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Here’s more info I stumbled upon today. This is sad to say the least.
https://svtv.org/news/2025-08-19/pravitielstvo-rieshilo-zapustit-razghovory-o/
I believe the people who push back are the same people who educate themselves on the dangers of digital gulag and therefore on the ways to bypass the totalitarianism.
With restrictions being arguably more tight in Russia their propaganda machine worked out great for the government — one can not protest without being sent to jail, which basically means being forced to go to war and almost certainly die — most people do not ask any questions any more and are confident that whatever the government is doing is meant to protect them.
Can confirm. Posted this on Nostr last week:
Russia has begun blocking WhatsApp and Telegram calls — confirmed by several friends inside the country.FYI: they’re now pushing a state‑built “MAX” messenger to fully control and censor communication. This thing is basically a Trojan with a government badge — demanding near‑root access, scraping contacts, messages, and data from other apps.Starting this autumn, it comes pre‑installed on every new phone sold. Officials are being told to use it, and even school parent–teacher chats are being quietly forced onto it in multiple regions.Welcome to the gulag, comrades — only this time, a century later, it’s gone digital.
nostr:nevent1qqs2ep3mg8ny8ffqw36h85fjwfq8ywtugn2ym40dkf0gjdcu7df59hczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqqqqqgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqguwaehxw309a5xzan9dckhgmmw0yhryvtfv3jkzuewdaexwqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5f8zay0One more thing to add regarding VPNs:
I left Russia quite a while ago, but my parents are there. After they started blocking calls, I asked my dad to download a VPN, but he couldn’t — Google Play link I shared was not accessible (blocked). Had to share the APK with him. At least Google phones have such an option.
It might cut cost for OpenAI, but if you use it via API, there’s no option to use any kind of a hybrid model, you’ve gotta do it manually via backend. There’s even no such thing as a “non-thinking” gpt-5.
This is indeed interesting. I’m myself researching this as I figured people will increasingly use chatbots for search. I even got a few visits from ChatGPT on my educational bitcoin website (I use Umami analytics to preserve visitors privacy, but still have tools to improve conversion).
Just couple of days ago I found out it’s a good practice - both for regular web crawlers and chatbots to consider your content - to add an invisible JSON block with structured page info. It should have title, description, author, other info. As this block is structured, crawlers understand it much better and are more likely to suggest it to readers.
Strong point. No matter how mighty reasoning models look, machines need guidance.
I feel like the CEOs of AI companies are rushing into rolling out something that makes all the decisions for end users. And it feels great for an average Joe, but is absolutely unsustainable for a builder.
Makes me wonder how much fiat they are burning through along the way. GPT5 is available for free now and while the GPT app jumps between the models at own will, Copilot lets you specifically choose it while asking a question. Can’t imagine how much computing power goes into this considering their user base.
Unless I’m terribly wrong GPT-5 is thinking by default. Then you have smaller “mini” and “nano” models. They consume ans cost less, but results are worse than Claude 4 Sonnet, so they don’t meet my requirements.
Yes, splitting further is the plan. I’d go with something smaller in the first place if it was for personal use, but I’m working on a solution for the community, so I want to get best results and then see where I can downgrade without losing quality.
Finally released an MVP of the Bitcoin Calendar web app 🎉
Main features:
- Calendar view displaying all gathered Bitcoin historical milestones
- Search functionality
- PWA
A lot more is planned — roadmap is available on the website.
Work goes on 🫡
Bitcoin Calendar keeps track of such happenings on Bitcoin's historical timeline #934551.
The first mention of Bitcoin in a TV show was on January 15, 2012. An episode of the series "The Good Wife" titled "Bitcoin for Dummies" was released.
Another cool one is Futurama's August 7, 2023 episode:
I am about to launch a website with all the events displayed in a calendar view, but for now you can follow Bitcoin Calendar on Nostr – it's timeline is full of all kinds of interesting historical stuff related to Bitcoin and Freedom Tech.