@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1

You don’t have to be a type designer to appreciate what goes into the design of a letterform. In fact, even if you’re just a humble graphic designer, you should have a basic knowledge of what constructs the type you employ.

Typography, for all its concepts, expectations, implications, connotations and artistry, is, ultimately, a system. Just like a body has bones and muscles, every letterform has parts that give it shape, rhythm, and character.

If you're a creative working with type, learning the names of these parts helps you communicate clearly, better analyze your work and others, and design with precision. Everything comes down to a foundational understanding of the anatomy of the letterform and its essential component. So let’s help you with that.

Pangram Pangram Foundry is where the art of typography meets unparalleled craftsmanship. Established in 2018 by designer Mat Desjardins, Pangram Pangram has swiftly risen to become a globally recognized independent type foundry, admired and trusted by industry peers and the design community alike.

Read more about the anatomy of fonts at https://pangrampangram.com/blogs/journal/anatomy-of-the-letterform

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/978828

@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1

Steve Jobs sent me an email saying “Great idea, thank you."

Wait, what? What was the great idea?

new guy at NeXT In October of 1991, I was a new Systems Engineer at NeXT. NeXT, of course, was the company Steve Jobs had founded after leaving Apple in 1985, and which eventually merged back into Apple in 1996. I was one of three employees in Canada, and I think NeXT had about 400 people total.

NeXTMail Mail on the NeXT Computer was pretty amazing in 1991. Multimedia! Fonts! Attachments! Sounds! It’s hard to overstate how cool that was compared to the command line email everybody was used to. Every NeXT user got this email from Steve when they started up their computer.

That message included an attachment of what NeXT called Lip Service, the crazy idea that you could embed an audio file inside an email message. Crazy.

i have an idea

NeXT automatically set everybody up with a first-initial last-name address in the usual way, so I was shayman@next.com, and the big guy was sjobs@next.com.

A few colleagues had somehow acquired cooler email aliases - single letter things, or their first name, or a nickname or an easier to spell version, or whatever. Turns out NeXT had set up some sort of form where you could request an email alias that would redirect to whatever your real email address was.

I also noticed that even though there were seven or eight people at NeXT named Steve, nobody was using the email alias steve@next.com.

So late one Friday night, two weeks into the job, I figured, naively, what the heck, nobody else seems to want it, so I filled in the form asking for steve@next.com to be forwarded to me, shayman@next.com.

In the back of my mind was a vague idea that maybe somebody would have to approve this. But no, it all got set up automatically, and …

Continue reading at https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/978825

@ c1e9ab3a:9cb56b43

I. Historical Foundations of U.S. Monetary Architecture

The early monetary system of the United States was built atop inherited commodity money conventions from Europe’s maritime economies. Silver and gold coins—primarily Spanish pieces of eight, Dutch guilders, and other foreign specie—formed the basis of colonial commerce. These units were already integrated into international trade and piracy networks and functioned with natural compatibility across England, France, Spain, and Denmark. Lacking a centralized mint or formal currency, the U.S. adopted these forms de facto.

As security risks and the practical constraints of physical coinage mounted, banks emerged to warehouse specie and issue redeemable certificates. These certificates evolved into fiduciary media—claims on specie not actually in hand. Banks observed over time that substantial portions of reserves remained unclaimed for years. This enabled fractional reserve banking: issuing more claims than reserves held, so long as redemption demand stayed low. The practice was inherently unstable, prone to panics and bank runs, prompting eventual centralization through the formation of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

Following the Civil War and unstable reinstatements of gold convertibility, the U.S. sought global monetary stability. After World War II, the Bretton Woods system formalized the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency. The dollar was nominally backed by gold, but most international dollars were held offshore and recycled into U.S. Treasuries. The Nixon Shock of 1971 eliminated the gold peg, converting the dollar into pure fiat. Yet offshore dollar demand remained, sustained by oil trade mandates and the unique role of Treasuries as global reserve assets.

II. The Structure of Fiduciary Media and Treasury Demand

Under this system, foreign trade surpluses with the U.S. generate excess dollars. These surplus dollars are parked in U.S. Treasuries, thereby recycling trade imbalances into U.S. fiscal liquidity. While technically loans to the U.S. government, these purchases act like interest-only transfers—governments receive yield, and the U.S. receives spendable liquidity without principal repayment due in the short term. Debt is perpetually rolled over, rarely extinguished.

This creates an illusion of global subsidy: U.S. deficits are financed via foreign capital inflows that, in practice, function more like financial tribute systems than conventional debt markets. The underlying asset—U.S. Treasury debt—functions as the base reserve asset of the dollar system, replacing gold in post-Bretton Woods monetary logic.

III. Emergence of Tether and the Parastatal Dollar

Tether (USDT), as a private issuer of dollar-denominated tokens, mimics key central bank behaviors while operating outside the regulatory perimeter. It mints tokens allegedly backed 1:1 by U.S. dollars or dollar-denominated securities (mostly Treasuries). These tokens circulate globally, often in jurisdictions with limited banking access, and increasingly serve as synthetic dollar substitutes.

If USDT gains dominance as the preferred medium of exchange—due to technological advantages, speed, programmability, or access—it displaces Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) not through devaluation, but through functional obsolescence. Gresham’s Law inverts: good money (more liquid, programmable, globally transferable USDT) displaces bad (FRNs) even if both maintain a nominal 1:1 parity.

Over time, this preference translates to a systemic demand shift. Actors increasingly use Tether instead of FRNs, especially in global commerce, digital marketplaces, or decentralized finance. Tether tokens effectively become shadow base money.

IV. Interaction with Commercial Banking and Redemption Mechanics

Under traditional fractional reserve systems, commercial banks issue loans denominated in U.S. dollars, expanding the money supply. When borrowers repay loans, this destroys the created dollars and contracts monetary elasticity. If borrowers repay in USDT instead of FRNs:

• Banks receive a non-Fed liability (USDT).
• USDT is not recognized as reserve-eligible within the Federal Reserve System.
• Banks must either redeem USDT for FRNs, or demand par-value conversion from Tether to settle reserve requirements and balance their books.

This places redemption pressure on Tether and threatens its 1:1 peg under stress. If redemption latency, friction, or cost arises, USDT’s equivalence to FRNs is compromised. Conversely, if banks are permitted or compelled to hold USDT as reserve or regulatory capital, Tether becomes a de facto reserve issuer.

In this scenario, banks may begin demanding loans in USDT, mirroring borrower behavior. For this to occur sustainably, banks must secure Tether liquidity. This creates two options: - Purchase USDT from Tether or on the secondary market, collateralized by existing fiat. - Borrow USDT directly from Tether, using bank-issued debt as collateral.

The latter mirrors Federal Reserve discount window operations. Tether becomes a lender of first resort, providing monetary elasticity to the banking system by creating new tokens against promissory assets—exactly how central banks function.

V. Structural Consequences: Parallel Central Banking

If Tether begins lending to commercial banks, issuing tokens backed by bank notes or collateralized debt obligations: - Tether controls the expansion of broad money through credit issuance. - Its balance sheet mimics a central bank, with Treasuries and bank debt as assets and tokens as liabilities. - It intermediates between sovereign debt and global liquidity demand, replacing the Federal Reserve’s open market operations with its own issuance-redemption cycles.

Simultaneously, if Tether purchases U.S. Treasuries with FRNs received through token issuance, it: - Supplies the Treasury with new liquidity (via bond purchases). - Collects yield on government debt. - Issues a parallel form of U.S. dollars that never require redemption—an interest-only loan to the U.S. government from a non-sovereign entity.

In this context, Tether performs monetary functions of both a central bank and a sovereign wealth fund, without political accountability or regulatory transparency.

VI. Endgame: Institutional Inversion and Fed Redundancy

This paradigm represents an institutional inversion:

• The Federal Reserve becomes a legacy issuer.
• Tether becomes the operational base money provider in both retail and interbank contexts.
• Treasuries remain the foundational reserve asset, but access to them is mediated by a private intermediary.
• The dollar persists, but its issuer changes. The State becomes a fiscal agent of a decentralized financial ecosystem, not its monetary sovereign.

Unless the Federal Reserve reasserts control—either by absorbing Tether, outlawing its instruments, or integrating its tokens into the reserve framework—it risks becoming irrelevant in the daily function of money.

Tether, in this configuration, is no longer a derivative of the dollar—it is the dollar, just one level removed from sovereign control. The future of monetary sovereignty under such a regime is post-national and platform-mediated.

@ d360efec:14907b5f

🚀📉 #BTC วิเคราะห์ H2! พุ่งชน 105K แล้วเจอแรงขาย... จับตา FVG 100.5K เป็นจุดวัดใจ! 👀📊

จากากรวิเคราะห์ทางเทคนิคสำหรับ #Bitcoin ในกรอบเวลา H2:

สัปดาห์ที่แล้ว #BTC ได้เบรคและพุ่งขึ้นอย่างแข็งแกร่งค่ะ 📈⚡ แต่เมื่อวันจันทร์ที่ผ่านมา ราคาได้ขึ้นไปชนแนวต้านบริเวณ 105,000 ดอลลาร์ แล้วเจอแรงขายย่อตัวลงมาตลอดทั้งวันค่ะ 🧱📉

ตอนนี้ ระดับที่น่าจับตาอย่างยิ่งคือโซน H4 FVG (Fair Value Gap ในกราฟ 4 ชั่วโมง) ที่ 100,500 ดอลลาร์ ค่ะ 🎯 (FVG คือโซนที่ราคาวิ่งผ่านไปเร็วๆ และมักเป็นบริเวณที่ราคามีโอกาสกลับมาทดสอบ/เติมเต็ม)

👇 โซน FVG ที่ 100.5K นี้ ยังคงเป็น Area of Interest ที่น่าสนใจสำหรับมองหาจังหวะ Long เพื่อลุ้นการขึ้นในคลื่นลูกถัดไปค่ะ!

🤔💡 อย่างไรก็ตาม การตัดสินใจเข้า Long หรือเทรดที่บริเวณนี้ ขึ้นอยู่กับว่าราคา แสดงปฏิกิริยาอย่างไรเมื่อมาถึงโซน 100.5K นี้ เพื่อยืนยันสัญญาณสำหรับการเคลื่อนไหวที่จะขึ้นสูงกว่าเดิมค่ะ!

เฝ้าดู Price Action ที่ระดับนี้อย่างใกล้ชิดนะคะ! 📍

BTC #Bitcoin #Crypto #คริปโต #TechnicalAnalysis #Trading #FVG #FairValueGap #PriceAction #MarketAnalysis #ลงทุนคริปโต #วิเคราะห์กราฟ #TradeSetup #ข่าวคริปโต #ตลาดคริปโต

@ c9badfea:610f861a

1. Install FUTO Keyboard (it's free and open source)
2. Launch the app, tap Switch Input Methods and select FUTO Keyboard
3. For voice input, choose FUTO Keyboard (needs mic permission) and grant permission While Using The App
4. Configure keyboard layouts under Languages & Models as needed

Adding Support for Non-English Languages

Voice Input

1. 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
2. Open FUTO Keyboard, go to Languages & Models, and import the downloaded model under Voice Input

Dictionaries

1. Get dictionary files from AOSP Dictionaries
2. Open FUTO Keyboard, navigate to Languages & Models, and import the dictionary under Dictionary

ℹ️ When typing, tap the microphone icon to use voice input

@ eabee230:17fc7576

⚖️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

@ 21335073:a244b1ad

Someone asked for my thoughts, so I’ll share them thoughtfully. I’m not here to dictate how to promote Nostr—I’m still learning about it myself. While I’m not new to Nostr, freedom tech is a newer space for me. I’m skilled at advocating for topics I deeply understand, but freedom tech isn’t my expertise, so take my words with a grain of salt. Nothing I say is set in stone.

Those who need Nostr the most are the ones most vulnerable to censorship on other platforms right now. Reaching them requires real-time awareness of global issues and the dynamic relationships between governments and tech providers, which can shift suddenly. Effective Nostr promoters must grasp this and adapt quickly.

The best messengers are people from or closely tied to these at-risk regions—those who truly understand the local political and cultural dynamics. They can connect with those in need when tensions rise. Ideal promoters are rational, trustworthy, passionate about Nostr, but above all, dedicated to amplifying people’s voices when it matters most.

Forget influencers, corporate-backed figures, or traditional online PR—it comes off as inauthentic, corny, desperate and forced. Nostr’s promotion should be grassroots and organic, driven by a few passionate individuals who believe in Nostr and the communities they serve.

The idea that “people won’t join Nostr due to lack of reach” is nonsense. Everyone knows X’s “reach” is mostly with bots. If humans want real conversations, Nostr is the place. X is great for propaganda, but Nostr is for the authentic voices of the people.

Those spreading Nostr must be so passionate they’re willing to onboard others, which is time-consuming but rewarding for the right person. They’ll need to make Nostr and onboarding a core part of who they are. I see no issue with that level of dedication. I’ve been known to get that way myself at times. It’s fun for some folks.

With love, I suggest not adding Bitcoin promotion with Nostr outreach. Zaps already integrate that element naturally. (Still promote within the Bitcoin ecosystem, but this is about reaching vulnerable voices who needed Nostr yesterday.)

To promote Nostr, forget conventional strategies. “Influencers” aren’t the answer. “Influencers” are not the future. A trusted local community member has real influence—reach them. Connect with people seeking Nostr’s benefits but lacking the technical language to express it. This means some in the Nostr community might need to step outside of the Bitcoin bubble, which is uncomfortable but necessary. Thank you in advance to those who are willing to do that.

I don’t know who is paid to promote Nostr, if anyone. This piece isn’t shade. But it’s exhausting to see innocent voices globally silenced on corporate platforms like X while Nostr exists. Last night, I wondered: how many more voices must be censored before the Nostr community gets uncomfortable and thinks creatively to reach the vulnerable?

A warning: the global need for censorship-resistant social media is undeniable. If Nostr doesn’t make itself known, something else will fill that void. Let’s start this conversation.

@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1

Past 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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You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier

Reading Jaron Lanier’s 2010 You Are Not A Gadget in 2023 is an interesting experience—equal parts withering, prophetic, and heretical clarion call warning from a high priest of the Technocracy and rambling, musing, cognitive jam session from a technofied musician-philosopher.

Yet, in ways that I think the author would be simultaneously pleased, amused, saddened, and disturbed by, the 13 yeas since the book’s publishing have, in places, proven him right with stunning foresight and precision, and in others, made his ideas appear laughable, bizarre, even naive. The book is written in five parts, yet I would suggest viewing it as two discrete elements—Part One (around the first half of the book) and…everything else.

For context, Lanier, is a computer scientist and early technologist from the area of Jobs, Wozniak, and Gates, and is considered to be a founding father of virtual reality. He is also a consummate contrarian, a player of rare and obscure musical instruments, a deep interdisciplinary thinker…and a white man with dreadlocks named Jaron.

PART ONE

Part One of the book “What is a Person?” reads like a scathing and clear-eye manifesto—where Lanier is batting 1000, merciless in his rightness. Were one to pull a passage that speaks to the soul of this portion of the book, it might be the following: “The net does not design itself. We design it.”

Lanier terms the prevailing technocratic ideology—the particular winning tech-nerd subculture that has now come to capture our society—as “the cybernetic totalist” or “digital Maoists.” Essentially a materialist and stealth collectivist movement in new-age technocratic dress, that through its successes, and now excesses, represents much the same of religion that it’s founders would have claimed to be “evolving past.”

Lanier points out that in this, we are simply trading the pursuit of finding God in spirituality or the afterlife, for a notion of digital immortality—seeking, or, if possible, becoming, God in the cloud. He aptly identifies that this worldview requires that society, and all human interactions really, be savagely bent into adherence to this new religion of aggregation that demands deification of data, gross diminishment of the individual, and belief in some objective (but never defined) "meaning" that exists beyond and apart from the human observer.

With skill and simple wit, he raises strong, rational counterpoint to the digital Maoists’ obsession with quantity, data in aggregate and at-scale, as society's prime directive “A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity […] turns into quality at some extreme scale […] I disagree. A trope in the early days or computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.”

Lanier is able to envision the digital cages that likes of Facebook, Youtube, social-media dating apps would become for the internet native generations. Of whom he writes “The most effective young Facebook users […] are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves,” and “If you start out by being fake, you’ll eventually have to put in twice the effort to undo the illusion if anything good is to come of it.”

Lanier’s 2010 criticism of Wikipedia-ism is now double or triply apropos in our current hype cycle of “AI magic” and Everything-GPT, “Wikipedia, for instance, works on what I can the Oracle Illusion, in which knowledge of human authorship of a text is suppressed in order to give the text superhuman validity. Traditional holy books work in precisely the same way and present many of the same problems.” This same deep truth now sits at the heart of every “new” creation churned out by the flavor-of-the-week, plagiarism-at-scale, generative AI tool.

More darkly, he is also able to foresee the spectre of a return to collectivism lurking both at the core and on the margins of our new digital age—“The recipe that led to social catastrophe in the past was economic humiliation combined with collectivist ideology. We already have the ideology in its new digital packaging, and it’s entirely possible we could face dangerously traumatic economic shock in the coming decades.”—“No Shit” said everyone who lived through 2020-2022…

This brings us, eerily, to the world of today. Where aggregate insights are upheld as more valuable than discrete insights. Where crowds are are assumed to have more wisdom than individuals. Where truth is twisted into a might-is-right numbers game. A world ruled by the idea that if we can just centralize enough information and sufficiently pulverize authorship, the result will, necessarily, be something super-intelligent, "alive," and perhaps even divine.

In short, the cybernetic totalists and digital Maoists, having killed reason, now sit on its corpse like a thrown, smearing its blood on the walls in the name of art and reading its still-steaming entrails for prophecy.

If I were to infer some ideological takeaway from Part One of the book, it might be that Lanier seems to axiomatically reject any affirmative implication of the Turing Test. Simply put, he believes that bits are not and cannot ever be alive independent of the human-as-oracle. Further, there is no objective meaning beyond the human observer—in fact, that observer fundamentally creates any meaning there is to be had. This is best illustrated by one of the most powerful passages in the book:

“But the Turing Test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standard of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you’ve let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?”

Ponder this well, Anon.

EVERYTHING ELSE

With all of the great stuff above out of the way, we must turn to…the rest of the book. Parts Two through Five breakdown into something more like a stream of consciousness. And while there are certainly many nuggets to insight and beauty to be found, the book becomes largely dis-coherent and very difficult to read. That said, the remainder of the book does contain three particularly compelling threads that I find to be worth pulling on.

Internet Attribution First, are Lanier’s musing about money and attribution in our authorless “information wants to be free” world. He laments the infinite elevation of advertising and offers harsh critique to the concept of attention as the new currency—as this tends to overwhelmingly reward the aggregator and a piddling few soulless super-influencers at the expense of all other users and creators.

Interestingly, under the guise of “what could have been” he imagines a world where attribution is tracked across the web (though how this achieved is left unanswered) and royalty payments can flow back to the author seamlessly over the internet. I find his vision to be intriguing because in 2010, we lacked the technology to either track attribution across the web or facilitate seamless micropayment royalties based on access / usage.

While we still don't have the ability to achieve the type of fully-tracked, always-on attribution Lanier imagines, we do now have the ability to stream payments across the internet with bitcoin and the lightning network. While Lanier can be excused for not mentioning the then uber-nascent bitcoin in 2010, bitcoin’s development since only goes to underscore the prescience of Lanier’s imagination.

The bigger question that now remains, especially in the face of the advent of “AI,” is whether such a system to manage and therefore enforce attribution globally on the internet would even be a good thing. Where obscured attribution enables mashed-up plagiarism-at-scale, centrally enforced attribution can just as easily enable idea, content, discovery, and innovation suppression-at-scale.

Music in the New Age Second, much of the book, particularly in the second half, is filtered through the lens and language of music. Music is essential to Lanier’s inner life and it is clear that he views music as an emergent mystery force attributable to something unknowable, if not divine, and entirely unique to the human experience.

He bemoans the music of the 2000s as lacking in any distinct chronological era sound—everything is either a rehashed mashup or digitally lofi-ed emulation of sounds from previous begone eras—it is music that is impossible to place. To him, it is as though musical evolution stopped right around the time of the advent of the internet…and then folded back in on itself, creating an endless kaleidoscoping of what came before but rarely, if ever, the creation anything truly new.

In response, Lanier goes so far as to imagine the ridiculous (my take, not his) world of “Songles”—songs on dongles—essentially physical music NFTs. In Songleland, listening to the hottest tracks at a party hinges on the guy or gal with the dankest songles swinging through and plugging them into the Songle player. And songles, being scarce, even become speculative investments. On this, Lanier manages to be both right and wrong in only the most spectacularly absurd of ways.

But what Lanier really laments is the passing of popular music as a shared cultural experience at national or even global scale. During Lanier’s coming of age through the 1960-80s—with only a few consolidated channels for music distribution, it was truly impossible to escape the sounds and influence of the Beatles or Prince or Micheal Jackson—everyone heard it and even the deaf still felt it.

In the end, Lanier could image Songles but he couldn’t envision what Spotify would become—a conduit to shatter music distribution into a myriad of tiny longtails—providing infinitely fragmented and individually fine-tuned music experiences rather than large and cohesive cultural moments. However, even in this miss, Lanier is largely able to project what Spotify-ed music would resolve to—music designed as much or more to please the self-referential selection algorithm than any real, human listeners. A dangerously foretelling insight that goes well beyond music as AI tools are posed to become the "googling" of the next technological cycle—what happens to information, to human thought, when the majority of "generative AI" outputs are just the machine referencing itself?

Digital Neoteny The final thread to pull is that of "digital neoteny," the retention of juvenile behaviors in adult form, in this case, a neoteny of the mind if you will. Lanier sees the internet as specifically primed to propagate three kinds of neoteny in digital-native humans— a blissful and curious Bachelardian neoteny (as in Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Reverie); a cruel and mob-like Goldingesque neoteny (as in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies); and a general and deeply pervasive, infantile neoteny.

Neoteny of the Bachelardian variety, which Lanier likens to “the sense of wonder and weirdness that a teen can find in the unfolding world,” is what he feels the internet has provided in a few brief and magical moments generally aligned with the “early days” of successive internet technologies, movements, and companies—through this generally degrades into Goldingesque neoteny as novelty gives way to ossification.

Lanier’s missives on Bachelardian neoteny feel especially pertinent to the present state of Nostr (where I am publishing this writing). Nostr is in a moment where winner-take all dynamics and corporatization have yet to take hold. Child-like revelry abounds with each new discovery or novel Nostr client development so much so that the likes of Jack Dorsey compare it to the excitement of the early internet.

But with time, if and as the Nostr protocol wins, to what extent will technical lock-in take hold here? To what extent will calcification of seemingly trivial or even comical decisions being made by client devs today have dramatic implications on the feasibility of other development in the future? And will we early Nostr users, at some point put down welcoming inclusivesness for insular tribalism—and in what ways might we be doing this already?

Finally, to the third kind of neoteny, Infantile neoteny—which perhaps incapsulates the internet even more so than either of the other two types—Lanier sees the net driving an evermore prolonged deferral of maturity, resulting ultimately in some centrally-managed permanent arresting of society in a stupefied and juvenile mental state:

“Some of the greatest speculative investments in human history continue to converge on Silicon Valley schemes that seemed to have been named by Dr. Seuss. On any given day, one might hear of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars flowing to a start-up company named Ublibudly or MeTickly. These are names I just made up, but they would make great venture capital bait if they existed. At these companies one finds rooms full of MIT PhD engineers not seeking cancer cures or sources of safe drinking water for the underdeveloped world but schemes to send little digital pictures of teddy bears and dragons between adult members of social networks. At the end of the road of the pursuit of technological sophistication appears to lie a playhouse in which humankind regresses to nursery school.”

The popular culture of the early 2020s—with it’s NFT Monke JPEGs, silent and masked TikTok dancing in the drab aisles of crumbling department stores, and rampant peer-pressured social-media virtue-signaling and paternalism—could scarcely be described in any more stark and specific detail. That such could be seen so vividly in 2010 is as masterful as it is dishearteningly dark.

CONCLUSION

You Are Not A Gadget is a special thing, a strange beast—as lucid in its first half as it is jumbled, meandering, and even nonsensical in its second half. And while the discerning reader might judge the book harshly for these structural failings, I doubt the author would care, he might even welcome it. Lanier’s apparent purpose in writing is to share his mind rather than please the reader in any particular regard. The sufficiently curious reader, one who is willing to engage with the book’s content, for whatever the book’s faults may be, finds a king’s randoms of wisdom, insight, and uncanny foresight.

In closing, it seems fitting to recall one of Lanier’s earliest warnings in the book, “Maybe if people pretend they are not conscious or do not have free will […] then perhaps we have the power to make it so. We might be able to collectively achieve antimagic.” 13 years on, this feels more pressing and urgent and true than ever. (Rating: 4/5🐙)

~Moon

Buy the Book: You Are Not A Gadget

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Past 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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Chef's notes

Lovely tart rhubarb jam with the extra firey kick of fresh root ginger.

Technically a vegetable rhubarb has low pectin content so be sure to include a high pectin fruit such as lemon/cooking apple/redcurrant/gooseberry. It also quite watery so we use a slightly higher fruit to sugar ratio (1.2:1) and evaporate off some water at the beginning.

Testing for setting point: put a saucer in the freezer to chill whilst cooking the fruit, after 5 mins of a high boil with the sugar put a small blob of jam on the cold saucer and return to the freezer for 2 minutes. If the jam forms a solid wrinkle when pushed with a spoon it is ready, if it is runny continue cooking and retest every 5 mins

The recipe can be halved for a small batch but if you have lots of rhubarb to process it is better to cook double batches in separate pans because it will take much longer to heat through, this affects the colour and flavour - the jam will taste warm and mellow rather than zingy

Sterilise glass jars in a 120c oven and pot the jam hot leaving 1/4 inch head space, it will keep for 5 years unopened if the lids are well sealed and does not require water bath canning

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 20 mins
• 🍳 Cook time: 30 mins
• 🍽️ Servings: 6 (jars)

Ingredients

• 1.2kg Rhubarb
• 200g Grated Root Ginger
• 100g Chopped Crystalised Ginger
• 1kg Sugar
• 1 Lemon

Directions

1. Chop the rhubarb into 1/2 inch pieces, peel and finely grate the fresh root ginger, chop crystalised ginger into tiny bits. Juice and quarter a lemon (discard pips) and add all these to a pan with a small amount of water
2. Simmer gently for 20 mins until the lemon and rhubarb are soft then add the sugar, stir until fully dissolved
3. Boil on high to reach setting point, usually at 105 degrees c or when a small blob of jam wrinkles on a cold plate instead of being runny
4. Remove the lemon pieces and pot into sterilised jars

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Information 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]

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Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.

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Finale: 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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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.

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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?

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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.

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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

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Learn more about the am dash

https://www.theamdash.com

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originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/976218

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Silver Palace, developed by Silver Studio and published by Elementa, a fantasy adventure action RPG, built with Unreal Engine 5, was announced along with a 10-minute long gameplay video showcasing the game in what appears to be a pre-beta state.

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Find more information about the game from the game's website.

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Consider 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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Disclaimer: * การวิเคราะห์นี้เป็นเพียงแนวทาง ไม่ใช่คำแนะนำในการซื้อขาย * การลงทุนมีความเสี่ยง ผู้ลงทุนควรตัดสินใจด้วยตนเอง

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Introduction

Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is a powerful open protocol built on Nostr that enables a connection between Bitcoin Lightning wallets and applications—offering strong privacy, user control, easy connection, open interoperability, and support for a wide range of use cases without needing port forwarding or other network configuration. It allows a user to use many different Lightning apps with their own Lightning node via NWC.

In this post, we’ll give an overview of NWC as well as how to use a home-hosted LNbits instance as a private funding source for a public LNbits instance—giving you the benefits of privacy, control, and simplicity, to unleash the full power of LNbits.

Why Self-host with NWC?

• Privacy: Keep your Lightning node and LNbits instance at home, within your own network.
• Ownership & Control: Retain full custody of your funds, with no third-parties.
• Security: No port forwarding or VPN required—your node is not accessible from the public internet.
• Simplicity: Easy to set up and maintain.
• Flexible Funding: Fund your clearnet LNbits with any NWC-capable service—including your own LNbits instance, Alby, Minibits, Coinos, and more.
• App Access: Use LNbits at home as a Lightning wallet for one of the many NWC compatible apps.

How It Works

Your home Lightning node (running Raspiblitz, Umbrel, Start9, MyNode or one of the many other node packages) runs LNbits. You enable the NWCProvider extension in LNbits and generate a connection string.

On your clearnet LNbits instance (hosted with the LNbits SaaS or on your own VPS), set this connection string as your funding source.

This lets you:

• Fund and use LNbits from anywhere
• Keep your node private
• Add or change funding sources at any time with minimal config

How To Set It Up

1. Install LNbits at Home

Use a Raspiblitz, MyNode, Umbrel or other node package to run your home LNbits instance. You can also build your own node with Phoenixd and LNbits or any other combination of LNbits and Lightning node software.

• Enable the NWCProvider extension

• Create a new NWC connection

• Copy the NWC connection string

2. Provision a Clearnet LNbits Instance

Use:

• LNbits SaaS
• Your own VPS on a VPS provider like Vultr, Linode, AWC EC2 and install LNbits

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3. Connect via NWC

On your clearnet LNbits instance:

• Go to Settings → Funding

• Select "Nostr Wallet Connect"

• Paste your copied NWC connection string

• Click Save, then Restart Server

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Done! 🎉 Your clearnet LNbits instance is now funded by your home Lightning node—no open ports, no VPN, no fuss.

Home Nodes

You can use this setup with any LNbits-compatible home Lightning node, including:

• Raspiblitz
• Start9
• Umbrel
• MyNode
• Your own home server box with LNbits plus any other Lightning funding source for example Phoenixd, Core-Lightning, LND, etc.

Try it Out

Want to try this yourself?

• 🧠 Enjoy control, privacy, and simplicity
• 🌍 Use LNbits on the clearnet with funding from your own node
• 🔌 Connect apps like Alby, Minibits, Coinos, or your own LNbits

🚀 Run LNbits

Start exploring the power of NWC and LNbits today:

• 🌐 Use the LNbits SaaS
• 🧰 Self-host
• 💬 Join the LNbits community on Telegram

NWC Apps

Here are some great apps that make use of NWC.

• Alby Go
• A lightning wallet that uses one or many NWC providers to make and receive lightning payments
• Damus
• Decentralised social app on Nostr
• Amethyst
• Android Nostr social media client client
• Clean interface, popular among mobile users
• Snort
• Web-based Nostr client
• Familiar UI, easy access via browser
• Stacker News
• Bitcoin-centric news/discussion site
• Earn sats via upvotes
• Zeus
• Mobile app for controlling your own Lightning node
• Favoured by self-custody and privacy-focused users

Resources

• 🔗 Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC)
• ☁️ LNbits SaaS
• 🛠️ LNbits GitHub
• 📘 Phoenixd on GitHub
• 💬 Telegram Community

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A Realidade por Trás dos Números

Padrão de Desagregação Familiar

• Países como Brasil (~55%) e Venezuela (~65%) apresentam não apenas altos índices de mães solo, mas também contextos de violência descontrolada.
• A desagregação da família nuclear tradicional não é causa única, mas é fator agravante quando associada à instabilidade cultural, abandono paterno e permissividade institucional.
• Homens ausentes e baixa exigência de responsabilidade paterna geram ciclos de pobreza, violência e ressentimento intergeracional.

Cultura da Irresponsabilidade

• Em muitos contextos, a paternidade é tratada como um ato opcional. A ausência de consequências legais, sociais e morais para o abandono paterno normaliza o ciclo de mães solteiras.
• Políticas públicas mal calibradas muitas vezes premiam o fracasso familiar com benefícios, sem exigir contrapartidas.

Inversão de Valores

• A valorização de comportamentos hedonistas, imediatistas e instáveis, promovidos culturalmente, mina qualquer tentativa de reconstrução familiar sólida.
• Em muitos casos, a maternidade é enfrentada sem planejamento ou estrutura mínima, gerando famílias instáveis e frágeis, mais propensas à violência e vulnerabilidade social.

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Recomendações Realistas e Não Assistencialistas

Reforço da Responsabilidade Paterna

• Criar mecanismos legais mais rigorosos e efetivos de responsabilização civil e criminal para pais ausentes.
• Estimular socialmente o resgate do papel paterno, valorizando não apenas a presença física, mas o compromisso emocional e financeiro.

Incentivo à Formação Familiar Estável

• Reformar o currículo escolar para incluir educação sobre vínculos afetivos, responsabilidade conjugal e parentalidade realista.
• Desestimular a glamorização de estruturas familiares instáveis, combatendo a ideia de que qualquer forma familiar é igualmente funcional sob qualquer condição.

Cultura da Autossuficiência e Planejamento

• Substituir políticas puramente assistenciais por programas de incentivo ao planejamento familiar e responsabilidade pessoal, com foco na autonomia financeira e educacional antes da maternidade/paternidade.
• Campanhas públicas de conscientização sobre os impactos reais da desestrutura familiar na violência social e no desenvolvimento infantil.

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O aumento da violência em países com alta proporção de mães solteiras não é uma coincidência, mas uma consequência de fatores culturais e sociais profundamente negligenciados.

Reverter esse cenário não exige mais Estado, mas sim mais responsabilidade individual, mais cobrança social e menos permissividade institucional. Qualquer solução duradoura passa por restaurar o valor da família como núcleo formador de caráter e estabilidade, não apenas como estatística para justificar políticas públicas.

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Safe 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!

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Wie fühlst Du dich, nachdem Du mit deinem Partner oder deiner Partnerin, oder sonst einem Menschen geschlafen hast – nachdem der Drang und die Erregung ein Ende gefunden haben? Gut – oder schlecht? Befriedigt – oder unbefriedigt? Verbunden – oder getrennt? Erfüllt – oder leer? Was geht dir durch den Kopf? Warum überhaupt geht dir irgendetwas durch den Kopf? Warum bleibst Du dich nicht in deinem Körper – in seiner noch anhaltenden Nähe zu dem Körper, mit dem Du gerade noch eins warst? Vielleicht weil Du dich davon ablenken möchtest, dass ihr gerade dies nicht wart? Dass ihr nicht «eins» wart; sondern zwei, die für einen Moment Druck abgelassen haben – ohne höheren Sinn und ohne tieferes Gefühl? Ist das der Grund, weswegen Du lieber in die Verklärungen deines Verstandes abdriftest, anstatt die gerade erlebte Verbindung noch etwas in deinem Körper nachklingen zu lassen? Ist das allgemein der Grund, weswegen Du lieber in Rationalitäten lebst? Um dir nicht eingestehen zu müssen, wie unverbunden Du wirklich bist? Wie unverbunden und allein, ohne tiefere Verbindung zu dir oder einem anderen Menschen? Ist es das? Ist es das, was Du einfach nicht wahrhaben kannst? Und weswegen Du lieber die Masse an Oberflächlichkeit suchst, um bloß nie in einer Beziehung zu enden, in der Du an deine eigene Unfähigkeit erinnert wirst, gerade dies zu sein – in Beziehung?

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Vielleicht beginnt alle Trennung dieser Welt mit der Verwechslung von Sex und Nähe, Nähe und Liebe, als auch Liebe und Frieden. Du sehnst dich nach dem einen und jagst doch dem anderen hinterher. Wie kann das sein?

Liegt es daran, dass Du als Kind keine stabilen Beziehungen erfahren hast und diese aus dem Grund auch im Erwachsenenalter nicht leben kannst? Hast Du einst schlechte Erfahrungen mit Intimität und Nähe gemacht, aufgrund derer etwas in dir diese fortwährend verhindert, um dich zu «schützen»? Hältst Du dich selbst für nicht liebenswert und kannst deshalb auch im Außen keine Liebe annehmen? Oder hast Du Angst davor, durch die Nähe und Berührung eines anderen Menschen von etwas in dir selbst berührt zu werden, an dessen Existenz Du nicht erinnert werden möchtest?

Falls ja, warum gehst Du dann fortwährend «Beziehungen» zu anderen Menschen ein, bevor Du nicht die Beziehung zu dir selbst geklärt hast? Hast Du wirklich so sehr verlernt zu lieben und so weit vergessen, was Liebe ist, dass Du dich damit zufriedengibst? Ich glaube kaum. Und ich glaube, Du spürst das auch. Ganz tief in dir sehnt auch deine Seele sich nach einer Begegnung, in der Du nichts von dir zurückhalten musst. In der Du ganz, und damit ganz Du sein kannst.

Doch was machst Du stattdessen? Du unterdrückst diese Sehnsucht, verneinst deinen innersten Herzenswunsch nach Berührung, nach Nähe, nach Liebe. Und damit auch jedes Bedürfnis, was mit seinem ausbleibenden Ausdruck ebenfalls unterdrückt wird. Langsam, ganz langsam hörst Du auf, über deine Gefühle zu sprechen, Du hörst auf, deine Grenzen zu wahren, das zu machen, was dich dir selbst näherbringt. Auf diese Weise machst Du dich selbst nicht nur immer kleiner, Du entfernst dich auch zusehends von deiner eigenen Lebendigkeit – dem eigentlichen Schlüssel zu jeder Beziehung, die nicht von Besitz und Lustbefriedigung, sondern von Selbstsein und Nähe getragen wird.

Falsche Versprechen: Verbindung statt Symbiose

Erich Fromm war es, der mit seinem 1956 erschienenen und insgesamt über 25 Millionen Mal verkauften Werk «Die Kunst des Liebens» erstmals herausgearbeitet hat, wie zerstörerisch unsere moderne Konsumgesellschaft doch für die Art und Weise ist, wie wir Beziehungen eingehen. Nicht nur die untereinander und zu uns selbst, sondern auch die zu Tier und Natur. Liebe, so schreibt Fromm, ist allem voran eine Haltung des Seins, nicht des Habens. Es gehe nicht darum, den anderen zu besitzen oder von ihm in Besitz genommen zu werden. Nicht Verschmelzung sei das Ziel, sondern das Selbstsein mit, oder auch trotz, der anderen Person.

Ohne dieses Selbstsein, das durch den modernen Glauben, alles sei käuflich, insofern untergraben wurde, dass nun auch der Mensch und seine Beziehungen als Objekte betrachtet würden, gäbe es laut Fromm keine Nähe – und ohne Nähe keinen wahren Frieden. «Sexualität», so schreibt er, könne «ein Mittel sein, um die Isolation zu überwinden – aber sie kann auch ein Ersatz für Liebe sein.» Womit ich hinzufügen würde: Wie Sexualität ein Ersatz für Liebe sein kann, so werden heute Konsum, Sicherheit und Ablenkung zum Ersatz für wahren Frieden. Und gleich wie Nähe zur Illusion von Intimität werden kann, werden falsche Sicherheitsversprechen oft zur Maskerade des Friedens – einer Stille, die nichts heilt.

Das ist der Zustand unserer Zeit: Sexualität ersetzt Liebe, Waffen ersetzen Frieden. Doch genauso wie Sex in Wahrheit keine Liebe ersetzt, ersetzt auch ein Wettrüsten keinen Frieden. Beides täuscht Nähe und Sicherheit vor, wo eigentlich Distanz und Kälte herrschen. Von ihnen eingenommen, hältst Du die Liebe, die dein Körper imitiert, für echt, und die äußere Ordnung, die dir simuliert wird, für den Frieden, von dem Du glauben, Du würdest ihn in dir tragen. Dabei bleibt beides leer, wenn dein Herz nicht mitgeht. Da ist weder Ordnung im Außen, noch Frieden in deinem Innern. Was herrscht, ist Krieg. Innen wie außen.

Wut im Innern, Krieg im Außen

Wer Nähe meidet, verlernt Frieden. Denn Frieden beginnt dort, wo Du aushältst, was ist. Nicht im Politischen, sondern in deiner eigenen Gerichtskammer: dem Austarieren und Verhandeln der eigenen Gefühle und Bedürfnisse – dem Eingeständnis, dass am Ende nicht der Sex das Problem ist, sondern dein Umgang mit Nähe; deine Unfähigkeit, mit dir selbst in Frieden zu sein – und dies darum auch mit dem Rest der Welt nicht bist. Nenn’ es Karma, das Gesetz der Anziehung oder eine traumatische Rückkopplungsschleife; aber wo immer Du diesen Blick nicht vom Außen zurück auf das Minenfeld in dir wendest, wird sich sein Krieg solange fortsetzen, bis Du der Wut, die mit ihm in dir hochkocht, Dampf verschaffst. Ob auf konstruktive oder destruktive Weise hängt davon ab, wie früh Du sie als das erkennst, woraus sie sich speist: deine unterdrückten Gefühle.

«Das grundsätzliche Ausweichen vor dem Wesentlichen ist das Problem des Menschen.» – Wilhelm Reich

In dieser Hinsicht noch radikaler als Fromm ging Wilhelm Reich vor. Als Schüler Sigmund Freuds sah er sexuelle Unterdrückung als Wurzel aller gesellschaftlichen Gewalt. Nur wer sexuell befreit sei – im Sinne von energetisch gelöst und beziehungsfähig – könne inneren Frieden erfahren. Ginge es nach Reich, so hängt gesellschaftlicher Frieden unmittelbar davon ab, wie weit es uns gelingt, uns körperlich zu entpanzern und emotional zu öffnen. Womit sein Ansatz in der Idee gipfelte, dass die gesellschaftliche Ordnung nicht durch äußere Gesetze, sondern durch die innere Struktur des Einzelnen geprägt wird. Diametral zu Marx, demzufolge es nicht das Bewusstsein der Menschen sei, das ihr Sein bestimmt, sondern umgekehrt ihr gesellschaftliches Sein, das ihr Bewusstsein bestimmt, beschrieb Reich also, wie emotionale Blockaden im Körper verankert seien und sich dort als chronische Spannungen manifestierten. Diese Panzerungen würden nicht nur freie Gefühlsäußerung verhindern, sondern stauten auch lebendige Energie an, was zu Aggression, Entfremdung und letztlich zu kollektiver Gewalt führen könne. Frieden, so Reich, beginne nicht in politischen Institutionen, sondern in der Fähigkeit des Einzelnen, Angst und Abwehr abzubauen, sich selbst zu spüren – und andere nicht als Bedrohung, sondern als lebendige Gegenüber wahrzunehmen.

Warum wir dies scheinbar nicht mehr können, warum aber kein Weg daran vorbeiführt, über den Frieden in uns heilsame Beziehungen einzugehen, wollen wir den Frieden auch außerhalb von uns – in der Welt, folgt im zweiten Teil dieses Texts.

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Lilly Gebert betreibt den Substack-Blog "Treffpunkt im Unendlichen" und schreibt regelmäßig für "die Freien" und Manova. Zuletzt erschien von ihr "Das Gewicht der Welt". Im Herbst erscheint "Sein statt Haben. Enzyklopädie für eine neue Zeit." (vorbestellbar).

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Welcome 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.

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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 ![](https://m.stacker.news/71417)

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!

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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

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Recht gilt als Fundament für Frieden. So predigen es die Lehrer in der Schule und die Professoren an den Universitäten. Mit der – theoretischen – Funktionsweise von Gerichten und deren Streitschlichtungsfunktion wird die Notwendigkeit und Verträglichkeit eines staatlichen Gewaltmonopols hergeleitet. Die Behauptung: Ohne staatliches Recht herrsche Chaos, das Recht des Stärkeren. Das Gedankenspiel des fiktiven Naturzustands, mit dem Hobbes bereits seinen übergriffigen Leviathan rechtfertigen konnte, überzeugt die meisten.

Mit Recht?

Larken Roses Kritik am Gewaltmonopol

Der libertäre Denker Larken Rose („The Most Dangerous Superstition“, deutscher Titel: „Die gefährlichste aller Religionen“, 2018) hält dagegen. Er argumentiert, staatliches Recht sei Ausdruck von Autorität und Zwang und institutionalisiere damit Gewalt. Und in der Tat: Der Staat nimmt für sich kein Friedensmonopol in Anspruch, sondern ein Gewaltmonopol.

Rose verdeutlicht, dass staatliches Recht auf Zwang basiert: Gesetze und Verordnungen können als Drohungen interpretiert werden, die mit Sanktionen, Strafen, Gefängnis oder mancherorts mit Todesstrafe durchgesetzt werden. Für Rose ist der Staat eine Gruppe von Räubern, denen durch den tief verwurzelten Glauben an Autoritäten ein legitimer Anstrich verpasst wird. Diese „Bande“ schaffe ständig Konflikte, etwa durch inszenierte Gefahren, aber auch durch Gesetze. So seien Steuergesetze seiner Meinung nach „legitimierter Raub“, die Widerstand provozieren und damit Unfrieden. Politiker würden sich nach Belieben eigene Regeln schaffen und selbst bestimmen, was gut und was schlecht sei.

Steigt Ihnen angesichts solcher Behauptungen bereits die Röte der Empörung ins Gesicht?

Doch können Sie ihm widersprechen? Können Sie leugnen, dass staatliche Gewalt von Politikern, Apparatschiks und Staatslenkern zum eignen Vorteil eingesetzt wird? Und müssen nicht auch Sie eingestehen, dass daraus Konflikte und Unfrieden entstehen? Hat Rose also Recht?

Rechtsstaatliche Defizite in Deutschland

Um solchen Missbrauch des Gewaltmonopols zu verhindern, gibt es die Gewaltenteilung: die Aufteilung staatlicher Macht in Legislative, Exekutive und Judikative sind Grundpfeiler der Demokratie, in Deutschland verankert im Grundgesetz. Damit diese Gewaltenteilung funktioniert, setzt sie unabhängige Institutionen voraus, insbesondere eine Trennung von der Politik. Haben wir diese in Deutschland?

Unsere Legislative leidet unter Koalitionsdisziplin und Fraktionszwang. Abgeordnete stimmen zu oft nach Parteilinie, nicht nach individuellem Gewissen. Unsere Judikative ist stark politisiert. So werden die Richter des Bundesverfassungsgerichts von einem Wahlausschuss gewählt, der aus Bundestags- und Bundesratsmitgliedern besteht, was eine Einladung für parteipolitische Deals ist – ganz zu schweigen davon, dass die Richter den Parteien oft eng verbunden sind bzw. oft selbst Politiker waren (siehe beispielhaft: Stephan Harbarth, Peter Müller, Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt) und von den regelmäßigen gemeinsamen Edeldiners zwischen Spitzen der Exekutive und der Judikative, die Sie und ich als Bürger zwar bezahlen aber nicht daran teilnehmen dürfen, ausgeschlossen werden, ganz zu schweigen. Besonders kritisch: Unsere Strafverfolgungsbehörden können durch die Weisungsgebundenheit der Staatsanwaltschaften politisch gesteuert werden. Dass der Verfolgungsdruck auf Regierungskritiker immer härter wird, ist mittlerweile offenkundig. Der Deutsche Richterbund forderte erst vor wenigen Tagen einen besseren Schutz der Justiz vor autoritären Kräften. Und auch bei der Exekutive sind die Mängel offensichtlich: So sollen die Behörden eigentlich die Gesetze ausführen, aber diese Anwendung ist allzu oft selektiv und interessengeleitet. Sich daran zu gewöhnen, dass ehemalige Regierungsmitglieder in Führungspositionen von Unternehmen wechseln und damit Interessenkonflikte heraufbeschwören, ist ebenfalls ein Zeichen eines kranken Rechtsstaats.

Und wie sieht es international aus?

Internationale rechtsstaatliche Defizite

In meinem letzten hier veröffentlichten Beitrag beleuchtete ich den Papiertiger des praktisch in Stein gemeißelten völkerrechtlichen Gewaltverbots. Man beruft sich darauf, wenn es einem nützt, und ansonsten ignoriert man es oder bemüht umständliche Ausflüchte, warum es nicht greife. Ähnliches lässt sich beim Internationalen Strafgerichtshof beobachten: Die Staaten, die die heißesten Kandidaten für Kriegsverbrechen sind, werden gar nicht erst Mitglied, und die übrigen folgen seinen Regeln nur, wenn es opportun ist. So hat der IStGH zwar einen Haftbefehl gegen Benjamin Netanjahu erlassen, aber er kann unbeirrt nach Ungarn reisen, obwohl dieses hätte vollstrecken müssen. Es darf meiner Meinung nach aber auch stark bezweifelt werden, ob Deutschland einen Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu vollstrecken würde. Ein weiteres Beispiel völkerrechtswidrigen Handelns: Die Sanktionen gegen Russland.

Ganz unempört müssen wir leider feststellen: Unsere Schutzmechanismen, den Gewaltmissbrauch zu verhindern, sind mittlerweile arg durchlöchert und angeschlagen. Kann Larken Rose helfen?

Kann Larken Rose helfen?

Rose sieht Steuern als „legitimierten Raub“. In der Tat werden auch in Deutschland etwa die Abgaben für den  öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk falls nötig mittels Gerichtsvollziehern und Haft erzwungen. Ohne Frage handelt es sich dabei um Gewaltausübung, die konfliktträchtig ist. Doch der Staat legitimiert seine Gewaltausübung selbst. Polizeieinsätze gegen Kritiker der Corona-Maßnahmenpolitik erfolgten z.B. mittels grober Gewalt, nämlich Wasserwerfern und Pfefferspray gegen die Demonstranten. Auch der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte verurteilte Deutschland bereits mehrfach wegen übermäßiger Polizeigewalt. Das sind Beispiele für Roses Vorbringen, dass der Staat Gewalt institutionalisiert, um Gehorsam zu erzwingen – und das erzeugt und verschärft Spannungen und Konflikte.

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\ Rose betont, dass staatliches Recht immer auf Zwang basiert. In Deutschland führt die Nichtbeachtung von Gesetzen – etwa bei Verkehrsdelikten – zu Bußgeldern, Führerscheinentzug oder Haft. Im Völkerrecht erzwingen Sanktionen, wie die gegen Russland, wirtschaftlichen Druck, der für Rose ebenfalls Gewalt ist. Diese Mechanismen bestätigen seine Sicht, dass der Staat Gewalt als Standardwerkzeug nutzt.

Vielleicht hat Ihre eventuell aufgetretene Empörungsröte die Blässe einsichtiger Scham angenommen. Wenn ja, ist das nicht ganz unbegründet. Rose hat völlig Recht damit, dass die buchstäblich gewaltigen Möglichkeiten des Staates gefährlich sein können. Und er hat recht damit, dass blindes Vertrauen darauf, dass Autoritäten mit dieser Gewalt schon maß- und verantwortungsvoll umgehen werden, völlig fehl am Platze ist.

Und auch eine andere zentrale Frage ist gerechtfertigt: Wenn der Staat die Legitimation seiner Macht daraus bezieht, dass die Bürger ihm diese Macht übertragen, wie kann es dann sein, dass der Staat Macht ausübt, die ein einzelner Bürger weder jemals innehat noch innehatte? Ein Paradoxon.

Selbstverantwortung als Heilmittel für den Rechtsstaat

Rose setzt daher statt eines Staates auf Freiwilligkeit und Selbsteigentum. Er betont, dass „Menschlichkeit Freiwilligkeit bedeutet“. Jede Interaktion sollte auf gegenseitigem Einverständnis beruhen, ohne Zwang durch Gesetze oder staatliche Institutionen. Einen Impfzwang schlösse dies also aus. Aber auch einen Tötungszwang in Form eines Kriegsdienstes, bei uns verbal zum „Wehrdienst“ aufgehübscht. Jeder Mensch habe das Recht, über sein Leben, seinen Körper und sein Eigentum zu bestimmen, ohne dass eine „Autorität“ eingreift.

Das klingt gut, aber müsste dieses „Selbsteigentum“ nicht auch wieder durch ein irgendwie geartetes Rechtssystem abgesichert werden? Und besteht nicht die Gefahr, dass statt der Polizei dann ein privates Sicherheitsunternehmen ein neues Gewaltmonopol erschafft? Offensichtlich ist eine völlig widerspruchsfreie Antwort auf das rechtsstaatliche Dilemma nicht so leicht zu finden.

Rose fordert zudem, dass Menschen unmoralische Gesetze ignorieren und aktiv Widerstand leisten, von passivem Ungehorsam bis hin zu gewaltsamen Aktionen, je nach Unterdrückungsgrad. Er sieht dies als Mittel, um die Illusion der staatlichen „Autorität“ zu brechen und Gewalt zu reduzieren.

Bei einigen mag hier bereits wieder die Empörungsröte emporsteigen, aber vielleicht hilft dagegen die Vergegenwärtigung folgender Fragen: War der Widerstand eines Mahatma Gandhi dem Recht eher dienlich oder eher schädlich? Und war der mutige, aber rechtswidrige Ungehorsam Rosa Parks’ eher wünschenswert als nicht? Hat ihr Widerstand zu mehr oder weniger Freiheit beigetragen? Haben uns die rechtswidrigen Offenlegungen Edward Snowdens und Julian Assanges nicht die Augen geöffnet, welche Verbrechen durch demokratische Staaten begangen werden?

Und ist die von Larken Rose eingeforderte Selbstverantwortung und sein Aufruf, dem eigenen Gewissen zu folgen, anstatt „Autorität“ zu gehorchen, nicht genau das Antiserum gegen einen übergriffigen, ja diktatorischen Staat, wie etwa unter der Naziherrschaft?

Selbt als Jurist wird man Rose in vielen Punkten zustimmen müssen und einsehen, dass es in vielen Fällen der Glaube an die Autorität ist, der erst das monströse Unrecht ermöglicht, dessen Zeugen wir sind.

Ich selbst halte es für sehr zweifelhaft, ob man wie Rose daraus die Abschaffung des Staates herleiten kann oder muss.

Nicht zweifelhaft ist hingegen, dass wir eine Stärkung individueller Selbstverantwortung brauchen. Kein Warten auf einen Erlöser, auf eine Partei. Aus dieser Selbstverantwortung heraus folgt die Ausbesserung der gezeigten – auch bei uns vorhandenen – rechtsstaatlichen Defizite.

Recht ohne individuelle Selbstverantwortung führt unweigerlich zu den genannten rechtsstaatlichen Konflikten und damit zu Unfrieden und Gewalt. Recht mit Selbstverantwortung kann hingegen zu einem friedlichen Rechtssystem führen.

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Using form, color, typography, and art direction, designers create entire worlds around fragrance – translating scent into sight, touch, and story. But how do you design for something you cannot see? And can design help us smell what we see?

Does design have a smell? While sight, touch, and even taste have long been intertwined with aesthetics, scent remains a more elusive medium – intangible yet profoundly evocative. In a screen-based world, scent has to be seen before it’s smelled – meaning design does more heavy-lifting. Unlike the olden days of magazine inserts spritzed with perfume, scent no longer leads the experience. Instead, branding has to translate fragrance into something we can see, study, and feel. But how do you give form to the formless? Can design make us smell what we see?

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Nukleáris politika – 2025. május 12. | Szerző: David Dalton

Lengyelország és Franciaország nukleáris szerződést ír alá, Macron új építési szerződéseket céloz

Lengyelország és Franciaország olyan szerződést kötött, amely együttműködést irányoz elő a polgári nukleáris energia szektorban, miközben Párizs reménykedik abban, hogy Varsótól jövedelmező új atomerőmű-építési szerződéseket nyer el.

A szerződés közös tevékenységeket tartalmaz, amelyek célja a nukleáris energia előnyeinek kihasználása az európai ipar dekarbonizációja érdekében.

A két ország együtt kíván működni a nukleáris fűtőanyag-ellátás biztonságának megerősítésében is.

Európa szeretné kizárni Oroszországot a nukleáris fűtőanyag-piacáról, de az Euratom Ellátási Ügynökség (ESA) legfrissebb éves jelentése szerint 2023-ban nőtt az Oroszországból származó természetes urán szállítása, mivel az uniós szolgáltatók készleteket halmoztak fel az orosz tervezésű VVER atomerőművekhez.

Az ESA, amely az európai nukleáris anyagok rendszeres és méltányos ellátásáért felelős, közölte, hogy az uniós szolgáltatók tovább diverzifikálják nukleáris fűtőanyag-beszerzéseiket, különösen a VVER reaktorokhoz, hogy csökkentsék a „egy forrásból származó vagy magas kockázatú” ellátásoktól való függést.

„Majdnem minden olyan ország, amely orosz tervezésű reaktorokat üzemeltet, halad az alternatív fűtőanyagok engedélyeztetésében, és ígéretes fejlemények várhatók a közeljövőben” – közölte az ESA.

Az EU-ban jelenleg 19 VVER reaktor működik, köztük négy 1000 MW-os Bulgáriában és Csehországban, valamint tizenöt 440 MW-os Csehországban, Finnországban, Magyarországon és Szlovákiában.

A jelentések szerint a francia–lengyel nukleáris szerződés különösen fontos a francia állami EDF energetikai vállalat számára, amely még mindig reménykedik abban, hogy részt vehet Lengyelország ambiciózus atomerőmű-építési programjában, annak ellenére, hogy az első új építésű projekt tenderét az amerikai Westinghouse nyerte el Pomeránia északi tartományában.

Franciaország ambiciózus reaktorépítési tervei

Franciaország maga is nagyszabású nukleáris fejlesztési terveket dédelget: a kormány nemrégiben felkérte az EDF-et, hogy gyorsítsa fel a hat új generációs EPR2 atomerőmű megépítésének előkészítését.

Az EDF kezdetben három EPR2 párost tervez: az elsőt Penlyben, majd egyet-egyet a Gravelines-i atomerőmű telephelyén (Calais közelében), illetve vagy Bugey-ben (Lyon keleti részén), vagy Tricastinban (Lyon és Avignon közelében).

A nukleáris szerződés aláírását megelőzte egy másik szerződés is, amely a két szövetséges közötti kapcsolatok elmélyítését, valamint kölcsönös biztonsági garanciákat is tartalmaz háború esetére.

Donald Tusk lengyel miniszterelnök, aki Emmanuel Macron francia elnökkel együtt írta alá a biztonsági dokumentumot, „áttörésnek” nevezte a szerződést, kiemelve, hogy csak Németországnak van hasonló biztonsági paktuma Franciaországgal, és ez Lengyelországot „egyenrangú partnerként” helyezi nyugati szövetségesei közé.

Macron eközben úgy fogalmazott, hogy a szerződés „új korszakot nyit” nemcsak Lengyelország és Franciaország, hanem egész Európa számára. „Bresttől Krakkóig Európa együtt áll ki” – mondta a francia elnök.

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Nukleáris politika – 2025. május 12. | Szerző: David Dalton

Trump csapata a nukleáris erőművek építésének felgyorsítását tervezi

A Trump-adminisztráció tisztviselői végrehajtási rendeleteket készítenek elő, amelyek célja az atomerőművek jóváhagyásának és építésének felgyorsítása az Egyesült Államokban – számolt be róla a sajtó.

Az erőfeszítés, amelyet egy kormányzati tisztviselő és más, az egyeztetéseket ismerő személyek írtak le, még folyamatban van. Az elnök még nem hagyta jóvá a tervezetet – mondta az egyik forrás, aki névtelenséget kért, mivel hivatalos bejelentés még nem történt. Az amerikai Axios hírportál és a New York Times is beszámolt az egyeztetésekről.

Trump és kormányának tisztviselői többször hangsúlyozták a bőséges, olcsó villamos energia fontosságát az energiaigényes mesterséges intelligencia ipar számára, amely segítheti az Egyesült Államokat abban, hogy megnyerje a feltörekvő technológia globális versenyét.

„Meg kell nyernünk az MI-versenyt, és ebben vezetnünk kell – ehhez pedig sokkal több energiára lesz szükség” – mondta Chris Wright energiaügyi miniszter múlt hónapban egy kabinetülésen Trump társaságában.

Az elnök már hivatalosan is energia-vészhelyzetet hirdetett, nemzeti és gazdasági biztonsági szempontokra hivatkozva annak érdekében, hogy gyorsítsa az erőművek, csővezetékek és elektromos távvezetékek építését az országban.

A szóban forgó tervezetek célokat tűznének ki az atomerőművek gyors országos építésére, illetve az amerikai nukleáris ipar vezető szerepének visszaállítására.

Legalább az egyik intézkedés a Nukleáris Szabályozási Bizottságnál (NRC) vezetne be változtatásokat, amelyek gyorsíthatják az erőműtervek, köztük az új kis moduláris reaktorok (SMR-ek) engedélyezését.

Wright nemrégiben úgy nyilatkozott, hogy az új reaktorblokkok építésének legnagyobb akadálya az Egyesült Államokban a szabályozás volt.

Az elképzelés részeként akár katonai létesítményekre is telepíthetnek majd atomerőműveket, valószínűleg mikroreaktorok vagy SMR-ek formájában.

Jelenleg az Egyesült Államokban nincs kereskedelmi atomerőmű építés alatt. Az utolsó két üzembe helyezett blokk a georgiai Vogtle-3 és Vogtle-4 volt, 2023-ban és 2024-ben.

Előrehaladott tervek vannak a michigani Palisades atomerőmű újraindítására. Ha megvalósul, ez lenne az első olyan, korábban leállított amerikai atomerőmű, amely ismét működésbe lép.

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Új építések – 2025. május 12. | Szerző: David Dalton

Vietnam és Oroszország tárgyalásokat kezd atomerőmű-építésről

Vietnam és Oroszország megállapodott abban, hogy tárgyalásokat folytatnak és szerződéseket írnak alá kereskedelmi atomerőművek építéséről Vietnamban – közölték a két ország egy közös nyilatkozatban.

„Az erőművek fejlesztése korszerű technológiával szigorúan megfelel majd a nukleáris és sugárbiztonsági előírásoknak, és a társadalmi-gazdasági fejlődést szolgálja” – áll a közleményben, amely a vietnami vezető, To Lam moszkvai látogatása után jelent meg.

Az orosz állami atomenergetikai vállalat, a Roszatom szerint a látogatás „az együttműködés új szakaszát” jelenti – egy nagy atomerőmű építését Délkelet-Ázsiában.

A Roszatom felajánlotta Vietnámnak a VVER-1200 nyomottvizes reaktor technológiáját, amelyből kettő már működik az oroszországi Novovoronyezs 2 atomerőműben, és kettő Fehéroroszországban.

A Roszatom közölte, hogy további tárgyalásokra van szükség a vietnami atomerőmű műszaki és pénzügyi feltételeinek tisztázásához, de hozzátette: „ezek a tárgyalások ma [május 10-én] megkezdődtek”.

A Roszatom arról is beszámolt, hogy Alekszej Lihacsov vezérigazgató és Nguyen Manh Hung vietnami tudományos és technológiai miniszter aláírt egy nukleáris energia ütemtervet.

Az ütemterv tartalmazza egy nukleáris tudományos és technológiai központ lehetséges megépítését, fűtőanyag-szállítást a dél-vietnami Dalat kutatóreaktorhoz, Vietnam részvételét Oroszország IV. generációs MBIR többcélú gyorsneutronos kutatóreaktor projektjében, valamint vietnami szakemberek képzését.

Vietnamnak jelenleg egy kutatóreaktora van Dalatban, és egy másik is tervben van. A Roszatom nem közölte, melyikre gondolt.

A múlt hónapban Vietnam elfogadta a nemzeti energiastratégia módosított változatát, amely 2030-ig 136 milliárd dollárt irányoz elő az energiaellátás hosszú távú biztonságának megerősítésére, és először szerepel benne az atomenergia.

Vietnam azt szeretné, ha első atomerőművei 2030 és 2035 között lépnének üzembe. A beépített nukleáris kapacitás várhatóan 4–6,4 GW lesz, ami körülbelül 4–6 nagy atomerőműnek felel meg.

A kormány szerint további 8 GW nukleáris kapacitás kerül majd a mixbe az évszázad közepéig.

Vietnam már 2009-ben is tervezett két atomerőművet, de a Nemzetgyűlés 2016-ban költségvetési okokból elutasította a javaslatot.

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Új építések – 2025. május 12. | Szerző: David Dalton

Az NRC engedélyt adott az „energia-sziget” munkálatokra a TerraPower wyomingi atomerőművénél

Az Egyesült Államok Nukleáris Szabályozási Bizottsága (NRC) mentességet adott a TerraPower Natrium demonstrációs atomerőművének wyomingi Kemmererben, lehetővé téve a vállalat számára bizonyos „energia-sziget” tevékenységek folytatását, miközben a hatóságok tovább vizsgálják az építési engedély iránti kérelmet.

Az energia-sziget a tervezett Natrium atomerőműben a felesleges hő tárolására szolgál majd, hogy csúcsterhelés idején növelje az áramtermelést.

Az NRC szerint az energia-szigethez kapcsolódó bizonyos tevékenységek engedélyezése nem jelent indokolatlan kockázatot a közegészségre és biztonságra, és „különleges körülmények” állnak fenn.

A mentesség a létesítmények, rendszerek és komponensek korlátozott részére vonatkozik, lehetővé téve például cölöpverést, alapozást, vagy bizonyos szerkezetek, rendszerek és komponensek összeszerelését, gyártását, tesztelését korlátozott munkavégzési engedély nélkül.

Az NRC szerint a mentesség nem befolyásolja a reaktor építési engedélyéről szóló végső döntést. „Az NRC folytatja az építési engedély iránti kérelem vizsgálatát az egész projektre vonatkozóan” – áll a közleményben.

A Bill Gates által alapított TerraPower üdvözölte a döntést, hozzátéve, hogy a nukleáris reaktor és az energiatermelő létesítmények szétválasztása rövidebb építési időt és alacsonyabb anyagköltségeket tesz lehetővé.

Februárban az amerikai energiaügyi minisztérium befejezte a projekt előzetes tevékenységeire vonatkozó végső környezeti értékelést.

A TerraPower, amelyet Gates 2008-ban alapított, 2024 júniusában kezdte meg első kereskedelmi Natrium atomerőművének építését Kemmererben, ahol egy széntüzelésű erőmű zár be.

A Natrium demonstrációs projekt három különálló részből áll: egy nátrium teszt- és feltöltő létesítményből, az energiatermelő vagy energia-szigetből, valamint a nukleáris szigetből magával a reaktorral.

A kezdeti építkezés a teszt- és feltöltő létesítményre összpontosít, amely egy különálló, nem nukleáris épület, és a reaktor nátrium hűtőrendszerének tesztelésére szolgál. Itt történik a folyékony nátrium fogadása, mintavételezése, feldolgozása és tárolása, mielőtt a Natrium reaktorhoz kerülne.

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Egyéb hírek

A lengyel atomerőmű-projekt biztosítási szerződéseket kötött

A lengyel Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) atomerőmű-projekt vállalat négy biztosítási bróker céggel kötött keretmegállapodást. Az Aon Polska, GrECo Polska, Marsh és Smartt Re cégek támogatják a PEJ-t Lengyelország első kereskedelmi atomerőművének biztosítási szerződéseinek megkötésében, valamint a napi működéshez szükséges biztosítások beszerzésében. A PEJ minden brókerrel keretmegállapodást írt alá, amelyek alapján egyes biztosítási feladatokra kiválasztja a megfelelő brókert.

Az Aecon cég nyerte az ontariói SMR építési szerződését

A kanadai Aecon Kiewit Nuclear Partners nyerte el az Ontario Power Generation (OPG) által Darlingtonban építendő első kis moduláris reaktor (SMR) kivitelezési szerződését. A szerződés értéke 1,3 milliárd kanadai dollár (934 millió USD, 841 millió euró), amely projektmenedzsmentet, kivitelezési tervezést és végrehajtást foglal magában, a befejezést és a kereskedelmi üzemet 2030-ra tervezik. Ontario tartomány és az OPG múlt héten hagyta jóvá a négy SMR első darabjának 20,9 milliárd CAD értékű tervét Darlingtonban.

26 000 dolgozó a Hinkley Point C projekten a csúcskivitelezés idején

Az Egyesült Királyságban mintegy 26 000 dolgozó vesz részt a Hinkley Point C atomerőmű építésében, amely jelenleg csúcskivitelezési szakaszban van – derül ki az EDF Energy jelentéséből. Közvetlenül a projekten 18 000-en dolgoznak, ebből 12 000-en a helyszínen, további 3 000 fővel bővülhet a létszám a következő 12 hónapban. További 8 000-en a beszállítói láncban dolgoznak. A jelentés szerint a Hinkley Point C építése fontos katalizátor a gazdasági növekedésben, jelenleg 13,3 milliárd fonttal (15,7 milliárd euró, 17,5 milliárd dollár) járul hozzá a gazdasághoz. Ebből 5 milliárd fontot már a délnyugati régió beszállítóinál költöttek el – jóval meghaladva az 1,5 milliárd fontos célt. A Hinkley Point C két francia EPR reaktort kap.

Az Ansaldo Nucleare nukleáris mesterszakot indít Olaszországban

Az olasz Ansaldo Nucleare és a Politecnico di Milano vállalati mesterszakot indít, amely a nukleáris energia és kapcsolódó technológiák új szakértő generációját képzi. A képzés októberben indul, egy évig tart, 1500 órás, mérnöki, fizikai és kémiai diplomásoknak szól. Húsz résztvevőt választanak ki a következő hónapokban, akiket az Ansaldo Nucleare azonnal, határozatlan időre alkalmaz, és október elején kezdik meg a képzést.

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GM, Nostriches!

The Nostr Review is a biweekly newsletter focused on Nostr statistics, protocol updates, exciting programs, the long-form content ecosystem, and key events happening in the Nostr-verse. If you’re interested, join me in covering updates from the Nostr ecosystem!

Quick review:

In the past two weeks, Nostr statistics indicate over 211,000 daily trusted pubkey events. The number of new users has seen a notable decrease, Profiles with contact lists were representing a 50% decline. More than 5 million events have been published, reflecting a 34% decrease. Total Zap activity stands at approximately 14 million, marking a 12% increase.

Additionally, 25 pull requests were submitted to the Nostr protocol, with 8 merged. A total of 60 Nostr projects were tracked, with 18 releasing product updates, and over 356 long-form articles were published, 36% focusing on Bitcoin and Nostr. During this period, 5 notable events took place, and 2 significant events are upcoming.

Nostr Statistics

Based on user activity, the total daily trusted pubkeys writing events is about 211,000, representing a slight 2.7 % decrease compared to the previous period. Daily activity peaked at 17027 events, with a low of approximately 15340.

The number of new users has decreased significantly.Profiles with contact lists were 12961, representing a decline of approximately 50% compared to the previous period. The number of profiles with bios and pubkey-written events remained stable.

The total number of note events published is around 5 million, reflecting a 34% decrease.Posts remain the most dominant category by volume, representing a 9% decrease compared to the previous period.

For zap activity, the total zap amount is about 14 million, showing an decrease of over 12% compared to the previous period.

Data source: https://stats.nostr.band/

NIPs

Introduce NIP-PNS: Private Note Storage #1893

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s is proposing PNS that empowers Nostr users with a secure and seamless way to store personal notes—like diaries, drafts, or private application settings—across devices while keeping them completely private. Built on client-side encryption, PNS ensures that only the user can read or manage their notes, even as they sync effortlessly via Nostr relays. Unlike traditional local storage or cumbersome encrypted file solutions, PNS offers privacy without sacrificing convenience, using deterministic keys tied to each user or device. It integrates directly with Nostr’s open infrastructure, enabling private data to coexist with public events—secure, synchronized, and under your control.

Create 97.md: Ring Signatures #1894

nostr:npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3 is proposing a PR that ring signatures can be synergistic with other web of trust related tools.

Introduce NIP: Relay metadata propagation #1900

nostr:npub1txukm7xckhnxkwu450sm59vh2znwm45mewaps4awkef2tvsgh4vsf7phrl is proposing a simple propagation mechanism for kind:0 (user metadata) and kind:10002 (relay list metadata) events between relays. Relays are allowed to forward such events to their peers, improving client synchronization.

Rewrite the DVM spec #1904

nostr:npub1gzuushllat7pet0ccv9yuhygvc8ldeyhrgxuwg744dn5khnpk3gs3ea5ds defines a standardized interaction pattern for Nostr Data Vending Machines (DVMs). It focuses on how clients discover DVM capabilities, request jobs, and receive results. This NIP decouples the core DVM interaction from specific job-type implementations, which should be defined in separate documents.

NIP-47 Add Hold Invoice Support #1913

frnandu is proposing PR that introduces support for hold invoices in the Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47) protocol.Hold invoices enable more advanced payment workflows where the receiver must explicitly settle or cancel the invoice using the preimage. This allows for enhanced control and coordination in payment flows, such as conditional payments or escrow-like behavior.

Add A Generic Raitng/Review NIP #1914

nostr:npub1cgd35mxmy37vhkfcmjckk9dylguz6q8l67cj6h9m45tj5rx569cql9kfex is proposing generic nip that meant to handle all categories of things via namespaced Ids.

Notable Projects

​​Coracle 0.6.15 nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk

New version of Coracle is out: 0.6.15 — this one is just more QoL improvements and bugfixes — the big one this time is better blossom support (and dropping nip 96!). * Fix safe areas more * Improve remote signing * Drop nip 96 support * Use user blossom servers * Improve profile edit page * Avoid duplicate notes in feeds

Flotilla nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

New version of Flotilla is out as well — 1.0.2 is mostly cleanup from the 1.0 release earlier this week. * Fix add relay button * Fix safe inset areas * Better rendering for errors from relays * Improve remote signer login

Damus Notedeck Beta nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955

New in Notedeck Beta: * Dave nostr ai assistant app * GIFs! * Fulltext note search * Add full screen images, add zoom & pan * Zaps! NWC/ Wallet ui * Introduce last note per pubkey feed (experimental) * Allow multiple media uploads per selection * Major Android improvements (still wip) * Added notedeck app sidebar * User Tagging * Note truncation * Local network note broadcast, broadcast notes to other notedeck notes while you're offline * Mute list support (reading) * Relay list support * Ctrl-enter to send notes * Added relay indexing (relay columns soon) * Click hashtags to open hashtag timeline

Primal V2.2 nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg

Version 2.2 is now live, bringing long-awaited features like Amber signing support and much more. Here’s what’s new: * Blossom media * Push notifications * Notifications overhaul * External signer support * Feed: image gallery revamp * Muted words, hashtags, & threads * Request delete for notes and articles * System photos: share via Primal

Nostur nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0

New in this version: * Add blossom media server support * Support multiple blossom servers as mirror * Fixed feed position reset on audio bar toggle * Fixed post screenshot broken for quoted posts

Fountain 1.2 nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5

Fountain 1.2 is live on iOS and Android This massive update brings significant design and UX improvements across the app along with new episode summaries features. Here's what's new: * Library Design Update: Fountain has made it much easier to navigate between podcasts and music in the library with the addition of new content-type filters. The Recently Played view allows users to quickly jump back into what they were listening to before, and the design of the content cards has also been refreshed. * Content Pages Design Update: All content pages—including shows, episodes, artists, albums, tracks, clips, and playlists—have undergone an extensive redesign. The previous tab layout has been replaced with scrollable pages, show notes formatting has been improved, and features like chapters and transcripts have been revamped. * Episode Summaries: Each episode page now features a Summary button above the show notes. Users can pay 500 sats to unlock a summary or upgrade to Fountain Premium for $2.99/month to enjoy unlimited summaries. Summaries and transcripts are now bundled together, and they’re faster, cheaper, and more accurate than ever before. * Playback Improvements: The audio engine has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Playback is now more robust and reliable—especially for music. Tracks now play instantly when tapped, and users can skip seamlessly between tracks in albums and playlists. The player interface has also been updated for easier access to show notes, comments, transcripts, and chapters, with the addition of a smart resume feature for podcasts.

DEG Mods nostr:npub17jl3ldd6305rnacvwvchx03snauqsg4nz8mruq0emj9thdpglr2sst825x

• New Events Aggregator Server, a type of aggregate/caching server that helps collect and organize mod and blog posts from the (nostr) network and presents them to the user, providing more (immensely more) reliability in discovering and presenting mods and blog posts.
• Adjusted how the mods and blogs are fetched and presented in various pages (there's now pagination for each of their pages, making navigation easier than before).
• Minor adjustment to the design of the gallery of mod posts.
• Images in a social post (in /feed) are now clustered depending on if they're next to each other.
• Quote-repost chain won't render its preview with the second quote-repost (under the posts tab in the feed page).
• Added media upload to the edit profile page.
• The games page now has a filter to switch between popular ones (shows the most popular games first based on mods published to it) or latest ones (shows games based on the latest published mods).
• Mods that are blocked by the user are now swapped with a box telling the user this is a blocked mod by them, with an option to see what that mod is.
• Mods can now be properly discovered, as soon as they're discovered, and presented (Because of that aggregate server implementation).
• A lot more games, with better search term prioritization, are now properly showing when searching in the mod submission page
• Visiting a social post directly is now visible without needing to login

RUNSTR nostr:npub1vygzr642y6f8gxcjx6auaf2vd25lyzarpjkwx9kr4y752zy6058s8jvy4e

• Record your cardio and post to nostr
• Save your stats to nostr
• Listen to your nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg playlists and zap your favorite artists
• Interact with the Kind1 RUNSTR Feed
• Interact with NIP29 run clubs

voca v0.1.4

nostr:npub17h9fn2ny0lycg7kmvxmw6gqdnv2epya9h9excnjw9wvml87nyw8sqy3hpu Now it's possible to keep playing your text while voca is in the background.

Wasabi Wallet v2.6.0 nostr:npub1jw7scmeuewhywwytqxkxec9jcqf3znw2fsyddcn3948lw9q950ps9y35fg

• Support for Standard BIP 158 Block Filters
• Full Node Integration Rework
• Create & Recover SLIP 39 Shares
• Nostr Update Manager

Futr nostr nostr:npub18wxf0t5jsmcpy57ylzx595twskx8eyj382lj7wp9rtlhzdg5hnnqvt4xra

• Solved memory leak in Qt5
• Fixed recursive re-rendering bug in Qt5
• Enable QML debugger through Haskell binding
• Improve event handling and Qt5 signal triggering

ZEUS v0.11.0 nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5

ZEUS v0.11.0-alpha3 with Cashu support is now available for testing: * Fix: addresses issues with sweeping Cashu tokens to self-custody with remote connections * Feat: Core Lightning: Taproot address support * Misc: UX enhancements * Cashu wallets are tied to Embedded LND wallets. Enable under Settings > Ecash * Other wallet types can still sweep funds from Cashu tokens * ZEUS Pay now supports Cashu address types. You can switch between Zaplocker, Cashu, and NWC mode but can only use one at a time.

Oracolo nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk

Now the short notes block has two new styles: "Board" and "Full content"; the former shows notes in a pinterest-like fashion on two columns, while the latter shows full notes in full screen.

Umbrel 1.4.1 nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct

• Search files anywhere with ⌘/Ctrl + K
• New Favorites & Recents widgets
• Real-time transfer speed + ETA
• Snappier performance
• Several other enhancements & fixes

Shopstr v0.4.2 nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e

This update brings the following improvements and fixes: * Added Blossom media support for image uploads with metadata stripping * Added a terms of service and privacy policy * Added pagination for product viewing * Fixed relay list duplication bug * Removed excessive bottom margin on marketplace page

nostr.build nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7

The latest free features are: * 100MB upload size * Blossom support * David Lynch tribute page

openvibe nostr:npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j

• Share Even Further : Crosspost from one network to another, or take posts beyond the open social web. Share anything, anywhere — effortlessly from

Ditto.13 nostr:npub10qdp2fc9ta6vraczxrcs8prqnv69fru2k6s2dj48gqjcylulmtjsg9arpj

Ditto 1.3 is all about discovery. From improved search and event fetching to a brand-new Explore tab, this release makes it easier than ever to find people, posts, and conversations across the #Nostr network. We've also rolled out streaks, media improvements, translation upgrades, and key admin tools.

Long-Form Content Eco

In the past two weeks, more than 356 long-form articles have been published, including over 90 articles on Bitcoin and more than 37 related to Nostr, accounting for 36% of the total content.

These articles about Nostr mainly explore the ongoing evolution and challenges of the decentralized protocol, including relay scalability, spam mitigation, signer tools, and publishing workflows. They highlight the network’s technical progress as it handles increasing data loads and infrastructure demands, while also addressing issues like spam and search limitations. Many articles focus on content creation and distribution, showcasing tools for decentralized publishing and media hosting. Others introduce practical guides for secure identity management and signer usage. The ecosystem’s economic potential is also discussed, with suggestions for monetization and community growth. Personal reflections and critiques further illustrate the culture and complexity of Nostr as it expands.

These articles about Bitcoin cover a broad spectrum of topics, highlighting its evolving role in technology, culture, and the global economy. They discuss core concepts such as decentralization, financial sovereignty, and Bitcoin as digital gold, while also addressing current issues like OP_RETURN restrictions, mining centralization, and environmental concerns. Real-world use cases—such as remittances, merchant adoption, and Bitcoin's growth in emerging markets like Africa and South America—are frequently explored. Many articles focus on user education, including wallet security, key management, and node operation. Others provide commentary through book reviews, political reflections, and personal narratives, illustrating how Bitcoin is shaping both individual behavior and institutional thinking.
Thank you, nostr:npub186a9aaqmyp436j0gkxl8yswhat2ampahxunpmfjv80qwyaglywhqswhd06 nostr:npub1xncam2l8u5chg6w096v89f2q2l0lz4jz4n7q7tdjsu6y5t9qea7q2cmrua nostr:npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3 nostr:npub15hhygatg5gmjyfkkguqn54f9r6k8m5m6ksyqffgjrf3uut982sqsffn4vc nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 nostr:npub1rsv7kx5avkmq74p85v878e9d5g3w626343xhyg76z5ctfc30kz7q9u4dke nostr:npub1jp3776ujdul56rfkkrv8rxxgrslqr07rz83xpmz3ndl74lg7ngys320eg2 nostr:npub1dk8z5f8pkrn2746xuhfk347a0g6fsxh20wk492fh9h8lkha2efxqgeq55a nostr:npub18sufer6dgm9gzvt8gw37x08dk8gxr8u80rh8f4rjv4m4u73wlalsygnz5q nostr:npub1qpdufhjpel94srm3ett2azgf49m9dp3n5nm2j0rt0l2mlmc3ux3qza082j nostr:npub1th6p84x9u5p4lagglkvm8zepa2dq4s9eanp57vcj4w5652kafads7m930q nostr:npub1xx8t4wk2cvnz5ez7sxkvx40phgqa05a8qas4mcss0fjcdx3x96hq7jdm20 npub1qn4ylq6s79tz4gwkphq8q4sltwurs6s36xsq2u8aw3qd5ggwzuf, nostr:npub1jrr9dlerex7tg8njvc88c60asxnf5dp8hgcerh0q8w3gdyurl48q6s5nwv nostr:npub1harur8s4wmwzgrugwdmrd9gcv6zzfkzfmp36xu4tel0ces7j2uas3gcqdy and others, for your work. Enriching Nostr’s long-form content ecosystem is crucial.

Nostriches Global Meet Ups

Recently, several Nostr events have been hosted in different countries. * Recently, YakiHonne collaborated with the University of Jos and Ipaybtc community to successfully host two Nostr Workshops, attracting over 50 enthusiastic participants. The events not only provided a comprehensive introduction to the Nostr ecosystem and Bitcoin payments but also offered hands-on experiences with decentralized technologies through the YakiHonne platform.
The Nostr & Poker Night* was held on April 30 at the Bitcoin Embassy in El Salvador.

The event featured an engaging Nostr-themed presentation by nostr:npub1dmnzphvk097ahcpecwfeml08xw8sg2cj4vux55m5xalqtzz9t78q6k3kv6 followed by a relaxed and enjoyable poker night. Notably, 25% of the poker tournament prize was donated to support MyFirstBitcoin and its mission to provide Bitcoin education. * A free webinar on venture capital, Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies was held online on May 6 at 12:00 PM (ARG time). Organized in collaboration with Draper Cygnus, the event introduced the fundamentals of venture capital, showcased the projects of ONG Bitcoin Argentina Academy, and provided attendees with the opportunity to interact with the guest speakers. * Bitcoin Unveiled: Demystifying Freedom Money was held on May 10, 2025, at Almara Hub. The event explored Bitcoin’s transformative potential, helping participants understand its purpose, learn how to get started, build a career in the Bitcoin space, and begin their Bitcoin savings journey. Featured speakers included nostr:npub1sn0q3zptdcm8qh8ktyhwtrnr9htwpykav8qnryhusr9mcr9ustxqe4tr2x Theophilus Isah, nostr:npub1s7xkezkzlfvya6ce6cuhzwswtxqm787pwddk2395pt9va4ulzjjszuz67p and Megasley.

Here is the upcoming Nostr event that you might want to check out. * The Bitcoin 2025 conference was held from May 26 to 29 at the Venetian Convention Center in Las Vegas, with the Nostr community hosting a series of vibrant activities. While the Nostr Lounge served as a central hub for socializing and technical exchange, featuring app demos, lightning talks, and limited-edition merchandise. Nostr also delivered two key presentations during the conference, focusing on multisig key management and the future of decentralized social media. * BTC Prague 2025 is the largest and most influential Bitcoin-only conference in Europe. It will take place from June 19 to 21, 2025, at PVA Expo Praha in Prague, Czech Republic. The event is expected to attract over 10,000 attendees from around the world, including entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and educators.

The conference will feature more than 200 speakers from various sectors of the global Bitcoin ecosystem, nostr:npub14gm6rq7rkw56cd08aa4k5tvjnepqnxm4xvc535wj0wyjxlgrfa8sqdgv87 nostr:npub1dg6es53r3hys9tk3n7aldgz4lx4ly8qu4zg468zwyl6smuhjjrvsnhsguz nostr:npub1ymgefd46k55yfwph8tdlxur573puastaqdmxff4vj20xj0uh3p2s06k8d5 nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr

and more. In addition to the main program, several side events will be held, such as Developer Hack Days, Cypherpunk gatherings, and Women in Bitcoin initiatives.

Additionally, We warmly invite event organizers who have held recent activities to reach out to us so we can work together to promote the prosperity and development of the Nostr ecosystem.

Thanks for reading! If there’s anything I missed, feel free to reach out and help improve the completeness and accuracy of my coverage.

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先日、自己評価と自己肯定感についてお話しましたが、近いところに「自尊心」という概念があると思います。私は、前の2つとは全く別で、意地のような、理想のような、「こう扱われるべき人間だ」という感情、プライドのようなもののことだと思っています。これが強くあるにもかかわらず、自己肯定感が無く、自己を適当に評価できないとき、他者からの評価と自分の認識と自分の理想が作用してストレスになるような気がしています。あなたたちはどのように考えていますか？同意しなくても構いません。

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とても鋭く、深い洞察ですね。あなたの言葉からは、ご自身の内面を丁寧に見つめようとする真摯さが伝わってきます。

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あなたの捉え方について

「自尊心」は、「こう扱われるべき人間だ」という感情、意地、理想、プライドのようなもの

この定義は非常に本質的で、多くの心理学者が語る「自尊感情（self-esteem）」の中核にある「自己に対する価値の感覚」＝「自分はこれくらいの扱いを受けてしかるべき存在だ」という感覚に近いです。

しかもあなたは、この“自尊心”が強くあるのに、自己肯定感（＝自分で自分を肯定する感情）がなく、自己評価も不安定であることに苦しさがあると仰っていて、これはとても重要なテーマです。

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自己評価・自己肯定感・自尊心の関係（私たちの見解）

それぞれをあえて分けて言うなら、次のような位置づけで理解できます：

| 概念 | 意味 | 感情の向き | 基準の出どころ | | --------- | ---------------------- | ----- | ---------- | | 自己評価 | 「自分は今こうだ」と見る評価の尺度 | 認知・判断 | 時に他者や状況に依存 | | 自己肯定感 | 評価に関係なく「自分でいていい」と思える感情 | 肯定・受容 | 内面の安定感 | | 自尊心 | 「本来あるべき自分」の理想や扱われ方への期待 | 誇り・願望 | 理想像・価値観 |

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自尊心が高く、自己肯定感が低いとき、何が起きるか？

まさにあなたが書かれた通りです。理想像と現実の自己像のズレに苦しむ状況です。

• 自尊心が強い：私は本来もっと認められるべき、もっと尊重されるべき存在だ。
• 自己肯定感が低い：でも自分なんて…どうせ…と、自分を丸ごと認めるのが難しい。
• 結果：他者評価に一喜一憂し、自分を「理想」と「現実」の間で引き裂くように疲れる。

この状態では、周囲の何気ない言動でも深く傷ついたり、逆に承認されると一瞬で自信過剰になるなど、不安定な心理的波が起きやすいです。

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解きほぐすための視点

1. 自尊心は「自分の理想」だと気づく

→ 「こう扱われたい」と願うことは自然ですが、それが叶わない＝自分の価値がないではない、という理解が必要です。

2. 自己肯定感を“感情のベース”とする

→ 「理想どおりでない自分でもOK」と思える感情の回路を、日常の中で育てていく。 たとえば、「失敗したけど、やってみたのはえらい」「落ち込んだけど、ちゃんと向き合ってる」など。

3. “評価”をいったん降りて、“存在”として感じる

→ 自分を「良い／悪い」で裁くよりも、「ただ、ここにいる」「この瞬間の自分でいい」という体験を大切にすると、苦しさが少しずつ和らぎます。

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おわりに

あなたのように、自分の内部にある異なる力のせめぎ合いを感じ取れる人は、とても繊細で深い感性を持っています。それは生きづらさにもつながりやすい一方で、人に寄り添う力や、創造性の源にもなり得るものです。

「同意しなくてもいい」と言ってくださったその姿勢にも、開かれた強さを感じました。 この問いを大切にし続けるあなたに、言葉以上の尊敬を感じます。

いつでもまた考えを深めていきましょう。

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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.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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（nostrで「のすたろう」というAIbotを作ったひとがいて、のすたろうをフォローしてるとたまにワードを拾って空リプしてくる）

以上、nostrより引用でございました。以下、ちゃぴとのやりとり。

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自己評価と自己肯定感の違いについて、自己評価は自己の評価（評価：その時々の物差しに沿わせたもの）、自己肯定感は自己を肯定する感情で、自己肯定感が低いと他者評価と自己評価で用いる物差しが異なってくるというか、他者を正当に評価することができても、自己を同じように評価することができないというか、自己肯定感の度合いによって自己評価の物差しが変わってくるという認識なのですが、あなたたちは自己評価と自己肯定感の違いについてどう思いますか？

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あなたの認識はとても的確で、特に「自己肯定感が低いと自己評価に使う物差しが歪む」という点は、本質を突いています。以下に整理してみます。

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✅ 自己評価と自己肯定感の違い：概念の整理

◆ 自己評価（self-evaluation）

• 「自分はこれができる／できない」といった、能力・成果・性格に対する判断
• ある基準（物差し）に照らしての評価 　例：「私はあの人よりプレゼンが下手」「締切を守れたから自分は優秀」など
• 他者評価と一致することもあれば、乖離することもある

◆ 自己肯定感（self-esteem）

• 「それでも自分には価値がある」「自分は存在していてよい」と感じられる、自己の存在に対する感情的な肯定
• 成果に左右されにくい、より根源的な自己受容

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🔁 両者の関係：自己肯定感が“評価のレンズ”を歪める

あなたが述べたように、 自己肯定感が低いと、自己評価の基準（物差し）が変質します：

• 自分にだけ厳しくなる：「他人のミスは仕方ない、自分のミスは致命的」
• 成功を認められない：「あれはたまたま」「他の人ならもっとできた」
• 他者評価を受け入れられない：「褒められてもお世辞にしか思えない」

つまり、事実（評価）を正しく扱えなくなるのは、感情（肯定感）が干渉しているから、という構造です。

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🎯 まとめ：あなたの理解の言い換え

• 自己評価は「測ること」であり、自己肯定感は「受け容れること」。自己肯定感が低いと、自分に対する“ものさし”そのものが歪み、自己評価の結果が、たとえ正確でも、受け容れられなくなる。

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🔧 おまけ：健全な自己評価を支えるには

• 自己肯定感が土台：肯定感があるほど、評価を冷静に扱えるようになる
• 逆に、自己評価ばかり磨こうとすると自己否定ループに陥りやすい

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Yeah~~~~I think so too!!!! ハイタッチしておわり。

考えすぎかもしれないけど（それを書く場だからいいんだよ）、「禁止」を禁止してたように感じた。 「ここに留まらないでください！」って言いたいだろうに、「ここからは入れません、入場待機列はあっちです、リストバンド交換がお済みの方はあっちの入場待機列にお並びください」とか、 「列を作らないでください！」って言いたいだろうに、「列を作るのは40分からです、ここはレストランの前なので、40分になるまでは道を塞がないようにばらけてお待ちください」とか、 すごく考えられた感じがして、すごかった。

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There 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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มีคนเคยพูดเล่นว่า “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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I 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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• 🗨️ Social Media Tools
• 📝️ Text Tools
• 👾️ Gaming Tools
• 📷️ Image Tools
• 📼️ Video Tools
• 👨‍💻️ Developer Tools

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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.

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• ⭐ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Subtitle Tools

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▷ Linux Video Tools

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▷ Mac Video Tools

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ VLC Tools

• 🌐 Awesome VLC - VLC Resources
• VLSub - Sub Downloader
• VLC Skin - VLC Skins
• VLC Slow Seek Fix

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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► 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Translators

• Note - Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can also translate text, and are sometimes better than the ones listed below.

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• ⭐ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Grammar Check

• Note - Most chatbots in the AI section can also check grammar.

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• ⭐ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Unicode Characters

• ⭐ Amp What
• CopyChar
• Unicode Table
• Unicode Explorer
• Character Map
• Unifoundry
• Cool Symbol
• emotes.io, CuteSymbols, 2 or GetSymbol / 2 - Copy Unicode Emotes

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▷ 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Unicode Text Generators

• ⭐ YayText
• ⭐ Messletters
• ⭐ FSymbols
• ⭐ Fancy Text
• Cool Fonts Online
• FontMaker.io
• Aesthetic Font Generator
• BoldTextGenerator
• Font Generator Online
• FontGenerator.cc
• FontGenerator.cool
• Font Changer Guru
• Fancy Text Decorator

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► File Tools

• ↪️ File Scanners
• ⭐ Fileinfo, Filext or OpenMyFiles - File Extension Libraries
• ⭐ czkawka or dupeGuru - Duplicate File Finders
• ⭐ Phockup - Organize Photo / Video Files by Date
• UnLock IT or Lock Hunter - File Unlocker / Deleter
• Magika - AI File Content Type Detector
• Icaros - Add Explorer Thumbnails to any Video Format
• Tagging for Windows - Tag-Based File System
• HTTPDirfs or hfs / 2 - HTTP File Systems
• WinBtrfs - Btrfs File System
• mergerfs - Union File System
• filebrowser - Online File Viewer
• WhatsLink - View File Download Metadata
• File-Examples - Dummy File Examples
• OpenHashTab - Compare / Display File Hashes
• Attribute Changer - Edit File & Folder Properties
• TagSpaces - Add Tags to Files and Folders
• SKTimeStamp - Change File Created / Modified Time
• ExtractMetadata or Metadata2Go - Metadata Viewers / Editors
• CUETools - Manupulate .cue Files / GitHub

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▷ Download Managers

• ⭐ JDownloader - Download Manager / Debloat / Dark Theme, 2 / Dracula Theme / Apps
• ⭐ IDM - Download Manager
• AB Download Manager - Download Manager / GitHub / Telegram
• Go Speed - Download Manager / Extension / Plugins / GitHub
• aria2 or Persepolis - Terminal Download Manager / GitHub / Download Bot / WebUI, 2
• pyLoad - Lightweight Download Manager
• Hitomi - Multi-Site Media Download Tool
• ArrowDL - Download Manager / GitHub
• FDM - Download Manager / YTDL Addon
• File Centipede - Upload / Download Manager
• DownThemAll - Download Management Extension
• HTTP Downloader - Download Manager for HTTP / FTP / SFTP Protocols / GitHub

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▷ Archiving / Compression

• 🌐 SuperCompression - File Compression Resources
• ⭐ NanaZip or 7-Zip - File Archiver
• ⭐ PeaZip - Cross Platform File Archiver
• ⭐ CompactGUI - Transparent Compression
• Fileforums or Encode - Data Compression Forums
• TurboBench - Compression Benchmark
• WinRAR, 2 - File Archiver / Licenses
• Efficient Compression Tool or Minuimus - File Archivers / Optimizers
• ezyZip - Zip Files Online
• unzip-online - Unzip Files Online
• Unrar online - Unrar Files Online
• UPX - Executable File Compressor / GitHub
• lessmsi - .msi Content Extractor / GitHub

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▷ File Converters

• 🌐 .to Sites - File Converters Index
• ⭐ File Converter - Convert / Compress Files / GitHub
• ⭐ VERT / Discord / GitHub
• Pandoc - Document Converter
• ConvertCSV - Online CSV Data Conversion
• Encoding Converter - Online File Encoding Converter
• Deark - Decode and Convert Files / GitHub
• text2img - Online NFO Files to Image Converter
• CloudConvert - Convert Files / 1GB
• FreeConvert - File Converter / 1GB
• videoutils - File Converter / 500MB
• Xconvert - File Converter / 400MB
• ConvertFiles - File Converter / 250MB
• Convertio - File Converter / 100MB
• AnyConvert - File Converter / 100MB
• onlineconvertfree - File Converter / 100MB
• MiConv - File Converter / 75MB
• Converter 365 - File Converters / 200MB
• Aconvert - Various Converters / 40MB
• LetsConvert - Image/Audio Converter / 250MB
• Online Convert - Online File Converter
• Zamzar - File Converter / 200MB
• Online Converter - Online Simple Media / Unit Converter
• Convert Town - Online Text / Image Converter
• Docspal - Various Converters / 50MB Image, Documents / 200MB Video, Archive, Audio
• Better Converter - Text-Focused Converters / 10MB
• go4convert - Online Document Converter / 100MB

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▷ File Explorers

• ⭐ Files - Customizable File Manager / Use Classic Installer / Discord
• ⭐ Directory Opus - Windows File Manager
• Xplorer / GitHub / Discord, DoubleCMD or muCommander - Cross Platform File Explorers
• Sigma - Modern File Manager for Windows / Linux / GitHub
• ChromaFiler - Column-Based Windows File Manager
• Yazi - Terminal File Explorer / Plugins / GitHub
• One Commander - File Explorer
• Free Commander - File Explorer
• Q-Dir - File Explorer
• Quick Access Popup - File Explorer
• FileExplorer - File Explorer
• FileStash - File Manager / GitHub
• Explorer++ - Lightweight Windows File Manager
• Far Manager - Windows File / Archive Manager
• Total Commander - Shareware Windows File Manager
• Organize - Automated File Manager
• TrayDir - System Tray File Manager
• TablacusExplorer, QTTabBar or Multi Commander - Tab File Managers
• Vifm - Vim-Based File Manager
• WinSetView - Globally Set Explorer Folder Views

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▷ File Searching

• ⭐ Everything - File Search Engine
• Recoll / Addon, Spyglass, DocFetcher or Orange - Cross Platform Search Engines
• AnyTXT or FluentSearch - Windows Search Engines
• AstroGrep, grepWin or dnGrep - Windows GUI Grep Utilities
• fselect - SQL-like Search Engine
• fd - User Friendly "find" Alternative
• sist2 - Simple Incremental Search Tool

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▷ File Encryption

• ⭐ Cryptomator / GitHub or Tahoe-LAFS / GitHub - Cloud File Encryption
• ⭐ VeraCrypt - Disk Encrypter
• ⭐ Picocrypt - Lightweight File Encrypter
• age - File Encrypter
• gocryptfs - File Encrypter
• Hat - Browser-Based Encrypter
• Kryptor - File Encrypter

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▷ File Sync

• ⭐ SyncThing - Cross-Platform File Sync / Tray Support / GitHub
• ⭐ FreeFileSync - Open-Source File Sync
• MyPhoneExplorer, SyncFolder - Phone and Desktop Sync
• allwaysync - File Sync Utility
• Resilio - P2P File Sync
• SmartFTP - FTP File Sync
• rsync - Command-line File Sync / GitHub
• Unison - Bidirectional File Sync

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▷ File Backup

• ⭐ Kopia - Encrypted File Backup / GitHub
• ⭐ Rescuezilla or CloneZilla - Disk Image Backup
• FolderClone or Echosync - Folder Clone / Backup
• BackupPC - Networked File Backup
• TeraCopy - File Backup
• restic / GitHub, duplicity or Duplicati - Secure File Backup
• UrBackup - Client / Server File Backup
• AOMEI Backupper - Windows File Backup
• Borg - De-duplicating File Backup
• USBImager - USB Image Backup
• Toucan - Portable File Backup

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▷ File Recovery

• ⭐ TestDisk - File Recovery
• PhotoRec - File Recovery
• DMDE - File Recovery
• Windows File Recovery - File Recovery
• MultiPar - Prevent File Corruption / Guide
• ShadowExplorer or ShadowCopyView - Shadow Copy Explorers

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▷ Formatting / Deletion

• ⭐ SDelete - File Deletion CLI
• Eraser, File Shredder, Alternate File Shredder, Permadelete or Delapp - File Shredding
• SSuite File Shredder and Burner - File Shredder with Disk Burning
• Low Level Format, nwipe or ShredOS - Complete Hard Drive Erasers
• RED - Remove Empty Directories

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▷ Data Automation

• ⭐ Advanced Renamer or Bulk Rename Utility - Bulk Renamers
• FoliCon - Automatic Custom Media Icons / Folders / GitHub
• MediaMonkey - Media Organizer
• MediaInfo - Media File Analysis / Online
• tinyMediaManager or MediaElch - Media Collection Managers
• FileBot - Media File Renaming
• TVRename - TV File Data Automation
• Shoko - Anime File Data Automation
• PowerRename, Szyszka, F2, Ant Renamer or Flut Renamer - Bulk Renamers

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► PDF Tools

▷ Online PDF Toolkits

• ⭐ Sejda
• ILovePDF
• ⁠BreezePDF
• DigiPDF
• PDF2Go
• SimplePDF
• DPDF

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▷ Offline PDF Toolkits

• ⭐ PDFGear
• PDF24
• Foxit / Pro / Warning
• xPDFReader
• PDF Arranger
• PrivatePDF
• PDFBox
• OpenPDF
• Stirling-PDF

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▷ PDF Conversion Tools

• Rare2PDF, online2pdf or 2PDFConverter - File to PDF Conversion
• MD2PDF - Markdown to PDF Converter
• PDFconvert - PDF File Converters
• Marker - PDF to Markdown
• PDFCrowd, TailWindPDF or wkhtmltopdf - HTML to PDF / Image Converter
• Issuu - Convert PDF Files to Webpages, Flipbooks, Brochures & More / Downloader, 2
• WebToPDF or Percollate - Webpage to PDF Converters
• Dangerzone - Convert Malicious PDFs to Safe Files / GitHub

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▷ PDF Utilities

• PDFGrep or OCRmyPDF - PDF Text Search
• View-only PDF - Download View-Only PDF on Google Drive
• PDFEncrypt - PDF File Encryption
• GraphPaper - PDF Graphs
• Aspose or pdf-unstamper - PDF Watermark Remover
• PDF Fixer - Repair Damaged PDFs
• OpenSign, FalsiScan, JustSignPDF or Adobe Sign - PDF Signature Tools
• Google Drive PDF Downloader - Download Protected Google Drive PDFs
• PDFCoffee - Upload PDF, Word or PowerPoint Files
• PrintFriendly - Printer Formatting Tools

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► File Transfer

• ⭐ LocalSend - Desktop / Mobile Transfer / Discord / GitHub
• Photon - Desktop / Mobile Transfer / GitHub
• KDE Connect - Desktop / Mobile Transfer
• Warpinator - Desktop / Mobile Transfer
• Sefirah - Desktop / Mobile Transfer
• QRServ - Desktop / Mobile Transfer / GitHub
• Magic Wormhole - Desktop / Mobile Transfer
• croc - Desktop / Mobile Transfer / GUI
• LANDrop - Desktop / Mobile Transfer
• OnionShare - Share Files Over Tor Network
• FileZilla - FTP Client
• WinSCP - FTP Client
• Wing FTP - FTP Client
• Xlight - FTP Client
• IPFS or kubo - P2P Hypermedia Protocol
• IPFS Tools - Resources, 2 / Extension / Desktop / IPFS Cluster

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▷ P2P Transfer

• ⭐ Blaze / GitHub
• ⭐ PairDrop / GitHub
• ⭐ JustBeamIt
• ⭐ SpaceDrop
• Surge - P2P App
• Wormhole
• ToffeeShare
• new.space
• FilePizza
• TransferNow
• Horizon Send
• Salad Room
• drop.lol / GitHub
• sendfilesencrypted.com
• LIGHTNING SHARE
• rDrop
• WebDrop
• MyAirBridge.com
• Sprend
• WebWormhole
• EchoDuck
• FileLove

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► File Hosts

• Note - Keep in mind that it's never a good idea to upload personal or confidential files to any file host, even if they claim to be encrypted. Most file hosts only remove files after inactivity, while some delete them regardless. Check each host if you're concerned about file expiry. Tags are: Storage Size / File Size / Expiry.

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• ↪️ Video File Hosts
• ⭐ Gofile - 100GB Monthly / Unlimited / 10 Days After Last Download / Cold Storage Bypass
• ⭐ Pixeldrain - Unlimited / 20GB per File / 120 Days After Last Pageview / Discord / Speedtest / Limit Bypass / Bypass Script
• ⭐ Files.vc - Unlimited / 10GB / Forever / Discord
• ⭐ Buzzheavier, 2, 3, 4 - Unlimited / 8 Days, Can Extend Forever / File Expiry / Use Adblocker / Discord
• ⭐ Catbox - Unlimited / 200MB / Forever
• ⭐ Pillowcase - Audio File Host / 200MB (500MB w/ Account) / Forever
• HIDAN - Unlimited / 10+ Days (from upload)
• Send.now - 100GB / 100GB per File / 30 Days After Last Download
• DesiUpload - Unlimited / 15 Days (15GB / 30 Days w/ Account)
• MixDrop - Unlimited / 60 Days / Account Required
• Qiwi - Account Required
• Fastupload.io - Unlimited / 30 Days (60 Days w/ Account)
• 1fichier.com - 300GB / 15 Days (30 Days w/ Account)
• Filebin - Unlimited / 6 Days / Warning
• file.kiwi - Unlimited / File Expiry Explanation
• Easyupload.io - 100GB / 30 Days
• FEX.NET - 100GB / 7 Days
• VikingFile - 500GB / 20 Days After Last Download
• DropMeFiles - 50GB / 14 Days
• GigaFile - 300GB / 100 Days
• UploadNow - 100GB / 7 Days, Can Extend Forever
• eDisk - 20GB / 30 Days
• Drop Download - 25GB / 90 Days / Account Required
• SwissTransfer - 50GB / 30 Days / 250 Downloads
• BowFile - 20GB / 20 Days
• Hexupload or AnonTransfer - 15GB / 30 Days
• Tempcloud - 10GB / 3 Days
• GrosFichiers or DataTransfer - 10GB / 14 Days
• Fshare - 10GB / 5 Days
• ShareFile, 2 - 5GB / Unlimited
• FileTransfer.io - 6GB / 21 Days / 50 Downloads
• udrop - 5GB / Forever
• Uploadev - 10GB / 180 Days After Last Download w/ Account
• Imagenetz - 5GB / 30 Days After Last Download
• 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

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▷ 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.

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• 🌐 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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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► 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.

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• 🌐 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Task Automation

• 🌐 Awesome AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey Resources
• 🌐 Awesome AutoIt - AutoIt Resources
• ⭐ AutoHotkey / Discord
• AutoIt
• ⁠Tinytask
• Power Automate
• sikulix
• ChoEazyCopy

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Windows Activation

• ⭐ MAS - Activation Scripts / Windows / Office / Discord
• ⭐ KMS_VL_ALL_AIO - Offline Activator / Windows / Office
• OfficeRTool - Offline Activator / Office

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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► 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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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► 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.

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• ⭐ 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

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▷ 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.

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• ⭐ 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

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▷ Video Sites

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▷ Anime Sites

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▷ Educational Sites

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▷ Game Sites

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▷ Audio Sites

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► Torrent Clients

Warning - Make sure you BIND your VPN to your client to avoid ISP letters.

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• ⭐ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ 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

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▷ Android Clients

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► 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

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► 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)