Nova Launcher Gets a New Owner and… Ads
I was using this as a Prime user, but given the direction they’re going I switched back to the Motorola Launcher and removed it from my smartphone. I had been using Nova Launcher from the days of the Nexus 4…
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Xorg Plans Political Moves: Removing 2 Years of Commits from XLibre Dev
If you’re running X.Org (x11), you’ll probably want to switch from that to XLibre before they rebase it on a really old version. I run XLibre on both of my computers, and I guess I’ll have to switch the wife’s…
Massive Bitcoin DUMP Incoming?!
These are some interesting news items being analyzed that you might not have seen. I would just differ that joining the US would be better for Alberta, and under no circumstances would I join the Antichrist’s UAE, which already has…
New Mullvad Security Audit of Account and Payment Services
The latest security audit from Mullvad regarding payment services. Of note, you can sign up with Mullvad VPN anonymously and pay with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Lightning or Monero, for which you get a 10% discount. And your account is a numerical…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Crypto Regulation: Banks Should Compete on a Level Playing Field
Yeah, that’s going to happen. Consequently, it’s an interesting interview segment as the OCGFC agents meet in Davos. Consequently, I do not like greedy Coinbase, and it would take significant circumstances for me to ever use their services. But the…
The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission in History Crawls Closer to Liftoff
This is of interest because of what Revelation says about Israel, represented by a woman with her feet on the moon. And I have a post about the astronaut Jessica Meir, a Jew, possibly setting her feet on the moon…
The Shoulder Surfing Problem
(Headline article below) This is from the OPSEC Bible on the darknet, but it’s a good thing to be aware of. Recently some Flock cameras streaming unprotected to the internet that covered a walking trail were found to zoom in…
40% of Kids Can’t Read and Teachers Are Quitting
Humanity is cooked. I always thought most of the world had lost their ability for critical thinking with so many people believing without question the propaganda from the media megacorps, but people and especially children are even worse because of…
Coldcard Wallet Review: When Bitcoin Security Gets Serious
(Headline review below) I was holding a little over a Monero in my Cake Wallet, so with the recent pump of Monero, my $400 jumped to almost $800. So I converted .9 Monero back into Bitcoin and used the proceeds…
Are You in the 1% of Bitcoin Holders?!
An interesting fact, you just need to hold .28 of a Bitcoin to be in the upper 1%, or about $26,704 worth. Another stat, only 150 million hold Bitcoin out of the 7+ billion people in the world. And there…
Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux?
In my original post I theorized that this was a move for a compiler backdoor into the Arch package manager, and the main developer for the Rust Programming language foundation had a Red Hat email address, with IBM/Red Hat involved…
The Senate Banking Committee’s New Market Structure Draft Is Dangerous Slop
I’m not an attorney, but it kind of seems that they could flag coinjoin privacy transactions to keep you from cashing out crypto with regulated exchanges in the states. The traveling with a wallet across borders is odd, as you’re…