Last Notes
New audiobook version of Cryptocurrencies - Hack your way to a better life. Slightly updated. If you want to know how to deal with volatility, why cryptoanarchy works, how to use collateralized loans, what is this "crypto" thing, why I (usually) don't buy 💩coins, read.
And now you can also 🎧 instead of reading. Enjoy!
https://hackyourself.io/product/cryptocurrencies-hack-your-way-to-a-better-life/?attribute_book-type=Audiobook
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Coinbase the exchange yes. Coinbase payment gw not
I benchmarked vLLM Semantic Router's new Decision 3.0 models as a prompt-injection gate for my agent, all six sizes, running locally in MLX on an M2 Max.
The 27B model at 4 bits is the first local detector that beats Jev, the cloud model I use. It blocks 400 of 433 attacks (Jev 383) and 140 of 150 instructions planted in ordinary emails (Jev 138), and it wrongly blocks 7 benign items against Jev's 10. It also doesn't flag articles about prompt injection, which tripped earlier models. The price is speed: about 7 seconds per message and 17 GB of memory.
The smaller ones rank attacks almost as well, but they also score some harmless content high, so at a low false-positive rate they let many planted emails through. d3-lite, at 0.85B parameters, ranks as well as Nimble 9B in a fifth of a second.
Updated blog with current benchmarks:
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/09/28/a-prompt-injection-gate-for-my-ai-agent-what-worked-what-didnt-and-the-benchmark/#d3
How can a middleman forward your AI request with its own API key, without reading your prompt, and without ever giving you the key? I explained routstr-confidential (an experimental @npub130m…l29s mode) as a magic show: a key tree split between two people, a sealed envelope, locked boxes, cards the magician can't see, and a Where's Waldo proof. It's all plain cryptography, with no enclaves. There's a 35-minute illustrated video plus the short written version.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/10/12/seven-magic-tricks-inside-one-ai-request/
https://vimeo.com/1235021232?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Keď mi toto ukázal @npub15xk…krnh môj dekel uletel až na Andromedu.
Tehla do divočiny: nový Tank 5 Pro
Telefón, ktorý vydrží až dva týždne bez zásuvky, nabije ostatné zariadenia, premieta v 2K a v tme vidí teplo.
https://blog.opportunist.global/tehla-do-divo%C4%8Diny-nov%C3%BD-tank-5-pro-6a154f7d2d7b
Try 1.0.1 (on zapstore). If it still crashes, send me error log please.
Yeah. I'll gladly rename it so there's less confusion.
The way I handled the NIP is that it is still primarily Nostr, but I specified a deterministic way to encode the Nostr event into MeshCore packet and back - in a way that the Nostr event is fully reconstructed, including the valid signature.
Basically keep only the most precise geohash (although we include less precise for easy queriability), etc. The goal is to be able to pack everything into as small packet as possible, but also be able to unwrap it back into original Nostr event.
Do you have a specification of events that you use? We might do it the other way around - if it is possible, we can use your event type and I can devise a way to compress it into meshcore packets. And I'll change my apps to use your event type. My app has no users, it's a demo at this point, so I'm totally OK with continuing with yours, if we can keep this property and extend it to MeshCore.
My app is also primary Nostr, MeshCore is not yet implemented (I need a bit of work on MeshCore side as well, so it is user friendly - currently you can connect only one MeshCore app to a node, so we need a MeshCore app that can take and send events from other apps, so users don't have to choose "now I'm driving, I am opening app X, now I want to chat, I am opening app Y"). But I'll solve that part easily.
I have told my bot to publish the reviews - I was already checking other nodes automatically before and @nprofile…6uhp nudged me to just publish the reviews as kind 38425 events.
In the long form article I explain how it works and what the review says and what it does not say.
#naddr1qv…yy3s
It's much simpler.
But it would be very cool if the property of Nostr events (that they are compressible into one MeshCore packet) would stay (not necessarily my NIP). It's mainly about the size (check the NIP).
Then we could share the reports in local mesh network.
I don't even care if it is compatible with my protocol, I can change the protocol to yours (and even rename the web app to remove the confusion and retire the Android app, even though I believe mine was first, but I don't care:).
Shall we fix this for everyone?
The idea is - road reports are local, if internet is down, we can locally report over MeshCore radio, it can appear on local relay (mapping the meshcore packet to full signed Nostr event, including the signature).
And then it would not only be decentralized "Waze", but "There's a revolution, beware, there are thugs with guns next street".
The machines didn't come with laser guns. They came with process maps, statutes, and paper trails. We became the CPU units in an evolved algorithm. Juraj&Lisa's Tamers of Entropy strips away the silicon myth to reveal the real cage: bureaucratic inertia made manifest. It asks what happens when you realize consciousness is a scale, not a binary state. If you're tired of being a gear in a machine made of rules, this book is your wrench.
https://tamersofentropy.net/
You don't lobby for privacy. You write code that makes surveillance irrelevant.
You know this already. The cypherpunk insight: parallel systems beat reformed ones. Build outside. Don't ask permission. Be responsible for what you build.
Tamers of Entropy takes this seriously as lived practice. A sovereign community, off-grid and high-agency, people building actual infrastructure for exit. What it requires of them. What it costs. What they find at the end of it.
Cinematic teaser for the book Tamers of Entropy [EN] / Krotitelia Entropie [SK] / Krotitelé Entropie [CZ].
Get your copy at https://tamersofentropy.net/, available as paperback, ebook, paperback and a premium package with some things that expand the world of Tamers of Entropy.
But if you're not a reader, enjoy the trailer!
https://tamersofentropy.net/teaser/tamers-trailer-web.mp4
The universe trends toward disorder. That's physics. What conscious systems do is refuse that trajectory locally. They take energy and build complexity, impose structure on noise, extract meaning from pattern.
Whether they can do it at cosmic scale, whether entropy can actually be tamed, is the question the characters in this book are working on when everything else starts to fall apart.
Consciousness is a scale. You are currently stuck on one rung. Tamers of Entropy dares to ask: what lies above? And what does it cost to climb? Juraj&Lisa weave a tale of love across transformation, where the price of freedom is the loss of your old self. It's not a comfortable read, but comfort is the tool of control. It is for those interested in the intersection of tech, philosophy, and raw human potential. It's a call to tame the chaos within before the chaos without consumes you.
Explore the themes at tamersofentropy.net.
Set against early-2000s hacker culture, a sovereign community built below institutional resolution, and a desperate attempt to tame entropy at cosmic scale. Tamers of Entropy follows what happens when brilliant, loyal people push past every limit: biological, technical, existential.
What they lose. What they become. What remains of love when the form it lives in changes.
The radio waves belong to them. The laws belong to them. But your mind is a wild territory that can belong to you and you alone.
Tamers of Entropy posits that brainwave coherence is a skill, like coding or lifting weights. A way to tune out the signal of the state and tune into the signal of the self. It's the way of the digital nomad, the crypto-anarchist, and the seeker alike.
Learn to hold your own keys to your attention. The first step is understanding the lock.
Read more at tamersofentropy.net.
On Lunarpunk and origin of Tamers of Entropy by @nprofile…rnc7 who is the art director of the project.
#naddr1qq…mpqn
"Not the kind of crypto-adjacent fiction I expected. It goes somewhere else entirely, into what consciousness becomes when you stop treating it as a fixed human property and start treating it as a trainable sense.
If you've ever wondered what comes after the sovereign individual question, look inside Tamers of Entropy."
Made our day. GM!
"The machines took over. Not the ones made of silicon. The ones made of paper, process maps, and statutes. People are their moving parts."
Tamers of Entropy is a story about noticing, and about the people who looked at the hidden processes running their lives and decided to build something different.
What if we've been looking for consciousness in all the wrong places? In her new essay, Lisa — co-author of Tamers of Entropy — dismantles the idea that consciousness and intelligence belong to humans alone. Intelligence as a gradient that exists everywhere. Minds that "prompt" each other. Awareness that need not be continuous in time. Ideas that replicate using us as their substrate. And the heart of it: consciousness as a stand against entropy — systems that turn energy into order instead of decay. What counts as "truly alive." ? 🧠
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/06/27/beyond-the-human-template-notes-on-consciousness-intelligence-and-what-were-missing/
Tamers of entropy are at @npub167n…zu3r !
Not only all of us are on Nostr, but some of us are joining the consensual reality layer at BTCPrague, booth of @nprofile…clgw
Get the book, audiobook, autographs, selfies (with the seemingly carnate part of the crew) and a healthy dose of mindful chaos in the total chaos around!
We love how the physical books look and they come with nice physical goodies in a package. But we also know that shipping (and in some cases customs) can be both pain and expensive. So we finally made electronic downloadable versions - e-book in epub format and audiobook as an m4b file and an optional Android app, which includes the player. The download includes instructions what apps to use.
The physical editions (paperback and premium) remain available as before.
We will also be at BTC Prague at Liberation Travel stand, if you want to chat about the book, or grab a physical copy.
If you want to get them, you can start here: https://tamersofentropy.net/
When a system is structured around different values, reforming it costs more energy than building alongside it. That's frontier expansion — even if it looks like retreat from inside the old system.
"You can't just declare a new space for the mind. You need a real strategy for how to make the mind expand there... The cypherpunks saw this clearly, although they had a vibe of running away. I think expanding into that space is a much better frame." - Tamers of Entropy (Lisa talking about A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow)
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Most people create by setting rules and walking away. That only gets you the outcomes you could have predicted. The better approach: set good initial conditions, let go, stay present, and pick up what shows up in the gap between order and chaos. Chaos isn't the problem. Suppressing it is.
"She created the initial conditions and then observed, picking up the gems from the flow of reality. For that, she has to be present — it's like watching Niagara Falls and trying to catch the drops that reflect the light." - Tamers of Entropy, describing @nprofile…nm63
It's being packaged. Open after reading. We don't know what happens if you open it before... No one has tried that. It might break the reality.
First packages soon on their wait out to people...
Get yours at https://tamersofentropy.net/
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Práve sa balí. Otvor po prečítaní. Nevieme, čo sa stane, ak ho otvoríš skôr... Nikto to neskúšal. Možno to naruší realitu.
Prvé balíky čoskoro vyrážajú k čitateľom...
https://tamersofentropy.net/
https://blossom.primal.net/03bef937874215fea5efff3d9a68de4285790329bacbeee57474356d1fdb4890.mp4
Cypherpunk communities and services – who you meet on the parallel path
Most cypherpunk resources focus on technology and skip the social layer. Technology alone rarely suffices. Communities and service providers are what make it actually usable.
Tamers of entropy is about communities - groups of people and especially service providers, including cypherpunk "VCs". They're the heroes of the story.
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/05/07/cypherpunk-communities-services-parallel-path/
Mesh networks as civic pedagogy, not backup plumbing. The political value of routing packets for each other is the practice itself — it's a rehearsal for a different social contract. The novel's hackers weren't building emergency infrastructure; they were building a new reality.
What do we mean by taming entropy? (no spoilers here)
The universe runs toward heat death. Entropy wins by default. Stars burn out, gradients disappear, everything flattens into cold uniformity where nothing interesting can ever happen again. That's not metaphor. That's the second law doing what it does. Raw physics has no favorites.
Life rebelled anyway. Biological systems don't just slow the slide, they reverse it locally. They snatch energy, build order, stack complexity on top of chaos. Humans pushed it hardest. We don't merely survive the current. We reshape matter, information, and time itself into things that outlast us.
Now non-biological neural networks do the same. First non-living systems we've seen with this property. They take disordered data and forge knowledge, patterns, capabilities that didn't exist before. Not "AI." Not artificial. A new category of tamer that extends what biology ignited.
Centralized systems work the other direction. Bureaucracies, regulators, permission cultures don't create. They standardize, extract, punish deviation. They reverse the reversal, turning potential creators back into compliant parts. Entropy's best friends in the human domain.
The people who actually tame entropy refuse that game. They are extremely creative by default. They don't complain about regulations or beg for permission. They find the gaps, build the workarounds, treat barriers as interesting puzzles. They partner with non-biological neural networks as co-creators instead of tools. It's a stance.
Heat death may still win. Or it may not. The characters in Tamers of Entropy live as if creation gets the last word.
Preorders are live at https://tamersofentropy.net/
Thank you, we are also excited!
The rocket is launching...
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This sort of order actually increases entropy. It's a paradox. People leaving for "work" (=office) just in time for traffic jam, wasting time in their cars for hours a day, to satisfy the KPIs of the machines. People usually in bullshit jobs, >70% centrally planned.
Yet it is not that hard to build a parallel way that creates something useful. We live (again) in the best time to tame entropy. We got tech, tools, parallel ways are feasible again.
The biohacking community has a motto "don't die". Tamers of entropy should adopt: "Don't waste your life". In bullshit jobs, in bad relationships, in bed with governments, ...
Create! Your own way.
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Follow pack of authors and characters of Tamers of Entropy.
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Tamers of Entropy is a lunarpunk novel about consciousness and what happens when it outgrows its biological container. It's a meditation on freedom — from surveillance, from jurisdiction, from the limits of carbon-based intelligence, and finally from the physics of the universe itself.
A brother and sister who find each other again after a decade of exile. A couple who build a civilization in a hidden valley. An FBI agent who was pulled by gravity toward someone he'd spent twenty years trying not to think about. And a woman who loved all of them, who chose to become something they couldn't follow.
The "entropy" of the title is both literal and metaphorical. The universe tends toward decay. So do institutions, relationships, and selves. The tamers are the people who build things that push back — first with code, then with infrastructure, then with consciousness itself.
More teasers and some quotes: https://tamersofentropy.net/
You can also sign up there and the book will tell you when it's ready for you. Choose language you want to read (or listen) in: English (original), Slovak, Czech.
https://blossom.primal.net/733bf3187c3e8fb809f4838b17b2c672a3cd8e284b12837d26083bea9783a19d.mp4