In January 2018 I gave a talk at RIOTcon about -- you guessed it -- Pursuance. Here are my slides. »
My criteria when deciding to work on a project: Long-term: I must be not just willing, but excited to spend 10+ years of my life on »
How to Decide What to Work On You should pursue a project if and only if it: Maximizes your values Is valuable to the world Is »
Mine The End State Here's where we need to get to as a species: I want every person in the world to be doing exactly what »
Slides from my Pursuance talk given at 34C3 on December 30, 2017 in Germany: https://2bxc6ctt7hly0milf5fo.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html?transition=none#/ »
An excerpt from the brilliant https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html -- If an individual human’s core motivation is to pass its genes on »
My good friend AJ Bahnken and I hosted a CryptoParty/surveillance self-defense workshop/security training in December of 2017. Here are our slides: My slides: https »
The projects of mine that I'm currently focused on, as of... November 2017 Since April 2017 I have been maniacally focused on building and coordinating the »
In 2015 I worked with a designer friend of mine, Sky Gilbar, to create this click-through prototype of Backchannel, an imagined mobile app for secure "chat »
I've taught several people the basics of coding throughout the years. If Python is the language you should learn first (rather than, say, JavaScript), do this »
From mid-2015 to mid-2016 I got about 1/3 of my calories from Soylent, a "meal replacement" that's kind of like a protein shake, except there's »
Technology Jeff Lindsay Rich Hickey Rob Pike Alan Kay Bret Victor The Future Peter Diamandis Digital Security Bruce Schneier Edward Snowden Julian Assange Jacob Appelbaum Motherboard »
The most unknown and underrated technology I've ever used is certainly PostgREST. What is PostgREST, and what does it do for you? Your Postgres table definitions »
https://y7aqjhvl1kizojdbcf6w.oasis.sandstorm.io/ »
[The following fictional story is meant as an example for how dangerous superintelligent artificial intelligence will be, and how easily malicious people will be able to »
OVH's "unmetered" servers are as "unlimited" as T-Mobile's 4G -- once you use a certain amount of data transfer, you're throttled. Excerpt from the OVH license »
$ acme.sh --issue -d MYDOMAIN.com -d www.MYDOMAIN.com -w ~/www --dns dns_gd Looks simple, doesn't it? Nope. Here's what you have to do »
In using Atlantic.net for the past 13 months, I didn't notice any downtime during my stay, which I appreciate. But I'm leaving for a few »
My (Steve's) slides, covering why privacy is important, why surveillance is so dangerous, historical examples of surveillance being abused, and more: https://7n86utrjsnwezs4srry1.oasis.sandstorm.io »
The first version of CrypTag Notes, the secure note-taking and shared wiki page desktop app, has launched!!! »
Install https://git-for-windows.github.io/ Create a GitHub account at https://github.com/ Follow these instructions to generate an SSH key and add it to your »
Use Signal, the encrypted mobile messaging app. It's open source, it's created by great hackers over at Open Whisper Systems. iPhone/iOS version Android version »
I really enjoyed teaching members of Revolution LA how to use various privacy-enhancing tools at our 3-hour event on December 11, 2016. Thank you Trinity for »
Below is a list of horribly bad, true things that have happened, many of them perpetrated by the US government. 2020.09.17: Some prisons are »
Perhaps because most of us suspect that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would make even worse presidents than Barack Obama has been, this has led »