Avatar
Yaël
a367f9eb1cb3a241a7f3646f31cd6d597bbbbf8eaeb5cd2e707d09b00633efea
deputy director @ consumer choice center fellow @ bitcoin policy institute québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien

Hello, my name is Ÿael

Europe's version of tort lawyers stopping innovation and progress absolutely exist and are ruthless.

But they're more revered on the continent since they call themselves "data privacy" NGOs who are quite chummy with EU authorities.

Oh yes, and they're usually state-funded.

I was running Archivebox on my own server, but it was very difficult to expose those pages to the open web. Would like more easy one-click solutions -- perhaps for node implementations like start9 and umbrel?

If you're not subscribed to Watchman Privacy, you probably should be.

Here's his interview with Erik Voorhees on Venice AI on the future of private AI apps

https://overcast.fm/+AAtplngFlIY

Going live on Schwab Network TV in 10 minutes to talk Spirit Airlines, Biden DOJ, and how we can slash regulations to allow budget airlines to compete for American consumers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOd3v8VTYo

Basically everyone in Trump orbit is deathly opposed to CBDCs, so I don’t understand the analysis.

Especially important that Trump World is pushing for RICK SCOTT as Senate Majority Leader, as he just introduced a bill with Sen. Mike Lee to reform the Bank Secrecy Act and ban CBDCs!

https://consumerchoicecenter.org/reform-the-bank-secrecy-act-to-better-protect-consumer-financial-privacy/

Immer weniger in hartem Geld! nostr:note14m42x5h98t8j5353jcj82x4qvjeq8n2vzjllrw0mlmhykax8wk2s467mpm

Very excited to read this new book by my longtime friend Fergus Hodgson about his long-time love affair (and sometimes hate fest) with Latin America: economic lessons, variable social trust, and how hostility to free enterprise holds back prosperity.

“Latin America is a mystery, shrouded behind myths and niceties. However, the politically incorrect truth about the region is becoming more prescient as the diaspora balloons, especially in Anglo-America. If you want to get past polite-society conversations and marketing narratives to understand the reality on the ground, this is the book for you.”

https://amzn.to/4fjkD4E

For no reason at all, here's a reddit threat on the best way to be a prepper while living in a big populated city

https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/fcv9z0/prepping_101_for_urban_areas/

There are perhaps tens of millions of millennials renting apartments across the U.S.

Many of them own Bitcoin and other crypto assets as their only real net worth.

If banks can’t accept Bitcoin as collateral for lending, someone else well.

On an “open-source AI” panel today, I mentioned Meshtastic and the beauty of open-course protocols like Bitcoin to the head bureaucrat of the European Data Protection Bureau.

She took copious notes. Not sure if that’s a good thing.

Don’t tell any Greens, but working in Europe, I often fly into cities for the day and fly back at night. Cheap flights and fossil fuels make this possible.

Narrowly missing a Ryanair flight makes you contemplate lots of things in life

I'm now up to 130 discovered nodes on my meshtastic device (now have a Lilygo t-echo).

Made a point to drive around with it for a few days and it's been wild to see where people pop up!

Have chatted back and forth with a few folks in the area, but nothing more than your general "73s" from ham radio and their location

I love this British guy's videos on meshtastic stuff. He's so passionate, so nerdy, and you know he's got a gang of like 10 other British dudes just like him in his mesh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05I7vtwsSjQ