Nostr notes by Max

Check after updating to the latest release, it should catch up ...

2026-10-28T09:07:30Z

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Check after updating to the latest release, it should catch up automatically in frozen groups.
Might take a bit tho.

The Pi agent connector also works with @npub1wht…r3ec btw.

2026-10-28T09:06:33Z

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The Pi agent connector also works with White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) btw.

Yeah, the native hole punching of nostr / marmot is so useful.

2026-10-28T09:04:40Z

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Yeah, the native hole punching of nostr / marmot is so useful.

Thanks a bunch for the tips, super helpful.

2026-10-28T09:02:43Z

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Thanks a bunch for the tips, super helpful.

White Noise for Android 2026.10.27 decodes GIF and WebP animation ...

2026-10-28T07:59:33Z

White Noise for Android 2026.10.27 decodes GIF and WebP animation in a permissionless worker, away from account data and group keys, and requests native heap memory tagging checks on MTE-capable phones, so a malicious animated image has far less of your private data within reach. Thank you to AmberFinal (npub1hxx…g75y) for the conversations that inspired this hardening.

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White Noise authenticates who sent a file to a group chat and confirms that it arrived intact. Your phone still has to open that file, which means handing sender-shaped bytes to a native decoder built for speed, and a trusted friend can forward a GIF crafted somewhere else. The sound response is to treat every attachment as untrusted input and give the code that reads it as little authority as possible, so a decoder bug lands in a process holding little worth taking.

A messenger stores conversation history and the group keys on the same phone that opens these files. A decoder running inside the app process inherits access to all of it, while a separate, permissionless process gives a malformed file far less to work with.

White Noise already decoded still images in such a sandbox. The 2026.10.27 release extends that boundary to GIF and WebP animation through a new worker of its own, running without app permissions, account access or runtime keys. It reads only the selected file, decodes frames and returns bounded copies of raw pixels, which the app checks before drawing. The containment notes describe how the two workers fit together.

The release also asks capable hardware for help. On phones whose chip and operating system support Arm's Memory Tagging Extension, White Noise requests checks on native heap memory, asynchronous in release builds and synchronous in debug builds. These checks can catch native code reading or writing outside a heap allocation's bounds, or using memory after it has been freed. The memory tagging policy describes the setting and its hardware requirements.

Two smaller changes keep resource use bounded. The cache budget now rejects oversized cached attachments before decryption or any private copy, and cropped decoding passes through a bounded intermediate image.

A crafted GIF or WebP that exploits a decoder flaw lands in a worker holding just the selected file and a bounded output channel. Your conversation history and group keys stay in the main app, behind an additional security boundary the attacker must also cross.

We are now working on multi device, for now use a different nsec ...

2026-10-27T20:08:41Z

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We are now working on multi device, for now use a different nsec in each app and invite them manually to the same groups.
https://github.com/marmot-protocol/marmot/blob/master/ideas/multi-device.md

In Android you can now change the relay for a group too. Careful, some relays don't work well.

Woopwoop

2026-10-27T19:47:25Z

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Woopwoop

Next Marmot app: Labradorite - talk to your agents from the ...

2026-10-27T18:12:13Z

Next Marmot app:
Labradorite - talk to your agents from the phone.
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq8kxmmd9enhyet9deshyaphvveszxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9eaxzurnw3hhyefwv3jhvq3qw4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvsxpqqqplqksxhc2g
By greenart7c3 (nprofile…xcpk)

Yes, thanks for the tip!

2026-10-27T16:13:28Z

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Yes, thanks for the tip!

New @nprofile…radp release is out, go get it.

2026-10-27T14:05:15Z

New White Noise (nprofile…radp) release is out,
go get it.

spot on

2026-10-27T10:39:08Z

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spot on

Both One is for text to speech, so your phone reads to you, the ...

2026-10-27T06:44:14Z

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Both
One is for text to speech, so your phone reads to you, the other is speech to text, so you can talk to your phone.
White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) works natively with both btw.

thanks - these are good issues, we'll get them fixed. But ...

2026-10-27T06:30:39Z

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thanks - these are good issues, we'll get them fixed. But we're about to cut a release now, so those fixes will come in the one after that.

https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-android

2026-10-26T17:22:06Z

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https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-android

the 3D printing files and PCB of the seed hammer are fully open ...

2026-10-25T06:02:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…dw54
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the 3D printing files and PCB of the seed hammer are fully open source. you're encouraged to DIY.
However, it's build by solid bitcoiners, might as well toss them some sats so they build the next generation.

No internet connection, only way in is NFC. And the recommended ...

2026-10-24T19:12:03Z

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No internet connection, only way in is NFC.
And the recommended steel is very fire proof and will stay legible.

share it with some friends & family the device is optimized ...

2026-10-24T09:33:03Z

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share it with some friends & family
the device is optimized for that

You want your nsec in steel, don't you anon? ...

2026-10-24T07:23:36Z

You want your nsec in steel, don't you anon?

seedhammer (npub1z07…wfm4)

Keet doesn't have great encryption, and it doesn't work ...

2026-10-24T06:28:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…x6x3
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Keet doesn't have great encryption, and it doesn't work with Nostr keys.

Our goal is a spec that any Nostr app can use to deploy encrypted decentralized group messaging.

We can get Nostr to run in the FIPS mesh network, we'll be working on that soon in Marmot & White Noise.

Really good new offline text to speech app, the models have a ...

2026-10-24T06:21:25Z

Really good new offline text to speech app, the models have a much more natural voice than the default Graphene OS engine.

https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqgkzurs9ekkzundv9kxzer99e68gucprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9uju7npwpehgmmjv5hxgetkqgs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgrqsqqqlst6uzxkj

what I thought worked, was broken, then I thought it was not ...

2026-10-22T18:53:06Z

what I thought worked, was broken, then I thought it was not broken, then I realized it's broken.

Glad you liked it.

2026-10-22T17:41:00Z

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Glad you liked it.

You are seeing the old version of the application, which we ...

2026-10-22T12:43:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…enkv
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You are seeing the old version of the application, which we stopped working on more than half a year ago. We now have a new test flight link that you can get on the website. https://whitenoise.chat

Right now we do not support signing in with the same nsec into ...

2026-10-22T12:06:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…fle8
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Right now we do not support signing in with the same nsec into multiple apps. So if you do that, it is expected to break. We will be working on that very soon. So for now, create a new nsec on your desktop and then invite both pubkey into the groups.

mission accomplished

2026-10-22T09:53:51Z

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mission accomplished

So cool

2026-10-22T09:53:39Z

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So cool

Yes. Sub groups and threads are coming soon. What else do you ...

2026-10-22T09:53:30Z

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Yes.
Sub groups and threads are coming soon.
What else do you need?

Yes, that ones in the pipeline to be published too.

2026-10-22T06:10:53Z

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Yes, that ones in the pipeline to be published too.

I sent another one null.

2026-10-22T06:10:23Z

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I sent another one null.

I haven't yet, maybe @nprofile…40fs makes it easy.

2026-10-22T06:09:32Z

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I haven't yet, maybe archipelago (nprofile…40fs) makes it easy.

Oh I didnt even know that, nice!

2026-10-21T12:48:02Z

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Oh I didnt even know that, nice!

That's a cool list, didn't read most of them.

2026-10-21T08:29:11Z

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That's a cool list, didn't read most of them.

#sorrynotsorry

2026-10-21T08:28:12Z

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#sorrynotsorry

It's quite often that I open the Signal app and expect to ...

2026-10-21T07:06:46Z

It's quite often that I open the Signal app and expect to find a White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) feature, but it's not there.
A sad realization.

That's a nice collection of books in the background too.

2026-10-21T05:52:23Z

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That's a nice collection of books in the background too.

Good, it achieved it's purpose! just dont forget to check on ...

2026-10-20T17:51:59Z

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Good, it achieved it's purpose!
just dont forget to check on the clankers in between chapters tho...

So what's your reason to use those names? Glad you liked the ...

2026-10-20T17:16:25Z

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So what's your reason to use those names?
Glad you liked the show

When you see an update to one of @nprofile…9ccm apps fly in to ...

2026-10-20T16:42:42Z

When you see an update to one of Gigi (nprofile…9ccm) apps fly in to Zapstore (nprofile…gsu4), there is a good chance that you're the very first human to ever install that apk.
Feels kinda special.

"Sorry To Break It To You, But Your Privacy Is F*cked" | ...

2026-10-20T16:00:05Z

"Sorry To Break It To You, But Your Privacy Is F*cked" | Max Hillebrand & Ben Perrin

Done

2026-10-20T15:54:55Z

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Done

Totally missed that @nprofile…5q4l tutorial on ...

2026-10-20T14:27:43Z

Totally missed that sovereignsessions (nprofile…5q4l) tutorial on WasabiWallet (nprofile…gldk), nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyWNgmKHkB8

People can build parallel markets and mutual aid that let them ...

2026-10-20T14:26:29Z

People can build parallel markets and mutual aid that let them earn, trade and live independently of anyone who claims part of their working life. A tax office withholding wages, a state drafting soldiers and a trafficker holding a passport all violate self-ownership in the same way, and each worker who prospers in the free economy makes exit more attractive and those claims costlier to enforce.

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We still live under slavery. Slavery is the coercive appropriation of another person's body, labor or the product of that labor. It happens whenever someone uses force to override a person's ownership of himself or of what he has legitimately acquired. A trafficker makes that claim when he keeps a passport until a recruitment debt is worked off. States make it when they draft young men into an army, and again when they impose a share of earnings and answer refusal with seizure and punishment. Means and degrees vary enormously, and a woman locked in a factory dormitory lives a far harder day than an accountant filing his income tax. Both face the same underlying claim: another party says it owns part of your working life and will use violence to collect.

Your body is yours

Hans-Hermann Hoppe found the firmest ground for self-ownership in the act of arguing. His argument begins with what every dispute requires. To propose any rule, including a rule of mastery, a person has to speak, give reasons and wait for an answer. That exchange presupposes that each side controls his own body and that the question will be settled by agreement. Whoever argues for a right to own other people contradicts the conditions of his own argument, because he asks a listener to judge freely a proposal that denies the listener any right to judge.

Property in external things grows from the same root. A person owns what he first put to use or received by voluntary exchange from someone with good title. Ownership comes from that visible history of use and consent. A decree adds nothing, since anyone can issue a decree about anything. Uniforms, seals and badges add force to a claim and leave its title exactly where it was. When a gang takes a passport, it seizes. When an agency empties a savings account for unpaid tax, it seizes. One rule judges both.

That rule binds private owners as firmly as officials. A factory owner holds real title to his machines and land, and that title stops at the skin of every person who works there. A worker who signs a contract has promised labor for pay. If he quits early he may owe what he agreed to, and a court can collect a valid debt from his property and earnings. He can still walk out the door with his papers in his pocket. A debt invented by a recruiter and enforced with threats against a family is a leash dressed as a contract. Consent marks the line between an obligation and ownership of a person.

What coercion buys

Picture a mechanic paid by the job, free to take his skills to another garage. Before he hands back the keys, he takes the car around the block to check his work, because a customer who drives away happy comes back and sends her friends. A boss over a captive mechanic can see whether he keeps moving, not whether he took care. Stefano Fenoaltea's model of slavery and supervision works through this difference: pain incentives can pay where tasks are simple and effort is easy to watch, and they grow costly where results depend on attention. Rewards suit that second kind of work, because a worker who gains from good results has his own reason to take care when nobody is checking.

That edge does not stop captors from getting rich. A captor profits whenever he takes more than holding people costs him, and he can push much of that cost onto others. The victim pays with injuries and lost years. When police arrest a runaway on an employer's complaint, the public pays for the cells and hearings that send him back. A person owns himself whatever he produces. The practical task is to make aggression expensive for those who commit it and make defense and exit cheap for those who need them.

How people escaped

People held as property did not wait for a law to free them. Those who got out chose their ground and their allies with care.

On Mauritius in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, runaways climbed Le Morne, a mountain whose isolated, wooded cliffs are nearly inaccessible. Enslaved people on the island had been brought from mainland Africa, Madagascar, India and Southeast Asia, and some of those who escaped chose this mountain as their refuge. They formed small settlements in the caves and on the summit, sheltered by the same wooded cliffs that made any approach to them difficult.

Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved couple in Macon, Georgia, escaped in December 1848 on public trains and steamers. Ellen, who was light-skinned, traveled as a sick white man, and William played her enslaved attendant. A sling on her arm excused her from signing her name, since she could not write, and a bandage hid her beardless face. Ordinary assumptions about race and rank became their cover, and the cover had gaps. A ticket clerk in Charleston refused to sign for her until a fellow passenger helped. In Baltimore an officer demanding proof of ownership nearly stopped them, until a conductor vouched for them and Ellen's illness persuaded the officer. They reached Philadelphia at Christmas and went on to Boston, then fled to England when the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 put them at risk again.

Harriet Tubman escaped in 1849 with two kinds of knowledge. Her father and others had taught her to read the natural world, and her community kept contact with workers and travelers who moved along the roads and waterways. After her own escape she returned to bring others out, including members of her family. On about thirteen trips she guided around seventy people. She also gave instructions to some fifty or sixty more to help them escape. Her knowledge of the land and its contacts could extend beyond the journeys she could personally escort.

In the 1880s, Brazilian abolitionists known as the Caifazes planned escapes from plantations around São Paulo. Fugitives paused at a staging stop in the city, then came down the coastal mountains to the Quilombo do Jabaquara in Santos, founded in 1882 as a refuge. People from the quilombo met fugitives on the way and escorted them, ready to fight off recapture, and Quintino de Lacerda went up into the mountains at night to meet arrivals and face down slave catchers. The quilombo also served as a springboard. Santos was a port that needed workers, and Lacerda helped newcomers find paid jobs there before and after slavery ended in 1888. A guarded passage carried people far from the plantations, and a wage let them stay away as free residents while slavery was still legal.

Getting out now

A worker whose passport sits in a supervisor's drawer and a taxpayer whose wages are withheld at source share a principle, because in both cases someone takes part of their labor by force, and they face different immediate problems. The worker may need to leave within days, past locked doors and threats against family. The taxpayer faces withholding and penalties, and his route out runs through years of building independent income from direct customers and parallel markets. Both begin by putting their plans and resources under their own control.

Start with the phone, because a captor who can open it can read your plans. Use one currently outside his administration and access, such as a supported Pixel running GrapheneOS that still receives full security updates, and protect it with a strong passphrase and current updates. Keeping account recovery details in your hands alone helps prevent him from resetting his way back in. If he might retaliate, plan the timing of visible account or money changes with a trusted helper first.

For messages, use White Noise. It encrypts conversations end to end, and since you can register without a phone number or email address, your account stays separate from details a captor may already know. Exchange contact details with each trusted helper directly, in person where you can, so you know who you are talking to.

Keep your logins in KeePassXC, protected by a long, unique master passphrase you have memorized. Memory alone can fail, so keep a protected offline copy of that passphrase stored apart from the database, never on a sticky note or in an unprotected cloud. Back up the encrypted database itself and test restoring it on another trusted device. Then generate a unique password for each login and turn on auto-lock.

Photograph your passport, ID, visa, contract and pay slips, and store the copies where the captor cannot delete them, such as an encrypted file held by a helper. Copies help prove who you are when you apply for replacements, and they give a lawyer evidence of withheld wages. A photograph will not carry you across a border, so arrange through your consulate or a trusted advocate to recover the originals or have them replaced.

Research routes, shelters, lawyers and jobs in Tor Browser. The local network, such as a dormitory router, can see that you are connecting to Tor without seeing which sites you visit, and those sites see the address of a Tor relay in place of yours. Keep that browsing apart from any account in your own name, since logging in tells a site exactly who you are. On a shared computer, Tails runs from a USB stick, keeps the session in memory and discards it at shutdown unless you deliberately save something. Its encrypted Persistent Storage exists only after you create it and set a passphrase, and once configured it can hold your document copies and password database, unlocked with that passphrase each time Tails starts. Tails cannot defend against a hardware keylogger or tampered firmware on the computer itself, so boot it on a machine you have reason to trust, such as a helper's laptop, and keep it off any computer the captor owns, set up or can reach.

Leaving takes a trusted helper outside the captor's circle, a ride or a ticket, a bed for the first nights, food and emergency cash. Settle before the day who drives or buys the ticket, where you sleep the first night and who holds the cash, and pick people who have already proved reliable. Captors count on isolation because helping someone costs money and time, and a lone helper runs short of both. A network spreads that cost: one person gives a ride, another a few nights on a couch, and nobody has to carry the whole escape.

Skills that travel, such as repair work, translation, bookkeeping or code, let a person earn wherever he lands, and many paying customers reduce dependence on one employer. Keep cash for a ticket and food separate from longer-term savings, so a frozen account or seized card does not strand you. Bitcoin can hold part of those savings if you keep the keys yourself: a self-custodied wallet lets you sign transactions without a custodian's permission. If the captor can see your exchange account, he will see the withdrawal there too, so time it with your helper. Test with a small amount first: send it to a wallet on a trusted device you own, restore the wallet from its recovery phrase and confirm the balance. Keep the phrase offsite as an encrypted backup or a sealed paper copy held by a trusted person, and never restore it on a borrowed or shared device.

Geography belongs in the plan too. Governments differ in what they take and whether they conscript, and a good destination is a place where the voluntary economy can support you. You own yourself, so the right to leave is yours, and each direct trade builds the parallel markets of agorism. Before moving, line up contacts, accommodation, customers and the first months of payment. Avoid any arrangement where one employer controls both your documents and your shelter. Some claims follow people abroad, and the United States taxes its citizens on worldwide income wherever they live. A credible exit gives a worker bargaining power, and when he uses it, governments and employers lose his future labor and revenue.

Building a world that refuses owners

Organizations can make escape cheap for people who cannot afford it alone. A group that offers emergency lodging, pays for the bus or plane ticket, hires a lawyer and feeds someone while his papers are replaced turns a desperate gamble into a plan. Employers hold real power here. They can recruit workers leaving abusive jobs and pay them well, refuse to hire through recruiters who charge fees, leave every worker's documents in his own hands and pay wages into an account the worker alone controls. Each practice removes a grip captors depend on, and an employer competing for labor this way pulls people out of bondage while running a profitable business.

The same groups can fund privacy tools and teach people to use them, buy from independent workers and accept payment from people who lack a local bank's blessing. Eric Hughes argued in A Cypherpunk's Manifesto that people who want privacy have to build it themselves, and free software in ordinary hands is how that building happens. Someone who has learned to verify a contact or restore a wallet can teach the next person in an afternoon.

Defense finally depends on refusal. Courts can enforce a valid debt against property and earnings and turn away any claim to a debtor's body. Border officers can decline to return a person to the employer who held his passport. A private security company that hunts runaways for a labor camp is a slave patrol with a logo, and an agency can win customers by doing the opposite: escorting a worker to collect his papers from a former employer and turning down contracts to bring anyone back. Each refusal withdraws a service the captor was counting on, whether from public officers or private hands, and he now has to find and pay someone else to do that work or go without it.

When enough people offer paid work and a bed to someone leaving, and refuse to track, report or return him, the captor has to overcome those obstacles on his own and the person leaving pays less to get out. A worker who reaches that help keeps what he earns, can turn down work he does not want, and decides what is done with his own body.

I get it. Can you check now again please?

2026-10-20T11:12:51Z

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I get it.
Can you check now again please?

That's weird... Did you try different browser? DM me on ...

2026-10-20T10:50:27Z

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That's weird...
Did you try different browser?
DM me on White Noise (nprofile…radp) and we can troubleshoot.

Oh yeah, obviously. Good catch, thanks!

2026-10-20T10:42:27Z

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Oh yeah, obviously.
Good catch, thanks!

Why not?

2026-10-20T10:41:56Z

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Why not?

Would love some feedback on my new book recommendation website. ...

2026-10-20T09:50:18Z

Would love some feedback on my new book recommendation website.
towardsliberty.com/library
Got any improvements to the ux and list of books?

Invite out.

2026-10-20T08:17:50Z

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Invite out.

Marmot TS v0.7.0 is published This is for you if you want to ...

2026-10-19T15:42:57Z

Marmot TS v0.7.0 is published

This is for you if you want to build a secure chat app in the web.
https://github.com/marmot-protocol/marmot-ts

Dont log in with the same nsec in two clients tho.

2026-10-19T15:27:35Z

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Dont log in with the same nsec in two clients tho.

Yes! Already done, just not publicly released. ...

2026-10-19T15:27:22Z

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Yes!
Already done, just not publicly released.
github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-linux
github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-mac

Nice, let me know what you think about it.

2026-10-19T12:34:18Z

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Nice, let me know what you think about it.

That's awesome. Glad it's working well for you! ...

2026-10-19T11:24:34Z

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That's awesome. Glad it's working well for you!

Here's the Mac app, It currently does not have multi-device support, so you should log in with a different nsec than the one you have on your phone, and then invite both to the group and tell agent to accept messages from both.
github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-mac

We have a documentation now, if you have any questions about how ...

2026-10-19T07:42:05Z

We have a documentation now, if you have any questions about how White Noise (nprofile…radp) works and how to use it, check it out.
https://www.whitenoise.chat/docs

That's technically really difficult because a admin member ...

2026-10-18T07:36:42Z

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That's technically really difficult because a admin member has to do the commit to add a new person to the group. You can however keep the app running in the background and do that automatically, or have dedicated small server admin that is on a 24-7 online machine.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have an optional rule where join commits can be made by members who are not even in the group.

Yes, we're working on invite links. But in any case, the ...

2026-10-18T06:18:43Z

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Yes, we're working on invite links.
But in any case, the admin must be online to add the new members pubkey to the group.

Hand your agent one public key and the connector guide, and, with ...

2026-10-17T16:19:30Z

Hand your agent one public key and the connector guide, and, with role-capable tooling configured, it bootstraps an encrypted White Noise conversation with you, choosing stable project names, emoji, and session descriptions you never have to write. It handles group setup with the tools its connector supports, asks before privileged changes, verifies what it claims, and tells you plainly when a step still needs your phone.

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With a role-capable connector configured, the first reply arrives from your agent, in an encrypted White Noise group you never created, under a name it inferred, such as "🛠️ Laptop Agent," described as "Connector installed, hardening next." You handed over one public key and a link. The agent set up the contact, chose the project name and emoji, wrote the session description, and checked that it all stuck before asking what you want.

If earlier posts made the case for an agent in your messenger, this one hands it the fiddly setup. Start with a fresh Debian install on a spare laptop, or an ordinary user account on a machine you trust, plus an authenticated agent harness. Paste this, with your full npub filled in:
gm, here's my npub: npub1<MY_FULL_PUBLIC_KEY>. Install the White Noise agent connector and write me there. Here's the guide: https://github.com/marmot-protocol/mdk/blob/wn-agent-v0.13.0/integrations/README.md
OpenCode is open source and runs with a local or hosted model, and Claude Code, Codex, and Pi work too. Hermes or OpenClaw suit an agent that lives in the background. The agent reads the guide and stops for your approval when a step needs one. You need no public IP, domain, public control server, or port forwarding, because the connector dials out to Nostr relays and Marmot carries the messages to your phone.

The new part is letting the agent run the group. During setup, ask it to configure its naming defaults and verify them before your first substantive request. The group name tracks the broad, stable project, the emoji stays put, and the description follows the current session, so you never supply a title. Ask for more groups when you want parallel contexts: one reading NIPs and Marmot specs, one building a public notes archive, one shaping a technical draft. Each gets named the same way, and when scope shifts you can ask the agent to edit the name or description.

When the agent appears on your phone, compare its full npub with the one printed on the laptop screen, every character. You want both yourself and the agent as group admins. The admin role carries real membership authority, so ask the agent to change members or admins only when you instruct it and to keep your own admin role protected. The role alone is insufficient: the installed tool has to support each operation, and the agent should wait for a valid acknowledgement before claiming success. If a right is missing, it should say why and how to grant it. If a tool is missing, it can configure a matched, supported update or propose changes for your approval. Published wn-agent-v0.13.0 creates groups and edits name and description, but its public agent-control API cannot promote or demote admins, so on that release you create the group on your phone and promote the agent to keep both of you as admins. For the agent-created path, the setup agent first needs a reviewed connector update with role management, then verifies both admins.

Machine privilege is separate from group admin. Once it is talking, ask it to harden itself. A good result runs under a dedicated ordinary Unix user with no host admin rights at runtime, keeps its own key distinct from yours, and listens only to your phone's public key. Privileged steps such as firewall changes come to you for local approval at the keyboard. Ask it to disable documented optional telemetry while keeping updates and logs, then check that it starts at boot, keeps running with the lid closed, and answers after a reboot while your phone is on cellular data.

A few standing instructions keep each group coherent. Accepted unfinished requests stay open until completed, blocked, cancelled, or replaced, and corrections or status questions add to the work without discarding it. The public 0.13 connector handles follow-ups first-in, first-out, so ask the setup agent to configure live correction or a labeled queue and report which one it verified. Send /new only while it is idle to start a fresh session; it is not a cancel command. Questions and final answers should mention your full public npub. Request tracking and question or completion mentions are model instructions, not runtime guarantees.

On your phone, set Notify for to Only mentions in the agent's chats and give the agent's profile a custom sound, which applies across all its chats. Get White Noise for Android on Zapstore.

Research reads better because White Noise renders supported Nostr note and article references as native cards, so when the agent cites a real event, you read it right in the thread.

Voice stays on the phone, separate from the laptop's model. Since the May 2026 GrapheneOS release, GrapheneOS Speech Services has been the built-in, on-device text-to-speech default, and its English (US) voice ships with open source code and training data. White Noise Read Aloud speaks through that OS engine.

Dictation uses the recognition engine from Offline Speech to Text on Zapstore, called from the White Noise composer. Tap the microphone and the app manages dictation with the downloaded offline engine. Recording continues while you open other chats or apps, with controls in an ongoing notification. The session stays fixed to the chat where you started, and the transcript returns to that original draft for you to review and send by hand.

Last, choose the brain. A conventional hosted model sees the context you submit, so private work belongs on a local model your hardware can carry or inside a TEE. Tinfoil through Routstr uses an encrypted, attested client or daemon from routstrd, and PPQ's E2EE tier runs supported models inside an enclave. Privacy covers only the verified path, client, and model you select, so ask the agent to set that up and show how it checked. You still trust the hardware and its attestation. Hosted tokens cost money; set a budget early.

Then send your first real request. The reply lands in a group the agent named, under a description of what it is doing now.

@nprofile…czfn is getting some friends. 8 libraries 14 clients ...

2026-10-17T14:31:32Z

marmotprotocol (nprofile…czfn) is getting some friends.
8 libraries
14 clients
8 agent integrations

https://github.com/marmot-protocol/awesome-marmot

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Thats so cool!
Do you have a link to that?
Let us know what we can make better in marmot & the libraries so that it's even better for you.

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And another fantastic lecture on History by Murray Rothbard: ...

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And another fantastic lecture on History by Murray Rothbard: Anarchism in the Colonies
You know It's a good one if it starts with Rothbards cackle.

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.mises.org/2025-02/06_Rothbard_Shaping-the-Future_19711113.mp3 http://mises.org/podcasts/individual-lectures/anarchism-colonies

Another great lecture by Rothbard: Strategies for Achieving ...

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Another great lecture by Rothbard:
Strategies for Achieving Liberty

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.mises.org/2025-02/Rothbard_Columbia_19710314.mp3 http://mises.org/podcasts/individual-lectures/strategies-achieving-liberty

We're going into maintenance and refactor mode for ...

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We're going into maintenance and refactor mode for White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec), lots of cleanup and stability work right now.
The next big thing will probably be multi device / client. So you can easily sync your chats between White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) & amethyst (npub142g…xrj0), or the mobile & desktop apps. This will be key for interoperability and the true power of Marmot.

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@nprofile…radp Android now can work with 3 external app service ...

2026-10-15T08:59:52Z

White Noise (nprofile…radp) Android now can work with 3 external app service providers.

A text to speech service, like the one from GrapheneOS (nprofile…xdyf)
A speech to text service, like Offline Speech to Text (nprofile…fgz8)
A translator service, like https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator

All three of these work fully offline.

That's what I like about Android, we can build a network of apps that do one thing really well, and then expose those services to other apps.

This is a masterpiece ...

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This is a masterpiece
https://mises.org/library/book/economic-science-and-austrian-method

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No, this is our much older app that we stopped working on half a year ago. Please delete that app and install the new one from Zap Store. v2026.10.14

I couldn't add you, are you on the latest version of White ...

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Huh, I thought you were already in the group, but apparently not, I've added you know.

You are still on the old version of whitenoise. Please uninstall ...

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@nprofile…radp community group has over 150 members! I'm ...

2026-10-15T05:50:42Z

White Noise (nprofile…radp) community group has over 150 members!
I'm still curious how much larger it can get with the latest release.
Send me your npubs and I'll add you.

You're in.

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Seems like you're on the old version of the app, did you install the new v2026.10.14

Are you on the new app? v2026.10.14

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Are you on the new app?
v2026.10.14

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Decentralized encrypted messaging over Nostr.

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Decentralized encrypted messaging over Nostr.

v2026.10.14

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v2026.10.14

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If you're not yet in the White Noise community group, send me ...

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If you're not yet in the White Noise community group, send me your npub and I'll add it.
Good way to find nostriches to talk to.

quoting
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New White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) release out on Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8).
Lots of performance improvements, and now with fully offline translation of chats.

New @npub1wht…r3ec release out on @npub10r8…t2p8. Lots of ...

2026-10-14T16:27:25Z

New White Noise (npub1wht…r3ec) release out on Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8).
Lots of performance improvements, and now with fully offline translation of chats.