Marks

https://opensecret.cloud

CEO @ OpenSecret @MapleAI | ex- |

Family, Friends, Sunlight ☀️

Freedom tech is final tech 💪

@marks_ftw on X 🐦‍⬛

Public Key

npub136jg2fnty2z5vwcnh7p4jpckrs3tk0dpueftgs7mznuuaenjpfps6tjnxf

NIP-05 Address

marks@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

marks@primal.net

Profile Code

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Last Notes

2025-04-24 02:25:06

Which tool should we cover on Freedom Tech Weekend this Friday?
@nprofile…d8lw (password manager) or Orion (web browser by @nprofile…kucd).
Vote in the comments below 🗳️👇
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2025-04-20 21:25:45

I’ve been using @nprofile…rtxj all day with this smoke for Easter dinner. Brisket and Turkey breast side by side, each with their own schedule.
Maple has been really helpful working through any adjustments I had to make.
Smoking a brisket is an all day event that starts in the early AM hours. So much easier to ask Maple questions on the fly instead of using Google and reading through blogs and forums.
#nevent1q…97j5

2025-04-20 20:27:38

Some men wear cologne to church. Today I wear Texas bbq smoke.
Happy Easter ✌️
#foodstr
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2025-04-18 18:42:38

QuickBooks by Intuit is expensive and closed.
Firefly III is open-source, self-hosted, and built for control.
On this week’s Freedom Tech Weekend, we walk through how to set it up and why I’m switching.
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- X stream: https://x.com/marks_ftw/status/1913257226908598365
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFohPh0zdP0&list=PLgwB-Ekpi4Fg6R9aKealk7WMG509ih5Qo&themeRefresh=1
- Podcast: https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yc3NibHVlLmNvbS9mcmVlZG9tLXRlY2gtd3JhcA/episode/ZjIwMjQ5ZGItYmQ4ZC01NTJkLTgxNzQtOWM0MjcxODU5YjM2
Join us live every Friday at 15:30 UTC. We are active in the chat during the show.
Have a request for a tool you want to see? Let me know.
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2025-04-12 23:31:34

Proud family moment, if you’ll let me. My cousin is playing Coachella today. No cap. He’s sharing a stage on the same day as Weezer. 🤘 🎸
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2025-04-12 02:25:30

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Staying true to the tribe

2025-04-07 15:12:49

Not financial advice, but @nprofile…uh5t can listen to your stress and help you get a more long term perspective on things. Take a deep breath, fam.
#nevent1q…4tqn

2025-04-06 20:40:13

Timing is everything lol
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2025-04-05 00:39:36

YouTube link for my frens who like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuYVhuKp99E
#nevent1q…zl3n

2025-04-05 00:38:16

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YouTube link for my frens who like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuYVhuKp99E

2025-04-04 22:53:42

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“…here in X”. Copy/paste fail from X 😆

2025-04-04 21:18:06

Yep, @nprofile…pw9e and @nprofile…zx3h there is now an official time zone called Bitcoin Park Time (BPT). Nashville 🤝 Austin
#nevent1q…zl3n

2025-04-04 21:15:34

Dusted off the old RSS feed to launch a new version of the show. Welcome back to FTW!
Freedom Tech Weekend - a weekly stream that gives you one freedom tech tool to play with this weekend. Stream happens every Friday at 15:30 UTC / 10:30 AM BPT (Bitcoin Park Time)
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Here is episode 1. This is the audio version, available as a podcast. The video version is currently here in X, future episodes will also be available on YouTube.
https://episodes.fm/1777470100/episode/ODI4YmNiNjUtNWEyYS01NDk1LTkwYmQtNzA2OTY4MWFjZWNk

2025-04-03 21:58:08

Tariffs just boosted my annual budget by 2.7%!
Here's a video of how I used @nprofile…uh5t to estimate the impact on my household. Maple is confidential – I'd never do this with ChatGPT.
How much will it impact you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HZxLHKo_KU

2025-04-03 16:28:10

I am surprised and encouraged by how often people sign up for our Starter plan and then upgrade to the Pro plan.
Highlighting a plan on a pricing page feels gimmicky, but we are seeing that our individual customers at @nprofile…uh5t find the best value in the Pro plan.
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2025-04-03 16:26:48

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DataMachine.ai looks cool. I'm not sure how they're doing privacy, but many of these services run anonymized proxies where they ask you to trust they don't log your requests. Users are welcome to use those services, knowing the privacy trade-offs.
With @nprofile…uh5t we're using secure enclaves and open-source reproducible builds. This means you don't have to trust us, you can verify for yourself. The side effect is that we are slower to get new models up and running at the moment. This will change as we get more infrastructure going and have the ability to get new model running much quicker.

2025-04-03 01:27:16

Every bluecheck today
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2025-04-02 17:56:43

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Yes we are working on offering more models. Which ones would you like to see?

2025-03-31 15:54:14

Got my #heatpunk shirt from @nprofile…82jm , hanging out with it at Bitcoin Park Austin https://m.primal.net/PzdA.jpg

2025-03-29 16:53:11

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Most of those just drop the decimal point. Ouch

2025-03-28 21:00:51

Response from AI that arrives within milliseconds starts with "After careful consideration..."
It did carefully consider, just way faster.

2025-03-27 17:41:54

Enjoyed coming onto the great Opt Out show that @nprofile…lfze produces. We talk privacy, AI, and what the future holds if we're willing to build and use it. Thanks for having me on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbPsIS31yuc
-- OptOutPod --
AI is all the rage, but with it come new privacy questions and concerns. @nprofile…g5a6 from @nprofile…9enl and @nprofile…uh5t joins to walk us through how we can have our AI-generated cake and eat it too.
Show Notes: https://optoutpod.com/episodes/can-ai-be-private-marks/

2025-03-24 18:35:10

Lunchtime walks in downtown Austin. You can touch grass.
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2025-03-24 15:09:15

GM nostr. Feeling good 🤙

2025-03-22 23:13:40

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🫡

2025-03-22 23:13:09

AI will never replace this job 🤛
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2025-03-22 21:55:57

GM hockey fam 🏒
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2025-03-21 18:39:27

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Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah

2025-03-21 17:57:02

GM ❄️ 🏂 🏔️
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2025-03-20 04:22:43

$444k 👀 😆 #note17aw…r0dm

2025-03-20 02:21:43

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But can they survive a fire

2025-03-20 01:09:32

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The look on his face is priceless

2025-03-18 21:07:15

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Video and audio conversion tool for podcasts and sharing things on social media. I can feed it a file and spit it out in the formats I need.

2025-03-18 20:38:10

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🤘

2025-03-18 20:27:14

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@nprofile…m22w

2025-03-18 18:12:17

Was about to spend $75 on an app from a company I don't really trust. Then I thought, can I build this myself? Spent 15 mins in @nprofile…uh5t and had a fully functioning app, tailored to my use case, private to me. ⏱️💪 https://m.primal.net/Pkam.jpg

2025-03-18 15:53:33

Add “heatpunk” to your list.
#nevent1q…kh2v

2025-03-18 15:07:25

GM. Your savings is extra work you did today so you don’t have to work in the future. Inflation takes that future away from you, effectively making you go back to work.

2025-03-18 14:54:57

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On days like this I identify as a millennial.
I straddle two generations, so today I will be millennial. LFG

2025-03-18 14:51:58

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I will read the rest of this, but I paused at AI CSAM to comment. We make a private, encrypted AI chat called @nprofile…0867. Highly requested from users is for us to add image generation. I believe the request is benevolent but it’s the fact that we would unlock the ability to generate AI CSAM type content that holds me back.
Yes the technology is out there to do it. Those who want to generate that will find a way. I’m a builder of privacy tools that are agnostic to moral codes. A tool in the hand of one person may be used differently in the hand of another.
I won’t sacrifice on privacy and encryption, so for the time being, we aren’t building image generation. I’d like to bring that capability to our users, as it is a powerful tool for so many productive things.
Do you have suggestions or things you can point me to that could help us figure out how to build a feature like image generation that preserves privacy and also reduces likelihood of AI CSAM? At the moment I see no path forward.

2025-03-18 14:41:20

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Apple’s approach was to make it prettier https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/05/apple-watch-particle-cloud-pairing-method-likely-revealed-in-new-patent

2025-03-18 14:37:08

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Glad to hear it’s still happening

2025-03-18 14:25:49

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Hard rock at the end hits me in the feels 🎸

2025-03-17 22:06:29

You can have a manual sync experience like this or you can just use @nprofile…uh5t that syncs your encrypted chats automatically. Which do you prefer? https://m.primal.net/PjZL.png https://m.primal.net/PjZT.png

2025-03-17 19:45:07

The US Presidential Pardon debate in a nutshell https://m.primal.net/PjSO.gif

2025-03-17 15:54:36

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Keep it running if it still works 💪

2025-03-17 15:53:45

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Curious as well

2025-03-17 15:52:19

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🤘

2025-03-17 15:51:09

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👍
Now I know with zap.store, a main goal is to create verifiable native apps. More difficult on the iOS side to fully trust the code shipping is the same as the open source. People are always welcome to download the source and run it themselves for ultimate control.

2025-03-17 15:48:49

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In your experience, do the built-in dictation features work well for the different languages? I don’t know if you’re on iOS or Android. Curious if they handle them well, given that they’ve been refining these speech-to-text algorithms for decades.

2025-03-17 15:47:26

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The dictation feature built into iOS is local only, works offline. Not sure about the various Android variants and what they do. On iOS you could handle audio without a special model. It likely handles different languages better too.

2025-03-17 15:45:17

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Would you be comfortable with native, local, private functionality also being in the same app that brought in Nostr content? Or prefer to have those separate so you know the app is 100% offline?

2025-03-17 14:39:47

GM. Nostr is still running. Wasn’t sure we’d make it through the night. Let’s go!

2025-03-17 14:38:50

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fwiw, these are the types of apps that we are building out @nprofile…paka to handle. Strong e2ee privacy with the performance and UX of cloud apps.
The platform just reached “Production Ready” status. It’s running Maple AI and has another app coming online in a few weeks. Any builder who wants to play with it, hit me up. You can find out technical details of our e2ee claims on our blog.

2025-03-17 03:19:51

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Tell them it is a white chocolate cup

2025-03-17 03:06:13

Just found out on Twitter that Nostr is dead. Guess this is my last GN. It’s been a wild ride my friends. 🤘

2025-03-17 02:42:13

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Letting everyone know that if I start pumping my own meme coin I’ve been hacked.
Really, if you all buy my coin and run my bags up 10,000%, I’ve been hacked.
I’ll have no choice but to cash in on the wealth, in the name of science, but I was hacked and will move nsecs.

2025-03-17 02:40:00

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Arab Spring was the true coming out event for Twitter. It first got noticed at SXSW but the Arab Spring is when people took it seriously.
Wonder if/how that plays into your question.

2025-03-17 00:13:33

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Zap my meat!
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2025-03-17 00:12:40

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Makes it so nice when going out to eat with Bitcoin friends. Someday the rest of my friends will have it.

2025-03-16 23:28:51

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Bro sorry I couldn’t make it to the party. Heard it was 🔥

2025-03-16 23:22:36

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Nice!

2025-03-16 23:22:20

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Nice! How do you like to cook them?

2025-03-16 23:18:12

Pulled pork smoke for dinner tonight. Look how the internal temperature acts as support for the ambient temperature. It caught a nice bounce, which is a healthy sign. Now just waiting for it to make a higher high. Bullish vibes heading into this week’s close. #MeatTA #foodstr
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2025-03-16 21:11:22

Fixing to wrap this up. What are you eating today fam? #foodstr
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2025-03-16 01:03:51

Thought I was ordering the small goggles 😬 Vision Pro without the computer?
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2025-03-15 15:44:37

TIL 444 is considered the angel number. How come people only talk about 666? 😈

2025-03-15 15:42:44

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I think the new Bitcoin prophet said 444k now. Take it up with him.

2025-03-15 14:47:36

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Right? He continued to reiterate over the next few months that if we hit $84K exactly on Mar 14, 2025, that would kick off a giant uptrend

2025-03-15 14:40:11

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In case you’re curious, this is the most famous person on Bitcoin twitter today
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2025-03-15 14:39:21

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He nailed $84K to the exact minute, predicted back in early Nov 2024. So buckle up, we’re going to $444,000 😆
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2025-03-15 14:22:10

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Cold brew in the oatmeal? I’m listening…

2025-03-15 14:21:38

GM nostr. Looks like we’re going to $444K.

2025-03-15 08:13:46

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Normally I agree. This one is very odd and fascinating.

2025-03-15 04:43:15

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You’re a prophet

2025-03-15 04:42:40

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For sure, there are plenty of failed guesses all the time. The nature of this one is very odd and specific. You don’t see a call like this with this much conviction and see it happen. The price on the exchanges move at the end of the day and settled within a few dollars of the prediction.

2025-03-15 03:44:33

He called it. $84K on the dot. Original post on Nov 5, 2024.
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2025-03-15 03:28:14

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I’m not yet tired from all this winning

2025-03-15 03:24:48

What’s with this dude on Twitter who predicted back in Nov 2024 that Bitcoin would close Mar 14, 2025 at $84k? Nailed it on the dot.

2025-03-14 22:10:10

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Blast from the past! Right here hand ✋

2025-03-14 14:26:28

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Listened this morning to your convo with @nprofile…yhsg . Lots of similar concepts discussed 🤝 bullish

2025-03-14 14:23:53

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Bitcoin CEO made me take it off for the talk

2025-03-13 22:27:10

Come to Austin Bitdevs tonight to see the winner of Top Builder Season 2 announced 🏆
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2025-03-13 17:58:56

Trying out the new OpenAgents announced by @nprofile…ul8r at the @nprofile…gcsu Startup Day. Had it build me a Geocities-style placeholder page for a website. Took about 3 minutes. https://m.primal.net/PegN.png

2025-03-13 14:29:42

GM nostr. It’s Startup Day at @nprofile…wvat. Come and build it 🔨

2025-03-12 23:53:55

Bitcoin, Not Blockchain. Enjoyed listening to Dhruv Bansal and Parker Lewis explain why Bitcoin is the last digital currency. Thanks to University of Austin and Unchained for hosting
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2025-03-12 23:51:55

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He was such a friendly guy

2025-03-12 20:08:43

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iPad Pro with attached keyboard is one of the best devices of all time. Especially the folio keyboard from 2018

2025-03-12 20:07:20

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https://youtu.be/PnoUOHmEvS0?feature=shared

2025-03-11 15:12:46

GM nostr. It's SXSW week in Austin and the Bitcoiners are arriving for some great events.

2025-03-11 03:18:17

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Like how I used to tell myself my code build would fail, so when it succeeded I was pleasantly surprised.

2025-03-10 15:29:53

Wrinkles on your face from squinting in the sunlight or staying inside: wrinkles

2025-03-10 13:44:42

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Interesting, expound plz

2025-03-07 21:49:16

Played lots of different venues, but this is the first time in a real horse stable.
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2025-03-07 18:16:44

You know the night is gonna be 🔥 when you’re dusting this thing off
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2025-03-07 14:38:58

GM nostr. Strategic Friday Reserve.

2025-03-07 04:02:11

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There’s always hope for the White House Muscle Car Summit

2025-03-06 20:19:53

I’m impressed with the quality of the small pocket conferences happening around SXSW. Started the week at Edge City Austin where we discussed seeking truth, community, & interplay with AI. Today catching signal at Austin4America and demoing @nprofile…rncz & @nprofile…djpe .
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2025-03-06 14:30:15

GM nostr. Grateful for another day of life.

2025-03-06 12:37:36

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GM sir