It's time to prepare, without being tragic, but somewhat bleak times are approaching for privacy and the right to privacy. And therefore for freedom. It's time to sharpen the tools: a browser (to move around the web), a messaging system (to communicate) and money.

1. Brave

2. Signal

3. Bitcoin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/west-papua-indonesia-palm-oil-deforestation-rainforest - West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide - Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying - In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

GN 😴

I agree. Don't try to be someone else. Be unique 🫵

Dark days these ...

controlling the content is not as important as having control over connections

"If you find yourself in a situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, go someplace else."

https://mcornick.com/posts/2021/12/13/law-of-mobility/

👽

Outlook (later supplanted on Windows by that crap named Mail)

It's a strange world Jeff, even online. Don't feel bad 💜

Always 💜

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/usenet-coup/ The Usenet coup: how the USSR discovered the internet in 1991

Convention for sure

Usenet --> decentralised model still active. Don't abandon it!

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

I received my first satoshi just these days 😊

I received my first Satoshi. Moving moment 😊

PV

https://rys.io/en/168.html is mastodon.social too big? a bad thing for the fediverse?