Did you know Google Fonts is installed on approximately 111,579,992 websites, with around 50,103,810 of those currently live?
Did you also know if you visit a site that uses Google Fonts, it automatically collects user:
- IP address: Which identifies your device on the internet (as of 2022, Google stopped storing users' IP addresses, but they still collect this information).
- User agent: Information about your browser and operating system.
- Referer: The URL of the webpage you are visiting.
...and is therefore "out-of-the-box" in violation of GDPR law?
If you are a website visitor:
You can block 3rd party fonts (web fonts) with uBlock Origin.
1. Open uBlock Origin's dashboard.
2. Go to the "My filters" tab.
3. Add the following line to block Google Fonts:
*$font,third-party
4. Click "Apply changes" to save the filter rule.
There is an even stricter option that blocks ALL remote fonts (not just Google Fonts) that you can activate by selecting "Block remote fonts" in the extension's settings.
*Sites that do not display properly can be excluded from the block.*
If you are a website owner:
You can protect your visitors' privacy by hosting your own fonts locally (on the same server as your web pages), using basic OS fonts, or checking out Bunny.
If you haven't heard of Bunny CDN, they offer the only fully GDPR-compliant fonts powered by a CDN as a drop-in replacement for Google fonts.
According to Bunny:
"Bunny Fonts is an open-source, privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.
With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your users' personal data into their own hands."
As a side note: Bunny CDN also has one of the most transparent, easy-to-read and understand privacy and data policy pages I have ever seen.
Well done Bunny, well done.
It sounds like you're not aware of what's currently possible with Monero:
> I don't know how to spend [Monero] in my every day life (aka no merchants IRL accept it)
It's true that few merchants accept Monero directly, but that's also true of Bitcoin.
However, you can buy gift cards with Monero for most major retailers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/wg3eiw/introducing_cake_pay_buy_gift_cards_instantly/
And the Monerozon service allows you to buy anything on Amazon:
> [Monero is] terribly difficult to swap it for other coins
Which exhanges have you tried to use? Cake wallet has a no-KYC exchange built-in for most major coins:
If you don't like the Cake wallet, try these:
> [Monero is] terribly difficult to swap it for fiat (which I'm not interested in but still relevant)
It's difficult to do in a non-KYC manner, it's true. But that's also true for Bitcoin as well.
If you don't care about KYC, you can use Kraken:
If you do care about KYC, you can use Haveno. Haveno is a no-KYC peer to peer client based on Bisq:
Here's a tutorial for installing/using Haveno:
https://blog.nihilism.network/servers/haveno-client-f2f/index.html
The Monerica site has a bunch of other sites that accept Monero directly:
> As of now, it is not [liquid]...and it is as such since its inception.
Monero has almost completely replaced Bitcoin on the darknet markets.
Monero is now the most used crypto on ShopinBit (largest European site that accepts crypto):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1e1b1r4/monero_crushes_bitcoin_on_shopinbit/
If you want to stay abreast of Monero developments, check out Monero.town:
Is Monero as easy to use as Paypal or credit cards? No.
Is Monero less expensive?
It depends. Per spend, Monero transaction costs are typically a few cents. Monero transactions are also irreversible, which means merchants don't have to save as much to cover credit card charge-backs. However, the initial cost of acquisition can be high.
Is Monero resistant to censorship, surveillance, inflation, and seizure?
Yes.
With Monero, you can make political donations without fear your bank account will be frozen:
https://bitcoinist.com/canada-chokes-crypto-supply/.
With Monero, you can travel with millions across borders without fear that you will be [arrested for violating capital controls:
https://www.uschina.org/china%E2%80%99s-capital-controls-choke-cross-border-payments.
IMO, those benefits are worth the costs of acquiring Monero.
With Monero, your total wealth is private, and you're at less risk of thieves (whether in government or the private sector) beating you with a wrench until you give up your money:
https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md?ref=casa-blog.
Yes, and if Bitcoin actually protected your privacy / financial sovereignty, it would be banned too.
Social Media Sovereignty
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Using Nostr Client Garnet
With Own Monero Relay
With Own Monero Node
Gabriel Giunta (gabrihel8 on Instagram) makes fine art out of cardboard and garbage.
#archerart
#grownostr
They didn't do it to Bitcoin because Bitcoin is a spycoin that makes it easy to track every spend.
Cake wallet works well, and they contribute much to the Monero community.
What have the Democrats done to warrant crypto support? From what I can tell, the SEC under Biden has behaved in a extremely corrupt fashion, extorting billions out of the crypto industry even as they provide regulatory moats for their cronies. Several crypto OG's have been caged (Ver, Tornado Cash devs, Samourai wallet deves). Operation Chokepoint II is well under way, and almost all crypto-friendly banks have been shut down. Many crypto services have moved out of the US and/or refuse to serve US customers due to the predatory Democratic-controlled state.
Why should the Democrats stop attacking us, unless we punish them in the voting booth?
Where is the heart of the modern cypherpunk movement?
The community of people who care about privacy, censorship-resistance, and financial self-sovereignty is so large and dispersed that it's impossible for any single person to keep track of all of the worthy projects.
But these are some of the projects I'm excited about (all handles are Twitter handles):
@askvenice - front end to decentralized Morpheus network (@MorpheusAIs)
@arweaveeco - 200+ years of storage for a one time fee
@bisq_network - decentralized, p2p fiat/Bitcoin exchange that runs over tor
@basicswapdex - An atomic swap and cross-chain DEX with no central points of failure.
@brightidproject - Privacy-first social identity network.
@darkfisquad - tooling for creating/governing anonymity software
@havenodex - decentralized p2p fiat/Monero exchange (based on Bisq)
@havenprotocol - algorithmic stablecoin based on Monero
@holepunch_to - library for making direct P2P connections
@melproject_twitter.com/archershipsorg - anonymous communication and transaction network designed to be decentralized, incentive-compatible, and ban-resistant.
@meshtastic - open source, off-grid, encrypted mesh communication platform that runs on affordable radios
@mobazha_market - Decentralized market, derived from OpenBazaar
@nymproject - incentivized mixnet that prevents metadata release via timing attacks
#nostr - decentralized network protocol for a distributed social networking system
@odysee - decentralized Youtube alternative (based on Arweave)
@particlproject - creators of particl market place (decentralized, private marketplace)
@pears_p2p - p2p runtime built on holepunch
#reticulumnetwork (https://reticulum.network/ created by @markqvist - self-configuring, encrypted meshnet designed to operate even in low bandwidth environments (packet radio, LoRA)
@seraidex - decentralized multichain exchange
#stampprotocol (https://stampid.net/) created by Andrew Lyon (https://killtheradio.net/) - decentralized cryptographic identity system used to represent a personal or group identity in electronic systems.
@tari - Mimble wimble based non-fungible tokens
@vexl - no-KYC, p2p fiat <-> Bitcoin exchange
@zano_project - Cryptonote based smart contract system
@zcash - private cash based on zero knowledge tech
#cypherpunk
#monero
#archercypherpunk
earendil
unstoppable peer-to-peer communication
docs / github / discord
"Earendil is the first anonymous communication and transaction network designed to be decentralized, incentive-compatible, and ban-resistant. It is a foundational off-chain protocol in the Mel ecosystem.
Unlike VPNs, onion routers, and most "censorship-resistant" web3 protocols, Earendil is designed to run on fully hostile network infrastructure. It's nearly invisible to ISPs and defends against powerful attackers willing to ban rather than subvert or censor the protocol.
Earendil is currently a work-in-progress. A minimally functional pre-alpha is available."
#archerhumor
"Cypto is an industry formed in the wake of a grand vision. Its early pioneers were agorists who dreamed of a future beyond coercion and built tools to expand the space of freedom outward.
Overtime, crypto's vision has wavered. Agorism in the 21st Century (AXXI) was formed in response to this lack. AXXI seeks to revitalize crypto's potential by returning to its agorist roots.
AXXI amplifies dissonance and brings voices together from across the political spectrum. It is also a call for unity. AXXI resurrects the unifying vision of an agorist alliance beyond the surveillance state.
To journey outward with intent crypto must first embark on a journey to strengthen its resolve.
Agora. Anarchy. Action."
#archercrypto
[Note, I don't agree with his solutions.]
https://zeeprime.capital/why-privacy-failed-zk-part-2
"Why has privacy failed to date? Both as a concept and a practical matter we see a general lack of urgency. When you talk to somebody, few - if any - do not support the idea of privacy, and yet the adoption of privacy-preserving measures is largely under tapped. By this, I mean across all of the web, not just Web 3.
While privacy is a more nebulous concept, in Web 3 we can generally distill the space into two verticals: private blockchains (largely financial) and private data (personal data ownership). There are Monero Zealots out there, but for the most part privacy projects are abject failures (in terms of adoption) despite this inherent expression of desire for it."
#archercrypto
You're right that it's better when no single person or small cadre can unilaterally throttle access to the public square.
However, I don't think it was that unclear at the time that deplatforming Trump violated Twitter's nominal commitment to free speech. What made it a difficult decision was Twitter's workforce, which was composed almost exclusively of progressive Democrats. The tribal drumbeat to drive out their political adversary must have been deafening.
Had Twitter had a commitment to hire people with actual diversity of thought, maybe there would've been more principled defenders of free speech to push back.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/16/twitter-employees-donated-almost-exclusively-to-democrats-in-2022/
#archerPolitics
#archerCrypto
"If libertarianism is so great, you should easily be able to convince those around you of its merits."
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It took gay people decades to win the rights they have now. Gays back in the 1970's didn't wait decades for the homophobes to come round; they moved to gay enclaves where they could live without persecution immediately.
And the gay enclaves were key to winning national acceptance, by showing that the "gay lifestyle" in enclaves was nothing to be feared.
Similarly, libertarians want "liberty in our lifetime" as well. And libertarians are often asked to provide examples of how our ideas would work in practice. But putting them into practice requires winning elections. Concentrating our forces [in New Hampshire] allows us to win elections, which in turn allows us to implement our policies, which will--we hope-- assuage the fears of authoritarians, and allow for greater acceptance of libertarian values nationally.
#freeStateProject
#fsp
#archerFSP
"“We write and maintain Shoggoth, a peer-to-peer, anonymous network for publishing and distributing open-source code, Machine Learning models, datasets and research papers. The purpose of Shoggoth is to combat software censorship and empower software developers to create and distribute software, without a centralized hosting service or platform.”
#archer_ai
#ai
#shoggoth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saya_de_Malha_Bank
http://www.wolfhilbertz.com/downloads/2002/saya_2002_rev1.pdf
"The Saya de Malha Bank is the site of an attempt to create an artificial island by Prof. Wolf Hilbertz (1938-2007) and Dr. Thomas J. Goreau. Hilbertz created seacrete or biorock by utilizing electricity to accrete the minerals in sea water onto a metal structure. The artificial coral thus far created has high enough tensile strength to be used as building material. With others, Hilbertz and Goreau made two expeditions to the bank in 1997 and 2002.[4] They attempted to create or grow an island around a steel structure that has been anchored to the North Bank sea floor at a depth of 11 m (36 ft). Some sources say that the island would have been named Autopia[5] or Autopia Saya, and declared a micronation."
Over 94% of teacher's union donations since 1990 have gone to the Democrats:
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