Tim Bouma

https://tim-bouma.npub.pro/

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trbouma@getsafebox.app

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2026-07-27 21:12:08 UTC

Buzzfomo

2026-07-27 20:59:34 UTC

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I think so. I am still getting a handle on explaining the difference between a HSM (the secrets never leave the device), secrets management (manage secrets generated elsewhere) and secure storage (critical personal records, etc.) What is really compelling is that arca can be part of a sovereign pool (I just made that term up), so if the device gets swiped or destroyed, I can still recover. That's the big plus.

2026-07-27 19:48:39 UTC

Don’t expect the fabric to be the finished garment.

2026-07-27 16:27:39 UTC

Just because you chose the fabric doesn't mean you have to wear the uniform.

2026-07-27 13:21:54 UTC

GM - a new day, a new relay.

2026-07-27 00:36:38 UTC

10 years ago.
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2026-07-26 20:10:18 UTC

Good Afternoon. #bikestr
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2026-07-25 16:56:47 UTC

Nostr is the wire format for freedom.

2026-07-25 13:34:19 UTC

Quietly building a digital trade protocol using #nostr Ironically, the biggest potential uptake is in India
https://trbouma.github.io/openetr/

2026-07-25 13:30:10 UTC

An agent is just a model with a loop and shell access (hopefully, not root).
That's it.

2026-07-25 13:05:59 UTC

State 51
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2026-07-25 12:51:39 UTC

Einstein: “God does not play dice.”
Bohr: “Stop telling God what to do.”

2026-07-25 12:43:59 UTC

IBM CEO Doesn’t Worry About Its Stock Drop
The Wall Street Journal
Jul 25, 2026
Big Blue aims to keep pushing on mainframes and quantum computing
IBM stock has been languishing since
July 14, when it preannounced disappointing earnings.
But the current AI boom might present only a temporary disruption to its core business. And it will drive opportunity for the 115-year-old company, says Chief Executive Arvind Krishna, who spoke with me in an interview.
To understand where IBM is going, you have to understand where it’s been and how it makes money today.
Nearly every time you pay for something with a credit card, that authorization is processed by an IBM system. IBM’s mainframes, servers and software are no less dominant in the core functions of insurance companies, banks, airlines and other members of the Fortune 500. “When we look at that sort of financial backbone,
70% by value of all transactions flow through the mainframe on a daily basis,” says Krishna.
If IBM’s hardware and software suddenly ceased to exist? “The economy as we know it would kind of grind to a halt,” he adds.
IBM is infrastructure. And infrastructure might be less exciting than the generative-AI models changing our lives (and running amok), but it’s safe—and profitable.
The company reported $4.8 billion in free cash flow in the first half of 2026. Alphabet, meanwhile, just announced that it is cash-flow negative for the first time since its stock-market debut.
The tech industry might have abandoned powerful-but-specialized mainframe computers and shifted to the cloud, but IBM’s customers—what you might call the “real” economy—still lean heavily on them. Krishna says the firm is counting on that demand to continue for years to come, until the company can debut its next trillion-dollar business: quantum computing.
The stock-market scare came when Krisha told investors that a swath of valuable orders were delayed, suggesting that its customers were moderating their spending because their other IT costs had risen on account of the AI boom. He’s now saying he’s confident that most of those deals will close within six months.
IBM has been making mainframes since 1964. The company has never given up its core advantage in computing: designing its own processors. Its custom Power architecture still drives IBM servers that handle critical business functions. Another custom line, called Tellum II, powers IBM’s latest mainframes.
In the archipelago of computing architectures—which includes Intel’s x86, still found in PCs and servers, and the ARM chips that power everything from smartphones to AI clusters—IBM’s stands alone. It’s an island of design constraints and engineering decisions that evolved across decades to serve the company’s demanding, deep-pocketed customers.
IBM’s mainframe processors have huge amounts of on-chip memory, yet relatively few very fast computing cores. These chips are all about processing a stream of data (say, bank transactions) very quickly. By contrast, Nvidia’s latest systems spread massive AI workloads across thousands of processors.
Hardware sales are only about 20% of IBM’s revenue, and mainframes are about a quarter of hardware sales, but its software and consulting services are heavily dependent on those sales.
For every dollar a customer spends on mainframes, they will typically spend an additional $3 to $4 across IBM, says Krishna.
IBM employs close to 300,000 people, a vast workforce 50% larger than that of Google parent company Alphabet. One of the original multinational corporations, only 20% of its employees are in the U.S.
About 160,000 of IBM’s employees are in its services business. “That has to be local to where the service is being provided, because people want language skills, people want locality, people want you in their office,” says Krishna. “That piece is labor-intensive, let me acknowledge that.”
Krishna anticipates the AI boom will also boost IBM’s revenue, because most customers need someone to come in and hold their hand. Only the very biggest nontech companies have in-house tech expertise to assess and incorporate the latest AI systems, he adds.
Hardware being a linchpin of IBM’s revenue is one reason investors found the company’s recent sales decline so alarming.
CEO Arvind Krishna is bullish on IBM’s future.
The good news, says Krishna, is that of the large deals IBM failed to close by the end of last quarter— numbering in the “low tens”— about a third closed within the first three weeks of the current quarter. That is much faster than what’s typical for deferred deals, he adds, and he expects 80% of those deals will close within six months.
IBM’s near-total dominance of an obscure but important corner of tech hasn’t made it immune to customers redirecting their IT budgets toward memory and storage chips.
Both have skyrocketed in price as the entire silicon supply chain reorients to feeding the AI infrastructure boom. Some analysts believe IBM might miss even its more modest revenue targets for the rest of the year.
Krishna pushes back. He expects the dip in revenue to be a one-time event. He also says that, while IBM itself prepurchased $600 million in hardware to get ahead of price increases, it isn’t financially prudent for companies to continue buying hardware, only to have it languish in inventory.
IBM is an odd duck in the technology industry, in that it continues to have positive cash flow. Giants including Google and Oracle are reporting staggering negative cash flow, and the value of every publicly traded AI neocloud startup has dropped significantly in the past six months as investors worry about their mounting debt.
IBM is investing its profits in its future, says Krishna, particularly as a leader in quantum computing.
By 2029, the company projects, it will offer the world’s first truly useful quantum computer. In June, it said the Trump administration would spend $1 billion to help it set up a quantum-chip manufacturing facility. On Thursday, it announced it will acquire HRL Laboratories, which brings in complementary research on the fundamental units of quantum computing, called qubits. In conventional chip manufacturing, IBM continues to do pioneering research. It recently showed off what it calls the world’s first sub-nanometer chip technology—although demand for this architecture is unclear.
IBM has also sunk $5 billion into a project called Lightwell, which uses AI to find and help fix vulnerabilities in open-source software. With powerful AI models that can hack into systems rapidly proliferating, this, too, could be a growth opportunity for the company.
In 1985, IBM was, briefly, the world’s most valuable company. Then came the PC. Since then, it’s been slow-growing at best. It isn’t clear which of the company’s bets will pay off. But tech companies are spending trillions on AI that has yet to benefit end customers with appreciable returns. So perhaps IBM is the tortoise in this race.
Krishna himself is, naturally, bullish on the future of his company. He believes quantum computing will begin to power IBM’s growth in a matter of years, even if critics say it could be more like decades. The company’s first-mover advantage in quantum computing could, he believes, boost its fortunes the way being a first mover in GPUs did for Nvidia.
When it comes to the total size of the opportunity for quantum computing, “I have actually upped my estimate,” says Krishna. “I think quantum will be a trilliondollar value-adder by the end of the ’30s.”
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2026-07-25 12:37:33 UTC

In India, Protesters Keep Heat on Modi
BY TRIPTI LAHIRI AND KRISHNA POKHAREL
The Wall Street Journal
Jul 25, 2026
NEW DELHI—The leaders of India’s “Cockroach” protests said their supporters wouldn’t retreat even after an activist who galvanized the demonstrations ended a hunger strike Friday after winning concessions from the government.
“We will not step back,” said Abhijeet Dipke, whose Cockroach Janta Party movement has channeled anger over a broken university entrance exam and lack of jobs into the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in years.
Hunger striker Sonam Wangchuk, a 59-year-old activist, lost 20 pounds during his 26-day protest. Police forcibly took him to the hospital days before he was set to lead a protest march Monday in the Indian capital.
Police banned the march but thousands turned out, in some cases clashing with police who responded with batons and tear gas. Protest leaders said dozens of demonstrators were injured. Police said nearly 120 officers and paramilitary personnel were hurt.
On social media, Wangchuk said he decided to end his fast after government officials met him at the hospital and pledged to refrain from bringing police complaints against protesters over the clashes.
A video posted by Wangchuk showed government officials lined up along his hospital bed as India’s health minister promised compensation for students who took their lives in connection with a botched undergraduate medical school exam this year, and to hold “threadbare discussions” in Parliament on exam-paper leaks.
In India, competitive exams are the path for millions to subsidized college spots or government jobs, amid a shortage of well-paying private jobs. Many exams, however, are canceled because of cheating allegations. Some families pay thousands of dollars for access to exam papers in advance, a lucrative business for cheating gangs.
This year’s undergraduate medical exam was taken by two million people in May, who then had to take the test again in June because of leaks.
Anger over the exams—and a sense that the economy doesn’t offer enough economic opportunity—is striking a chord across India.
On Thursday, Modi made a flurry of public remarks on the issue. In a social-media message, he pledged to set up fast-track courts to try exam-cheating cases, and said the well-being of India’s young people is a priority for him.
“Friends, I know that paper leak isn’t a minor issue; it’s very painful for millions of students and their guardians,” he said in a separate video.
The government didn’t send senior ministers to talk with protest leaders earlier, and so is now in a bind as they dig in on their demand that India’s education minister resign, said Bhaskar Pant, partner at Policy Monks, a New Delhi-based policy group.
“Conceding a minister’s resignation looks like weakness, refusing it looks like contempt,” Pant said. “The longer that choice is deferred, the more the demand shifts from the minister to the man above him.”
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2026-07-25 01:05:58 UTC

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Corrected in Bitcoin v0.3.3, released in July 2010.

2026-07-25 01:03:12 UTC

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It was in the very early days. A secret fork fixed it.

2026-07-24 23:31:02 UTC

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Good to know. A bit wary of agents burning through my tokens. Until I can wire in local LLMs it's a non-starter.

2026-07-24 23:28:53 UTC

Heaviest chain > Longest chain
That's it.

2026-07-24 19:24:17 UTC

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2026-07-24 17:42:54 UTC

My latest article for normies.
https://open.substack.com/pub/trbouma/p/the-niels-bohr-moment-for-digital

2026-07-24 15:35:37 UTC

Every npub is an independent economy.

2026-07-24 15:28:52 UTC

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2026-07-23 19:16:24 UTC

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Ordered.

2026-07-23 16:33:37 UTC

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I was about to ask the same question.

2026-07-23 16:12:51 UTC

https://www.noemamag.com/what-humanity-needs-to-flourish-in-the-next-decade/

2026-07-22 21:46:47 UTC

Exploiting ML-DSA bugs
https://cr.yp.to/papers/mldsa-20260601.pdf

2026-07-21 23:43:03 UTC

GN
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2026-07-21 19:01:42 UTC

Savoring the small pleasures in life- like new handlebar tape. #bikestr
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2026-07-21 13:48:20 UTC

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Well, we’ve earned a 50% tariff because of that smoke. Makes me pine for the old days when we would just help each other out.

2026-07-21 12:12:04 UTC

Is Nostr becoming a dead mall?
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-internet-has-a-dead-mall-problem-and-nobodys-talking-about-it-1f026aead8f0

2026-07-20 12:38:27 UTC

This is really a sad state of affairs…
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Meetings, Chats, Dates: All Are Being Recorded
BY KATHERINE BINDLEY
The Wall Street Journal
Jul 20, 2026
To record or not to record? That is no longer a question for people in tech. The answer is a resounding yes.
A Zoom call isn’t complete without an artificial-intelligence note taker. Phones are out at meetings, capturing every word. During impromptu conversations with co-workers, someone might turn on the Granola transcription app, which can turn the interactions into one-page summaries or a list of action items. Even at bars and on dates, people are using AI-infused listening apps to analyze conversations later on.
Gone are the days of any interaction being private by default. Asking for permission is out, even though in some situations, that could mean violating the law. It isn’t creepy if it’s in the name of productivity, the people doing the recording say.
“It happens on a daily basis,” said Eric Bahn, a venture capitalist in San Francisco who started noticing it about a year ago. During his meetings with founders, they put phones out on the conference table and then inch them toward him, like he is an athlete at a postgame interview.
Bahn used to ask if he was being recorded. The answer was always “Yes,” followed by, “Is that OK?” Nowadays, he just assumes they are, and chooses his words more carefully.
“I just see this as normal
protocol,” he says. “Our society is moving to a state of East Germany.”
With the rise of cameraequipped smartglasses, AI-recording bracelets and other covert devices, a societal shift is under way. It isn’t clear how much say we will have in the matter—or how much our conversations will change if we all know they are all being entered into the permanent record.
Emmie Chang, founder of a startup that Bahn’s firm invests in that provides salesdata intelligence, uses AI to transcribe every conversation she can. At a work conference in Albuquerque, N.M., in May, Chang wore a small pin with a red light indicating it was recording. Someone who worked at the conference eventually approached Chang and told her the device was making people uncomfortable. She found the request to stop recording triggering.
“It’s my thing,” she says. “I’m not attributing who said what. It’s for my general knowledge.”
Chang has also taken to recording most of her first dates, usually with Granola. She puts her phone out on the table or her chair and then once the date is through, she has the feed automatically sent to Anthropic’s Claude to report back on how she did.
“Can I be more engaging and empathetic?” she says she might ask Claude. “What are the percentages of me talking versus them talking?”
Michelle Lim, chief executive of a small AI startup, says she was initially shocked when, about a year ago, very specific words she had used during a phone call were recited back at her in a followup conversation. She was convinced she had been recorded and was upset about it.
California is an all-party consent state, meaning it requires all people in a private conversation to agree to be recorded.
But Lim’s own feelings on acceptable recording practices have since evolved. Now she just assumes she is being recorded, and even encourages the practice within her own company. Granola is enabled for all formally scheduled internal meetings, and when employees are casually catching up at one another’s desks, they often turn it on then, too.
“In the office, we actually get really bummed when we realize we’re having a conversation and we forgot to turn on Granola,” she says. “I wish there was a Granola in every room.”
And Lim typically doesn’t ask if she’s being recorded, even outside the office. “It almost kills the mood,” she says.
AI note takers started appearing in meetings several years ago, but there’s usually an indication of their presence. Apps that record or transcribe without any type of alert have taken off more recently.
Granola, founded in 2023, doesn’t actually record or save an audio file but it does transcribe conversations word-forword. It can then provide summaries and action items. Its mobile app has been downloaded 758,000 times since its launch, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
There is no icon that automatically shows up on a Zoom call and no audio notification when Granola is being used on a phone call. Users can enable a watermark feature for video meetings or choose to have the app send a message in the meeting chat that it’s taking notes. In general, laws don’t distinguish between recordings and transcriptions.
Alex Alben, who teaches privacy-law and cybersecurity courses at UCLA School of Law, says people tend to give up privacy to companies they work for. Employees likely have to accept their employer recording or transcribing their chats. But it is different when people are commingling with clients and taking meetings with outside firms.
“Companies need to be careful about technologies that are automatically recording, especially when it involves third parties,” he says. As to whether recording people runs afoul of states’ consent laws, he says context matters and there are some gray areas.
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2026-07-19 21:43:55 UTC

SPAIN!!!

2026-07-19 13:21:26 UTC

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My emotional support this morning
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2026-07-18 13:34:33 UTC

Yikes. Vint Cerf is working on this.
https://dnsid.ai/

2026-07-17 19:54:56 UTC

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Yep, I posted in the evening after my ride.

2026-07-17 17:44:49 UTC

What happened to OpenClaw?

2026-07-17 03:20:43 UTC

GN
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2026-07-17 03:19:15 UTC

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Thank you, ser!

2026-07-17 00:47:29 UTC

100k ride into the books today.
#bikestr https://image.nostr.build/f83a243f94a03f5187cd9d28305f8eb283a38ae63b4e226ec5f1acca94d4737a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c77b71c59f9c5b6228443d9a0b0ada808bc43edccb901c914427c7d828f7c346.jpg https://image.nostr.build/eed1b62fbd891e2f417c49d62027344fb1d5b6d7b816ebd45d08acb7598ce1bb.jpg

2026-07-16 23:38:09 UTC

HTTP QUERY
https://medium.com/@TusharKanjariya/http-just-got-a-new-method-that-fixes-a-problem-ive-hit-for-years-f82909d35fb4

2026-07-15 20:53:21 UTC

ARGENTINA!!!

2026-07-15 20:46:47 UTC

ARGENTINA!!!

2026-07-15 20:16:11 UTC

ENGLAND!!!

2026-07-15 19:51:28 UTC

Powertrain fully serviced: chain waxed, bottom bracket pulled out and checked. Bolt torques checked. Ready for a long ride tomorrow.
#bikestr
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2026-07-14 22:50:33 UTC

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GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain’s Most Secret Intelligence Agency by Richard J. Aldrich.

2026-07-14 18:03:36 UTC

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2026-07-01 18:29:23 UTC

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2026-06-27 18:21:25 UTC

Good Afternoon! #bikestr
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2026-05-24 23:03:26 UTC

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I agree. That's why I went all in on building this stuff.

2026-05-24 21:54:35 UTC

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No. Just saying it like it is. After studying Chaumian ecash, as cool as it is, it’s a signed promise.

2026-01-14 12:36:16 UTC

Core capabilities of a globally available infrastructure that can’t be shut down by state or platform actors.
The capabilities to:
1. Communicate privately.
2. Settle without permission.
3. Verify without trusting.

2025-09-24 11:22:19 UTC

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ICANN is still a necessary evil, but the idea is to make them as disposable or substitutable as possible. Same with DNS, a necessary evil, but there is a possibility of building an alternative namespace that resolves to npub resources.
This is a long game.

2025-07-26 12:44:23 UTC

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Self-hosting at home is a great hobby, but it can’t be considered reliable. I’ve had too many ‘force majeure’ incidents to consider that a reliable option. The best so far is spinning up a vps paid with lightning and having processes on it that nobody suspects. Adding @npub18dl…h8x3 to this thread.

2025-06-22 13:43:29 UTC

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Yeah, I agree. But unfortunately for many, the convenience far outweighs the downside. I’ve been thinking about how I might incorporate biometrics- a digest that I sign with my own private key, when presented can be compared with the digest of an authenticating device.

2025-06-22 12:18:41 UTC

Very cool!
#note1705…ch32

2025-02-06 14:03:10 UTC

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Video can be shit, but audio - no.

2025-02-06 13:45:13 UTC

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Vocal quality is my primary listening criteria now.

2024-06-27 18:09:09 UTC

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Yeah, great idea! When you say selective disclosure, do you mean selectively disclosing the badge to a specific party?