And this is why any centralized stablecoin is a non-starter, as you can be censored. And they can easily be turned into a government CBDC as well. Sure, today it’s unapproved illegal activity, but tomorrow it’s because you’re not vaccinated,…
What’s the point of a VPN if logged and tracked? Though, the making it a crime to violate the law is troublesome. I wonder how this will affect Tor usage? You can use bridges that obfuscate traffic to get around…
I’ve noticed with the last couple kernel releases, there seems to be problems testing as Arch doesn’t update to them quickly like they used to. We’ve already moved to the 7.0.1 kernel version, but still not in Arch Linux based…
I’m not sure who would use this over the opensource git package, but if you do, you probably want to turn off Microsoft’s telemetry. Unless you want to help Microsoft train its AI with your activity. Opt-out instructions included…
The whole purpose of a mixing service it to give you financial privacy on a public blockchain, as it breaks the tracking of transactions to a point you might have been identified. And there is a compelling reason for this,…
For one, these politicians and tech megacorps don’t care about children as they’re all for murdering babies in the womb, and mutilating them for gender dysphoria. And I’d bet they would support a measure like in the Netherlands where you…
Banks are the absolute worst, as they’re still fighting you getting rewards for holding stablecoins, while they don’t pay you much interest for your bank account when they lend out 90% of your money making good returns. As stablecoins are…
Some of the responses to the X announcement were brutal, but deserved. And count me in for never running unpatched Bitcoin Core ever again, as I’m running the BIP-110 patched version of Bitcoin Knots, itself a patched version of Bitcoin…
Yet another state law for ID and age verification on install or first setup. Well, we know Meta and other tech megacorps are behind these laws and why they’re so similar. But it’s all a creep towards digital ID and…
Another example of the government violating the Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment. Just keep location off and never enable the enhanced location service using WiFi or Bluetooth, unless you’re using it for navigation or BT for music. Also,…
Interesting worldview of how things are working. Not that I’m totally onboard with everything, but it’s worth a listen. His predictions on what they’re going to do with Bitcoin is spot on, keeping self-custody alive for themselves, not so much…
Nice analysis of the age verification movement and how many Linux distributions are going to bend the knee. And like Sam Bent, I’m thinking of Artix Linux as well to replace my Endeavor OS installs as they don’t use systemd…
