The 8232 Project

I trust code more than politics.

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  • I will always find the idea of buying ordinary items with Monero to be a little funny. You spend years building up your privacy and go through the effort to have an anonymous Monero wallet and then… buy a towel, or a cup of sugar. I guess because it isn’t fully “mainstream” it’s just a little funny seeing such ordinary things cropping up as an option to spend it on.







  • I’d love to see a website or app that has a full privacy roadmap. Even if there is one, I doubt it would be very good. You need something that constantly reminds you “Hey, you’ve been fighting for privacy for X months, and you’ve achieved so much! Look at how far you’ve come.” It would also need to be tailored to each person, because some people already use Android, others don’t, so the switch to a custom ROM may be harder for some people. It would have to make sure to have easy incremental steps, defined goals, threat modeling, “good” rewards, etc.

    Sadly, I’m far from capable of coding that, even if I tried. Best of luck to that one Lemmyer that sees this and says “Hold my beer”



  • Thank you!

    I’d honestly love to share the whole crazy story of how I got into privacy in the first place, but it would reveal too many personal details about me and other people. It’s not an easy battle, and I’ve certainly made plenty of mistakes along the way, but I wouldn’t change a single thing about how it turned out. It takes a lot of time and effort, so it is unfortunate to see, as you said, many posts of despair.




  • Some YouTube clients allow “local extraction” (FreeTube and LibreTube, to name a couple), which sidesteps the need for an instance altogether. However, that then means either 1. You use a VPN to hide your IP from YouTube and risk getting the VPN server IP banned or 2. You don’t use a VPN, expose your IP to YouTube, and have a (small) chance of banning your own IP.

    The best alternative would be to remove YouTube altogether and switch to something like PeerTube or Odysee, but you can’t expect all your favorite creators to be there.


  • I agree with the first statement that SimpleX is already good enough, since it’s been heavily audited. As for the second statement, I would like to point out that, rather than shaming some open source software for being “anti-libre”, we should instead at the very least start moving people away from proprietary software, even if that means setting libre software aside for now. Libre software is a radical polar opposite to proprietary software, so it may be hard for people to transition straight to that. Open source software is a good bridge between the two.


  • As harsh as this sounds, it’s true. I’ve “audited” some of his projects before and found the same massive flaws you have. I tried opening valid issues on one of the projects, hoping to help out (and there sure were a lot of issues), but OP blocked me from opening any issues on any of his projects for “issue spam”, and told me to email him. Many of his posts have been removed for promoting “dubious software”, so I wouldn’t trust these at all. I’ve warned one of the moderators about him before, but I found out that the moderator is inactive.