Bitcoin Subject To MASF Attacks
Good update on what’s going on in Bitcoin and the BIP-110 fork. I switched my Bitcoin nodes back to Bitcoin Knots 29.3 pre BIP-110 on the legacy chain after the soft fork stalled out and it was clear the miners…
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Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of AI
If you want to break free from search that tracks you and is forcing AI on you, try SearXNG, a privacy proxy for search that allows you to control what search engines you pull information from. It’s an opensource project,…
Honey Gets Terminated as Lawsuits Proceed
Here’s an update on the Honey/PayPal scandal in stealing commissions from people through their coupon browser extension, as well as robbing businesses by harvesting employee discounts… I have some posts with the videos from MagaLag, or check his YouTube channel…
Man Discovers How Many Times Cops Scanned His License Plate
This is nuts. No wonder so many cops are getting busted for using Flock cameras to track romantic interests… And I watch a lot of law enforcement dash and body camera videos, and some of the local law enforcement personnel…
Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community
Even here in Cheyenne, our local city council and mayor are not looking out for the best interests of the community, and you have to wonder what is incentivizing them to approve all these data centers? Beyond bribes of some…
German Government Hires Open Source Devs to Promote Politics
This is very interesting in that governments are stepping out of the shadows and getting directly involved verses the subtle megacorp board co-opting of opensource projects. The German government has now donated to Arch to rewrite Pacman in Rust, as…
Linux Kernel Rapidly Removing Hardware Support Because of AI / LLM
Worth pointing out the Linux Foundation is a megacorp captured entity, who manage the Linux kernel project, and lately they’ve been showing that they’re going to be a problem. They’re forcing in Rust and AI code was the start, but…
Self-Custody Best Practices, Cake Wallet, and Monero with Seth for Privacy
A pretty interesting interview with Seth for Privacy covering a lot of interesting details on Monero, with some overlap with Zcash and Bitcoin. If Bitcoin becomes fully captured, the Monero community has a lot of the early cypherpunk values of…
Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber and Lyft Drivers into Rolling Surveillance Cameras
And remember they were trying to partner with Amazon’s Ring doorbell cameras for AI facial recognition and vehicle tracking. And they don’t need to see the license plate as they were building profiles on vehicles and distinguishing features… By…
Bitcoin BIP-110 Defeated by Miners
Those of us that actually value Bitcoin and running our own nodes to verify transactions to use the network lost the battle to limit SPAM, but it wasn’t a total loss. We’ve shown the people capturing Bitcoin that we won’t…
Another Bitcoin Infrastructure Exploit Hits, This Time Draining Lightning Payment Servers
The timing of this LND hack and funding of the Red Team are incredibly suspect going into the BIP-110 soft fork. And interestingly, NVK, Coinkite CEO Rodolfo Novak, was on the board but stepped down five days ago after the…
Here’s the Snarky Take on FLOCK Cameras You Didn’t Know You Needed to Hear Today
She’s funny, and this is peppered with jokes and quite good commentary on these abusive cameras.