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cqwww··on Stop re-entering AI credentials in every app and agent
Stop re-entering AI credentials in every app and agent. Set once. Route everywhere. An open source tool I built for myself, hopefully you find it useful as well.
cqwww··on How I run pi.dev safely (and get work done)
Most people are still rawdogging Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, or Hermes -- but pi.dev will likely +10x your output.
cqwww··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
At ConsentKeys.com we're already working on integrating with a menstrual tracking app (can't mention until the ink is dry), but we're a good fit for apps concerned with blow back like this as the apps that use us will never get the real personal information of the users in exchange for us offering to place them in our privacy centric marketplace (exposure) as well as de-risking themselves as a business, as well as de-risking their users from a data breach (or their information being sold/shared). Vendors also contractually agree to not try to assemble data in a way to try to identify their users as it makes no sense to use us unless you want to be privacy prioritized.
cqwww··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
ConsentKeys.com | REMOTE | Privacy & Security Engineering Full Stack Developer (+3 other roles)

If protecting people's privacy is a passion for you as it has been for me for decades, this could be a great fit!

If terms like verifiable credentials, OIDC, and ZKPs don't scare you, this full-stack dev role might be for you -- contract at first but the ideal would be to move into a CTO role for our WolfNYC (VC) backed startup.

We are also hiring B2C & B2B Growth marketing roles, as well as an operations person.

https://consentkeys.com/careers

cqwww··on Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr
I'm really bullish on nostr: https://krisconstable.com/check-out-the-nostr-protocol/

If nothing else, know these two things:

1) It's a decentralized protocol, not a company or app -- there are man different clients that do completely different things on nostr, try them all and see which works best for you.

2) Unlike Twitter and Mastadon, the relay admins can not read your private DMs.

If you want to generate a key pair, including a vanity one, and/or know how to NIP-05 validate it, to use nostr: https://krisconstable.com/generating-a-key-pair-with-nostr/

cqwww··on Check Out the Nostr Protocol
Keep in mind this is a brand new protocol, but the exciting thing is development is happening very rapidly and you can be on the ground floor. I'm bullish on this protocol and speculate it will challenge Twitter as clients, relays, and the protocol improve.

A day or two ago someone was trying an XSS on the web clients, including Damus web, so they've been taken down until resolved. Use nos2x or alby if you're using a web client, instead of inputting your private key into the web app manually.

cqwww··on A native internet protocol for social media
If you've not heard about it, check out nostr protocol -- https://krisconstable.com/check-out-the-nostr-protocol/

"nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". "The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all."

Jack stumbled upon it yesterday and created an account, so there have been a flood of new users already in the last 16 hours.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

I recommend https://astral.ninja as a first time user as it's easy to generate a key pair, which you can then use as you try the many other clients.

This is a very new protocol, so the clients are still dev level and not production level, but development has been very rapid on this protocol.

One thing that stands out to me as a privacy advocate, is that unlike Twitter or Mastadon, the admins (relay operators in the case of nostr) can't read your DMs, so nostr is already ahead of both of these technologies in that regard.