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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.

Yessir. Love this

A high profile billionaire using a KYC exchange or a pseudonymous 'someone' via an unsignaled quantum break - specifically targeting Satoshis? I think a seizure of Saylors (Strategy) stack makes for a bigger statement given the amount of time he's spent building, it would knock the wind out of the whole community. Plus, both would be state level attacks. Saylor could be 1 administration change away from government theft, quantum could be 10 years away.

They've dropped (nothing could be worse than this news) the digital ID. So news of a battle with encryption will get brushed off by most of the public. Which is the real battle.

A right to privacy shouldn't mean you have to be a dissident, journalist, or domestic abuse victim. It's a human right, period.

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/creating-apps-like-signal-or-whatsapp-could-be-hostile-activity-claims-uk-watchdog

When the government finally loses its purpose. And the people realise they don't want the left/right, blue/red system. The uprising of artificial intelligence (guarded by government rails) will take hold.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6xz1jv4ezo

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The Big Print?

I'm open to new ideas. I was thinking about leaving sci-fi for a little bit and pick it back up with red rising in the new year.

What book should I read over the festive period? I was reading the Red Rising series but put it down after the 4th book, need to forget the story for a while πŸ˜…

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I just got done watching Strander Things, this picture has the same nostalgic feel

First TEN31 quarterly catch up I’ve listened too. Glad I did

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I made the post on nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz769wywf πŸ‘ŒπŸ»

Janna Blackwell, who was on holiday from Virginia, told the BBC: "You know, this is getting ridiculous and stupid.

"Freedom of speech. He shared his opinion and is being cancelled. To me that is bizarre."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203n52x1y9o

Freshly ground coffee beans could be my favourite smell, anon 🀌🏻

It's not:

Red vs Blue

Labour vs Conservatives

Left vs Right.

"the government will be financed at the expense of the people" - nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6f0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7snuh0e

https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/leak-landlords-to-pay-national-insurance-on-rental-income

I couldn't find it in the playstore but seen apple users could use it. So a quick search found that article πŸ˜‚

It works on Android. Pretty cool 😎 nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx6mmnw3ezuur4vgkhjsen nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk

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Why isnt Nostr as 'sticky' as FB/Insta/X?

#asknostr

Tax his land,

Tax his bed,

Tax the table

At which he's fed.

Tax his work,

Tax his pay,

He works for peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,

Tax his goat,

Tax his pants,

Tax his coat.

Tax his tobacco,

Tax his drink,

Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his car,

Tax his gas,

Find other ways to tax his ass.

Tax all he has

Then let him know

That you won't be done till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;

Then tax him some more,

Tax him till he's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,

Tax his grave,

Tax the sod in which he's laid.

When he's gone,

Do not relax, it's time to apply the inheritance tax.