After a few failed payments to the @Blockstream store — Mastercard called me up and asked about suspicious blocked transactions (no pun). Asked her if it was cause of VPN usage? She said: «NO, it's cause of the merchant’s name getting the transactions flagged.» She confirmed this clearly two more times before agreeing to unblock it and hanging up. Payed instead with BTC/⚡ #Bitcoin fixed it

If you thought US politics was screwed up.. Phua Thai screwing their voters over by backstabbing everyone to get Thaksin back to Thailand and pardoned for his long list of crimes after 15 years a fugitive abroad. They promise time and geo- locked CBDC airdrops and doubling of the minimum salary. Fairytail populist policies that will only bring hyperinflation and more suffering to an already weak and fragile economy. Close to 3000 people was brutally murdered in the streets without trial by his failed war-on-drugs between March to April in 2003. The big upside with this anti-democratic process is that Thailand seemingly avoided a US controlled proxy goverment that could have throwed the country in to a proxy war with Myanmar and China.

https://www.bangkokpost.com

Thaksin arrives at Don Mueang, makes brief appearance

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra finally returned to his home country after 15 years in self-exile and made a brief appearance in front of ...

BraveNewPipe #FOSS android app is a NewPipe free speech fork – that let you add sources from Rumble, Youtube, Bitchute etc, and integrate them all in to one large seamless feed, without exposure to any google services or JS tracking and completely free of world destroying BigTech algos. It also allow features such as listening while app in background (premium/payed Youtube feature) and import/export your saved feed to different devices.

GitHub

Releases · bravepipeproject/BravePipe

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android. - bravepipeproject/BravePipe

Install it with Obtainium to keep it updated:

GitHub

Releases · ImranR98/Obtainium

Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.

#Privacy

Picked up this 11' (google) Pixel tablet with 8gb ram and 256gb storage last month. Just got around to installing #GrapheneOS on it and its great! Any USI 2.0 compatible stylus will work out of the box. Finally a hardened #FOSS android tablet ✊ #Privacy

If you worry about being forced to «Visit ze orb to get CBDC’s for ze bugz and ze pod» – do remember the freedom and liberties granted to mankind trough the ingenuity, blood, sweat and tears of the open source community 🙏 Fortunately we are way beyond the point-of-no-return for freedom – anyone can already freely opt-out of totalitarian surveillance-capitalism and choose freedom forged trough open source code, protocols, #AnarchoCapitalism and value-4-value freedom tech: Bitcoin 🟠⚡ Freedom of transaction Nostr 🟣🫂 Freedom of communication A.I/LLMs 📖💡 Freedom of information In a world where you can choose anything, choose non-KYC, choose #FOSS, choose freedom ✊ #Bitcoin

The price of plastic shopping bags in Norway have cause of EU directives increased by 325% since 2018 (1 Nok - 4.25 Nok) and from January 2024 it will increase even further to 5.25 Nok 📈💸 By 2025 the plan is to implement an annual limit of max 40 bags per person 🤡 Norway is not even a EU member 🤷 How will it be enforced? Probably by tracking digital purchases linked trough the national digital ID (BankID) scheme. Which in Norway sadly is already fully rolled out, mass-adopted and required for most everything in daily life. #Bitcoin