⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - Europe's largest insect farm goes bankrupt despite receiving almost €200 million in public money.

The French company Ÿnsect has declared bankruptcy and entered judicial liquidation. The project had been presented as a key piece in the transformation of the European food system.

Currently trying to reset and reboot a 10 year old MacBook Pro. Will try to use dual boot with #Linux on this device later on. At the same time I am using a brandnew Macbook from 2025 with a new Apple user . (Promisimg to leave Apple feels like just another New Year’s resolution. Bad old habits..)

I am not a system hacker and I have never used Linux before. However, the events of the last 3 years force even average users to better take care of personal security, privacy and online hygiene.

Simple steps in my journey include:

- to minimize or even eliminate Google Services of any kind

- to minimize Apple services. Apple is still leading on design and UX, however privacy is a serious concern. Many users won’t give up convenience for some lack of privacy

- get in touch with new solutions outside big tech suite universe (only office, libre office etc. instead of MS Office/ Veracrypt instead of proprietary encryption solutions from big tech/ open source local password managers/ clearing your iCloud with lots tons of data that is more than a decade old for more privacy focused cloud solutions is very tough and a challenge for the majority, self hosting almost impossible to achieve for the average joe

- get used to TOR and VPN basics

- give up your iphone for a pixel phone running on grapheneOS? I am still struggling with that one…

For some strange reason the new Macbook still feels like a brandnew Mercedes when compared to Windows machines. Amazing that I have been using the old Mac Book Pro Machine since 2015 without any issues (try that with a Win Computer.. ) until I bumped into the problem where you cannot update iOS anymore. Many tell me that Ubuntu loves old Mac Devices.

Let`s see about that. If Apple asks what happened to my unconditional brand loyalty, I will tell them I was moving on to other things. I will try to clean up the screen from the old Mac, looks like a mess compared to the new one on the right..

What are your experiences as a former Apple User? Special thanks goes to Timo Volkov.

#nostr

#bitcoin

#security

#winstonsmith

#edwardsnowden

#privacy

#linux

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Happy new year everyone, new year, new GMs 🧡

Without Node Runners, Bitcoin is worthless.

thoughts?

Merry Christmas

Good morning everyone 🌞

Give love today and try to have some fun ❤️

dont amplify this bs narrative

he wrote mastering bitcoin so years later he was asked, as a decentralized computing expert, to coauthor the mastering ethereum book

for maxis this is heresey, but andreas is still one of the sanest voices in the chaos of technical discussion about bitcoin

How so?

What’s the sentiment on bitcoin nostr?

Core v30 or knots?

Or core v29 or older?

I am once again questioning the official narrative.

Since last cycle, and much more from this cycle, you shouldn't thrive or preach for companies, entities or famous persona that will talk/use/adopt #bitcoin.

Everyone will, you can't and you shouldn't more take it as a sign of being anti establishment, anti FIAT, a believer in Austrian economics.. it's and it will be used more and more as a tool.

More and more people will use it, even the ones you dislike, even your enemies, even the States, anyone will need it, even if they won't like to.

Owning, holding, using #bitcoin will not define your ethics or morals.. there's no "Bitcoiners", there's is just people using #Bitcoin.

GM