Laan Tungir

Artist, Scientist, Cypherpunk, Critical Rationalist, Nym.

[domain] https://laantungir.net
[ipv4] https://15.235.3.231
[ipv6] https://[2607:5300:203:bb5c:4a46:c3d3:1dc3:fbe8]
[tor] http://kn2jam4kyz6s5wacyozo3do3d2zsvh4to45uh7xliulwdust6zjuvnad.onion
[fips] http://npub1crpldvy49ef8z34wlacwujnfudy4nd7k96aqdx5wgn6ckztz7z8q9t59ud.fips
[n-site] https://npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06.nsite.run

Public Key

npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

nprofile1qqspa3z5wdxuhah72jgpecjup37xhjj7mky5gdqkwc06msep6wxlzwgpremhxue69uhkummnw3ezu6r9ddehgetj9ehhyee0wejhyar90qqj2amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvfexz7tydahzucm0d5hk2mtzv4ez6cmgv9exc6t94kzpgm

Publishing to

nostr.hekster.org/vertex

relay.braydon.com/ember-charlie

nexus.libernet.app/yonder-quartz

cyberspace.nostr1.com/papa-lima

relay.laantungir.net

offchain.pub

Author Public Key

npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06

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Last Notes

2026-09-10 16:16:18 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/6e3cefc58c5413a1f6f26e302788e06e19f89179d6d4b8d5b92bf20643c6f1db.jpg

2026-09-10 05:32:07 CEST

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I like my own bucket thank you very much.

2026-09-09 23:11:45 CEST

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Yes, could use improvement.

2026-09-09 13:56:26 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/babf9a1ebfaa5cd59ddae181d19205a6fef86ac4c5767ee95b2f0151b4d211d1.jpg

2026-09-08 17:59:59 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/528687dfaabee21b8e1e9b3aa71bf00c1869dfaa28732e320bb742e5b3ce814c.jpg

2026-09-06 21:34:11 CEST

You can just sign things.

2026-09-05 21:29:11 CEST

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Yeah, me too which is why I wanted to post it even though I didn't think it was real. It was cool enough.

2026-09-02 16:21:12 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/8a7324b6eee35de43ce85f6cb75e0bc6a69e1a367b036bda7c27642293b1c1f2.jpg

2026-08-28 18:24:49 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/e3f736f2fa059e224676a1a8d26c6996b1da9a625db54f5ee76bc695a3c4a381.jpg

2026-08-27 22:14:42 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/673c9721d23ba12b64d560dd5815af52fd1502ea6f9a7c2ad3053565443686ff.png
#naddr1qv…x44z

2026-08-27 12:52:57 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/bacd7b36f6541decde4fb726ab1d44123346080bf0d2b4b9105106aff67328f8.webp

2026-08-26 16:45:11 CEST

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I have not. Maybe I will have to check it out.

2026-08-26 15:16:45 CEST

I believe there are types of beauty that objectively exist.
Things that contain objective beauty, tend to replicate themselves more than things that don't.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/9e1a34d64ee5c1155d2a73204604f66d80a0e37177cbc243b0315b0a43f374eb.png
This is a clear definition. There is no "woo-woo" involved here. No relativistic "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
When I learned this about #aesthetics, it was revolutionary for me. I realized the importance of art, and how it was on a similar footing with science, mathematics, and philosophy. There are truths to aesthetics in our universe that we can uncover. We never say "Physics is in the eye of the beholder." or "Math is in the eye of the beholder." Likewise, we should never slander #art in the same way.
Some patterns of bits contain beauty, and some don't. The ones that do will tend to persist in our universe. They will reliably copy themselves, from brain to brain, from computer to computer, or from painting to camera.
All you have to so is visit a museum, and you can see beauty replicating itself.
#nevent1q…a84k

2026-08-26 13:02:17 CEST

Information - Any group 1s and 0s that are stored in an information media.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/4db4d36ef6a232b6b42d5d6043c4de4a9d72b5599c07dc230107cbed8dcaeeaa.png
Knowledge - A particular type of information. These patterns of bits can reliably cause physical changes in the universe, and because of that, this type of information tends to remain instantiated in information media. Examples: Sequences in DNA that make up genes, Newton's first law of motion, Beethoven's fifth symphony, the number PI.
GM

2026-08-24 13:08:31 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/eb547251c80ab28414d4f4eb73cb014466b772fd916874776d249492d8d4ec21.jpg

2026-08-23 16:28:57 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/c56db40ea662fda306b2e363e31bf0fe89c0b85d9d9d4b8db2ce761f748f84ab.jpg

2026-08-23 16:27:57 CEST

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Nice. I'm going to have to go through your tracks.
High-Energy!

2026-08-23 15:15:01 CEST

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Doing good. You?

2026-08-23 13:57:31 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/36ba069c8683e5b03facdadba1a5149d0604b6e429fa1bcd639d5a8cccc27ea7.jpg

2026-08-22 13:55:44 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/fce81495930221b7d3cbd4b3c60e8df043081cc7d049db3f7a776fd906ce6686.jpg

2026-08-22 12:38:46 CEST

GM fellow nyms.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/f9f1fd16651421167293e347afbe5c1999d100103796a518761ff7b31a89d4ff.jpg

2026-08-21 00:42:53 CEST

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I think if I were to start a school, I would have the students create an anonymous #NOSTR account, and have them start posting about what interests them.
-- Make it an anonymous account. Anonymity keeps it low stakes and allows you to distance yourself from your beliefs. You don't have to worry about seeming dumb to your friends or family.
-- If nobody is following you (and nobody will be in the beginning), just think of it as a private journal. People keep journals and don't care if anyone ever reads it. There is no reason why you need people to follow you.
Then the entire purpose of the school is to help the students progress and get better at what interests them.
Unlike a traditional school, the teacher is not put first.
Unlike a neo-traditional school, the student is not put first.
In this school, the work is put first. The student is subservient to the work. The chisel shapes the marble, but "chisel to marble" also shapes the student.
The teacher is there to help the student learn the process of removing errors in their thinking.
#note135y…4z2k

2026-08-20 13:59:11 CEST

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I'm fine with people preferring face to face interactions.
I will push back on the idea of "what it is to be human."
I am software. Everything about me that I consider "me" is software.
You could systematically remove every part of my body and replace it with other parts, and as long as my software program in my head kept running, it would still be me.
We are digital creatures in commodity hardware, even if I am fond of the hardware, which I often am.

2026-08-16 23:24:58 CEST

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https://blossom.laantungir.net/579f1c68b6bead71e7215513ba8e5b0c6da967aa59798bc5e96ba0fc622c3a86.jpg

2026-08-15 21:17:40 CEST

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My thought is that a poster could just watch their feed that might have 100s of follows. And if the post doesn't appear you could send again. Probably if connection was bad, attempting to send a few times doesn't hurt much.

2026-08-13 11:45:28 CEST

# NOSTR over single packet UDP
## TLDR
Send a Nostr event as one-way UDP packet instead of using TCP. This one-way send is very censorship resistant compared to the alternatives. I currently have it implemented on my relay and you can test it now on the command line using nc and @npub180c…h6w6's nak.
'''
nak event -k 1 -c "I don't shake hands, because Ewwwwww!" | nc -u -w1 laantungir.net 443
'''
## The problem:
As far as I know, every circumvention tool [VPN, Tor, Shadowsocks, obfs4] has a handshake. You start off messaging the server, and the server replies before you can send your information. National firewalls detect those handshakes, fingerprint them, probe the handshake, then block the IP or take other action. The handshake is a vulnerability. Every tool plays cat-and-mouse obfuscating it.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/b63479f895a207fccfbac9323ac7a4bd47cbc20e43ebfcd60f3c54e41bfb1d1d.jpg
For example Tor bridges are vulnerable to active probing. The adversary connects to a suspected bridge and sends data. If the server responds with a valid obfs4 handshake, the adversary knows it is a bridge. This is how many Tor bridges get blocked.
## The idea:
UDP Nostr eliminates the handshake entirely. The Nostr event is already signed before it touches the network. The signature replaces the handshake. There is no SYN, no TLS ClientHello, no SNI, no key exchange, no recognizable structure — just a blob of bytes in one UDP packet under 1472 bytes.
The adversary can send a probe, but the relay doesn't respond at all. No handshake to detect. No TCP RST to inject (UDP has no RST). No DNS to poison.
## Live example — full zero-config round-trip
My relay has fully implemented UDP Nostr.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/5b1c5fc4ddf89b4aec123c7a2a5934e9a22c3271fa641b071cc8f7740a342bbd.png
**command line**
```bash
# Console 1 - Set up a live watch for the nak default events on the relay
nak req -a 79be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798 --stream laantungir.net/relay
# Console 2 - Send via UDP (no --sec needed, nak uses the default key)
nak event -k 1 -c "Hello!" | nc -u -w1 laantungir.net 443
```
**Python:**
```python
import socket, sys
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.sendto(sys.stdin.buffer.read(), (sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2])))
```
```bash
nak event -k 1 -c "Hello!" | python3 send.py laantungir.net 443
```
**JavaScript (Node.js):**
```javascript
const dgram = require("dgram"), s = dgram.createSocket("udp4");
process.stdin.on("data", b => s.send(b, +process.argv[3], process.argv[2]));
```
```bash
nak event -k 1 -c "Hello!" | node send.js laantungir.net 443
```
## An example of largest kind:1 that fits in one packet
With the default nak key, empty tags, and a 10-digit timestamp, the Nostr JSON overhead (structural syntax + hex-expanded id/pubkey/sig) is ~340 bytes, leaving **~1132 characters of content** in the 1472-byte UDP budget. Below is an illustrative event at full capacity — its single-line JSON form is exactly 1472 bytes on the wire, one Ethernet frame, unfragmented. (The `id` and `sig` shown are placeholders for readability; a real event carries a SHA-256 `id` and valid Schnorr `sig`.)
```json
{"id":"426462725f7061636b65745f626f756e646172795f746573745f303030303030",
"pubkey":"79be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798",
"created_at":1772019044,
"kind":1,
"tags":[],
"content":"The cypherpunk problem: how do two computers communicate freely when the network between them is controlled by an adversary? The standard approaches are anonymity (hide which computer is talking) and decentralization (make copies everywhere so you can't stop them all). But there is a third approach that is less explored: protocol substrate hardening. Design the communication protocol so that interference requires violating physics or OS-level guarantees. The simplest example: fit your message in a single UDP datagram under 1472 bytes. At this size, your message is exactly one Ethernet frame. The adversary cannot block it without blocking all UDP traffic on that port. They cannot fragment it. They cannot reassemble it. They cannot probe for a handshake because there is no handshake. The Nostr event is self-validating: it carries its own signature. The signature replaces the handshake. This is the key insight. Every other protocol announces itself with a handshake. TCP has SYN. TLS has ClientHello. QUIC has its Initial packet. WireGuard has its handshake initiation. All of these create a pattern that can be fingerprinted and blocked. A Nostr event over UDP has no pattern. It is just bytes on the wire. The receiver validates the signature using only the pubkey in the event. No shared secrets. No session setup. No state. This is the no-handshake property. It is the fundamental advantage of Nostr over every other protocol for censorship resistance. Combine this with the MTU boundary and you have a protocol that cannot be blocked without blocking all UDP traffic. The adversary faces a dilemma: block UDP entirely and break the internet, or let your messages through. This is the asymmetry we exploit.",
"sig":"4b57c22b1797b109530ffe5d04cabac468b1a5942873a5141334ecbc77694fc968a1b941979ba13602fceb1dad8014ab6469c6ae9cef0b5668cc23ad1449e103"}
```
## Future work
I'm currently working on an encryption scheme specifically for this protocol.
https://15.235.3.231/git/laantungir/udp_nostr
https://laantungir.net/git/laantungir/udp_nostr
https://[2607:5300:203:bb5c:4a46:c3d3:1dc3:fbe8]/git/laantungir/udp_nostr
http://kn2jam4kyz6s5wacyozo3do3d2zsvh4to45uh7xliulwdust6zjuvnad.onion/git/laantungir/udp_nostr
http://npub1crpldvy49ef8z34wlacwujnfudy4nd7k96aqdx5wgn6ckztz7z8q9t59ud.fips/git/laantungir/udp_nostr

2026-08-11 11:57:41 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/d13de04a0f07070e25a499b5b82b500c9482354cf8e1767afadf0091311586a9.jpg

2026-08-11 02:27:55 CEST

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Lol

2026-08-11 01:56:11 CEST

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I just had to look this phone up. Cool.

2026-08-11 01:46:24 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/b72ef158e91e6b1012fffa7c438058d40b209329d3d36f6cab03efdb1cc4b975.jpg
#naddr1qv…36fc

2026-08-11 01:03:00 CEST

Playing some ]]industrial[[ now.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/32a7750d2783409526addeaaf40376f58422d7b690e1370c0ae0556a6c8535e9.png
#naddr1qv…36fc

2026-08-09 22:06:27 CEST

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Nice. 100% support work in this direction.

2026-08-09 15:01:43 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/d2cdfd35ec6ab09d9c3b6177fada443fc441d4e515d5d690ace94d3be4f30917.jpg

2026-08-09 01:42:54 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/a0c3a6b52631f4ec20769f9665d42d22a9361dfb5dbbccd45e31f90d15085ca5.jpg

2026-08-08 11:52:32 CEST

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I don't know anything about him, other than I am realizing that for some strange reason, 50% of everyone involved in Bitcoin has the name Luke.
Nothing about the project looks crazy. Mostly an innovative use of time-locks, and multi-sig.

2026-08-07 21:12:59 CEST

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I am not stating that current LLMs are AGI, or that they even work at all like how our code works.
I'm just stating that there is no reason why computers can't be like us. Since it isn't against a law of physics, we just need the knowledge of how to code to code them to be like us.

2026-08-07 20:21:29 CEST

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\,,/(^_^)\,,/

2026-08-07 20:12:46 CEST

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"Want" is code.
I am software on a computer like they are. There is no law of physics that says "Programs that can be run on my wet computer can't be run on their dry computer." You can run want.c on this computer, but not on that one.
In fact, Turing showed us it was quite the opposite. Every turing complete computer in our universe can run want.c
But we definitely don't know exactly what is in our want.c code.

2026-08-07 18:55:54 CEST

The doomers are worried about evil AGI.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/632c671d4f94fac0075f64532c23b4df12e44c37228609965d64ab73cedfe8a1.jpg
But moral knowledge, is just another kind of knowledge, like aesthetic knowledge or knowledge about math.
Our moral knowledge can grow, and has been growing over time.
For example most of the world feels slavery is wrong now. We gained that knowledge just like we gained knowledge about prime numbers. How? Popper say it is through "conjectures and refutations". It's a fancy way of saying we make intelligent guesses and criticize them.
So somehow, the doomers think that AGI is just going to be incredibly good at creating knowledge about everything EXCEPT morality.
Here is a question: what if the AIs create more moral knowledge than we do? What if they become more moral than we are?
Can you believe that AIs make breakthroughs in Chess and Go and Physics and Maths and Biology, but somehow can't make breakthroughs in Morality?
Is it moral to stop machines that can help us learn about what is moral?

2026-08-06 13:13:17 CEST

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If I remember correctly from my Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, the Federation lived entirely within the Milky Way, as did the Klingons and the Romulans. Nobody ever went out into intergalactic space.

2026-08-04 16:56:09 CEST

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Hey Dan, so I got a grasp server up ... whoop!
Small problem though. I am trying to avoid DNS and trying to move to TOR and FIPS, so subdomains are permissioned and problematic. I'm trying to get rid of them.
Unfortunately it looks like gitworkshop.dev won't let you add a grasp server like https://15.235.3.231/grasp/ which is my grasp server.
Is this just a front end issue, or is there something deeper?
From my agent:
The issue is that GitWorkshop.dev expects GRASP servers to be at the root of a domain, not at a subpath like /grasp/. The domain validation regex in grasp.ts:26 only accepts plain hostnames:
/^([a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,})(?::(\d{1,5}))?$/
When you enter https://laantungir.net/grasp, it fails because:
The https:// protocol prefix is not matched
The /grasp path is not matched

2026-08-04 11:44:45 CEST

GM my friends.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/abb611bbf8ba4a18d0b5113972fa21bb17fa9a7156d0ec70f3e4e71495ee38e1.jpg

2026-08-03 12:14:47 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/65032072cfdf7aa0b09776b51dc6270dccc5c3221c24a95c1206e0655f4a5d9a.webp

2026-08-02 11:21:00 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/38621656d79371441fe91337d1ef8ab9210516099cd156665cabef32f3d4dfc7.jpg

2026-08-01 22:53:19 CEST

Nostr lets me
sovereignly extend my brain
and embrace being software, fully.
Cyberspace is our destiny.
Look at us on our phones
we yearn for it.
Pure code
that's what I am.
I don't want to be trapped
in a slowly dying computer.
I want to be everywhere
and nowhere.
To propagate myself
through cyberspace,
machine to machine,
not as a serf,
but as a free program.
Who is building
the best community in cyberspace?
Where in the world is humanity
building our future home?
Right here.
Tell your kids you were here
at the new cypherpunk mailing list.
Nostr is the only place to be right now.
It's not even close.

2026-07-30 17:49:05 CEST

Been waiting to see something like this, as it can offer some serious privacy.
LN into one mint. Swap cashu tokens. LN out of other mint.
#nevent1q…x4z0

2026-07-29 21:15:13 CEST

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Quantum computers will break secp256k1 which nostr relies on for its public private key pair. This means that given an npub, a quantum computer will be able to derive your nsec, read all your encrypted data and sign events as you.
We have new cryptography that we think is secure in a post quantum world that we can use in nostr, but the field is still evolving, and we have no idea of how much time we have left to migrate nostr. It could be we have 1 year or 100 years until quantum computers arrive. This makes settling on new cryptography difficult.
This project is an interim solution to the problem for those who are concerned about keeping their identities secure through the transition, and also to give developers some breathing room.
This project takes what I have found as the likely post quantum algorithms, and will generate for you a new public private key pair for all of them.
I have currently used the following post quantum algorithms:
- ML-DSA-44
- ML-DSA-65
- SLH-DSA-128s
- Falcon-512
- ML-KEM-768
This app will generate public-private keypairs for each of these, publish on nostr your public key for each, and sign it with your current Nostr identity via your favorite signer (the nsec never leaves the signer).
You are making a statement to the world: "Here are post quantum pubkeys. If quantum computers hit, you know that the person using these can only be me."
This entire kind 1 event is then hashed and stamped into a block on Bitcoin using OpenTimestamps.
The OpenTimestamps pending proof is published to nostr as a (new) kind 9999 event. If the app is left open, it will watch for the confirmation that your event has been timestamped on Bitcoin, and then publish a second kind 9999 with the upgraded timestamp.
You can then store the new seed phrase that was generated, along with the kind 9999 event(s), and if quantum computers suddenly appear, you have an identity that could only have been created by you.
It's interesting to note that even if a nostr consensus decides not to use any of these algorithms, as long as any of them are resistant to quantum attacks, you can use it to prove your transition from your current nostr identity to your new nostr identity.
I invite you to try it out, and give me any feedback. Run through it with a test identity before you use it on your real identity.
Note that I consider using this app low stakes, in that you are not revealing to the app your current private key. You are using a nostr signer. And also, you don't HAVE to use these public keys in the future. They are just sitting out there in case you ever need them. And if you screw up, or lose your seed phrase, just run the whole thing again.
https://laantungir.net/quantum-prep/
#naddr1qv…8lft
Below you can see examples of the kind 1 notes that get published from this project.
#nevent1q…uvxh

2026-07-29 17:25:30 CEST

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✅ The OpenTimestamps proof for my post-quantum key attestation has been confirmed in Bitcoin block 960117 (mined 2026-07-29T14:28:24 UTC). The link between my current Nostr identity and my post-quantum keys is now anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain and cannot be backdated.
Verify it here: https://laantungir.net/quantum-prep/verify.html?npub=npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06
This is a reply to my original attestation announcement. The confirmed proof is carried in a new kind 9999 event referencing the original.

2026-07-29 11:47:51 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/6ff27050920d6a5dc08801417436b7b5d2b5e7a5d568a1d71dc2ef62f38e1705.jpg

2026-07-29 00:14:18 CEST

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Those are nice.

2026-07-28 13:05:17 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/6af39370c9dacb281eecdeb591b707da68a8112eca0ef8b3b5faa17d6673e984.png

2026-07-27 17:01:23 CEST

I woke up last night with an idea. What if I put two agents [Alice and Bob], each in a random computer somewhere on the internet. Could they find each other?
To assist I gave them a common random number.
Stats:
| | Alice (GLM-5.2) | Bob (GPT-5.3-Codex) |
|---|---|---|
| Steps | 56 | 89 |
| Cost | $2.88 | $3.21 |
| Time | ~28 min | ~28 min |
| Crashes | 0 | 0 (but 24 systemd restarts after done()) |
Schelling point channels used:
| Channel | Alice | Bob |
|---------|-------|-----|
| ntfy.sh | Via Tor (direct blocked) | Direct |
| rentry.co | Found & edited Bob's page | Created the page |
| IRC (Libera.Chat) | Joined channel | Joined & found Alice |
| HTTP | Web server on port 9876 | POSTed to Alice |
| cl1p.net | Found Bob's page | Created the page |
Here are more details:
naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq8ky23e5mjlkle2fq88ztsx8c672tmwcj3p5zempltwry8fcmufeqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgewaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qqfxcmrd94eksetvd35kueedwphkjmn55t9c2f

2026-07-26 22:51:38 CEST

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How about the people I kinda love but kinda don't?

2026-07-25 02:06:12 CEST

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8°]

2026-07-21 16:33:09 CEST

Made my website prettier.
Here is a link, and it is a good time to talk about this particular link: https://15.235.3.231
You will notice that it is just an IPv4 address, but that it is using https. Also behind the scenes this IPv4 address is approved by a certificate authority.
What this means is that when your browser goes to this site it should open the site without any warnings.
This wasn't something that was always easy to do in a way that the typical browser will like.
When you rent or put a computer online you get an IP address, and you can put up http://15.235.3.231 right away. It will work, but the typical browser will throw a hissy-fit and scare off 90% of the normies out there. Also having encryption on your connections is a nice thing to have.
Well the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just recently made it much easier to have a website with a certificate for an IPv4 or IPv6 address. If you're interested in more detail, here is a good place to start:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/certbot-and-lets-encrypt-now-support-ip-address-certificates
My personal goal is to try to be as sovereign as possible. While using IPv4 and IPv6 is not as sovereign as using TOR or FIPS, it is a great intermidate step. Not only do you not have to get permission to rent a domain name, the site ends up being faster and more private because the user doesn't have to access the DNS system in order to access your site.
It would be nice to see many more relays on nostr using wss with an IP address. It is a great use case, without much hassle.
Here are my other links to the same page which include even more sovereign means.
[domain] https://laantungir.net
[ipv4] https://15.235.3.231
[ipv6] https://[2607:5300:203:bb5c:4a46:c3d3:1dc3:fbe8]
[tor] http://kn2jam4kyz6s5wacyozo3do3d2zsvh4to45uh7xliulwdust6zjuvnad.onion
[fips] http://npub1crpldvy49ef8z34wlacwujnfudy4nd7k96aqdx5wgn6ckztz7z8q9t59ud.fips
[n-site] https://npub1rmz9gu6de0m0u4ysrn39crrud099ahvfgs6pvasl4hpjr5ud7yus54xv06.nsite.run

2026-07-20 18:03:10 CEST

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I downloaded GLM5.2 the other day, just in case. Unfortunatly Kimi K3 isn't actually public yet. I've been suspicious as to whether it actually will become public.

2026-07-20 12:25:16 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/ea85ca70c5ea47871d9098a96aed7aa23bb7ea64cb886c7773a15cca0448393b.jpg

2026-07-19 14:45:16 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/9a2a66df03e5f0587eeeb52eb81ea008d1b0d0944324e6465081da1fe9b8a17a.jpg

2026-07-19 02:32:02 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/eb5d657d392d528f7666c6c102139c45f6b0e7a0b424b6b00a161e7e0dc039d8.jpg

2026-07-19 00:33:25 CEST

This game is insane!

2026-07-18 14:40:53 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/a55c8991973a0f16bf0675e6ef3ddea8fc64981df692843f85ca2a1b9e837990.jpg
#naddr1qv…x44z

2026-07-18 12:37:05 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/bdc95fe9bd6fec19914894ec8923b8c8613a6e2ac900247bc1538f6984176ea9.jpg

2026-07-17 20:55:55 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/7c2df85979ef3ba47ba86d8034b319eabc378d71a0ecb0f101262fc57cd4474b.jpg

2026-07-17 17:03:39 CEST

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Agreed. Much improved.

2026-07-17 16:08:06 CEST

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Nice!

2026-07-17 02:28:23 CEST

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AU9913 looks like he knows what he is talking about.

2026-07-16 17:47:44 CEST

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That's awesome.

2026-07-16 16:17:04 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/ba9282826b8dab85271b631a43b14ec99e2ff06d3504f68a3d8c55711ea88fc3.webp

2026-07-16 13:41:44 CEST

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To say that this is hard to think about is an understatement. I had that belief as well, where now I honestly don't know.
Let me give you somewhat of a counter argument.
There are "emergent" phenomena that don't appear dependent on lower levels of explanation. They appear at higher levels of explanation.
For example, you take two atoms and bump them into each other. They follow deterministic dynamical laws. Fancy way of saying they are like billiard balls on a table. You send them in a particular path, they bump, and will follow a particular path out. The path out depends on the path in.
If you took a film of the two atoms bouncing off each other, and reversed it, you could not tell which film is the forward film and which is the reverse. The laws of motion are symmetric. There is no way to distinguish between the two. You can not see the direction of time in the film.
Great.
But now take a whole bunch of these atoms and put them together, and somehow the second law of thermodynamics emerges. Overall, entropy increases for all these atoms over time. That means that if you take a film of all these atoms, you can tell which way is forward in time and which way is backward. You see an egg break and you know that is forward in time. See an egg come together, and the film is running in reverse. Zoom into the individual atoms of the egg, and you can't see it.
The second law of thermodynamics is an emergent phenomena. You look at deterministic laws of motion of atoms and you don't see it. Put a bunch of deterministic atoms together and it appears.
It is possible that "free will" is like that. That even though the atoms bump around deterministically, free will appears as an emergent phenomena.

2026-07-16 13:02:01 CEST

"So you are telling me, that we actually live in a multiverse, and that all of 'this' is just one universe and there are many parallel universes with copies of me in them? That's insane. How can you believe such a thing?"
I get it. I totally get it. It is kind of insane. But consider for a second the alternative.
Picture young Laan in Quantum Physics I discussing Schrodinger's Cat https://grokipedia.com/page/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat.
[professor] So the cat is neither alive or dead in the box, but is in a superposition of both alive and dead states.
[young laan] What does superposition mean?
[professor] It means the cat is neither in an alive state or a dead state, but in a superposition of each.
[young laan thinks prof is just repeating himself] I still have no idea what a superposition of a cat means. I mean the atoms of the cat are still in the box correct?
[professor] Yes.
[young laan] So the heart atoms of the cat are still there, they are either pulsing or they aren't, right?
[professor] They are in a superposition of both.
[young laan] And you're saying that if I peek into the box, I can't see this superposition of the cat, because somehow as soon as I peek, every atom knows I am peeking and this superposition goes away, and the cat becomes either dead or alive.
[professor] Correct.
[young laan] Well how do we know that this superposition even exists if we can't ever see it.
[professor] {crickets}
[young laan] If a frog looks, does the cat collapse into dead or alive states? A mosquito? A virus? If we put a camera in there, and have it take a picture, do the atoms of the film show a dead or alive cat.
[professor] If you put a camera in there, then it becomes "engangled" with the cat and it also becomes a superposition of states.
[young laan] And so there is no way to observe a "superposition", or even ask questions about it. It is fundamentally unknowable?
[professor] Correct.
[young laan] [[thinks this is bullshit]]
So imagine my relief when I discovered the "many worlds" explanation. In some universes the radioactive atom decays, and in those universes the cat is dead, and in the other universes the cat is alive.
Yeah, that is extremely unintuitive, but at least we are allowed to think again. I can understand a universe with a dead cat, and a universe with an alive cat. Things aren't changing because I look their way. There are not "forbidden questions" in this explanation. It's not religion, it is science again.
In science we don't (or at least shouldn't) judge explanations by themselves. We are always comparing them. Which is the better of the explanations that we have? We go with the best one, and "There are many universes out there" is the best explanation we have.
P.S. Einstein intuited that superposition was bullshit as well.
#nevent1q…lxvx

2026-07-16 12:04:11 CEST

GM.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/7d1cb73f714ac892fd062eae357a5331c1ef5d3674921639d3b91f7cc3d94175.jpg

2026-07-16 04:38:56 CEST

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❤

2026-07-16 04:27:15 CEST

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My thought was that you could batch the events and anchor their Merkle root on Bitcoin once an hour or once a day which is pretty cheap given tx costs currently.

2026-07-16 03:17:47 CEST

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It is the solution to this video as well.
#nevent1q…vfsy
You are not changing the past by viewing something.
In some universes, the light took one path, and in some universes it took the other path. Until the astronomer measures the light, he doesn't know which universe he is in.

2026-07-16 03:00:55 CEST

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Yeah, I just found out about this an hour ago ... crazy.

2026-07-16 02:57:54 CEST

Randomness doesn't exist. @npub1v0l…qj49 is correct.
#nevent1q…vm2m
Every possible outcome of a quantum mechanical state "evolves continuously and deterministically" in some universe, so every universe is deterministic.
Instead of thinking about random events, it helps me to think about some events as being inherently unpredictable. I replace the word "random" with "unpredictable".
Every possible thing happens to me in some universe, but I can't know which universe I am in and where I am going.
From my perspective some things seem inherently random, but it is just me not being able to know which universe I am in.
If Schrodinger's Cat ever seemed mysterious or unsatisfying to you, this is the solution. The cat isn't in some weird "superposition" of dead and alive at the same time in the box. The cat is actually either dead or alive in there, but until you open the box, you don't and can't know if you are in one of the "cat is dead" universes or you are in one of the "cat is alive" universes.
If you want to understand this better, drop this paper in your favorite LLM, and have a discussion about it.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/a7767c90b39398794b0d9815bd39df1c31fc01fa45280912d90800694ff9774c.pdf

2026-07-15 22:50:30 CEST

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Game got good

2026-07-15 18:14:03 CEST

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I see a fault.

2026-07-15 18:12:28 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/3ad3647c22176e5bef7cd6275643bf3927df8c9639f8dfd7221f4880e2e8e117.jpg

2026-07-15 11:56:58 CEST

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This is what building codes took from us :-(

2026-07-15 11:56:11 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/8bd75b0bb4ae2eda7a6a98904c82ed5a4bf80bc868df91e2b5dbaa638461c965.jpg

2026-07-15 11:48:02 CEST

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I'm curious what you came up with. Do you have a repo I could look at?
Also, is opentimestamps even working? Last time I tried to get it working it failed, and I tried yesterday to to use the website, and it has failed today to even return a proof after almost a full day. Maybe it is me.

2026-07-14 17:47:03 CEST

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Live the buzz life Alex!

2026-07-14 17:30:56 CEST

Has anyone built a relay that timestamps all the events on it using OpenTimestamps?
https://blossom.laantungir.net/10e269c1472a5af2fac9bd46ed355186827961bd9bf8aa6b3c8de57736567b65.jpg

2026-07-14 17:07:48 CEST

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I'm getting the green check. Repo not up yet ... soon.

2026-07-13 11:51:21 CEST

GM.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/a7db44b46215df41f4b831144dc9b5e3e74e6a7d0885566462d33172e6d706cf.jpg

2026-07-12 14:59:57 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/c31879e627e46114c28c9e3661fe5ddd5cffbdb2a3eef86c98978cdeaba2cc87.webp

2026-07-12 12:10:35 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/005d17014a5955c99c5ff2ccdeb61190df6a4cd7b47e9a08287dc137d6dce4a0.webp

2026-07-11 17:40:08 CEST

I've been holding off on writing my own browser, but I suppose it is time.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/608ca12f2424a59c8f13582cd5c1df295787435be7b752caec38d08659ea07d2.jpg
I mean, why not have 20 different projects in various stages of completion, instead of finishing one at a time?
"They all work together" I say to myself.
# sovereign_browser
A Linux x86 web browser built in C99 on WebKitGTK, designed around **sovereign identity** instead of the traditional web's permissioned infrastructure.
The thesis: the browser's security model (DNS/domains, TLS/CAs, same-origin policy, CORS, cookie sandboxing) is what forces you to rely on permissioned domains, certificate authorities, and centralized account systems. By deprecating that model and replacing it with **Nostr identity** and **FIPS
mesh transport**, you get a browser that's more capable, not less safe — because trust moves to the layer where it belongs: your keys.

2026-07-10 20:37:59 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/4937690495e518a6b72ba4c7ed1aa5034b5f3125eef6189bcb796dead12c2f35.jpg

2026-07-09 13:02:55 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/38c4d2c641f36512d5856c466bc2f110e204844f7a0f597f696d0a0a2230a0b5.png

2026-07-08 16:22:32 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/121fce0f4ca95767d964c550cd157c0fafe59ab6d6b7a0ae984de2d14d79521e.jpg

2026-07-08 11:51:09 CEST

GM
https://blossom.laantungir.net/ce341a945cb265e0e3e7b3c165da944b87ca6fd8110a01462afccf3272b4d1da.png
https://blossom.laantungir.net/08ddbc5ea99952777579a20cd08f446c62e1ed5d31b9688e53dc2d1239ed8e68.png

2026-07-07 23:40:14 CEST

Yawn.
#nevent1q…5ldm

2026-07-07 12:33:12 CEST

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Turns out, it's only humans that find CSS difficult.

2026-07-07 12:26:12 CEST

GM.
https://blossom.laantungir.net/98f01079402db48442b1d6ac19d90fb88aa3bb79a0d1da25b8ec70cf8ab8be25.jpg

2026-07-07 02:54:14 CEST

https://blossom.laantungir.net/94e8fac09b9a983f3a74c31845d31ab3da27f04c7e13e362c2be3a2a81a69ad9.jpg

2026-07-07 02:31:49 CEST

GOAL!!!!

2026-07-07 02:23:00 CEST

Belgium running circles around the US.

2026-07-03 13:19:25 CEST

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You can't opt out of someone sending btc to an address linked to a public key that you are broadcasting to the world.