I think a lot of folks here don’t know the particular podcaster nor have heard of this “news” (at least I haven’t) so you can understand when they open a post and see a wall of text talking about free speech and politics it sends some signals to their brains that this is spam and off-topic.

Just goes to show to take what podcasters say with a grain of salt. Kinda disappointing they’re covering a telegraph article, will need to listen to the original tho.

Thanks for sharing!

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Had no clue Mozilla VPN is using Mullvad under the hood. Also, I can see why now NordVPN is considered shady.

https://vpn.techlore.tech/

Thank you I will take a look! Are you guys somehow related to https://xmr.club/? Came across them while researching.

Yeah I got the wallet set up but still haven’t figured out how to actually get XMR.

I installed RetroSwap but the “no deposit” offers from what I see tend to be not such a good deal. For example Monero -> Revolut swap. I pay 65 eur but only get 53 eur worth of Monero. I have read there is a fee for a transaction but from my understanding it’s like 7-20 cents depending on how many transactions / miners there are so I don’t think it’s that. I’m not paying 19% to go fiat -> monero. I could do my own offer or try to buy monero from a Cake’s wallet provider directly (which again not sure if I want to do).

Thanks. I don’t think I’m up for the task of running my own node, at least for now.

I suppose if I use something like Cake Wallet they will have a remote node already configured? What about the official Monero GUI / CLI? I would need to find my own remote node?

If it’s the Russians carrying these things out I find this strategy odd. All it does is make the whole population hate you. Which makes it easy for people to get on board to help Ukraine more.

Is Cake considered to be one of the most popular / trustworthy wallet apps?

I saw an interview with the founder but haven’t got around to watching it yet. Saw some other people talk about it as well.

Yeah, I’ve heard Bitcoin is not private at all and can be easily traced.

They’re currently the best search engine - that’s a fact.

Whether or not that’s something worth paying for will really depend on what kind of searches you do. Personally, I have found that most of my searches were pretty basic and could easily be found by using something like DDG(Bing), and if unsuccessful, Ecosia(Google). On top of that, they use Yandex. So I didn’t feel they are worth it for me.

I ended up paying 5 eur / month for Uruky. Cheaper, I really like the small team behind it and I’m supporting european, big-tech independent indexes, they’re also really transparent.I wrote about them awhile back. One of the problems with Kagi is again you can never be sure where your money goes to, for all you know they might be using Bing and Google for 80% of your searches. They’re no longer transparent and even removed all mentions of Yandex from their documentation.

Thanks, ill take a look.

Couldn’t the gov track down my Monero wallet address through services like changenow or is that not an issue with Monero? Also if i’m reading correctly they do KYC:

ChangeNOW complies with applicable regulations using a risk-based approach. Suspicious transactions may trigger identity verification.

Why not?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NDb5ArWdj1c their youtube short for quick summary of the article to those that want and webarchive : https://web.archive.org/web/20261029143048/https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

It really doesn’t. The time you spend learning it and setting your config will never pay off and even after you do these things the time it saves you is negligible. I can use Zed and have 90% what Neovim offers me, it even has really good vim motions. Picking them up for productivity is a bad reason to do it.

I really liked a talk by TJ titled (Neo)Vim Made Me a Better Software Developer. The reason he uses it - is because it was basically a playground where he could play around with his code and get instant feedback as he’s the “customer”.

I can relate to this. Neovim is really extensible and minimal by default. This encourages 2 things:

1. To live close to your code. You really get an understanding of all of the underlying tools related to your development environment and it gives you control to make it as minimal as you want it. There’s wayy less abstractions on top to simplify stuff for you. When I was a beginner using Webstorm or whatever I had no clue what a LSP was. Git? Just use built in GUI why bother learning commands? Terminal? Why would I need that? Ripgrep? Treesitter?
2. To play around, customize, build stuff. There’s lots of API’s and you can change a lot in the editor. I made Neovim my main markdown editor with a few tweaks in my config. It’s minimal and I like it. Wayyy better than Obsidian.

And at the end of the day it’s kinda fun. It makes writing code more more enjoyable as you always end up learning how to navigate your code base more efficiently. Like a game almost :)

In addition to the 250,000 trees felled at Muhos, Annala estimates that an additional 150,000 trees were felled at Otanmäki. Because the trees have been felled illegally, she says wood from the two sites cannot be sold to wood-processing plan

400k trees in total. Inconceivable number.

open weights is open weights…

Global problem probably.

Here in Eastern Europe if you have the money you go to private clinics and for the most part you will get the care you need but even in paid ones the good doctors have pretty long wait times. And you’re paying ~100 eur for 1 consultation.

So that’s all they had on him? Or all the gov asked for?

I will have to re-visit telegrams privacy policy at some point, but aren’t they known for storing quite a lot of info (at least when compared to other private messengers like Signal?)

Just checked Patreon’s fees:

on Patreon’s standard plan you pay a 10% platform cut on everything you earn plus payment processing of 2.9% + $0.30 per charge.

So if I donate 5 eur roughy 1 eur will be going to Patreon.

I also thought about reaching out but I feel it’s a bit… weird asking them to do such a thing for a small donation.