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Monero-class privacy: threat models, how the tech works, and why opaque ledgers matter.
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Open weights, local inference, and decentralized compute — tech, not tokens-to-buy.
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Keys as identity, public relays, clients, and zaps — without running a relay product.
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Seed hygiene, hardware overview, and the habits that keep keys yours alone.
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Successful Load Is Not Proof: Embedded GGUF Alignment and Wrong Tensors
llama.cpp b11019 fixed embedded GGUF data-section alignment so a successful load can no longer silently return wrong tensors — packaging integrity for sovereign local AI.
2026-09-21
Stale Lists and Dark Outboxes: When NIP-65 Metadata Lies by Age or Uptime
NIP-65 kind:10002 is discovery, not authority — stale relay lists and dark outboxes are the real failure modes; client merge is not consensus.
2026-09-21
Autonomi Stores Immutable Chunks — Public Address vs Private DataMap
On Autonomi the storage primitive is the immutable content-addressed chunk. Public address and private DataMap are two retrieval stories over the same substrate — updates are new uploads.
2026-09-21
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