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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

I also find when I don’t have a VPN switched on that I am getting more and more errors as well…the internet is now a 💩 coin.

70 pounds of meat 🥩, carved, vacuum sealed, and into the freezer…I’m beat. #meat

I remember reading an article on how WiFi signals can be used to actually create an image of what is going on inside a building and show hidden objects. Well I guess Xfinity wants to keep an eye on you.

#privacy #security

Fun fact, Brown University has an 8 Billion Dollar endowment, cost $70k per year, but seems not to be able to afford armed security guards??

Reason 121 not to go to college.

Well that makes sense but there are humans that do illegal things, so that just makes them criminals and criminals who enter a country illegally should be sent packing which is actually very humane when compared to other countries that would imprison you for years and then send you home packing.

I’m not an engineer, but used GPT to write a python script that took some unstructured data and get it into a spreadsheet…that would have taken me hours to do manually and I don’t know Python at all…GPT walked me through each step.

For the first time in years when looking at the star on my Christmas tree I see the star that illuminated the town of Bethlehem 2025 years ago!

#Jesus