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https://vpn.simplifiedprivacy.com/ has a $1/month sub and you can pair it with their https://hydraveil.net/ tool for compartmentalization. Some of their servers are run by known members of the monero community like trusted vendors or market admins. You can also get shared/resold accounts for big vpn companies on https://xmrbazaar.com/ (for example 2 years of PIA for $15 from a trusted vendor https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/xEM5/) or rent a DMCA ignored VPS with monero and set up your own VPN for $7-12/year, you won't exactly hide in the crowd that way but it's better than nothing and should thwart ISP related annoyances.

I'm not trying to give unsolicited advice but you can get a VPN subscription for 1$/month and put it on your router to get your whole house covered. Seems like a small price to pay for extra privacy and less ISP related headaches. ProtonVPN offers an unlimited bandwidth free tier too.

What if you say it with an Italian accent? It'sa me, Philadel-fucking-phia!

Replacing broken displays will cost them less than paying someone to swap labels by hand, and if it does become even mildly annoying to them you will be caught and have the book thrown at you. If you are gonna break the law you might as well do something more productive than generating tax write offs.

Risk criminal charges to cause $24 in damages, that will surely crumple the multi bilion dolar corporation.

What do you need all that ram for?

Next step will be a country wide captive portal where you need to log in with your digital id just to get on the Internet at all. We should all start looking into decentralized network infrastructure like a wifi&lora meshnet or community run satellite connection. There already is a network stack with an active community that allows that called reticulum. It can be incorporated into the existing infrastructure of meshtastic, i2p, wifi meshnets etc.

Monero - private, permissionless, decentralized, p2p, digital cash system.

Reticulum - cryptography-based networking stack designed to build secure, decentralized, and resilient local or wide-area networks using readily available hardware. It operates independently of traditional internet protocols (like IP), enabling communication under adverse conditions such as high latency and extremely low bandwidth with:

Forced e2e encryption and forward secrecy
Initiator anonymity
Multi-hop and self-configuring routing
Heterogenous network support
Decentralized addressing

Basically internet 2.0

Arweave - private, permissionless, decentralized, p2p, permanent data storage/server.

None except palantir (that's not strictly just an AI company).

At this point yall use fascist the same way 4chan uses fag.

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

She survived and settled for $450k.

https://ihostart.com/ one of the cheapest I know.

https://ardrive.io/ for a permanent, encrypted, decentralized, blockchain based solution.

A raspberry pi hidden in a wall behind a power socket or in some always plugged in appliance like a fridge or tv at some place with wifi or a phone with a data plan connected to a portable solar charger set up on some roof or tree.

DRM, digital locks, hardware locking fuses etc. should be illegal. If I buy a car I can change the lights, swap out the engine, do whatever I want with it, it's mine, I own it. Why shouldn't I be able to do the same with my phone or game? Why should some company have the right to tell me what I can and can't do with my own property that I paid for? That's not DRM (digital rights management) because they have no right to manage my property, it's OSM (ownership subversion mechanism) and that's what we should call all that anti consumer bullshit.

P2pool if you want to receive your rewards in a reasonable timeframe, there's almost no reason to solo mine... but there is something cool about it and finally finding that block so personally that's what I do. https://odysee.com/@crypt0_bear:7d/solo-minning-monero-music-video:1

No. Domains can be seized and blocked by countries via dns blocklists, anna's archive just lost one of their domains recently, so has z-library, the pirate bay... European governments have been forcing isps to introduce dns blocklists for the websites they don't like. Certificate authorities have been hacked before, can be coerced by governments to perform MITM attacks and require trust. The only reason why certificates are even remotely accessible to regular people is thanks to EFFs certbot, hosting providers can charge thousands of $ per year for a simple SSL certificate. There's no reason for that when a cert and a domain name could be recorded on a public distributed ledger (blockchain) openly accessible and independently verified by thousands of nodes, no trust, no authority, no single point of failure, almost no chance of a MITM attack. Here I outlined how that would work exactly https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10423786 Same thing with a pgp key server, magnet link repository etc. How many torrent sites went down and took their content with them? How many open source projects have been DMCAd and forced to shutdown, some without any legal grounds just by threatening frivolous lawsuits? Good luck taking down the entire blockchain, especially one not only dedicated to torrents. Always up, uncensorable, verifiable from beginning to end, publicly accessible with thousands of endpoints. How can you argue that's not better than a centralized server that lives and dies by the will of one dude or his isp/vps provider or some company or government. Historical data like weather info, currency exchange rates or any other record always up, uncensorable, fully verifiable, freely available to anyone who wants via an online API with thousands of endpoints or by querying your local version of the blockchain instead of through a centralized, often paid online service. Trustless smart contracts are unique to blockchains, you can't do them any other way because they require a trustless execution layer only a blockchain can provide, otherwise you'd have to trust some 3rd party who controls the computer. Tokenized financial markets give regular people easy access to the market without the need for a broker who will take fees, can dissable buying/selling like robinhood did during the GME short squeeze, can front run it's clients etc. It's literally revolutionary tech being adopted by companies in and outside of the financial sector and governments around the world. Insane how people still dismiss it because "bitcoin uses blockchain and bitcoin wastes energy so blockchain bad" even when no proof of work or crypto currency is involved, not to mention that mining, smelting, transporting gold or silver also wastes energy and human work for a pretty useless metal that outside of some niche applications demand for which could be easily satisfied +1000 fold with our current supply is exclusively used to store value, that printing, securing, transporting cash wastes energy and a lot of human work. Digital fiat also has to be handled by a bank that needs servers, milions of ATMs and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES all of whom have to drive to and from work, have their building heated and lit, have a computer and whole infrastructure that needs to be maintained just to function not even 24/7, slower and less reliability than a crypto currency that doesn't even require proof of work mining anymore, wastes a fuckton more energy and human effort than 10 bitcoin networks ever could. There's nothing inherently inefficient about blockchains, for example the small data server example I provided is literally pretty much just a decentralized, uncensorable, trustless, permisionless, verifiable, community run CDN (content delivery network) which is more efficient than a single centralized server.

You don't need mass adoption to be useful, the more adopted a currency is the more useful it becomes but it's not binary. Seychelles has a population of 130k, does that mean that the seychellois rupee is useless? Of course not, 130k people use it everyday.

~100 milion people use or at least own bitcoin, meaning they would probably be willing to pay or accept payment in it, that's 1.3% of the world's population, 1 in 80 people, that puts bitcoin between the Japanese yen and the British pound. ~260 milion people use crypto currencies in one way or another, over 3% of world's population, 1 in 30 people, that's just under the euro or the us dolar. And if you use 1 crypto you basically know how to use them all, just like €,$,£. If that's not mass adoption I don't know what is.

Most merchants who accept ₿ also accept other cryptos like ethereum, stable coins, litecoin, monero, tron, bitcoin cash... There are payment gateways that make it incredibly easy and automatically convert to your currency of choice, so there is no reason not to accept even the shittiest of shitcoins if it will be swapped before it even gets to you.

The most distinguishing feature is that it's private by default, the sender, receiver and the amounts are cryptographically hidden from uninvolved parties. Other than that

Tiny fees - fees are only used to prevent spam, not to replace block rewards.
Tail emissions - every block rewards the miner with 0.6 XMR ensuring chain security, keeping the fees low and the inflation predictable and small - forever approaching 0 but never reaching it.
Variable block sizes - the block size grows and shrinks with the demand, allowing for more transactions when demand is high but still limiting spam.
RandomX mining algorithm - ASIC resistant mining algorithm best mined with the CPU ensures fair access to mining and prevents big minig firms from taking over the mining process.
Community and culture - the focus of most other cryptos is investing and speculation while monero's focus is on being the best private, uncensored, p2p money. Because of this while other cryptos encourage their users to HODL their coins, monero users are encouraged to save and also spend their coins, treat them like digital cash rather than something who's only purpose is to go up in price. In my opinion this culture leads to several things:

Business acceptance - many privacy centric services like VPN, VPS, e-sim, phone top up, gift card providers etc. accept monero. Usually any service that does, sees it at the top of the chart as the most used crypto, often more than all the other coins combined. Many open source projects accept it for donations as well, with similar findings.
Community built infrastructure - the monero community focuses on building the infrastructure around the idea of monero being digital cash. Things like xmrbazaar.com, a monero based e-bay/craigslist like market where you can buy/sell things for monero, kuno a monero based gofundme alternative for fundraisers, retoswap.com an instance of haveno, a decentralized, p2p monero exchange, monerica.com a repository of monero accepting business and other monero related things are designed with the idea of treating monero as money.
Price stability - because of the fact that monero is actually used for payments it's price is established through adoption rather than speculation which makes it fairly stable in comparison to the rest of the crypto market, thanks to this you can safely spend and receive monero without worrying that a month from now it will loose 50% of it's value. Of course, there are peaks and valleys often caused by the macro market movements like the recent few day pump to $800 and crash back to $400 but that's an exception rather than the rule, for the most part (excluding stable coins) it's one of the most stable cryptos out there with a slight long-term uptrend.

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The Next (De)Generation

The Next (De)Generation

Rules

Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.

Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket

The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

VPN only with ID check in UK?

VPN only with ID check in UK?

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Open-Source P2P Apps

McDonald Meme Monday. Even though it's Thursday.

what a drag

Pumping the bubble now, pay later

Pumping the bubble now, pay later

fire-man

chicken

rescue

rescue

rescue

Non-US cloud storage for backup?

Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy!

17 years*

17 years*

17 years*

17 years*

He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison.

Man Jailed For Possessing "Extreme Right Wing Music"

Idea on how to fight qubic.

Thank you AI, very cool

The four horsemen of unmet financial expectations

The four horsemen of unmet financial expectations