Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@pete

hey all, i built both the vaccum TEP of shiftcrypto and the entropyseal.
apologies we have not yet published a video that clarifies some of the assumptions discussed here.

@giszmo - freezing attack is indeed not easily doable thanks to the protrusions, which we call pins, locking the entire system if the particles are frozen.

@giszmo - not friction makes cap insert rotate against the cap. there are teeth, actually heavy duty teeth that prevent from twisting the jar open without opening the particle insert into a loose state forcefully.

@kekcoin - slow and careful will still disturb the pattern due to pins inside cap and also from the other side of the insert. upside down opening does also not do the trick.

@jgettbtc - the design is foreseen in transparent polycarbonate, the locked particles should survive a simple drop easily. after all the design is made to be shipped internationally in locked state. thick tempered glass would be an option for the jar but would increase cost a bit.

@121
- love the idea of russian doll style. tough that would need two initial sizes and injection mold tooling is quite a cost factor.

@pete
- the vacuum tep's main security was not the bag but the problem to pull away the velcro particle pouch from the container without disturbing the pattern.

i gladly answer any further arising questions, also via entropyseal@protonmail.com

In #English there is the expression of something being a "double-edged sword".

In #Dutch we have almost the same expression - "het mes snijdt aan beide kanten".

The meaning is almost opposite, however: the Dutch expression means "this has 2 distinct advantages", like a win-win scenario or killing two birds with one stone. The English expression means "this has both advantages and disadvantages". #linguistics

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Great pod with @pete on Swan Signal, talking about the other side in the block size debate all scammers. No one non-scamming & technically inclined were on that side.

Direct link with timestamp: https://overcast.fm/+YwHS-ZYUc/56:48

I was looking at old old innernet posts, and I found the most terrifying one sentence story ever

"It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside.""

Mostly peaceful terrorist nominated for the Nobel peace prize 🤡 🌎

The Biden Regime in one screenshot.

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

Crazy.

#Bitcoin , what more can I say.

@harding @pete I use the Scrambled EXIF app to do this on my phone on the fly. Super easy.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif

When sharing a photo, first share to the app, then share opens again and choose wherever you wanted to originally share it to and the exif data is gone. It's FOSS and available on F-Droid too.

@pete I liked your idea from a few years ago for sharing photos originally taken using a phone or digital camera: instead of uploading the photo directly, take a screenshot of it first to firewall the metadata. I started doing that, and it not only makes me feel more comfortable sharing random recent photos of geese from a park near where I live, but it also makes it easier for me to crop the image by only capturing part of it, or scale it by just zooming in/out using my favorite image viewer.