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High Prices in Times of Crisis

Thu, 01 May 2025 14:17:41 -0500

The 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.

Note: This is a Substack article written by Ross Ulbricht. I am simply mirroring such article on my self-hosted blog and in the process, fixing a few typoes spotted in original piece.

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.

noKYC Only

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:04:53 -0600

Avoid the creep.

Note: This article was written by Bitcoin_QnA, not me; I am simply hosting a clearnet and .onion mirror on my blog for archival and convenience purposes.
Original piece.

KYC or ‘Know your customer’ is a regulation that any businesses with a banking relationship has to abide by. Bitcoin exchanges are no different. These rules are imposed worldwide and are geared towards ensuring that a business acting as a money exchange and/or transmitter has ‘suitable’ information on every customer they serve.

I Have Got Nothing to Hide and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:30:20 -0600

The statement “I’ve got nothing to hide” is often invoked during debates around privacy and surveillance. At first glance, it seems like a reasonable argument — if someone hasn’t done anything wrong, why should they care about having their data collected or their activities monitored? However, this reasoning is based on several faulty assumptions and misunderstandings about the value and importance of privacy.

Note: This is a Medium article based on an essay of the same title, published by Daniel J. Solove from George Washington University - Law School. I am simply mirroring such article on my self-hosted blog.

As Easy as P, G, P

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:14:59 -0600

Turn your Twitter DM’s from a honeypot of data just waiting to be exposed into an encrypted jumble of characters that @jack can’t simply crack.

Note: This tutorial was written by Diverter_NoKYC, not me; I am simply offering a clearnet and .onion mirror since original site is down.

PGP Encryption Made Simple

For many users, PGP encryption has been out of reach for some time.

Use of command line tools are frightening to many, and so often times the task of encrypting data has been forwarded on to a third party provider in the form of end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal or Threema. With data that one considers truly sensitive though, trusted third parties are most certainly security holes. For cases such as these, we need encryption made as simple as possible. Enter OpenKeychain.

testing

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Check, check… 1… 2… 3… Over.

Example post

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 03:00:00 +0300

What you need to do is:

Create the sockets.
Add the sockets to the set (FD_SET).
Find the socket with the highest file descriptor for calls to select().

Above also works with different type sockets (e.g. AF_INET, AF_INET6). It even works if you have different type sockets (e.g. one IPv4 and one IPv6) listening on the same port number. Dual stack sockets are a thing but this approach is more flexible.