Make X/twitter posts limited to 140 character again. Tired of starting to read a post just to few seconds later notice it is an AI generated slop the size of a thesis.

Getting rid of gmail is one of the most difficult but important things one can do for a sovereign digital life. It has been my main email for almost two decades. Most of my logins are associated with it, including many services I don't even remember registering. Most people suggest simply moving to protonmail but although it may be the easiest path, I don't think that's a true solution for the problem. Proton deletes your account if you don't log in the app or via browser for more than 1 year. Imagine being in a comma or simply having a busy/bad year and bam all you had is lost. Tutamail is even worse, it happens in 6 months. The email provider I used when I started mining Bitcoin in 2009 deleted my email where I stored the wallet seed in 2012, to save less than 100 MB on their server. It would be way better if I had backed up in a CD. Imagine how much important data one can easily lose trusting an email provider with inactivity deletion of one year or less. The best approach for this problem IMHO is having your own domain, hosting your own email server and regularly backing up in your own physical media. However that's too difficult for the vast majority. And the majority also don't think it's necessary, and don't care about Google asking for ID or facial recognition. #agorism #degoogle #opensource #selfhost #KYC

When you're used to #Linux as your battlestation, but your workstation runs Windows with bloat Israeli spyware disguised as "cybersecurity", it can be a PITA. The best part though are Windows updates. I always leave it to update during office time. This way I get half an hour free basically every week.

And now we easily see why the internet the way it works is not compatible with the centralized model of 'big tech' companies. Banks in UAE are supposedly offline due to an Iranian precision strike in AWS data centers. Imagine during times of distress, such as being stranded in foreign land in mid of war and falling missiles, you rely on f***ing banks and their system won't even load This will NEVER happen with #crypto (such as Monero). You don't need to rely on no company or bank if you host your node. You don't need authorization, the network just confirms it. There is no such thing as transfer limits, you just use your money. #internet #AWS #Iran #banks #XMR

A GPU like the 7900XTX costs 1000 dollars. A Cursor basic subscription is 20 dollars per month. Investing in the GPU to run locally AI coding LLMs pays back in 4 years if you're a light user, and down to 1.5 year if you're a moderate user (Pro+ plan). #selfhost #opensource #AI #code #LLM

Moving up from escrow to a real multisig wallet will be probably the biggest challenge for my #monero app.

One of the nicest things in #monero imho is that even if you're a broke-ass nigga with a regular laptop, you can still mine and help the network almost the same as a rich dude with the most expensive setup. Broke-ass nigga will hash around 2kH/s while rich rude will hash around 20kH/s. OK, that's one order of magnitude more, but still negligible at the grand scheme of things. Not like #bitcoin that you're completely out of the race with a regular laptop.

Today when I arrived at home and started checking the news on my phone, the first thought was like "Please let Monero not be $1000 yet". I know it will go way above that someday, but for some reason I just wish I could buy it again on the $100s range. Maybe it won't happen again, but yes, I try not to think too much about the price.

Happy #monero 666.69