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Secret Underground Linux and Bitcoin contributors reveal themselves?

KraysDevs — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:43:57 +0000

There is a - apparently secret and now public - project I have discovered through my regular research and investigation in the Blockchain and Deep-web sphere: https://grayhame.org And I think I am the first one here to give a quick news report, as I could not find any official news release from them. Anywhere. You can find another post about them from me regarding Apples scandal of hiding Bitcoin protocols in MacOs systems.

Reading about their history (https://grayhame.org/about) you can get a "Assassins Creed" vibe concerning they formation and unity if you ever played the games (very likely). I have subscribed to their free and paid newsletter for now and there are definitely some spooky and valuable information and lessons there. I will be buying the forum pass, as they call it, since it seems to offer discussions places for Programming, Hacking and Anonymity which sounds quite unique and interesting. Most forums are very limited and very niche, so this should be a place where diverse information can be exchanged. At least that is what it looks like from the outside.

I will keep you up to date with my investigations. I am also planning to directly contact them via their email and ask some questions, so feel free to post your questions in the comments.

Apple is copying TOR (https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for-icloud-private-relay/)

KraysDevs — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:02:54 +0000

Guys and Gals!

Its here! Long have we been waiting for such a project, so Apple can finally publicly announce how much of a "anti privacy corporation" they truly are. Hear me out.

If you closely examined the news, you would quickly get the idea that this has got nothing to do with Tor, specifically the idea of Onion routing which is much older than Tor anyway. And besides, if they can convince the normies this bullshit is increasing their privacy, they are still going to have to change the entire architecture of IOS and MACOS. having worked at Apple and knowing coders there, its clear that the devices ignore proxies at will. This is even openly mentioned whenever you configure a new vpn on your iphone: some connections on the device can never be proxied.

So what will the impact of this be on Privacy? I think they are just trying to increase sales as always (which is not a bad thing) and at the same time isolate their ecosystem even more, which is something Steve Jobs himself always wished for since the beginnings.

Apple developers formed a conspiracy?

KraysDevs — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 15:33:51 +0000

I stumbled upon the Grayhame project (https://grayhame.org/#joinC) through reddit (darknet subs) while doing my regular blockchain and darknet research and it seems that Apple developers have been forming secret mailing lists amongst each other regarding anonymity projects like (some) Linux distros and Bitcoin.

I have still many former coworkers at Apple and it was told that the Bitcoin protocol found in Apple devices (MacOS systems) was a huge scandal across the development departments and managers were forced to fire suspects. A link to the news on forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/04/06/theres-a-bitcoin-blueprint-hidden-inside-every-mac/. You read that right. And of course that's the stuff that does not land in the news, who has the balls to make that public anyway?

Now I cannot be the only one to think (and that is true apparently) these guys must have been behind all of the hidden Bitcoin whitepapers in macs. And guess what? there are rumors of other people in their forum asking the admins directly if some of the members of the project have any connections with that story. In fact I have emailed them on their support email asking about this as well. Imagine the faces of Apple big shots and news media if the rumour gets confirmed. Anyway, you will hear from me. And this is not going to be the last time we talk about the world of crypto, so consider subscribing!

Let me know in the comments what you make of this. Am I following the foot steps of Alex Jones or does my suspicious sound legit?

React is dying... but not because there are better options.

KraysDevs — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:09:29 +0000

This is gonna be short one and its just something that I have been seeing following the recent launch of that stupid OpenAI project, we all love and hate, chatGPT.

If you have not been under a damn rock, you would be aware the market for developers has plummeted since December 2022, like the respect for that mob boss in the sopranos (You know who I mean, don't you? right?).

And Of course the first group that got hit were the frontend devs. And we all know why: it's because of chatGPT. But is it? That is the consensus right now, but - and the older dudes who are longer in the industry can back me up - that is not the whole truth.

The truth is (this is sounding like a soviet magazine) that a giant ass ecosystem around no-code tools has been growing under our nose and nobody really amongst the devs picket it up, except the ones with the money: corporate idiots, Linkedin gurus, bootcamp geniuses etc. you get the idea.

Now the facts part: Big Mega Corporation such as APPLE are already using nocode platforms (which they coded themselves) to do most of what the frontend devs were reponsible for. I know this for a fact, having worked a few months as an intern at Apple back in college. And this is 8 years ago. And I am sure as those platforms are getting better and easier to handle for people who cannot code at all, the frontend devs get the shit. Make it what you will.

But why am I worried? Well, the current commercial no-code platforms (I am not naming any names as I am not affiliated and they are getting enough attention already) are getting really good at doing the code and working with APIS and Webhooks as well. So obviously companies will, mostly new ones are never gonna hire devs in the fist place. Developers will become freelancers, hired just to fix the mess that the design department is producing, or hell, even the buggy platforms themselves are creating. Maybe that is a good thing. We all wanted home office and freedom anyway right? right?

Share your thoughts... I did not wish to keep this to scientific, it's just something we all feel and nobody expresses.