin Kelsay, Voltage\ A deep-dive into FROST-based multisig key management for Nostr. Geared toward devs and power users interested in key security.
2. Panel: Decentralizing Social Media
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🕑 Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
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📅 Date: Thursday, May 29
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📍 Location: Genesis Stage
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🎙️ Moderator: McShane (Bitcoin Strategy @ Roxom TV)
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👥 Speakers:
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Martti Malmi – Early Bitcoin dev, CEO @ Sirius Business Ltd
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Lyn Alden – Analyst & Partner @ Ego Death Capital
Get the big-picture perspective on why decentralized social matters and how Nostr fits into the future of digital communication.
🌃 NOS VEGAS Meetup & Afterparty
Date: Wednesday, May 28\ Time: 7:00 PM – 1:00 AM\ Location: We All Scream Nightclub, 517 Fremont St., Las Vegas, NV 89101\ 🎟️ Get Tickets!
What to Expect:
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🎶 Live Music Stage – Featuring Ainsley Costello, Sara Jade, Able James, Martin Groom, Bobby Shell, Jessie Lark, and other V4V artists
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🪩 DJ Party Deck – With sets by DJ Valerie B LOVE, TatumTurnUp, and more DJs throwing down
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🛰️ Live-streamed via Tunestr
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🧠 Nostr Education – Talks by Derek Ross, Tomer Strolight, Terry Yiu, OpenMike, and more.
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🧾 Vendors & Project Booths – Explore new tools and services
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🔐 Onboarding Stations – Learn how to use Nostr hands-on
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🐦 Nostrich Flocking – Meet your favorite nyms IRL
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🍸 Three Full Bars – Two floors of socializing overlooking vibrant Fremont Street
This is the after-party of the year for those who love freedom technology and decentralized social community. Don’t miss it.
Final Thoughts
Whether you're there to learn, network, party, or build, Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas has a packed week of Nostr-friendly programming. Be sure to catch all the events, visit the Nostr Lounge, and experience the growing decentralized social revolution.
🟣 Find us. Flock with us. Purple pill someone.
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2025-05-07 06:56:25Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHcAOlamgDc
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/973639
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-07 06:29:52Your device, your data. TRMNL's architecture prevents outsiders (including us) from accessing your local network. TRMNAL achieve this through 1 way communication between client and server, versus the other way around. Learn more.
Learn more at https://usetrmnl.com/
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/973632
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2025-05-06 01:37:28I remember the first gathering of Nostr devs two years ago in Costa Rica. We were all psyched because Nostr appeared to solve the problem of self-sovereign online identity and decentralized publishing. The protocol seemed well-suited for textual content, but it wasn't really designed to handle binary files, like images or video.
The Problem
When I publish a note that contains an image link, the note itself is resilient thanks to Nostr, but if the hosting service disappears or takes my image down, my note will be broken forever. We need a way to publish binary data without relying on a single hosting provider.
We were discussing how there really was no reliable solution to this problem even outside of Nostr. Peer-to-peer attempts like IPFS simply didn't work; they were hopelessly slow and unreliable in practice. Torrents worked for popular files like movies, but couldn't be relied on for general file hosting.
Awesome Blossom
A year later, I attended the Sovereign Engineering demo day in Madeira, organized by Pablo and Gigi. Many projects were presented over a three hour demo session that day, but one really stood out for me.
Introduced by hzrd149 and Stu Bowman, Blossom blew my mind because it showed how we can solve complex problems easily by simply relying on the fact that Nostr exists. Having an open user directory, with the corresponding social graph and web of trust is an incredible building block.
Since we can easily look up any user on Nostr and read their profile metadata, we can just get them to simply tell us where their files are stored. This, combined with hash-based addressing (borrowed from IPFS), is all we need to solve our problem.
How Blossom Works
The Blossom protocol (Blobs Stored Simply on Mediaservers) is formally defined in a series of BUDs (Blossom Upgrade Documents). Yes, Blossom is the most well-branded protocol in the history of protocols. Feel free to refer to the spec for details, but I will provide a high level explanation here.
The main idea behind Blossom can be summarized in three points:
- Users specify which media server(s) they use via their public Blossom settings published on Nostr;
- All files are uniquely addressable via hashes;
- If an app fails to load a file from the original URL, it simply goes to get it from the server(s) specified in the user's Blossom settings.
Just like Nostr itself, the Blossom protocol is dead-simple and it works!
Let's use this image as an example:
If you look at the URL for this image, you will notice that it looks like this:
blossom.primal.net/c1aa63f983a44185d039092912bfb7f33adcf63ed3cae371ebe6905da5f688d0.jpg
All Blossom URLs follow this format:
[server]/[file-hash].[extension]
The file hash is important because it uniquely identifies the file in question. Apps can use it to verify that the file they received is exactly the file they requested. It also gives us the ability to reliably get the same file from a different server.
Nostr users declare which media server(s) they use by publishing their Blossom settings. If I store my files on Server A, and they get removed, I can simply upload them to Server B, update my public Blossom settings, and all Blossom-capable apps will be able to find them at the new location. All my existing notes will continue to display media content without any issues.
Blossom Mirroring
Let's face it, re-uploading files to another server after they got removed from the original server is not the best user experience. Most people wouldn't have the backups of all the files, and/or the desire to do this work.
This is where Blossom's mirroring feature comes handy. In addition to the primary media server, a Blossom user can set one one or more mirror servers. Under this setup, every time a file is uploaded to the primary server the Nostr app issues a mirror request to the primary server, directing it to copy the file to all the specified mirrors. This way there is always a copy of all content on multiple servers and in case the primary becomes unavailable, Blossom-capable apps will automatically start loading from the mirror.
Mirrors are really easy to setup (you can do it in two clicks in Primal) and this arrangement ensures robust media handling without any central points of failure. Note that you can use professional media hosting services side by side with self-hosted backup servers that anyone can run at home.
Using Blossom Within Primal
Blossom is natively integrated into the entire Primal stack and enabled by default. If you are using Primal 2.2 or later, you don't need to do anything to enable Blossom, all your media uploads are blossoming already.
To enhance user privacy, all Primal apps use the "/media" endpoint per BUD-05, which strips all metadata from uploaded files before they are saved and optionally mirrored to other Blossom servers, per user settings. You can use any Blossom server as your primary media server in Primal, as well as setup any number of mirrors:
## Conclusion
For such a simple protocol, Blossom gives us three major benefits:
- Verifiable authenticity. All Nostr notes are always signed by the note author. With Blossom, the signed note includes a unique hash for each referenced media file, making it impossible to falsify.
- File hosting redundancy. Having multiple live copies of referenced media files (via Blossom mirroring) greatly increases the resiliency of media content published on Nostr.
- Censorship resistance. Blossom enables us to seamlessly switch media hosting providers in case of censorship.
Thanks for reading; and enjoy! 🌸
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2025-05-07 06:16:30Here’s Sean Voisen writing about how programming is a feeling:
For those of us who enjoy programming, there is a deep satisfaction that comes from solving problems through well-written code, a kind of ineffable joy found in the elegant expression of a system through our favorite syntax. It is akin to the same satisfaction a craftsperson might find at the end of the day after toiling away on well-made piece of furniture, the culmination of small dopamine hits that come from sweating the details on something and getting them just right. Maybe nobody will notice those details, but it doesn’t matter. We care, we notice, we get joy from the aesthetics of the craft.
This got me thinking about the idea of satisfaction in craft. Where does it come from?
Continue Reading https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/craft-and-satisfaction/
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/973628
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2025-05-05 20:16:29- Install PocketPal (it's free and open source)
- Launch the app, open the menu, and navigate to Models
- Download one or more models (e.g. Phi, Llama, Qwen)
- Once downloaded, tap Load to start chatting
ℹ️ Experiment with different models and their quantizations (Q4, Q6, Q8, etc.) to find the most suitable one
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2025-05-13 00:21:07► Gaming Tools
- ↪️ Download Managers
- ↪️ Media Posters / Covers
- ↪️ Game Soundtracks
- ⭐ PCGamingWiki - Game Fixes & Workarounds / Discord
- ⭐ Sunshine, Apollo or Moonlight - Gaming Remote Desktop Client / Mobile
- ⭐ Library of Codexes - Game Codex Library
- ⭐ HowLongToBeat, 2 - Find Average Game Lengths
- ⭐ /r/tipofmyjoystick - Find Games via Screenshot or Description
- ⭐ Game Pauser - Pause Unpausable Cutscenes
- ⭐ Valve Archive - Rare Valve Data Archive
- VGHF Digital Archive - Historical Documents, Magazines, Transcripts, etc. / Archive
- NIWA - Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance / Discord
- Gog To Free - Add Piracy Site Links to GOG Store
- The Models Resource - Game Models
- The Spriters Resource - Video Game Sprites
- MiiCharacters - Famous Mii Creation Guides
- Archiverse - Miiverse Archive
- Buzz In - Online Buzzer System
- Challonge or Lorenzi's Game Boards - Tournament Creators / Managers
- Medal - Shadowplay for non Nvidia Cards / Premium Bypass
- RePlays - Game Recording Manager
- Moments - Game Clip Tool
- Keystrokes - Keystrokes Overlay
- PSNProfiles - Trophy Guide / PSN Profile Viewer
- Achievement Watcher - Achievement File Parser, Notifications & Playtime Tracker / Note
- Shmuplations - Japanese Developer Interviews
- Wiki.gg - Game Wikis / Redirector
- CSDb or GB64 - Commodore 64 Resources
- Awesome J2ME - J2ME Resources
- GARbro - Browse / Extract Visual Novel Resources
- ConceptArt - Video Game Concept Art
- How Denuvo Works
- Game Cracking / Repacking Guides
▷ Game Launchers
- ⭐ Playnite - Game Library / Launcher / Extensions / Subreddit / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ GoG Galaxy or Project GLD / GitHub - Game Libraries / Launchers
- Ascendara - Game Launcher / Downloader / Discord / GitHub
- Fit Launcher - Game Launcher / Torrent Client / Discord
- Launchbox - Retro / Console Game Library / Launcher
- GameHUB Launcher - Rainmeter Game Launcher
- Hydra - Game Launcher / Torrent Client / Plugins, 2 / Game Search / Discord / Telegram
- OpenGamepadUI - Gamepad Native Launcher
- JackboxUtility - Jackbox Games Launcher / Discord / GitHub
- GameVault - Self-Hosted Gaming Platform / Discord / GitHub
▷ Optimization Tools
- 🌐 Nvidia Overclocking - Nvidia Overclocking Resources
- ⭐ SpecialK - Game Optimization Tool / Discord
- ⭐ MSI Afterburner, GPU Tweak III or EVGA Precision X1 / Warning - GPU Overclocking / Guide
- ⭐ SystemRequirementsLab or PCGameBenchmark - Game Requirements Tests
- ⭐ MSI Kombustor - GPU Benchmark Test
- ⭐ ProSettings, Share Gaming Tweaks, /r/OptimizedGaming, SweetFX, ENBSeries - Settings Optimization Guides
- ⭐ DisplayMagician or AutoActions - Per-Game Display Profiles
- ⭐ Lossless Scaling, Magpie, DLSS2FSR or OptiScaler - Game Upscaling
- RagnoTech Optimization Catalog or TroubleChute - Gaming Optimization Guides
- cancerogenoslab or MikeMartin - FPS / Latency Guides
- Fraps, OCAT / GitHub, Rivatuner Statistics Server, CapFrameX or Xbox Game Bar - FPS Tracking / Benchmarking
- SSTap - Decrease Ping
- Overclock - Overclocking Forum
- Ryzen Master Utility - Overclocking Control for Ryzen Desktop CPU
- AMD-APU-Tuning-Utility - AMD APU Tuning
- DLSS Swapper - Download, Manage & Swap DLSS
- dgVoodoo2 - Glide & DirectX Graphics Wrapper
- VibranceGUI - Automate Digital Vibrance Control
- Vuenxx - Free FSR 3 Mods / Note
- ReShade - Generic Post-Processing Injector / Easy Installer / Shaders / Discord / GitHub
- Scanlines for Windows - Add Scanlines to Games / Discord
- DLSSG to FSR3 - AMD FSR3 Frame Generation for NVIDIA
- WindowedBorderlessGaming, Borderless Gaming or FullScreenizer - Borderless Windows for All Games
- DxWnd - Play Fullscreen Only Games in Window
- WSGF - Widescreen Gaming Community / Solutions
- Widescreen Fixes Pack / GitHub, Widescreen Fixer v3.4 or Flawless Widescreen - Widescreen Fixes
- 4GB Patch - Patch x86 executables to use 4GB
▷ Controller Tools
- ⭐ DS4Windows / 2, AntiMicroX, DualSenseX, DualSenseY, PCXSense or Input Remapper - Gamepad Input Tools / Steam Note
- x360ce / GitHub - DS4 / 360 Controller Emulator
- XOutput - DirectInput to Xinput wrapper
- DsHidMini - Use PS3 Controllers on Windows
- JoyToKey - Controller Emulator
- Spud Controller - Controller / Mouse Input Displays
- Gamepad-Tester or AresLuna - Controller Connectivity Testers
- hidusbf - Decrease DS4/5 Input Lag / Video
- HidHide - Input Device Firewall
- Whitescent Engine - Use Phone as Joy Stick / GitHub
- JoystickGremlin - Remap Joystick Devices
- Arcade Controls - DIY Arcade Controls
- AltCtrls - Custom Controller Crafting Resources
▷ Game Mods
- 🌐 Big List of Randomizers - Game Randomizer Index / Discord / GitHub
- ↪️ Game Mods - Mods for Individual Games
- ⭐ ChronoCrash - Side Scrolling Modding Forum / Games List
- ⭐ ModDB - Game Mods
- ⭐ Nexus Mods - Game Mods / Bulk Downloader / Redirect Skip / Download Hidden / Discord
- ⭐ ModdingLinked - Bethesda Game Modding Guides / Discord
- WeMod - Cheats / Trainer Manager / Single Player Only / Unlocker / Discord
- ModOrganizer - Mod Manager
- Otis_Inf Camera Mods or CinematicTools Archive - Game Camera Mods
- Mod.io - Cross Platform Game Mods Support / Discord
- WabbaJack - Automated Modlist Installer / Discord
- ModWorkshop - Game Mods / Discord
- GameFront - Game Mods / Discord
- Video Game Mods - Game Mods / Discord
- GameBanana - Game Mods / Discord
- SMods - Game Mods
- Silent's Blog - Game Mods / Patches
- FlingTrainer - Game Mods / Trainers for Single Player Games
- Top Mods - PC Game Mods
- ProAsm - Retro Game Mods
- Thunderstore - Unity Game Mods
- Gale or r2modman - Thunderstore / BepInEx Unity Mod Managers
- Archipelago - Multi-Game Randomizer
▷ Game Saves
- ↪️ File Backup / Sync
- ⭐ Ludusavi or GameSave Manager - Game Save Managers / Backup
- PCGamingWiki - Save Locations Listed Under "Game Data"
- Save Game World - PC / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox / Wii
- SavegameDownload.com - PC / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox / Android
- YourSaveGames - PC / PSP
- SaveGame.Pro - PC
- Saves For Games - PC
- GC Saves - Gamecube / Discord
- Save Editor Online - Game Save Editor
▷ Game Maps
- 🌐 Map Genie, GameMaps, THGL or VGMaps - Game Map Indexes
- noclip - Explore Game Maps
- KudosPrime - Racing Game Maps
- bspview - Explore Quake & GoldSRC Maps / GitHub
- NES Maps - NES Game Maps
- SNES Maps - SNES Game Maps
- Forgehub - Halo Maps / Discord
- Zelda BotW Street View - Breath of the Wild Map
- Palworld Interactive - Palworld Map
- Fortnite.gg - Fortnite Map, Guides, Skins, etc.
- Hitmaps - Hitman Maps / Discord
- Hallownest or Interactive HN Map - Hollow Knight Maps
▷ Git Gud
- Note - There are guides on almost every Steam page, some for beginners, 100% completion walkthroughs, and more.
- 🌐 Mousepad Mastersheet - Mousepad Comparison Chart
- 🌐 Gamepadla - Gamepad / Controller Latency Tests
- ⭐ Before I Play - Tips for any Game
- ⭐ GamingSmart, Sens Covnerter, Sens Converter or Mouse Sensitivity - Game Sensitivity Converters / Tools
- ⭐ Aim400kg, 3D Aim Trainer, Aimlabs, Aiming.Pro or AimTrainer - Aim Training
- ⭐ Speedrun - Speedrunning Streams, Leaderboards, Resources, etc.
- GameGuides, DotGG, Retro Guides, Game8, StrategyWiki, Samurai Gamers, UHS Hints or Kirklands - Game Guides
- Voltaic - Aim Benchmark & Guides
- Piper - Gaming Mouse Config Tool
- LiveSplit - Customizable Speedrun Timer
- The Manual Project, ReplacementDocs or GamesDatabase - Game Manuals
- SNES Manuals - SNES Game Manuals
- Ukikipedia - SM64 Speedrunning Wiki
- FOUR.lol - Tetris Openers Wiki
- Underdogs Cup Lounge - Tetris Resources & Coaching Discord
- Fumen - Tetris Field Editor
► Tracking / Databases
- ⭐ Glitchwave - Tracking / Database
- ⭐ Backloggd - Tracking / Database
- ⭐ Infinite Backlog - Tracking / Database
- ⭐ IGDB - Game Database
- Moby Games - Game Database
- GiantBomb - Game Database
- Grouvee - Tracking / Database
- RankOne - Tracking / Database
- GG - Tracking / Database
- KeepTrackOfMyGames - Tracking / Database
- PlayTracker - Tracking / Database
- Gamelib - Tracking / Database
- Backloggery - Tracking / Database
- Exophase - Tracking / Database
- LaunchBox Games Database - Game Database
- GameFAQs - Game Database
- Rawg - Game Database
- rate.house - Game Database
- listal - Game Database
- FrontierNav - Game Database
- IMDb Advanced Search - Game Search
- Low Spec Games - Low Spec Game Database / Text Only / GitHub
- JRPGC - JRPG Databases / Discord
- RPGCodex - RPG Database / Forum
- SteamPeek or IndieDB - Indie Game Databases
- RetroShowcase or The Good Old Days - Retro Game Databases
- Sega Retro - Sega Game Database
- AtariAge - Atari Game Database
- Polish Pixels - Retro Polish Games Database
- Co-Optimu or PlayCo-opGame - Co-Op Game Databases
- SvenEvils Playground or Local Multiplayer List - Local Multiplayer Game Database
- DoesItPlay? - Offline Game Compatibility Database
- CloudBase - Cloud Game Database
- HOTU - Rare Game Database
- Delisted Games - Delisted Games Database
- BoardGameGeek or Kallax - Board Game Database
- Are We Anti-Cheat Yet? - Anti-Cheat Game Database / GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton Compatibility
- Unseen64 - Cancelled / Lost Games
- Incendar - Game Release Date Tracker
▷ Curated Recommendations
- 🌐 Awesome Engineering Games - Engineering Games
- ⭐ AcclaimedVideoGames or VideoGameCanon - Game Top 1000 List
- ⭐ OpenCritic - Critic Game Reviews / Ratings
- ⭐ TasteDive, Mythic Maps / Discord or /r/ifyoulikeblank - Game Recommendations
- Rec Charts - Game Recommendation Guides
- Board Game Breakdown - Board Game Reviews
- Can I Play That? - Video Game Accessibility Reviews
- MoreGamesLike or Games Like Finder - Find Similar Games
► Steam / Epic
- 🌐 Steam Tool Collection, steam.tools or SteamInternals - Steam Tool Indexes
- ↪️ Steam Workshop Downloaders
- ⭐ SDD GUI or DepotDownloader - Steam Depot Downloaders
- ⭐ RedAlt SteamUp - Steam Depot Update Creator
- Steam Link - Stream Steam Library to TV
- Steam Mover - Store Steam Games on Multiple Drives
- Steam Rom Manager - Add ROMs to Steam
- BoilR - Sync Game Platforms with Steam
- SteamAchievementManager - Steam Achievement Manager
- SteamHunters / Discord or TrueSteamAchievements - Steam Achievement Tracking / Leaderboards / Profiles
- SteamID / 2, SteamDetective or SteamFinder - Steam ID Lookup
- SteamGuard - Generate Steam 2FA Codes
- Super Steam Packer - Pack and Share Your Steam Games
- Steam API Check Bypass - Steam API Check Bypass
▷ Client Tools
- ⭐ Heroic Games Launcher - Epic / GOG / Prime Games Launcher
- ⭐ Nemirtingas Epic Emulator - Epic Online Service Emulator
- ⭐ TCNO - Platform Account Switcher / Tutorial
- LEGENDARY / Discord or Rare - Epic Games Launchers
- Depressurizer or Backlog.rip - Steam Library Organizers
- Steam Art Manager - Find / Manage Game Art
- Millennium - Steam Client Customization / Discord / GitHub
- Watt Toolkit - Enhance Steam Functionality / GitHub
- SteamCMD - Command-Line Steam Client
- Adwaita for Steam - Steam GNOME Skin
- Backgrounds.Gallery - Steam Backgrounds
- Steam.Design - Steam Background Cropper
- Center.Steam - Center Steam Text
- Steam Inventory Helper - Steam Inventory Enhancement Extension
- Fuck Off EA App - Use Origin Instead of EA App
▷ DLC Unlock / DRM Bypass
- ⭐ CreamAPI - Steam DLC Unlocker / Auto Setup
- ⭐ GreenLuma - Offline Steam DRM Bypass / DLC Unlocker / Manager / Family Bypass Guide
- ⭐ Unsteam - Online Steam DRM Bypass / Cracked Servers Only / Multiplayer Emulator
- ⭐ Steamless - Steam DRM Remover
- ⭐ Goldberg, 2 / GUI / Guide or SmartSteamEmu - Offline Steam / Multiplayer Emulators
- ⭐ Steam-Auto-Crack or SteamAutoCracker - Auto Apply Goldberg + Steamless / Guide
- ⭐ Koalageddon - DLC Unlocker for Epic, Origin, EA, Uplay
- DreamAPI - DLC Unlocker for Epic, Origin and EA
- Anadius - DLC Unlockers for EA and Origin
- ScreamAPI - Epic DLC Unlocker
- GetDataFromSteam-SteamDB - Find SteamDB DLC Data / Create Configs
▷ Steam Store
- ⭐ SteamDB / Extension or Steambase / Extension - Steam Insights Tools
- AugmentedSteam - Steam Web Enhancement Extension
- SteamScout - Steam Review Analyzer
- Steam Link Dropdown - Add Piracy Site Links to Steam Store
- UWPHook - Add Windows Store Games to Steam
- Free Packages - Mass Activate All Free Steam Games / $5 Account Min / Guide
- Wishlist Removals - Remove Hidden Items from Steam Wishlist
- Steam URL Opener - Open URLs Inside Steam Client
- Steam Age Bypass - Bypass Age Confirmation
- Steam Currency Converter / Note - Steam Currency Converter
► Multiplayer Tools
- ⭐ Nucleus Co-op - Local Split-Screen PC Multiplayer / Subreddit
- Liquipedia - Competitive Gaming / Esports Wiki / Discord
- Tracker.gg - Game Leaderboards / Stats
▷ Multiplayer Fixes
- ⭐ Online Fix - Online / LAN Multiplayer Fix / Discord
- ⭐ Playit.gg - LAN Multiplayer Fix / Discord
- ⭐ ZeroTier - LAN Multiplayer Fix
- Radmin - LAN Multiplayer Fix / Discord
- Hamachi - LAN Multiplayer Fix
- NetMaker - LAN Multiplayer Fix
- OpenSpy - LAN Multiplayer Fix / Discord / GitHub
- Team XLink - LAN Multiplayer Fix / Discord
- ZLOEmu - LAN Multiplayer Fix
- t7patch - Black Ops 3 Crash Fix
▷ Multiplayer Mods
- 🌐 Multiplayer Mods or Unmoddable - Multiplayer Mods for Single-Player Games
- ⭐ Plutonium - COD BO1/BO2, MW3 and WaW Multiplayer Client / Setup Guide / Video Guide / Offline Launcher / Discord
- AlterWare - COD MW2 (2009), MW3, BO3, AW and Ghosts Multiplayer Client / Discord / GitHub
- HorizonMW - Modern Warfare Remastered Multiplayer Client / Guide / Servers / Info / Tools
- CoD4x Mod - COD4 (2007) Multiplayer Project / Requires MP Key / Discord
- Venice Unleashed / Discord or Warsaw Revamped / Discord - Battlefield Mod Projects
- SM64 Coop Deluxe - Super Mario 64 Co-Op / Discord
- Smash64 - Smash Bros 64 Online / Discord
- Marne - BF1 Multiplayer Project / Discord
- Slippi - Super Smash Bros Melee Online / Discord
- Tilted Online - Multiplayer Skyrim & Fallout 4 / GitHub / Discord / Setup Guide
- NV:MP - Fallout: New Vegas Multiplayer / Discord
- Nitrox - Subnautica Multiplayer
- BeamMP - BeamNG Multiplayer / GitHub
- Fika - Play Single Player Tarkov Co-Op / Requires Legit Game
- OnlineCTR - Crash Team Racing Multiplayer
- CnCNet - Multiplayer Command & Conquer / Discord
- Old School RuneScape - Classic Runescape / Discord
- RuneLite - Old School RuneScape Client w/ Plugin Support / Discord
- Mega Man Arena or Megaman 2.5D - Multiplayer Mega Man
- DMP - Kerbal Spaceprogram Multiplayer Mod / Discord
▷ Multiplayer Servers
- ⭐ TrackyServer - Find Private Multiplayer Servers
- Server.pro - Game Server Hosting
- Pterodactyl / Discord or Pelican / GitHub - Game Server Management Panel
- Impostor - Among Us Private Server / Discord
- VRCList - Find VRChat Worlds / Sign-Up Required
- OldUnreal - Unreal Tournement Servers / Discord
- DiIiS - Open-Source Diablo III Local Server
- Insignia - Original Xbox Replacement Servers / Discord
- ElDewrito - Halo Online / Halo 3 Servers
- Project Cartographer - Halo 2 Online Servers
- Halo Custom Edition - Halo CE Online Servers
- BF2142 Reclamation - BF2142 Servers / Discord
- SiMPLE - Battlefield 1942 Servers / Discord
- Overwatch-Server-Selector - Overwatch Server Selector
- Northstar, 2 - Titanfall 2 Server Hosting & Modding / GitHub / Guide / Discord
- ET: Legacy - Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Servers / Discord
- Arctic Combat - Arctic Combat Server Revival / Discord
- Factorio.zone - Free Factorio Servers
- Clash of Magic / Discord or Atrasis / Discord - Clash of Clans Private Servers
- Rusticaland - Free Rust Servers / Discord
- Ephinea - Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst Server Revival
- PSO Servers - Phantasy Star Online 1 Server Revivals
- KOCity - Knockout City Multiplayer Revival / Discord / GitHub
- Elemental Fracture - Spellbreak Community Revival / Discord
- NolfRevival - NOLF, NOLF 2 & Contract Jack
- Toontown Rewritten or Corporate Clash - Toontown Multiplayer Revivals
► Homebrew
- 🌐 Darthsternie - Console Firmware / Exploit Archive
- 🌐 Emulators on Consoles - List of Emulators for Consoles
- 🌐 Firmware / Bios Files
- ⭐ Hacks.Guide / 2, CFW Guide, ConsoleMods.org / Discord, Digiex, Homebrew Guides, CFWaifu or Gamebrew - Homebrew Guides
- ⭐ Nintendo Homebrew - Nintendo Homebrew Discord
- ⭐ GBATemp - Homebrew Forum
- /r/Homebrew - Homebrew Subreddit
- Game Boy Tech Page - Game Boy Tools
- Game Boy Book Reader - Game Boy Book Reader
- NESC-SNESC-Modifications - NES, SNES & Playstation Mods
- ModMyClassic - Classic Console Mods
- N64Brew - N64 Homebrew Wiki
- /r/XboxModding or /r/XboxRetailHomebrew - Xbox Homebrew Subreddits
- Team Resurgent - Xbox Homebrew Tools
- /r/XboxHomebrew - Xbox One/Series Homebrew Subreddit
- /r/360Hacks Guide - Xbox 360 Modding Guide
- C-Xbox Tool - .XBE to ISO File Converter
- NKit - Disc Image Processor
- NASOS - Gamecube iso.dec to ISO Converter
- NESDev - NES / SNES Dev Homebrew Guides / Forum
- hakchi2 CE - Add More Roms to NES/SNES Classic Mini / Discord
- ROM News - Console Game Release PreDB / NFO Database
▷ Switch Homebrew
- ↪️ Switch Homebrew Guides
- ⭐ Homebrew App Store - Switch / Wii U Homebrew App Store
- /r/SwitchPirates or /r/SwitchHacks - Switch Homebrew Subreddits
- LAN Play Status or Switch-LAN-Play / Discord - Switch Multiplayer Servers
- FlagBrew - Switch Homebrew / Discord
- NSP Forwarder - Switch NSP Forwarder
- Switch Army Knife - Switch File Converter
- SysDVR - Switch Game Capture
- sys-con - Use Any USB Controller on Switch
- MissionControl - Use Any Bluetooth Controller on Switch
▷ Wii U / Wii Homebrew
- ⭐ WiiBrew - Wii Homebrew Wiki
- ⭐ WiiUBrew - Wii U Homebrew Wiki
- ⭐ Wii U Hacks Guide - Wii U Jailbreak Guide
- ⭐ Wii Hacks Guide - Wii Jailbreak Guides
- ⭐ Wiimmfi or WiiLink - Wii Multiplayer Servers
- ⭐ Homebrew App Store - Switch / Wii U Homebrew App Store
- Pretendo - Wii U Network Replacement
- /r/WiiUHacks - Wii U Homebrew Subreddit
- /r/WiiHacks - Wii Homebrew Subreddit
- Open Shop Channel - Wii Homebrew App Library
- WBFStoISO - WBFS to ISO
▷ 3DS / DS Homebrew
- 🌐 DS Homebrew - DS Homebrew Resources / Wiki / Discord
- ⭐ 3DS Jailbreak Guide - 3DS Jailbreak Guide
- ⭐ DSi Jailbreak Guide - DSi Jailbreak Guide
- ⭐ Wiimmfi or Kaeru Team - DS Multiplayer Servers
- Pretendo - 3DS Network Replacement
- Universal DB - 3DS / DS Modding Apps
- Theme Plaza - 3DS Themes / Discord
- Artic Base - Play Physical 3DS Games on Citra
- BootNTR - Stream 3DS to PC or Mac / Instructions
- /r/3DSPiracy or 3DSHacks - 3DS Modding Subreddit
- FlagBrew - 3DS Homebrew Apps / Discord
- Luma3DS - 3DS Custom Firmware
- GodMode9 - 3DS File Browser
- Batch CIA 3DS Decryptor - Decrypt 3DS Files
- Rverse - 3DS Miiverse Recreation Discord Server
▷ Playstation Homebrew
- ⭐ PS4 Modding, PSX Hax, PSDevWiki or Wololo - Playstation Modding Guides
- Chiaki / GitHub or RemotePlay - Playstation Remote Play Clients
- /r/PS5Homebrew - PS5 Homebrew Subreddit
- /r/PS4Homebrew - PS4 Homebrew Subreddit
- Exploit Host - PS4 Exploit Hosting
- DarkSoftware - PS4 / PS3 Firmware
- /r/PS3Homebrew - PS3 Homebrew Subreddit
- PS3 Disc Dumper - Decrypted PS3 Disc Dumper
- PS3 Game Updater or Rusty Pan - Update PS3 Games
- PS3Themes - PS3 Themes
- PSONE - Play PS1 Games Online / PS3 Required / Discord
- PSXDev - PS1 Development
- MemcardRex - PS1 Save Transfer Tools / Archive
- /r/VitaPiracy / Discord or /r/VitaHacks - PSVita Homebrew Subreddits
- PSP Archive - PSP Homebrew Archive / Discord
- VitaDB - PS Vita Homebrews
- Vita Volume - Set PS Vita Volume without Buttons
- PSPunk - PSP Homebrew Info
▷ Steam Deck
- 🌐 Steam Deck Mods - Steam Deck Mods / Discord
- ⭐ Decky Loader - Steam Deck Plugin Loader / Plugins / GitHub
- /r/SteamDeckPirates - Steam Deck Piracy Subreddit
- great-on-deck-search - Verified Steam Deck Game Search
- Steam Deck Tools - Fan Overlay, Power Control and Steam Controller
- EmuDeck - Steam Deck Emulator Setup / Compatibility / Discord
- GameImage - Steam Deck Game Setup
- Bazzite - Alt Steam Deck OS
- Steam-Deck.Force - Force SteamOS Boot
- HoloISO - SteamOS 3 (Holo) Archiso Config / Telegram
- Steam Deck Repo - Steam Deck Boot Videos
► Minecraft Tools
- 🌐 MCDOC - Minecraft Tools & Unlockers / Discord
- 🌐 Awesome Minecraft - Minecraft Resources
- ⭐ Minecraft Wiki - Minecraft Wikis
- ⭐ Villager Trading Cheatsheet or Image Cheatsheet
- ⭐ Minecraft Brewing Cheatsheet
- MC Utils - Minecraft Web Tools
- MCPEDL - Bedrock Resources
- DigiMinecraft or Birdflop - Minecraft Guides / Tools
- ViveCraft - VR Minecraft / Discord / GitHub
- SkyClient - Hypixel Asset Installer / Discord / GitHub
- SkyCrypt - SkyBlock Stats
- MC Icons - Minecraft Icon Search
- Textcraft - Minecraft Text & Logo Generator
- Pixelart Builder or PixelStacker - Turn Photos into Minecraft Art
- Block Palettes or Block Colors - Block Color Palettes
- The Minecraft Archive Project - Minecraft Archive
- Open Note Block Studio - Minecraft Note Block Song Editor
- Voyager - Minecraft AI
- MiniMessageViewer - Format Plugin Messages
- Minecraft Timeline - Minecraft Update History Timeline
▷ Hosting Tools
- 🌐 FMHL - Free Minecraft Hosts List / Mirror
- ⭐ auto-mcs - Easy Server Setup / GitHub
- ⭐ Playit.gg - Global Proxy / Discord
- ⭐ paper-optimization or minecraft-optimization - Server Optimization Guides
- World Host or e4mc / Lan Server Properties - Local Server Multiplayer Mods
- setup.md - Server Admin Guides / Wiki
- CraftyControl, MCSManager, Lodestone / GitHub or Fork - Minecraft Server Managers
- Minekube Connect - Ingress Tunnel for Minecraft Servers
- ViaVersion - Allow Connections from Older Versions / Discord / GitHub
- mclo.gs - Minecraft Log Sharing / Analyzing
- Minestom - Lightweight Minecraft Server / Discord
- Cuberite - Server Setup
- DriveBackupV2 - Server Plugin to Create Cloud Backups of Worlds
- Pufferfish, Purpur / Discord or Paper / Plugins - Performance Enhancement Servers
- GeyserMC - Join Minecraft Java Servers with Bedrock Client / Consoles
- Minecraft Server Scanner - Minecraft Server Info
- Minecraft Server Checker - Simple Server Checker
- mcsrvstat - Server Status Updates
- MC-Server-Banner-API - Real-Time Updated Server Banners
▷ Launchers
- ⭐ Prism Launcher - Feature-Rich Launcher / Free Method / Ely.by Version / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ ATLauncher or Technic Launcher - Modpack Launchers
- ⭐ PojavLauncher / Discord / GitHub, ZalithLauncher or FoldCraftLauncher / Discord - Java Edition for Android & iOS
- ⭐ Bedrock Launcher or MCLauncher - Launcher for Bedrock Edition
- SkLauncher - User-friendly Launcher
- UltimMC - Launcher for Cracked Accounts
- Betacraft - Legacy Versions Launcher
- CheatBreaker - FPS Modpack Launcher / GitHub
- HMCL - Launcher / GitHub
- LabyMod - Launcher
- Crystal Launcher - Launcher
- GDLauncher - Launcher
- X Minecraft Launcher - Launcher
- Quantum Launcher - Lightweight Launcher / Discord / GitHub
- Omniarchive - Download Old Minecraft Versions
▷ Mods / Data Packs
- 🌐 Not Essential - List of Alternatives to Essential
- 🌐 OptiFine Alternatives - OptiFine Alternatives for Fabric
- ↪️ Mod Indexes
- ⭐ MCModdingGuide - Minecraft Modding Guide
- Builders Refuge - Building Modpack
- WorldEdit or Axiom - Building Tools
- Worldedit Tools - Docs / CUI / Discord / GitHub
- quark - Add Vanilla-like / QoL Features
- Voxy, DistantHorizons or Bobby - Lightweight Distance Rendering Mods
- VulkanMod - Vulkan Renderer Mod / Discord
- Forge, NeoForged, Quilt or Fabric / Discord - Mod Loaders
- PAX, ModMenu (fabric) or Mod Manager - Minecraft Mod Managers
- Forgix - Merge Mod Loaders
- /r/feedthebeast - MC Modding Community
- CraftPresence or Phase's Discord RPC - Discord RPC for Java Edition
- Controlify - Add Controller Support to Java Edition
- No Telemetry - Disable Telemetry Data
- SimpleVoicechat - Feature-Rich Voice Chat Mod / Discord
- ReplayMod or FlashBack - Record Game Sessions
- Craftify - Display / Control Playing Music
- Vanilla Tweaks, Smithed or Voodoo Packs / Discord - Minecraft Data Packs
- Data Pack Generators - Minecraft Data Pack Generators
▷ Maps / World Tools
- 🌐 ChunkBase - Minecraft Map Tools
- Amulet, Minecraft Datapack Map / GitHub, MCA Selector, uNmINeD or WorldPainter - Minecraft Map Editors / Viewers
- MineAtlas, Cubiomes Viewer or MCSeeder - Minecraft Seeds
- MinecraftMaps or Mapcraft - Minecraft Maps
- Minecraft Earth Map - Earth Maps
- CTMRepository - Complete the Monument Maps / Discord
- MapartCraft or Cartographer - Mapart Schematic / map.dat Generator
- BlueMap - Create 3D Map Models / GitHub
- Arnis - Generate Real-world Locations in Minecraft
- Chunker - Java / Bedrock Format Converter
- Minecraft Map Converter - PS3/360 Format Converter
- Amidst - Minecraft World Overview Display Tool
▷ Technical Tools
- 🌐 TMC Links - Technical Minecraft Resources
- 🌐 Minecraft Speedrunning - Minecraft Speedrunning Resources
- ⭐ MCPropertyEncyclopedia - Block Property Encyclopedia
- ⭐ spark - Minecraft Performance Profiler
- ⭐ Minecraft Java Flags - Java Edition Performance Tweaks
- Report Inspector - Crash Report / Profiling Inspector
- Mineflayer - Minecraft Bot Creator / GitHub
- Minecraft Armor Stand - Design Poses for Armorstands
- Enchant Order - Minecraft Enchantment Ordering Tool
- Minecraft Tools or GamerGeeks - Minecraft Tools / Calculators
- Minecraft Command Science or MCStacker - Minecraft Command Generators
- NBT Studio or webNBT - Minecraft NBT File Editors
- MinecraftJSON - Minecraft Tellraw Generator
▷ Customization
- 🌐 ShaderLABS - Shader Comparisons and Resources
- ↪️ Resource Pack Indexes
- ⭐ NameMC, Laby / Discord or Crafty - Minecraft Name & Skin Availability Trackers
- ShadersMods or MinecraftShader - Minecraft Shaders
- Iris Shaders - Fabric Shadermod for Minecraft
- MinecraftSkins or SkinMC - Minecraft Skins
- MSkins - Skin Grabber
- Ely.by - Skin System / Authorization
- Nova Skin or Blockbench - Minecraft Skin Editor
- MinecraftCapes or Capes - Minecraft Capes
- Minecraft Heads - Custom Minecraft Heads
- PVPRP - PVP Texture Packs
▷ 3D Tools
- ⭐ MCprep - All-in-one Blender Addon / GitHub / Discord
- ⭐ jmc2obj, Mineways, MiEX, Minutor - Minecraft World Exporters
- Mine-imator - Animation Tool / 2.0 Version / Forum / GitHub / Discord
- Chunky - Photorealistic Renderer / GitHub / Discord
- Block Display - Design / Share Block Display Models / Discord
- Cubical - Minecraft 3D Schematic Tool / Beta
- Custom-MC-Render-Cweeper - Import Custom 3D Models into Minecraft
- ObjToSchematic - Converts 3D Models into MC Formats / Discord
- NBT2Components - NBT to Component Converter
- Layoutit, VoxelSphereGenerator, BDStudio or Minecraft Shapes - Minecraft Shape Tools / Voxel Editors
► Game Specific
- 🌐 Awesome Trackmania - Trackmania Resources
- 🌐 ACNH.Directory - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Resources
- 🌐 FM Scout - Football Manager Resources / Community
- Half Life Project Beta - Unreleased / Cut Half-Life Content
- Palworld.gg, PalworldTrainer.com or Paldb.cc - Palworld Databases
- /codmeta/ - Call of Duty Loadouts / Metas
- Warzone Loadout or WZHub - Warzone Loadouts and Builds
- Braytech - Destiny 2 Stats
- The Halo Archive (Discord) or 405th - Halo Assets Archive
- Sym.gg - Battlefield Info & Weapon Stats / Discord
- Rust Clash - Rust Info / Tools
- Stardew.app - Stardew Valley Progress Tracker
- Fortnite Tracker - Fortnite Leaderboards / Stats
- FortniteEXP - Fortnite XP Progression / Leveling Rates
- Ready or Not Doc - Ready or Not Info
- FM Moneyball - Football Manager Recruitment Tool / Tutorial
- Minesweepergame.com and Minesweeper.online Wiki - All about Minesweeper
- WRCsetups - WRC Setups
- Peacock - Hitman World of Assassination Server Replacement
- Useful Osu - Osu! Resources
- Collection Manager - Osu! Collection Manager
- osu trainer - Osu! Trainer
- danser-go - Osu! Dancing Visualizer
- SpinShare - Spin Rhythm XD Custom Charts
▷ MOBA Tools
- ⭐ OP.GG - LoL Player Background Check
- ⭐ DPM.LOL, U.GG, KoreanBuilds, EuropeanBuilds, LoLTheory, MurderBridge or LoLAlytics / Discord - LoL Builds / Tiers
- ⭐ Gol.gg - LoL Competitive Stats, All Regions
- ⭐ Tactics.tools / Discord or MetaTFT / Discord - Team Fight Tactic Guides, Stats, Tools, etc.
- MobaFire - LoL Champion Guides
- ProBuilds - LoL Pro Player Builds
- LoL Wiki - Official LoL Wiki
- LoL Math - LoL Item Optimizer / Discord
- iTero - LoL AI Coach
- DraftGap - LoL Draft Analysis Tools
- Mobalytics or DeepLoL - Game Performance & Stats Analyzer
- Porofessor - Live LoL Game Stats
- ProStreams - Watch Pro LoL Twitch Streams
- DotaBuff, Stratz, OpenDota or Dota2ProTracker - Dota 2 Stat Trackers / Hero Guides
- SmiteGuru - Smite Leaderboards
- mood.gg - LoL Character-Based Audio Playlists
- RuneForge - Custom LoL Skins / Discord
- Deceive - Appear Offline in LoL
- Disenchanter - LoL Mass Disenchanter
▷ ARPG / MMORPG Tools
- 🌐 Grim Tools - Grim Dawn Tools
- 🌐 Last Epoch Tools - Last Epoch Tools
- ⭐ Maxroll - ARPG Build Guides
- D4Builds - Diablo IV Build Guides
- Helltides - Diablo IV Pit Leaderboards / Helltide Tracker
- Path of Building - Path of Exile Build Planner
- Murlok - WoW PvP / PvE Guides / Discord
- WoWProgress or CheckPVP - WoW Rankings
- RaidPlan - WoW Raid Planner / Discord
▷ Pokemon Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Pokémon - Pokémon Resources
- 🌐 /r/PTCGP Resource Guide - Pokémon TCG Pocket Resources
- ⭐ Bulbapedia - Pokémon Wiki
- ⭐ Serebii.net, Pokémon Awesome, Pokémon Database or PocketMonsters.net - Pokémon Databases
- ⭐ PokeList or PokeAPI - Pokédexes
- ⭐ Pokémon Typechart or Type Calculator - Pokémon Type Charts / Image
- ⭐ PokeMMO, DelugeRPG, Pokemon Blaze Online / Discord or Pokémon Revolution Online - Pokémon MMOs
- ⭐ PokéRogue - Pokémon Dungeon Crawler / Wiki / Subreddit / Mobile / Discord
- ⭐ Pokémon Showdown - Online Pokémon Battles
- PokeCommunity - Pokémon Community
- Project Pokémon - Pokémon Tools, Exploits, Saves, etc.
- PokeGB - Pokémon Blue Emulator
- PokemonLog, PokeHarbor or Pokémon Coders - Hacked Pokémon ROMs
- pret - Pokémon Disassembly / Decompilation Projects
- Pokemon Auto Chess - Pokemon Style Teamfight Tactics / Discord / GitHub
- PKHeX - Pokémon Save File Editor
- PMD Generators - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Generators
- GameBanana - Pokémon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl Mods
- pkNX - Switch Pokémon ROM Editor / Randomizer
- Universal Pokémon Randomizer ZX - Randomize Pokémon (works for GBA to 3DS)
- NYCPokeMap - Real-Time Pokémon GO Map for NYC
- PkmnCards, Pokéllector or Limitless - Pokémon Card Databases / Resources
- TCG ONE - Online Pokémon Card Game / Discord
- unite-db - Pokémon Unite Database
- HelixChamber - Unused Pokémon Material
▷ Counter-Strike Tools
- ⭐ CsWarzOnE - Counter-Strike Downloads
- ⭐ HLTV or Dust2 - Counter-Strike News
- ⭐ CS Demo Manager - Counter-Strike Demo manager
- ⭐ Faceit - Matchmaking Client
- ⭐ CSNADES - CS2 Nade Lineups
- CSGO Trader - CS:GO Trading Enhancements
- CS2 Weapon Spreadsheet - Weapon Stats / Prices
- ArminC-AutoExec - ArminC's CS2 Config
- CS2 Browser or CS2 Server Picker - Counter-Strike 2 Server Browser
- Faceit Finder - Faceit Account Finder
- Repeek - Faceit Enhancement Extension
▷ GTA Tools
- 🌐 GTAAll, GTAInside, GameModding, GTAGarage or LibertyCity - GTA Mods, Walkthroughs & More
- 🌐 GTA5-Mods - GTAV Mods
- 🌐 MixMods - GTASA Mods
- ⭐ FiveM, alt:V or RAGE - Modded GTAV Servers / Requires Legit Copy
- ⭐ San Andreas: Multiplayer / Discord or Multi Theft Auto / GitHub - Multiplayer GTA:SA
- ⭐ CLEO - Extensible Library Plugin for GTA III, VC & SA / Discord
- ⭐ SilentPatch - Quality of Life Fixes for GTA III, VC & SA
- Grand Theft Wiki - GTA Wiki
- GTA Cars - GTA Car Database / Stats
- Rainbomizer - GTA Randomizer Mods
- OpenIV - Rockstar Game Modding Tool
- Gillian's GTA - GTA IV Modding Guide
- GTA Connected - Multiplayer Mod / GTA III, IV, VC, SC / Discord
- Vice City: Multiplayer - Mutiplayer GTA:VC
- GTA Manager - GTA V Business Manager
- GTA Downgraders - GTA Game Downgraders
▷ Doom Tools
- ⭐ Doom Wiki - Doom Wiki
- ⭐ ZDoom - Doom Source Port
- ⭐ ZDaemon, Doomseeker, oDamex, DoomUtils or Zandronum - Online Multiplayer Doom
- Classic DOOM or DoomWorld - Doom Downloads
- Doom64 EX - Doom 64 PC Port
- dhewm3 - Doom 3 Source Port
- DoomsHack, Doom WADs, Doom Pastebin or Doom Wad Station - Doom WADs
- DOOM FX - Doom SNES Source Code
- UltimateDoomBuilder - Doom Map Builder
▷ Mario Kart Tools
- ⭐ Retro Rewind - Retro MKW Tracks / Multiplayer / Discord
- ⭐ RR Tools - Wiki / Auto-Updater / VR Rankings / Troubleshooting
- ⭐ CTGP Revolution - Custom MKW Tracks / Multiplayer / Disc Required / Discord
- ⭐ MKWRs - Mario Kart Records / Videos
- ⭐ MKW Lobbies - Online MKW Lobbies
- ⭐ CTGP Deluxe - Custom MK8DX Tracks
- ⭐ CTGP-7 - Custom MK7 Tracks
- Luigi_Fan2's Stat Charts - MK8DX / MK8 - Mario Kart stats
- MK8DX Builder - Kart Builder
- MKCentral - Mario Kart Tournaments
- /r/MarioKart or /r/MarioKartWii - Mario Kart Subreddits
- RiiBalanced - Rebalanced MKW Mod / Discord
- TTs Online - MKW Online Time Trials Mod
- CTGPRecords - Custom Track Records / Videos
- MaxVRList - VR Leaderboards
- xer - MKW Item Probabilities
- Tockdom Wikis - MKW / MK8 / MK3DS / MKDS / MKDD - Custom Mario Kart Wikis
- Custom Track Tutorial - How to Make Custom MKW Tracks
- MKW Texture Hacks - Custom MKW Textures
- ShortCat - MK8DX Strategy Guide
▷ Geometry Dash Tools
- ↪️ GD Demon Lists
- ⭐ Geode - Mod Menu & Modding Framework
- ⭐ GDDP or GD Demon Ladder - Practice & Improve Your Skills
- Soluble Texture Packs - GD Texture Packs / Manager
- Spritesheet Splitter - Split & Merge GD Spritesheets
- GD Save Explorer - View Detailed Stats & Data of Save Files
- Song File Hub - GD Songs & Mashups / Discord
- Globed - GD Multiplayer Mod
- GD Browser - GD Level Browser
- GD Font Generator - Generate Custom GD Logos & Messages
- G.js - GD Level Programming Language
- GD Docs - GD Programming Documentation
- GD History - GD Archival Project / Downloader
- GMD Private Server - Private Server Maker
- 3Dash - 3D Geometry Dash Game
- 3Dash Tools - Demon List / Challenge List / Impossible Levels
▷ Roblox Tools
- 🌐 Roblox Archive - Roblox Client Archive
- ⭐ Rolimon's or RoMonitor Stats - Roblox Experience Stats
- ⭐ Bloxstrap or Fishstrap - Roblox Player Bootstrapper / Discord / GitHub
- Novetus - Self-Hosted Multi-version Roblox Client
- Roblox Studio Mod Manager - Roblox Studio Bootstrapper
- RoPro, Roblox+, BTRoblox, RoGold or RoSeal - Enhance Roblox Website
- Better Discovery - Game Discovery
- RBXServers or FreeVIPServers - Roblox VIP Servers
- RobloxDen - Track Roblox Promo Codes
- Roblox Web APIs - Roblox APIs
- ingame.clothing - Preview Avatar Clothing
- FastFlags Collection - Roblox FastFlags Collection
▷ Terraria Tools
- ⭐ Terraria Wiki or Terranion - Terraria Wikis
- tShock - Terraria Server Tools / Plugins
- Terraria Forum - Terraria Community, Mods Help and More
- TEdit, terramap, TerraFirma or terraria-map-editor - Map Viewers / Editors
- Terrasavr - Terraria Character Editor
- Increased FOV - Increase Terraria FOV for 21:9 Monitors
▷ Gacha Tools
- 🌐 Paimon.moe or Honey Impact - Genshin Impact Resources / Tools
- 🌐 Honkai.gg - Honkai Star Rail Resources / Tools
- ⭐ Prydwen - Gacha Game Guides / Discord
- ⭐ Keqingmains - Genshin Guides
- ⭐ XXMI - Gacha Games Modding Tool / Discord
- /r/GachaGaming - Gacha Games Subreddit
- FGO GamePress - FGO Wiki + Guides
- Chaldea - FGO Planner & Battle Simulator
- LunarCore - Private Honkai: Star Rail Servers
- Star Rail Station or stardb.gg - Honkai Star Rail Guides
- Seelie.me - Genshin / Star Rail Planner
- Genshin Center - Genshin Planner
- Genshin Optimizer - Genshin Impact Calculator / Artifact Optimizer
- Genshin Helper Doc - Genshin Builds Guide
- Grasscutter - Private Genshin Impact Servers / Discord
- Genshin Impact FPS Unlocker - Unlock Genshin Impact FPS Cap
- Hoyolab Teyvat Interactive Map, Mapgenie Teyvat Interactive Map or Genshin Impact Map - Genshin Impact Maps
▷ Tabletop Tools
- 🌐 Awesome TTRPG - Online TTRPGs / Resources
- 🌐 5ETools, Roll for Fantasy, Kassoon or DragonsFoot - TTRPG Tools
- ⭐ dice.run, Random Dice or Desktop Dice - Dice Simulators
- ⭐ Kanka - Tabletop RPG Manager
- RPG.net - RPG Forums
- Adventurer's Codex - Online D&D 5e Campaign Manager / System
- NaturalCrit - Create D&D Homebrews / Badges
- DnD-Books - D&D 4e/5e Books
- FantasiaArchive - World Building / Documenting Tool
- DnD World Building - Fantasy World Building Guides
- The Acaeum - Dungeons & Dragons Database
- DnD Rules - Dungeons & Dragons Rules
- Archives of Nethys - Pathfinder Database
- WarGamer - Tabletop RPG Guides
- Roll20 or Rolisteam - Tabletop RPG Streaming
- Tabletopy - Tabletop RPG Soundboard
- Eigengrau's Generator - Town / NPC Generator
- Map Generator - Tabletop Roleplaying Map Generator
- MOGG - Magic: The Gathering Card Scans
- Yugipedia or YGOPRODeck - Yu-Gi-Oh! Resources / Card Lists
- Untap.in - Test Card Game Decks
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2025-05-05 19:49:17Hi frens, you may or may not have noticed I’ve been MIA for about three weeks. I wanted to take a moment to explain where I’ve been, and why I stepped back for a bit.
At the start of the year, I was determined to make the most of it-and I still am. I’ve been pouring myself into several projects, especially my painting, which has really taken off. I’m so grateful for your support; none of this would be possible without you. But here’s where things got tricky. I started feeling like I had to “earn” every moment of rest, and that mindset snowballed. My health took a hit, and then one of my other projects completely derailed.
The stress piled up, and I felt like I was on the verge of burning out.
Don’t get me wrong-I’ve always welcomed change, even when it’s tough. And this time was no exception. The project I’d been working on for months took a 180, and all that effort seemed to go down the drain. I was frustrated, but I kept pushing, even though I was running on fumes. By the time I “earned” a break, I was too exhausted to enjoy it.
I managed to post a piece about Holy Week on my blog (which I’m really proud of-check it out if you haven’t!), but after that, I was done. I realized I needed to stop, not just for a day, but for a real break. When I finally took a few days off with my husband, it was clear how much I needed it. I was burned out, plain and simple. Now, I’m still putting myself back together. Mentally, I feel drained, but I’m stronger than I was a few weeks ago. I know I’m lucky and privileged to be able to take this time, and I’m grateful for the perspective it’s given me. I also r realize that this isn’t just a “me” thing-most people have been here at some point. We keep going until there’s nothing left, then wonder why we feel like empty shells.
I’ll be back to drawing soon (knock on wood-don’t want to jinx it!). In the meantime, take care of yourselves, and godspeed.
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2025-05-07 06:03:29CryptPad
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originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/973626
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-05 19:34:45- Install Kiwix (it's free and open source)
- Download ZIM files from the Kiwix Library (you will find complete offline versions of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, Bitcoin Wiki, DevDocs and many more)
- Open the downloaded ZIM files within the Kiwix app
ℹ️ You can also package any website using either Kiwix Zimit (online tool) or the Zimit Docker Container (for technical users)
ℹ️
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2025-05-06 06:00:25Album art didn’t always exist. In the early 1900s, recorded music was still a novelty, overshadowed by sales of sheet music. Early vinyl records were vastly different from what we think of today: discs were sold individually and could only hold up to four minutes of music per side. Sometimes, only one side of the record was used. One of the most popular records of 1910, for example, was “Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine”: it clocked in at two minutes and 39 seconds.
The invention of album art can get lost in the story of technological mastery. But among all the factors that contributed to the rise of recorded music, it stands as one of the few that was wholly driven by creators themselves. Album art — first as marketing material, then as pure creative expression — turned an audio-only medium into a multi-sensory experience.
This is the story of the people who made music visible.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/972642
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@ 6e64b83c:94102ee8
2025-05-05 16:50:13Nostr-static is a powerful static site generator that transforms long-form Nostr content into beautiful, standalone websites. It makes your content accessible to everyone, even those not using Nostr clients. For more information check out my previous blog post How to Create a Blog Out of Nostr Long-Form Articles
What's New in Version 0.7?
RSS and Atom Feeds
Version 0.7 brings comprehensive feed support with both RSS and Atom formats. The system automatically generates feeds for your main content, individual profiles, and tag-specific pages. These feeds are seamlessly integrated into your site's header, making them easily discoverable by feed readers and content aggregators.
This feature bridges the gap between Nostr and traditional web publishing, allowing your content to reach readers who prefer feed readers or automated content distribution systems.
Smart Content Discovery
The new tag discovery system enhances your readers' experience by automatically finding and recommending relevant articles from the Nostr network. It works by:
- Analyzing the tags in your articles
- Fetching popular articles from Nostr that share these tags
- Using configurable weights to rank these articles based on:
- Engagement metrics (reactions, reposts, replies)
- Zap statistics (amount, unique zappers, average zap size)
- Content quality signals (report penalties)
This creates a dynamic "Recommended Articles" section that helps readers discover more content they might be interested in, all while staying within the Nostr ecosystem.
See the new features yourself by visiting our demo at: https://blog.nostrize.me
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2025-05-03 21:54:45Introduction
Me and Fishcake have been working on infrastructure for Noswhere and Nostr.build. Part of this involves processing a large amount of Nostr events for features such as search, analytics, and feeds.
I have been recently developing
nosdex
v3, a newer version of the Noswhere scraper that is designed for maximum performance and fault tolerance using FoundationDB (FDB).Fishcake has been working on a processing system for Nostr events to use with NB, based off of Cloudflare (CF) Pipelines, which is a relatively new beta product. This evening, we put it all to the test.
First preparations
We set up a new CF Pipelines endpoint, and I implemented a basic importer that took data from the
nosdex
database. This was quite slow, as it did HTTP requests synchronously, but worked as a good smoke test.Asynchronous indexing
I implemented a high-contention queue system designed for highly parallel indexing operations, built using FDB, that supports: - Fully customizable batch sizes - Per-index queues - Hundreds of parallel consumers - Automatic retry logic using lease expiration
When the scraper first gets an event, it will process it and eventually write it to the blob store and FDB. Each new event is appended to the event log.
On the indexing side, a
Queuer
will read the event log, and batch events (usually 2K-5K events) into one work job. This work job contains: - A range in the log to index - Which target this job is intended for - The size of the job and some other metadataEach job has an associated leasing state, which is used to handle retries and prioritization, and ensure no duplication of work.
Several
Worker
s monitor the index queue (up to 128) and wait for new jobs that are available to lease.Once a suitable job is found, the worker acquires a lease on the job and reads the relevant events from FDB and the blob store.
Depending on the indexing type, the job will be processed in one of a number of ways, and then marked as completed or returned for retries.
In this case, the event is also forwarded to CF Pipelines.
Trying it out
The first attempt did not go well. I found a bug in the high-contention indexer that led to frequent transaction conflicts. This was easily solved by correcting an incorrectly set parameter.
We also found there were other issues in the indexer, such as an insufficient amount of threads, and a suspicious decrease in the speed of the
Queuer
during processing of queued jobs.Along with fixing these issues, I also implemented other optimizations, such as deprioritizing
Worker
DB accesses, and increasing the batch size.To fix the degraded
Queuer
performance, I ran the backfill job by itself, and then started indexing after it had completed.Bottlenecks, bottlenecks everywhere
After implementing these fixes, there was an interesting problem: The DB couldn't go over 80K reads per second. I had encountered this limit during load testing for the scraper and other FDB benchmarks.
As I suspected, this was a client thread limitation, as one thread seemed to be using high amounts of CPU. To overcome this, I created a new client instance for each
Worker
.After investigating, I discovered that the Go FoundationDB client cached the database connection. This meant all attempts to create separate DB connections ended up being useless.
Using
OpenWithConnectionString
partially resolved this issue. (This also had benefits for service-discovery based connection configuration.)To be able to fully support multi-threading, I needed to enabled the FDB multi-client feature. Enabling it also allowed easier upgrades across DB versions, as FDB clients are incompatible across versions:
FDB_NETWORK_OPTION_EXTERNAL_CLIENT_LIBRARY="/lib/libfdb_c.so"
FDB_NETWORK_OPTION_CLIENT_THREADS_PER_VERSION="16"
Breaking the 100K/s reads barrier
After implementing support for the multi-threaded client, we were able to get over 100K reads per second.
You may notice after the restart (gap) the performance dropped. This was caused by several bugs: 1. When creating the CF Pipelines endpoint, we did not specify a region. The automatically selected region was far away from the server. 2. The amount of shards were not sufficient, so we increased them. 3. The client overloaded a few HTTP/2 connections with too many requests.
I implemented a feature to assign each
Worker
its own HTTP client, fixing the 3rd issue. We also moved the entire storage region to West Europe to be closer to the servers.After these changes, we were able to easily push over 200K reads/s, mostly limited by missing optimizations:
It's shards all the way down
While testing, we also noticed another issue: At certain times, a pipeline would get overloaded, stalling requests for seconds at a time. This prevented all forward progress on the
Worker
s.We solved this by having multiple pipelines: A primary pipeline meant to be for standard load, with moderate batching duration and less shards, and high-throughput pipelines with more shards.
Each
Worker
is assigned a pipeline on startup, and if one pipeline stalls, other workers can continue making progress and saturate the DB.The stress test
After making sure everything was ready for the import, we cleared all data, and started the import.
The entire import lasted 20 minutes between 01:44 UTC and 02:04 UTC, reaching a peak of: - 0.25M requests per second - 0.6M keys read per second - 140MB/s reads from DB - 2Gbps of network throughput
FoundationDB ran smoothly during this test, with: - Read times under 2ms - Zero conflicting transactions - No overloaded servers
CF Pipelines held up well, delivering batches to R2 without any issues, while reaching its maximum possible throughput.
Finishing notes
Me and Fishcake have been building infrastructure around scaling Nostr, from media, to relays, to content indexing. We consistently work on improving scalability, resiliency and stability, even outside these posts.
Many things, including what you see here, are already a part of Nostr.build, Noswhere and NFDB, and many other changes are being implemented every day.
If you like what you are seeing, and want to integrate it, get in touch. :)
If you want to support our work, you can zap this post, or register for nostr.land and nostr.build today.
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2025-05-06 05:49:01I don’t like garlic. It’s not a dislike for the taste in the moment, so much as an extreme dislike for the way it stays with you—sometimes for days—after a particularly garlicky meal.
Interestingly enough, both of my brothers love garlic. They roast it by itself and keep it at the ready so they can have a very strong garlic profile in their cooking. When I prepare a dish, I don’t even see garlic on the ingredient list. I’ve cut it out of my life so completely that my brain genuinely skips over it in recipes. While my brothers are looking for ways to sneak garlic into everything they make, I’m subconsciously avoiding it altogether.
A few years back, when I was digging intensely into how design systems mature, I stumbled on the concept of a design system origin story. There are two extreme origin stories and an infinite number of possibilities between. On one hand you have the grassroots system, where individuals working on digital products are simply trying to solve their own daily problems. They’re frustrated with having to go cut and paste elements from past designs or with recreating the same layouts over and over, so they start to work more systematically. On the other hand, you have the top down system, where leadership is directing teams to take a more systematic approach, often forming a small partially dedicated core team to tackle some centralized assets and guidelines for all to follow. The influences in those early days bias a design system in interesting and impactful ways.
We’ve established that there are a few types of bias that are either intentionally or unintentionally embedded into our design systems. Acknowledging this is a great first step. But, what’s the impact of this? Does it matter?
I believe there are a few impacts design system biases, but there’s one that stands out. The bias in your design system makes some individuals feel the system is meant for them and others feel it’s not. This is a problem because, a design system cannot live up to it’s expected value until it is broadly in use. If individuals feel your design system is not for them, the won’t use it. And, as you know, it doesn’t matter how good your design system is if nobody is using it.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/972641
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2025-05-13 00:20:18► Text Tools
- ↪️ Image to Text
- ↪️ Text to Speech
- ↪️ Study / Research
- ↪️ Data Visualization
- ⭐ TextCleanr, Text Mechanic, TextFixer, OnlineTextTools, Convert Case, TextCleaner, SortMyList or The Alphabetizer - Organize / Format Text
- OpenPaper, papis, PaperMerge, Paperless-ngx / Doc Analyzer or DataShare - Document Managers
- SmartDoc - Document Analyzer
- diffr, Diffchecker, TextCompare, Text-Compare, OnlineTextCompare, CompareText or DiffNow - Compare Text
- Count Duplicates or DuplicateWord - Count / Remove Duplicates in a List
- WindowTextExtractor - Extract Text From Any Window
- Textify - Copy Text from Any Dialog
- BeefText - Text Substitution Tool
- Scanner or NAPS2 - Scanner Apps / GitHub
- Calligrapher.ai, Text to Handwriting, texttohandwriting or HandWrittner - Text to Handwriting Converters
- StegCloak - Hide Messages in Text
- telescopictext - Write Text Within Text
- quipqiup or dCode - Cryptogram Solvers
- DocuSeal - Free Document Signing
- TemplateLab or FreePrintables - Free Document Templates
▷ Pastebins
- 🌐 PrivateBin Instances
- ⭐ Rentry, 2 - Markdown Support / CLI / Styling
- ⭐ GitHub Gists - Multi-Syntax / Account Needed
- ⭐ pastes.dev - Multi-Syntax / Markdown Support / GitHub
- ⭐ PrivateBin, 2 - Markdown Support / Syntax Highlighting / GitHub
- ⭐ Katbin - Plain Text / GitHub
- snowbin, 2 - Markdown Support / GitHub
- Text.is - Markdown Support / Rentry Clone
- Stellular, 2, 3 - Markdown Support
- bpa.st - Multi-Syntax / Markdown Support
- dpaste - Multi-Syntax / Markdown Support / GitHub
- cryptgeon - Single View / Plain Text / GitHub
- Paste.ee - Multi-Syntax / Markdown Support
- pst.moe - Multi-Syntax / Markdown Support / Source
- dpaste.com - Multi-Syntax / Markdown Support
- Pastebin.com - Multi-Syntax
- pastebin.pl - Multi-Syntax
- CentOS Pastebin - Multi-Syntax
- Microbin - Multi-Syntax
- snippet.host - Multi-Syntax
- ProtectedText - Multi-Tab
- bin - Minimal Pastebin
- txt.fyi - Markdown Pastebin
- MarkdownPastebin - Markdown Support
- Sparked Paste - Plain Text / Syntax Highlighting
- Riseup Pad - WYSIWYG Pastebin
- WriteXO - WYSIWYG Pastebin
▷ Translators
- Note - Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can also translate text, and are sometimes better than the ones listed below.
- ⭐ DeepLX or DeepL - AI-Based
- ⭐ Kagi Translate, Google Translate / Extension, Lingva Translate or GTranslate / API - Translation Sites
- ⭐ /r/Translator - Translation Request Community
- ⭐ Translate Web Pages - Browser Extension
- Argos - Translation Apps
- Translate Shell - Translation CLI / GitHub
- OnlineDocTranslator - Document Translator
- Matecat - Online Translation Editor
- LingoJam - Create Translator
- Renpy Translator or Renpy Editor - Ren'py Automatic Translator / Editor
- Translator++ - Automatic Translator / Editor
- Eazypo or Poedit - Translation Editor
- OmegaT - Translation Memory Tool
- Morsecode World or MorseDecoder - Morse Code / Binary Translators
- Emojify - Emojify Text
- Simple Translate - Browser Extension
- Linguist Translator - Browser Extension
- ImTranslator - Browser Extension
- Papago
- Libretranslate / 2
- ImmersiveTranslate / Extension
- Translate.com
- MyMemory
- Nice Translator
- Yandex Translator
- Bing Translator
- Reverso
- babelfish
- translation2
- collinsdictionary
- translatedict
- Translator.eu
- Textractor - Game / Visual Novel Translator
▷ Audio Transcription
- 🌐 ASR Leaderboard - Speech to Text Leaderboard
- Whisper - Audio Transcription / WebUI, 2
- mp4grep - MP4 File Transcription Tool
- SpeechTexter, VoiceToText, Dictation, oTranscribe or TalkTyper - Browser-Based Speech-To-Text Tools
- Revoldiv or Turboscribe - AI-Based Transcriptions
- Vibe - Audio Transcription Software
- Buzz - Audio Transcription Tool
- WhisperX - Audio Transcription Tool
- SpeechNotes - Speech Recognition Notes App
- LilySpeech - Fast Voice-To-Text Software
- VoiceNotebook - Speech Transcription Notebook
▷ Encode / Decode
- 🌐 DecodeUnicode - Unicode Decoding Database
- ⭐ CyberChef - Encode / Decode Text / GitHub
- ⭐ Base64 Decode or Base64 Editor - Encode / Decode Base64
- ⭐ Auto Decoder - Auto-Decode B64 Links on Pastebins
- Ciphey - Automated Decryption Tool
- Universal Encoding Tool - Encode / Convert Text
- cryptii or DenCode - Text / URL Encoding
- Coder - Text / File / URL Encoding
- Online Tools - Text / URL Encoding and Decoding
- URL Decode / Encode - URL Encoding / Decoding
- Base64 Repair - Fix Broken Base64
- Base64 Extensions - Chrome, 2, 3 / Firefox
▷ Grammar Check
- Note - Most chatbots in the AI section can also check grammar.
- ⭐ LanguageTool
- Writing Tools - Desktop App
- DeepL Write
- QuillBot
- Scribens
- EditGPT - Sign-Up Required
- Grammarly - Sign-Up Required / Extension
- ProWritingAid - Sign-Up Required
- Outwrite - Sign-Up Required
▷ Text Rephrasing
- ⭐ QuillBot AI or Rewritify - AI-Enhanced Text Rephrasing
- ⭐ Paraphrasetool or Rephrasely - AI Text Rephrasing / Generation
- ⭐ Goblin.tools - Transform Text with Spiciness Levels
- Paraphraser - Multilingual Text Rephrasing
- Paraphrase-Online, Paraphrasingtool, Henshu or WriteFull - Versatile Text Rewriting
▷ Emoji Indexes
- ⭐ Emojipedia, EmojiDB, Slackmojis, Emoji Picker or EmojiBatch - Emoji Indexes
- Emoji Engine - Multilingual Emoji Search
- winMoji - Emoji Managers
- EmojiRequests - Custom User-Made Emojis
- Cult of the Party Parrot - Party Parrot Emojis
- Pepe Server Archive - Pepe Emojis
▷ Unicode Characters
- ⭐ Amp What
- CopyChar
- Unicode Table
- Unicode Explorer
- Character Map
- Unifoundry
- Cool Symbol
- emotes.io, CuteSymbols, 2 or GetSymbol / 2 - Copy Unicode Emotes
▷ Typing Lessons
- ⭐ Monkeytype - Customizable Typing Tests / Discord / GitHub
- Typing Guide - In-Depth Typing Guide
- Typing.io - Typing Practice for Programming / Sign-Up Required
- Typ.ing, Typings or typing.works - Typing Tests
- keybr - Typing Practice
- CyberType - Typing Practice
- Typing.com - Typing Lessons
- Typing Club - Touch Typing Lessons
- typing.academy - Typing Lessons / Requires JavaScript Enabled
- TypeRacer, ZType, TypeRush or ARRRType - Typing Games
- NGram Type, KeyZen MAB or Keyzen Colmak - Touch Typing Tests
- TypeLit.io or Entertrained - Book Typing Tests
- Colemak Academy - Alt / Custom Keyboard Tests
- TypingStudy or TypeFast - Multilingual Typing Tests
- 10fastfingers - Typing Competitions
► Text Editors
- 🌐 List of Text Editors - Text Editor / Notepad Index
- ↪️ Android Text Editor
- ↪️ Code Editors / IDEs
- ↪️ Markdown Editors
- ⭐ Notepad++ / GitHub or NotepadNext - Notepad & Code Editor / Markdown
- EncryptPad - Encrypted Text Editor / GitHub
- Notepads - Text Editor / GitHub
- FastNotes - Text Editor / GitHub
- Kompad - Text Editor / GitHub
- Sublime Text - Text Editor / Patcher / Package Manager
- Zim Wiki - Wiki Text Editor
- tomboy-ng - TomBoy-Based Text Editor
▷ Note-Taking
- ↪️ Android Note-Taking
- ⭐ Obsidian - Markdown Note-Taking / Discord
- ⭐ Obsidian Tools - Resources / Publish Notes / Web Clipper / Google Drive Sync / ChatGPT Addon / Guides / Forum
- ⭐ Notion - Note-Taking
- ⭐ Notion Tools - Themes / Templates / Resources, 2 / Guide / Markdown Extractor
- ⭐ Notesnook - Note-Taking / GitHub
- ⭐ AnyType - Note-Taking
- ⭐ Logseq - Outlining
- Mochi Cards or Silicon - Note-Taking / Study Tools
- Flotes - Markdown Note-Taking
- QOwnNotes - Markdown Note-Taking
- AFFiNE - Note-Taking / GitHub
- vNote - Markdown Note-Taking / GitHub
- Tiddly - Info Manager / Desktop
- Trilium - Info Manager
- Org-roam - Info Manager
- Desklamp - Reading / Note-Taking / Highlighting Tool / Guide
- UseMemos - Note-Taking / Discord / GitHub
- Papers.IM - Note-Taking
- Joplin - Note-Taking / Firefox / Chrome / GitHub
- AppFlowy - Note-Taking / GitHub
- MicroPad - Note-Taking
- WriteDown - Note-Taking
- DocMost - Note-Taking
- KeyNote NF - Note-Taking
- SilentNotes - Note-Taking / GitHub
- Google Keep - Simple Notes
- StandardNotes - Encrypted Notes
- Saber - Handwritten Notes
- Butterfly - Handwritten Notes / Discord / GitHub
- Xournal++ - Handwritten Notes / GitHub
- BookStack or Siyuan - Self-Hosted Info Managers
▷ Office Suites
- ↪️ Office Activation / Guide / Custom Install Guide
- ⭐ LibreOffice - FOSS Office Suite
- ⭐ OnlyOffice - FOSS Office Suite
- ⭐ Microsoft Office - Office Suite / Removal Tool / Hot Keys, 2
- Calligra - FOSS Office Suite
- Office365Version - Office 365 Version History
▷ Online Editors
- ⭐ Simplenote - Local / Cloud Saves
- ⭐ Proton Docs - Local / Cloud Saves
- ⭐ takenote - Local Saves
- ⭐ Zen - Local Saves
- Leaflet - Cloud Saves / Customizable / Examples
- Browserpad - Local Saves
- Notepad - Local Saves
- onlinenotepad - Local Saves
- notepad-online.net - Local Saves
- ssavr - Local Saves
- notepad-online.com - Local Saves
- JustNotePad - Local Saves
- PasteePad - Local Saves
- Shrib - Local / Cloud Saves
- MemOnNotepad - Local / Cloud Saves
- Write Box - Local / Cloud Saves
- dDocs - Cloud Saves
- NimbleText - Cloud Saves
- ZippyJot - Cloud Saves
- KiloDoc - Cloud Saves
- TinyList - Cloud Saves
- Edit-Document - Local / Cloud Saves
- TextSlave - Cloud Saves
- GhostText - Cloud Saves
- AnyTextEditor - Cloud Saves
▷ Mind Mapping
- ⭐ Obsidian Canvas
- FreeMind
- Kinopio
- Freeplane
- Mindomo
- Yuque
- MindMapp
- are.na
- Domino
- GitMind
- xTiles
- Capacities
- bubbl
- Heimer
- Cubox
- vym
- markmap - Markdown Mind Mapping / GitHub
- Coggle - Collaborative
- CardSmith - Collaborative Mind Mapping
- Memrey - Collaborative Mind Mapping
- MindMeister - Collaborative Mind Mapping
- Slatebox - Collaborative Mind Mapping
▷ Text / Code Collaboration
- ⭐ Google Docs / HTML Converter
- ⭐ CryptPad
- ⭐ Kludd
- Mattermost
- Codeshare
- HackMD
- Taskade
- Socket
- Whimsical
- Ellipsus
- Etherpad
- SharePad
- Pixso
- FidusWriter
- overleaf
- Rustpad / GitHub
- OnlineInterview.io
▷ Spreadsheet Editors
- 🌐 MTEB Leaderboard - Text Embedding AI Leaderboard
- tad, Tree Sheets, Gnumeric or Quadratic - Spreadsheet Viewers / Editors
- Baserow, Framacalc, EtherCalc, NocoDB or AirTable - Collaborative Spreadsheets
- Jamovi - Statistical Spreadsheets
- Excel Practice Online - Excel Practice / Guides
- Excel Macro Mastery - Excel VBA Guides
- ExcelJet or Excel Functions - Excel Formulas
- Vertex42 - Excel Templates
- Plain Text Table - Text Tables
- EditCSVOnline - Online CSV Editor
- SubjectiveSort - Create Ranked List from CSV
- VisiData - Spreadsheet CLI Editor
- Structifi - Convert Files to Structured Data
- TadViewer - View / Analyze Tabular Data
▷ Writing Tools
- 🌐 Author Stash - Writing Tools / Resources
- ↪️ AI Text Generators
- ⭐ Writer, FocusWriter, Writemonkey, blank.page, Telegra.ph, Aurelius, ZenPen, Write.as, Owri, WriteSpace or WriteNext - Distraction-Free Writing
- ⭐ Manuskript - Writing Organizer / Planner
- ⭐ NovelWriter or Bibisco - Novel Editors
- ⭐ Linked, journaltxt, Gekri, Microsoft Journal, Diarium, Gemlog or jrnl.sh - Journal Apps
- ⭐ ChaoticShiny, Seventh Sanctum, Notebook.ai or WorldAnvil - Fantasy Writing Generators
- Tuesday JS - Visual Novel Editor / GitHub
- RenPy - Visual Novel Editor / GitHub
- Fortelling or Novelist - Novel Plotting / Editing Workspaces
- Infinite Story, Strand, Agora or WriteAlong - Collaborative Writing / Feedback
- LanguageIsAVirus or MDWA - Writing Prompts
- Twinery - Interactive Non-Linear Story Creator
- TextUSM - User Story Map Generator / GitHub
- Blackout Poetry - Blackout Poetry Creator
- Idyll - Create Interactive Essays / GitHub
- STARC, WriteSolo or Celtx - Script / Screen Writing Tools
- Rarebit - Webcomics Template
- Fantasy Name Generators - Fantasy Name Generators
- PolyGlot or VulgarLang - Spoken Language Construction Tools
- How to annotate literally everything - Annotation Tools / Resources
- Label Buddy - Annotation Tool / GitHub
- rNote - Annotation Tool / GitHub
- MonsterWriter - Thesis Writing / Note-Taking
▷ To Do Lists
- ↪️ Android To-Do Apps
- ⭐ Goblin.tools - Automatic Task Breakdown
- ⭐ TickTick / Premium
- ⭐ Super Productivity
- Columns or ChecklistGenerator - Checklists
- YearCompass - New Years Resolution Booklet
- daily.place
- SuperList
- dooit / Extras
- ToDo List / GitHub
- Diry AI
- Fokus
- OpenToDoList
- Microsoft To Do
- NullBoard
- LunaTask
- ToDoZero
- LifeAt
- Tasks
- Taskwarrior
- Vikunja
▷ ASCII Art
- ⭐ TAAG, DeepAA, Kammerl, ASCII Art Studio or ASCII Today - ASCII Art / Text Generators
- REXPaint, Playscii or PabloDraw - ASCII Editors
- ASCII Paint - ASCII Paint Tool
- ascii-art-generator, asciiart, ascii-image-converter, Monospace, ITOA, text-image or ASCII-art-creator - Image to ASCII Art
- Love ASCII, asciiart.eu, EmojiCombos, 16colors, ascii.co or RoySAC - Browse / Copy ASCII Art
- Image to Braille - Convert Images to Braille
- AnsiLove or convert-ascii-to-image - ANSI / ASCII Art to PNG Converters
- lvllvl or Petmate - C64 PETSCII Image Editor
► Fonts
- ⭐ Nerd Fonts - Icon-Rich Developer / Terminal Fonts
- OpenDyslexic - Typeface for Dyslexia
- Typewolf or Typ.io - Trending Website Fonts
- Cava's Pixel Resources - Pixel Fonts
- Oldschool PC Fonts - Oldschool PC Fonts
- FiraCode, Cascadia Code or Maple Font - Monospace Fonts
▷ Open Source / Freeware
- ⭐ FontSource - Open Source
- ⭐ Font Squirrel - Commercial Use
- ⭐ DaFont - Freeware
- ⭐ 1001 Fonts - Freeware
- Modern Fonts Stacks - Collection of CSS System Font Stacks
- Velvetyne - Open Source
- uncut.wtf - Open Source
- Beautiful Web Type - Open Source
- FontRepo - Open Source
- Bunny Fonts - Open Source
- Google Fonts - Commercial Use / Tags / Privacy-Friendly API
- FontShare - Commercial Use
- Fontlot - Freeware
- Fontsly - Freeware
- Fonts4Free - Freeware
- FontSpace - Freeware
- Online Fonts - Freeware
- CDNFonts - Freeware
- Fontesk - Freeware
- FontStruct - Freeware
- iFonts - Freeware
- DownloadFonts - Freeware
- AbstractFonts - Freeware
- FontGet - Freeware
- FreeFontsDownload - Freeware
- Fonts2u - Freeware
- Awwwards - Freeware
- GlukFonts - Freeware
- Iconian - Freeware
▷ Free Fonts
- ⭐ Fonts CSE - Multi-Site Font Search
- ⭐ Font Piracy 101 - Font Download Guide
- ⭐ Font Drives
- ⭐ BeFonts
- Windows Fonts
- Free Fonts Family
- Cufon Fonts
- FontsFree
- DFonts
- Font Spring
- FFonts
- FontsHub
- Font Meme
- FONToMASS
- 1.5_million_fonts
- Mr.E-Fonts
- psd_fonts
- 1001 Free Fonts
► Font Tools
- ⭐ Font Interceptor - Download Fonts from Websites
- ⭐ FontDrop - Analyze Font Files
- ⭐ Adobe Fonts, Font Finder, WhatTheFont, Identifont, WhatFont - Font Identification Tools
- Fonts Ninja - Font Identification Extension
- Unicode Explorer or Compart - Unicode Character Identification
- Transfonter - Create CSS @font-face Kits
- TypeRip - Adobe Font Ripper / GitHub
- FontBase, NexusFont or Font Manager (Linux) - Font Managers
- Colors & Fonts - Typography Tools
- DS-Fusion - AI Typography Generator
- Formito - Typography Logo Maker
- Type Terms - Typography Cheat Sheet
- The Good Line-Height - Typography Scaling Editor
- Font List or So You Need A Typeface 2.0 - Examples of Font Styles
- Type Design Resources or Free Faces - Typeface Resources
▷ Font / Text Generators
- ⭐ FontoGen - Custom AI Font Generator
- ⭐ Make WordArt, FlameText, MakeText, TextGiraffe, Text Pro or CoolText - WordArt Generators
- Polona Typo - Generate WordArt from Book, Poster, & Map Letters
- Text Color Fader - Rainbow Text Generator
- TextDrom, 3DText2GIF or TextStudio - 3D / Animated Text Generators
- Textanim or Space Type Generator - Animated Text Generators
- Batname - Batman (2022) Text Generator
- NFG's Arcade Font Maker or Arcade Font Writer - Arcade Text Generators
- Glitch - Zalgo Text Generator
▷ Font Customization
- ⭐ TypeTrials - Variable Font Playground
- V-Fonts or Phase - Variable Fonts Testers
- enFont or Calligraphr - Custom Font Creators
- Fontjoy - Generate Font Combinations
- FontSprite - FontSprite Editor
- BitFontMaker2 - BitMap Font Editor
- FontEdit, metaflop, MFEKglif, Glyphr Studio, Birdfont, Universal Sans or FontForge - Font / Typeface Editors
▷ Unicode Text Generators
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2025-05-03 15:33:07You are wearing a helmet, but it's been on your head so long you no longer notice it.
The helmet interfaces with your mind via thought-emotion. It influences what you think about and how you feel.
You could remove the helmet at any time. But the thought-emotions keep you distracted, fearful and attached.
Occasionally you remember you are wearing it. Moments of clarity and detachment. You see the way your experience is colored by it. You know it is biased, untrue to reality. You seriously contemplate removing it.
But the moment passes.
Later, you remember contemplating your helmet’s removal, but you wonder what you will gain from it, whether it’s worth doing.
You are no longer having a moment of clarity, just a memory of the question that arose from it, but colored now by thought-emotions.
You decide even if you wanted to remove it, you would put it back on before long. After all, you have never kept it off before, why would you suddenly live without this interface now? The interface is what you know.
Maybe one day, when you are in a more secure place, when your ducks are more in a row, you will remove it. Not now, not in the midst of all this chaos, so many things to do, so much on your plate. You will leave it on for now. You will deal with this later.
But one day too late it dawns on you it is always ever now, and later means never. You have lived your entire life at the behest of the interface when all you had to do was remove it.
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2025-05-05 05:26:34The European Accessibility Act is coming, now is a great time for accessibility trainings!. In my Accessibility for Designer workshop, you will learn how to design accessible mockups that prevent issues in visual design, interactions, navigation, and content. You will be able to spot problems early, fix them in your designs, and communicate accessibility clearly with your team. This is a practical workshop with hands-on exercises, not just theory. You’ll actively apply accessibility principles to real design scenarios and mockups. And will get access to my accessibility resources: checklists, annotation kits and more.
When? 4 sessions of 2 hours + Q and As, on: - Mon, June 16, - Tue, June 17, Mon, - June 23 and Tue, - June 24. 9:30 – 12:00 PM PT or 18:30 – 21:00 CET
Register with 15% discount ($255) https://ti.to/smashingmagazine/online-workshops-2022/with/87vynaoqc0/discount/welcometomyworkshop
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/971772
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2025-05-01 21:01:55The arrival of the coronavirus brought not only illness and death but also fear and panic. In such an environment of uncertainty, people have naturally stocked up on necessities, not knowing when things will return to normal.
Retail shelves have been cleared out, and even online suppliers like Amazon and Walmart are out of stock for some items. Independent sellers on these e-commerce platforms have had to fill the gap. With the huge increase in demand, they have found that their inventory has skyrocketed in value.
Many in need of these items (e.g. toilet paper, hand sanitizer and masks) balk at the new prices. They feel they are being taken advantage of in a time of need and call for intervention by the government to lower prices. The government has heeded that call, labeling the independent sellers as "price gougers" and threatening sanctions if they don't lower their prices. Amazon has suspended seller accounts and law enforcement at all levels have threatened to prosecute. Prices have dropped as a result and at first glance this seems like a victory for fair play. But, we will have to dig deeper to understand the unseen consequences of this intervention.
We must look at the economics of the situation, how supply and demand result in a price and how that price acts as a signal that goes out to everyone, informing them of underlying conditions in the economy and helping coordinate their actions.
It all started with a rise in demand. Given a fixed supply (e.g., the limited stock on shelves and in warehouses), an increase in demand inevitably leads to higher prices. Most people are familiar with this phenomenon, such as paying more for airline tickets during holidays or surge pricing for rides.
Higher prices discourage less critical uses of scarce resources. For example, you might not pay $1,000 for a plane ticket to visit your aunt if you can get one for $100 the following week, but someone else might pay that price to visit a dying relative. They value that plane seat more than you.
*** During the crisis, demand surged and their shelves emptied even though
However, retail outlets have not raised prices. They have kept them low, so the low-value uses of things like toilet paper, masks and hand sanitizer has continued. Often, this "use" just takes the form of hoarding. At everyday low prices, it makes sense to buy hundreds of rolls and bottles. You know you will use them eventually, so why not stock up? And, with all those extra supplies in the closet and basement, you don't need to change your behavior much. You don't have to ration your use.
At the low prices, these scarce resources got bought up faster and faster until there was simply none left. The reality of the situation became painfully clear to those who didn't panic and got to the store late: You have no toilet paper and you're not going to any time soon.
However, if prices had been allowed to rise, a number of effects would have taken place that would have coordinated the behavior of everyone so that valuable resources would not have been wasted or hoarded, and everyone could have had access to what they needed.
On the demand side, if prices had been allowed to rise, people would have begun to self-ration. You might leave those extra plies on the roll next time if you know they will cost ten times as much to replace. Or, you might choose to clean up a spill with a rag rather than disposable tissue. Most importantly, you won't hoard as much. That 50th bottle of hand sanitizer might just not be worth it at the new, high price. You'll leave it on the shelf for someone else who may have none.
On the supply side, higher prices would have incentivized people to offer up more of their stockpiles for sale. If you have a pallet full of toilet paper in your basement and all of the sudden they are worth $15 per roll, you might just list a few online. But, if it is illegal to do so, you probably won't.
Imagine you run a business installing insulation and have a few thousand respirator masks on hand for your employees. During a pandemic, it is much more important that people breathe filtered air than that insulation get installed, and that fact is reflected in higher prices. You will sell your extra masks at the higher price rather than store them for future insulation jobs, and the scarce resource will be put to its most important use.
Producers of hand sanitizer would go into overdrive if prices were allowed to rise. They would pay their employees overtime, hire new ones, and pay a premium for their supplies, making sure their raw materials don't go to less important uses.
These kinds of coordinated actions all across the economy would be impossible without real prices to guide them. How do you know if it makes sense to spend an extra $10k bringing a thousand masks to market unless you know you can get more than $10 per mask? If the price is kept artificially low, you simply can't do it. The money just isn't there.
These are the immediate effects of a price change, but incredibly, price changes also coordinate people's actions across space and time.
Across space, there are different supply and demand conditions in different places, and thus prices are not uniform. We know some places are real "hot spots" for the virus, while others are mostly unaffected. High demand in the hot spots leads to higher prices there, which attracts more of the resource to those areas. Boxes and boxes of essential items would pour in where they are needed most from where they are needed least, but only if prices were allowed to adjust freely.
This would be accomplished by individuals and businesses buying low in the unaffected areas, selling high in the hot spots and subtracting their labor and transportation costs from the difference. Producers of new supply would know exactly where it is most needed and ship to the high-demand, high-price areas first. The effect of these actions is to increase prices in the low demand areas and reduce them in the high demand areas. People in the low demand areas will start to self-ration more, reflecting the reality of their neighbors, and people in the hotspots will get some relief.
However, by artificially suppressing prices in the hot spot, people there will simply buy up the available supply and run out, and it will be cost prohibitive to bring in new supply from low-demand areas.
Prices coordinate economic actions across time as well. Just as entrepreneurs and businesses can profit by transporting scarce necessities from low-demand to high-demand areas, they can also profit by buying in low-demand times and storing their merchandise for when it is needed most.
Just as allowing prices to freely adjust in one area relative to another will send all the right signals for the optimal use of a scarce resource, allowing prices to freely adjust over time will do the same.
When an entrepreneur buys up resources during low-demand times in anticipation of a crisis, she restricts supply ahead of the crisis, which leads to a price increase. She effectively bids up the price. The change in price affects consumers and producers in all the ways mentioned above. Consumers self-ration more, and producers bring more of the resource to market.
Our entrepreneur has done a truly incredible thing. She has predicted the future, and by so doing has caused every individual in the economy to prepare for a shortage they don't even know is coming! And, by discouraging consumption and encouraging production ahead of time, she blunts the impact the crisis will have. There will be more of the resource to go around when it is needed most.
On top of this, our entrepreneur still has her stockpile she saved back when everyone else was blithely using it up. She can now further mitigate the damage of the crisis by selling her stock during the worst of it, when people are most desperate for relief. She will know when this is because the price will tell her, but only if it is allowed to adjust freely. When the price is at its highest is when people need the resource the most, and those willing to pay will not waste it or hoard it. They will put it to its highest valued use.
The economy is like a big bus we are all riding in, going down a road with many twists and turns. Just as it is difficult to see into the future, it is difficult to see out the bus windows at the road ahead.
On the dashboard, we don't have a speedometer or fuel gauge. Instead we have all the prices for everything in the economy. Prices are what tell us the condition of the bus and the road. They tell us everything. Without them, we are blind.
Good times are a smooth road. Consumer prices and interest rates are low, investment returns are steady. We hit the gas and go fast. But, the road is not always straight and smooth. Sometimes there are sharp turns and rough patches. Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who can see what is coming better than everyone else. They are our navigators.
When they buy up scarce resources ahead of a crisis, they are hitting the brakes and slowing us down. When they divert resources from one area to another, they are steering us onto a smoother path. By their actions in the market, they adjust the prices on our dashboard to reflect the conditions of the road ahead, so we can prepare for, navigate and get through the inevitable difficulties we will face.
Interfering with the dashboard by imposing price floors or price caps doesn't change the conditions of the road (the number of toilet paper rolls in existence hasn't changed). All it does is distort our perception of those conditions. We think the road is still smooth--our heavy foot stomping the gas--as we crash onto a rocky dirt road at 80 miles per hour (empty shelves at the store for weeks on end).
Supply, demand and prices are laws of nature. All of this is just how things work. It isn't right or wrong in a moral sense. Price caps lead to waste, shortages and hoarding as surely as water flows downhill. The opposite--allowing prices to adjust freely--leads to conservation of scarce resources and their being put to their highest valued use. And yes, it leads to profits for the entrepreneurs who were able to correctly predict future conditions, and losses for those who weren't.
Is it fair that they should collect these profits? On the one hand, anyone could have stocked up on toilet paper, hand sanitizer and face masks at any time before the crisis, so we all had a fair chance to get the supplies cheaply. On the other hand, it just feels wrong that some should profit so much at a time when there is so much need.
Our instinct in the moment is to see the entrepreneur as a villain, greedy "price gouger". But we don't see the long chain of economic consequences the led to the situation we feel is unfair.
If it weren't for anti-price-gouging laws, the major retailers would have raised their prices long before the crisis became acute. When they saw demand outstrip supply, they would have raised prices, not by 100 fold, but gradually and long before anyone knew how serious things would have become. Late comers would have had to pay more, but at least there would be something left on the shelf.
As an entrepreneur, why take risks trying to anticipate the future if you can't reap the reward when you are right? Instead of letting instead of letting entrepreneurs--our navigators--guide us, we are punishing and vilifying them, trying to force prices to reflect a reality that simply doesn't exist.
In a crisis, more than any other time, prices must be allowed to fluctuate. To do otherwise is to blind ourselves at a time when danger and uncertainty abound. It is economic suicide.
In a crisis, there is great need, and the way to meet that need is not by pretending it's not there, by forcing prices to reflect a world where there isn't need. They way to meet the need is the same it has always been, through charity.
If the people in government want to help, the best way for the to do so is to be charitable and reduce their taxes and fees as much as possible, ideally to zero in a time of crisis. Amazon, for example, could instantly reduce the price of all crisis related necessities by 20% if they waived their fee. This would allow for more uses by more people of these scarce supplies as hoarders release their stockpiles on to the market, knowing they can get 20% more for their stock. Governments could reduce or eliminate their tax burden on high-demand, crisis-related items and all the factors that go into their production, with the same effect: a reduction in prices and expansion of supply. All of us, including the successful entrepreneurs and the wealthy for whom high prices are not a great burden, could donate to relief efforts.
These ideas are not new or untested. This is core micro economics. It has been taught for hundreds of years in universities the world over. The fact that every crisis that comes along stirs up ire against entrepreneurs indicates not that the economics is wrong, but that we have a strong visceral reaction against what we perceive to be unfairness. This is as it should be. Unfairness is wrong and the anger it stirs in us should compel us to right the wrong. Our anger itself isn't wrong, it's just misplaced.
Entrepreneurs didn't cause the prices to rise. Our reaction to a virus did that. We saw a serious threat and an uncertain future and followed our natural impulse to hoard. Because prices at major retail suppliers didn't rise, that impulse ran rampant and we cleared the shelves until there was nothing left. We ran the bus right off the road and them blamed the entrepreneurs for showing us the reality of our situation, for shaking us out of the fantasy of low prices.
All of this is not to say that entrepreneurs are high-minded public servants. They are just doing their job. Staking your money on an uncertain future is a risky business. There are big risks and big rewards. Most entrepreneurs just scrape by or lose their capital in failed ventures.
However, the ones that get it right must be allowed to keep their profits, or else no one will try and we'll all be driving blind. We need our navigators. It doesn't even matter if they know all the positive effects they are having on the rest of us and the economy as a whole. So long as they are buying low and selling high--so long as they are doing their job--they will be guiding the rest of us through the good times and the bad, down the open road and through the rough spots.
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-05-05 05:15:02Crabtree's Framework for Evaluating Human-Centered Research
Picture this: You've spent three weeks conducting qualitative research for a finance app redesign. You carefully recruited 12 participants, conducted in-depth interviews, and identified patterns around financial anxiety and decision paralysis. You're excited to present your findings when the inevitable happens:
"But are these results statistically significant?"
"Just 12 people? How can we make decisions that affect thousands of users based on conversations with just 12 people?"
As UX professionals, we regularly face stakeholders who evaluate our qualitative research using criteria designed for quantitative methods... This misalignment undermines the unique value qualitative research brings to product development.
Continue reading https://uxpsychology.substack.com/p/beyond-numbers-how-to-properly-evaluate
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/971767
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@ c1e9ab3a:9cb56b43
2025-05-01 17:29:18High-Level Overview
Bitcoin developers are currently debating a proposed change to how Bitcoin Core handles the
OP_RETURN
opcode — a mechanism that allows users to insert small amounts of data into the blockchain. Specifically, the controversy revolves around removing built-in filters that limit how much data can be stored using this feature (currently capped at 80 bytes).Summary of Both Sides
Position A: Remove OP_RETURN Filters
Advocates: nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm, nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg, nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp, others
Arguments: - Ineffectiveness of filters: Filters are easily bypassed and do not stop spam effectively. - Code simplification: Removing arbitrary limits reduces code complexity. - Permissionless innovation: Enables new use cases like cross-chain bridges and timestamping without protocol-level barriers. - Economic regulation: Fees should determine what data gets added to the blockchain, not protocol rules.
Position B: Keep OP_RETURN Filters
Advocates: nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk, nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p, nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr, others
Arguments: - Historical intent: Satoshi included filters to keep Bitcoin focused on monetary transactions. - Resource protection: Helps prevent blockchain bloat and abuse from non-financial uses. - Network preservation: Protects the network from being overwhelmed by low-value or malicious data. - Social governance: Maintains conservative changes to ensure long-term robustness.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths of Removing Filters
- Encourages decentralized innovation.
- Simplifies development and maintenance.
- Maintains ideological purity of a permissionless system.
Weaknesses of Removing Filters
- Opens the door to increased non-financial data and potential spam.
- May dilute Bitcoin’s core purpose as sound money.
- Risks short-term exploitation before economic filters adapt.
Strengths of Keeping Filters
- Preserves Bitcoin’s identity and original purpose.
- Provides a simple protective mechanism against abuse.
- Aligns with conservative development philosophy of Bitcoin Core.
Weaknesses of Keeping Filters
- Encourages central decision-making on allowed use cases.
- Leads to workarounds that may be less efficient or obscure.
- Discourages novel but legitimate applications.
Long-Term Consequences
If Filters Are Removed
- Positive: Potential boom in new applications, better interoperability, cleaner architecture.
- Negative: Risk of increased blockchain size, more bandwidth/storage costs, spam wars.
If Filters Are Retained
- Positive: Preserves monetary focus and operational discipline.
- Negative: Alienates developers seeking broader use cases, may ossify the protocol.
Conclusion
The debate highlights a core philosophical split in Bitcoin: whether it should remain a narrow monetary system or evolve into a broader data layer for decentralized applications. Both paths carry risks and tradeoffs. The outcome will shape not just Bitcoin's technical direction but its social contract and future role in the broader crypto ecosystem.
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-05-02 20:05:22Du bist recht appetitlich oben anzuschauen, \ doch unten hin die Bestie macht mir Grauen. \ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wie wenig bekömmlich sogenannte «Ultra-Processed Foods» wie Fertiggerichte, abgepackte Snacks oder Softdrinks sind, hat kürzlich eine neue Studie untersucht. Derweil kann Fleisch auch wegen des Einsatzes antimikrobieller Mittel in der Massentierhaltung ein Problem darstellen. Internationale Bemühungen, diesen Gebrauch zu reduzieren, um die Antibiotikaresistenz bei Menschen einzudämmen, sind nun möglicherweise gefährdet.
Leider ist Politik oft mindestens genauso unappetitlich und ungesund wie diverse Lebensmittel. Die «Corona-Zeit» und ihre Auswirkungen sind ein beredtes Beispiel. Der Thüringer Landtag diskutiert gerade den Entwurf eines «Coronamaßnahmen-Unrechtsbereinigungsgesetzes» und das kanadische Gesundheitsministerium versucht, tausende Entschädigungsanträge wegen Impfnebenwirkungen mit dem Budget von 75 Millionen Dollar unter einen Hut zu bekommen. In den USA soll die Zulassung von Covid-«Impfstoffen» überdacht werden, während man sich mit China um die Herkunft des Virus streitet.
Wo Corona-Verbrecher von Medien und Justiz gedeckt werden, verfolgt man Aufklärer und Aufdecker mit aller Härte. Der Anwalt und Mitbegründer des Corona-Ausschusses Reiner Fuellmich, der seit Oktober 2023 in Untersuchungshaft sitzt, wurde letzte Woche zu drei Jahren und neun Monaten verurteilt – wegen Veruntreuung. Am Mittwoch teilte der von vielen Impfschadensprozessen bekannte Anwalt Tobias Ulbrich mit, dass er vom Staatsschutz verfolgt wird und sich daher künftig nicht mehr öffentlich äußern werde.
Von der kommenden deutschen Bundesregierung aus Wählerbetrügern, Transatlantikern, Corona-Hardlinern und Russenhassern kann unmöglich eine Verbesserung erwartet werden. Nina Warken beispielsweise, die das Ressort Gesundheit übernehmen soll, diffamierte Maßnahmenkritiker als «Coronaleugner» und forderte eine Impfpflicht, da die wundersamen Injektionen angeblich «nachweislich helfen». Laut dem designierten Außenminister Johann Wadephul wird Russland «für uns immer der Feind» bleiben. Deswegen will er die Ukraine «nicht verlieren lassen» und sieht die Bevölkerung hinter sich, solange nicht deutsche Soldaten dort sterben könnten.
Eine wichtige Personalie ist auch die des künftigen Regierungssprechers. Wenngleich Hebestreit an Arroganz schwer zu überbieten sein wird, dürfte sich die Art der Kommunikation mit Stefan Kornelius in der Sache kaum ändern. Der Politikchef der Süddeutschen Zeitung «prägte den Meinungsjournalismus der SZ» und schrieb «in dieser Rolle auch für die Titel der Tamedia». Allerdings ist, anders als noch vor zehn Jahren, die Einbindung von Journalisten in Thinktanks wie die Deutsche Atlantische Gesellschaft (DAG) ja heute eher eine Empfehlung als ein Problem.
Ungesund ist definitiv auch die totale Digitalisierung, nicht nur im Gesundheitswesen. Lauterbachs Abschiedsgeschenk, die «abgesicherte» elektronische Patientenakte (ePA) ist völlig überraschenderweise direkt nach dem Bundesstart erneut gehackt worden. Norbert Häring kommentiert angesichts der Datenlecks, wer die ePA nicht abwähle, könne seine Gesundheitsdaten ebensogut auf Facebook posten.
Dass die staatlichen Kontrolleure so wenig auf freie Software und dezentrale Lösungen setzen, verdeutlicht die eigentlichen Intentionen hinter der Digitalisierungswut. Um Sicherheit und Souveränität geht es ihnen jedenfalls nicht – sonst gäbe es zum Beispiel mehr Unterstützung für Bitcoin und für Initiativen wie die der Spar-Supermärkte in der Schweiz.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ a008def1:57a3564d
2025-04-30 17:52:11A Vision for #GitViaNostr
Git has long been the standard for version control in software development, but over time, we has lost its distributed nature. Originally, Git used open, permissionless email for collaboration, which worked well at scale. However, the rise of GitHub and its centralized pull request (PR) model has shifted the landscape.
Now, we have the opportunity to revive Git's permissionless and distributed nature through Nostr!
We’ve developed tools to facilitate Git collaboration via Nostr, but there are still significant friction that prevents widespread adoption. This article outlines a vision for how we can reduce those barriers and encourage more repositories to embrace this approach.
First, we’ll review our progress so far. Then, we’ll propose a guiding philosophy for our next steps. Finally, we’ll discuss a vision to tackle specific challenges, mainly relating to the role of the Git server and CI/CD.
I am the lead maintainer of ngit and gitworkshop.dev, and I’ve been fortunate to work full-time on this initiative for the past two years, thanks to an OpenSats grant.
How Far We’ve Come
The aim of #GitViaNostr is to liberate discussions around code collaboration from permissioned walled gardens. At the core of this collaboration is the process of proposing and applying changes. That's what we focused on first.
Since Nostr shares characteristics with email, and with NIP34, we’ve adopted similar primitives to those used in the patches-over-email workflow. This is because of their simplicity and that they don’t require contributors to host anything, which adds reliability and makes participation more accessible.
However, the fork-branch-PR-merge workflow is the only model many developers have known, and changing established workflows can be challenging. To address this, we developed a new workflow that balances familiarity, user experience, and alignment with the Nostr protocol: the branch-PR-merge model.
This model is implemented in ngit, which includes a Git plugin that allows users to engage without needing to learn new commands. Additionally, gitworkshop.dev offers a GitHub-like interface for interacting with PRs and issues. We encourage you to try them out using the quick start guide and share your feedback. You can also explore PRs and issues with gitplaza.
For those who prefer the patches-over-email workflow, you can still use that approach with Nostr through gitstr or the
ngit send
andngit list
commands, and explore patches with patch34.The tools are now available to support the core collaboration challenge, but we are still at the beginning of the adoption curve.
Before we dive into the challenges—such as why the Git server setup can be jarring and the possibilities surrounding CI/CD—let’s take a moment to reflect on how we should approach the challenges ahead of us.
Philosophy
Here are some foundational principles I shared a few years ago:
- Let Git be Git
- Let Nostr be Nostr
- Learn from the successes of others
I’d like to add one more:
- Embrace anarchy and resist monolithic development.
Micro Clients FTW
Nostr celebrates simplicity, and we should strive to maintain that. Monolithic developments often lead to unnecessary complexity. Projects like gitworkshop.dev, which aim to cover various aspects of the code collaboration experience, should not stifle innovation.
Just yesterday, the launch of following.space demonstrated how vibe-coded micro clients can make a significant impact. They can be valuable on their own, shape the ecosystem, and help push large and widely used clients to implement features and ideas.
The primitives in NIP34 are straightforward, and if there are any barriers preventing the vibe-coding of a #GitViaNostr app in an afternoon, we should work to eliminate them.
Micro clients should lead the way and explore new workflows, experiences, and models of thinking.
Take kanbanstr.com. It provides excellent project management and organization features that work seamlessly with NIP34 primitives.
From kanban to code snippets, from CI/CD runners to SatShoot—may a thousand flowers bloom, and a thousand more after them.
Friction and Challenges
The Git Server
In #GitViaNostr, maintainers' branches (e.g.,
master
) are hosted on a Git server. Here’s why this approach is beneficial:- Follows the original Git vision and the "let Git be Git" philosophy.
- Super efficient, battle-tested, and compatible with all the ways people use Git (e.g., LFS, shallow cloning).
- Maintains compatibility with related systems without the need for plugins (e.g., for build and deployment).
- Only repository maintainers need write access.
In the original Git model, all users would need to add the Git server as a 'git remote.' However, with ngit, the Git server is hidden behind a Nostr remote, which enables:
- Hiding complexity from contributors and users, so that only maintainers need to know about the Git server component to start using #GitViaNostr.
- Maintainers can easily swap Git servers by updating their announcement event, allowing contributors/users using ngit to automatically switch to the new one.
Challenges with the Git Server
While the Git server model has its advantages, it also presents several challenges:
- Initial Setup: When creating a new repository, maintainers must select a Git server, which can be a jarring experience. Most options come with bloated social collaboration features tied to a centralized PR model, often difficult or impossible to disable.
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Manual Configuration: New repositories require manual configuration, including adding new maintainers through a browser UI, which can be cumbersome and time-consuming.
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User Onboarding: Many Git servers require email sign-up or KYC (Know Your Customer) processes, which can be a significant turn-off for new users exploring a decentralized and permissionless alternative to GitHub.
Once the initial setup is complete, the system works well if a reliable Git server is chosen. However, this is a significant "if," as we have become accustomed to the excellent uptime and reliability of GitHub. Even professionally run alternatives like Codeberg can experience downtime, which is frustrating when CI/CD and deployment processes are affected. This problem is exacerbated when self-hosting.
Currently, most repositories on Nostr rely on GitHub as the Git server. While maintainers can change servers without disrupting their contributors, this reliance on a centralized service is not the decentralized dream we aspire to achieve.
Vision for the Git Server
The goal is to transform the Git server from a single point of truth and failure into a component similar to a Nostr relay.
Functionality Already in ngit to Support This
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State on Nostr: Store the state of branches and tags in a Nostr event, removing reliance on a single server. This validates that the data received has been signed by the maintainer, significantly reducing the trust requirement.
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Proxy to Multiple Git Servers: Proxy requests to all servers listed in the announcement event, adding redundancy and eliminating the need for any one server to match GitHub's reliability.
Implementation Requirements
To achieve this vision, the Nostr Git server implementation should:
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Implement the Git Smart HTTP Protocol without authentication (no SSH) and only accept pushes if the reference tip matches the latest state event.
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Avoid Bloat: There should be no user authentication, no database, no web UI, and no unnecessary features.
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Automatic Repository Management: Accept or reject new repositories automatically upon the first push based on the content of the repository announcement event referenced in the URL path and its author.
Just as there are many free, paid, and self-hosted relays, there will be a variety of free, zero-step signup options, as well as self-hosted and paid solutions.
Some servers may use a Web of Trust (WoT) to filter out spam, while others might impose bandwidth or repository size limits for free tiers or whitelist specific npubs.
Additionally, some implementations could bundle relay and blossom server functionalities to unify the provision of repository data into a single service. These would likely only accept content related to the stored repositories rather than general social nostr content.
The potential role of CI / CD via nostr DVMs could create the incentives for a market of highly reliable free at the point of use git servers.
This could make onboarding #GitViaNostr repositories as easy as entering a name and selecting from a multi-select list of Git server providers that announce via NIP89.
!(image)[https://image.nostr.build/badedc822995eb18b6d3c4bff0743b12b2e5ac018845ba498ce4aab0727caf6c.jpg]
Git Client in the Browser
Currently, many tasks are performed on a Git server web UI, such as:
- Browsing code, commits, branches, tags, etc.
- Creating and displaying permalinks to specific lines in commits.
- Merging PRs.
- Making small commits and PRs on-the-fly.
Just as nobody goes to the web UI of a relay (e.g., nos.lol) to interact with notes, nobody should need to go to a Git server to interact with repositories. We use the Nostr protocol to interact with Nostr relays, and we should use the Git protocol to interact with Git servers. This situation has evolved due to the centralization of Git servers. Instead of being restricted to the view and experience designed by the server operator, users should be able to choose the user experience that works best for them from a range of clients. To facilitate this, we need a library that lowers the barrier to entry for creating these experiences. This library should not require a full clone of every repository and should not depend on proprietary APIs. As a starting point, I propose wrapping the WASM-compiled gitlib2 library for the web and creating useful functions, such as showing a file, which utilizes clever flags to minimize bandwidth usage (e.g., shallow clone, noblob, etc.).
This approach would not only enhance clients like gitworkshop.dev but also bring forth a vision where Git servers simply run the Git protocol, making vibe coding Git experiences even better.
song
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 created song with a complementary vision that has shaped how I see the role of the git server. Its a self-hosted, nostr-permissioned git server with a relay baked in. Its currently a WIP and there are some compatability with ngit that we need to work out.
We collaborated on the nostr-permissioning approach now reflected in nip34.
I'm really excited to see how this space evolves.
CI/CD
Most projects require CI/CD, and while this is often bundled with Git hosting solutions, it is currently not smoothly integrated into #GitViaNostr yet. There are many loosely coupled options, such as Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, etc., that could be integrated with Nostr.
However, the more exciting prospect is to use DVMs (Data Vending Machines).
DVMs for CI/CD
Nostr Data Vending Machines (DVMs) can provide a marketplace of CI/CD task runners with Cashu for micro payments.
There are various trust levels in CI/CD tasks:
- Tasks with no secrets eg. tests.
- Tasks using updatable secrets eg. API keys.
- Unverifiable builds and steps that sign with Android, Nostr, or PGP keys.
DVMs allow tasks to be kicked off with specific providers using a Cashu token as payment.
It might be suitable for some high-compute and easily verifiable tasks to be run by the cheapest available providers. Medium trust tasks could be run by providers with a good reputation, while high trust tasks could be run on self-hosted runners.
Job requests, status, and results all get published to Nostr for display in Git-focused Nostr clients.
Jobs could be triggered manually, or self-hosted runners could be configured to watch a Nostr repository and kick off jobs using their own runners without payment.
But I'm most excited about the prospect of Watcher Agents.
CI/CD Watcher Agents
AI agents empowered with a NIP60 Cashu wallet can run tasks based on activity, such as a push to master or a new PR, using the most suitable available DVM runner that meets the user's criteria. To keep them running, anyone could top up their NIP60 Cashu wallet; otherwise, the watcher turns off when the funds run out. It could be users, maintainers, or anyone interested in helping the project who could top up the Watcher Agent's balance.
As aluded to earlier, part of building a reputation as a CI/CD provider could involve running reliable hosting (Git server, relay, and blossom server) for all FOSS Nostr Git repositories.
This provides a sustainable revenue model for hosting providers and creates incentives for many free-at-the-point-of-use hosting providers. This, in turn, would allow one-click Nostr repository creation workflows, instantly hosted by many different providers.
Progress to Date
nostr:npub1hw6amg8p24ne08c9gdq8hhpqx0t0pwanpae9z25crn7m9uy7yarse465gr and nostr:npub16ux4qzg4qjue95vr3q327fzata4n594c9kgh4jmeyn80v8k54nhqg6lra7 have been working on a runner that uses GitHub Actions YAML syntax (using act) for the dvm-cicd-runner and takes Cashu payment. You can see example runs on GitWorkshop. It currently takes testnuts, doesn't give any change, and the schema will likely change.
Note: The actions tab on GitWorkshop is currently available on all repositories if you turn on experimental mode (under settings in the user menu).
It's a work in progress, and we expect the format and schema to evolve.
Easy Web App Deployment
For those disapointed not to find a 'Nostr' button to import a git repository to Vercel menu: take heart, they made it easy. vercel.com_import_options.png there is a vercel cli that can be easily called in CI / CD jobs to kick of deployments. Not all managed solutions for web app deployment (eg. netlify) make it that easy.
Many More Opportunities
Large Patches via Blossom
I would be remiss not to mention the large patch problem. Some patches are too big to fit into Nostr events. Blossom is perfect for this, as it allows these larger patches to be included in a blossom file and referenced in a new patch kind.
Enhancing the #GitViaNostr Experience
Beyond the large patch issue, there are numerous opportunities to enhance the #GitViaNostr ecosystem. We can focus on improving browsing, discovery, social and notifications. Receiving notifications on daily driver Nostr apps is one of the killer features of Nostr. However, we must ensure that Git-related notifications are easily reviewable, so we don’t miss any critical updates.
We need to develop tools that cater to our curiosity—tools that enable us to discover and follow projects, engage in discussions that pique our interest, and stay informed about developments relevant to our work.
Additionally, we should not overlook the importance of robust search capabilities and tools that facilitate migrations.
Concluding Thoughts
The design space is vast. Its an exciting time to be working on freedom tech. I encourage everyone to contribute their ideas and creativity and get vibe-coding!
I welcome your honest feedback on this vision and any suggestions you might have. Your insights are invaluable as we collaborate to shape the future of #GitViaNostr. Onward.
Contributions
To conclude, I want to acknowledge some the individuals who have made recent code contributions related to #GitViaNostr:
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 (gitstr, song, patch34), nostr:npub1useke4f9maul5nf67dj0m9sq6jcsmnjzzk4ycvldwl4qss35fvgqjdk5ks (gitplaza)
nostr:npub1elta7cneng3w8p9y4dw633qzdjr4kyvaparuyuttyrx6e8xp7xnq32cume (ngit contributions, git-remote-blossom),nostr:npub16p8v7varqwjes5hak6q7mz6pygqm4pwc6gve4mrned3xs8tz42gq7kfhdw (SatShoot, Flotilla-Budabit), nostr:npub1ehhfg09mr8z34wz85ek46a6rww4f7c7jsujxhdvmpqnl5hnrwsqq2szjqv (Flotilla-Budabit, Nostr Git Extension), nostr:npub1ahaz04ya9tehace3uy39hdhdryfvdkve9qdndkqp3tvehs6h8s5slq45hy (gnostr and experiments), and others.
nostr:npub1uplxcy63up7gx7cladkrvfqh834n7ylyp46l3e8t660l7peec8rsd2sfek (git-remote-nostr)
Project Management nostr:npub1ltx67888tz7lqnxlrg06x234vjnq349tcfyp52r0lstclp548mcqnuz40t (kanbanstr) Code Snippets nostr:npub1ygzj9skr9val9yqxkf67yf9jshtyhvvl0x76jp5er09nsc0p3j6qr260k2 (nodebin.io) nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac (snipsnip.dev)
CI / CD nostr:npub16ux4qzg4qjue95vr3q327fzata4n594c9kgh4jmeyn80v8k54nhqg6lra7 nostr:npub1hw6amg8p24ne08c9gdq8hhpqx0t0pwanpae9z25crn7m9uy7yarse465gr
and for their nostr:npub1c03rad0r6q833vh57kyd3ndu2jry30nkr0wepqfpsm05vq7he25slryrnw nostr:npub1qqqqqq2stely3ynsgm5mh2nj3v0nk5gjyl3zqrzh34hxhvx806usxmln03 and nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z for their testing, feedback, ideas and encouragement.
Thank you for your support and collaboration! Let me know if I've missed you.
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-04-25 20:06:24Die Wahrheit verletzt tiefer als jede Beleidigung. \ Marquis de Sade
Sagen Sie niemals «Terroristin B.», «Schwachkopf H.», «korrupter Drecksack S.» oder «Meinungsfreiheitshasserin F.» und verkneifen Sie sich Memes, denn so etwas könnte Ihnen als Beleidigung oder Verleumdung ausgelegt werden und rechtliche Konsequenzen haben. Auch mit einer Frau M.-A. S.-Z. ist in dieser Beziehung nicht zu spaßen, sie gehört zu den Top-Anzeigenstellern.
«Politikerbeleidigung» als Straftatbestand wurde 2021 im Kampf gegen «Rechtsextremismus und Hasskriminalität» in Deutschland eingeführt, damals noch unter der Regierung Merkel. Im Gesetz nicht festgehalten ist die Unterscheidung zwischen schlechter Hetze und guter Hetze – trotzdem ist das gängige Praxis, wie der Titel fast schon nahelegt.
So dürfen Sie als Politikerin heute den Tesla als «Nazi-Auto» bezeichnen und dies ausdrücklich auf den Firmengründer Elon Musk und dessen «rechtsextreme Positionen» beziehen, welche Sie nicht einmal belegen müssen. [1] Vielleicht ernten Sie Proteste, jedoch vorrangig wegen der «gut bezahlten, unbefristeten Arbeitsplätze» in Brandenburg. Ihren Tweet hat die Berliner Senatorin Cansel Kiziltepe inzwischen offenbar dennoch gelöscht.
Dass es um die Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit in der Bundesrepublik nicht mehr allzu gut bestellt ist, befürchtet man inzwischen auch schon im Ausland. Der Fall des Journalisten David Bendels, der kürzlich wegen eines Faeser-Memes zu sieben Monaten Haft auf Bewährung verurteilt wurde, führte in diversen Medien zu Empörung. Die Welt versteckte ihre Kritik mit dem Titel «Ein Urteil wie aus einer Diktatur» hinter einer Bezahlschranke.
Unschöne, heutzutage vielleicht strafbare Kommentare würden mir auch zu einigen anderen Themen und Akteuren einfallen. Ein Kandidat wäre der deutsche Bundesgesundheitsminister (ja, er ist es tatsächlich immer noch). Während sich in den USA auf dem Gebiet etwas bewegt und zum Beispiel Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will, dass die Gesundheitsbehörde (CDC) keine Covid-Impfungen für Kinder mehr empfiehlt, möchte Karl Lauterbach vor allem das Corona-Lügengebäude vor dem Einsturz bewahren.
«Ich habe nie geglaubt, dass die Impfungen nebenwirkungsfrei sind», sagte Lauterbach jüngst der ZDF-Journalistin Sarah Tacke. Das steht in krassem Widerspruch zu seiner früher verbreiteten Behauptung, die Gen-Injektionen hätten keine Nebenwirkungen. Damit entlarvt er sich selbst als Lügner. Die Bezeichnung ist absolut berechtigt, dieser Mann dürfte keinerlei politische Verantwortung tragen und das Verhalten verlangt nach einer rechtlichen Überprüfung. Leider ist ja die Justiz anderweitig beschäftigt und hat außerdem selbst keine weiße Weste.
Obendrein kämpfte der Herr Minister für eine allgemeine Impfpflicht. Er beschwor dabei das Schließen einer «Impflücke», wie es die Weltgesundheitsorganisation – die «wegen Trump» in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten steckt – bis heute tut. Die WHO lässt aktuell ihre «Europäische Impfwoche» propagieren, bei der interessanterweise von Covid nicht mehr groß die Rede ist.
Einen «Klima-Leugner» würden manche wohl Nir Shaviv nennen, das ist ja nicht strafbar. Der Astrophysiker weist nämlich die Behauptung von einer Klimakrise zurück. Gemäß seiner Forschung ist mindestens die Hälfte der Erderwärmung nicht auf menschliche Emissionen, sondern auf Veränderungen im Sonnenverhalten zurückzuführen.
Das passt vielleicht auch den «Klima-Hysterikern» der britischen Regierung ins Konzept, die gerade Experimente zur Verdunkelung der Sonne angekündigt haben. Produzenten von Kunstfleisch oder Betreiber von Insektenfarmen würden dagegen vermutlich die Geschichte vom fatalen CO2 bevorzugen. Ihnen würde es besser passen, wenn der verantwortungsvolle Erdenbürger sein Verhalten gründlich ändern müsste.
In unserer völlig verkehrten Welt, in der praktisch jede Verlautbarung außerhalb der abgesegneten Narrative potenziell strafbar sein kann, gehört fast schon Mut dazu, Dinge offen anzusprechen. Im «besten Deutschland aller Zeiten» glaubten letztes Jahr nur noch 40 Prozent der Menschen, ihre Meinung frei äußern zu können. Das ist ein Armutszeugnis, und es sieht nicht gerade nach Besserung aus. Umso wichtiger ist es, dagegen anzugehen.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
--- Quellen: ---
[1] Zur Orientierung wenigstens ein paar Hinweise zur NS-Vergangenheit deutscher Automobilhersteller:
- Volkswagen
- Porsche
- Daimler-Benz
- BMW
- Audi
- Opel
- Heute: «Auto-Werke für die Rüstung? Rheinmetall prüft Übernahmen»
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
2025-04-30 14:39:24MLS over Nostr - 30th April 2025
YO! Exciting stuff in this update so no intro, let's get straight into it.
🚢 Libraries Released
I've created 4 new Rust crates to make implementing NIP-EE (MLS) messaging easy for other projects. These are now part of the rust-nostr project (thanks nostr:npub1drvpzev3syqt0kjrls50050uzf25gehpz9vgdw08hvex7e0vgfeq0eseet) but aren't quite released to crates.io yet. They will be included in the next release of that library. My hope is that these libraries will give nostr developers a simple, safe, and specification-compliant way to work with MLS messaging in their applications.
Here's a quick overview of each:
nostr_mls_storage
One of the challenges of using MLS messaging is that clients have to store quite a lot of state about groups, keys, and messages. Initially, I implemented all of this in White Noise but knew that eventually this would need to be done in a more generalized way.
This crate defines traits and types that are used by the storage implementation crates and sets those up to wrap the OpenMLS storage layer. Now, instead of apps having to implement storage for both OpenMLS and Nostr, you simply pick your storage backend and go from there.
Importantly, because these are generic traits, it allows for the creation of any number of storage implementations for different backend storage providers; postgres, lmdb, nostrdb, etc. To start I've created two implementations; detailed below.
nostr_mls_memory_storage
This is a simple implementation of the nostr_mls_storage traits that uses an in-memory store (that doesn't persist anything to disc). This is principally for testing.
nostr_mls_sqlite_storage
This is a production ready implementation of the nostr_mls_storage traits that uses a persistent local sqlite database to store all data.
nostr_mls
This is the main library that app developers will interact with. Once you've chose a backend and instantiated an instance of NostrMls you can then interact with a simple set of methods to create key packages, create groups, send messages, process welcomes and messages, and more.
If you want to see a complete example of what the interface looks like check out mls_memory.rs.
I'll continue to add to this library over time as I implement more of the MLS protocol features.
🚧 White Noise Refactor
As a result of these new libraries, I was able to remove a huge amount of code from White Noise and refactor large parts of the app to make the codebase easier to understand and maintain. Because of this large refactor and the changes in the underlying storage layer, if you've installed White Noise before you'll need to delete it from your device before you trying to install again.
🖼️ Encrypted Media with Blossom
Let's be honest: Group chat would be basically useless if you couldn't share memes and gifs. Well, now you can in White Noise. Media in groups is encrypted using an MLS secret and uploaded to Blossom with a one-time use keypair. This gives groups a way to have rich conversations with images and documents and anything else while also maintaining the privacy and security of the conversation.
This is still in a rough state but rendering improvements are coming next.
📱 Damn Mobile
The app is still in a semi-broken state on Android and fully broken state on iOS. Now that I have the libraries released and the White Noise core code refactored, I'm focused 100% on fixing these issues. My goal is to have a beta version live on Zapstore in a few weeks.
🧑💻 Join Us
I'm looking for mobile developers on both Android and iOS to join the team and help us build the best possible apps for these platforms. I have grant funding available for the right people. Come and help us build secure, permissionless, censorship-resistant messaging. I can think of few projects that deserve your attention more than securing freedom of speech and freedom of association for the entire world. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please reach out to me directly.
🙏 Thanks to the People
Last but not least: A HUGE thank you to all the folks that have been helping make this project happen. You can check out the people that are directly working on the apps on Following._ (and follow them). There are also a lot of people behind the scenes that have helped in myriad ways to get us this far. Thank you thank you thank you.
🔗 Links
Libraries
White Noise
Other
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-13 00:19:14► Social Media Tools
- 🌐 alternative-frontends, Farside / 2 or PrivacyRedirect - Frontend Indexes
- ↪️ Android Social Media Apps / iOS
- ⭐ GrayJay - Combines YouTube, Twitch, Rumble, etc. / Guide
- ⭐ SocialBlade - Social Media Stats
- ⭐ LiveCounts - Live Social Media Stats
- ⭐ LibRedirect / GitHub, Predirect or Proxy Redirect - Frontend Redirect Extensions
- Numblr - Self-Hosted Frontend Redirect
- Proxitok, Urlebird or OffTikTok - TikTok Frontends
- Social-Searcher, WeVerify or Social Media CSE - Social Media Search Engines
- Social Media Hacker List - Social Media Apps / Tools
- ExportComments - Export Social Media Comments
- socid_extractor - Extract Social Media User Info from Pages
- BlackTwist - Free Threads Analytics
- Schedul - Threads Content Publishing & Scheduling
- Mind Your Banners - Social Media Banner Design
- CleanSnap - Customize Social Media Screenshots
► Discord Tools
- Warning - Misuse of chat archivers, mass-deleters, mods or third-party clients is against Discord's terms of service, so use at your own risk.
- ⭐ embeds.video, x266, Stolen Shoes, embedez or Discord Embedder - Discord Video Embedders
- ⭐ Disblock Origin or Discord Adblock - Hide Nitro / Boost Ads
- ⭐ Revolt / Bots / Resources or Guilded - Discord Alternatives
- ⭐ OpenAsar - Improved Discord Desktop's Asar / Discord / GitHub
- AnswersOverflow - Discord Search Engine
- DiscordFS - Discord File Search
- Discord Downloader Go - Discord File Downloader
- Toolscord, discord.id or Discord Avatar - Avatar Downloaders
- Disbox - Discord Cloud Storage
- Discrub - Message Manipulation / Export Tool
- Discord Chat Exporter / Python or Discord History Tracker / GitHub - Archive / Export Discord Chats
- Wumpus Central - Discord Experimental Server Hub
- SimpleDiscordCrypt - Discord Message Encryption
- Permissions Calculator - Generate Discord OAuth Invites
- dsc.gg - Create Custom Discord Invites
- Discord Previews - New Discord Builds / Changes
- instaparty - Temporary Discord Servers
- Discord Templates - Discord Server Templates
- Discord UI Mockup - Discord UI Mockups
- discord-badges - Discord Badges Image Files
- Discord Creation Date Check - Check Creation Date of User / Channel / Server
- Discord Lookup - Look up a Discord User or Bot ID
- Guild Counter - Check How Many Servers You're In
- Discord Dev Badges, active-developer-badge or GiveMeBadge - Unlock Discord Dev Badges / Script
- Discord-Api - Discord API Chat
- Discord-Datamining - Discord Datamining via JS Files
- Discord TTS Bot - Text to Speech for Discord
- Discord Webhooks Guide - Webhooks Guide
- Webhooker - Simple Webhooks App
- Embed Visualizer - Preview Embeds
- BetterTwitFix - Fix X.com / Telegram Embeds
- 8mb.video or @Snooober's Script - Encode Videos to <8MB
- Discord Packages - View Discord Packages / Self Host for Privacy / Discord
- Soundboards.gg - Discord Soundboard Sounds
- Hammertime, Dank.tools, Timestamp Maker, discord-timestamps or discordtimestampgenerator - Discord Timestamp Generators
- TagMap - Meet People with Similar Interests
▷ Discord Clients
- 🌐 Discord3rdParties - Discord Clients Index
- ⭐ Vencord - Discord Client Mod / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ WebCord - Privacy-Hardened Client / Discord
- Replugged - Discord Client Mod / Discord
- Legcord - Discord Client / Lightweight / Discord
- GoofCord - Privacy-Focused Legcord Fork
- BetterDiscord - Discord Client Mod / Discord / GitHub
- BetterDiscord Tools - Plugins / Banned Plugins / Nitro / Re-install Guide
- abaddon - Discord Client Mod / Lightweight / Discord
- Discordo - Discord Terminal Client
- Vesktop - Web Client w/ Vencord Preinstalled
- Spacebar - Self-hostable Discord Compatible Client
- Dorion - Lightweight Discord Client / GitHub
- Dissent - GTK4 Discord Client
- Discord Portable / PTB PortApps - Portable Discord Stable
▷ Client Customization
- 🌐 Client Themes or Discord Themes - Client Theme Index
- ⭐ Discohook, Embed Creator or Embed Generator - Embed Generators
- ⭐ CustomRP - Customizable Rich Presence
- BD Editor - Client Theme Editor
- ChromaDiscordApp - Chroma Light for Discord
- Overlayed - Alternative Discord VC Overlay / GitHub
- BeautifulDiscord - Custom CSS Support
- ansi-colors-discord.md - Discord ANSI Text Guide
- Coloured-Text-Generator - Discord ANSI Text Generator
- Auto Creative - Animated Icon / Banner Generator
- Discord Decorations - Free Discord Avatar Decorations
- Discord Avatar Maker - Discord Avatar Creator
- Better Default Discord - Improved Default Discord Avatars
- Pfps.gg - Find Discord Avatars
- usrbg - Custom Discord Profile Backgrounds
- Disgradient - Discord Folder / Role Color Gradients
- Nelly, mgcounts / Discord or Discord.band - Discord Server Tag Lists
- Emoji List - Discord Emojis / GIFs
- Discord-Emoji-Downloader - Emoji Downloader
- ImageClipboard, Slackmoji or emoji.gg - Free Discord Nitro Emojis
- Snowsgiving Icons & Emotes - Snowsgiving Event Icons / Emojis
- Discord Text to Emoji - Convert Text to Discord Emojis
- Stickers.gg - Free Discord Stickers
- PreMiD - Display Web Activity in Discord Status / GitHub / Discord
- Music Presence - Audio Player Rich Presence / Discord
- Jellyfin RPC - Jellyfin Rich Presence
- Adobe Discord RPC - Adobe Rich Presence
- PS3 Rich - PS3 Rich Presence
- discord-vscode - VSCode Rich Presence / GitHub
▷ Discord Bots
- ⭐ FreeStuff Bot - Free Games Alert Bot / Discord / Telegram
- FixEmbed - Fix Embeds on Discord Bot
- esmBot - Image / Music Bot
- NotQuiteNitro - Discord Nitro Alternative
- fmbot - Discord Voice Chat Scrobbling
- Chuu - Last.fm Discord Bot
- Craig - Voice Channel Recorder Bot / Backup
- MonitoRSS or ReadyBot - RSS Discord Bots
- Wallabot - Wallabag Discord Bot
- Discord Music Bot, Music-bot / Discord, Chip, MusicBot or EvoBot - Music Bots
- Steambase Bot - Steam Insights Bot
- Red Discordbot, Discord-Bot or Loritta - Self-Hostable Discord Moderation Bots
- Wickbot - Discord Security Bot
- anti-phishing-bot - Discord Anti-Phishing Bot
- Automod Config - Automod Bot Config
- Modmail - Discord Modmail Bot
- Discord-Linux - Linux Container Bot
▷ Server / Bot Indexes
- 🌐 Alternatives to MEE6 - MEE6 Alternatives / Discord
- UnFocused - Server Index / Discord
- DISBOARD - Server Index
- Discadia - Server / Bot Index
- Discords.com - Server / Bot Index
- Discord Me - Server / Bot Index
- Discord Servers - Server Index
- DiscordServers.com - Server / Bot Index
- Disforge - Server / Bot Index
- Open Source Projects - Server / Bot Index
- BotBlock - Bot Index
- Top.gg - Bot Index
- Bots on Discord - Bot Index
- Discord Bots - Bot Index
- Top Bots - Bot Index
- Infinity Bot List - Bot Index
- Discord Services - Bot Index
- DiscordBots - Bot Index
- Discord Bot List - Bot Index
- Carbon Bot List - Bot Index
- Botlist.me - Bot Index
- Void Bots - Bot Index
- Discord Botlist - Bot Index
► Reddit Tools
- ⭐ Reddit Stream - Live Thread Viewer
- ⭐ Reddit Enhancement Suite, Reddit++, Reddit Fix, Reddit Extension, RedditEnhancer or RedditMod2 - Reddit Enhancement Extensions / Scripts
- ⭐ Old Reddit Redirect - Redirect New Reddit to Old
- Redlib / 2 or Photon, reditr, RDX - Reddit Frontends
- Redditp or Reddit Viewer - Reddit TikTok Style Viewers
- Beleave or SubCleaner - Subreddit Cleaners / Managers
- Reddit Comber or Sub Notification - Reddit Keyword Notifications
- Reddit Preview - Preview Reddit Posts
- RedditRaffler - Reddit Raffle System
- SubTransfer - Export / Transfer Subreddits
- PowerDeleteSuite - Reddit Auto Post Delete
- SnooSnoop - Reddit Account Analyzer
- Reddit Emojis - Emojis for Old Reddit
- Subreddit Tabs - Subreddit Icon Tabs
- Reddit Comment Highlights - Highlight New Comments
- Newsit - Find Reddit Comments for any Webpage
- infini.wtf - Reddit Image Search
- Load Reddit Images Directly - Direct Image Viewer
- When to Post - Best Reddit Posting Times
- UniversalScammerList - List of Reddit Scammers
▷ Reddit Downloaders
- Note - You can also download Reddit videos by commenting "/u/SaveVideo".
- Viddit - Reddit Video Downloaders
- gallery-dl - Reddit Bulk Image Downloaders
- saveddit - Reddit Bulk Media Downloaders
▷ Reddit Alternatives
- ↪️ Lemmy Tools
- ⭐ Raddle - Minimalist / Privacy-Focused
- ⭐ Saidit - Free-Speech / Dual Upvote System
- /r/RedditAlternatives - Find Reddit Alternatives
- TheMotte - User-Driven Discussion
- Tildes - Non-Profit / User-Driven Discussion
- Scored - User-Driven Discussion
- Ramble - Privacy-Focused
- Squabblr - X.com / Reddit Style Alt
- Discuit - Centralized Reddit Alt with User Control
▷ Reddit Search
- ⭐ TheGigaBrain - Reddit Search Engines
- ⭐ Reddit Repost Sleuth - Reverse Post / Image Search
- ⭐ Undelete or Reveddit - View Deleted Reddit Posts / Comments
- New PullPush / 2 / 3, Samac or Better Reddit Search - Advanced Reddit Search
- Redditle - Reddit-Only Google Search
- Arctic Shift - Reddit Archive Dump Search / GitHub
- Reddit Dump Files - Reddit Comment Archives
- Expanse, redarcs or Rareddit - Reddit Post Archive Tools / Note
- RedditMetis, Reddit-User-Analyser or Redective - Reddit Profile Information
- rComments - Explore Comments / Replies without Clicking a Post
- ScrollDrop - Reddit Media Crawler
- Wiki Downloader - Reddit Wiki Page Scraper
- Find on Reddit - Find Discussions of the Current URL
- PullPush - Reddit Content API / Discord
▷ Subreddit Discovery
- 🌐 /r/ListOfSubreddits - Subreddits Index
- ↪️ Multireddit Indexes
- ⭐ Vizit, sayit, subreddit_map or SubredditMentionsGraph - Visualize Related Subreddits
- FindAReddit - Get Subreddit Suggestions / Subreddit
- Subreddit Calculator or redsim - Find Similar Subreddits
- Map of Reddit or Reddit Map - Subreddit Maps
- subreddits - Find Random Subreddits
- /r/Serendipity - Posts from Random Subreddits
- /r/wowthissubexists - Find Niche Subreddits
- Subreddit Stats or SubRanking - Subreddits Stats / Ranking
► Telegram Tools
- 🌐 TDirectory, Telemetr, Telegram Channels, Awesome Telegram - Telegram Channel Indexes
- 🌐 ComBot Groups - Top Telegram Groups Index
- Telegago, 2, Lyzem, xTea or TG-ME - Telegram CSEs
- SaveRestrictedContentBot - Save Restricted Content
- Telesco.pe - Telegram Round Video Recorder
- Video Stream - Telegram Video Player
- TGCF - Telegram Message Forwarding
- tg-channel-cloner-workers - Clone Telegram Channels
- tasra - Telegram Channel Archive
- Telegram Email - Email Alias Telegram Bot
- CHPic, Stickers Cloud, ComBot Stickers or moe_sticker_bot - Telegram Sticker / Emojis
▷ Telegram Clients
- ↪️ Android Telegram Clients
- ⭐ web.telegram / 2 / 3 - Web Client
- ⭐ Materialgram - Desktop Client / Portable
- ⭐ Unigram - Desktop Client
- TDesktop - Desktop Client
- TDesktop x64 - Desktop Client / Telegram
- VideoGram - Desktop Client
- AyuGram - Desktop Client / GitHub
- Pyrogram - Telegram API Client
- Telega.el - Telegram Emacs Client
- VanillaTG - Client Themes
▷ Telegram File Tools
- ⭐ Teldrive - File Manager / Uploader / Discord / GitHub
- File-Sharing-Bot / Telegram, TelegramCloud, easy_share_bot or UploadBot - Upload Files to Telegram
- MediaDownBot, WZML-X, Telegram Media Downloader, TopSaverBot, CatdlBot or DownloadsMasterBot - Media Downloaders
- Musvkrobot - Video Downloader
- GdriveXbot, google-drive-telegram-bot or Python Aria Mirror Bot - Google Drive Upload Bots
- SearchX - Google Drive Search Bot
- MEGA Uploader X or Mega-Bot - Remote Mega File Upload Bot
- OneDrive X - Remote OneDrive File Upload Bot
- MultiUpload-Bot - Telegram to File Host Upload Bot
- telegram-download-daemon - Download Large Telegram Files
- convrt_bot, FileConvertBot, newfileconverterbot or pdfbot - File Converters
- ILovePDF - Telegram File to PDF Converter
▷ Telegram Bots
- 🌐 BotsArchive, TelegramBotsList or borodutch.eth - Telegram Bots Indexes
- Now Playing - Now Playing Audio Bot
- Searchee Bot - Telegram Channel Search Bot
- Rose or GroupHelpBot - Telegram Group Managers
- TediCross - Telegram to Discord Bridge
- WatgBridge - Telegram to WhatsApp Bridge
- Mautrix - Telegram to Matrix Bridge
- Callmebot - Trigger Voice Calls or Chats
- Skeddy - Telegram Reminder Bot
- Reddit2Telegram - Reddit Post Bot
- rss2tg_bot or TheFeedReaderBot - RSS Feed Bots
- ShortUrlBot - Link Shortener Bots
- AiImageBot - Text to Image
- Shieldy Bot - Spam Protection Bot / GitHub
- ProxyBot, proxy_socks5_bot or ShadowSocks_bot - Telegram Proxy Bots
- /r/TelegramBots - Telegram Bots Discussion
► YouTube Tools
- ⭐ PocketTube or Kadium - Subscription Managers
- Youtube-shorts block or Shorts Deflector / GitHub - Play Shorts In The Normal Desktop Interface
- Remove YouTube Shorts or Hide YT Shorts Filter List - Hide YouTube Shorts
- YouTube Wrapped - Personal YouTube Rewind
- YouTube-Subscriptions-RSS - Export Subscriptions to RSS Feed
- YouTube Subscription History - Subscription History Tracker
- MassYoutubeUnsubscriber - Bulk Remove YouTube Subscriptions
- YouTube Spammer Purge - Delete All YouTube Spam Comments / Domain List
- Playboard or Viewstats - YouTube Channel Stats
- vidIQ - YouTube Viewership Data
- yt2pod - Create Podcasts from YouTube Channels
- SpeechChat - Text to Speech Client
- Rapidtags - YouTube Tag Generator
- songs-to-youtube - Convert Audio Files and Upload to YouTube
- YTSubConverter - Styled YouTube Subtitles
- Amara or SubtitlesForYoutube - Import Local Subtitles to YouTube / Edge
- ChatReplay - Livestream Chat Replay
- LiveTL - Livestream Chat Translator
- YT Boost Chat or YT RM3 - Reduce YouTube Chat Memory Usage
- YT LiveChat Flusher - Add Bullet Chatting (Danmaku) to Livestreams
▷ YouTube Customization
- ⭐ Return YouTube Dislike - View YouTube Dislikes / Web App / Discord
- ⭐ DeArrow or Clickbait Remover - Reduce Sensationalism / Clickbait
- ⭐ UnTrap, TubeMod or Less Addictive YouTube - Distraction-Free YouTube
- ImprovedTube, YouTube Alchemy, Tweaks for YT, Magic Actions or Enhancer for YT / Note - YouTube Enhancement Extensions
- PKGA or YouTube WideScreen - Improved YouTube Theater Mode
- YouTube Hide Watched - Toggle Visibility of Watched Videos / Shorts
- Fast Forward YT Shorts - Add Seek Hotkeys to Shorts
- Thumbnail Rating Bar - Display Like / Dislike Ratio on Thumbnails
- YT Like-Dislike Shortcut - Add Like / Dislike Hotkeys
- YT: Not Interested - Show "Not Interested" and "Don't Recommend" Buttons
- YouTube Grid View - View Search Results in Grid View
- YouTube Search Fixer - Declutter Search Results / Homepage
- BlockTube or YTBlock - YouTube Content Blocker
- YouTube Fixes - YouTube Tweaks
- Restore Handle to Custom - Shows Display Name Instead of Handle
- Focused YouTube, yt-neuter or GoodTube - Minimalist YouTube
- YouTube Redux, VORAPIS / Extra Features / Discord or Cosmic Cat - Restore Classic YouTube Layout / /r/OldYouTubeLayout
- Non-Rounded Design - Revert YouTube's New Rounded Design
- Timestamped YouTube Comments - View Timestamped Comments
- Tabview YouTube - View Comments / Info in Tab View
▷ Players / Frontends
- ↪️ Android YouTube Apps / iOS
- ⭐ FreeTube - Local YouTube Frontend / GitHub
- ⭐ Invidious, Invuedious or Materialio - YouTube Frontends / Instances, 2 / TUI
- ⭐ GrayJay - Combines YouTube, Twitch, Rumble, etc. / Guide
- YouTube Notes - YouTube Note-Taking Frontend
- Walrus, Sync-Tube, YouTube Party or Hergetto - YouTube Watch Parties
- TwitchTheater, VidGrid, YouTube Multiplier or ViewSync - Watch Multiple YouTube Videos
- YouTube Clone KMP - YouTube Frontend
- Poke - YouTube Frontend
- Piped / 2 / 3 - YouTube Frontend
- Tube Cadence - YouTube Frontend
- youtube-local or yt-local - YouTube Frontend
- YouT-ube - YouTube Frontend
- Ytfzf or YewTube - Terminal YouTube Players
▷ Video Tools
- ↪️ Summarize YT Videos
- ↪️ Video Transcribers
- ⭐ SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsored Video Segments / Chromecast / Script, 2
- ⭐ polsy.org.uk - Video Region Restriction Checker
- Video Resumer - Remembers Where You Left Off in Video
- Jump Cutter - Skip Silent Parts of Videos
- Rotate YouTube Video - Rotate, Zoom, & Mirror Videos
- YouTube Upload Time - Check Exact Upload Time/Date of Videos
- Annotations Data Archive - Restore Video Annotations
- YouTube Metadata - YouTube Video Metadata Viewer
- YT Cutter or yt_clipper - Crop YouTube Videos / Create Clips
- Looptube - Loop YouTube Videos / Segments
- YourCodecs - Enable / Disable Player Codecs
- Video Speed Controller - Control Speed of YouTube Videos
▷ Playlist Tools
- ⭐ playlists.at - Playlist Creators / Chrome Extension
- TubeSync - Sync YouTube Channels / Playlists to a Media Server
- ytcc - Keep Track of Your Playlists
- Multiselect (Firefox) or Multiselect (Chrome) - Playlist Manager
- Playlist Randomizer - YouTube Playlist Randomizer
- playlist.tools - Reverse YouTube Playlists
- YT Playlist Length / 2 or Length Checker - Playlist Length Checkers
- YouTubePlaylistMerge - Playlist Merge Guide
▷ YouTube Downloaders
- 🌐 YT-DL GUI Index - List of YouTube Downloader GUIs
- ↪️ Multi-Site Downloaders
- ⭐ yt-dlp - YouTube CLI Downloader / Commands / Discord
- ⭐ JDownloader - YouTube Downloader App
- ⭐ cobalt - Multi-Site / Online Downloader / Instances / Playlist Support, 2
- ⭐ Parabolic or Tartube - Cross-Platform YT-DLP GUIs
- ⭐ YoutubeDownloader - YouTube Downloader App
- ⭐ AMP4 - YouTube Downloader / Online
- Stacher, oleksis youtube-dl-gui or StefanLobbenmeier youtube-dl-gui - Cross-Platform YT-DL GUIs
- yt-dlp-gui / Easy Installer, ytdlp-interface or Vividl - YT-DLP GUIs
- Cube YouTube Downloader - YouTube-DL GUI
- YTDL-PATCHED - YouTube CLI Downloader / YT-DLP Fork
- EZMP3 - YouTube Downloader / Online
- CNVMP3 - YouTube Downloader / Online
- Pinchflat, MeTube, YoutubeDL-Material or yt-dlp Web UI - Self-Hosted YT-DLP
- ytarchive - YouTube Livestream Downloader
- YTI, YTThumbnailHD, Get Thumbs, YT Thumbnail Grabber or thumbnail-download - Download Video Thumbnails
- youtube-comment-downloader - Download YouTube Comments
- YT Subtitle Downloader - Download Video Subtitles
▷ YouTube Search
- 🌐 YouTube_Channels - YouTube Channel Index
- ⭐ Favoree or ChannelCrawler - Discover YouTube Channels
- ⭐ YouTube Advanced Search - Search Engine
- ⭐ Filmot or CTRL-F-VIDEO - Search within YouTube Transcripts / Firefox / Chrome
- comb.io, clip.cafe, InPhrase or Yarn / 2 - Clip / Phrase Search Engines
- yt-fts - Full-Text Search of Subtitles from Channels / Videos
- Icono - Description-Based Video Search / Discord
- MW Geofind or TubeTrotter - Find Geotagged Videos
- YT Comment Viewer, CommentShark, Hadzy or YCF - YouTube Comment Search
- Tokin - Find Trending / Hidden Gem Videos
- Project Random or petittube - Find Videos with <100 Views
- Find-Unfinished-YT - Find Partially Watched Videos
- IMG_0001 - Find Random YouTube Videos
▷ YouTube Archiving
- ⭐ YouTube Video Finder - Multi-Site Archive Search / GitHub
- Tubeup - YouTube Video to IA Uploader
- Tube Archivist - Self-Hosted YouTube Media Server / GitHub
- yark - YouTube Channel Archiver
- Filmot - Search Unlisted Videos
- Hobune or PreserveTube - YouTube Video Archives
- youtubecrawl - Captures of Pages From YouTube (IA)
- Filmot Title Restorer, quite a playlist or RecoverMy.Video - Restore Titles of Deleted / Private Videos
► Twitch Tools
- 🌐 SullyGnome - Twitch Tool Index
- 🌐 Twitch Extensions - Twitch Extensions Index
- ⭐ FrankerFacez, BetterTTV or 7TV - Twitch Enhancement Extensions
- ⭐ TwitchNoSub or Sub-Vod - Watch Sub Only Twitch Videos
- ⭐ Stream Scheme - Livestreaming Guides / Resources
- Gumbo or Twitch-Live - Twitch Stream Trackers
- HypeTrigger - Automatically Create Clips
- Twitch Clip Search - Search for Clips
- VODarchive or TwitchArchive - Twitch Video Archives
- Twitch Previews or Previews - Twitch Video Previews
- Unwanted Twitch - Hide Twitch Categories / Channels
- vTwitch - Show Chat Below Player
- JChat - Show Twitch Chat on Screen
- Hide-Twitch-Chat-Users - Hide Twitch Chat Users
- TwitchChatDanmaku, Transparent-Twitch-Chat or Transparent Twitch Chat Overlay - Transparent Twitch Chat
- Screenshot Twitch - Add Screenshot Button to Twitch
- Auto-Claim-Twitch-Channel-Points or TTVDropBot - Auto Claim Twitch Points
- Twitch Drops Miner - Auto Claim Twitch Drops
- TwitchRSS or twitchrss - Twitch RSS Generators
- Streamlink Twitch GUI - Twitch Browser for Streamlink
- get stream - Extract Twitch URLs
- Lurker.tv - Discord Server-Based Twitch Stream Recs
- Twitch TV OBS Subtitles - Add Subtitles to Twitch Stream
- StreamLadder - Social Media Templates for Twitch Clips
- TwitchLeak - Twitch Top Earners Table
- TwitchQuotes - Twitch Copypastas
- TwitchEmotes - Global Twitch Emotes
- ChatGuessr - GeoGuessr for Twitch
- TwitchInsights, StreamCharts or TwitchTracker - Twitch Stats
- Trovo, Kick, dlive, Caffeine, Lightspeed or Theta - Twitch Alternatives
▷ Twitch Players
- ⭐ Chatterino / 2, Chatterino Homies or Chatty - Twitch Chat Clients
- Orion, Twitch App or Tress - Twitch Desktop Clients
- SpeechChat - Twitch Text to Speech Client
- Twitch Lite, SafeTwitch or Twineo - Twitch Frontends
- Walrus - Make Twitch Watch Parties
- MultiTwitch.tv, MultiTwitch.co, Twitch3D, Multi, MultiStre.am, MultiStreamer or TwitchTheater - Twitch Multi-Stream
- Twitchls - HTML5 Twitch Stream Player
- nobody.live or Twitch Roulette - Random Stream Roulette
- Alternate Player for Twitch.tv - Alternative Twitch Player
- Twitch Replay - Twitch Video Player
- Twitch Lurker - Twitch Stream Auto-Open
▷ Twitch Adblockers
- 🌐 TwitchAdSolutions - Solutions / Scripts for Blocking Twitch Ads
- ⭐ AdGuardExtra - Twitch Adblocker
- TTV LOL PRO - Twitch Adblocker / Proxies
- PurpleAdblock - Twitch Adblocker
- luminous-ttv - Twitch Adblocker
- PurpleTV / Alpha / Telegram or TwitchAdBlock - Mobile Ad-Free Twitch Apps
▷ Twitch Downloaders
- ClipsGameLab, Twiclips or clipsey - Video Downloaders
- twitch-dl, twitch-downloader or Twitch clips downloader - CLI Video Downloaders
- Twitch Downloader or TwitchLink - Desktop Video Downloaders
- TwitchRecover - Recover / View / Download Twitch Videos
- Twitch-Chat-Downloader - Download Twitch Chat Messages
► Twitter/X Tools
- ⭐ Trends24 or GetDayTrends - Trending Hashtags Trackers
- ⭐ /r/Twitter - X.com Subreddit
- Typefully - Schedule Tweets
- twstalker, X Cancelled or nitter, 2 / Instances, 2 - X.com Frontends
- Chirr App - Turn Articles into X.com Threads / Firefox / Chrome
- Klear - Find Influencers
- FollowerWonk - Find / Analyze / Optimize Followers
- Scoutzen - Search X.com Use Lists
- Community Notes Leaderboard - X.com Community Notes Leaderboard
- Hoaxy - Twitter Info Spread Data
- tinfoleak - View Your Geosocial Footprint
- Twitter Mass Unfollow - X.com Unfollow Tool
- Twitter Detector - Detect X.com Link on a Page
▷ Twitter/X Archiving
- Thread Safe - Twitter Backup Tool
- TwitterMediaHarvest or InThisTweet - Twitter Media Downloader
- GetVideoBot or sssTwitter - Download Twitter Videos
- Pikaso - Twitter Screenshot Bot
- memory.lol - Twitter Account Archive
- Ghost Archive or Megalodon - Twitter Archive Services
- Twitter Archive Parser or twitter-web-exporter - Tweet Archivers
- Twayback Machine - View Users' Old Tweets
- TweetedAt - View Tweet Dates
▷ Twitter/X Customization
- ⭐ Eight Dollars - Show Twitter Blue vs. Real Verified Users
- Control Panel for Twitter - Twitter Enhancement Extensions
- Minimal Twitter - Minimal Twitter Themes
- OldTwitter or GoodTwitter2 - Original Twitter Theme
- OldTweetDeck - Twitter Dashboard
- Twitter Plus - View Twitter Images in Original Quality
- Twitter Demetricator - Remove All Twitter Metrics
- Thread Reader App - Unroll Twitter Threads / Search
- Hide Content Warning or Disable Blur - Remove Sensitive Content Blur
► Facebook Tools
- ⭐ Facebook Ad Filters - Facebook Filters
- FBPurity - Facebook Enhancement Extensions
- Caprine - Facebook Desktop Messenger
- Social Tools - Block "Sending" & "Seen" Facebook Chat Indicators
- Charcoal Dark Mode - Facebook Messenger Dark Mode
- Facebook Matrix - Facebook Search Formulas
- Graph.tips - Advanced Facebook Search Tool
- WhoPostedWhat - Facebook Post Search
- FB.Zone - Color Themes for Facebook
- Kill Fbclid or Remove FBclid - Removes fbclid and utm_ Query Parameters in URLs
- News Feed Eradicator - Hide Facebook News Feed
- Lookup ID - Find Facebook ID
- Unlike-Everything - Remove All Facebook Likes
► Instagram Tools
- 🌐 Instagram Tools - Multiple Tools
- 🌐 Instagram Search Tools - Search Tool
- ↪️ Instagram Viewers / Downloaders - View Profiles / Download Pictures
- ⭐ Redirect Logins - Redirect Instagram Login
- InstaFix - Fix Instagram Embeds on Discord / GitHub
- Proxigram or Imginn - Instagram Frontends
- otzberg or Find-User-ID - ID Finder
- Image Counter - Count Page Images
- InstaAddict - Instagram Addiction Test
- Unfollow-Everyone - Bulk Instagram Unfollow
- InstagramUnfollowers - Check Who Follows Back / GitHub
- Instagram Experiments Guide
► Tumblr Tools
- Tumlook, Tumgik or PriviBlur - Tumblr Frontends
- Pillowfort - Tumblr Alternatives
- tumblr-utils - Tumblr Utilities
- XKit - Tumblr Enhancement Extension
- tumbex - Tumblr Search
- Outbox for Tumblr - Tumblr Outbox
- TumblrOriginalPostFinder - Tumblr Post Finder
- Tumbl Backup Guide or TumblThree - Tumblr Backup Tools
- Palettes for Tumblr - Tumblr Palettes
- Filtering Plus - Improved Filtering
► Fediverse Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Bluesky or BlueskyDirectory - Bluesky Resources
- 🌐 Fediverse.Party - Fediverse Software Index
- ⭐ Fediverse Observer - Fediverse Instances
- ⭐ Bluesky - Federated Twitter Alternative / App Directory / Twitter Import, 2 / TUI / Dashboard
- FediDB or The Federation - Network Statistics
- Fedi.Tips - Fediverse Guide
- FediSearch - Fediverse Search
- Fedi.Garden - Curated User Directory
- Fediverse People Directory - Self-Submitted User Directory
- Hubzilla Public Sites - Hubzilla Instances
- Friendica Directory - Friendica Instances
- DarkSky - Bluesky Client
- Diaspora or Friendica - Decentralized Social Netoworks
- FediverseRedirect - Frontend Redirect
- Bridgy Fed - Fediverse Bridge
- PodcastAP - Podcast Feed Bridge
- The Fediverse Report - Fediverse News
- FediBuzz - Fediverse Trends
▷ Mastodon Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Mastodon, 2 - Mastodon Resources
- ⭐ instances.social or Mastodon Near Me - Mastodon Instances
- ⭐ Mastodon Apps - Mastodon Client List
- Phanpy or Mastodeck - Mastodon Clients
- MastoVue or FediWall - View Public Timelines / Hashtags
- Followgraph or StreetPass - Find Mastodon Users
- MastoGizmos - Mastodon Search Tools
- western.social - User Search
- Tootfinder - Opt-In Full Text Search
- Mastodon Scheduler or FediPlan - Schedule Posts
- Mastodon List Manager or Mastodon Lists Manager - Bulk List Editors
- Mastodon Share Bookmarklet Creator - Quick Share Bookmarklet
- fedv.link - Mastodon Link Redirect
- Mastodon Embed Timeline or Mastofeed - Embedded Mastodon Feeds
- Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! - Create Bots
- emojos.in - Mastodon Custom Emoji Lists
- MastoMetrics - Mastodon Analytics
▷ Lemmy Tools
- ⭐ Lemmy Explorer or Awesome Lemmy Instances - Lemmy Instances
- ⭐ Lemmy Apps - Lemmy Client List
- ⭐ Divisions by zero - Piracy Focused Instance
- Quiblr - Lemmy Instance Browser / GitHub
- Fediverser - Reddit to Lemmy Community Auto-Sync
- LemmyTools - Lemmy Improvement Extension
▷ Pixelfed Tools
- 🌐 Pixelfed Apps - Pixelfed Client List
- The Federation Pixelfed - Pixelfed Instances
- FediDB Pixelfed - Pixelfed Instances
- Fediverse Observer Pixelfed - Pixelfed Instances
- Pixelfed.social - Pixelfed Instance
▷ Peertube Tools
- 🌐 Peertube Apps - Peertube Client List
- Sepia Search, 2 - Peertube Search Engine
- Peertube Instances, 2 - Peertube Instances
- The Federation Peertube - Peertube Instances
- FediDB Peertube - Peertube Instances
- Fediverse Observer Peertube - Peertube Instances
► 4chan Tools
- ⭐ AnyChans - 4chan Web Clients
- ⭐ 4chan X, SpookyX, 4chan XT or Dollchan - Enhancement Extensions
- Lurka - Desktop Client
- RedditChan - Reddit Style 4chan Web Client
- 4Webm - Load All Webm Videos in 4chan Thread
- 4stats - 4chan Board / Thread Stats
- Mass Reply or Reply All - Mass Reply on 4chan
- Anon Files Names - Anonymizes File Names
- 4chan GhostPostMixer - Interleave Deleted Posts from Archives
- Tripgen - Imageboard Trip Code Generator
- 4chan Captcha Solver - Auto Captcha Solvers
- Bypass Derefer - Remove Link Derefer
- Extra Flags for 4chan - Add More Flags to 4chan
- ss21, OneeChan or 4cheddit - 4chan Themes
▷ 4chan Archives
- ⭐ boards.4channel, 2 - 4chan Archives
- 4chanSearch or 4search - Search 4chan Archives
- Oldfriend Archive - 2004 - 2014 Archive
- Ten Billion or 4Museum - 2006 - 2008 Archive
- 4GBs of 4chan Threads - 2009 - 2012 Archive
- Archive.4plebs - 2013 - 2023 Archive
- BibAnon - Vyrd's Archive
- Yotsuba Catalog - Yotsuba Archive
- sup/tg/, Palanq.win, Desuarchive, Archived.Moe or The /b/ Archive - Misc 4chan Archives
► Blogging Tools
- ⭐ Bear Blog, Mataroa or smol.pub / Key - Minimalist Blogging Platforms
- Telescope - Publishing Platform
- Arbital - Hybrid Blogging / Wiki Platform
- Dreamwidth - Blogging Platform
- Haven or WriteFreely - Self-Hosted Blogging Platforms
- Notepin - Anonymous Blogging Platform
- Zonelets - Static Blog Template
- twtxt - Decentralized Minimalist Microblogging Service
- Emanates Docs - Make GitHub-Based Blogs
- CoverView - Blog Banner Creator
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2025-04-30 02:50:55Photography, to me, is a game - a game of snatching absurd, beautiful, fleeting moments from life. Anything staged or overly polished falls into what Garry Winogrand nails as “illustration work.” I’m with him on that. Photography is about staying awake to the world, to the “physical reality” or circumstances we’re steeped in, and burning that light onto film emulsion (or pixels now), locking a moment into matter forever. It’s not like painting, where brushstrokes mimic what’s seen, felt, or imagined. Photography captures photons - light itself - and turns it into something tangible. The camera, honestly, doesn’t get enough credit for being such a wild invention.
Lately, I’ve been chewing on what to do with a batch of new photos I’ve shot over the past month, which includes photographs from a film project, a trip to Manhattan and photos of David Byrne (more on that in another post). Maybe it's another photo-zine that I should make. It’s been a minute since my last one, Hiding in Hudson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7_t0OldrTk&t=339s). Putting out printed work like zines or books is killer practice — it forces you to sharpen your compositions, your vision, your whole deal as a photographer. Proof of work, you know?
This leads to a question: anyone out there down to help or collab on printing a photo-zine? I’d love to keep it DIY, steering clear of big companies.
In the spirit of getting back into a rhythm of daily shooting, here are a few recent shots from the past few days. Just wandering aimlessly around my neighborhood — bike rides, grocery runs, wherever I end up.
Camera used: Leica M262
Edited with: Lightroom + Dehancer Film
*Support my work and the funding for my new zine by sending a few sats: colincz@getalby.com *
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2025-04-20 19:54:32Es ist völlig unbestritten, dass der Angriff der russischen Armee auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 strikt zu verurteilen ist. Ebenso unbestritten ist Russland unter Wladimir Putin keine brillante Demokratie. Aus diesen Tatsachen lässt sich jedoch nicht das finstere Bild des russischen Präsidenten – und erst recht nicht des Landes – begründen, das uns durchweg vorgesetzt wird und den Kern des aktuellen europäischen Bedrohungs-Szenarios darstellt. Da müssen wir schon etwas genauer hinschauen.
Der vorliegende Artikel versucht derweil nicht, den Einsatz von Gewalt oder die Verletzung von Menschenrechten zu rechtfertigen oder zu entschuldigen – ganz im Gegenteil. Dass jedoch der Verdacht des «Putinverstehers» sofort latent im Raume steht, verdeutlicht, was beim Thema «Russland» passiert: Meinungsmache und Manipulation.
Angesichts der mentalen Mobilmachung seitens Politik und Medien sowie des Bestrebens, einen bevorstehenden Krieg mit Russland geradezu herbeizureden, ist es notwendig, dieser fatalen Entwicklung entgegenzutreten. Wenn wir uns nur ein wenig von der herrschenden Schwarz-Weiß-Malerei freimachen, tauchen automatisch Fragen auf, die Risse im offiziellen Narrativ enthüllen. Grund genug, nachzuhaken.
Wer sich schon länger auch abseits der Staats- und sogenannten Leitmedien informiert, der wird in diesem Artikel vermutlich nicht viel Neues erfahren. Andere könnten hier ein paar unbekannte oder vergessene Aspekte entdecken. Möglicherweise klärt sich in diesem Kontext die Wahrnehmung der aktuellen (unserer eigenen!) Situation ein wenig.
Manipulation erkennen
Corona-«Pandemie», menschengemachter Klimawandel oder auch Ukraine-Krieg: Jede Menge Krisen, und für alle gibt es ein offizielles Narrativ, dessen Hinterfragung unerwünscht ist. Nun ist aber ein Narrativ einfach eine Erzählung, eine Geschichte (Latein: «narratio») und kein Tatsachenbericht. Und so wie ein Märchen soll auch das Narrativ eine Botschaft vermitteln.
Über die Methoden der Manipulation ist viel geschrieben worden, sowohl in Bezug auf das Individuum als auch auf die Massen. Sehr wertvolle Tipps dazu, wie man Manipulationen durchschauen kann, gibt ein Büchlein [1] von Albrecht Müller, dem Herausgeber der NachDenkSeiten.
Die Sprache selber eignet sich perfekt für die Manipulation. Beispielsweise kann die Wortwahl Bewertungen mitschwingen lassen, regelmäßiges Wiederholen (gerne auch von verschiedenen Seiten) lässt Dinge irgendwann «wahr» erscheinen, Übertreibungen fallen auf und hinterlassen wenigstens eine Spur im Gedächtnis, genauso wie Andeutungen. Belege spielen dabei keine Rolle.
Es gibt auffällig viele Sprachregelungen, die offenbar irgendwo getroffen und irgendwie koordiniert werden. Oder alle Redenschreiber und alle Medien kopieren sich neuerdings permanent gegenseitig. Welchen Zweck hat es wohl, wenn der Krieg in der Ukraine durchgängig und quasi wörtlich als «russischer Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine» bezeichnet wird? Obwohl das in der Sache richtig ist, deutet die Art der Verwendung auf gezielte Beeinflussung hin und soll vor allem das Feindbild zementieren.
Sprachregelungen dienen oft der Absicherung einer einseitigen Darstellung. Das Gleiche gilt für das Verkürzen von Informationen bis hin zum hartnäckigen Verschweigen ganzer Themenbereiche. Auch hierfür gibt es rund um den Ukraine-Konflikt viele gute Beispiele.
Das gewünschte Ergebnis solcher Methoden ist eine Schwarz-Weiß-Malerei, bei der einer eindeutig als «der Böse» markiert ist und die anderen automatisch «die Guten» sind. Das ist praktisch und demonstriert gleichzeitig ein weiteres Manipulationswerkzeug: die Verwendung von Doppelstandards. Wenn man es schafft, bei wichtigen Themen regelmäßig mit zweierlei Maß zu messen, ohne dass das Publikum protestiert, dann hat man freie Bahn.
Experten zu bemühen, um bestimmte Sachverhalte zu erläutern, ist sicher sinnvoll, kann aber ebenso missbraucht werden, schon allein durch die Auswahl der jeweiligen Spezialisten. Seit «Corona» werden viele erfahrene und ehemals hoch angesehene Fachleute wegen der «falschen Meinung» diffamiert und gecancelt. [2] Das ist nicht nur ein brutaler Umgang mit Menschen, sondern auch eine extreme Form, die öffentliche Meinung zu steuern.
Wann immer wir also erkennen (weil wir aufmerksam waren), dass wir bei einem bestimmten Thema manipuliert werden, dann sind zwei logische und notwendige Fragen: Warum? Und was ist denn richtig? In unserem Russland-Kontext haben die Antworten darauf viel mit Geopolitik und Geschichte zu tun.
Ist Russland aggressiv und expansiv?
Angeblich plant Russland, europäische NATO-Staaten anzugreifen, nach dem Motto: «Zuerst die Ukraine, dann den Rest». In Deutschland weiß man dafür sogar das Datum: «Wir müssen bis 2029 kriegstüchtig sein», versichert Verteidigungsminister Pistorius.
Historisch gesehen ist es allerdings eher umgekehrt: Russland, bzw. die Sowjetunion, ist bereits dreimal von Westeuropa aus militärisch angegriffen worden. Die Feldzüge Napoleons, des deutschen Kaiserreichs und Nazi-Deutschlands haben Millionen Menschen das Leben gekostet. Bei dem ausdrücklichen Vernichtungskrieg ab 1941 kam es außerdem zu Brutalitäten wie der zweieinhalbjährigen Belagerung Leningrads (heute St. Petersburg) durch Hitlers Wehrmacht. Deren Ziel, die Bevölkerung auszuhungern, wurde erreicht: über eine Million tote Zivilisten.
Trotz dieser Erfahrungen stimmte Michail Gorbatschow 1990 der deutschen Wiedervereinigung zu und die Sowjetunion zog ihre Truppen aus Osteuropa zurück (vgl. Abb. 1). Der Warschauer Pakt wurde aufgelöst, der Kalte Krieg formell beendet. Die Sowjets erhielten damals von führenden westlichen Politikern die Zusicherung, dass sich die NATO «keinen Zentimeter ostwärts» ausdehnen würde, das ist dokumentiert. [3]
Expandiert ist die NATO trotzdem, und zwar bis an Russlands Grenzen (vgl. Abb. 2). Laut dem Politikberater Jeffrey Sachs handelt es sich dabei um ein langfristiges US-Projekt, das von Anfang an die Ukraine und Georgien mit einschloss. Offiziell wurde der Beitritt beiden Staaten 2008 angeboten. In jedem Fall könnte die massive Ost-Erweiterung seit 1999 aus russischer Sicht nicht nur als Vertrauensbruch, sondern durchaus auch als aggressiv betrachtet werden.
Russland hat den europäischen Staaten mehrfach die Hand ausgestreckt [4] für ein friedliches Zusammenleben und den «Aufbau des europäischen Hauses». Präsident Putin sei «in seiner ersten Amtszeit eine Chance für Europa» gewesen, urteilt die Journalistin und langjährige Russland-Korrespondentin der ARD, Gabriele Krone-Schmalz. Er habe damals viele positive Signale Richtung Westen gesendet.
Die Europäer jedoch waren scheinbar an einer Partnerschaft mit dem kontinentalen Nachbarn weniger interessiert als an der mit dem transatlantischen Hegemon. Sie verkennen bis heute, dass eine gedeihliche Zusammenarbeit in Eurasien eine Gefahr für die USA und deren bekundetes Bestreben ist, die «einzige Weltmacht» zu sein – «Full Spectrum Dominance» [5] nannte das Pentagon das. Statt einem neuen Kalten Krieg entgegenzuarbeiten, ließen sich europäische Staaten selber in völkerrechtswidrige «US-dominierte Angriffskriege» [6] verwickeln, wie in Serbien, Afghanistan, dem Irak, Libyen oder Syrien. Diese werden aber selten so benannt.
Speziell den Deutschen stünde außer einer Portion Realismus auch etwas mehr Dankbarkeit gut zu Gesicht. Das Geschichtsbewusstsein der Mehrheit scheint doch recht selektiv und das Selbstbewusstsein einiger etwas desorientiert zu sein. Bekanntermaßen waren es die Soldaten der sowjetischen Roten Armee, die unter hohen Opfern 1945 Deutschland «vom Faschismus befreit» haben. Bei den Gedenkfeiern zu 80 Jahren Kriegsende will jedoch das Auswärtige Amt – noch unter der Diplomatie-Expertin Baerbock, die sich schon länger offiziell im Krieg mit Russland wähnt, – nun keine Russen sehen: Sie sollen notfalls rausgeschmissen werden.
«Die Grundsatzfrage lautet: Geht es Russland um einen angemessenen Platz in einer globalen Sicherheitsarchitektur, oder ist Moskau schon seit langem auf einem imperialistischen Trip, der befürchten lassen muss, dass die Russen in fünf Jahren in Berlin stehen?»
So bringt Gabriele Krone-Schmalz [7] die eigentliche Frage auf den Punkt, die zur Einschätzung der Situation letztlich auch jeder für sich beantworten muss.
Was ist los in der Ukraine?
In der internationalen Politik geht es nie um Demokratie oder Menschenrechte, sondern immer um Interessen von Staaten. Diese These stammt von Egon Bahr, einem der Architekten der deutschen Ostpolitik des «Wandels durch Annäherung» aus den 1960er und 70er Jahren. Sie trifft auch auf den Ukraine-Konflikt zu, den handfeste geostrategische und wirtschaftliche Interessen beherrschen, obwohl dort angeblich «unsere Demokratie» verteidigt wird.
Es ist ein wesentliches Element des Ukraine-Narrativs und Teil der Manipulation, die Vorgeschichte des Krieges wegzulassen – mindestens die vor der russischen «Annexion» der Halbinsel Krim im März 2014, aber oft sogar komplett diejenige vor der Invasion Ende Februar 2022. Das Thema ist komplex, aber einige Aspekte, die für eine Beurteilung nicht unwichtig sind, will ich wenigstens kurz skizzieren. [8]
Das Gebiet der heutigen Ukraine und Russlands – die übrigens in der «Kiewer Rus» gemeinsame Wurzeln haben – hat der britische Geostratege Halford Mackinder bereits 1904 als eurasisches «Heartland» bezeichnet, dessen Kontrolle er eine große Bedeutung für die imperiale Strategie Großbritanniens zumaß. Für den ehemaligen Sicherheits- und außenpolitischen Berater mehrerer US-amerikanischer Präsidenten und Mitgründer der Trilateralen Kommission, Zbigniew Brzezinski, war die Ukraine nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion ein wichtiger Spielstein auf dem «eurasischen Schachbrett», wegen seiner Nähe zu Russland, seiner Bodenschätze und seines Zugangs zum Schwarzen Meer.
Die Ukraine ist seit langem ein gespaltenes Land. Historisch zerrissen als Spielball externer Interessen und geprägt von ethnischen, kulturellen, religiösen und geografischen Unterschieden existiert bis heute, grob gesagt, eine Ost-West-Spaltung, welche die Suche nach einer nationalen Identität stark erschwert.
Insbesondere im Zuge der beiden Weltkriege sowie der Russischen Revolution entstanden tiefe Risse in der Bevölkerung. Ukrainer kämpften gegen Ukrainer, zum Beispiel die einen auf der Seite von Hitlers faschistischer Nazi-Armee und die anderen auf der von Stalins kommunistischer Roter Armee. Die Verbrechen auf beiden Seiten sind nicht vergessen. Dass nach der Unabhängigkeit 1991 versucht wurde, Figuren wie den radikalen Nationalisten Symon Petljura oder den Faschisten und Nazi-Kollaborateur Stepan Bandera als «Nationalhelden» zu installieren, verbessert die Sache nicht.
Während die USA und EU-Staaten zunehmend «ausländische Einmischung» (speziell russische) in «ihre Demokratien» wittern, betreiben sie genau dies seit Jahrzehnten in vielen Ländern der Welt. Die seit den 2000er Jahren bekannten «Farbrevolutionen» in Osteuropa werden oft als Methode des Regierungsumsturzes durch von außen gesteuerte «demokratische» Volksaufstände beschrieben. Diese Strategie geht auf Analysen zum «Schwarmverhalten» [9] seit den 1960er Jahren zurück (Studentenproteste), wo es um die potenzielle Wirksamkeit einer «rebellischen Hysterie» von Jugendlichen bei postmodernen Staatsstreichen geht. Heute nennt sich dieses gezielte Kanalisieren der Massen zur Beseitigung unkooperativer Regierungen «Soft-Power».
In der Ukraine gab es mit der «Orangen Revolution» 2004 und dem «Euromaidan» 2014 gleich zwei solcher «Aufstände». Der erste erzwang wegen angeblicher Unregelmäßigkeiten eine Wiederholung der Wahlen, was mit Wiktor Juschtschenko als neuem Präsidenten endete. Dieser war ehemaliger Direktor der Nationalbank und Befürworter einer Annäherung an EU und NATO. Seine Frau, die First Lady, ist US-amerikanische «Philanthropin» und war Beamtin im Weißen Haus in der Reagan- und der Bush-Administration.
Im Gegensatz zu diesem ersten Event endete der sogenannte Euromaidan unfriedlich und blutig. Die mehrwöchigen Proteste gegen Präsident Wiktor Janukowitsch, in Teilen wegen des nicht unterzeichneten Assoziierungsabkommens mit der EU, wurden zunehmend gewalttätiger und von Nationalisten und Faschisten des «Rechten Sektors» dominiert. Sie mündeten Ende Februar 2014 auf dem Kiewer Unabhängigkeitsplatz (Maidan) in einem Massaker durch Scharfschützen. Dass deren Herkunft und die genauen Umstände nicht geklärt wurden, störte die Medien nur wenig. [10]
Janukowitsch musste fliehen, er trat nicht zurück. Vielmehr handelte es sich um einen gewaltsamen, allem Anschein nach vom Westen inszenierten Putsch. Laut Jeffrey Sachs war das kein Geheimnis, außer vielleicht für die Bürger. Die USA unterstützten die Post-Maidan-Regierung nicht nur, sie beeinflussten auch ihre Bildung. Das geht unter anderem aus dem berühmten «Fuck the EU»-Telefonat der US-Chefdiplomatin für die Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, mit Botschafter Geoffrey Pyatt hervor.
Dieser Bruch der demokratischen Verfassung war letztlich der Auslöser für die anschließenden Krisen auf der Krim und im Donbass (Ostukraine). Angesichts der ukrainischen Geschichte mussten die nationalistischen Tendenzen und die Beteiligung der rechten Gruppen an dem Umsturz bei der russigsprachigen Bevölkerung im Osten ungute Gefühle auslösen. Es gab Kritik an der Übergangsregierung, Befürworter einer Abspaltung und auch für einen Anschluss an Russland.
Ebenso konnte Wladimir Putin in dieser Situation durchaus Bedenken wegen des Status der russischen Militärbasis für seine Schwarzmeerflotte in Sewastopol auf der Krim haben, für die es einen langfristigen Pachtvertrag mit der Ukraine gab. Was im März 2014 auf der Krim stattfand, sei keine Annexion, sondern eine Abspaltung (Sezession) nach einem Referendum gewesen, also keine gewaltsame Aneignung, urteilte der Rechtswissenschaftler Reinhard Merkel in der FAZ sehr detailliert begründet. Übrigens hatte die Krim bereits zu Zeiten der Sowjetunion den Status einer autonomen Republik innerhalb der Ukrainischen SSR.
Anfang April 2014 wurden in der Ostukraine die «Volksrepubliken» Donezk und Lugansk ausgerufen. Die Kiewer Übergangsregierung ging unter der Bezeichnung «Anti-Terror-Operation» (ATO) militärisch gegen diesen, auch von Russland instrumentalisierten Widerstand vor. Zufällig war kurz zuvor CIA-Chef John Brennan in Kiew. Die Maßnahmen gingen unter dem seit Mai neuen ukrainischen Präsidenten, dem Milliardär Petro Poroschenko, weiter. Auch Wolodymyr Selenskyj beendete den Bürgerkrieg nicht, als er 2019 vom Präsidenten-Schauspieler, der Oligarchen entmachtet, zum Präsidenten wurde. Er fuhr fort, die eigene Bevölkerung zu bombardieren.
Mit dem Einmarsch russischer Truppen in die Ostukraine am 24. Februar 2022 begann die zweite Phase des Krieges. Die Wochen und Monate davor waren intensiv. Im November hatte die Ukraine mit den USA ein Abkommen über eine «strategische Partnerschaft» unterzeichnet. Darin sagten die Amerikaner ihre Unterstützung der EU- und NATO-Perspektive der Ukraine sowie quasi für die Rückeroberung der Krim zu. Dagegen ließ Putin der NATO und den USA im Dezember 2021 einen Vertragsentwurf über beiderseitige verbindliche Sicherheitsgarantien zukommen, den die NATO im Januar ablehnte. Im Februar eskalierte laut OSZE die Gewalt im Donbass.
Bereits wenige Wochen nach der Invasion, Ende März 2022, kam es in Istanbul zu Friedensverhandlungen, die fast zu einer Lösung geführt hätten. Dass der Krieg nicht damals bereits beendet wurde, lag daran, dass der Westen dies nicht wollte. Man war der Meinung, Russland durch die Ukraine in diesem Stellvertreterkrieg auf Dauer militärisch schwächen zu können. Angesichts von Hunderttausenden Toten, Verletzten und Traumatisierten, die als Folge seitdem zu beklagen sind, sowie dem Ausmaß der Zerstörung, fehlen einem die Worte.
Hasst der Westen die Russen?
Diese Frage drängt sich auf, wenn man das oft unerträglich feindselige Gebaren beobachtet, das beileibe nicht neu ist und vor Doppelmoral trieft. Russland und speziell die Person Wladimir Putins werden regelrecht dämonisiert, was gleichzeitig scheinbar jede Form von Diplomatie ausschließt.
Russlands militärische Stärke, seine geografische Lage, sein Rohstoffreichtum oder seine unabhängige diplomatische Tradition sind sicher Störfaktoren für das US-amerikanische Bestreben, der Boss in einer unipolaren Welt zu sein. Ein womöglich funktionierender eurasischer Kontinent, insbesondere gute Beziehungen zwischen Russland und Deutschland, war indes schon vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg eine Sorge des britischen Imperiums.
Ein «Vergehen» von Präsident Putin könnte gewesen sein, dass er die neoliberale Schocktherapie à la IWF und den Ausverkauf des Landes (auch an US-Konzerne) beendete, der unter seinem Vorgänger herrschte. Dabei zeigte er sich als Führungspersönlichkeit und als nicht so formbar wie Jelzin. Diese Aspekte allein sind aber heute vermutlich keine ausreichende Erklärung für ein derart gepflegtes Feindbild.
Der Historiker und Philosoph Hauke Ritz erweitert den Fokus der Fragestellung zu: «Warum hasst der Westen die Russen so sehr?», was er zum Beispiel mit dem Medienforscher Michael Meyen und mit der Politikwissenschaftlerin Ulrike Guérot bespricht. Ritz stellt die interessante These [11] auf, dass Russland eine Provokation für den Westen sei, welcher vor allem dessen kulturelles und intellektuelles Potenzial fürchte.
Die Russen sind Europäer aber anders, sagt Ritz. Diese «Fremdheit in der Ähnlichkeit» erzeuge vielleicht tiefe Ablehnungsgefühle. Obwohl Russlands Identität in der europäischen Kultur verwurzelt ist, verbinde es sich immer mit der Opposition in Europa. Als Beispiele nennt er die Kritik an der katholischen Kirche oder die Verbindung mit der Arbeiterbewegung. Christen, aber orthodox; Sozialismus statt Liberalismus. Das mache das Land zum Antagonisten des Westens und zu einer Bedrohung der Machtstrukturen in Europa.
Fazit
Selbstverständlich kann man Geschichte, Ereignisse und Entwicklungen immer auf verschiedene Arten lesen. Dieser Artikel, obwohl viel zu lang, konnte nur einige Aspekte der Ukraine-Tragödie anreißen, die in den offiziellen Darstellungen in der Regel nicht vorkommen. Mindestens dürfte damit jedoch klar geworden sein, dass die Russische Föderation bzw. Wladimir Putin nicht der alleinige Aggressor in diesem Konflikt ist. Das ist ein Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen USA/NATO (gut) und Russland (böse); die Ukraine (edel) wird dabei schlicht verheizt.
Das ist insofern von Bedeutung, als die gesamte europäische Kriegshysterie auf sorgsam kultivierten Freund-Feind-Bildern beruht. Nur so kann Konfrontation und Eskalation betrieben werden, denn damit werden die wahren Hintergründe und Motive verschleiert. Angst und Propaganda sind notwendig, damit die Menschen den Wahnsinn mitmachen. Sie werden belogen, um sie zuerst zu schröpfen und anschließend auf die Schlachtbank zu schicken. Das kann niemand wollen, außer den stets gleichen Profiteuren: die Rüstungs-Lobby und die großen Investoren, die schon immer an Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau verdient haben.
Apropos Investoren: Zu den Top-Verdienern und somit Hauptinteressenten an einer Fortführung des Krieges zählt BlackRock, einer der weltgrößten Vermögensverwalter. Der deutsche Bundeskanzler in spe, Friedrich Merz, der gerne «Taurus»-Marschflugkörper an die Ukraine liefern und die Krim-Brücke zerstören möchte, war von 2016 bis 2020 Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender von BlackRock in Deutschland. Aber das hat natürlich nichts zu sagen, der Mann macht nur seinen Job.
Es ist ein Spiel der Kräfte, es geht um Macht und strategische Kontrolle, um Geheimdienste und die Kontrolle der öffentlichen Meinung, um Bodenschätze, Rohstoffe, Pipelines und Märkte. Das klingt aber nicht sexy, «Demokratie und Menschenrechte» hört sich besser und einfacher an. Dabei wäre eine für alle Seiten förderliche Politik auch nicht so kompliziert; das Handwerkszeug dazu nennt sich Diplomatie. Noch einmal Gabriele Krone-Schmalz:
«Friedliche Politik ist nichts anderes als funktionierender Interessenausgleich. Da geht’s nicht um Moral.»
Die Situation in der Ukraine ist sicher komplex, vor allem wegen der inneren Zerrissenheit. Es dürfte nicht leicht sein, eine friedliche Lösung für das Zusammenleben zu finden, aber die Beteiligten müssen es vor allem wollen. Unter den gegebenen Umständen könnte eine sinnvolle Perspektive mit Neutralität und föderalen Strukturen zu tun haben.
Allen, die sich bis hierher durch die Lektüre gearbeitet (oder auch einfach nur runtergescrollt) haben, wünsche ich frohe Oster-Friedenstage!
[Titelbild: Pixabay; Abb. 1 und 2: nach Ganser/SIPER; Abb. 3: SIPER]
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[1] Albrecht Müller, «Glaube wenig. Hinterfrage alles. Denke selbst.», Westend 2019
[2] Zwei nette Beispiele:
- ARD-faktenfinder (sic), «Viel Aufmerksamkeit für fragwürdige Experten», 03/2023
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung, «Aufstieg und Fall einer Russlandversteherin – die ehemalige ARD-Korrespondentin Gabriele Krone-Schmalz rechtfertigt seit Jahren Putins Politik», 12/2022
[3] George Washington University, «NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard – Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner», 12/2017
[4] Beispielsweise Wladimir Putin bei seiner Rede im Deutschen Bundestag, 25/09/2001
[5] William Engdahl, «Full Spectrum Dominance, Totalitarian Democracy In The New World Order», edition.engdahl 2009
[6] Daniele Ganser, «Illegale Kriege – Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren. Eine Chronik von Kuba bis Syrien», Orell Füssli 2016
[7] Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, «Mit Friedensjournalismus gegen ‘Kriegstüchtigkeit’», Vortrag und Diskussion an der Universität Hamburg, veranstaltet von engagierten Studenten, 16/01/2025\ → Hier ist ein ähnlicher Vortrag von ihr (Video), den ich mit spanischer Übersetzung gefunden habe.
[8] Für mehr Hintergrund und Details empfehlen sich z.B. folgende Bücher:
- Mathias Bröckers, Paul Schreyer, «Wir sind immer die Guten», Westend 2019
- Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, «Russland verstehen? Der Kampf um die Ukraine und die Arroganz des Westens», Westend 2023
- Patrik Baab, «Auf beiden Seiten der Front – Meine Reisen in die Ukraine», Fiftyfifty 2023
[9] vgl. Jonathan Mowat, «Washington's New World Order "Democratization" Template», 02/2005 und RAND Corporation, «Swarming and the Future of Conflict», 2000
[10] Bemerkenswert einige Beiträge, von denen man später nichts mehr wissen wollte:
- ARD Monitor, «Todesschüsse in Kiew: Wer ist für das Blutbad vom Maidan verantwortlich», 10/04/2014, Transkript hier
- Telepolis, «Blutbad am Maidan: Wer waren die Todesschützen?», 12/04/2014
- Telepolis, «Scharfschützenmorde in Kiew», 14/12/2014
- Deutschlandfunk, «Gefahr einer Spirale nach unten», Interview mit Günter Verheugen, 18/03/2014
- NDR Panorama, «Putsch in Kiew: Welche Rolle spielen die Faschisten?», 06/03/2014
[11] Hauke Ritz, «Vom Niedergang des Westens zur Neuerfindung Europas», 2024
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2025-04-18 15:53:07Verstand ohne Gefühl ist unmenschlich; \ Gefühl ohne Verstand ist Dummheit. \ Egon Bahr
Seit Jahren werden wir darauf getrimmt, dass Fakten eigentlich gefühlt seien. Aber nicht alles ist relativ und nicht alles ist nach Belieben interpretierbar. Diese Schokoladenhasen beispielsweise, die an Ostern in unseren Gefilden typisch sind, «ostern» zwar nicht, sondern sie sitzen in der Regel, trotzdem verwandelt sie das nicht in «Sitzhasen».
Nichts soll mehr gelten, außer den immer invasiveren Gesetzen. Die eigenen Traditionen und Wurzeln sind potenziell «pfui», um andere Menschen nicht auszuschließen, aber wir mögen uns toleranterweise an die fremden Symbole und Rituale gewöhnen. Dabei ist es mir prinzipiell völlig egal, ob und wann jemand ein Fastenbrechen feiert, am Karsamstag oder jedem anderen Tag oder nie – aber bitte freiwillig.
Und vor allem: Lasst die Finger von den Kindern! In Bern setzten kürzlich Demonstranten ein Zeichen gegen die zunehmende Verbreitung woker Ideologie im Bildungssystem und forderten ein Ende der sexuellen Indoktrination von Schulkindern.
Wenn es nicht wegen des heiklen Themas Migration oder wegen des Regenbogens ist, dann wegen des Klimas. Im Rahmen der «Netto Null»-Agenda zum Kampf gegen das angeblich teuflische CO2 sollen die Menschen ihre Ernährungsgewohnheiten komplett ändern. Nach dem Willen von Produzenten synthetischer Lebensmittel, wie Bill Gates, sollen wir baldmöglichst praktisch auf Fleisch und alle Milchprodukte wie Milch und Käse verzichten. Ein lukratives Geschäftsmodell, das neben der EU aktuell auch von einem britischen Lobby-Konsortium unterstützt wird.
Sollten alle ideologischen Stricke zu reißen drohen, ist da immer noch «der Putin». Die Unions-Europäer offenbaren sich dabei ständig mehr als Vertreter der Rüstungsindustrie. Allen voran zündelt Deutschland an der Kriegslunte, angeführt von einem scheinbar todesmutigen Kanzlerkandidaten Friedrich Merz. Nach dessen erneuter Aussage, «Taurus»-Marschflugkörper an Kiew liefern zu wollen, hat Russland eindeutig klargestellt, dass man dies als direkte Kriegsbeteiligung werten würde – «mit allen sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen für Deutschland».
Wohltuend sind Nachrichten über Aktivitäten, die sich der allgemeinen Kriegstreiberei entgegenstellen oder diese öffentlich hinterfragen. Dazu zählt auch ein Kongress kritischer Psychologen und Psychotherapeuten, der letzte Woche in Berlin stattfand. Die vielen Vorträge im Kontext von «Krieg und Frieden» deckten ein breites Themenspektrum ab, darunter Friedensarbeit oder die Notwendigkeit einer «Pädagogik der Kriegsuntüchtigkeit».
Der heutige «stille Freitag», an dem Christen des Leidens und Sterbens von Jesus gedenken, ist vielleicht unabhängig von jeder religiösen oder spirituellen Prägung eine passende Einladung zur Reflexion. In der Ruhe liegt die Kraft. In diesem Sinne wünsche ich Ihnen frohe Ostertage!
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
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2025-04-29 12:23:09In a vast digital realm, two cities stood side by side: the towering, flashing metropolis of Feedia, and the decentralized, quiet city of Nostra.
Feedia was loud—blinding, buzzing, and always on. Screens plastered every wall, whispering the latest trends into citizens’ ears. But in this city, what you saw wasn’t up to you. It was determined by a towering, unseen force known as The Algorithm. It didn’t care what was true, meaningful, or helpful—only what would keep your eyes glued and your attention sold.
In Feedia, discovery wasn’t earned. It was assigned.
And worse—there was a caste system. To have a voice, you needed a Blue Check—a glowing badge that marked you as “worthy.” To get one, you had to pay or play. Pay monthly dues to the high towers or entertain The Algorithm enough to be deemed “valuable.” If you refused or couldn’t afford it, your voice was cast into the noise—buried beneath outrage bait and celebrity screams.
The unmarked were like ghosts—speaking into the void while the checked dined in Algorithm-favored towers. It was a digital monarchy dressed up as a democracy.
Then, there was Nostra.
There were no glowing checkmarks in Nostra—just signal. Every citizen had a light they carried, one that grew brighter the more they contributed: thoughtful posts, reshared ideas, built tools, or boosted others. Discovery was based not on payment or privilege, but participation and value.
In Nostra, you didn’t rise because you paid the gatekeeper—you rose because others lifted you. You weren’t spoon-fed; you sought, you found, you earned attention. It was harder, yes. But it was real.
And slowly, some in Feedia began to awaken. They grew tired of being fed fast-food content and ignored despite their voices. They looked across the river to Nostra, where minds weren’t bought—they were built.
And one by one, they began to cross.
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2025-04-04 18:47:27Zwei mal drei macht vier, \ widewidewitt und drei macht neune, \ ich mach mir die Welt, \ widewide wie sie mir gefällt. \ Pippi Langstrumpf
Egal, ob Koalitionsverhandlungen oder politischer Alltag: Die Kontroversen zwischen theoretisch verschiedenen Parteien verschwinden, wenn es um den Kampf gegen politische Gegner mit Rückenwind geht. Wer den Alteingesessenen die Pfründe ernsthaft streitig machen könnte, gegen den werden nicht nur «Brandmauern» errichtet, sondern der wird notfalls auch strafrechtlich verfolgt. Doppelstandards sind dabei selbstverständlich inklusive.
In Frankreich ist diese Woche Marine Le Pen wegen der Veruntreuung von EU-Geldern von einem Gericht verurteilt worden. Als Teil der Strafe wurde sie für fünf Jahre vom passiven Wahlrecht ausgeschlossen. Obwohl das Urteil nicht rechtskräftig ist – Le Pen kann in Berufung gehen –, haben die Richter das Verbot, bei Wahlen anzutreten, mit sofortiger Wirkung verhängt. Die Vorsitzende des rechtsnationalen Rassemblement National (RN) galt als aussichtsreiche Kandidatin für die Präsidentschaftswahl 2027.
Das ist in diesem Jahr bereits der zweite gravierende Fall von Wahlbeeinflussung durch die Justiz in einem EU-Staat. In Rumänien hatte Călin Georgescu im November die erste Runde der Präsidentenwahl überraschend gewonnen. Das Ergebnis wurde später annulliert, die behauptete «russische Wahlmanipulation» konnte jedoch nicht bewiesen werden. Die Kandidatur für die Wahlwiederholung im Mai wurde Georgescu kürzlich durch das Verfassungsgericht untersagt.
Die Veruntreuung öffentlicher Gelder muss untersucht und geahndet werden, das steht außer Frage. Diese Anforderung darf nicht selektiv angewendet werden. Hingegen mussten wir in der Vergangenheit bei ungleich schwerwiegenderen Fällen von (mutmaßlichem) Missbrauch ganz andere Vorgehensweisen erleben, etwa im Fall der heutigen EZB-Chefin Christine Lagarde oder im «Pfizergate»-Skandal um die Präsidentin der EU-Kommission Ursula von der Leyen.
Wenngleich derartige Angelegenheiten formal auf einer rechtsstaatlichen Grundlage beruhen mögen, so bleibt ein bitterer Beigeschmack. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob und inwieweit die Justiz politisch instrumentalisiert wird. Dies ist umso interessanter, als die Gewaltenteilung einen essenziellen Teil jeder demokratischen Ordnung darstellt, während die Bekämpfung des politischen Gegners mit juristischen Mitteln gerade bei den am lautesten rufenden Verteidigern «unserer Demokratie» populär zu sein scheint.
Die Delegationen von CDU/CSU und SPD haben bei ihren Verhandlungen über eine Regierungskoalition genau solche Maßnahmen diskutiert. «Im Namen der Wahrheit und der Demokratie» möchte man noch härter gegen «Desinformation» vorgehen und dafür zum Beispiel den Digital Services Act der EU erweitern. Auch soll der Tatbestand der Volksverhetzung verschärft werden – und im Entzug des passiven Wahlrechts münden können. Auf europäischer Ebene würde Friedrich Merz wohl gerne Ungarn das Stimmrecht entziehen.
Der Pegel an Unzufriedenheit und Frustration wächst in großen Teilen der Bevölkerung kontinuierlich. Arroganz, Machtmissbrauch und immer abstrusere Ausreden für offensichtlich willkürliche Maßnahmen werden kaum verhindern, dass den etablierten Parteien die Unterstützung entschwindet. In Deutschland sind die Umfrageergebnisse der AfD ein guter Gradmesser dafür.
[Vorlage Titelbild: Pixabay]
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2025-04-29 08:26:50With the advancement of quantum computers, a new threat emerges for the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. These powerful machines have the potential to expose vulnerabilities in traditional cryptographic systems, which could jeopardize the safety of digital wallets. But don’t worry—modern wallets are already equipped to handle this threat with innovative solutions that make your funds nearly impossible to steal, even by a quantum computer. Let’s explore how this works and why you can rest easy.
The Threat of Quantum Computers
To understand how wallets protect us, we first need to grasp what makes quantum computers so dangerous. At the core of most cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, lies public and private key cryptography. The public key (or address) is like your bank account number—you share it to receive funds. The private key is like your PIN—it allows you to send funds and must remain secret.
Traditional cryptography, such as the ECDSA algorithm, relies on mathematical problems that are extremely difficult to solve with conventional computers. For instance, deriving a private key from a public key is practically impossible, as it would take millions of years of computation. However, quantum computers, thanks to algorithms like Shor’s, can significantly speed up this process. Theoretically, a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could uncover a private key from a public key in minutes or even seconds.
This is a problem because if someone gains access to your private key, they can send all your funds to their own address. But here’s the good news—modern wallets use a clever solution to render this threat powerless.
How Do Wallets Protect Us?
One of the most effective defenses against quantum computers is the use of one-time addresses in wallets. This means that for every transaction—whether receiving or sending funds—the wallet automatically generates a new public address. The old address, once used, remains in the transaction history but no longer holds any funds, as they are transferred to a new address.
Why Does This Work?
Imagine you’re sending or receiving cryptocurrency. Your wallet creates a new address for that transaction. After the funds are sent or received, that address becomes “used,” and the wallet automatically generates a new one for the next transaction. If a quantum computer manages to derive the private key from the public address of the used address, it will find nothing—because that address is already empty. Your funds are safely transferred to a new address, whose public key has not yet been exposed.
This strategy is known as HD (Hierarchical Deterministic) wallets. It allows the wallet to generate an infinite number of addresses from a single master key (seed) without compromising security. Each new address is unique and cannot be linked to the previous ones, making it impossible to trace your funds, even with a quantum computer.
Automation Makes It Effortless
The best part? You don’t need to worry about this process—it’s fully automated. When you use a modern wallet like MetaMask, Ledger, Trezor, or software wallets for Bitcoin, everything happens behind the scenes. You simply click “receive” or “send,” and the wallet takes care of generating new addresses. There’s no need to understand the complex technical details or manually manage your keys.
For example:
- You want to receive 0.1 BTC. Your wallet provides a new address, which you share with the sender.
- After receiving the funds, the wallet automatically prepares a new address for the next transaction.
- If you send some of the funds, the remaining amount (known as “change”) is sent to another new address generated by the wallet.
This system ensures that public addresses exposed on the blockchain no longer hold funds, making quantum attacks pointless.
Additional Protection: Toward Post-Quantum Cryptography
Beyond one-time addresses, blockchain developers are also working on post-quantum cryptography—algorithms that are resistant to quantum computers. Some blockchain networks are already experimenting with such solutions, like algorithms based on lattices (lattice-based cryptography). These methods don’t rely on the same mathematical problems that quantum computers can solve, offering long-term protection.
In the meantime, one-time addresses combined with current cryptographic standards provide enough security to safeguard your funds until post-quantum solutions become widely adopted.
Why You Shouldn’t Worry
Modern wallets are designed with the future in mind. They not only protect against today’s threats but also anticipate future risks, such as those posed by quantum computers. One-time addresses make exposed public keys useless to hackers, and automation ensures you don’t need to deal with the technicalities. HD wallets, which automatically generate new addresses, make the process seamless and secure for users.
Public key exposure only happens when necessary, reducing the risk of attacks, even from a quantum computer. In conclusion, while quantum computers pose a potential threat, modern wallets already offer effective solutions that make your cryptocurrencies nearly impossible to steal. With one-time addresses and the upcoming adoption of post-quantum cryptography, you can be confident that your funds are safe—today and tomorrow.
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-04-03 07:42:25Spanien bleibt einer der Vorreiter im europäischen Prozess der totalen Überwachung per Digitalisierung. Seit Mittwoch ist dort der digitale Personalausweis verfügbar. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Regierungs-App, die auf dem Smartphone installiert werden muss und in den Stores von Google und Apple zu finden ist. Per Dekret von Regierungschef Pedro Sánchez und Zustimmung des Ministerrats ist diese Maßnahme jetzt in Kraft getreten.
Mit den üblichen Argumenten der Vereinfachung, des Komforts, der Effizienz und der Sicherheit preist das Innenministerium die «Innovation» an. Auch die Beteuerung, dass die digitale Variante parallel zum physischen Ausweis existieren wird und diesen nicht ersetzen soll, fehlt nicht. Während der ersten zwölf Monate wird «der Neue» noch nicht für alle Anwendungsfälle gültig sein, ab 2026 aber schon.
Dass die ganze Sache auch «Risiken und Nebenwirkungen» haben könnte, wird in den Mainstream-Medien eher selten thematisiert. Bestenfalls wird der Aspekt der Datensicherheit angesprochen, allerdings in der Regel direkt mit dem Regierungsvokabular von den «maximalen Sicherheitsgarantien» abgehandelt. Dennoch gibt es einige weitere Aspekte, die Bürger mit etwas Sinn für Privatsphäre bedenken sollten.
Um sich die digitale Version des nationalen Ausweises besorgen zu können (eine App mit dem Namen MiDNI), muss man sich vorab online registrieren. Dabei wird die Identität des Bürgers mit seiner mobilen Telefonnummer verknüpft. Diese obligatorische fixe Verdrahtung kennen wir von diversen anderen Apps und Diensten. Gleichzeitig ist das die Basis für eine perfekte Lokalisierbarkeit der Person.
Für jeden Vorgang der Identifikation in der Praxis wird später «eine Verbindung zu den Servern der Bundespolizei aufgebaut». Die Daten des Individuums werden «in Echtzeit» verifiziert und im Erfolgsfall von der Polizei signiert zurückgegeben. Das Ergebnis ist ein QR-Code mit zeitlich begrenzter Gültigkeit, der an Dritte weitergegeben werden kann.
Bei derartigen Szenarien sträuben sich einem halbwegs kritischen Staatsbürger die Nackenhaare. Allein diese minimale Funktionsbeschreibung lässt die totale Überwachung erkennen, die damit ermöglicht wird. Jede Benutzung des Ausweises wird künftig registriert, hinterlässt also Spuren. Und was ist, wenn die Server der Polizei einmal kein grünes Licht geben? Das wäre spätestens dann ein Problem, wenn der digitale doch irgendwann der einzig gültige Ausweis ist: Dann haben wir den abschaltbaren Bürger.
Dieser neue Vorstoß der Regierung von Pedro Sánchez ist ein weiterer Schritt in Richtung der «totalen Digitalisierung» des Landes, wie diese Politik in manchen Medien – nicht einmal kritisch, sondern sehr naiv – genannt wird. Ebenso verharmlosend wird auch erwähnt, dass sich das spanische Projekt des digitalen Ausweises nahtlos in die Initiativen der EU zu einer digitalen Identität für alle Bürger sowie des digitalen Euro einreiht.
In Zukunft könnte der neue Ausweis «auch in andere staatliche und private digitale Plattformen integriert werden», wie das Medienportal Cope ganz richtig bemerkt. Das ist die Perspektive.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
Dazu passend:
Nur Abschied vom Alleinfahren? Monströse spanische Überwachungsprojekte gemäß EU-Norm
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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2025-04-27 01:42:48・ThunderHubで焼いたマカロンがlncli printmacaroonでどう見えるか確認した。
ThunderHub macaroon permissions
get invoices invoices:read create invoices invoices:write get payments offchain:read pay invoices offchain:write get chain transactions onchain:read send to chain address onchain:write create chain address address:write get wallet info info:read stop daemon info:write この結果によれば、offchain:wirteとonchain:writeの権限がなければそのマカロンを使うクライアントは勝手にBTCを送金することができない。 info:writeがなければ勝手にLNDを止めたりすることができない。
・lncli printmacaroonでデフォルトで作られるmacaroonのpermissionsを調べてみた。 admin.macaroon
{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "address:read", "address:write", "info:read", "info:write", "invoices:read", "invoices:write", "macaroon:generate", "macaroon:read", "macaroon:write", "message:read", "message:write", "offchain:read", "offchain:write", "onchain:read", "onchain:write", "peers:read", "peers:write", "signer:generate", "signer:read" ], "caveats": null }
chainnotifier.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "onchain:read" ], "caveats": null }
invoice.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "address:read", "address:write", "invoices:read", "invoices:write", "onchain:read" ], "caveats": null }
invoices.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "invoices:read", "invoices:write" ], "caveats": null }
readonly.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "address:read", "info:read", "invoices:read", "macaroon:read", "message:read", "offchain:read", "onchain:read", "peers:read", "signer:read" ], "caveats": null }
router.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "offchain:read", "offchain:write" ], "caveats": null }
signer.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "signer:generate", "signer:read" ], "caveats": null }
walletkit.macaroon{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "address:read", "address:write", "onchain:read", "onchain:write" ], "caveats": null }
・lncli listpermissions コマンドですべての RPC メソッド URI と、それらを呼び出すために必要なマカロン権限を一覧表示できる。 LND v0.18.5-betaでやると1344行ほどのJSONができる。 AddInvoiceだとinvoice:writeのpermissionを持つmacaroonを使えばインボイスを作れるようだ。
"/lnrpc.Lightning/AddInvoice": { "permissions": [ { "entity": "invoices", "action": "write" } ] },
lncli listpermissionsからentityとactionを抜き出してみた。 ``` "entity": "address", "entity": "info", "entity": "invoices", "entity": "macaroon", "entity": "message", "entity": "offchain", "entity": "onchain", "entity": "peers", "entity": "signer","action": "generate" "action": "read" "action": "write"
lncli とjqを組み合わせると例えば以下コマンドでinvoices:writeを必要とするRPCの一覧を表示できる。 invoices:writeだとAddInvoiceの他にホドルインボイス作成でも使ってるようだ
lncli listpermissions | jq -r '.method_permissions | to_entries[] | select(.value.permissions[] | select(.entity == "invoices" and .action == "write")) | .key'/invoicesrpc.Invoices/AddHoldInvoice /invoicesrpc.Invoices/CancelInvoice /invoicesrpc.Invoices/HtlcModifier /invoicesrpc.Invoices/LookupInvoiceV2 /invoicesrpc.Invoices/SettleInvoice /lnrpc.Lightning/AddInvoice
invoices:readだと以下となる。
/invoicesrpc.Invoices/SubscribeSingleInvoice /lnrpc.Lightning/ListInvoices /lnrpc.Lightning/LookupInvoice /lnrpc.Lightning/SubscribeInvoicesLNの主だった機能のRPCはoffchainが必要ぽいので抜き出してみた。 offchain:write チャネルの開閉、ペイメントの送信までやってるみたい。 デフォルトのmacaroonでoffchain:writeを持ってるのはadminとrouterの2つだけ。openchannel,closechannelはonchain:writeのpermissionも必要なようだ。
/autopilotrpc.Autopilot/ModifyStatus /autopilotrpc.Autopilot/SetScores /lnrpc.Lightning/AbandonChannel /lnrpc.Lightning/BatchOpenChannel /lnrpc.Lightning/ChannelAcceptor /lnrpc.Lightning/CloseChannel /lnrpc.Lightning/DeleteAllPayments /lnrpc.Lightning/DeletePayment /lnrpc.Lightning/FundingStateStep /lnrpc.Lightning/OpenChannel /lnrpc.Lightning/OpenChannelSync /lnrpc.Lightning/RestoreChannelBackups /lnrpc.Lightning/SendCustomMessage /lnrpc.Lightning/SendPayment /lnrpc.Lightning/SendPaymentSync /lnrpc.Lightning/SendToRoute /lnrpc.Lightning/SendToRouteSync /lnrpc.Lightning/UpdateChannelPolicy /routerrpc.Router/HtlcInterceptor /routerrpc.Router/ResetMissionControl /routerrpc.Router/SendPayment /routerrpc.Router/SendPaymentV2 /routerrpc.Router/SendToRoute /routerrpc.Router/SendToRouteV2 /routerrpc.Router/SetMissionControlConfig /routerrpc.Router/UpdateChanStatus /routerrpc.Router/XAddLocalChanAliases /routerrpc.Router/XDeleteLocalChanAliases /routerrpc.Router/XImportMissionControl /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/AddTower /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/DeactivateTower /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/RemoveTower /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/TerminateSession"/lnrpc.Lightning/OpenChannel": { "permissions": [ { "entity": "onchain", "action": "write" }, { "entity": "offchain", "action": "write" } ] },
offchain:read readの方はチャネルやインボイスの状態を確認するためのpermissionのようだ。
/lnrpc.Lightning/ChannelBalance /lnrpc.Lightning/ClosedChannels /lnrpc.Lightning/DecodePayReq /lnrpc.Lightning/ExportAllChannelBackups /lnrpc.Lightning/ExportChannelBackup /lnrpc.Lightning/FeeReport /lnrpc.Lightning/ForwardingHistory /lnrpc.Lightning/GetDebugInfo /lnrpc.Lightning/ListAliases /lnrpc.Lightning/ListChannels /lnrpc.Lightning/ListPayments /lnrpc.Lightning/LookupHtlcResolution /lnrpc.Lightning/PendingChannels /lnrpc.Lightning/SubscribeChannelBackups /lnrpc.Lightning/SubscribeChannelEvents /lnrpc.Lightning/SubscribeCustomMessages /lnrpc.Lightning/VerifyChanBackup /routerrpc.Router/BuildRoute /routerrpc.Router/EstimateRouteFee /routerrpc.Router/GetMissionControlConfig /routerrpc.Router/QueryMissionControl /routerrpc.Router/QueryProbability /routerrpc.Router/SubscribeHtlcEvents /routerrpc.Router/TrackPayment /routerrpc.Router/TrackPaymentV2 /routerrpc.Router/TrackPayments /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/GetTowerInfo /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/ListTowers /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/Policy /wtclientrpc.WatchtowerClient/Stats・おまけ1 RPCメソッド名にopenを含む要素を抽出するコマンド
lncli listpermissions | jq '.method_permissions | to_entries[] | select(.key | test("open"; "i"))'{ "key": "/lnrpc.Lightning/BatchOpenChannel", "value": { "permissions": [ { "entity": "onchain", "action": "write" }, { "entity": "offchain", "action": "write" } ] } } { "key": "/lnrpc.Lightning/OpenChannel", "value": { "permissions": [ { "entity": "onchain", "action": "write" }, { "entity": "offchain", "action": "write" } ] } } { "key": "/lnrpc.Lightning/OpenChannelSync", "value": { "permissions": [ { "entity": "onchain", "action": "write" }, { "entity": "offchain", "action": "write" } ] } }
・おまけ2 thunderhubで作ったmacaroonはテキストで出力されコピペして使うもので、macaroonファイルになってない。 HEXをmacaroonファイルにするには以下コマンドでできる。HEXをコピペして置換する。またYOURSの箇所を自分でわかりやすい名称に置換すると良い。
echo -n "HEX" | xxd -r -p > YOURS.macaroonthunderhubで"Create Invoices, Get Invoices, Get Wallet Info, Get Payments, Pay Invoices"をチェックして作ったmacaroonのpermissionsは以下となる。
{ "version": 2, "location": "lnd", "root_key_id": "0", "permissions": [ "info:read", "invoices:read", "invoices:write", "offchain:read", "offchain:write" ], "caveats": null } ``` offchain:writeはあるがonchain:writeがないのでチャネル開閉はできないはず。 -
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2025-05-13 00:17:07► File Tools
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- FilePort - 5GB / 7 Days
- FileDitch or SendGB - 5GB / 90 Days
- MegaUp - 5GB / 60 Days
- Bestfile - 5GB / 80 Days After Last Download
- ufile.io - 5GB / 30 Days
- Internxt Send - 5GB / 15 Days
- UserDrive - 5GB / 65 Days
- pCloud Transfer or Tresorit Send - 5GB / 7 Days / Email Required
- Temp.sh - 4GB / 3 Days
- File Convoy - 3GB / 21 Days
- Send - 2.5GB / 3 Days / 10 Downloads / CLI / Instances
- JUMBOmail - 2GB / 7 Days / Email Required
- KrakenFiles - 1GB / 3 Months on Sign-Up
- DropMB - 512MB / 5 Years
- FireLoad - 2GB / 60 Days / Account Required
- FileGo - 2GB / 30 Days / Account Required
- Lufi - 2GB / 30 Days
- FilesPayouts - 10GB / Forever / Account Required
- DooDrive - 2GB / 30 Days / Account Required
- Clicknupload, 2 - 10GB / 8 Days / Account Required
- WeTransfer - 2GB / 3 Days
- Smash - 2GB / 7 Days / Email Required
- MultiUp.io / Extract / Upload or Mirrored.to - Multi Host Uploaders
- Z-o-o-m - Multi-Host Upload Desktop App
- Limited Upload Hosts - More Hosts / 1GB or Below
▷ Cloud Storage
- Note - Monthly prices are based on annual plans. 2TB prices are halved for comparison if a 1TB plan doesn't exist for a service.
- 🌐 Eylenburg Comparisons or ComparisonTabl.es - Compare Cloud Storage Sites
- ⭐ Google Drive - 15GB Free / 2 Years / ~$3 for 1TB
- ⭐ mega - 20GB Free / 3 Months / ~$4.50 for 1TB / GitHub
- disk.yandex - 5GB Free / 2 Years / $2 for 1TB
- filen - 10GB Free / 3 Months / ~$8 for 1TB / Account Required for Sharing
- terabox - 1TB Free / $3.50 for 2TB
- Dropbox - 1 or 2GB Free / 12 Months / ~$5 for 1TB / Client
- mediafire - 10GB Free / 8 Months / $5 for 1TB
- icedrive - 10GB Free / 3 Months / $5 for 1TB
- PCloud - 10GB Free / 1 Year / ~$4 for 1TB
- FebBox - 1TB Free / 1 Month / ~$4 for 2TB
- Proton Drive - 2GB Free (or 5GB for tasks) / 1 Year / ~$10 for 1TB
- JumpShare - 2GB Free / 1 Year / $8.25 for 1TB
- FileLu - 10GB / Forever / Expiry Warning
- CyberFile - 10GB Free
- MrOwl - 10GB Free / ~$16 for 1TB
- Blomp - 20GB Free / 1 Month / ~$3 for 2TB
- Akira Box - 20GB Free / 1 Years
- Backblaze B2 - 10GB Free / ~$6 for 1TB
- Cloudflare R2 - 10GB Free / ~$15.5 per 1TB
- 1Cloud File - 10GB Free
- OneDriveFly - OneDrive Indexes
- Fix-OneDrive-Zip - Fix OneDrive Zip Files >4GB
- SeaFile - Self-Hosted Cloud Storage
▷ Cloud Managers
- ⭐ Rclone - Cloud Storage Manager
- ⭐ Rclone Tools - Guide / Colab / Telegram / Transfer Tool
- ⭐ gclone - Cloud Storage Manager
- ⭐ Air Explorer - Cloud Storage Manager
- ⭐ RaiDrive - Cloud Storage Manager
- ⭐ Cyberduck - Libre Server / Cloud Storage Browser / GitHub
- SpaceDrive - Cloud Storage Manager
- AList - Cloud Storage Manager
- MultCloud - Cloud Storage Manager
- xpipe - Remote File Manager
▷ Google Drive Tools
- ⭐ OneClickRun - Google Drive Tools Colab / Features / Use Throwaways
- Any File to Google Drive - DDL to Google Drive Tool
- DriveUploader - Receive Files via Google Drive
- ZIP Extractor - Google Drive / Gmail File Archiver
- Google Drive CLI - Google Drive CLI Client
- goodls - Google Drive Downloader
- Google Drive Downloader - Google Drive Folder Downloader
- gdrivedl - Google Drive Python Download Script
- ISAAC - Google Service Account Generators
- goindex-extended / Themes or Google-Drive-Index - Google Drive Indexers
- gdurl, GDrive Link Generator, Direct.GDrive, Maulvi or GDriveWebAppPublic - Host Direct Links on Google Drive
- GdriveCloneWeb or Google Drive Clone Bot / GitHub - Copy Google Drives
- GD-EFC Link Encryptor - Google Drive Link Encryptor for GD-EFC
- gd-efc - Copy Encrypted Google Drive
- DriveRename - Bulk Google Drive File Rename
- Sharer, YuShare or GDToT - Google Drive File Sharing
▷ MEGA Tools
- ⭐ Megabasterd - Download Quota Bypass / Note
- ⭐ Mega Account Generators - Account Gen / Unlimited Upload Size / Fix
- MEGA Desktop / GitHub - Official GUI App
- MEGA CMD / GitHub - Official CLI App
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@ aa8de34f:a6ffe696
2025-03-31 21:48:50In seinem Beitrag vom 30. März 2025 fragt Henning Rosenbusch auf Telegram angesichts zunehmender digitaler Kontrolle und staatlicher Allmacht:
„Wie soll sich gegen eine solche Tyrannei noch ein Widerstand formieren können, selbst im Untergrund? Sehe ich nicht.“\ (Quelle: t.me/rosenbusch/25228)
Er beschreibt damit ein Gefühl der Ohnmacht, das viele teilen: Eine Welt, in der Totalitarismus nicht mehr mit Panzern, sondern mit Algorithmen kommt. Wo Zugriff auf Geld, Meinungsfreiheit und Teilhabe vom Wohlverhalten abhängt. Der Bürger als kontrollierbare Variable im Code des Staates.\ Die Frage ist berechtigt. Doch die Antwort darauf liegt nicht in alten Widerstandsbildern – sondern in einer neuen Realität.
-- Denn es braucht keinen Untergrund mehr. --
Der Widerstand der Zukunft trägt keinen Tarnanzug. Er ist nicht konspirativ, sondern transparent. Nicht bewaffnet, sondern mathematisch beweisbar. Bitcoin steht nicht am Rand dieser Entwicklung – es ist ihr Fundament. Eine Bastion aus physikalischer Realität, spieltheoretischem Schutz und ökonomischer Wahrheit. Es ist nicht unfehlbar, aber unbestechlich. Nicht perfekt, aber immun gegen zentrale Willkür.
Hier entsteht kein „digitales Gegenreich“, sondern eine dezentrale Renaissance. Keine Revolte aus Wut, sondern eine stille Abkehr: von Zwang zu Freiwilligkeit, von Abhängigkeit zu Selbstverantwortung. Diese Revolution führt keine Kriege. Sie braucht keine Führer. Sie ist ein Netzwerk. Jeder Knoten ein Individuum. Jede Entscheidung ein Akt der Selbstermächtigung.
Weltweit wachsen Freiheits-Zitadellen aus dieser Idee: wirtschaftlich autark, digital souverän, lokal verankert und global vernetzt. Sie sind keine Utopien im luftleeren Raum, sondern konkrete Realitäten – angetrieben von Energie, Code und dem menschlichen Wunsch nach Würde.
Der Globalismus alter Prägung – zentralistisch, monopolistisch, bevormundend – wird an seiner eigenen Hybris zerbrechen. Seine Werkzeuge der Kontrolle werden ihn nicht retten. Im Gegenteil: Seine Geister werden ihn verfolgen und erlegen.
Und während die alten Mächte um Erhalt kämpfen, wächst eine neue Welt – nicht im Schatten, sondern im Offenen. Nicht auf Gewalt gebaut, sondern auf Mathematik, Physik und Freiheit.
Die Tyrannei sieht keinen Widerstand.\ Weil sie nicht erkennt, dass er längst begonnen hat.\ Unwiderruflich. Leise. Überall.
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@ f32184ee:6d1c17bf
2025-04-23 13:21:52Ads Fueling Freedom
Ross Ulbricht’s "Decentralize Social Media" painted a picture of a user-centric, decentralized future that transcended the limitations of platforms like the tech giants of today. Though focused on social media, his concept provided a blueprint for decentralized content systems writ large. The PROMO Protocol, designed by NextBlock while participating in Sovereign Engineering, embodies this blueprint in the realm of advertising, leveraging Nostr and Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to give individuals control, foster a multi-provider ecosystem, and ensure secure value exchange. In this way, Ulbricht’s 2021 vision can be seen as a prescient prediction of the PROMO Protocol’s structure. This is a testament to the enduring power of his ideas, now finding form in NextBlock’s innovative approach.
[Current Platform-Centric Paradigm, source: Ross Ulbricht's Decentralize Social Media]
Ulbricht’s Vision: A Decentralized Social Protocol
In his 2021 Medium article Ulbricht proposed a revolutionary vision for a decentralized social protocol (DSP) to address the inherent flaws of centralized social media platforms, such as privacy violations and inconsistent content moderation. Writing from prison, Ulbricht argued that decentralization could empower users by giving them control over their own content and the value they create, while replacing single, monolithic platforms with a competitive ecosystem of interface providers, content servers, and advertisers. Though his focus was on social media, Ulbricht’s ideas laid a conceptual foundation that strikingly predicts the structure of NextBlock’s PROMO Protocol, a decentralized advertising system built on the Nostr protocol.
[A Decentralized Social Protocol (DSP), source: Ross Ulbricht's Decentralize Social Media]
Ulbricht’s Principles
Ulbricht’s article outlines several key principles for his DSP: * User Control: Users should own their content and dictate how their data and creations generate value, rather than being subject to the whims of centralized corporations. * Decentralized Infrastructure: Instead of a single platform, multiple interface providers, content hosts, and advertisers interoperate, fostering competition and resilience. * Privacy and Autonomy: Decentralized solutions for profile management, hosting, and interactions would protect user privacy and reduce reliance on unaccountable intermediaries. * Value Creation: Users, not platforms, should capture the economic benefits of their contributions, supported by decentralized mechanisms for transactions.
These ideas were forward-thinking in 2021, envisioning a shift away from the centralized giants dominating social media at the time. While Ulbricht didn’t specifically address advertising protocols, his framework for decentralization and user empowerment extends naturally to other domains, like NextBlock’s open-source offering: the PROMO Protocol.
NextBlock’s Implementation of PROMO Protocol
The PROMO Protocol powers NextBlock's Billboard app, a decentralized advertising protocol built on Nostr, a simple, open protocol for decentralized communication. The PROMO Protocol reimagines advertising by: * Empowering People: Individuals set their own ad prices (e.g., 500 sats/minute), giving them direct control over how their attention or space is monetized. * Marketplace Dynamics: Advertisers set budgets and maximum bids, competing within a decentralized system where a 20% service fee ensures operational sustainability. * Open-Source Flexibility: As an open-source protocol, it allows multiple developers to create interfaces or apps on top of it, avoiding the single-platform bottleneck Ulbricht critiqued. * Secure Payments: Using Strike Integration with Bitcoin Lightning Network, NextBlock enables bot-resistant and intermediary-free transactions, aligning value transfer with each person's control.
This structure decentralizes advertising in a way that mirrors Ulbricht’s broader vision for social systems, with aligned principles showing a specific use case: monetizing attention on Nostr.
Aligned Principles
Ulbricht’s 2021 article didn’t explicitly predict the PROMO Protocol, but its foundational concepts align remarkably well with NextBlock's implementation the protocol’s design: * Autonomy Over Value: Ulbricht argued that users should control their content and its economic benefits. In the PROMO Protocol, people dictate ad pricing, directly capturing the value of their participation. Whether it’s their time, influence, or digital space, rather than ceding it to a centralized ad network. * Ecosystem of Providers: Ulbricht envisioned multiple providers replacing a single platform. The PROMO Protocol’s open-source nature invites a similar diversity: anyone can build interfaces or tools on top of it, creating a competitive, decentralized advertising ecosystem rather than a walled garden. * Decentralized Transactions: Ulbricht’s DSP implied decentralized mechanisms for value exchange. NextBlock delivers this through the Bitcoin Lightning Network, ensuring that payments for ads are secure, instantaneous and final, a practical realization of Ulbricht’s call for user-controlled value flows. * Privacy and Control: While Ulbricht emphasized privacy in social interactions, the PROMO Protocol is public by default. Individuals are fully aware of all data that they generate since all Nostr messages are signed. All participants interact directly via Nostr.
[Blueprint Match, source NextBlock]
Who We Are
NextBlock is a US-based new media company reimagining digital ads for a decentralized future. Our founders, software and strategy experts, were hobbyist podcasters struggling to promote their work online without gaming the system. That sparked an idea: using new tech like Nostr and Bitcoin to build a decentralized attention market for people who value control and businesses seeking real connections.
Our first product, Billboard, is launching this June.
Open for All
Our model’s open-source! Check out the PROMO Protocol, built for promotion and attention trading. Anyone can join this decentralized ad network. Run your own billboard or use ours. This is a growing ecosystem for a new ad economy.
Our Vision
NextBlock wants to help build a new decentralized internet. Our revolutionary and transparent business model will bring honest revenue to companies hosting valuable digital spaces. Together, we will discover what our attention is really worth.
Read our Manifesto to learn more.
NextBlock is registered in Texas, USA.
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-03-31 07:23:05Der Irrsinn ist bei Einzelnen etwas Seltenes – \ aber bei Gruppen, Parteien, Völkern, Zeiten die Regel. \ Friedrich Nietzsche
Erinnern Sie sich an die Horrorkomödie «Scary Movie»? Nicht, dass ich diese Art Filme besonders erinnerungswürdig fände, aber einige Szenen daraus sind doch gewissermaßen Klassiker. Dazu zählt eine, die das Verhalten vieler Protagonisten in Horrorfilmen parodiert, wenn sie in Panik flüchten. Welchen Weg nimmt wohl die Frau in der Situation auf diesem Bild?
Diese Szene kommt mir automatisch in den Sinn, wenn ich aktuelle Entwicklungen in Europa betrachte. Weitreichende Entscheidungen gehen wider jede Logik in die völlig falsche Richtung. Nur ist das hier alles andere als eine Komödie, sondern bitterernst. Dieser Horror ist leider sehr real.
Die Europäische Union hat sich selbst über Jahre konsequent in eine Sackgasse manövriert. Sie hat es versäumt, sich und ihre Politik selbstbewusst und im Einklang mit ihren Wurzeln auf dem eigenen Kontinent zu positionieren. Stattdessen ist sie in blinder Treue den vermeintlichen «transatlantischen Freunden» auf ihrem Konfrontationskurs gen Osten gefolgt.
In den USA haben sich die Vorzeichen allerdings mittlerweile geändert, und die einst hoch gelobten «Freunde und Partner» erscheinen den europäischen «Führern» nicht mehr vertrauenswürdig. Das ist spätestens seit der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, der Rede von Vizepräsident J. D. Vance und den empörten Reaktionen offensichtlich. Große Teile Europas wirken seitdem wie ein aufgescheuchter Haufen kopfloser Hühner. Orientierung und Kontrolle sind völlig abhanden gekommen.
Statt jedoch umzukehren oder wenigstens zu bremsen und vielleicht einen Abzweig zu suchen, geben die Crash-Piloten jetzt auf dem Weg durch die Sackgasse erst richtig Gas. Ja sie lösen sogar noch die Sicherheitsgurte und deaktivieren die Airbags. Den vor Angst dauergelähmten Passagieren fällt auch nichts Besseres ein und so schließen sie einfach die Augen. Derweil übertrumpfen sich die Kommentatoren des Events gegenseitig in sensationslüsterner «Berichterstattung».
Wie schon die deutsche Außenministerin mit höchsten UN-Ambitionen, Annalena Baerbock, proklamiert auch die Europäische Kommission einen «Frieden durch Stärke». Zu dem jetzt vorgelegten, selbstzerstörerischen Fahrplan zur Ankurbelung der Rüstungsindustrie, genannt «Weißbuch zur europäischen Verteidigung – Bereitschaft 2030», erklärte die Kommissionspräsidentin, die «Ära der Friedensdividende» sei längst vorbei. Soll das heißen, Frieden bringt nichts ein? Eine umfassende Zusammenarbeit an dauerhaften europäischen Friedenslösungen steht demnach jedenfalls nicht zur Debatte.
Zusätzlich brisant ist, dass aktuell «die ganze EU von Deutschen regiert wird», wie der EU-Parlamentarier und ehemalige UN-Diplomat Michael von der Schulenburg beobachtet hat. Tatsächlich sitzen neben von der Leyen und Strack-Zimmermann noch einige weitere Deutsche in – vor allem auch in Krisenzeiten – wichtigen Spitzenposten der Union. Vor dem Hintergrund der Kriegstreiberei in Deutschland muss eine solche Dominanz mindestens nachdenklich stimmen.
Ihre ursprünglichen Grundwerte wie Demokratie, Freiheit, Frieden und Völkerverständigung hat die EU kontinuierlich in leere Worthülsen verwandelt. Diese werden dafür immer lächerlicher hochgehalten und beschworen.
Es wird dringend Zeit, dass wir, der Souverän, diesem erbärmlichen und gefährlichen Trauerspiel ein Ende setzen und die Fäden selbst in die Hand nehmen. In diesem Sinne fordert uns auch das «European Peace Project» auf, am 9. Mai im Rahmen eines Kunstprojekts den Frieden auszurufen. Seien wir dabei!
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ 6ad3e2a3:c90b7740
2025-04-23 12:31:54There’s an annoying trend on Twitter wherein the algorithm feeds you a lot of threads like “five keys to gaining wealth” or “10 mistakes to avoid in relationships” that list a bunch of hacks for some ostensibly desirable state of affairs which for you is presumably lacking. It’s not that the hacks are wrong per se, more that the medium is the message. Reading threads about hacks on social media is almost surely not the path toward whatever is promised by them.
. . .
I’ve tried a lot of health supplements over the years. These days creatine is trendy, and of course Vitamin D (which I still take.) I don’t know if this is helping me, though it surely helps me pass my blood tests with robust levels. The more I learn about health and nutrition, the less I’m sure of anything beyond a few basics. Yes, replacing processed food with real food, moving your body and getting some sun are almost certainly good, but it’s harder to know how particular interventions affect me.
Maybe some of them work in the short term then lose their effect, Maybe some work better for particular phenotypes, but not for mine. Maybe my timing in the day is off, or I’m not combining them correctly for my lifestyle and circumstances. The body is a complex system, and complex systems are characterized by having unpredictable outputs given changes to initial conditions (inputs).
. . .
I started getting into Padel recently — a mini-tennis-like game where you can hit the ball off the back walls. I’d much rather chase a ball around for exercise than run or work out, and there’s a social aspect I enjoy. (By “social aspect”, I don’t really mean getting to know the people with whom I’m playing, but just the incidental interactions you get during the game, joking about it, for example, when you nearly impale someone at the net with a hard forehand.)
A few months ago, I was playing with some friends, and I was a little off. It’s embarrassing to play poorly at a sport, especially when (as is always the case in Padel) you have a doubles partner you’re letting down. Normally I’d be excoriating myself for my poor play, coaching myself to bend my knees more, not go for winners so much. But that day, I was tired — for some reason I hadn’t slept well — and I didn’t have the energy for much internal monologue. I just mishit a few balls, felt stupid about it and kept playing.
After a few games, my fortunes reversed. I was hitting the ball cleanly, smashing winners, rarely making errors. My partner and I started winning games and then sets. I was enjoying myself. In the midst of it I remember hitting an easy ball into the net and reflexively wanting to self-coach again. I wondered, “What tips did I give to right the ship when I had been playing poorly at the outset?” I racked my brain as I waited for the serve and realized, to my surprise, there had been none. The turnaround in my play was not due to self-coaching but its absence. I had started playing better because my mind had finally shut the fuck up for once.
Now when I’m not playing well, I resist, to the extent I’m capable, the urge to meddle. I intend to be more mind-less. Not so much telling the interior coach to shut up but not buying into the premise there is a problem to be solved at all. The coach isn’t just ignored, he’s fired. And he’s not just fired, his role was obsoleted.
You blew the point, you’re embarrassed about it and there’s nothing that needs to be done about it. Or that you started coaching yourself like a fool and made things worse. No matter how much you are doing the wrong thing nothing needs to be done about any of it whatsoever. There is always another ball coming across the net that needs to be struck until the game is over.
. . .
Most of the hacks, habits and heuristics we pick up to manage our lives only serve as yet more inputs in unfathomably complex systems whose outputs rarely track as we’d like. There are some basic ones that are now obvious to everyone like not injecting yourself with heroin (or mRNA boosters), but for the most part we just create more baggage for ourselves which justifies ever more hacks. It’s like taking medication for one problem that causes side effects, and then you need another medicine for that side effect, rinse and repeat, ad infinitum.
But this process can be reverse-engineered too. For every heuristic you drop, the problem it was put into place to solve re-emerges and has a chance to be observed. Observing won’t solve it, it’ll just bring it into the fold, give the complex system of which it is a part a chance to achieve an equilibrium with respect to it on its own.
You might still be embarrassed when you mishit the ball, but embarrassment is not a problem. And if embarrassment is not a problem, then mishitting a ball isn’t that bad. And if mishitting a ball isn’t that bad, then maybe you’re not worrying about what happens if you botch the next shot, instead fixing your attention on the ball. And so you disappear a little bit into the game, and it’s more fun as a result.
I honestly wish there were a hack for this — being more mindless — but I don’t know of any. And in any event, hack Substacks won’t get you any farther than hack Twitter threads.
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@ 66675158:1b644430
2025-03-23 11:39:41I don't believe in "vibe coding" – it's just the newest Silicon Valley fad trying to give meaning to their latest favorite technology, LLMs. We've seen this pattern before with blockchain, when suddenly Non Fungible Tokens appeared, followed by Web3 startups promising to revolutionize everything from social media to supply chains. VCs couldn't throw money fast enough at anything with "decentralized" (in name only) in the pitch deck. Andreessen Horowitz launched billion-dollar crypto funds, while Y Combinator batches filled with blockchain startups promising to be "Uber for X, but on the blockchain."
The metaverse mania followed, with Meta betting its future on digital worlds where we'd supposedly hang out as legless avatars. Decentralized (in name only) autonomous organizations emerged as the next big thing – supposedly democratic internet communities that ended up being the next scam for quick money.
Then came the inevitable collapse. The FTX implosion in late 2022 revealed fraud, Luna/Terra's death spiral wiped out billions (including my ten thousand dollars), while Celsius and BlockFi froze customer assets before bankruptcy.
By 2023, crypto winter had fully set in. The SEC started aggressive enforcement actions, while users realized that blockchain technology had delivered almost no practical value despite a decade of promises.
Blockchain's promises tapped into fundamental human desires – decentralization resonated with a generation disillusioned by traditional institutions. Evangelists presented a utopian vision of freedom from centralized control. Perhaps most significantly, crypto offered a sense of meaning in an increasingly abstract world, making the clear signs of scams harder to notice.
The technology itself had failed to solve any real-world problems at scale. By 2024, the once-mighty crypto ecosystem had become a cautionary tale. Venture firms quietly scrubbed blockchain references from their websites while founders pivoted to AI and large language models.
Most reading this are likely fellow bitcoiners and nostr users who understand that Bitcoin is blockchain's only valid use case. But I shared that painful history because I believe the AI-hype cycle will follow the same trajectory.
Just like with blockchain, we're now seeing VCs who once couldn't stop talking about "Web3" falling over themselves to fund anything with "AI" in the pitch deck. The buzzwords have simply changed from "decentralized" to "intelligent."
"Vibe coding" is the perfect example – a trendy name for what is essentially just fuzzy instructions to LLMs. Developers who've spent years honing programming skills are now supposed to believe that "vibing" with an AI is somehow a legitimate methodology.
This might be controversial to some, but obvious to others:
Formal, context-free grammar will always remain essential for building precise systems, regardless of how advanced natural language technology becomes
The mathematical precision of programming languages provides a foundation that human language's ambiguity can never replace. Programming requires precision – languages, compilers, and processors operate on explicit instructions, not vibes. What "vibe coding" advocates miss is that beneath every AI-generated snippet lies the same deterministic rules that have always governed computation.
LLMs don't understand code in any meaningful sense—they've just ingested enormous datasets of human-written code and can predict patterns. When they "work," it's because they've seen similar patterns before, not because they comprehend the underlying logic.
This creates a dangerous dependency. Junior developers "vibing" with LLMs might get working code without understanding the fundamental principles. When something breaks in production, they'll lack the knowledge to fix it.
Even experienced developers can find themselves in treacherous territory when relying too heavily on LLM-generated code. What starts as a productivity boost can transform into a dependency crutch.
The real danger isn't just technical limitations, but the false confidence it instills. Developers begin to believe they understand systems they've merely instructed an AI to generate – fundamentally different from understanding code you've written yourself.
We're already seeing the warning signs: projects cobbled together with LLM-generated code that work initially but become maintenance nightmares when requirements change or edge cases emerge.
The venture capital money is flowing exactly as it did with blockchain. Anthropic raised billions, OpenAI is valued astronomically despite minimal revenue, and countless others are competing to build ever-larger models with vague promises. Every startup now claims to be "AI-powered" regardless of whether it makes sense.
Don't get me wrong—there's genuine innovation happening in AI research. But "vibe coding" isn't it. It's a marketing term designed to make fuzzy prompting sound revolutionary.
Cursor perfectly embodies this AI hype cycle. It's an AI-enhanced code editor built on VS Code that promises to revolutionize programming by letting you "chat with your codebase." Just like blockchain startups promised to "revolutionize" industries, Cursor promises to transform development by adding LLM capabilities.
Yes, Cursor can be genuinely helpful. It can explain unfamiliar code, suggest completions, and help debug simple issues. After trying it for just an hour, I found the autocomplete to be MAGICAL for simple refactoring and basic functionality.
But the marketing goes far beyond reality. The suggestion that you can simply describe what you want and get production-ready code is dangerously misleading. What you get are approximations with:
- Security vulnerabilities the model doesn't understand
- Edge cases it hasn't considered
- Performance implications it can't reason about
- Dependency conflicts it has no way to foresee
The most concerning aspect is how such tools are marketed to beginners as shortcuts around learning fundamentals. "Why spend years learning to code when you can just tell AI what you want?" This is reminiscent of how crypto was sold as a get-rich-quick scheme requiring no actual understanding.
When you "vibe code" with an AI, you're not eliminating complexity—you're outsourcing understanding to a black box. This creates developers who can prompt but not program, who can generate but not comprehend.
The real utility of LLMs in development is in augmenting existing workflows:
- Explaining unfamiliar codebases
- Generating boilerplate for well-understood patterns
- Suggesting implementations that a developer evaluates critically
- Assisting with documentation and testing
These uses involve the model as a subordinate assistant to a knowledgeable developer, not as a replacement for expertise. This is where the technology adds value—as a sophisticated tool in skilled hands.
Cursor is just a better hammer, not a replacement for understanding what you're building. The actual value emerges when used by developers who understand what happens beneath the abstractions. They can recognize when AI suggestions make sense and when they don't because they have the fundamental knowledge to evaluate output critically.
This is precisely where the "vibe coding" narrative falls apart.
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-13 00:15:41► System Tools
- Warning - It's not recommended to use debloaters unless you know what you're doing. Always research first, never just "Apply All" randomly.
- 🌐 Awesome Windows 11 - Windows 11 Resources
- 🌐 PC-Optimization-Hub - System Optimization Resources
- ↪️ Gaming Optimization
- ⭐ PowerToys - System Tools / Search / Plugins / GitHub
- ⭐ Sysinternals - Advanced System Tools / Suite
- ⭐ CPU-Z, winfetch, CPU Fetch, Glow or GPU-Z - System Info Tools
- ⭐ SuperF4 or FKill - Process Killers
- VCRedist - AIO Repack for Microsoft Visual C++ Redists
- Windows-11-Guide or Pastas - Windows Guides
- NanaRun - System Admin Tools
- PolicyPlus - Local Group Policy Editor
- PowerPlanSwitcher - Quickly Change Power Schemes
- Scheduler or TaskRunner - System Task Scheduler
- CoreTemp or System Informer - Process Monitors
- ThrottleStop - Laptop CPU Monitor / Optimizer
- RegExp, RegScanner, ripgrep-all or Registry-Finder - Registry Explorers / Scanners
- WinbIndex - Windows System Files / Binaries
- OfflineInsiderEnroll - Enable Windows Insider without Account
- WLSetup-All - Windows Live Essentials 2012 Archive
- Rhasspy - Voice Assistant
- OpenRecall or Windrecorder - Memory Search App / System Recorders
- Time.is - Check Accuracy of System Clock
- G-Helper - Armoury Crate Replacement
- LenovoLegionToolkit - Lenovo Vantage Replacement
▷ System Debloating
- ⭐ Debloat Guide - Windows Debloat Guide
- ⭐ Bulk Crap Uninstaller, Revo Uninstaller or GeekUninstaller - Bulk Uninstallation Tools
- ⭐ SophiaScript - Debloater
- BleachBit - Clean System Storage
- GhostBuster or Device Cleanup Tool - Remove Non-Present Devices
- Win11Debloat - Debloater
- Should I Remove It? - Program Removal Guide
▷ System Tweaks
- ⭐ Windhawk, MajorGeeks Windows Tweaks, Winaero or - System Tweaking Tools / Warning
- ⭐ EverythingToolbar or yasb - Tweaked Taskbars
- ⭐ Open Shell - Tweak Start Menu / Start Skin
- ⭐ EarTrumpet, Volumey or Volume2 - Tweak Volume Mixer
- ⭐ AltSnap - Tweaked Windows Dragging
- abbodi1406, BatUtil or TechNet-Gallery - System Scripts
- Win10 Widgets or Eww - Widgets for Windows
- Wintoys - System App Tweaking
- Wox, Listary, FlowLauncher, Ueli / GitHub - Keystroke / App Launchers
- Kando - App Launcher / Pie Menu / GitHub / Discord
- Hunt and Peck or Cerebro App - Tweaked System Navigation
- SmartSystemMenu - Tweak System Menu
- EasyContextMenu, Nilesoft Shell or ContextMenuManager
- RCWM - Tweaked Context Menus
- Explorer Tab Utility - Tweaked File Explorer
- Spencer - Classic Start Menu
- Taskbar Tweaker - Taskbar Advanced Features
- Taskbar Hide - Easily Hide / Show Taskbar
- QuickLook - macOS Quick Look for Windows
- TopNotify - Move Windows Notifications
▷ Package Managers
- ⭐ WinGet - CLI Package Manager / Repos / Automation / Auto Update / GitHub
- ⭐ UniGetUI - GUI for Popular Package Managers
- ⭐ Scoop - Portable Package Manager
- ⭐ sfsu or hok - Fast Scoop Utilities
- Spinel - Multi-Program Install Script Generator
- Chocolatey / GUI / GitHub, Patch My PC or RuckZuck - Package Managers
- Silent Install - Build Multi-Program Installers
- 0Install - Decentralized Cross-Platform Package Manager
- portableapps - Package Manager for Portable Apps
- Baulk - Minimalist Package Manager
- NirLauncher - Portable Package Manager for NirSoft Utilities
▷ Task Automation
- 🌐 Awesome AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey Resources
- 🌐 Awesome AutoIt - AutoIt Resources
- ⭐ AutoHotkey / Discord
- AutoIt
- Tinytask
- Power Automate
- sikulix
- ChoEazyCopy
▷ Terminal / CLI
- 🌐 The Terminal Directory - List of Terminal Emulators
- 🌐 terminals-are-sexy - Terminal Resources
- 🌐 Awesome CLI Apps or Command Line Tools - Command Line Resources
- ⭐ ss64 - Command Line Reference Index
- Windows Terminal / 2, ConEmu, Hyper, Tabby, MobaXterm or WezTerm - Windows Terminal Emulators
- BusyBox - Unix Commands for Windows
- Clink - Command Line Editing
- Nushell - Alt Shell
- Tiny Care Terminal - Terminal Dashboard That Cares
- Command Challenge - Command Line Learning
- Mintty - Cygwin Terminal Emulator
- GetDNote - Command Line Notebook
- PowerShell - Windows / macOS / Linux PowerShell
- LeanandMean - Powershell Snippets / Use with Caution
- PowerShell Scripts or WindowsPowerShell - Alt Shell Scripts
- Starship - Cross-Shell Prompt
▷ Remote Desktop
- ⭐ Parsec - Desktop Client / X / Discord
- ⭐ RustDesk - Desktop Client / Subreddit / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ Aspia - Desktop Client / Telegram / GitHub
- ⭐ Sunshine - Gaming Remote Desktop Client / Discord / GitHub
- Moonlight - Gaming Remote Desktop Client / Discord / GitHub
- Arcane - Desktop Client
- HopToDesk - Desktop Client / GitLab
- CoScreen - Desktop Client
- Remotly - Desktop Client
- Bananas - Desktop Client / Discord / GitHub
- ChromeRemoteDesktop - Web-Based
- InputDirector - Multi-Computer Client
- Mouse Without Borders - Multi-Computer Client
- p2p - Portable Client
- Screensy - Web-Based / GitHub
- Screego - Web-Based / GitHub
- Screen-Sharing - Web-Based / GitHub
- TigerVNC - VNC Client / GitHub
- TightVNC - VNC Client
- noVNC - JavaScript VNC Client / GitHub
▷ Clipboard Managers
- ⭐ Ditto - Clipboard Manager / GitHub
- PasteBar - Clipboard Manager / GitHub
- CrossPaste - Clipboard Manager / GitHub
- ArsClip - Clipboard Manager
- ClipAngel - Clipboard Manager
- CopyQ / GitHub or XClipper / GitHub - Clipboard Managers with Editing and Scripting Features
- MultiClipBoardSlots - Extend Clipboard by 10 Memory Slots
▷ Window Managers
- ⭐ GlazeWM - Tiling Window Manager Inspired by i3wm
- ⭐ Komorebi or WorkSpacer / GitHub - Tiling Window Managers
- Whim - Pluggable Dynamic Window Manager
- DWM - Port of X11 dwm to Windows
▷ Virtual Machines
- 🌐 Awesome Web Desktops or Simone's Computer - OS Emulators / VMs
- ↪️ Android Emulators
- ↪️ Hackintosh Resources
- ⭐ VMware Workstation or VirtualBox / Portable - Virtual Machines
- ⭐ Virt-Manager / GitHub, MultiPass / GitHub or Vagrantup / GitHub - Virtual Machine Managers
- Looking Glass - App for Using Kernel-Based Virtual Machine Configured for VGA PCI Pass-Through / GitHub
- Qemu, Hyper-V or Denodo Test - Virtual Machines
- OSBoxes - Preinstalled Virtual Machine
- Terminator - Online Virtual Machines
- JSLinux - Online Linux Virtual Machines
- QuickEmu or Dexpot - Virtual Machine Creator
- Virtual x86 - x86-compatible OS Emulators
- PCjs Machines - Classic Computer Emulators
- InfiniteMac - Apple OS Emulators
- winevdm - 16-bit Windows on 64-bit Systems
- Blink - Linux Emulator for Windows
- Dockerholics - Docker Apps
- WebCatalog - Turn Sites into Desktop Apps
► Hardware Tools
- ↪️ PC Building / Shopping
- ⭐ PSU Calculator - Find Compatible Power Supplies
- DeviceTests - Multiple Device Tests
- NotCPUCores, BES, ParkControl, QuickCPU or Process Lasso - CPU Optimizer
- Ozone3D, UNIGINE Benchmarks or OCCT - System Benchmarking
- Testmem5 - Memory Benchmarking
- MemTest - Memory Diagnostic Tool
- SDIO, Drivers Collection, Driverscape or DriverStoreExplorer - Update / Install Missing Drivers / Note
- VOGONS - Vintage Computer Hardware Forum
▷ Hardware Monitors
- ⭐ HWiNFO - System Info & Monitoring
- Scrutiny, GSmartControl / GitHub or smartmontools - Hard Drive Monitors
- CoolerControl - Cooling Device Monitor
- BatteryMode - System Tray Battery Percentage / Managers / GitHub
- HWMonitor - Hardware Monitors
- fastfetch - System Info & Monitoring
- Task Manager DeLuxe - Task Manager Alt
- Libre Hardware Monitor - Updated Fork of Open Hardware Monitor
- FanControl / GitHub or FanCtrl - PC Fan Controllers
- Traffic Monitor - Network & Hardware Monitor
- bottom or Glances / GitHub - Terminal Hardware Monitors
▷ GPU Tools
- ⭐ NVTOP - GPU / Accelerator Process Monitor
- ⭐ GreenWithEnvy - Manage / Control NVIDIA Cards
- ⭐ NVCleanstall or NVSlimmer - NVIDIA Driver Packages
- Display Driver Uninstaller, 2 - Display Driver Removal Tool / GitHub
- TinyNvidiaUpdateChecker - NVIDIA GPU Update Checker
- nvidiaProfileInspector - Modify / View Hidden NVIDIA Settings / Guide
- RadeonSoftwareSlimmer - Debloat AMD Drivers
- R.ID - AMD 3rd Party Drivers / Discord
- SMCAMDProcessor - AMD Processor Power Management
- PresentMon - GPU Benchmarking
- Universal x86 Tuning Utility - Laptop GPU Controller / GitHub
- RyzenAdj - Ryzen Laptop GPU Controller
▷ Disk Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Storage - File Storage Resources
- 🌐 Awesome DataHoarding - Data Hoarding Resources
- ⭐ WizTree - Disk Usage Analyzer
- ⭐ CrystalDiskMark or CCISOBench - Disk Benchmarking Tools
- ⭐ GParted / GitLab, MiniTool Partition Wizard or AOMEI Partition Assistant / Unlocker - Partition Managers
- ⭐ Validrive - Check True Storage Size of USB Devices
- WinDirStat - Disk Usage Analyzer / Cleanup Tool / GitHub
- TrueNAS - Storage System
- QDirStat - Directory Statistics
- CrystalDiskInfo - S.M.A.R.T. Data Analyzer
- Macrorit Partition Expert or Diskovery - Disk Usage Analyzers
- Gdu or dua - Disk Usage Analyzer with Parallel Processing
- Erdtree - Cross-Platform Disk Usage Analyzer
- PC Manager - Disk Managers / Cleanup
- Air Live Drive - Mount Cloud Drives as Local Disks
- SFTPDrive - Mount SFTP Servers as Local Disks
▷ Monitor Tools
- ⭐ DisplayFusion or Dual Monitor Tool - Dual Monitor Tools
- ⭐ f.lux, LightBulb, ScreenTemperature or SunsetScreen - Adjust Display Color / Temperature
- ⭐ Monitorian, Twinkle Tray / GitHub or Dimmer - Adjust Monitor Brightness
- EIZO, Monitor or LCDTech - Monitor Performance Tests
- TestUFO - Monitor Framerate Test
- LittleBigMouse - DPI Test
- Scalizer - Auto DPI Scaling / YouTube
- ICM or ICC Profiles - ICC Profiles and Monitor Calibration
- Display Calc - Display Distance / Dimension Calculator
- Multi-Monitor Calculator - Dual-Monitor Setup Planning / Tests
- Wide Gamut - Color Compatibility Test
- Dead.Pixel - Dead Pixel Test
- JScreenFix - Repair Stuck Pixels
- CenterOfMyScreen - Find Center of Monitor
- ShowDesktopOneMonitor - Show Desktop for Only One Monitor
- Deskreen / GitHub or SpaceDesk - Use Mobile Device as Monitor
- ShaderGlass - Custom Screen Shaders
- DaltonLens or Toptal - Color Blindness Filters
- NVDA - Screen Reader for Blind Users / GitHub
▷ Mouse / Keyboard
- ⭐ /r/MechanicalKeyboards Wiki - Mechanical Keyboard Resources
- ⭐ Hotkey Cheatsheet, Use The Keyboard, HotkeyP, Clavier++, Kinto or CheatKeys - Keyboard Shortcuts / Image, 2 / Course
- ⭐ VIA / GitHub, SharpKeys, Kanata, keymapper, Ergogen, Mahou - Custom Keyboard Layouts / Remapping
- ⭐ geekhack or KeebTalk - Keyboard Forums
- X-Mouse Button Control - Re-Map Mouse Buttons / Scroll Wheel
- MoveMouse or MouseJiggler - Simulate User Activity
- Raw Accel - Mouse Acceleration Tool
- StrokeIt - Mouse Gestures
- Espanso - Typing Shortcuts / GitHub
- win-vind - Vim Style Keybindings for Windows
- Vial - Custom Keyboard Config Tool
- KeyViz - Keystroke Visualizer
- WhatPulse - Mouse / Keyboard Usage Analyzer
- Kmonad - Keyboard Manager
- Deskhop - Quickly Switch Devices between Computers
- Switchy - Switch Keyboard Languages with Button
- Is this good? - Custom Keyboard Guides
- DreyMaR's - Keyboard Tips and Resources
- Keyboard University or KDB - Mechanical Keyboard Building Guides
- Cosmos - Create Custom Keyboards
- Keyboard Simulator - Design & Test Virtual Keyboards
- Key Test - Keyboard Tester
▷ System Audio
- ⭐ Equalizer APO, 2 / GUI, AutoEq, Dolby Access / Note or FXSound - Audio Equalizers
- Wave Link or VoiceMeeter / Banana - Audio Mixers / Multi-Device Playback
- SoundSwitch - Switch Audio Device with Hotkey / GitHub
- SonyHeadphonesClient - Sony Headphones Clone
- Audiocheck - Audio Tests
- LowAudioLatency - Reduce Audio Latency
- DigitalFeed - Lossless Audio Sound System Test
- Online Mic Test or Check Mic - Mic Test
- Sound Meter or REW - Measure Surrounding Sound Level
- Krisp or noise-suppression-for-voice - Noise Suppression Tools
- AirPods Dirty Secret - AirPods Repair Directory
► Windows ISOs
- ⭐ Genuine Installation Media - Windows ISOs / Clean Install Guide
- files.rg-adguard or MVS dump - Verify ISO Legitimacy
- OS.click, MyDigitalLife or Microsoft SD - Windows ISOs
- Old School OS, OS Vault, VETUSWARE or WinWorldPC - Oldschool ISOs
- Fido - ISO Powershell Script
- NetBoot - Boot Operating Systems without ISOs
- CoolStar - Install Windows on Chromebook
▷ USB / Bootloaders
- ⭐ Rufus - Create Bootable USB Drives
- ⭐ YUMI - Create Bootable USB Drives
- MediaCreationTool - Windows Deployment Automation
- USBTreeView - USB Device Tree Viewer
- CloverBootloader or EasyBCD - Bootloaders / Config
▷ Windows Activation
- ⭐ MAS - Activation Scripts / Windows / Office / Discord
- ⭐ KMS_VL_ALL_AIO - Offline Activator / Windows / Office
- OfficeRTool - Offline Activator / Office
▷ Windows Updates
- ⭐ Windows 10 After EOL - Receive Windows Updates After Win10's End-Of-Life
- ⭐ ChangeWindows - Latest Windows Update Info
- stopupdates10 or InControl - Enable / Disable Win 10/11 Updates / Can Cause Breakage
- LegacyUpdate - Fix Windows Updates for Legacy Editions
- Extended Win 7 Updates - Extended Windows 7 Updates
- WURefresh - Reset Windows Update Components
- UUP Dump or Microsoft Update Catalog - Download Previous Windows Updates
- PC Health Check or WhyNotWin11 - Identify why your PC isn't Ready for Windows 11
- FlashMyBoard - Receive Motherboard Update Notifications
▷ Windows Repair
- MagNumDB, ErrorLookup or Microsoft Error Lookup - Windows Debugging Tools
- /r/TechSupport / Wiki - Tech Support Subreddit / Discord
- Hardforum, TechGuy, Eleven Forums or Ten Forums - Tech Support Forums
- Medicat - Computer Diagnostic / Recovery Toolkit / GitHub
- PhoenixPE - Recovery Environment
- Hiren's BootCD PE or Win10XPE - Preinstallation Environments / Recovery
- Magic Trace - Diagnose Performance Issues using Intel Processor Trace
► Customization
- 🌐 Windows-Ricing or Heliohost Guide - Windows Ricing Resources
- ⭐ Rainmeter - Desktop Customization / Discord
- ⭐ OpenRGB / Beta, WLED, Aurora, LiquidCTL, Artemis, RGBSync, SignalRGB or FireLight - RGB Lighting Control
- ⭐ VSThemes, WindowsCustomization or 7Themes - Theme Indexes
- Styled Themes - Anime / Modern Style / macOS Style, 2 / Old School Style, 2
- VirtualCustoms or winthemers - Customization Communities
- Desktops - Customization Showcases
- XDesktopSoft - Desktop Customization
- SecureUxTheme or UltraUXThemePatcher - UX Patcher
- Cursormania Archive - Cursors
- MacOS Cursors for Windows, CursorOS or macOS-cursors-for-Windows - macOS Style Cursors
- Mechvibes / GitHub or MechaKeys - Keyboard Sound Effects
- ElectricSheep or After Dark CSS - Screensavers
- FolderMarker, Flaired Folder, CustomFolder - Custom Folder Icons
- Recycle Bin Themes - Custom Recycle Bin Icons
- msstyleEditor - Visual Style Editor
- StartIsBack or StartAllBack - Start Menu Customization
- Taskbar Tweaker, TranslucentTB, NiceTaskbar - Taskbar Customization / Old School Style
- AccentColorizer - Accent Color Customization
- BeautySearch - Search Customization
- ElevenClock - Clock Customization
- HackBGRT - Boot Logo Changer
- WinDynamicDesktop or Dynamic Theme - Auto Change Wallpaper
- ExplorerBlurMica - File Explorer Effects
- MicaForEveryone - Title Bar Effects
- Cute Borders - Border Color Changer (Win11 Only)
- ModernFlyouts - Modern Flyouts / GitHub
- Alternative Windows Shells Wiki - Alt Windows Shells
- Aerial - Apple TV Screensaver
- ExcelDarkThemeFix - Fix Excel on Themed Windows
- MacType - Use Mac Fonts on Windows / GitHub
▷ App Themes
- ⭐ Dracula / Discord or Catppuccin / Discord - Custom App Themes
- ⭐ terminal.sexy, TerminalSplash, Solarized or WindowsTerminalThemes - Terminal Themes
- Rosé Pine / Discord, Aura Theme or theme.park - Custom App Themes
- Totally Awesome List - Old School App Themes
- Pokemon Terminal - Pokémon Terminal Themes
- Traffic Monitor - System Monitor Themes
▷ Wallpapers
- ⭐ wallhaven.cc - Search Wallpapers / Downloader / Client
- ⭐ Wallpaper Abyss, WallpaperCave, WallpapersCraft, VSThemes - Search Wallpapers
- ⭐ Rev Wallpaper or r/WallpaperRequests - Reverse Wallpaper Search
- ⭐ Studio Ghibli Wallpapers or Ghibli Upscaled - Studio Ghibli Wallpapers
- ⭐ Ultimate Windows Wallpack / Wiki, Spotlight - Windows Wallpapers
- ⭐ LWP, /r/LivingBackgrounds, WALLegend or MoeWalls - Live Wallpapers
- /r/Wallpaper - Wallpapers Community
- DualMonitorBackgrounds - Dual Monitor Wallpapers
- Scenic Illustrations - Landscape Wallpapers
- CoolBackgrounds - Customizable Wallpapers
- Simple Desktops, Minimalistic Wallpaper, Positron Dream or SetAsWall - Minimalist Wallpapers
- Aesthetic Wallpapers - Aesthetic Wallpapers
- Mac Walls or BasicAppleBlog - Apple Wallpapers
- ChromecastBG - Chromecast Wallpapers
- Bing Wallpaper Archive - Bing Wallpapers
- Xbox Wallpapers - Xbox Wallpapers
- Screencaps or shot.cafe - Movie / TV Wallpapers
- Anime Pictures, WallpaperWaifu, TheOtaku or MyLiveWallpapers - Anime Wallpapers
- WallsPic, WallpaperFlare, HDQwalls or UHD Wallpaper - Misc Wallpapers
- G_Walls - Telegram Wallpaper Channels
▷ Wallpaper Tools
- ⭐ Wallpaper Engine / PKG to Zip / Collections, 2 / Workshop DL - Wallpaper Manager
- ⭐ Lively or ScreenPlay - Live Wallpaper Manager
- backiee - Wallpaper Manager
- SuperPaper - Cross-Platform Multi-Monitor Wallpaper Manager
- Background Switcher - Multi-Host Wallpaper Switcher
- Faerber - Edit Wallpapers to Match Color Scheme
- AutoWall - Turn Videos / GIFs to Live Wallpapers
- Awesome Wallpaper - Show System Information on Wallpaper
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-03-21 19:41:50Wir werden nicht zulassen, dass technisch manches möglich ist, \ aber der Staat es nicht nutzt. \ Angela Merkel
Die Modalverben zu erklären, ist im Deutschunterricht manchmal nicht ganz einfach. Nicht alle Fremdsprachen unterscheiden zum Beispiel bei der Frage nach einer Möglichkeit gleichermaßen zwischen «können» im Sinne von «die Gelegenheit, Kenntnis oder Fähigkeit haben» und «dürfen» als «die Erlaubnis oder Berechtigung haben». Das spanische Wort «poder» etwa steht für beides.
Ebenso ist vielen Schülern auf den ersten Blick nicht recht klar, dass das logische Gegenteil von «müssen» nicht unbedingt «nicht müssen» ist, sondern vielmehr «nicht dürfen». An den Verkehrsschildern lässt sich so etwas meistens recht gut erklären: Manchmal muss man abbiegen, aber manchmal darf man eben nicht.
Dieses Beispiel soll ein wenig die Verwirrungstaktik veranschaulichen, die in der Politik gerne verwendet wird, um unpopuläre oder restriktive Maßnahmen Stück für Stück einzuführen. Zuerst ist etwas einfach innovativ und bringt viele Vorteile. Vor allem ist es freiwillig, jeder kann selber entscheiden, niemand muss mitmachen. Später kann man zunehmend weniger Alternativen wählen, weil sie verschwinden, und irgendwann verwandelt sich alles andere in «nicht dürfen» – die Maßnahme ist obligatorisch.
Um die Durchsetzung derartiger Initiativen strategisch zu unterstützen und nett zu verpacken, gibt es Lobbyisten, gerne auch NGOs genannt. Dass das «NG» am Anfang dieser Abkürzung übersetzt «Nicht-Regierungs-» bedeutet, ist ein Anachronismus. Das war vielleicht früher einmal so, heute ist eher das Gegenteil gemeint.
In unserer modernen Zeit wird enorm viel Lobbyarbeit für die Digitalisierung praktisch sämtlicher Lebensbereiche aufgewendet. Was das auf dem Sektor der Mobilität bedeuten kann, haben wir diese Woche anhand aktueller Entwicklungen in Spanien beleuchtet. Begründet teilweise mit Vorgaben der Europäischen Union arbeitet man dort fleißig an einer «neuen Mobilität», basierend auf «intelligenter» technologischer Infrastruktur. Derartige Anwandlungen wurden auch schon als «Technofeudalismus» angeprangert.
Nationale Zugangspunkte für Mobilitätsdaten im Sinne der EU gibt es nicht nur in allen Mitgliedsländern, sondern auch in der Schweiz und in Großbritannien. Das Vereinigte Königreich beteiligt sich darüber hinaus an anderen EU-Projekten für digitale Überwachungs- und Kontrollmaßnahmen, wie dem biometrischen Identifizierungssystem für «nachhaltigen Verkehr und Tourismus».
Natürlich marschiert auch Deutschland stracks und euphorisch in Richtung digitaler Zukunft. Ohne vernetzte Mobilität und einen «verlässlichen Zugang zu Daten, einschließlich Echtzeitdaten» komme man in der Verkehrsplanung und -steuerung nicht aus, erklärt die Regierung. Der Interessenverband der IT-Dienstleister Bitkom will «die digitale Transformation der deutschen Wirtschaft und Verwaltung vorantreiben». Dazu bewirbt er unter anderem die Konzepte Smart City, Smart Region und Smart Country und behauptet, deutsche Großstädte «setzen bei Mobilität voll auf Digitalisierung».
Es steht zu befürchten, dass das umfassende Sammeln, Verarbeiten und Vernetzen von Daten, das angeblich die Menschen unterstützen soll (und theoretisch ja auch könnte), eher dazu benutzt wird, sie zu kontrollieren und zu manipulieren. Je elektrischer und digitaler unsere Umgebung wird, desto größer sind diese Möglichkeiten. Im Ergebnis könnten solche Prozesse den Bürger nicht nur einschränken oder überflüssig machen, sondern in mancherlei Hinsicht regelrecht abschalten. Eine gesunde Skepsis ist also geboten.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben. Er ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ aa8de34f:a6ffe696
2025-03-21 12:08:3119. März 2025
🔐 1. SHA-256 is Quantum-Resistant
Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mechanism relies on SHA-256, a hashing algorithm. Even with a powerful quantum computer, SHA-256 remains secure because:
- Quantum computers excel at factoring large numbers (Shor’s Algorithm).
- However, SHA-256 is a one-way function, meaning there's no known quantum algorithm that can efficiently reverse it.
- Grover’s Algorithm (which theoretically speeds up brute force attacks) would still require 2¹²⁸ operations to break SHA-256 – far beyond practical reach.
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🔑 2. Public Key Vulnerability – But Only If You Reuse Addresses
Bitcoin uses Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) to generate keys.
- A quantum computer could use Shor’s Algorithm to break SECP256K1, the curve Bitcoin uses.
- If you never reuse addresses, it is an additional security element
- 🔑 1. Bitcoin Addresses Are NOT Public Keys
Many people assume a Bitcoin address is the public key—this is wrong.
- When you receive Bitcoin, it is sent to a hashed public key (the Bitcoin address).
- The actual public key is never exposed because it is the Bitcoin Adress who addresses the Public Key which never reveals the creation of a public key by a spend
- Bitcoin uses Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) or newer methods like Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash (P2WPKH), which add extra layers of security.
🕵️♂️ 2.1 The Public Key Never Appears
- When you send Bitcoin, your wallet creates a digital signature.
- This signature uses the private key to prove ownership.
- The Bitcoin address is revealed and creates the Public Key
- The public key remains hidden inside the Bitcoin script and Merkle tree.
This means: ✔ The public key is never exposed. ✔ Quantum attackers have nothing to target, attacking a Bitcoin Address is a zero value game.
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🔄 3. Bitcoin Can Upgrade
Even if quantum computers eventually become a real threat:
- Bitcoin developers can upgrade to quantum-safe cryptography (e.g., lattice-based cryptography or post-quantum signatures like Dilithium).
- Bitcoin’s decentralized nature ensures a network-wide soft fork or hard fork could transition to quantum-resistant keys.
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⏳ 4. The 10-Minute Block Rule as a Security Feature
- Bitcoin’s network operates on a 10-minute block interval, meaning:Even if an attacker had immense computational power (like a quantum computer), they could only attempt an attack every 10 minutes.Unlike traditional encryption, where a hacker could continuously brute-force keys, Bitcoin’s system resets the challenge with every new block.This limits the window of opportunity for quantum attacks.
🎯 5. Quantum Attack Needs to Solve a Block in Real-Time
- A quantum attacker must solve the cryptographic puzzle (Proof of Work) in under 10 minutes.
- The problem? Any slight error changes the hash completely, meaning:If the quantum computer makes a mistake (even 0.0001% probability), the entire attack fails.Quantum decoherence (loss of qubit stability) makes error correction a massive challenge.The computational cost of recovering from an incorrect hash is still incredibly high.
⚡ 6. Network Resilience – Even if a Block Is Hacked
- Even if a quantum computer somehow solved a block instantly:The network would quickly recognize and reject invalid transactions.Other miners would continue mining under normal cryptographic rules.51% Attack? The attacker would need to consistently beat the entire Bitcoin network, which is not sustainable.
🔄 7. The Logarithmic Difficulty Adjustment Neutralizes Threats
- Bitcoin adjusts mining difficulty every 2016 blocks (\~2 weeks).
- If quantum miners appeared and suddenly started solving blocks too quickly, the difficulty would adjust upward, making attacks significantly harder.
- This self-correcting mechanism ensures that even quantum computers wouldn't easily overpower the network.
🔥 Final Verdict: Quantum Computers Are Too Slow for Bitcoin
✔ The 10-minute rule limits attack frequency – quantum computers can’t keep up.
✔ Any slight miscalculation ruins the attack, resetting all progress.
✔ Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment would react, neutralizing quantum advantages.
Even if quantum computers reach their theoretical potential, Bitcoin’s game theory and design make it incredibly resistant. 🚀
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@ df478568:2a951e67
2025-04-22 18:56:38"It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine." --Satoshi Nakamoto The Cryptography Mailing List--January 17, 2009
Forgot to add the good part about micropayments. While I don't think Bitcoin is practical for smaller micropayments right now, it will eventually be as storage and bandwidth costs continue to fall. If Bitcoin catches on on a big scale, it may already be the case by that time. Another way they can become more practical is if I implement client-only mode and the number of network nodes consolidates into a smaller number of professional server farms. Whatever size micropayments you need will eventually be practical. I think in 5 or 10 years, the bandwidth and storage will seem trivial. --Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin Talk-- August 5, 2010
I very be coded some HTML buttons using Claude and uploaded it to https://github.com/GhostZaps/ It's just a button that links to zapper.fun.
I signed up for Substack to build an email address, but learned adding different payment options to Substack is against their terms and services. Since I write about nostr, these terms seem as silly as someone saying Craig Wright is Satoshi. It's easy to build an audience on Substack however, or so I thought. Why is it easier to build an audience on Subtack though? Because Substack is a platform that markets to writers. Anyone with a ~~pen~~ ~~keyboard~~ smartphone and an email can create an account with Substack. There's just one problem: You are an Internet serf, working the land for your Internet landlord--The Duke of Substack.
Then I saw that Shawn posted about Substack's UX.
I should have grabbed my reading glasses before pushing the post button, but it occurred to me that I could use Ghost to do this and there is probably a way to hack it to accept bitcoin payments over the lightning network and host it yourself. So I spun my noddle, doodled some plans...And then it hit me. Ghost allows for markdown and HTML. I learned HTML and CSS with free-code camp, but ain't nobody got time to type CSS so I vibe-coded a button that ~~baits~~ sends the clicker to my zapper.fun page. This can be used on any blog that allows you to paste html into it so I added it to my Ghost blog self-hosted on a Start 9. The blog is on TOR at http://p66dxywd2xpyyrdfxwilqcxmchmfw2ixmn2vm74q3atf22du7qmkihyd.onion/, but most people around me have been conditioned to fear the dark web so I used the cloudflared to host my newsletter on the clear net at https://marc26z.com/
Integrating Nostr Into My Self-Hosted Ghost Newsletter
I would venture to say I am more technical than the average person and I know HTML, but my CSS is fuzzy. I also know how to print("Hello world!") in python, but I an NPC beyond the basics. Nevertheless, I found that I know enough to make a button. I can't code well enough to create my own nostr long-form client and create plugins for ghost that send lightning payments to lighting channel, but I know enough about nostr to know that I don't need to. That's why nostr is so F@#%-ing cool! It's all connected. ** - One button takes you to zapper.fun where you can zap anywhere between 1 and ,000,000 sats.** - Another button sends you to a zap planner pre-set to send 5,000 sats to the author per month using nostr. - Yet another button sends you to a zap planner preset to send 2,500 sats per month.
The possibilities are endless. I entered a link that takes the clicker to my Shopstr Merch Store. The point is to write as self-sovereign as possible. I might need to change my lightning address when stuff breaks every now and then, but I like the idea of busking for sats by writing on the Internet using the Value 4 Value model. I dislike ads, but I also want people to buy stuff from people I do business with because I want to promote using bitcoin as peer-to-peer electronic cash, not NGU porn. I'm not prude. I enjoy looking at the price displayed on my BlockClock micro every now and then, but I am not an NGU porn addict.
This line made this pattern, that line made this pattern. All that Bolinger Bart Simpson bullshit has nothing to with bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It is the musings of a population trapped in the fiat mind-set. Bitcoin is permissionless so I realized I was bieng a hipocryte by using a permissioned payment system becaue it was easier than writing a little vibe code. I don't need permission to write for sats. I don't need to give my bank account number to Substack. I don't need to pay a 10$ vig to publish on a a platform which is not designed for stacking sats. I can write on Ghost and integrate clients that already exist in the multi-nostr-verse.
Nostr Payment Buttons
The buttons can be fouund at https://github.com/Marc26z/GhostZapButton
You can use them yourself. Just replace my npub with your npub or add any other link you want. It doesn't technically need to be a nostr link. It can be anything. I have a link to another Ghost article with other buttons that lead down different sat pledging amounts. It's early. Everyone who spends bitcoin is on nostr and nostr is small, but growing community. I want to be part of this community. I want to find other writers on nostr and stay away from Substack.
Here's what it looks like on Ghost: https://marc26z.com/zaps-on-ghost/
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2025-03-20 09:59:20Bald werde es verboten, alleine im Auto zu fahren, konnte man dieser Tage in verschiedenen spanischen Medien lesen. Die nationale Verkehrsbehörde (Dirección General de Tráfico, kurz DGT) werde Alleinfahrern das Leben schwer machen, wurde gemeldet. Konkret erörtere die Generaldirektion geeignete Sanktionen für Personen, die ohne Beifahrer im Privatauto unterwegs seien.
Das Alleinfahren sei zunehmend verpönt und ein Mentalitätswandel notwendig, hieß es. Dieser «Luxus» stehe im Widerspruch zu den Maßnahmen gegen Umweltverschmutzung, die in allen europäischen Ländern gefördert würden. In Frankreich sei es «bereits verboten, in der Hauptstadt allein zu fahren», behauptete Noticiastrabajo Huffpost in einer Zwischenüberschrift. Nur um dann im Text zu konkretisieren, dass die sogenannte «Umweltspur» auf der Pariser Ringautobahn gemeint war, die für Busse, Taxis und Fahrgemeinschaften reserviert ist. Ab Mai werden Verstöße dagegen mit einem Bußgeld geahndet.
Die DGT jedenfalls wolle bei der Umsetzung derartiger Maßnahmen nicht hinterherhinken. Diese Medienberichte, inklusive des angeblich bevorstehenden Verbots, beriefen sich auf Aussagen des Generaldirektors der Behörde, Pere Navarro, beim Mobilitätskongress Global Mobility Call im November letzten Jahres, wo es um «nachhaltige Mobilität» ging. Aus diesem Kontext stammt auch Navarros Warnung: «Die Zukunft des Verkehrs ist geteilt oder es gibt keine».
Die «Faktenchecker» kamen der Generaldirektion prompt zu Hilfe. Die DGT habe derlei Behauptungen zurückgewiesen und klargestellt, dass es keine Pläne gebe, Fahrten mit nur einer Person im Auto zu verbieten oder zu bestrafen. Bei solchen Meldungen handele es sich um Fake News. Teilweise wurde der Vorsitzende der spanischen «Rechtsaußen»-Partei Vox, Santiago Abascal, der Urheberschaft bezichtigt, weil er einen entsprechenden Artikel von La Gaceta kommentiert hatte.
Der Beschwichtigungsversuch der Art «niemand hat die Absicht» ist dabei erfahrungsgemäß eher ein Alarmzeichen als eine Beruhigung. Walter Ulbrichts Leugnung einer geplanten Berliner Mauer vom Juni 1961 ist vielen genauso in Erinnerung wie die Fake News-Warnungen des deutschen Bundesgesundheitsministeriums bezüglich Lockdowns im März 2020 oder diverse Äußerungen zu einer Impfpflicht ab 2020.
Aber Aufregung hin, Dementis her: Die Pressemitteilung der DGT zu dem Mobilitätskongress enthält in Wahrheit viel interessantere Informationen als «nur» einen Appell an den «guten» Bürger wegen der Bemühungen um die Lebensqualität in Großstädten oder einen möglichen obligatorischen Abschied vom Alleinfahren. Allerdings werden diese Details von Medien und sogenannten Faktencheckern geflissentlich übersehen, obwohl sie keineswegs versteckt sind. Die Auskünfte sind sehr aufschlussreich, wenn man genauer hinschaut.
Digitalisierung ist der Schlüssel für Kontrolle
Auf dem Kongress stellte die Verkehrsbehörde ihre Initiativen zur Förderung der «neuen Mobilität» vor, deren Priorität Sicherheit und Effizienz sei. Die vier konkreten Ansätze haben alle mit Digitalisierung, Daten, Überwachung und Kontrolle im großen Stil zu tun und werden unter dem Euphemismus der «öffentlich-privaten Partnerschaft» angepriesen. Auch lassen sie die transhumanistische Idee vom unzulänglichen Menschen erkennen, dessen Fehler durch «intelligente» technologische Infrastruktur kompensiert werden müssten.
Die Chefin des Bereichs «Verkehrsüberwachung» erklärte die Funktion des spanischen National Access Point (NAP), wobei sie betonte, wie wichtig Verkehrs- und Infrastrukturinformationen in Echtzeit seien. Der NAP ist «eine essenzielle Web-Applikation, die unter EU-Mandat erstellt wurde», kann man auf der Website der DGT nachlesen.
Das Mandat meint Regelungen zu einem einheitlichen europäischen Verkehrsraum, mit denen die Union mindestens seit 2010 den Aufbau einer digitalen Architektur mit offenen Schnittstellen betreibt. Damit begründet man auch «umfassende Datenbereitstellungspflichten im Bereich multimodaler Reiseinformationen». Jeder Mitgliedstaat musste einen NAP, also einen nationalen Zugangspunkt einrichten, der Zugang zu statischen und dynamischen Reise- und Verkehrsdaten verschiedener Verkehrsträger ermöglicht.
Diese Entwicklung ist heute schon weit fortgeschritten, auch und besonders in Spanien. Auf besagtem Kongress erläuterte die Leiterin des Bereichs «Telematik» die Plattform «DGT 3.0». Diese werde als Integrator aller Informationen genutzt, die von den verschiedenen öffentlichen und privaten Systemen, die Teil der Mobilität sind, bereitgestellt werden.
Es handele sich um eine Vermittlungsplattform zwischen Akteuren wie Fahrzeugherstellern, Anbietern von Navigationsdiensten oder Kommunen und dem Endnutzer, der die Verkehrswege benutzt. Alle seien auf Basis des Internets der Dinge (IOT) anonym verbunden, «um der vernetzten Gemeinschaft wertvolle Informationen zu liefern oder diese zu nutzen».
So sei DGT 3.0 «ein Zugangspunkt für einzigartige, kostenlose und genaue Echtzeitinformationen über das Geschehen auf den Straßen und in den Städten». Damit lasse sich der Verkehr nachhaltiger und vernetzter gestalten. Beispielsweise würden die Karten des Produktpartners Google dank der DGT-Daten 50 Millionen Mal pro Tag aktualisiert.
Des Weiteren informiert die Verkehrsbehörde über ihr SCADA-Projekt. Die Abkürzung steht für Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, zu deutsch etwa: Kontrollierte Steuerung und Datenerfassung. Mit SCADA kombiniert man Software und Hardware, um automatisierte Systeme zur Überwachung und Steuerung technischer Prozesse zu schaffen. Das SCADA-Projekt der DGT wird von Indra entwickelt, einem spanischen Beratungskonzern aus den Bereichen Sicherheit & Militär, Energie, Transport, Telekommunikation und Gesundheitsinformation.
Das SCADA-System der Behörde umfasse auch eine Videostreaming- und Videoaufzeichnungsplattform, die das Hochladen in die Cloud in Echtzeit ermöglicht, wie Indra erklärt. Dabei gehe es um Bilder, die von Überwachungskameras an Straßen aufgenommen wurden, sowie um Videos aus DGT-Hubschraubern und Drohnen. Ziel sei es, «die sichere Weitergabe von Videos an Dritte sowie die kontinuierliche Aufzeichnung und Speicherung von Bildern zur möglichen Analyse und späteren Nutzung zu ermöglichen».
Letzteres klingt sehr nach biometrischer Erkennung und Auswertung durch künstliche Intelligenz. Für eine bessere Datenübertragung wird derzeit die Glasfaserverkabelung entlang der Landstraßen und Autobahnen ausgebaut. Mit der Cloud sind die Amazon Web Services (AWS) gemeint, die spanischen Daten gehen somit direkt zu einem US-amerikanischen «Big Data»-Unternehmen.
Das Thema «autonomes Fahren», also Fahren ohne Zutun des Menschen, bildet den Abschluss der Betrachtungen der DGT. Zusammen mit dem Interessenverband der Automobilindustrie ANFAC (Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Automóviles y Camiones) sprach man auf dem Kongress über Strategien und Perspektiven in diesem Bereich. Die Lobbyisten hoffen noch in diesem Jahr 2025 auf einen normativen Rahmen zur erweiterten Unterstützung autonomer Technologien.
Wenn man derartige Informationen im Zusammenhang betrachtet, bekommt man eine Idee davon, warum zunehmend alles elektrisch und digital werden soll. Umwelt- und Mobilitätsprobleme in Städten, wie Luftverschmutzung, Lärmbelästigung, Platzmangel oder Staus, sind eine Sache. Mit dem Argument «emissionslos» wird jedoch eine Referenz zum CO2 und dem «menschengemachten Klimawandel» hergestellt, die Emotionen triggert. Und damit wird so ziemlich alles verkauft.
Letztlich aber gilt: Je elektrischer und digitaler unsere Umgebung wird und je freigiebiger wir mit unseren Daten jeder Art sind, desto besser werden wir kontrollier-, steuer- und sogar abschaltbar. Irgendwann entscheiden KI-basierte Algorithmen, ob, wann, wie, wohin und mit wem wir uns bewegen dürfen. Über einen 15-Minuten-Radius geht dann möglicherweise nichts hinaus. Die Projekte auf diesem Weg sind ernst zu nehmen, real und schon weit fortgeschritten.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
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- 🌐 Email Providers - Provider Comparisons
- ↪️ Email Privacy Services / Tools
- ⭐ InboxReads or Readsom - Email Newsletter Archive
- Outlook - Number-Free Email Service
- Delta Chat - Email-Based Messenger
- Boomerang, NudgeMail or FollowupThen - Scheduled Email Sending & Reminders
- Epieos - Retrieve Info Linked to Email Address
- Predicta Search - Retrieve Info Linked to Email Address and Phone Number
- Holehe - Find Accounts Connected to Emails
- Useplaintext - How to Use Plaintext Email
- Meru - Gmail Desktop Client
- Got Your Back - Backup Gmail Messages
- ExtractMailAddress - Extract Emails, URLs, and Numbers from Text
- scr.im - Email Captcha Protection
- BugMeNot, FreeAccount or Password Login - Access & Share Throwaway Accounts
▷ Email Clients
- ⭐ Betterbird
- ⭐ Thunderbird - Tray Icon
- ⭐ Mailspring - Themes / GitHub
- Outlook
- ElectronMail
- eM Client
- RainLoop
- Roundcube
- Spike
- Canary
- Twobird
- Kanmail
- Wino
▷ Temp Mail
- Note - If you're looking for something more private and convenient, check out our Email Aliasing section. For details about tags, refer to this resource.
- ⭐ SmailPro - Gmail & Outlook / 20+ Domains
- ⭐ Zemail - Gmail / Forever / 1 Day / 7 Domains
- ⭐ Gmailnator - Gmail / Forever / 1 Day / 6 Domains
- ⭐ Tempr.email - Forever / 1 Month / 50+ Domains
- ⭐ Inboxes - Forever / 7 Days / 19 Domains
- ⭐ Mail.tm - Forever / 7 Days / 1 Domain
- ⭐ temp-mail.org - Forever / 2 Hours / N/A / Telegram Bot
- ⭐ temp-mail.io - 1 Day / 1 Day / 12 Domains
- ⭐ burner.kiwi - 1 Day / 1 Day / 3 Domains
- Guerrilla Mail - Forever / 1 Hour / 11 Domains / SharkLasers
- Bloody Vikings! - Temp Email Extension
- Tmail.io - Gmail / Forever / 1 Day / 4 Domains
- 22.Do - Gmail / 1 Day / 1 Day / 3 Domains
- Vortex Email - Forever / 9 Domains / GitHub
- MailTicking - Gmail / 2 Domains
- YOPmail - Forever / 8 Days / 100+ Domains
- TempMail.Plus - Forever / 7 Days / 9 Domains / .onion
- instant-email.org - Forever / 3 Days / 7 Domains
- NanoMail - Forever / 7 Days / 1 Domain
- Temporary-Mail - Forever / 11 Domains
- 48hr.email - Forever / 2 Days / 7 Domains
- NiceMail - Forever / 1 Day / 3 Domains
- Snapmail.cc - Forever / 2 Days / 3 Domains
- Mailnesia - Forever / 2 Days / 1 Domain
- Spambox or Trashinbox - Forever / 1 Day / 4 Domains
- Maildrop, Trashmail - Forever / 1 Day / 1 Domain
- cs.email - Forever / 1 Hour / 12 Domains
- Email Generator, Fake Email or TempM - Forever / N/A / 50+ Domains
- EduMail - 1 Month / 1 Month / 10 Domains
- 10minutesemail - 10 Minutes / 1 Domain
- DisposableMail or FakeMail - 14 Days / 14 Days / 1 Domain
- FEX+ - 7 Days / 7 Days / 5 Domains
- Adguard Temp Mail - 7 Days / 1 Day / 1 Domain
- Tempmailo - 2 Days / 2 Days / N/A
- Vmail.DEV - 1 Day / 1 Day / 2 Domains
- TempMail.love - 1 Day / 1 Day / 1 Domain
- tempmail.altmails - 1 Day / 1 Day / 1 Domain
- Mail.cx - 1 Day / 12 Hours / 5 Domains
- Tmail - 1 Domain
- BottleMail - 14 Days / 1 Domain
- TemporaryMail.com - 6 Hours / 6 Hours / 7 Domains
- Moakt - 1 Hour / 1 Hour / 13 Domains
- MintEmail.com, tempail.com or tempmail.zone - 1 Hour / 1 Hour / 1 Domain
- Mohmal - 45 Mins / 45 Mins / 1 Domain
- MinuteInbox, 10minemail.com, 10minutemail.com or Linshi Email - 10 Minute Lifespan Emails
- mail-temp.com or emailfake.com - 50+ Domains
- AnonymMail.net or Mail.td - 5 Domains
- EmailOnDeck, EmailTemp, Haribu, Maildax or tempmaili.com - 1 Domain
- TMail - Lightweight Email
- More Sites - More Temp Mail Sites
▷ Email Aliasing
- ⭐ SimpleLogin - Email Aliasing / Subreddit / X / GitHub
- ⭐ DuckDuckGo Email Protection - Email Aliasing
- ⭐ addy.io - Email Aliasing / GitHub
- Mailgw - Email Aliasing
- erine.email - Email Aliasing
- 33mail - Email Aliasing
- TrashMail - Email Aliasing
- Adguard Mail - Email Aliasing
► Browser Bookmarks
- ⭐ Sidebery - Firefox Extension / Manager
- ⭐ Floccus / GitHub or BookmarkHub - Bookmark / Tab Sync
- linkhut, Linkhorse or TinyGem - Social Bookmarking
- SuperMemory - AI Bookmark App / GitHub
- Bookmarks Organizer, Keep or Delete or Bookmarks Cleanup - Bookmark Cleanup Extensions
- Auto-Sort Bookmarks - Bookmark Sorting Extension
- Default Bookmark Folder - Change Default Firefox Bookmark Folder
- Bookmark Search Plus 2 - Search Firefox Bookmarks
- Bookmarklets Guide - Bookmarklets / Guide
- Bookmarkify - Create JS Bookmarklets
- Get Bookmarklets - Download / Share Bookmarklets
- export-edge-collections - Convert MS Edge Collections to Bookmarks
▷ Bookmark Managers
- ⭐ Raindrop.io - Cross-Platform Manager
- Start.me - Web-Based Manager
- Bort - Web-Based Manager / Requires Dropbox
- wallabag - Web-Based Manager
- Dropmark - Web-Based Manager
- KeepThisSite - Web-Based Manager
- yabs.io - Web-Based Manager
- Centroly - Web-Based Manager
- Stacks - Web-Based Manager
- Zulu - Web-Based Manager
- GGather - Web-Based Manager
- Shiori - Desktop Manager
- Instapaper - Desktop Manager
- booky - Desktop Manager
- linksort - Desktop Manager
- Bookmarkme - Desktop Manager
- Mission Control - Chrome Extension
- buku - CLI Bookmark Manager
- Linkwarden, Hoarder, Shaarli, LinkAce or linkding - Self-Hosted Managers
► Browser Tools
- 🌐 Browser Comparisons, Eylenburg Comparisons or ATH Comparisons - Compare Popular Browsers
- 🌐 Desktop Browser List - Desktop Browser Index
- ↪️ Recommended Browsers, 2 / Privacy Browsers
- ↪️ Android Browsers
- ⭐ BrowserBench or WPT - Browser Benchmark Tests
- ⭐ Firefox Trains - Track Firefox Releases
- ⭐ Edge-Uninstall - Microsoft Edge Removal Script
- VsyncTester - Browser VSYNC Test / Firefox Broken
- Browserling - Browser Emulators
- Gemini Portal, 2 - Gemini to https Web Proxy Service
- Rambox, Kera or Tangram - Web App Browsers
- Hidden Settings - Firefox Hidden Settings
- Betterfox - Firefox user.js Tweaks / Warning
- FirefoxCSS Store - Firefox Themes List
- /r/FirefoxCSS or Firefox CSS Hacks - Firefox CSS Resources
- ThemeBeta - Change Chrome Theme
- Chrome Theme Studio - Create Chrome Theme
- Chromium Flags - Chrome-Based Browser Flags
- Hurl - Select Browser on URL Clicks
- Ruffle - Flash Emulator
- Clean Flash Builds - Flash Downloads
- MSEdgeRedirect - Redirect Microsoft Edge
- Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
- Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts
▷ Browser Extensions
- 🌐 WebExtension.org or MyBrowserAddon - Open-Source Extension Indexes
- ↪️ Adblocking Extensions
- ↪️ Translation Extensions
- ↪️ Download Managers
- ↪️ Video Downloaders
- ↪️ Image Downloaders
- ↪️ Productivity / Site Blocking
- ↪️ Bookmark Managers
- ↪️ Tab Managers
- ↪️ Browser Startpages
- ⭐ Stylus - Custom Website Color Schemes / User Styles, 2 / OLED / Oldschool / Catppuccin
- ⭐ Dark Reader, Midnight Lizard or Custom Dark Mode - Dark Mode
- ⭐ Zoom WE or Custom Page Zoom - Improves Zoom Functionality
- ⭐ ScrollAnywhere - Improves Scrolling Functionality
- ⭐ Auto Tab Discard or Tab Wrangler - Discard Inactive Tabs
- ⭐ Clipboard2File - Upload Images from Clipboard
- ⭐ Redirector - Page Redirector
- CRX Viewer - View Extension Source Code
- Omni - Browser Quick Launcher
- Extensions CSE - Multi-Site Extension Search
- Vimium / GitHub, Surfingkeys, Tridactyl, Web Search Navigator, Shortkeys or Vimium C - Keyboard Shortcuts
- Snap Links Plus or Link Clump - Select & Open Multiple Links at Once
- Custom Scrollbars - Custom Browser Scrollbars
- Quick Tabs - Quickly Switch Between Current & Recently Closed Tabs
- User Agent Switcher - Switch Your User-Agent
- Snooze Tabs - Temporarily Snooze Tabs
- AutoRefresh or Tab Auto Refresh - Refresh Tabs
- Tab for a Cause - New Tabs = Charity Donation
- Dictionaries or Definer - Popup Dictionaries
- CustomRightClickMenu - Custom Right Click Menu
- BigSearch or SearchJumper - Context Search
- Selecton - Text Context Menu
- Magnifying Glass - Magnify Webpages
- Print Edit WE - Edit Pages to Make them Printable
- PageZipper or AutoPagerize - Merges a Sites "Next" Pages
- Turn Off the Lights or Theater Mode - Play Videos in Theater Mode
- GlobalSpeed - Set Default Video / Audio Speed
- Indie Wiki Buddy - Redirect Fandom / Fextralife to Indie Wikis / Redirect List
- Fake Data - Fill Forms with Fake Data
- External App Button - Connect Browser to External Apps
- xBrowserSync - Browser Syncing
- Stylebot - Modify Webpages
- SocialFocus - Hide Distracting Elements on Social Media Sites
- Screen Color Temperature - Adjust Screen Color Temperature
- ColorZilla or ColorFish - Color Picker
- Clippings or Quick Copy - Clipboard Manager
- Emoji Addon - Quickly Copy / Paste Emojis
- Copycat - Copy Content in Multiple Formats
- Allow Right Click - Force Enable Right Click / GitHub
- Copy Selection as Markdown - Copy Text as Markdown
- CopyFish - Grab Text from Images
- Max Focus - Preview Links
- Consent-O-matic / 2 - Block Cookie Consent Popups
- Get-cookies.txt or ExportCookies - Cookies Exporters
- Cookie-Editor - Cookie Editor
- Link Gopher, Link Extractor, Copy Selected Links or CopyLinks++ - Extract / Copy Links on Webpages
- CopyTabTitleUrl - Copy Title / URL of a Tab
- Distil or Update Scanner - Page Change Detection / Notification
- Offline Mode - Disconnect Browser from the Internet
- Page Edit - Turn Webpages into Editable Documents
- SingleFile - Save Webpages as HTML
- Listly - Webpage to Spreadsheet Converter
- Favicon Detector - Detect Website Favicons
- Betterviewer - Image View Mode
- behind! - View Background Images
- Smart Upscale - Browser Image Upscaling
- UI.Vision RPA - Workflow Automation
- Streak - Email Engagement Tracker
- Native HLS - Allows HLS & MPEG-Dash native playback
- Session Alive - Keep Website Sessions Alive
- Caffeine - Prevent OS From Sleeping
- Broken Link Checker - Checks Page for Broken Links
- GoFullPage, Easy Screenshot or FireShot - Full Page Screenshots
- Bulk URL Opener or Open-Multiple-URLs - Open Multiple URLs in One Click
- PronounDB - Pronoun Addon
- XKit - Tumblr Enhancement Extension
- Tab Session Manager, Sessionic or Session Buddy - Session Managers
- Peek - Shows Images & Videos Behind Links & Thumbnails
- Edge Stats - Compare / Analyze Edge Extensions
▷ Firefox Extensions
- 🌐 Firefox Addons - Firefox Addon Store
- ⭐ FoxyTab - Tab Tools
- ⭐ Context Search or Context Search Web - Search Selected Text / Multi Site Search
- Firefox Containers, Container Tab Groups or Temporary Containers - Separate Firefox Sessions / Guide
- FoxyLink - Link Tools
- Multithreaded Download Manager - Download Manager
- cliget - Download Files from Command Line
- FX Cast - Enable Chromecast in Firefox
- Firefox Scripts - Chrome Extensions in Firefox
- Dark Background and Light Text - Dark Mode
- New Tab Override - Pick Site that Opens in New Tabs / GitHub
- Multi Tabs - Multi Tab Word Search
- Search Site WE - Search Current Domain
- Firefox Color or SwiftTheme - Custom Firefox Theme Creation
- Adaptive Tab Bar Colour - Changes Theme to Match Site Appearances
- Gesturefy - Mouse Gestures
- User-Agent String Switcher - Switch Your User-Agent
- Chrome Mask - Use Chrome-Only Sites on Firefox / GitHub
- Always Visible - Always Active / On-Top Window
- SoundFixer - Fixes / Increase Browser Audio
- Read Aloud - Text to Speech
- Firefox Stats - Compare / Analyze Firefox Extensions
- PWAsForFirefox - Install Progressive Web Apps
▷ Chrome Extensions
- 🌐 Chrome Web Store, Chrome-Extension or Crx4Chrome - Chrome Addon Stores
- ⭐ Extensity or Extension Manager - Extension Managers
- ⭐ chromium-web-store - Add Extensions to Ungoogled Chromium
- ⭐ Foxified - Use Firefox Extensions in Chrome
- ⭐ Clipper - Copy Content in Multiple Formats
- WebCRX - Easily Install Local CRX Files
- Chrome Stats - Compare / Analyze Chrome Extensions
- Extension Source Downloader - View Extension Source Code / Guide
- Darkness - Dark Mode
- Transpose - Online Video Pitch Shifter, Speed Changer and Looper
- Smart Mute - Tab Mute Manager
- Volume Master - Increase Browser Volume
- Text Blaze - Create Text Snippets
- TabCopy - Copy Tabs to Clipboard
- Simple Mass Downloader - Download Multiple Links at Once
- CrxMouse - Mouse Gestures
- Night Shift Redux - Adapts Display Color to Time of Day
- SmoothKeyScroll - Smooth Key Scrolling
- Page Pad - Web Page Note-Taking
- Text to Image - Text to Image
- Bookmark Dupes - Remove Dupe Bookmarks
- Supatabs, Prune / GitHub or Tab Modifier - Tab Managers
- Lazy Tabs - Auto Discard Inactive Tabs
- Rearrange Tabs - Rearrange Tabs
- Popup Tab Switcher - Improved Tab Switching
- uAutoPagerize or Infy Scroll - Merges a Sites "Next" Pages
- Amino - Customize Webpage CSS
- Resizing - Resize Images
- Check My Links - Check for Broken Links
- Source Downloader - View Extension Source Code
- Disable All Extensions - Disable All Extensions
▷ Safari Extensions
- Userscripts - Safari Userscript Manager / GitHub
- Night Eye or Dark Reader Script - Dark Mode
- PiPifier - Picture in Picture Mode
- Web Inspector - Inspect Element Tools for Safari
▷ Userscripts
- 🌐 Awesome Userscripts, XIU2 or Userscript.zone - Userscript Indexes
- ↪️ Google Search Userscripts
- ⭐ Violentmonkey / Discord, Tampermonkey or Firemonkey - Userscript Managers
- ⭐ Greasy Fork, OpenUserJS or Userscripts - Install Userscripts
- ⭐ Greasy Fork Tools - Enhancements / Helper / Tweaks / Cleanup Script / Themes
- ⭐ Picviewer CE+ - Image Viewing Tool
- Userscript-Plus - Discover Userscripts for Current Webpage
- Remove Web Limits / Mod - Force Enable Right Click
- Select text inside a link like Opera - Select Text Inside Links
- Select All Checkboxes - Auto Check All Boxes
- Always Remember Me - Always Tick "Remember Me"
- Google Hit Hider - Hide Sites in Search Results
- Remove Bing CK - Remove Bing CK Redirects
- DownloadAllContent - Download Content from Pages
- Microsoft Store Direct Download - Microsoft Store Direct Downloads
- Maximize Video - Maximize Playing Videos via Button
- Pagetual - Merge Sites "Next" Pages
- Mouseover Popup Image Viewer - Shows Images & Videos Behind Links & Thumbnails
► Archiving
▷ Archive Services
- ↪️ 4chan Archives
- ⭐ Archive.org - Internet Archive / Tools
- ⭐ Wayback Machine - Archive Web Pages
- ⭐ Wayback Machine Tools - Downloader / Browser Extension, 2 / Script / Auto Load
- ⭐ Archive.today / .li / .ph / .vn / .fo / .md - Archive Web Pages / Paywall Bypass
- ⭐ Web Archives or Resurrect Pages Fork - Browser Extensions
- ⭐ CachedView or Quick Cache - Aggregate Cache Results
- Ghost Archive - Archive Web Pages
- ArchiveTeam - Archiving Projects / Wiki
- Perma.cc - Create Permalinks
▷ Web Archiving Tools
- 🌐 Awesome Web Archiving - Web Archiving Tools
- 🌐 Webrecorder - Open-Source Archiving Tools
- ↪️ Twitter Archiving
- ↪️ YouTube Archiving
- ⭐ ArchiveBox - Self-Hosted Web Archiving / GitHub
- ⭐ MarkDownload or MarkdownDown - Download Web Pages as Markdown Files
- ⭐ HTTrack / Guide - Website Downloader
- ⭐ datahoarder-website-to-markdown - Index to Markdown Tool
- Tubeup - Multi-VOD Service to IA Uploader
- Irchiver - Automatic Web Browser Screenshots
- Monolith or Single File - Save Webpages as HTML
- WAIL - GUI for Archiving Tools / GitHub
- ReplayWeb or OldWeb - View Web Archive Files
- ArchiveWeb.page - Browser Extension
- WikiTeam - Archive Wikis
- Wayback - Web Archiving Tool
- DownloadNet (dn) or Kiwix / Zim Reader / Wiki DL Guide - Offline Website Readers
- Wget2 / Commands, SuckIT, Cyotek WebCopy, Website Downloader or PageRip - Website Downloaders
- Archivematica - Digital Preservation System
- wallabag - Save Articles
- CopySite - Copy Websites
- Scoop - Capture Engine
▷ Web Scraping / Crawling
- 🌐 Awesome Web Scraping or Web Scraping FYI - Web Scraping Tools / Resources
- ⭐ Instant Data Scraper - Browser Extension
- SpiderSuite - Advanced Web Crawler / GitHub
- Heritrix - Internet Archive's Web Crawler / GitHub
- 80legs - Cloud-Based
- Crawly - Online Scraper
- web.scraper.workers.dev - Web Scraper
- Waymore - Web Scraper
- grab-site - ArchiveTeam Web Crawler
- brozzler - Web Crawler
- Crawl4AI - LLM-Friendly Scraper / Crawler
► Open Source Intelligence
- 🌐 Awesome OSINT - Awesome OSINT
- ↪️ Photo Forensics
- ↪️ Domain / DNS Info
- ↪️ Search Engine OSINT
- ⭐ IntelTechniques or OSINT Techniques - OSINT Resources
- ⭐ Analyst Research Tools - Tools and Resources
- Osintracker - Track Your Investigations
- Cyber Detective - Tools, Techniques, and Projects / GitHub
- MetaOSINT - OSINT Search Tool / GitHub
- Harpoon - OSINT CLI Tool
- Project Owl - OSINT Community
- OSINT Dojo - OSINT Guides
- non-typical-OSINT-guide - OSINT Guides
- What is OSINT? - Article
- The Key to Unlocking the Web's Secrets - Article
- Malfrat's OSINT Map - Interactive Map
- OH SHINT! - OSINT Blog
▷ OSINT Collections
- OSINT Combine - OSINT Investigation Tools
- Bellingcat - Online Investigation Toolkit
- Reuser - OSINT Resource Discovery Toolkit
- The Pika's OSINT ToolBox - General Index
- Cyber Detective's OSINT Collection - General Index
- Nixintel's OSINT Resource List - General Index
- Technisette's OSINT Tools - General Index
- OSINT - General Index
- UK-OSINT - General Index
- OSINTFramework - General Index
- AsINT_Collection - General Index
- OSINT4ALL - General Index
- OSINT All - General Index
- OSINT Resources - General Index
- OSINT Essentials - General Index
- OSINTgeek - General Index
- Social-Media-OSINT - Social Media Index
- OSINT for Countries / V2 - Indexes Organized by Country
- DiscordOSINT - Discord OSINT Index
- Awesome Telegram OSINT or The OSINT Toolbox - Telegram OSINT Indexes
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@ f10512df:c9293bb3
2025-04-22 17:11:05Details
- 🍳 Cook time: 5-7 minutes
- 🍽️ Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- Shredded cheese (Sharp cheddar is a favorite)
- 1 Tbsp olive oil or ghee
Directions
- Add oil to a non-stick pan and allow it to get hot (med-high heat)
- Add eggs and additional toppings, scramble and wait for the edges to get brown.
- Add shredded cheese while edges are browning. It is best if cheese begins to melt before flipping.
- Flip, and make sure all cheese stayed down, and there is enough oil left in the pan.
- Keep checking until pan side of eggs lift easily. Done correctly, the cheese will form a crisp layer.
- When fully cooked, serve with cheese right side up and enjoy!
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-13 00:07:42► Torrent Sites
Warning - It's best to avoid sites that allow anyone to make accounts when getting both software and games. Avoid sites and uploaders listed on the Unsafe Sites page, and remember to use a VPN.
- ⭐ RuTracker, 2 - Video / Audio / Comics / Magazines / Sign-Up Required
- ⭐ RuTracker Tools - Addon / Wiki / Rules / Translator
- ⭐ m0nkrus / 2 - Adobe Software Archive / Block Adobe / Search / Telegram
- ⭐ Torrent CSE / CSE 2 - Multi Site Search
- 1337x - Video / Audio / NSFW
- 1337x Tools - Mirrors, 2, 3 / User Ranks / Telegram Bot, 2 / IMDb Ratings / Proxy, 2 / .onion / Magnets / Timezone Fix
- RARBG Dump - Video / Audio / Games / Books / NSFW / Continuation Project
- LimeTorrents - Video / Audio / Books
- IsoHunt - Video / Audio / Books
- TorrentDownloads - Video / Audio / Books
- ExtraTorrent - Video / Audio / Books / NSFW
- rutor.info, 2, 3 - Video / Audio / Books / ROMs / Magazines / Use Translator
- NNM-Club - Video / Audio / Note
- Torrenting - Video / Audio / Books / NSFW / Sign-Up Required
- ZeroTorrent, 2 - ZeroNet Required / Video / Audio
- 4chan /t/ - Torrents / Imageboard / Some NSFW
▷ Aggregators
Warning - Aggregators include many sources, so it's best to avoid using them for software and games. Avoid sites and uploaders listed on the Unsafe Sites page.
- ⭐ BTDigg - DHT-Based / .onion / .i2p
- ⭐ Knaben
- ExT, 2 / Proxy
- TorrentProject, 2 - DHT-Based
- DaMagNet - DHT-Based
- TorrentDownload
- TorrentQuest
- TorrentCORE
- Cleanbay
- CloudTorrents
- Torrents-CSV
- FileMood
- iDope
- BT4G
- PiratesParadise
- snowfl
- Torlock
- YourBittorrent
- BTSearch
- 0Mag, 2 - Magnet Link Sharing Platform
- Magnetissimo - Magnet Search Web App
- TorrentSearchRobot or TorrentHuntBot - Telegram Torrent Search Bots
- Torrentinim or BitMagnet - Self-Hosted Torrent Search Engines
▷ Video Sites
▷ Anime Sites
▷ Educational Sites
▷ Game Sites
▷ Audio Sites
► Torrent Clients
Warning - Make sure you BIND your VPN to your client to avoid ISP letters.
- ⭐ qBittorrent or QBT Enhanced - Tools
- ⭐ Deluge - Plugins / Config / Telegram Plugin
- ⭐ Transmission
- torrent-control or Remote Torrent Adder - Easily Send Torrents to Client
- Tixati
- WizTorrent / Torrent Player / WebShare
- BiglyBT
- LIII
- PikaTorrent / GitHub
- Distribyted / GitHub
- Instant.io - Stream Torrents in Browser
- BTorrent - Stream Torrents in Browser
- Magnet Player - Stream Torrents in Browser
- BitFord - Chrome
- Rats Search - Torrent Search Client
- Download Torrents Through I2P
- flood - rTorrent, Transmission & qBittorrent WebUI / GitHub
- /r/Seedboxes - Seedbox Subreddit
- Seedbox Guide - Seedbox Comparisons
▷ qBittorrent Tools
- 🌐 QBT Plugins - Plugins Index
- 🌐 QBT Themes - Themes Index
- qBitMF - Multi-Connection Tool
- VueTorrent - Web Client
- rqBit - Rust Client
- qBit Manage - Manager / Automation Tool
- qBitController - Mobile Controllers
- Docker QBT or QBT VPN - Docker Builds
- QBT Mega - Mega Upload Script
- QBT Google Drive - Google Drive Upload Script
- Dark Theme or iOS Style - QBT Themes
- qBitEndpoints - API Endpoints
- Quantum - Auto Port Updater for Proton
▷ Remote Torrenting
- ↪️ Torrent to Google Drive
- ⭐ Seedr - Telegram Bot / API Wrapper, 2 - Torrent to Cloud and Stream
- webtor - Torrent to Stream / DDL Sites
- Multi-Up - Torrent to DDL Sites
- Bitport - Torrent to Cloud and Stream
- TorrentSafe - Torrent to Cloud and Stream
- BitPlay - Torrent to Stream
- TorBox - Torrent to Cloud
- ZBIGZ - Torrent to Cloud and Stream
- Demagnetize - Torrent to DDL
▷ Android Clients
► Tracker Invites
- 🌐 Private Trackers General, /r/TrackersInfo, The Sheet or Graph - Private Tracker Guides
- 🌐 Scene Related - Warez / Scene Site Index
- ⭐ TrackerStatus or TrackerHub - Tracker Status Updates
- /r/trackers - Tracker Discussion
- /r/OpenSignups or /r/OpenedSignups - Open Tracker Signup Subs
- MyAnonaMouse - Open Applications
- hdvinnie - Private Tracker List
- OpenSignups - Open Signups Private Trackers / Telegram
- Upload-Assistant - Private Tracker Auto-Upload
- TrackerScreenshot - Auto Screenshot Tracker Stats
► Helpful Sites / Apps
- 🌐 ngosang / 2 / 3, trackerslist / GitHub or NewTrackOn - Tracker Lists
- ↪️ Auto Torrent Tools
- ⭐ Milkie / Discord or Scnlog - Scene Release Download
- ⭐ PreDB.net / Site List, PreDataBA, Xrel, NGP, Archiv.pw, srrDB or M2V - Scene Release Info
- ⭐ T2M / 2, btsow or Torrent Kitty / 2 / 3 - Torrent to Magnet Converters
- ⭐ Magnet2Torrent - Magnet to Torrent Converter
- ⭐ Torrent Legality - Torrenting Laws by Country
- PeerBanHelper - Block Unwanted Leeches / Peers
- btcache, iTorrents or Torrage - Torrent Storage Cache
- InfoTorrent or Webtorrent Checker - Check Torrent File Health
- TorrentTags - Check Torrents for Copyright Claims
- Magnet Link Generator - Magnet Link Generator
- magnet2list - Convert Magnets to Tracker Lists
- OpenWebTorrent - Free Webtorrent Tracker
- AutoDL-Irssi - IRC Channel Monitor / Autodownload / Slack Notifications
- PrivTracker - Private BitTorrent Tracker Generator / GitHub
- AnonSeed - Anonymous Torrent Sharing
- Torrent-Creator - Browser Torrent Creator
- Torrent Parts or Torrent File Editor - Edit Torrents Files
- /r/torrents or /r/VPNTorrents - Torrenting Discussion
- IKnowWhatYouDownload - View Torrents Downloaded by your IP (can be inaccurate)
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@ a95c6243:d345522c
2025-03-15 10:56:08Was nützt die schönste Schuldenbremse, wenn der Russe vor der Tür steht? \ Wir können uns verteidigen lernen oder alle Russisch lernen. \ Jens Spahn
In der Politik ist buchstäblich keine Idee zu riskant, kein Mittel zu schäbig und keine Lüge zu dreist, als dass sie nicht benutzt würden. Aber der Clou ist, dass diese Masche immer noch funktioniert, wenn nicht sogar immer besser. Ist das alles wirklich so schwer zu durchschauen? Mir fehlen langsam die Worte.
Aktuell werden sowohl in der Europäischen Union als auch in Deutschland riesige Milliardenpakete für die Aufrüstung – also für die Rüstungsindustrie – geschnürt. Die EU will 800 Milliarden Euro locker machen, in Deutschland sollen es 500 Milliarden «Sondervermögen» sein. Verteidigung nennen das unsere «Führer», innerhalb der Union und auch an «unserer Ostflanke», der Ukraine.
Das nötige Feindbild konnte inzwischen signifikant erweitert werden. Schuld an allem und zudem gefährlich ist nicht mehr nur Putin, sondern jetzt auch Trump. Europa müsse sich sowohl gegen Russland als auch gegen die USA schützen und rüsten, wird uns eingetrichtert.
Und während durch Diplomatie genau dieser beiden Staaten gerade endlich mal Bewegung in die Bemühungen um einen Frieden oder wenigstens einen Waffenstillstand in der Ukraine kommt, rasselt man im moralisch überlegenen Zeigefinger-Europa so richtig mit dem Säbel.
Begleitet und gestützt wird der ganze Prozess – wie sollte es anders sein – von den «Qualitätsmedien». Dass Russland einen Angriff auf «Europa» plant, weiß nicht nur der deutsche Verteidigungsminister (und mit Abstand beliebteste Politiker) Pistorius, sondern dank ihnen auch jedes Kind. Uns bleiben nur noch wenige Jahre. Zum Glück bereitet sich die Bundeswehr schon sehr konkret auf einen Krieg vor.
Die FAZ und Corona-Gesundheitsminister Spahn markieren einen traurigen Höhepunkt. Hier haben sich «politische und publizistische Verantwortungslosigkeit propagandistisch gegenseitig befruchtet», wie es bei den NachDenkSeiten heißt. Die Aussage Spahns in dem Interview, «der Russe steht vor der Tür», ist das eine. Die Zeitung verschärfte die Sache jedoch, indem sie das Zitat explizit in den Titel übernahm, der in einer ersten Version scheinbar zu harmlos war.
Eine große Mehrheit der deutschen Bevölkerung findet Aufrüstung und mehr Schulden toll, wie ARD und ZDF sehr passend ermittelt haben wollen. Ähnliches gelte für eine noch stärkere militärische Unterstützung der Ukraine. Etwas skeptischer seien die Befragten bezüglich der Entsendung von Bundeswehrsoldaten dorthin, aber immerhin etwa fifty-fifty.
Eigentlich ist jedoch die Meinung der Menschen in «unseren Demokratien» irrelevant. Sowohl in der Europäischen Union als auch in Deutschland sind die «Eliten» offenbar der Ansicht, der Souverän habe in Fragen von Krieg und Frieden sowie von aberwitzigen astronomischen Schulden kein Wörtchen mitzureden. Frau von der Leyen möchte über 150 Milliarden aus dem Gesamtpaket unter Verwendung von Artikel 122 des EU-Vertrags ohne das Europäische Parlament entscheiden – wenn auch nicht völlig kritiklos.
In Deutschland wollen CDU/CSU und SPD zur Aufweichung der «Schuldenbremse» mehrere Änderungen des Grundgesetzes durch das abgewählte Parlament peitschen. Dieser Versuch, mit dem alten Bundestag eine Zweidrittelmehrheit zu erzielen, die im neuen nicht mehr gegeben wäre, ist mindestens verfassungsrechtlich umstritten.
Das Manöver scheint aber zu funktionieren. Heute haben die Grünen zugestimmt, nachdem Kanzlerkandidat Merz läppische 100 Milliarden für «irgendwas mit Klima» zugesichert hatte. Die Abstimmung im Plenum soll am kommenden Dienstag erfolgen – nur eine Woche, bevor sich der neu gewählte Bundestag konstituieren wird.
Interessant sind die Argumente, die BlackRocker Merz für seine Attacke auf Grundgesetz und Demokratie ins Feld führt. Abgesehen von der angeblichen Eile, «unsere Verteidigungsfähigkeit deutlich zu erhöhen» (ausgelöst unter anderem durch «die Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz und die Ereignisse im Weißen Haus»), ließ uns der CDU-Chef wissen, dass Deutschland einfach auf die internationale Bühne zurück müsse. Merz schwadronierte gefährlich mehrdeutig:
«Die ganze Welt schaut in diesen Tagen und Wochen auf Deutschland. Wir haben in der Europäischen Union und auf der Welt eine Aufgabe, die weit über die Grenzen unseres eigenen Landes hinausgeht.»
[Titelbild: Tag des Sieges]
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2025-03-11 10:22:36«Wir brauchen eine digitale Brandmauer gegen den Faschismus», schreibt der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) auf seiner Website. Unter diesem Motto präsentierte er letzte Woche einen Forderungskatalog, mit dem sich 24 Organisationen an die kommende Bundesregierung wenden. Der Koalitionsvertrag müsse sich daran messen lassen, verlangen sie.
In den drei Kategorien «Bekenntnis gegen Überwachung», «Schutz und Sicherheit für alle» sowie «Demokratie im digitalen Raum» stellen die Unterzeichner, zu denen auch Amnesty International und Das NETTZ gehören, unter anderem die folgenden «Mindestanforderungen»:
- Verbot biometrischer Massenüberwachung des öffentlichen Raums sowie der ungezielten biometrischen Auswertung des Internets.
- Anlasslose und massenhafte Vorratsdatenspeicherung wird abgelehnt.
- Automatisierte Datenanalysen der Informationsbestände der Strafverfolgungsbehörden sowie jede Form von Predictive Policing oder automatisiertes Profiling von Menschen werden abgelehnt.
- Einführung eines Rechts auf Verschlüsselung. Die Bundesregierung soll sich dafür einsetzen, die Chatkontrolle auf europäischer Ebene zu verhindern.
- Anonyme und pseudonyme Nutzung des Internets soll geschützt und ermöglicht werden.
- Bekämpfung «privaten Machtmissbrauchs von Big-Tech-Unternehmen» durch durchsetzungsstarke, unabhängige und grundsätzlich föderale Aufsichtsstrukturen.
- Einführung eines digitalen Gewaltschutzgesetzes, unter Berücksichtigung «gruppenbezogener digitaler Gewalt» und die Förderung von Beratungsangeboten.
- Ein umfassendes Förderprogramm für digitale öffentliche Räume, die dezentral organisiert und quelloffen programmiert sind, soll aufgelegt werden.
Es sei ein Irrglaube, dass zunehmende Überwachung einen Zugewinn an Sicherheit darstelle, ist eines der Argumente der Initiatoren. Sicherheit erfordere auch, dass Menschen anonym und vertraulich kommunizieren können und ihre Privatsphäre geschützt wird.
Gesunde digitale Räume lebten auch von einem demokratischen Diskurs, lesen wir in dem Papier. Es sei Aufgabe des Staates, Grundrechte zu schützen. Dazu gehöre auch, Menschenrechte und demokratische Werte, insbesondere Freiheit, Gleichheit und Solidarität zu fördern sowie den Missbrauch von Maßnahmen, Befugnissen und Infrastrukturen durch «die Feinde der Demokratie» zu verhindern.
Man ist geneigt zu fragen, wo denn die Autoren «den Faschismus» sehen, den es zu bekämpfen gelte. Die meisten der vorgetragenen Forderungen und Argumente finden sicher breite Unterstützung, denn sie beschreiben offenkundig gängige, kritikwürdige Praxis. Die Aushebelung der Privatsphäre, der Redefreiheit und anderer Grundrechte im Namen der Sicherheit wird bereits jetzt massiv durch die aktuellen «demokratischen Institutionen» und ihre «durchsetzungsstarken Aufsichtsstrukturen» betrieben.
Ist «der Faschismus» also die EU und ihre Mitgliedsstaaten? Nein, die «faschistische Gefahr», gegen die man eine digitale Brandmauer will, kommt nach Ansicht des CCC und seiner Partner aus den Vereinigten Staaten. Private Überwachung und Machtkonzentration sind dabei weltweit schon lange Realität, jetzt endlich müssen sie jedoch bekämpft werden. In dem Papier heißt es:
«Die willkürliche und antidemokratische Machtausübung der Tech-Oligarchen um Präsident Trump erfordert einen Paradigmenwechsel in der deutschen Digitalpolitik. (...) Die aktuellen Geschehnisse in den USA zeigen auf, wie Datensammlungen und -analyse genutzt werden können, um einen Staat handstreichartig zu übernehmen, seine Strukturen nachhaltig zu beschädigen, Widerstand zu unterbinden und marginalisierte Gruppen zu verfolgen.»
Wer auf der anderen Seite dieser Brandmauer stehen soll, ist also klar. Es sind die gleichen «Feinde unserer Demokratie», die seit Jahren in diese Ecke gedrängt werden. Es sind die gleichen Andersdenkenden, Regierungskritiker und Friedensforderer, die unter dem großzügigen Dach des Bundesprogramms «Demokratie leben» einem «kontinuierlichen Echt- und Langzeitmonitoring» wegen der Etikettierung «digitaler Hass» unterzogen werden.
Dass die 24 Organisationen praktisch auch die Bekämpfung von Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon und anderen fordern, entbehrt nicht der Komik. Diese fallen aber sicher unter das Stichwort «Machtmissbrauch von Big-Tech-Unternehmen». Gleichzeitig verlangen die Lobbyisten implizit zum Beispiel die Förderung des Nostr-Netzwerks, denn hier finden wir dezentral organisierte und quelloffen programmierte digitale Räume par excellence, obendrein zensurresistent. Das wiederum dürfte in der Politik weniger gut ankommen.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
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2025-03-04 09:40:50Die «Eliten» führen bereits groß angelegte Pilotprojekte für eine Zukunft durch, die sie wollen und wir nicht. Das schreibt der OffGuardian in einem Update zum Thema «EU-Brieftasche für die digitale Identität». Das Portal weist darauf hin, dass die Akteure dabei nicht gerade zimperlich vorgehen und auch keinen Hehl aus ihren Absichten machen. Transition News hat mehrfach darüber berichtet, zuletzt hier und hier.
Mit der EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI-Brieftasche) sei eine einzige von der Regierung herausgegebene App geplant, die Ihre medizinischen Daten, Beschäftigungsdaten, Reisedaten, Bildungsdaten, Impfdaten, Steuerdaten, Finanzdaten sowie (potenziell) Kopien Ihrer Unterschrift, Fingerabdrücke, Gesichtsscans, Stimmproben und DNA enthält. So fasst der OffGuardian die eindrucksvolle Liste möglicher Einsatzbereiche zusammen.
Auch Dokumente wie der Personalausweis oder der Führerschein können dort in elektronischer Form gespeichert werden. Bis 2026 sind alle EU-Mitgliedstaaten dazu verpflichtet, Ihren Bürgern funktionierende und frei verfügbare digitale «Brieftaschen» bereitzustellen.
Die Menschen würden diese App nutzen, so das Portal, um Zahlungen vorzunehmen, Kredite zu beantragen, ihre Steuern zu zahlen, ihre Rezepte abzuholen, internationale Grenzen zu überschreiten, Unternehmen zu gründen, Arzttermine zu buchen, sich um Stellen zu bewerben und sogar digitale Verträge online zu unterzeichnen.
All diese Daten würden auf ihrem Mobiltelefon gespeichert und mit den Regierungen von neunzehn Ländern (plus der Ukraine) sowie über 140 anderen öffentlichen und privaten Partnern ausgetauscht. Von der Deutschen Bank über das ukrainische Ministerium für digitalen Fortschritt bis hin zu Samsung Europe. Unternehmen und Behörden würden auf diese Daten im Backend zugreifen, um «automatisierte Hintergrundprüfungen» durchzuführen.
Der Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände (VZBV) habe Bedenken geäußert, dass eine solche App «Risiken für den Schutz der Privatsphäre und der Daten» berge, berichtet das Portal. Die einzige Antwort darauf laute: «Richtig, genau dafür ist sie ja da!»
Das alles sei keine Hypothese, betont der OffGuardian. Es sei vielmehr «Potential». Damit ist ein EU-Projekt gemeint, in dessen Rahmen Dutzende öffentliche und private Einrichtungen zusammenarbeiten, «um eine einheitliche Vision der digitalen Identität für die Bürger der europäischen Länder zu definieren». Dies ist nur eines der groß angelegten Pilotprojekte, mit denen Prototypen und Anwendungsfälle für die EUDI-Wallet getestet werden. Es gibt noch mindestens drei weitere.
Den Ball der digitalen ID-Systeme habe die Covid-«Pandemie» über die «Impfpässe» ins Rollen gebracht. Seitdem habe das Thema an Schwung verloren. Je näher wir aber der vollständigen Einführung der EUid kämen, desto mehr Propaganda der Art «Warum wir eine digitale Brieftasche brauchen» könnten wir in den Mainstream-Medien erwarten, prognostiziert der OffGuardian. Vielleicht müssten wir schon nach dem nächsten großen «Grund», dem nächsten «katastrophalen katalytischen Ereignis» Ausschau halten. Vermutlich gebe es bereits Pläne, warum die Menschen plötzlich eine digitale ID-Brieftasche brauchen würden.
Die Entwicklung geht jedenfalls stetig weiter in genau diese Richtung. Beispielsweise hat Jordanien angekündigt, die digitale biometrische ID bei den nächsten Wahlen zur Verifizierung der Wähler einzuführen. Man wolle «den Papierkrieg beenden und sicherstellen, dass die gesamte Kette bis zu den nächsten Parlamentswahlen digitalisiert wird», heißt es. Absehbar ist, dass dabei einige Wahlberechtigte «auf der Strecke bleiben» werden, wie im Fall von Albanien geschehen.
Derweil würden die Briten gerne ihre Privatsphäre gegen Effizienz eintauschen, behauptet Tony Blair. Der Ex-Premier drängte kürzlich erneut auf digitale Identitäten und Gesichtserkennung. Blair ist Gründer einer Denkfabrik für globalen Wandel, Anhänger globalistischer Technokratie und «moderner Infrastruktur».
Abschließend warnt der OffGuardian vor der Illusion, Trump und Musk würden den US-Bürgern «diesen Schlamassel ersparen». Das Department of Government Efficiency werde sich auf die digitale Identität stürzen. Was könne schließlich «effizienter» sein als eine einzige App, die für alles verwendet wird? Der Unterschied bestehe nur darin, dass die US-Version vielleicht eher privat als öffentlich sei – sofern es da überhaupt noch einen wirklichen Unterschied gebe.
[Titelbild: Screenshot OffGuardian]
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2025-04-22 17:00:44Chef's notes
Use a tea bag to hold the spices. I like to fill it and drape it on the side of the pan so the flavors get in, and then toss it before serving. Easier than picking rosemary out of your teeth later.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 1 hour 45 from scratch, 45 if using chicken stock
- 🍽️ Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Carrots (sliced)
- 1C celery (sliced)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp dried minced onion
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice (or more to taste)
- 1/2 Tbsp salt (to taste)
- 1 rotisserie chicken
- 2 tsp dried rosemary (or 1-2 sprigs fresh)
- 8 C water & additional 1-2 C later
- 10 oz pre-cooked noodles
- 1 tsp cracked pepper (to taste)
Directions
- Remove chicken meat from bones and set aside. Do not discard skin. Put bones and skin in a large stock pot and add water. Let boil covered for one hour, and then remove bones and strain out any bits of skin from broth.
- Add chopped vegetables, spices, and lemon juice to broth with up to 2 C. additional water to replace what might have boiled away. Simmer over low to medium heat (covered) for another half hour, stirring occasionally. Add in chicken meat. Taste test and add additional salt if needed.
- When vegetables are cooked, add in noodles and stir for an additional 2-3 minutes until hot (uncovered), and enjoy.
- If using store bought chicken stock, only simmer until vegetables are cooked (about half an hour).
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2025-03-01 10:39:35Ständige Lügen und Unterstellungen, permanent falsche Fürsorge \ können Bausteine von emotionaler Manipulation sein. Mit dem Zweck, \ Macht und Kontrolle über eine andere Person auszuüben. \ Apotheken Umschau
Irgendetwas muss passiert sein: «Gaslighting» ist gerade Thema in vielen Medien. Heute bin ich nach längerer Zeit mal wieder über dieses Stichwort gestolpert. Das war in einem Artikel von Norbert Häring über Manipulationen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes (DWD). In diesem Fall ging es um eine Pressemitteilung vom Donnerstag zum «viel zu warmen» Winter 2024/25.
Häring wirft der Behörde vor, dreist zu lügen und Dinge auszulassen, um die Klimaangst wach zu halten. Was der Leser beim DWD nicht erfahre, sei, dass dieser Winter kälter als die drei vorangegangenen und kälter als der Durchschnitt der letzten zehn Jahre gewesen sei. Stattdessen werde der falsche Eindruck vermittelt, es würde ungebremst immer wärmer.
Wem also der zu Ende gehende Winter eher kalt vorgekommen sein sollte, mit dessen Empfinden stimme wohl etwas nicht. Das jedenfalls wolle der DWD uns einreden, so der Wirtschaftsjournalist. Und damit sind wir beim Thema Gaslighting.
Als Gaslighting wird eine Form psychischer Manipulation bezeichnet, mit der die Opfer desorientiert und zutiefst verunsichert werden, indem ihre eigene Wahrnehmung als falsch bezeichnet wird. Der Prozess führt zu Angst und Realitätsverzerrung sowie zur Zerstörung des Selbstbewusstseins. Die Bezeichnung kommt von dem britischen Theaterstück «Gas Light» aus dem Jahr 1938, in dem ein Mann mit grausamen Psychotricks seine Frau in den Wahnsinn treibt.
Damit Gaslighting funktioniert, muss das Opfer dem Täter vertrauen. Oft wird solcher Psychoterror daher im privaten oder familiären Umfeld beschrieben, ebenso wie am Arbeitsplatz. Jedoch eignen sich die Prinzipien auch perfekt zur Manipulation der Massen. Vermeintliche Autoritäten wie Ärzte und Wissenschaftler, oder «der fürsorgliche Staat» und Institutionen wie die UNO oder die WHO wollen uns doch nichts Böses. Auch Staatsmedien, Faktenchecker und diverse NGOs wurden zu «vertrauenswürdigen Quellen» erklärt. Das hat seine Wirkung.
Warum das Thema Gaslighting derzeit scheinbar so populär ist, vermag ich nicht zu sagen. Es sind aber gerade in den letzten Tagen und Wochen auffällig viele Artikel dazu erschienen, und zwar nicht nur von Psychologen. Die Frankfurter Rundschau hat gleich mehrere publiziert, und Anwälte interessieren sich dafür offenbar genauso wie Apotheker.
Die Apotheken Umschau machte sogar auf «Medical Gaslighting» aufmerksam. Davon spreche man, wenn Mediziner Symptome nicht ernst nähmen oder wenn ein gesundheitliches Problem vom behandelnden Arzt «schnöde heruntergespielt» oder abgetan würde. Kommt Ihnen das auch irgendwie bekannt vor? Der Begriff sei allerdings irreführend, da er eine manipulierende Absicht unterstellt, die «nicht gewährleistet» sei.
Apropos Gaslighting: Die noch amtierende deutsche Bundesregierung meldete heute, es gelte, «weiter [sic!] gemeinsam daran zu arbeiten, einen gerechten und dauerhaften Frieden für die Ukraine zu erreichen». Die Ukraine, wo sich am Montag «der völkerrechtswidrige Angriffskrieg zum dritten Mal jährte», verteidige ihr Land und «unsere gemeinsamen Werte».
Merken Sie etwas? Das Demokratieverständnis mag ja tatsächlich inzwischen in beiden Ländern ähnlich traurig sein. Bezüglich Friedensbemühungen ist meine Wahrnehmung jedoch eine andere. Das muss an meinem Gedächtnis liegen.
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2025-04-22 12:44:42Die Debatte um Migration, Grenzsicherung und Abschiebungen wird in Deutschland meist emotional geführt. Wer fordert, dass illegale Einwanderer abgeschoben werden, sieht sich nicht selten dem Vorwurf des Rassismus ausgesetzt. Doch dieser Vorwurf ist nicht nur sachlich unbegründet, sondern verkehrt die Realität ins Gegenteil: Tatsächlich sind es gerade diejenigen, die hinter jeder Forderung nach Rechtssicherheit eine rassistische Motivation vermuten, die selbst in erster Linie nach Hautfarbe, Herkunft oder Nationalität urteilen.
Das Recht steht über Emotionen
Deutschland ist ein Rechtsstaat. Das bedeutet, dass Regeln nicht nach Bauchgefühl oder politischer Stimmungslage ausgelegt werden können, sondern auf klaren gesetzlichen Grundlagen beruhen müssen. Einer dieser Grundsätze ist in Artikel 16a des Grundgesetzes verankert. Dort heißt es:
„Auf Absatz 1 [Asylrecht] kann sich nicht berufen, wer aus einem Mitgliedstaat der Europäischen Gemeinschaften oder aus einem anderen Drittstaat einreist, in dem die Anwendung des Abkommens über die Rechtsstellung der Flüchtlinge und der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention sichergestellt ist.“
Das bedeutet, dass jeder, der über sichere Drittstaaten nach Deutschland einreist, keinen Anspruch auf Asyl hat. Wer dennoch bleibt, hält sich illegal im Land auf und unterliegt den geltenden Regelungen zur Rückführung. Die Forderung nach Abschiebungen ist daher nichts anderes als die Forderung nach der Einhaltung von Recht und Gesetz.
Die Umkehrung des Rassismusbegriffs
Wer einerseits behauptet, dass das deutsche Asyl- und Aufenthaltsrecht strikt durchgesetzt werden soll, und andererseits nicht nach Herkunft oder Hautfarbe unterscheidet, handelt wertneutral. Diejenigen jedoch, die in einer solchen Forderung nach Rechtsstaatlichkeit einen rassistischen Unterton sehen, projizieren ihre eigenen Denkmuster auf andere: Sie unterstellen, dass die Debatte ausschließlich entlang ethnischer, rassistischer oder nationaler Kriterien geführt wird – und genau das ist eine rassistische Denkweise.
Jemand, der illegale Einwanderung kritisiert, tut dies nicht, weil ihn die Herkunft der Menschen interessiert, sondern weil er den Rechtsstaat respektiert. Hingegen erkennt jemand, der hinter dieser Kritik Rassismus wittert, offenbar in erster Linie die „Rasse“ oder Herkunft der betreffenden Personen und reduziert sie darauf.
Finanzielle Belastung statt ideologischer Debatte
Neben der rechtlichen gibt es auch eine ökonomische Komponente. Der deutsche Wohlfahrtsstaat basiert auf einem Solidarprinzip: Die Bürger zahlen in das System ein, um sich gegenseitig in schwierigen Zeiten zu unterstützen. Dieser Wohlstand wurde über Generationen hinweg von denjenigen erarbeitet, die hier seit langem leben. Die Priorität liegt daher darauf, die vorhandenen Mittel zuerst unter denjenigen zu verteilen, die durch Steuern, Sozialabgaben und Arbeit zum Erhalt dieses Systems beitragen – nicht unter denen, die sich durch illegale Einreise und fehlende wirtschaftliche Eigenleistung in das System begeben.
Das ist keine ideologische Frage, sondern eine rein wirtschaftliche Abwägung. Ein Sozialsystem kann nur dann nachhaltig funktionieren, wenn es nicht unbegrenzt belastet wird. Würde Deutschland keine klaren Regeln zur Einwanderung und Abschiebung haben, würde dies unweigerlich zur Überlastung des Sozialstaates führen – mit negativen Konsequenzen für alle.
Sozialpatriotismus
Ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt ist der Schutz der Arbeitsleistung jener Generationen, die Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mühsam wieder aufgebaut haben. Während oft betont wird, dass die Deutschen moralisch kein Erbe aus der Zeit vor 1945 beanspruchen dürfen – außer der Verantwortung für den Holocaust –, ist es umso bedeutsamer, das neue Erbe nach 1945 zu respektieren, das auf Fleiß, Disziplin und harter Arbeit beruht. Der Wiederaufbau war eine kollektive Leistung deutscher Menschen, deren Früchte nicht bedenkenlos verteilt werden dürfen, sondern vorrangig denjenigen zugutekommen sollten, die dieses Fundament mitgeschaffen oder es über Generationen mitgetragen haben.
Rechtstaatlichkeit ist nicht verhandelbar
Wer sich für eine konsequente Abschiebepraxis ausspricht, tut dies nicht aus rassistischen Motiven, sondern aus Respekt vor der Rechtsstaatlichkeit und den wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen des Landes. Der Vorwurf des Rassismus in diesem Kontext ist daher nicht nur falsch, sondern entlarvt eine selektive Wahrnehmung nach rassistischen Merkmalen bei denjenigen, die ihn erheben.
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2025-02-21 19:32:23Europa – das Ganze ist eine wunderbare Idee, \ aber das war der Kommunismus auch. \ Loriot
«Europa hat fertig», könnte man unken, und das wäre nicht einmal sehr verwegen. Mit solch einer Einschätzung stünden wir nicht alleine, denn die Stimmen in diese Richtung mehren sich. Der französische Präsident Emmanuel Macron warnte schon letztes Jahr davor, dass «unser Europa sterben könnte». Vermutlich hatte er dabei andere Gefahren im Kopf als jetzt der ungarische Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán, der ein «baldiges Ende der EU» prognostizierte. Das Ergebnis könnte allerdings das gleiche sein.
Neben vordergründigen Themenbereichen wie Wirtschaft, Energie und Sicherheit ist das eigentliche Problem jedoch die obskure Mischung aus aufgegebener Souveränität und geschwollener Arroganz, mit der europäische Politiker:innende unterschiedlicher Couleur aufzutreten pflegen. Und das Tüpfelchen auf dem i ist die bröckelnde Legitimation politischer Institutionen dadurch, dass die Stimmen großer Teile der Bevölkerung seit Jahren auf vielfältige Weise ausgegrenzt werden.
Um «UnsereDemokratie» steht es schlecht. Dass seine Mandate immer schwächer werden, merkt natürlich auch unser «Führungspersonal». Entsprechend werden die Maßnahmen zur Gängelung, Überwachung und Manipulation der Bürger ständig verzweifelter. Parallel dazu plustern sich in Paris Macron, Scholz und einige andere noch einmal mächtig in Sachen Verteidigung und «Kriegstüchtigkeit» auf.
Momentan gilt es auch, das Überschwappen covidiotischer und verschwörungsideologischer Auswüchse aus den USA nach Europa zu vermeiden. So ein «MEGA» (Make Europe Great Again) können wir hier nicht gebrauchen. Aus den Vereinigten Staaten kommen nämlich furchtbare Nachrichten. Beispielsweise wurde einer der schärfsten Kritiker der Corona-Maßnahmen kürzlich zum Gesundheitsminister ernannt. Dieser setzt sich jetzt für eine Neubewertung der mRNA-«Impfstoffe» ein, was durchaus zu einem Entzug der Zulassungen führen könnte.
Der europäischen Version von «Verteidigung der Demokratie» setzte der US-Vizepräsident J. D. Vance auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz sein Verständnis entgegen: «Demokratie stärken, indem wir unseren Bürgern erlauben, ihre Meinung zu sagen». Das Abschalten von Medien, das Annullieren von Wahlen oder das Ausschließen von Menschen vom politischen Prozess schütze gar nichts. Vielmehr sei dies der todsichere Weg, die Demokratie zu zerstören.
In der Schweiz kamen seine Worte deutlich besser an als in den meisten europäischen NATO-Ländern. Bundespräsidentin Karin Keller-Sutter lobte die Rede und interpretierte sie als «Plädoyer für die direkte Demokratie». Möglicherweise zeichne sich hier eine außenpolitische Kehrtwende in Richtung integraler Neutralität ab, meint mein Kollege Daniel Funk. Das wären doch endlich mal ein paar gute Nachrichten.
Von der einstigen Idee einer europäischen Union mit engeren Beziehungen zwischen den Staaten, um Konflikte zu vermeiden und das Wohlergehen der Bürger zu verbessern, sind wir meilenweit abgekommen. Der heutige korrupte Verbund unter technokratischer Leitung ähnelt mehr einem Selbstbedienungsladen mit sehr begrenztem Zugang. Die EU-Wahlen im letzten Sommer haben daran ebenso wenig geändert, wie die Bundestagswahl am kommenden Sonntag darauf einen Einfluss haben wird.
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2025-04-22 01:36:33After my first major review of Primal on Android, we're going to go a very different direction for this next review. Primal is your standard "Twitter clone" type of kind 1 note client, now branching into long-form. They also have a team of developers working on making it one of the best clients to fill that use-case. By contrast, this review will not be focusing on any client at all. Not even an "other stuff" client.
Instead, we will be reviewing a very useful tool created and maintained by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 called #Amber. For those unfamiliar with Amber, it is an #Android application dedicated to managing your signing keys, and allowing you to log into various #Nostr applications without having to paste in your private key, better known as your #nsec. It is not recommended to paste your nsec into various applications because they each represent another means by which it could be compromised, and anyone who has your nsec can post as you. On Nostr, your #npub is your identity, and your signature using your private key is considered absolute proof that any given note, reaction, follow update, or profile change was authorized by the rightful owner of that identity.
It happens less often these days, but early on, when the only way to try out a new client was by inputting your nsec, users had their nsec compromised from time to time, or they would suspect that their key may have been compromised. When this occurs, there is no way to recover your account, or set a new private key, deprecating the previous one. The only thing you can do is start over from scratch, letting everyone know that your key has been compromised and to follow you on your new npub.
If you use Amber to log into other Nostr apps, you significantly reduce the likelihood that your private key will be compromised, because only one application has access to it, and all other applications reach out to Amber to sign any events. This isn't quite as secure as storing your private key on a separate device that isn't connected to the internet whatsoever, like many of us have grown accustomed to with securing our #Bitcoin, but then again, an online persona isn't nearly as important to secure for most of us as our entire life savings.
Amber is the first application of its kind for managing your Nostr keys on a mobile device. nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 didn't merely develop the application, but literally created the specification for accomplishing external signing on Android which can be found in NIP-55. Unfortunately, Amber is only available for Android. A signer application for iOS is in the works from nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf, but is not ready for use at this time. There is also a new mobile signer app for Android and iOS called Nowser, but I have not yet had a chance to try this app out. From a cursory look at the Android version, it is indeed in the very early stages of development and cannot be compared with Amber.
This review of Amber is current as of version 3.2.5.
Overall Impression
Score: 4.7 / 5 (Updated 4/21/2025)
I cannot speak highly enough about Amber as a tool that every Nostr user on Android should start using if they are not already. When the day comes that we have more options for well-developed signer apps on mobile, my opinion may very well change, but until then Amber is what we have available to us. Even so, it is an incredibly well thought-out and reliable tool for securing your nsec.
Despite being the only well-established Android signer available for Android, Amber can be compared with other external signing methods available on other platforms. Even with more competition in this arena, though, Amber still holds up incredibly well. If you are signing into web applications on a desktop, I still would recommend using a browser extension like #Alby or #Nos2x, as the experience is usually faster, more seamless, and far more web apps support this signing method (NIP-07) than currently support the two methods employed by Amber. Nevertheless that gap is definitely narrowing.
A running list I created of applications that support login and signing with Amber can be found here: Nostr Clients with External Signer Support
I have run into relatively few bugs in my extensive use of Amber for all of my mobile signing needs. Occasionally the application crashes when trying to send it a signing request from a couple of applications, but I would not be surprised if this is no fault of Amber at all, and rather the fault of those specific apps, since it works flawlessly with the vast majority of apps that support either NIP-55 or NIP-46 login.
I also believe that mobile is the ideal platform to use for this type of application. First, because most people use Nostr clients on their phone more than on a desktop. There are, of course, exceptions to that, but in general we spend more time on our phones when interacting online. New users are also more likely to be introduced to Nostr by a friend having them download a Nostr client on their phone than on a PC, and that can be a prime opportunity to introduce the new user to protecting their private key. Finally, I agree with the following assessment from nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn.
nostr:nevent1qqsw0r6gzn05xg67h5q2xkplwsuzedjxw9lf7ntrxjl8ajm350fcyugprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdaksyg9hyaxj3clfswlhyrd5kjsj5v04clhjvgeq6pwztmysfzdvn93gev7awu9v
The one downside to Amber is that it will be quite foreign for new users. That is partially unavoidable with Nostr, since folks are not accustomed to public/private key cryptography in general, let alone using a private key to log into websites or social media apps. However, the initial signup process is a bit cumbersome if Amber is being used as the means of initially generating a key pair. I think some of this could be foregone at start-up in favor of streamlining onboarding, and then encourage the user to back-up their private key at a later time.
Features
Amber has some features that may surprise you, outside of just storing your private key and signing requests from your favorite Nostr clients. It is a full key management application, supporting multiple accounts, various backup methods, and even the ability to authorize other users to access a Nostr profile you control.
Android Signing
This is the signing method where Amber really shines in both speed and ease of use. Any Android application that supports this standard, and even some progressive web-apps that can be installed to your Android's home-screen, can very quickly and seamlessly connect with Amber to authorize anything that you need signed with your nsec. All you have to do is select "Login with Amber" in clients like #Amethyst or #0xChat and the app will reach out to Amber for all signing requests from there on out. If you had previously signed into the app with your nsec, you will first need to log out, then choose the option to use Amber when you log back in.
This is a massive deal, because everything you do on Nostr requires a signature from your private key. Log in? Needs a signature. Post a "GM" note? Needs a signature. Follow someone who zapped your note? Needs a signature. Zap them back? You guessed it; needs a signature. When you paste your private key into an application, it will automatically sign a lot of these actions without you ever being asked for approval, but you will quickly realize just how many things the client is doing on your behalf when Amber is asking you to approve them each time.
Now, this can also get quite annoying after a while. I recommend using the setting that allows Amber to automatically sign for basic functions, which will cut down on some of the authorization spam. Once you have been asked to authorize the same type of action a few times, you can also toggle the option to automatically authorize that action in the future. Don't worry, though, you have full control to require Amber to ask you for permission again if you want to be alerted each time, and this toggle is specific to each application, so it's not a blanket approval for all Nostr clients you connect with.
This method of signing is just as fast as signing via browser extension on web clients, which users may be more accustomed to. Everything is happening locally on the device, so it can be very snappy and secure.
Nostr Connect/Bunker Signing
This next method of signing has a bit of a delay, because it is using a Nostr relay to send encrypted information back and forth between the app the user is interacting with and Amber to obtain signatures remotely. It isn't a significant delay most of the time, but it is just enough to be noticeable.
Also, unlike the previous signing method that would automatically switch to Amber as the active application when a signing request is sent, this method only sends you a notification that you must be watching for. This can lead to situations where you are wondering why something isn't working in a client you signed into remotely, because it is waiting on you to authorize the action and you didn't notice the notification from Amber. As you use the application, you get used to the need to check for such authorization requests from time to time, or when something isn't working as expected.
By default, Amber will use relay.nsec.app to communicate with whichever Nostr app you are connecting to. You can set a different relay for this purpose, if you like, though not just any relay will support the event kinds that Amber uses for remote signing. You can even run your own relay just for your own signing purposes. In fact, the creator of Amber has a relay application you can run on your phone, called Citrine, that can be used for signing with any web app you are using locally on your phone. This is definitely more of an advanced option, but it is there for you if you want it. For most users, sticking with relay.nsec.app will be just fine, especially since the contents of the events sent back and forth for signing are all encrypted.
Something many users may not realize is that this remote signing feature allows for issuing signing permissions to team members. For instance, if anyone ever joined me in writing reviews, I could issue them a connection string from Amber, and limit their permissions to just posting long-form draft events. Anything else they tried to do would require my explicit approval each time. Moreover, I could revoke those permissions if I ever felt they were being abused, without the need to start over with a whole new npub. Of course, this requires that your phone is online whenever a team member is trying to sign using the connection string you issued, and it requires you pay attention to your notifications so you can approve or reject requests you have not set to auto-approve. However, this is probably only useful for small teams, and larger businesses will want to find a more robust solution for managing access to their npub, such as Keycast from nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc.
The method for establishing a connection between Amber and a Nostr app for remote signing can vary for each app. Most, at minimum, will support obtaining a connection string from Amber that starts with "bunker://" and pasting it in at the time of login. Then you just need to approve the connection request from Amber and the client will log you in and send any subsequent signing requests to Amber using the same connection string.
Some clients will also offer the option to scan a QR code to connect the client to Amber. This is quite convenient, but just remember that this also means the client is setting which relay will be used for communication between the two. Clients with this option will also have a connection string you can copy and paste into Amber to achieve the same purpose. For instance, you may need this option if you are trying to connect to an app on your phone and therefore can't scan the QR code using Amber on the same phone.
Multiple Accounts
Amber does not lock you into using it with only a single set of keys. You can add all of your Nostr "accounts" to Amber and use it for signing events for each independently. Of course, Nostr doesn't actually have "accounts" in the traditional sense. Your identity is simply your key-pair, and Amber stores and accesses each private key as needed.
When first signing in using native Android signing as described above, Amber will default to whichever account was most recently selected, but you can switch to the account that is needed before approving the request. After initial login, Amber will automatically detect the account that the signing request is for.
Key Backup & Restore
Amber allows multiple ways to back up your private key. As most users would expect, you can get your standard nsec and copy/paste it to a password manager, but you can also obtain your private key as a list of mnemonic seed words, an encrypted version of your key called an ncryptsec, or even a QR code of your nsec or ncryptsec.
Additionally, in order to gain access to this information, Amber requires you to enter your device's PIN or use biometric authentication. This isn't cold-storage level protection for your private key by any means, especially since your phone is an internet connected device and does not store your key within a secure element, but it is about as secure as you can ask for while having your key accessible for signing Nostr events.
Tor Support
While Amber does not have Tor support within the app itself, it does support connecting to Tor through Orbot. This would be used with remote signing so that Amber would not connect directly over clearnet to the relay used for communication with the Nostr app requesting the signature. Instead, Amber would connect through Tor, so the relay would not see your IP address. This means you can utilize the remote signing option without compromising your anonymity.
Additional Security
Amber allows the user the option to require either biometric or PIN authentication before approving signing requests. This can provide that extra bit of assurance that no one will be able to sign events using your private key if they happen to gain access to your phone. The PIN you set in Amber is also independent from the PIN to unlock your device, allowing for separation of access.
Can My Grandma Use It?
Score: 4.6 / 5 (Updated 4/21/2025)
At the end of the day, Amber is a tool for those who have some concept of the importance of protecting their private key by not pasting it into every Nostr client that comes along. This concept in itself is not terribly approachable to an average person. They are used to just plugging their password into every service they use, and even worse, they usually have the same password for everything so they can more readily remember it. The idea that they should never enter their "Nostr password" into any Nostr application would never occur to them unless someone first explained how cryptography works related to public/private key pairs.
That said, I think there can be some improvements made to how users are introduced to these concepts, and that a signer application like Amber might be ideal for the job. Considering Amber as a new user's first touch-point with Nostr, I think it holds up well, but could be somewhat streamlined.
Upon opening the app, the user is prompted to either use their existing private key or "Create a new Nostr account." This is straightforward enough. "Account" is not a technically correct term with Nostr, but it is a term that new users would be familiar with and understand the basic concept.
The next screen announces that the account is ready, and presents the user with their public key, explaining that it is "a sort of username" that will allow others to find them on Nostr. While it is good to explain this to the user, it is unnecessary information at this point. This screen also prompts the user to set a nickname and set a password to encrypt their private key. Since the backup options also allow the user to set this password, I think this step could be pushed to a later time. This screen would better serve the new user if it simply prompted them to set a nickname and short bio that could be saved to a few default relays.
Of course, Amber is currently prompting for a password to be set up-front because the next screen requires the new user to download a "backup kit" in order to continue. While I do believe it is a good idea to encourage the creation of a backup, it is not crucial to do so immediately upon creation of a new npub that has nothing at stake if the private key is lost. This is something the UI could remind the user to do at a later time, reducing the friction of profile creation, and expediting getting them into the action.
Outside of these minor onboarding friction points, I think Amber does a great job of explaining to the user the purpose of each of its features, all within the app and without any need to reference external documentation. As long as the user understands the basic concept that their private key is being stored by Amber in order to sign requests from other Nostr apps, so they don't have to be given the private key, Amber is very good about explaining the rest without getting too far into the technical weeds.
The most glaring usability issue with Amber is that it isn't available in the Play Store. Average users expect to be able to find applications they can trust in their mobile device's default app store. There is a valid argument to be made that they are incorrect in this assumption, but that doesn't change the fact that this is the assumption most people make. They believe that applications in the Play Store are "safe" and that anything they can't install through the Play Store is suspect. The prompts that the Android operating system requires the user to approve when installing "unknown apps" certainly doesn't help with this impression.
Now, I absolutely love the Zapstore from nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9, but it doesn't do much to alleviate this issue. Users will still need to be convinced that it is safe to install the Zapstore from the GitHub repo, and then install Amber from there. Furthermore, this adds yet another step to the onboarding process.
Instead of:
- Install Amber
- Set up your keys
- Install the client you want to use
- Log in with Amber
The process becomes:
- Go to the Zapstore GitHub and download the latest version from the releases page.
- Install the APK you downloaded, allowing any prompt to install unknown apps.
- Open Zapstore and install Amber, allowing any prompt to install unknown apps again.
- Open Amber and set up your keys.
- Install the client you want to use
- Log in with Amber
An application as important as Amber for protecting users' private keys should be as readily available to the new user as possible. New users are the ones most prone to making mistakes that could compromise their private keys. Amber should be available to them in the Play Store.
UPDATE: As of version 3.2.8 released on 4/21/2025, the onboarding flow for Amber has been greatly improved! Now, when selecting to set up a new "account" the user is informed on the very next screen, "Your Nostr account is ready!" and given their public key/npub. The only field the user must fill in is their "nickname"/display name and hit "Continue."
From there the user is asked if they want Amber to automatically approve basic actions, or manually approve each app, and then they are shown a new Applications screen, with a prompt to create a backup of their account. This prompt persists until the user has done so.
As you can see, the user is also encouraged to find applications that can be used with Amber with links to nostrapps.com and the Zapstore.
Thanks to these updates, Amber is now the smoothest and most user-friendly onboarding experience I have seen for Nostr to date. Sure, it doesn't have anything for setting up a profile picture or lightning address, but that is better done in a client like Amethyst or YakiHonne, anyway. Just tap "create," type in a handle to call yourself, and you're done!
How do UI Look?
Score: 4.5 / 5
Amber's UI can be described as clean but utilitarian. But then, Amber is a tool, so this is somewhat expected. It is not an app you will be spending a lot of time in, so the UI just needs to be serviceable. I would say it accomplishes this and then some. UI elements are generally easy to understand what they do, and page headings fill in the gaps where that is not the case.
I am not the biggest fan of the color-scheme, particularly in light-mode, but it is not bad in dark-mode at all, and Amber follows whatever theme you have set for your device in that respect. Additionally, the color choice does make sense given the application's name.
It must also be taken into consideration that Amber is almost entirely the product of a single developer's work. He has done a great job producing an app that is not only useful, but pleasant to interact with. The same cannot be said for most utility apps I have previously used, with interfaces that clearly made good design the lowest priority. While Amber's UI may not be the most beautiful Nostr app I have seen, design was clearly not an afterthought, either, and it is appreciated.
Relay Management
Score: 4.9 / 5
Even though Amber is not a Nostr client, where users can browse notes from their favorite npubs, it still relies heavily on relays for some of its features. Primarily, it uses relays for communicating with other Nostr apps for remote signing requests. However, it also uses relays to fetch profile data, so that each private key you add to Amber will automatically load your chosen username and profile picture.
In the relay settings, users can choose which relays are being used to fetch profile data, and which relays will be used by default when creating new remote signing connection strings.
The user can also see which relays are currently connected to Amber and even look at the information that has been passed back and forth on each of those active relays. This information about actively connected relays is not only available within the application, but also in the notification that Amber has to keep in your device's notification tray in order to continue to operate in the background while you are using other apps.
Optionality is the name of the game when it comes to how Amber handles relay selection. The user can just stick with the default signing relay, use their own relay as the default, or even use a different relay for each Nostr application that they connect to for remote signing. Amber gives the user an incredible amount of flexibility in this regard.
In addition to all of this, because not all relays accept the event types needed for remote signing, when you add a relay address to Amber, it automatically tests that relay to see if it will work. This alone can be a massive time saver, so users aren't trying to use relays that don't support remote signing and wondering why they can't log into noStrudel with the connection string they got from Amber.
The only way I could see relay management being improved would be some means of giving the user relay recommendations, in case they want to use a relay other than relay.nsec.app, but they aren't sure which other relays will accept remote signing events. That said, most users who want to use a different relay for signing remote events will likely be using their own, in which case recommendations aren't needed.
Current Users' Questions
The AskNostr hashtag can be a good indication of the pain points that other users are currently having with any Nostr application. Here are some of the most common questions submitted about Amber in the last two months.
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This is a good example of Amber working correctly, but the app the user is trying to log into not working. In my experience with #Olas in particular, it sometimes allows remote signer login, and sometimes doesn't. Amber will receive the signing request and I will approve it, but Olas remains on the login screen.
If Amber is receiving the signing requests, and you are approving them, the fault is likely with the application you are trying to log into.
That's it. That's all the repeated questions I could find. Oh, there were a few one-off questions where relay.nsec.app wouldn't connect, or where the user's out-of-date web browser was the issue. Outside of that, though, there were no common questions about how to use Amber, and that is a testament to Amber's ease of use all on its own.
Wrap Up
If you are on Android and you are not already using Amber to protect your nsec, please do yourself a favor and get it installed. It's not at all complicated to set up, and it will make trying out all the latest Nostr clients a safe and pleasant experience.
If you are a client developer and you have not added support for NIP-55 or NIP-46, do your users the courtesy of respecting the sanctity of their private keys. Even developers who have no intention of compromising their users' keys can inadvertently do so. Make that eventuality impossible by adding support for NIP-55 and NIP-46 signing.
Finally, I apologize for the extended time it took me to get this review finished. The time I have available is scarce, Nostr is distracting, and nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 kept improving Amber even as I was putting it through its paces over the last two months. Keep shipping, my friend! You have made one of the most useful tools we have seen for Nostr to date!
Now... What should I review next?
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2025-02-19 09:23:17Die «moralische Weltordnung» – eine Art Astrologie. Friedrich Nietzsche
Das Treffen der BRICS-Staaten beim Gipfel im russischen Kasan war sicher nicht irgendein politisches Event. Gastgeber Wladimir Putin habe «Hof gehalten», sagen die Einen, China und Russland hätten ihre Vorstellung einer multipolaren Weltordnung zelebriert, schreiben Andere.
In jedem Fall zeigt die Anwesenheit von über 30 Delegationen aus der ganzen Welt, dass von einer geostrategischen Isolation Russlands wohl keine Rede sein kann. Darüber hinaus haben sowohl die Anreise von UN-Generalsekretär António Guterres als auch die Meldungen und Dementis bezüglich der Beitrittsbemühungen des NATO-Staats Türkei für etwas Aufsehen gesorgt.
Im Spannungsfeld geopolitischer und wirtschaftlicher Umbrüche zeigt die neue Allianz zunehmendes Selbstbewusstsein. In Sachen gemeinsamer Finanzpolitik schmiedet man interessante Pläne. Größere Unabhängigkeit von der US-dominierten Finanzordnung ist dabei ein wichtiges Ziel.
Beim BRICS-Wirtschaftsforum in Moskau, wenige Tage vor dem Gipfel, zählte ein nachhaltiges System für Finanzabrechnungen und Zahlungsdienste zu den vorrangigen Themen. Während dieses Treffens ging der russische Staatsfonds eine Partnerschaft mit dem Rechenzentrumsbetreiber BitRiver ein, um Bitcoin-Mining-Anlagen für die BRICS-Länder zu errichten.
Die Initiative könnte ein Schritt sein, Bitcoin und andere Kryptowährungen als Alternativen zu traditionellen Finanzsystemen zu etablieren. Das Projekt könnte dazu führen, dass die BRICS-Staaten den globalen Handel in Bitcoin abwickeln. Vor dem Hintergrund der Diskussionen über eine «BRICS-Währung» wäre dies eine Alternative zu dem ursprünglich angedachten Korb lokaler Währungen und zu goldgedeckten Währungen sowie eine mögliche Ergänzung zum Zahlungssystem BRICS Pay.
Dient der Bitcoin also der Entdollarisierung? Oder droht er inzwischen, zum Gegenstand geopolitischer Machtspielchen zu werden? Angesichts der globalen Vernetzungen ist es oft schwer zu durchschauen, «was eine Show ist und was im Hintergrund von anderen Strippenziehern insgeheim gesteuert wird». Sicher können Strukturen wie Bitcoin auch so genutzt werden, dass sie den Herrschenden dienlich sind. Aber die Grundeigenschaft des dezentralisierten, unzensierbaren Peer-to-Peer Zahlungsnetzwerks ist ihm schließlich nicht zu nehmen.
Wenn es nach der EZB oder dem IWF geht, dann scheint statt Instrumentalisierung momentan eher der Kampf gegen Kryptowährungen angesagt. Jürgen Schaaf, Senior Manager bei der Europäischen Zentralbank, hat jedenfalls dazu aufgerufen, Bitcoin «zu eliminieren». Der Internationale Währungsfonds forderte El Salvador, das Bitcoin 2021 als gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel eingeführt hat, kürzlich zu begrenzenden Maßnahmen gegen das Kryptogeld auf.
Dass die BRICS-Staaten ein freiheitliches Ansinnen im Kopf haben, wenn sie Kryptowährungen ins Spiel bringen, darf indes auch bezweifelt werden. Im Abschlussdokument bekennen sich die Gipfel-Teilnehmer ausdrücklich zur UN, ihren Programmen und ihrer «Agenda 2030». Ernst Wolff nennt das «eine Bankrotterklärung korrupter Politiker, die sich dem digital-finanziellen Komplex zu 100 Prozent unterwerfen».
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2025-02-15 19:05:38Auf der diesjährigen Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz geht es vor allem um die Ukraine. Protagonisten sind dabei zunächst die US-Amerikaner. Präsident Trump schockierte die Europäer kurz vorher durch ein Telefonat mit seinem Amtskollegen Wladimir Putin, während Vizepräsident Vance mit seiner Rede über Demokratie und Meinungsfreiheit für versteinerte Mienen und Empörung sorgte.
Die Bemühungen der Europäer um einen Frieden in der Ukraine halten sich, gelinde gesagt, in Grenzen. Größeres Augenmerk wird auf militärische Unterstützung, die Pflege von Feindbildern sowie Eskalation gelegt. Der deutsche Bundeskanzler Scholz reagierte auf die angekündigten Verhandlungen über einen möglichen Frieden für die Ukraine mit der Forderung nach noch höheren «Verteidigungsausgaben». Auch die amtierende Außenministerin Baerbock hatte vor der Münchner Konferenz klargestellt:
«Frieden wird es nur durch Stärke geben. (...) Bei Corona haben wir gesehen, zu was Europa fähig ist. Es braucht erneut Investitionen, die der historischen Wegmarke, vor der wir stehen, angemessen sind.»
Die Rüstungsindustrie freut sich in jedem Fall über weltweit steigende Militärausgaben. Die Kriege in der Ukraine und in Gaza tragen zu Rekordeinnahmen bei. Jetzt «winkt die Aussicht auf eine jahrelange große Nachrüstung in Europa», auch wenn der Ukraine-Krieg enden sollte, so hört man aus Finanzkreisen. In der Konsequenz kennt «die Aktie des deutschen Vorzeige-Rüstungskonzerns Rheinmetall in ihrem Anstieg offenbar gar keine Grenzen mehr». «Solche Friedensversprechen» wie das jetzige hätten in der Vergangenheit zu starken Kursverlusten geführt.
Für manche Leute sind Kriegswaffen und sonstige Rüstungsgüter Waren wie alle anderen, jedenfalls aus der Perspektive von Investoren oder Managern. Auch in diesem Bereich gibt es Startups und man spricht von Dingen wie innovativen Herangehensweisen, hocheffizienten Produktionsanlagen, skalierbaren Produktionstechniken und geringeren Stückkosten.
Wir lesen aktuell von Massenproduktion und gesteigerten Fertigungskapazitäten für Kriegsgerät. Der Motor solcher Dynamik und solchen Wachstums ist die Aufrüstung, die inzwischen permanent gefordert wird. Parallel wird die Bevölkerung verbal eingestimmt und auf Kriegstüchtigkeit getrimmt.
Das Rüstungs- und KI-Startup Helsing verkündete kürzlich eine «dezentrale Massenproduktion für den Ukrainekrieg». Mit dieser Expansion positioniere sich das Münchner Unternehmen als einer der weltweit führenden Hersteller von Kampfdrohnen. Der nächste «Meilenstein» steht auch bereits an: Man will eine Satellitenflotte im Weltraum aufbauen, zur Überwachung von Gefechtsfeldern und Truppenbewegungen.
Ebenfalls aus München stammt das als DefenseTech-Startup bezeichnete Unternehmen ARX Robotics. Kürzlich habe man in der Region die größte europäische Produktionsstätte für autonome Verteidigungssysteme eröffnet. Damit fahre man die Produktion von Militär-Robotern hoch. Diese Expansion diene auch der Lieferung der «größten Flotte unbemannter Bodensysteme westlicher Bauart» in die Ukraine.
Rüstung boomt und scheint ein Zukunftsmarkt zu sein. Die Hersteller und Vermarkter betonen, mit ihren Aktivitäten und Produkten solle die europäische Verteidigungsfähigkeit erhöht werden. Ihre Strategien sollten sogar «zum Schutz demokratischer Strukturen beitragen».
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@ 401014b3:59d5476b
2025-04-22 00:23:24About Me
I come to Nostr with extensive experience in the digital landscape. As a blockchain native since 2017, I've witnessed the evolution of decentralized technologies firsthand. Most of my professional career has been spent working within big tech companies, giving me a unique perspective on both centralized and decentralized systems.
My social media journey began on Twitter in 2007, where I've maintained a presence for over 17 years. I've also explored other decentralized social platforms including BlueSky, Farcaster, and Lens Protocol. As a Bitcoin maximalist, I was particularly intrigued by Nostr's compatibility with the Lightning Network, which initially drew me to the platform.
The Onboarding Challenge
The Nostr onboarding experience presents a significant hurdle for newcomers. Despite my technical background in blockchain technologies, I found the initial setup process more complicated than expected. Understanding public/private key cryptography just to join a social network creates a steeper learning curve than necessary.
BlueSky and Farcaster have demonstrated that it's possible to maintain decentralized principles while providing a more streamlined onboarding experience. Their approaches show that user-friendly design and decentralization aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
Relay Management: Room for Improvement
The concept of relays represents one of Nostr's most distinctive features, though it can be confusing for newcomers. While many clients come pre-configured with default relays, users eventually encounter situations where content or connections seem inconsistent.
When someone I've interacted with doesn't appear in my feed or doesn't respond, I'm often left wondering if we're simply on different relays. This uncertainty creates friction that doesn't exist on other platforms where connectivity is handled behind the scenes.
The relay system introduces a layer of complexity that, while important to Nostr's architecture, could benefit from better abstraction in the user experience. When using BlueSky or Farcaster, I don't need to think about the underlying infrastructure, something Nostr could learn from while maintaining its decentralized principles.
The Zap Economy: Growing Pains
The Lightning-powered zap system shows tremendous potential, but I've observed some concerning economic patterns. Longer-term Nostr users have expressed frustration about continuously sending zaps while seeing limited growth in the overall ecosystem.
Interestingly, there appears to be a connection between this liquidity issue and community growth dynamics. Some established users who voice concerns about bearing the financial burden of the zapping economy are simultaneously less welcoming to newer accounts, rarely following, engaging with, or zapping newcomers.
This creates a challenging environment for new users, who face a cold reception and have little incentive to load their Lightning wallets or participate in the zap economy. Why bring fresh liquidity to a platform where established users rarely engage with your content? This dynamic has limited the expansion of the ecosystem, with the same sats often circulating among established users rather than growing with new participants.
Client Diversity: Strength and Challenge
Nostr's multiple client options offer users choice, which is valuable. However, the implementation of NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) varies across clients, creating inconsistent experiences. Features that work seamlessly in one client might be implemented differently in another.
This extends to fundamental aspects like search functionality, thread navigation, and notification systems, all of which can differ significantly between clients. For users accustomed to consistent experiences, this fragmentation creates a learning curve with each new client they try.
Lightning Integration: Varying Experiences
The Lightning Network integration varies in quality and user experience across Nostr clients. While the functionality is generally present, the implementation quality, feature set, and ease of use differ depending on which client you choose.
This inconsistency means users may need to experiment with several clients to find one that provides the Lightning experience they're looking for, rather than having a consistent experience across the ecosystem.
Finding Balance
Nostr appears to be navigating the challenge of balancing technical innovation with user experience. While its cryptographic foundation and decentralized architecture are impressive technical achievements, these same strengths sometimes come at the cost of accessibility.
Despite my technical background and interest in decentralized technologies, I find myself using BlueSky and Farcaster more frequently for daily social interactions, while checking Nostr less often. For Nostr to achieve its potential for broader adoption, addressing these user experience considerations while maintaining its core principles will be essential.
The platform has tremendous potential with improvements to user experience, community dynamics, and economic sustainability, Nostr could evolve from a fascinating technical experiment into a truly compelling alternative to mainstream social media.
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-02-07 19:42:11Nur wenn wir aufeinander zugehen, haben wir die Chance \ auf Überwindung der gegenseitigen Ressentiments! \ Dr. med. dent. Jens Knipphals
In Wolfsburg sollte es kürzlich eine Gesprächsrunde von Kritikern der Corona-Politik mit Oberbürgermeister Dennis Weilmann und Vertretern der Stadtverwaltung geben. Der Zahnarzt und langjährige Maßnahmenkritiker Jens Knipphals hatte diese Einladung ins Rathaus erwirkt und publiziert. Seine Motivation:
«Ich möchte die Spaltung der Gesellschaft überwinden. Dazu ist eine umfassende Aufarbeitung der Corona-Krise in der Öffentlichkeit notwendig.»
Schon früher hatte Knipphals Antworten von den Kommunalpolitikern verlangt, zum Beispiel bei öffentlichen Bürgerfragestunden. Für das erwartete Treffen im Rathaus formulierte er Fragen wie: Warum wurden fachliche Argumente der Kritiker ignoriert? Weshalb wurde deren Ausgrenzung, Diskreditierung und Entmenschlichung nicht entgegengetreten? In welcher Form übernehmen Rat und Verwaltung in Wolfsburg persönlich Verantwortung für die erheblichen Folgen der politischen Corona-Krise?
Der Termin fand allerdings nicht statt – der Bürgermeister sagte ihn kurz vorher wieder ab. Knipphals bezeichnete Weilmann anschließend als Wiederholungstäter, da das Stadtoberhaupt bereits 2022 zu einem Runden Tisch in der Sache eingeladen hatte, den es dann nie gab. Gegenüber Multipolar erklärte der Arzt, Weilmann wolle scheinbar eine öffentliche Aufarbeitung mit allen Mitteln verhindern. Er selbst sei «inzwischen absolut desillusioniert» und die einzige Lösung sei, dass die Verantwortlichen gingen.
Die Aufarbeitung der Plandemie beginne bei jedem von uns selbst, sei aber letztlich eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe, schreibt Peter Frey, der den «Fall Wolfsburg» auch in seinem Blog behandelt. Diese Aufgabe sei indes deutlich größer, als viele glaubten. Erfreulicherweise sei der öffentliche Informationsraum inzwischen größer, trotz der weiterhin unverfrorenen Desinformations-Kampagnen der etablierten Massenmedien.
Frey erinnert daran, dass Dennis Weilmann mitverantwortlich für gravierende Grundrechtseinschränkungen wie die 2021 eingeführten 2G-Regeln in der Wolfsburger Innenstadt zeichnet. Es sei naiv anzunehmen, dass ein Funktionär einzig im Interesse der Bürger handeln würde. Als früherer Dezernent des Amtes für Wirtschaft, Digitalisierung und Kultur der Autostadt kenne Weilmann zum Beispiel die Verknüpfung von Fördergeldern mit politischen Zielsetzungen gut.
Wolfsburg wurde damals zu einem Modellprojekt des Bundesministeriums des Innern (BMI) und war Finalist im Bitkom-Wettbewerb «Digitale Stadt». So habe rechtzeitig vor der Plandemie das Projekt «Smart City Wolfsburg» anlaufen können, das der Stadt «eine Vorreiterrolle für umfassende Vernetzung und Datenerfassung» aufgetragen habe, sagt Frey. Die Vereinten Nationen verkauften dann derartige «intelligente» Überwachungs- und Kontrollmaßnahmen ebenso als Rettung in der Not wie das Magazin Forbes im April 2020:
«Intelligente Städte können uns helfen, die Coronavirus-Pandemie zu bekämpfen. In einer wachsenden Zahl von Ländern tun die intelligenten Städte genau das. Regierungen und lokale Behörden nutzen Smart-City-Technologien, Sensoren und Daten, um die Kontakte von Menschen aufzuspüren, die mit dem Coronavirus infiziert sind. Gleichzeitig helfen die Smart Cities auch dabei, festzustellen, ob die Regeln der sozialen Distanzierung eingehalten werden.»
Offensichtlich gibt es viele Aspekte zu bedenken und zu durchleuten, wenn es um die Aufklärung und Aufarbeitung der sogenannten «Corona-Pandemie» und der verordneten Maßnahmen geht. Frustration und Desillusion sind angesichts der Realitäten absolut verständlich. Gerade deswegen sind Initiativen wie die von Jens Knipphals so bewundernswert und so wichtig – ebenso wie eine seiner Kernthesen: «Wir müssen aufeinander zugehen, da hilft alles nichts».
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2025-01-31 20:02:25Im Augenblick wird mit größter Intensität, großer Umsicht \ das deutsche Volk belogen. \ Olaf Scholz im FAZ-Interview
Online-Wahlen stärken die Demokratie, sind sicher, und 61 Prozent der Wahlberechtigten sprechen sich für deren Einführung in Deutschland aus. Das zumindest behauptet eine aktuelle Umfrage, die auch über die Agentur Reuters Verbreitung in den Medien gefunden hat. Demnach würden außerdem 45 Prozent der Nichtwähler bei der Bundestagswahl ihre Stimme abgeben, wenn sie dies zum Beispiel von Ihrem PC, Tablet oder Smartphone aus machen könnten.
Die telefonische Umfrage unter gut 1000 wahlberechtigten Personen sei repräsentativ, behauptet der Auftraggeber – der Digitalverband Bitkom. Dieser präsentiert sich als eingetragener Verein mit einer beeindruckenden Liste von Mitgliedern, die Software und IT-Dienstleistungen anbieten. Erklärtes Vereinsziel ist es, «Deutschland zu einem führenden Digitalstandort zu machen und die digitale Transformation der deutschen Wirtschaft und Verwaltung voranzutreiben».
Durchgeführt hat die Befragung die Bitkom Servicegesellschaft mbH, also alles in der Familie. Die gleiche Erhebung hatte der Verband übrigens 2021 schon einmal durchgeführt. Damals sprachen sich angeblich sogar 63 Prozent für ein derartiges «Demokratie-Update» aus – die Tendenz ist demgemäß fallend. Dennoch orakelt mancher, der Gang zur Wahlurne gelte bereits als veraltet.
Die spanische Privat-Uni mit Globalisten-Touch, IE University, berichtete Ende letzten Jahres in ihrer Studie «European Tech Insights», 67 Prozent der Europäer befürchteten, dass Hacker Wahlergebnisse verfälschen könnten. Mehr als 30 Prozent der Befragten glaubten, dass künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bereits Wahlentscheidungen beeinflusst habe. Trotzdem würden angeblich 34 Prozent der unter 35-Jährigen einer KI-gesteuerten App vertrauen, um in ihrem Namen für politische Kandidaten zu stimmen.
Wie dauerhaft wird wohl das Ergebnis der kommenden Bundestagswahl sein? Diese Frage stellt sich angesichts der aktuellen Entwicklung der Migrations-Debatte und der (vorübergehend) bröckelnden «Brandmauer» gegen die AfD. Das «Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz» der Union hat das Parlament heute Nachmittag überraschenderweise abgelehnt. Dennoch muss man wohl kein ausgesprochener Pessimist sein, um zu befürchten, dass die Entscheidungen der Bürger von den selbsternannten Verteidigern der Demokratie künftig vielleicht nicht respektiert werden, weil sie nicht gefallen.
Bundesweit wird jetzt zu «Brandmauer-Demos» aufgerufen, die CDU gerät unter Druck und es wird von Übergriffen auf Parteibüros und Drohungen gegen Mitarbeiter berichtet. Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor Eskalationen, die Polizei sei «für ein mögliches erhöhtes Aufkommen von Straftaten gegenüber Politikern und gegen Parteigebäude sensibilisiert».
Der Vorwand «unzulässiger Einflussnahme» auf Politik und Wahlen wird als Argument schon seit einiger Zeit aufgebaut. Der Manipulation schuldig befunden wird neben Putin und Trump auch Elon Musk, was lustigerweise ausgerechnet Bill Gates gerade noch einmal bekräftigt und als «völlig irre» bezeichnet hat. Man stelle sich die Diskussionen um die Gültigkeit von Wahlergebnissen vor, wenn es Online-Verfahren zur Stimmabgabe gäbe. In der Schweiz wird «E-Voting» seit einigen Jahren getestet, aber wohl bisher mit wenig Erfolg.
Die politische Brandstiftung der letzten Jahre zahlt sich immer mehr aus. Anstatt dringende Probleme der Menschen zu lösen – zu denen auch in Deutschland die weit verbreitete Armut zählt –, hat die Politik konsequent polarisiert und sich auf Ausgrenzung und Verhöhnung großer Teile der Bevölkerung konzentriert. Basierend auf Ideologie und Lügen werden abweichende Stimmen unterdrückt und kriminalisiert, nicht nur und nicht erst in diesem Augenblick. Die nächsten Wochen dürften ausgesprochen spannend werden.
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2025-01-24 20:59:01Menschen tun alles, egal wie absurd, \ um ihrer eigenen Seele nicht zu begegnen. \ Carl Gustav Jung
«Extremer Reichtum ist eine Gefahr für die Demokratie», sagen über die Hälfte der knapp 3000 befragten Millionäre aus G20-Staaten laut einer Umfrage der «Patriotic Millionaires». Ferner stellte dieser Zusammenschluss wohlhabender US-Amerikaner fest, dass 63 Prozent jener Millionäre den Einfluss von Superreichen auf US-Präsident Trump als Bedrohung für die globale Stabilität ansehen.
Diese Besorgnis haben 370 Millionäre und Milliardäre am Dienstag auch den in Davos beim WEF konzentrierten Privilegierten aus aller Welt übermittelt. In einem offenen Brief forderten sie die «gewählten Führer» auf, die Superreichen – also sie selbst – zu besteuern, um «die zersetzenden Auswirkungen des extremen Reichtums auf unsere Demokratien und die Gesellschaft zu bekämpfen». Zum Beispiel kontrolliere eine handvoll extrem reicher Menschen die Medien, beeinflusse die Rechtssysteme in unzulässiger Weise und verwandele Recht in Unrecht.
Schon 2019 beanstandete der bekannte Historiker und Schriftsteller Ruthger Bregman an einer WEF-Podiumsdiskussion die Steuervermeidung der Superreichen. Die elitäre Veranstaltung bezeichnete er als «Feuerwehr-Konferenz, bei der man nicht über Löschwasser sprechen darf.» Daraufhin erhielt Bregman keine Einladungen nach Davos mehr. Auf seine Aussagen machte der Schweizer Aktivist Alec Gagneux aufmerksam, der sich seit Jahrzehnten kritisch mit dem WEF befasst. Ihm wurde kürzlich der Zutritt zu einem dreiteiligen Kurs über das WEF an der Volkshochschule Region Brugg verwehrt.
Nun ist die Erkenntnis, dass mit Geld politischer Einfluss einhergeht, alles andere als neu. Und extremer Reichtum macht die Sache nicht wirklich besser. Trotzdem hat man über Initiativen wie Patriotic Millionaires oder Taxmenow bisher eher selten etwas gehört, obwohl es sie schon lange gibt. Auch scheint es kein Problem, wenn ein Herr Gates fast im Alleingang versucht, globale Gesundheits-, Klima-, Ernährungs- oder Bevölkerungspolitik zu betreiben – im Gegenteil. Im Jahr, als der Milliardär Donald Trump zum zweiten Mal ins Weiße Haus einzieht, ist das Echo in den Gesinnungsmedien dagegen enorm – und uniform, wer hätte das gedacht.
Der neue US-Präsident hat jedoch «Davos geerdet», wie Achgut es nannte. In seiner kurzen Rede beim Weltwirtschaftsforum verteidigte er seine Politik und stellte klar, er habe schlicht eine «Revolution des gesunden Menschenverstands» begonnen. Mit deutlichen Worten sprach er unter anderem von ersten Maßnahmen gegen den «Green New Scam», und von einem «Erlass, der jegliche staatliche Zensur beendet»:
«Unsere Regierung wird die Äußerungen unserer eigenen Bürger nicht mehr als Fehlinformation oder Desinformation bezeichnen, was die Lieblingswörter von Zensoren und derer sind, die den freien Austausch von Ideen und, offen gesagt, den Fortschritt verhindern wollen.»
Wie der «Trumpismus» letztlich einzuordnen ist, muss jeder für sich selbst entscheiden. Skepsis ist definitiv angebracht, denn «einer von uns» sind weder der Präsident noch seine auserwählten Teammitglieder. Ob sie irgendeinen Sumpf trockenlegen oder Staatsverbrechen aufdecken werden oder was aus WHO- und Klimaverträgen wird, bleibt abzuwarten.
Das WHO-Dekret fordert jedenfalls die Übertragung der Gelder auf «glaubwürdige Partner», die die Aktivitäten übernehmen könnten. Zufällig scheint mit «Impfguru» Bill Gates ein weiterer Harris-Unterstützer kürzlich das Lager gewechselt zu haben: Nach einem gemeinsamen Abendessen zeigte er sich «beeindruckt» von Trumps Interesse an der globalen Gesundheit.
Mit dem Projekt «Stargate» sind weitere dunkle Wolken am Erwartungshorizont der Fangemeinde aufgezogen. Trump hat dieses Joint Venture zwischen den Konzernen OpenAI, Oracle, und SoftBank als das «größte KI-Infrastrukturprojekt der Geschichte» angekündigt. Der Stein des Anstoßes: Oracle-CEO Larry Ellison, der auch Fan von KI-gestützter Echtzeit-Überwachung ist, sieht einen weiteren potenziellen Einsatz der künstlichen Intelligenz. Sie könne dazu dienen, Krebserkrankungen zu erkennen und individuelle mRNA-«Impfstoffe» zur Behandlung innerhalb von 48 Stunden zu entwickeln.
Warum bitte sollten sich diese superreichen «Eliten» ins eigene Fleisch schneiden und direkt entgegen ihren eigenen Interessen handeln? Weil sie Menschenfreunde, sogenannte Philanthropen sind? Oder vielleicht, weil sie ein schlechtes Gewissen haben und ihre Schuld kompensieren müssen? Deswegen jedenfalls brauchen «Linke» laut Robert Willacker, einem deutschen Politikberater mit brasilianischen Wurzeln, rechte Parteien – ein ebenso überraschender wie humorvoller Erklärungsansatz.
Wenn eine Krähe der anderen kein Auge aushackt, dann tut sie das sich selbst noch weniger an. Dass Millionäre ernsthaft ihre eigene Besteuerung fordern oder Machteliten ihren eigenen Einfluss zugunsten anderer einschränken würden, halte ich für sehr unwahrscheinlich. So etwas glaube ich erst, wenn zum Beispiel die Rüstungsindustrie sich um Friedensverhandlungen bemüht, die Pharmalobby sich gegen institutionalisierte Korruption einsetzt, Zentralbanken ihre CBDC-Pläne für Bitcoin opfern oder der ÖRR die Abschaffung der Rundfunkgebühren fordert.
Dieser Beitrag ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ 83279ad2:bd49240d
2025-04-20 08:39:12Hello
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@ c3f12a9a:06c21301
2025-04-19 10:09:45Satoshi’s Time-Traveling for Knowledge #4: Liberland 2024 – Freedom Under Siege
What is Liberland?
While digging through old decentralized forums archived on the Interchain, Satoshi came across a curious name: Liberland.
“A sovereign libertarian micronation on the Danube? Founded in 2015 via Terra nullius? Built on the principles of freedom, voluntaryism, and Bitcoin? And I’ve never heard of it?”
Intrigued, Satoshi began to research. The story was almost too good to be true. A 7-square-kilometer patch of unclaimed land between Croatia and Serbia, turned into a symbol of decentralized governance and individual liberty.
No taxes unless voluntary. Bitcoin as the national currency. A digital nation-state with thousands of registered e-citizens, and even its own constitution. And yet—no recognition, no borders, and no peace.His curiosity turned into determination. He calibrated the temporal coordinates on his chrono-node to the Danube River in 2024, a year rumored to be turbulent for the Free Republic of Liberland.
When he arrived, reality struck harder than the legend.
Freedom Under Siege
The nation was under siege.
The scent of burnt wood and trampled earth lingered in the air as Satoshi stepped into what remained of the Liberland settlement. Broken structures, crushed solar panels, and a few scattered personal belongings were all that testified to the once-vibrant hub of liberty pioneers.
He found a group of residents—mud-streaked, exhausted, but defiant—gathered around the remnants of a communal kitchen. One of them, wearing a weathered Liberland t-shirt and a crypto-wallet hardware device on a chain around his neck, greeted him:
"You're not with them, are you?"
Satoshi shook his head.
"Just... passing through. What happened here?"
The man’s voice trembled between rage and sorrow:
"On the International Day of Peace, no less. Croatian police raided us. Bulldozers came with them. Took everything—generators, comms gear, even our medical tents. Claimed it was 'illegal occupation of Croatian forestry land.' But no court, no hearing. Just force."
Satoshi listened, taking mental snapshots of their faces, their words, their pain. He thought about the dream—of a place built voluntarily, where people governed themselves, free from coercion.
But that dream was burning at the edges, like the collapsed tents scattered behind them.
Reflections Under the Stars
As night fell over the Danube, Satoshi sat alone, watching the stars reflect on the black water. Thoughts spiraled:
"Decentralization... is beautiful. But without protection, it's fragile."
He realized that so long as central authorities hold monopoly on violence and taxation, every independent effort to decentralize the world—from Bitcoin to Liberland—is at risk of being suppressed, ignored, or destroyed. Not because it’s wrong, but because it's inconvenient to power.
"Unless a major state like the USA decentralizes itself from within," he thought, "true decentralization will remain a resistance—never the standard."
He activated his chrono-node once more. Not in defeat, but with purpose.
The next destination? Unknown. But the mission was clearer than ever.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/947954
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@ c631e267:c2b78d3e
2025-01-18 09:34:51Die grauenvollste Aussicht ist die der Technokratie – \ einer kontrollierenden Herrschaft, \ die durch verstümmelte und verstümmelnde Geister ausgeübt wird. \ Ernst Jünger
«Davos ist nicht mehr sexy», das Weltwirtschaftsforum (WEF) mache Davos kaputt, diese Aussagen eines Einheimischen las ich kürzlich in der Handelszeitung. Während sich einige vor Ort enorm an der «teuersten Gewerbeausstellung der Welt» bereicherten, würden die negativen Begleiterscheinungen wie Wohnungsnot und Niedergang der lokalen Wirtschaft immer deutlicher.
Nächsten Montag beginnt in dem Schweizer Bergdorf erneut ein Jahrestreffen dieses elitären Clubs der Konzerne, bei dem man mit hochrangigen Politikern aus aller Welt und ausgewählten Vertretern der Systemmedien zusammenhocken wird. Wie bereits in den vergangenen vier Jahren wird die Präsidentin der EU-Kommission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Begleitung von Klaus Schwab ihre Grundsatzansprache halten.
Der deutsche WEF-Gründer hatte bei dieser Gelegenheit immer höchst lobende Worte für seine Landsmännin: 2021 erklärte er sich «stolz, dass Europa wieder unter Ihrer Führung steht» und 2022 fand er es bemerkenswert, was sie erreicht habe angesichts des «erstaunlichen Wandels», den die Welt in den vorangegangenen zwei Jahren erlebt habe; es gebe nun einen «neuen europäischen Geist».
Von der Leyens Handeln während der sogenannten Corona-«Pandemie» lobte Schwab damals bereits ebenso, wie es diese Woche das Karlspreis-Direktorium tat, als man der Beschuldigten im Fall Pfizergate die diesjährige internationale Auszeichnung «für Verdienste um die europäische Einigung» verlieh. Außerdem habe sie die EU nicht nur gegen den «Aggressor Russland», sondern auch gegen die «innere Bedrohung durch Rassisten und Demagogen» sowie gegen den Klimawandel verteidigt.
Jene Herausforderungen durch «Krisen epochalen Ausmaßes» werden indes aus dem Umfeld des WEF nicht nur herbeigeredet – wie man alljährlich zur Zeit des Davoser Treffens im Global Risks Report nachlesen kann, der zusammen mit dem Versicherungskonzern Zurich erstellt wird. Seit die Globalisten 2020/21 in der Praxis gesehen haben, wie gut eine konzertierte und konsequente Angst-Kampagne funktionieren kann, geht es Schlag auf Schlag. Sie setzen alles daran, Schwabs goldenes Zeitfenster des «Great Reset» zu nutzen.
Ziel dieses «großen Umbruchs» ist die totale Kontrolle der Technokraten über die Menschen unter dem Deckmantel einer globalen Gesundheitsfürsorge. Wie aber könnte man so etwas erreichen? Ein Mittel dazu ist die «kreative Zerstörung». Weitere unabdingbare Werkzeug sind die Einbindung, ja Gleichschaltung der Medien und der Justiz.
Ein «Great Mental Reset» sei die Voraussetzung dafür, dass ein Großteil der Menschen Einschränkungen und Manipulationen wie durch die Corona-Maßnahmen praktisch kritik- und widerstandslos hinnehme, sagt der Mediziner und Molekulargenetiker Michael Nehls. Er meint damit eine regelrechte Umprogrammierung des Gehirns, wodurch nach und nach unsere Individualität und unser soziales Bewusstsein eliminiert und durch unreflektierten Konformismus ersetzt werden.
Der aktuelle Zustand unserer Gesellschaften ist auch für den Schweizer Rechtsanwalt Philipp Kruse alarmierend. Durch den Umgang mit der «Pandemie» sieht er die Grundlagen von Recht und Vernunft erschüttert, die Rechtsstaatlichkeit stehe auf dem Prüfstand. Seiner dringenden Mahnung an alle Bürger, die Prinzipien von Recht und Freiheit zu verteidigen, kann ich mich nur anschließen.
Dieser Beitrag ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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@ c4b5369a:b812dbd6
2025-04-15 07:26:16Offline transactions with Cashu
Over the past few weeks, I've been busy implementing offline capabilities into nutstash. I think this is one of the key value propositions of ecash, beinga a bearer instrument that can be used without internet access.
It does however come with limitations, which can lead to a bit of confusion. I hope this article will clear some of these questions up for you!
What is ecash/Cashu?
Ecash is the first cryptocurrency ever invented. It was created by David Chaum in 1983. It uses a blind signature scheme, which allows users to prove ownership of a token without revealing a link to its origin. These tokens are what we call ecash. They are bearer instruments, meaning that anyone who possesses a copy of them, is considered the owner.
Cashu is an implementation of ecash, built to tightly interact with Bitcoin, more specifically the Bitcoin lightning network. In the Cashu ecosystem,
Mints
are the gateway to the lightning network. They provide the infrastructure to access the lightning network, pay invoices and receive payments. Instead of relying on a traditional ledger scheme like other custodians do, the mint issues ecash tokens, to represent the value held by the users.How do normal Cashu transactions work?
A Cashu transaction happens when the sender gives a copy of his ecash token to the receiver. This can happen by any means imaginable. You could send the token through email, messenger, or even by pidgeon. One of the common ways to transfer ecash is via QR code.
The transaction is however not finalized just yet! In order to make sure the sender cannot double-spend their copy of the token, the receiver must do what we call a
swap
. A swap is essentially exchanging an ecash token for a new one at the mint, invalidating the old token in the process. This ensures that the sender can no longer use the same token to spend elsewhere, and the value has been transferred to the receiver.What about offline transactions?
Sending offline
Sending offline is very simple. The ecash tokens are stored on your device. Thus, no internet connection is required to access them. You can litteraly just take them, and give them to someone. The most convenient way is usually through a local transmission protocol, like NFC, QR code, Bluetooth, etc.
The one thing to consider when sending offline is that ecash tokens come in form of "coins" or "notes". The technical term we use in Cashu is
Proof
. It "proofs" to the mint that you own a certain amount of value. Since these proofs have a fixed value attached to them, much like UTXOs in Bitcoin do, you would need proofs with a value that matches what you want to send. You can mix and match multiple proofs together to create a token that matches the amount you want to send. But, if you don't have proofs that match the amount, you would need to go online and swap for the needed proofs at the mint.Another limitation is, that you cannot create custom proofs offline. For example, if you would want to lock the ecash to a certain pubkey, or add a timelock to the proof, you would need to go online and create a new custom proof at the mint.
Receiving offline
You might think: well, if I trust the sender, I don't need to be swapping the token right away!
You're absolutely correct. If you trust the sender, you can simply accept their ecash token without needing to swap it immediately.
This is already really useful, since it gives you a way to receive a payment from a friend or close aquaintance without having to worry about connectivity. It's almost just like physical cash!
It does however not work if the sender is untrusted. We have to use a different scheme to be able to receive payments from someone we don't trust.
Receiving offline from an untrusted sender
To be able to receive payments from an untrusted sender, we need the sender to create a custom proof for us. As we've seen before, this requires the sender to go online.
The sender needs to create a token that has the following properties, so that the receciver can verify it offline:
- It must be locked to ONLY the receiver's public key
- It must include an
offline signature proof
(DLEQ proof) - If it contains a timelock & refund clause, it must be set to a time in the future that is acceptable for the receiver
- It cannot contain duplicate proofs (double-spend)
- It cannot contain proofs that the receiver has already received before (double-spend)
If all of these conditions are met, then the receiver can verify the proof offline and accept the payment. This allows us to receive payments from anyone, even if we don't trust them.
At first glance, this scheme seems kinda useless. It requires the sender to go online, which defeats the purpose of having an offline payment system.
I beleive there are a couple of ways this scheme might be useful nonetheless:
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Offline vending machines: Imagine you have an offline vending machine that accepts payments from anyone. The vending machine could use this scheme to verify payments without needing to go online itself. We can assume that the sender is able to go online and create a valid token, but the receiver doesn't need to be online to verify it.
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Offline marketplaces: Imagine you have an offline marketplace where buyers and sellers can trade goods and services. Before going to the marketplace the sender already knows where he will be spending the money. The sender could create a valid token before going to the marketplace, using the merchants public key as a lock, and adding a refund clause to redeem any unspent ecash after it expires. In this case, neither the sender nor the receiver needs to go online to complete the transaction.
How to use this
Pretty much all cashu wallets allow you to send tokens offline. This is because all that the wallet needs to do is to look if it can create the desired amount from the proofs stored locally. If yes, it will automatically create the token offline.
Receiving offline tokens is currently only supported by nutstash (experimental).
To create an offline receivable token, the sender needs to lock it to the receiver's public key. Currently there is no refund clause! So be careful that you don't get accidentally locked out of your funds!
The receiver can then inspect the token and decide if it is safe to accept without a swap. If all checks are green, they can accept the token offline without trusting the sender.
The receiver will see the unswapped tokens on the wallet homescreen. They will need to manually swap them later when they are online again.
Later when the receiver is online again, they can swap the token for a fresh one.
Summary
We learned that offline transactions are possible with ecash, but there are some limitations. It either requires trusting the sender, or relying on either the sender or receiver to be online to verify the tokens, or create tokens that can be verified offline by the receiver.
I hope this short article was helpful in understanding how ecash works and its potential for offline transactions.
Cheers,
Gandlaf
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-05-12 23:54:13► AI Chatbots
- Note - It's never a good idea to upload personal / confidential files or info to any cloud AI, as many train on your questions and code. If you want privacy, its best to run bots yourself locally, and remember to use throwaway emails or aliasing if signing up for bots.
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▷ AI Search Engines
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▷ Self-Hosting Tools
- ⭐ Jan - Self-Hosted / Discord / GitHub
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- ⭐ Open WebUI - Self-Hosted Interface / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ llama.cpp - Self-Hosted Transformer-Based LLMs / Guide
- ⭐ KoboldCpp - llama.cpp with API + GUI / ROCm / Colab
- ⭐ Pinokio - Single Click AI Model Installer / Discord / GitHub
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- Ollama - Self-Hosted / Discord / GitHub
- tgpt - Self-Hosted
- LoLLMs Web UI - Self-Hosted / Discord
- LM Studio - Self-Hosted / Discord / GitHub
- AnythingLLM - Self-Hosted
- LibreChat - Self-Hosted / Discord / GitHub
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- llamafile - Run LLM with Single Files / Discord
▷ Roleplaying Chatbots
- 🌐 Sukino-Findings - AI Roleplay Resources
- 🌐 BestERP - Roleplaying LLM Lists
- ⭐ PygmalionAI - Self-Hosted Roleplaying Models / Resources / Discord / Subreddit / GitHub
- ⭐ Character.AI - Roleplaying Chatbots / Extract / Discord / Subreddit
- ⭐ FlowGPT - Roleplaying Chatbots / Some NSFW / Discord
- ⭐ Bot Creation Guide - Character Creation Guide
- ⭐ Chub - Character Cards / Some NSFW / Discord / Subreddit / GitHub
- Llama + SillyTavern - Llama + SillyTavern Roleplaying Setup Guide / No Sign-Up
- KoboldAI - GUI for Roleplaying Chatbots / No Sign-Up / Discord / GitHub
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- WyvernChat - Roleplaying Chatbots
- JanitorAI - Roleplaying Chatbots / Some NSFW
- FictionLab - Roleplaying / Story Chatbot / Discord
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- Kajiwoto, Miku (No Sign-Up) / Discord or Agnai / Discord - Chatbot Builders
- Crossing the Uncanny Valley - Realistic AI Voice Chat
- HammerAI - Self-Hosted Roleplaying Chatbots
▷ Coding AIs
- 🌐 EvalPlus Leaderboard / GitHub, WebDev Arena, Aider LLM Leaderboards or Big Code Models Leaderboard - Coding AI Leaderboards
- 🌐 Awesome AI Agents - Coding / Programming AIs / Discord
- ⭐ Windsurf - Coding AI / Subreddit / Discord
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- Supermaven - Coding AI / No Sign-Up / Discord
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- Blackbox - Coding AI / No Sign-Up
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- v0 - Text to Site Code / Discord
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- Bolt.new - Web App Builder / Discord / GitHub
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- Composio - Add Tools to Coding AI / Discord / GitHub
► AI Tools
- 🌐 sindresorhus's Awesome ChatGPT or Awesome ChatGPT - AI Resources
- 🌐 Every ChatGPT GUI - ChatGPT GUI Index
- ↪️ AI API Tools
- tldraw computer - Create Component Workflows to Generate or Transform Data / Discord / GitHub
- ChatGPT Box or KeepChatGPT - Extensions
- LLM - LLM CLI / Discord / GitHub
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- ChatRTX - Desktop App / RTX 30+ Series GPU Only
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- ChatGPT DeMod - Block ChatGPT Moderation Checks
- ParallelGPT - Data Processing AI / Discord
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- MassiveMark - Convert LLM Chats to DOCX / Discord
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- screenpipe - AI Screen Recorder / No Sign-Up / Discord / GitHub
- ChatGPT Exporter - Export Chats / GitHub
- GPThemes - ChatGPT Themes
- LLM Model VRAM Calculator - LLM Requirement Calculators
- AI Piracy Resources - AI Piracy Guide / Resources
▷ AI Prompts
- Note - Bypassing chatbot safeguards (aka jailbreaking) is against the TOS of most AI, so use them at your own risk.
- 🌐 Jailbreak Listings - Prompt / Jailbreak Lists
- ⭐ BlackFriday GPTs Prompts - Prompt Directory
- ⭐ Leaked Prompts - Prompt Directory
- ⭐ Prompt Engineering Guide / Discord / GitHub, Google Whitepaper, Prompt_Engineering, LearnPrompting, OpenAI Guide or Claude Guide - Prompting Guides
- /r/ChatGPTJailbreak - AI Jailbreak Community
- ChatGPT System Prompt - Prompt Directory
- The Big Prompt Library - Prompt Directory
- ChatGPT & Bing AI Prompts - Prompt Directory
- L1B3RT4S - Jailbreak Prompts / Discord / X
- promptfoo - Prompt Playgrounds / Discord / GitHub
- Tensor Trust / GitHub or Gandalf / GitHub - Prompting Skill Games
- RedTeam Arena - AI Jailbreak Game
- Gobble Bot - Generate Text Files for Chatbots
► AI Indexes
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- 🌐 FutureTools - AI Directory / Discord
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- Perchance / Discord or WebSim / Subreddit / Discord - Simple AI Builders
- YP for AI - AI Directory
- LLM Resources Hub - AI Directory
- Awesome AI Tools - AI Directory
- It's Better With AI - AI Directory
- GPT Demo - AI Directory
- ArtificialStudio - Multi-Tool Browser AIs / Discord
- LLM Pricing - LLM Pricing Index
- Model Releases - Upcoming Model Releases
▷ AI Benchmarks
- ⭐ Artificial Analysis - Chatbot Benchmarks
- ⭐ Chatbot Arena - Chatbot Leaderboards / Benchmarks / Discord / GitHub
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- SEAL LLM Leaderboards - Chatbot Leaderboards
- WildBench - Chatbot Benchmarks / GitHub
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- ZeroEval - Chatbot Leaderboard / GitHub
- LLM Stats - Chatbot Leaderboard
- OpenLM Arena - Chatbot Leaderboard
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- Open VLM Leaderboard - VLM Benchmark Leaderboard Aggregator
- MathArena - AI Mathematics Competitions / Benchmarks
- AI Elo - AI Game Competitions / Benchmarks
► Text Generators
- ⭐ TextFX / GitHub or Rytr - AI Creative Writing Tools / No Sign-Up
- Scrip AI (No Sign-Up), INK, QuickPen AI - Online AI Text Tools
- NovelAI - Story Writing AI / No Sign-Up / Limit Bypass, 2 / Discord
- Dreamily - Story Writing AI
- PerchanceStory - Story Writing AI
- Quarkle - AI Writing Assistant
▷ Text Rephrasing
▷ Grammar Check
► Video Generation
- 🌐 VBench - Video Generation Model Leaderboard
- ⭐ PixVerse - 1 Daily / Discord
- AI Studio / Subreddit / Discord
- Synthesis Colab - Unlimited / Colab / Discord
- Stable Video
- Vidu - 6 Monthly / Discord
- Genmo - 30 Monthly / GitHub
- Stable Diffusion Videos - Unlimited / Colab
- Wan AI / 10 Daily
- Dream Machine - 5 per Account / Discord
- LensGo - 5 Daily / Discord
- Kling AI - 8 Monthly / Discord
- Pika - 5 Monthly / Discord
- Dreamina - 150 Monthly
- Qwen - 10 Daily
- Krea - 2 Daily / Discord
- Hailuo Free - Unlimited
- Hailuo AI - 3 Daily / Discord
- Fusion Brain - Unlimited
- Vivago - 1 Daily
- ChatGLM - Unlimited / Requires Sign-Up & Phone # / SMS Generators Work
- Eggnog - AI Character Video Remixer + Editor
► Image Generation
- ⭐ NexusAI Image / 300 Daily Per Model / Discord
- ⭐ Mage / Discord
- ⭐ ImageFX or Gemini - Imagen 3 / Unlimited / Region Based / Discord
- ⭐ ComfyUI Online / Unlimited
- ⭐ Grok / 25 Per 2 Hours / Subreddit / Discord
- FLUX.1 Dev / No Sign-Up
- Dezgo / Unlimited / No Sign-Up / Discord
- Fusion Brain, 2 / Unlimited / Telegram Bot
- Microsoft Designer, 2 / Unlimited
- Kling AI / 366 Monthly / Characters / Portraits / Discord
- AI Gallery / Unlimited / No Sign-Up
- Wan AI / 100 Daily / No Sign-Up
- PicLumen / 50 Daily / Discord
- Recraft / 50 Daily / Discord
- imgsys / Unlimited / Compare Generators / No Sign-Up
- NVIDIA NIM / 50 Daily / No Sign-Up
- Hotpot / 75 Daily / No Sign-Up
- Prodia / Unlimited / No Sign-Up / Discord
- Pollinations / Unlimited / No Sign-Up / Discord / GitHub
- PicSynth / Unlimited
- Leonardo / 150 Daily
- Loras / Unlimited / GitHub
- ChatGLM / Unlimited
- Meta AI / Unlimited
- Playground / 15 Per 3 Hours
- TensorArt / 40 Daily / Subreddit / Discord
- Shakker / 50 Daily / Discord / Guide
- Stable Diffusion / Unlimited / GitHub / Discord
- Unstable Diffusion / 52 Daily
- SeaArt / 40 Daily / Discord
- Art Genie / Unlimited / No Sign-Up
- Raphael / Unlimited / No Sign-Up / Uses Flux.1
- CGDream / 770 SDXL / 450 Fast FLUX / 150 FLUX Dev Monthly
- Hailuo AI - 100 Daily / Discord
- PixNova AI / Unlimited
- ChatK / Unlimited
- Reve Image / 20 Daily
- Baidu Chat / Phone # Required
- ImageLabs / Unlimited / No Sign-Up
- Qwen / Unlimited
- AIGazou / Unlimited
- Dreamina / 50 Daily
- Perchance, 2 / Unlimited / No Sign-Up
- getimg.ai / 100 Monthly / Discord
- Adobe Firefly / 25 Monthly / Discord
- Aitubo / 25 Daily / Discord
- Poe / 2-15 Daily / Phone # Required / Discord
- Maze Guru / 12 Daily / Discord
- DALL·E - 6 Daily / ChatGPTs Image Generator
- PixAI / 5 Daily / Discord
- FluxPro / 1 Daily / Discord
- Glif / 20 Daily / No Sign-Up / Discord
- Vivago / 15 Daily / No Sign-Up
- Krea / 10 Daily / No Sign-Up / Discord
- Whisk - Use Images as Prompts
- Artoons - Cartoon Style Generator / GitHub
- Genie / Discord, Shap-e, Stable Dreamfusion or threestudio / Colab / Discord - 3D Image Generators
- Interactive Scenes - Generate Interactive Scenes / Discord
- Illusion Diffusion - Illusion Artwork Generator
▷ Local Frontends
- ⭐ Stability Matrix / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ Invoke / GitHub / Discord
- ⭐ ComfyUI / Subreddit / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ Fooocus, 2 / Colab
- ⭐ Mochi Diffusion - Stable Diffusion for Mac / Discord
- ⭐ DiffusionBee - Stable Diffusion for Mac / GitHub / Discord
- ⭐ Automatic1111 / Fork, 2 / Colab / Photoshop / Templates / Upscaling, 2
- StableStudio
- Easy Diffusion / Discord / GitHub
- Makeayo / Discord
- biniou
- Sygil WebUI / Colab / Discord / GitHub
- Radiata / GitHub
- SD WebUI Forge
- ComfyUI-Zluda
▷ Guides / Tools
- 🌐 Paper2GUI, sdg-link, LocalModelsLinks, SDTools or AI Creation Tools - AI Image Resources
- 🌐 Civitai - SD Model Index / Subreddit / Discord / GitHub
- 🌐 promptoMANIA - Prompt Indexes
- ⭐ A Traveler's Guide to the Latent Space - AI Art Guide
- ⭐ CLIP Interrogator / 2 - Determine Likely Used Image Prompts / Colab, 2
- SD Dynamic Prompts - Extension for Automatic1111
- AI Horde - Distributed Network of GPUs running Stable Diffusion / Interface, 2, 3 / Discord / GitHub
- IOPaint - Image Fill / Item Removal / Colab / GitHub
- Unstable Diffusion - AI Image Community
- Generative AI for Beginners - Generative AI Guides
▷ Image Restoration
► Audio Generation
- ⭐ Riffusion / Discord
- ⭐ Suno / Guide / Discord
- MusicFX / Region Based
- WolframTones / No Sign-Up
- Stable Audio / Discord
- Udio / Discord
- audio visual generator / No Sign-Up
- Fake Music Generator / No Sign-Up
- MusicGen / No Sign-Up / Colab / GitHub
- Sonauto / Discord
- Beatoven.ai / Discord
- Waveformer / GitHub
- SOUNDRAW / No Sign-Up
- Mubert
- AIVA / Discord
- Boomy / Discord
- Melobytes
- AI Jukebox / No Sign-Up
- Eapy - MIDI Sample Generator
- Pack Generator - Sample Pack Generator
- MMAudio - Generate Audio for Silent Videos / Demo / Colab / GitHub
- Drumloop AI - Drum Loop Generator
- WOMBO - AI Powered Lip Sync
▷ Text to Speech
- ⭐ TTS Online / No Sign-Up
- Uberduck / Discord
- Google Illuminate - Generate AI Conversations
- ElevenLabs / No Sign-Up / Discord / GitHub
- ttsMP3 / No Sign-Up
- FakeYou / No Sign-Up / Discord
- Luvvoice / No Sign-Up
- TTSMaker / No Sign-Up
- Tortoise TTS / No Sign-Up
- Bark / No Sign-Up / Colab / GitHub / Discord
- TTSOpenAI or OpenAI.fm / No Sign-Up / OpenAI's Bot
- AI Speaker / No Sign-Up
- edge-tts / No Sign-Up / Python Module
- IndexTTS / No Sign-Up
- Voices
- TextToSpeech.io
- LazyPy / No Sign-Up / GitHub
- Kokoro TTS / No Sign-Up / Source code / Discord / GitHub
- Ondoku / No Sign-Up
- AnyVoiceLab / No Sign-Up
- VoiceCraft / Colab
- EmotiVoice
- Fish Audio / Discord / GitHub
- Audio-WebUI / No Sign-Up / Colab / Discord
- VanillaVoice / No Sign-Up
- TTSFree / No Sign-Up
- LOVO / Discord
- SoundofText / No Sign-Up
- FreeTTS
- Hume / No Sign-Up
- Voicemaker / No Sign-Up
- NaturalReaders / No Sign-Up
- TTS / Discord
- Clash
- Moe TTS / No Sign-Up / Colab
▷ Voice Change / Clone
- ⭐ Applio - Voice Cloning / No Sign-Up / Discord / GitHub
- ⭐ Weights / Subreddit / Discord or Voice Models / Discord - AI Voice Models and Guides
- ⭐ RVC V2 - RVC V2 Voice Cloning (Locally) / Colab / Discord
- ⭐ Voice Changer - Real-Time Voice Changer (W-Okada) / Guide / Colab
- ⭐ Ilaria RVC - RVC V2 Voice Cloning (Cloud/Colab) / No Sign-Up
- Replay - RVC Desktop App / Discord
- Bark Voice Cloning - Voice Cloning / No Sign-Up / Colab / GitHub
- RVC Inference HF - Voice Cloning / No Sign-Up
- AnyVoiceLab - Voice Cloning / No Sign-Up
- AllVoiceLab - Voice Cloning
- Zyphra - Voice Cloning / GitHub
▷ Voice Removal / Separation
- 🌐 MultiSong Leaderboard - Music & Voice Separation AI Leaderboards
- ⭐ UVR5 UI
- ⭐ MVSEP / Decrease Queue Time
- Splitter / Sign-Up Required
- MDX23
- Music-Source-Separation
- VocalRemover
- Ultimate Vocal Remover
- Remove Vocals / 2
- vocali
- mazmazika
- Vocal Remover
- ezstems
► Machine Learning
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2025-01-13 10:09:57Ich begann, Social Media aufzubauen, \ um den Menschen eine Stimme zu geben. \ Mark Zuckerberg
Sind euch auch die Tränen gekommen, als ihr Mark Zuckerbergs Wendehals-Deklaration bezüglich der Meinungsfreiheit auf seinen Portalen gehört habt? Rührend, oder? Während er früher die offensichtliche Zensur leugnete und später die Regierung Biden dafür verantwortlich machte, will er nun angeblich «die Zensur auf unseren Plattformen drastisch reduzieren».
«Purer Opportunismus» ob des anstehenden Regierungswechsels wäre als Klassifizierung viel zu kurz gegriffen. Der jetzige Schachzug des Meta-Chefs ist genauso Teil einer kühl kalkulierten Business-Strategie, wie es die 180 Grad umgekehrte Praxis vorher war. Social Media sind ein höchst lukratives Geschäft. Hinzu kommt vielleicht noch ein bisschen verkorkstes Ego, weil derartig viel Einfluss und Geld sicher auch auf die Psyche schlagen. Verständlich.
«Es ist an der Zeit, zu unseren Wurzeln der freien Meinungsäußerung auf Facebook und Instagram zurückzukehren. Ich begann, Social Media aufzubauen, um den Menschen eine Stimme zu geben», sagte Zuckerberg.
Welche Wurzeln? Hat der Mann vergessen, dass er von der Überwachung, dem Ausspionieren und dem Ausverkauf sämtlicher Daten und digitaler Spuren sowie der Manipulation seiner «Kunden» lebt? Das ist knallharter Kommerz, nichts anderes. Um freie Meinungsäußerung geht es bei diesem Geschäft ganz sicher nicht, und das war auch noch nie so. Die Wurzeln von Facebook liegen in einem Projekt des US-Militärs mit dem Namen «LifeLog». Dessen Ziel war es, «ein digitales Protokoll vom Leben eines Menschen zu erstellen».
Der Richtungswechsel kommt allerdings nicht überraschend. Schon Anfang Dezember hatte Meta-Präsident Nick Clegg von «zu hoher Fehlerquote bei der Moderation» von Inhalten gesprochen. Bei der Gelegenheit erwähnte er auch, dass Mark sehr daran interessiert sei, eine aktive Rolle in den Debatten über eine amerikanische Führungsrolle im technologischen Bereich zu spielen.
Während Milliardärskollege und Big Tech-Konkurrent Elon Musk bereits seinen Posten in der kommenden Trump-Regierung in Aussicht hat, möchte Zuckerberg also nicht nur seine Haut retten – Trump hatte ihn einmal einen «Feind des Volkes» genannt und ihm lebenslange Haft angedroht –, sondern am liebsten auch mitspielen. KI-Berater ist wohl die gewünschte Funktion, wie man nach einem Treffen Trump-Zuckerberg hörte. An seine Verhaftung dachte vermutlich auch ein weiterer Multimilliardär mit eigener Social Media-Plattform, Pavel Durov, als er Zuckerberg jetzt kritisierte und gleichzeitig warnte.
Politik und Systemmedien drehen jedenfalls durch – was zu viel ist, ist zu viel. Etwas weniger Zensur und mehr Meinungsfreiheit würden die Freiheit der Bürger schwächen und seien potenziell vernichtend für die Menschenrechte. Zuckerberg setze mit dem neuen Kurs die Demokratie aufs Spiel, das sei eine «Einladung zum nächsten Völkermord», ernsthaft. Die Frage sei, ob sich die EU gegen Musk und Zuckerberg behaupten könne, Brüssel müsse jedenfalls hart durchgreifen.
Auch um die Faktenchecker macht man sich Sorgen. Für die deutsche Nachrichtenagentur dpa und die «Experten» von Correctiv, die (noch) Partner für Fact-Checking-Aktivitäten von Facebook sind, sei das ein «lukratives Geschäftsmodell». Aber möglicherweise werden die Inhalte ohne diese vermeintlichen Korrektoren ja sogar besser. Anders als Meta wollen jedoch Scholz, Faeser und die Tagesschau keine Fehler zugeben und zum Beispiel Correctiv-Falschaussagen einräumen.
Bei derlei dramatischen Befürchtungen wundert es nicht, dass der öffentliche Plausch auf X zwischen Elon Musk und AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel von 150 EU-Beamten überwacht wurde, falls es irgendwelche Rechtsverstöße geben sollte, die man ihnen ankreiden könnte. Auch der Deutsche Bundestag war wachsam. Gefunden haben dürften sie nichts. Das Ganze war eher eine Show, viel Wind wurde gemacht, aber letztlich gab es nichts als heiße Luft.
Das Anbiedern bei Donald Trump ist indes gerade in Mode. Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) tut das auch, denn sie fürchtet um Spenden von über einer Milliarde Dollar. Eventuell könnte ja Elon Musk auch hier künftig aushelfen und der Organisation sowie deren größtem privaten Förderer, Bill Gates, etwas unter die Arme greifen. Nachdem Musks KI-Projekt xAI kürzlich von BlackRock & Co. sechs Milliarden eingestrichen hat, geht da vielleicht etwas.
Dieser Beitrag ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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2025-04-15 06:27:28Básico
bash lsblk # Lista todos os diretorios montados.
Para criar o sistema de arquivos:
bash mkfs.btrfs -L "ThePool" -f /dev/sdx
Criando um subvolume:
bash btrfs subvolume create SubVol
Montando Sistema de Arquivos:
bash mount -o compress=zlib,subvol=SubVol,autodefrag /dev/sdx /mnt
Lista os discos formatados no diretório:
bash btrfs filesystem show /mnt
Adiciona novo disco ao subvolume:
bash btrfs device add -f /dev/sdy /mnt
Lista novamente os discos do subvolume:
bash btrfs filesystem show /mnt
Exibe uso dos discos do subvolume:
bash btrfs filesystem df /mnt
Balancea os dados entre os discos sobre raid1:
bash btrfs filesystem balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 /mnt
Scrub é uma passagem por todos os dados e metadados do sistema de arquivos e verifica as somas de verificação. Se uma cópia válida estiver disponível (perfis de grupo de blocos replicados), a danificada será reparada. Todas as cópias dos perfis replicados são validadas.
iniciar o processo de depuração :
bash btrfs scrub start /mnt
ver o status do processo de depuração Btrfs em execução:
bash btrfs scrub status /mnt
ver o status do scrub Btrfs para cada um dos dispositivos
bash btrfs scrub status -d / data btrfs scrub cancel / data
Para retomar o processo de depuração do Btrfs que você cancelou ou pausou:
btrfs scrub resume / data
Listando os subvolumes:
bash btrfs subvolume list /Reports
Criando um instantâneo dos subvolumes:
Aqui, estamos criando um instantâneo de leitura e gravação chamado snap de marketing do subvolume de marketing.
bash btrfs subvolume snapshot /Reports/marketing /Reports/marketing-snap
Além disso, você pode criar um instantâneo somente leitura usando o sinalizador -r conforme mostrado. O marketing-rosnap é um instantâneo somente leitura do subvolume de marketing
bash btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /Reports/marketing /Reports/marketing-rosnap
Forçar a sincronização do sistema de arquivos usando o utilitário 'sync'
Para forçar a sincronização do sistema de arquivos, invoque a opção de sincronização conforme mostrado. Observe que o sistema de arquivos já deve estar montado para que o processo de sincronização continue com sucesso.
bash btrfs filsystem sync /Reports
Para excluir o dispositivo do sistema de arquivos, use o comando device delete conforme mostrado.
bash btrfs device delete /dev/sdc /Reports
Para sondar o status de um scrub, use o comando scrub status com a opção -dR .
bash btrfs scrub status -dR / Relatórios
Para cancelar a execução do scrub, use o comando scrub cancel .
bash $ sudo btrfs scrub cancel / Reports
Para retomar ou continuar com uma depuração interrompida anteriormente, execute o comando de cancelamento de depuração
bash sudo btrfs scrub resume /Reports
mostra o uso do dispositivo de armazenamento:
btrfs filesystem usage /data
Para distribuir os dados, metadados e dados do sistema em todos os dispositivos de armazenamento do RAID (incluindo o dispositivo de armazenamento recém-adicionado) montados no diretório /data , execute o seguinte comando:
sudo btrfs balance start --full-balance /data
Pode demorar um pouco para espalhar os dados, metadados e dados do sistema em todos os dispositivos de armazenamento do RAID se ele contiver muitos dados.
Opções importantes de montagem Btrfs
Nesta seção, vou explicar algumas das importantes opções de montagem do Btrfs. Então vamos começar.
As opções de montagem Btrfs mais importantes são:
**1. acl e noacl
**ACL gerencia permissões de usuários e grupos para os arquivos/diretórios do sistema de arquivos Btrfs.
A opção de montagem acl Btrfs habilita ACL. Para desabilitar a ACL, você pode usar a opção de montagem noacl .
Por padrão, a ACL está habilitada. Portanto, o sistema de arquivos Btrfs usa a opção de montagem acl por padrão.
**2. autodefrag e noautodefrag
**Desfragmentar um sistema de arquivos Btrfs melhorará o desempenho do sistema de arquivos reduzindo a fragmentação de dados.
A opção de montagem autodefrag permite a desfragmentação automática do sistema de arquivos Btrfs.
A opção de montagem noautodefrag desativa a desfragmentação automática do sistema de arquivos Btrfs.
Por padrão, a desfragmentação automática está desabilitada. Portanto, o sistema de arquivos Btrfs usa a opção de montagem noautodefrag por padrão.
**3. compactar e compactar-forçar
**Controla a compactação de dados no nível do sistema de arquivos do sistema de arquivos Btrfs.
A opção compactar compacta apenas os arquivos que valem a pena compactar (se compactar o arquivo economizar espaço em disco).
A opção compress-force compacta todos os arquivos do sistema de arquivos Btrfs, mesmo que a compactação do arquivo aumente seu tamanho.
O sistema de arquivos Btrfs suporta muitos algoritmos de compactação e cada um dos algoritmos de compactação possui diferentes níveis de compactação.
Os algoritmos de compactação suportados pelo Btrfs são: lzo , zlib (nível 1 a 9) e zstd (nível 1 a 15).
Você pode especificar qual algoritmo de compactação usar para o sistema de arquivos Btrfs com uma das seguintes opções de montagem:
- compress=algoritmo:nível
- compress-force=algoritmo:nível
Para obter mais informações, consulte meu artigo Como habilitar a compactação do sistema de arquivos Btrfs .
**4. subvol e subvolid
**Estas opções de montagem são usadas para montar separadamente um subvolume específico de um sistema de arquivos Btrfs.
A opção de montagem subvol é usada para montar o subvolume de um sistema de arquivos Btrfs usando seu caminho relativo.
A opção de montagem subvolid é usada para montar o subvolume de um sistema de arquivos Btrfs usando o ID do subvolume.
Para obter mais informações, consulte meu artigo Como criar e montar subvolumes Btrfs .
**5. dispositivo
A opção de montagem de dispositivo** é usada no sistema de arquivos Btrfs de vários dispositivos ou RAID Btrfs.
Em alguns casos, o sistema operacional pode falhar ao detectar os dispositivos de armazenamento usados em um sistema de arquivos Btrfs de vários dispositivos ou RAID Btrfs. Nesses casos, você pode usar a opção de montagem do dispositivo para especificar os dispositivos que deseja usar para o sistema de arquivos de vários dispositivos Btrfs ou RAID.
Você pode usar a opção de montagem de dispositivo várias vezes para carregar diferentes dispositivos de armazenamento para o sistema de arquivos de vários dispositivos Btrfs ou RAID.
Você pode usar o nome do dispositivo (ou seja, sdb , sdc ) ou UUID , UUID_SUB ou PARTUUID do dispositivo de armazenamento com a opção de montagem do dispositivo para identificar o dispositivo de armazenamento.
Por exemplo,
- dispositivo=/dev/sdb
- dispositivo=/dev/sdb,dispositivo=/dev/sdc
- dispositivo=UUID_SUB=490a263d-eb9a-4558-931e-998d4d080c5d
- device=UUID_SUB=490a263d-eb9a-4558-931e-998d4d080c5d,device=UUID_SUB=f7ce4875-0874-436a-b47d-3edef66d3424
**6. degraded
A opção de montagem degradada** permite que um RAID Btrfs seja montado com menos dispositivos de armazenamento do que o perfil RAID requer.
Por exemplo, o perfil raid1 requer a presença de 2 dispositivos de armazenamento. Se um dos dispositivos de armazenamento não estiver disponível em qualquer caso, você usa a opção de montagem degradada para montar o RAID mesmo que 1 de 2 dispositivos de armazenamento esteja disponível.
**7. commit
A opção commit** mount é usada para definir o intervalo (em segundos) dentro do qual os dados serão gravados no dispositivo de armazenamento.
O padrão é definido como 30 segundos.
Para definir o intervalo de confirmação para 15 segundos, você pode usar a opção de montagem commit=15 (digamos).
**8. ssd e nossd
A opção de montagem ssd** informa ao sistema de arquivos Btrfs que o sistema de arquivos está usando um dispositivo de armazenamento SSD, e o sistema de arquivos Btrfs faz a otimização SSD necessária.
A opção de montagem nossd desativa a otimização do SSD.
O sistema de arquivos Btrfs detecta automaticamente se um SSD é usado para o sistema de arquivos Btrfs. Se um SSD for usado, a opção de montagem de SSD será habilitada. Caso contrário, a opção de montagem nossd é habilitada.
**9. ssd_spread e nossd_spread
A opção de montagem ssd_spread** tenta alocar grandes blocos contínuos de espaço não utilizado do SSD. Esse recurso melhora o desempenho de SSDs de baixo custo (baratos).
A opção de montagem nossd_spread desativa o recurso ssd_spread .
O sistema de arquivos Btrfs detecta automaticamente se um SSD é usado para o sistema de arquivos Btrfs. Se um SSD for usado, a opção de montagem ssd_spread será habilitada. Caso contrário, a opção de montagem nossd_spread é habilitada.
**10. descarte e nodiscard
Se você estiver usando um SSD que suporte TRIM enfileirado assíncrono (SATA rev3.1), a opção de montagem de descarte** permitirá o descarte de blocos de arquivos liberados. Isso melhorará o desempenho do SSD.
Se o SSD não suportar TRIM enfileirado assíncrono, a opção de montagem de descarte prejudicará o desempenho do SSD. Nesse caso, a opção de montagem nodiscard deve ser usada.
Por padrão, a opção de montagem nodiscard é usada.
**11. norecovery
Se a opção de montagem norecovery** for usada, o sistema de arquivos Btrfs não tentará executar a operação de recuperação de dados no momento da montagem.
**12. usebackuproot e nousebackuproot
Se a opção de montagem usebackuproot for usada, o sistema de arquivos Btrfs tentará recuperar qualquer raiz de árvore ruim/corrompida no momento da montagem. O sistema de arquivos Btrfs pode armazenar várias raízes de árvore no sistema de arquivos. A opção de montagem usebackuproot** procurará uma boa raiz de árvore e usará a primeira boa que encontrar.
A opção de montagem nousebackuproot não verificará ou recuperará raízes de árvore inválidas/corrompidas no momento da montagem. Este é o comportamento padrão do sistema de arquivos Btrfs.
**13. space_cache, space_cache=version, nospace_cache e clear_cache
A opção de montagem space_cache** é usada para controlar o cache de espaço livre. O cache de espaço livre é usado para melhorar o desempenho da leitura do espaço livre do grupo de blocos do sistema de arquivos Btrfs na memória (RAM).
O sistema de arquivos Btrfs suporta 2 versões do cache de espaço livre: v1 (padrão) e v2
O mecanismo de cache de espaço livre v2 melhora o desempenho de sistemas de arquivos grandes (tamanho de vários terabytes).
Você pode usar a opção de montagem space_cache=v1 para definir a v1 do cache de espaço livre e a opção de montagem space_cache=v2 para definir a v2 do cache de espaço livre.
A opção de montagem clear_cache é usada para limpar o cache de espaço livre.
Quando o cache de espaço livre v2 é criado, o cache deve ser limpo para criar um cache de espaço livre v1 .
Portanto, para usar o cache de espaço livre v1 após a criação do cache de espaço livre v2 , as opções de montagem clear_cache e space_cache=v1 devem ser combinadas: clear_cache,space_cache=v1
A opção de montagem nospace_cache é usada para desabilitar o cache de espaço livre.
Para desabilitar o cache de espaço livre após a criação do cache v1 ou v2 , as opções de montagem nospace_cache e clear_cache devem ser combinadas: clear_cache,nosapce_cache
**14. skip_balance
Por padrão, a operação de balanceamento interrompida/pausada de um sistema de arquivos Btrfs de vários dispositivos ou RAID Btrfs será retomada automaticamente assim que o sistema de arquivos Btrfs for montado. Para desabilitar a retomada automática da operação de equilíbrio interrompido/pausado em um sistema de arquivos Btrfs de vários dispositivos ou RAID Btrfs, você pode usar a opção de montagem skip_balance .**
**15. datacow e nodatacow
A opção datacow** mount habilita o recurso Copy-on-Write (CoW) do sistema de arquivos Btrfs. É o comportamento padrão.
Se você deseja desabilitar o recurso Copy-on-Write (CoW) do sistema de arquivos Btrfs para os arquivos recém-criados, monte o sistema de arquivos Btrfs com a opção de montagem nodatacow .
**16. datasum e nodatasum
A opção datasum** mount habilita a soma de verificação de dados para arquivos recém-criados do sistema de arquivos Btrfs. Este é o comportamento padrão.
Se você não quiser que o sistema de arquivos Btrfs faça a soma de verificação dos dados dos arquivos recém-criados, monte o sistema de arquivos Btrfs com a opção de montagem nodatasum .
Perfis Btrfs
Um perfil Btrfs é usado para informar ao sistema de arquivos Btrfs quantas cópias dos dados/metadados devem ser mantidas e quais níveis de RAID devem ser usados para os dados/metadados. O sistema de arquivos Btrfs contém muitos perfis. Entendê-los o ajudará a configurar um RAID Btrfs da maneira que você deseja.
Os perfis Btrfs disponíveis são os seguintes:
single : Se o perfil único for usado para os dados/metadados, apenas uma cópia dos dados/metadados será armazenada no sistema de arquivos, mesmo se você adicionar vários dispositivos de armazenamento ao sistema de arquivos. Assim, 100% do espaço em disco de cada um dos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos pode ser utilizado.
dup : Se o perfil dup for usado para os dados/metadados, cada um dos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos manterá duas cópias dos dados/metadados. Assim, 50% do espaço em disco de cada um dos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos pode ser utilizado.
raid0 : No perfil raid0 , os dados/metadados serão divididos igualmente em todos os dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos. Nesta configuração, não haverá dados/metadados redundantes (duplicados). Assim, 100% do espaço em disco de cada um dos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos pode ser usado. Se, em qualquer caso, um dos dispositivos de armazenamento falhar, todo o sistema de arquivos será corrompido. Você precisará de pelo menos dois dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid0 .
raid1 : No perfil raid1 , duas cópias dos dados/metadados serão armazenadas nos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos. Nesta configuração, a matriz RAID pode sobreviver a uma falha de unidade. Mas você pode usar apenas 50% do espaço total em disco. Você precisará de pelo menos dois dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid1 .
raid1c3 : No perfil raid1c3 , três cópias dos dados/metadados serão armazenadas nos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos. Nesta configuração, a matriz RAID pode sobreviver a duas falhas de unidade, mas você pode usar apenas 33% do espaço total em disco. Você precisará de pelo menos três dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid1c3 .
raid1c4 : No perfil raid1c4 , quatro cópias dos dados/metadados serão armazenadas nos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos. Nesta configuração, a matriz RAID pode sobreviver a três falhas de unidade, mas você pode usar apenas 25% do espaço total em disco. Você precisará de pelo menos quatro dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid1c4 .
raid10 : No perfil raid10 , duas cópias dos dados/metadados serão armazenadas nos dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos, como no perfil raid1 . Além disso, os dados/metadados serão divididos entre os dispositivos de armazenamento, como no perfil raid0 .
O perfil raid10 é um híbrido dos perfis raid1 e raid0 . Alguns dos dispositivos de armazenamento formam arrays raid1 e alguns desses arrays raid1 são usados para formar um array raid0 . Em uma configuração raid10 , o sistema de arquivos pode sobreviver a uma única falha de unidade em cada uma das matrizes raid1 .
Você pode usar 50% do espaço total em disco na configuração raid10 . Você precisará de pelo menos quatro dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid10 .
raid5 : No perfil raid5 , uma cópia dos dados/metadados será dividida entre os dispositivos de armazenamento. Uma única paridade será calculada e distribuída entre os dispositivos de armazenamento do array RAID.
Em uma configuração raid5 , o sistema de arquivos pode sobreviver a uma única falha de unidade. Se uma unidade falhar, você pode adicionar uma nova unidade ao sistema de arquivos e os dados perdidos serão calculados a partir da paridade distribuída das unidades em execução.
Você pode usar 1 00x(N-1)/N % do total de espaços em disco na configuração raid5 . Aqui, N é o número de dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos. Você precisará de pelo menos três dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid5 .
raid6 : No perfil raid6 , uma cópia dos dados/metadados será dividida entre os dispositivos de armazenamento. Duas paridades serão calculadas e distribuídas entre os dispositivos de armazenamento do array RAID.
Em uma configuração raid6 , o sistema de arquivos pode sobreviver a duas falhas de unidade ao mesmo tempo. Se uma unidade falhar, você poderá adicionar uma nova unidade ao sistema de arquivos e os dados perdidos serão calculados a partir das duas paridades distribuídas das unidades em execução.
Você pode usar 100x(N-2)/N % do espaço total em disco na configuração raid6 . Aqui, N é o número de dispositivos de armazenamento adicionados ao sistema de arquivos. Você precisará de pelo menos quatro dispositivos de armazenamento para configurar o sistema de arquivos Btrfs no perfil raid6 .