#Gold is a store of value, no doubt about it. But is it a friction-less, permissionless, global payment network? Bitcoin is a store of value. And a friction-less, permissionless, global payment network. 🧡🤌

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We moved to a farm in rural Maine because we thought homesteading would save us money. It didn't.

I thought homesteading would save us money on groceries and allow us to be self-sufficient. I was wrong, but we still love our farm.

I am trying to register my cat's and dog's microchips that I injected into them (way cheaper if you do it at home than paying a vet to chip them), but I wanted to pick the best pet microchip registry company from a privacy perspective. So I used the Venice AI front end to ask deepseek about it. I uploaded a copy of three different companies' privacy policies, Petlink, Peeva, and Home Again and put deepseek R1 671B on it. Apparently, Petlink is the best choice for privacy out of these three companies. It's the only one that explicitly states they don't share or sell your data to any advertisers or data brokers. If anyone knows of a better choice than Petlink for privacy let me know.

It's difficult because I go out of my way to avoid linking my name with my address, I don't receive mail at my home address for example, but when I register my pets I want to use my home address so if they get lost and someone finds them they will at least know where they live. I will probably register them under an alias and a burner phone number but with the real address and pay for it with a prepaid visa gift card.

Here's a link to the chat I had with Venice, it's got URL trackers on it though because if you end up signing up I get points. Although I'm not sure what the points are for now since they already airdropped their token? They are a great privacy conscious front end to access multiple AI models from.

#privacy #cats #pets #deepseek

I refuse to grant Mozilla any authority over my data, so I have uninstalled Firefox from every device and made sure to tell my family and friends to do the same.

Kiwi Browser Shut Down,

This was a good tool to use extensions (like Nostr) on Android.

Mull was another one, but that's shut down too. Kiwi devs are now "shouting out" Microsoft Edge, but screw that.

I would now direct you to IceRaven (which Firefox based),

"The X-Files (2000), 8/10 ★★★★★★★★☆☆,