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!

On a local site as a teen I sold like 20 books or something and lots of unused crap I no longer needed, including phones, PC’s, keyboards … both by mail and face 2 face.

The government announced it would ban under-16s accessing social media in June this year, with children prevented from accessing 10 of the biggest platforms. YouTube will also be banned for under-16s, but YouTube Kids - a version of the video-sharing app designed to be safe for children - will not be included in the measures. A complete list of affected platforms has not yet been released, but the government said it would cover those “whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material”. That means platforms that have livestreaming or features that enable the potential for strangers to contact children will also be restricted, which includes gaming sites.

Don’t worry they’re on it. They will ban everything, just in case.

Interesting feature. I’ve been using the Vimium extension to bookmark 2 places in the same page and jump between them if there’s a need. I suppose this makes it slightly better.

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/

This is so funny because that’s what literally happened to me. When I was in first grade my parents sent me to a basketball academy. It was the first day. I went to the vending machine to get some gummy bears or whatever and for some reason the machine gave me 2 packets instead of 1. My dad told me to give one to some other kid. So I did and just like that we were best buds for the next couples of years until i stopped attending the academy. Sometimes it really is that simple.

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.

Yt-dlp is great! I used it it to download podcasts from Youtube so I could listen on my phone. Only later I discovered I can download straight through Pipepipe(youtube client). I actually even used it shortly for regular videos as well to watch them through VLC just so at the end of the day I wouldn’t get hooked on youtube shorts and the rest of the nonsense on the front page.

Yt-dlp also works for most social media sites. X, Tiktok, etc…

Not sure about the value of downloading videos for the sake of storing them (after you’ve watched them) tho. I rarely rewatch videos.

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?

Next time try scanning an image of a person you find online, should be enough for twitter.

It doesn’t. Buddhism, for example does not require a belief in gods.