662 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 22 Apr \ on: What does it mean to live in a world of abundance? culture
It could be argued that those in the west have been partially living in an abundant world the last 20 years. Albeit with some very large distortions. Food & clothing has been abundant for some time and that has led to some strange cultural issues like obesity and fast-fashion.
Housing & energy hasn’t been abundant, but feels like is in dire need of bitcoin to demonetise and monetise respectively. Bitcoin is also creating a healthy counter-culture.
Abundance sounds like something we should strive for. It sounds great. Yet we also need values, morals, critical thinking and productive people for abundance to generate a healthy society. If there’s one learning from this century, that would be it for me. The return of morality. Otherwise we run the risk in an era of increasing abundance, of creating more scarcity of meaning in our lives.
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The Bitcoin community should be getting prepared politically, by setting up legal defense funds (including for the present case) as well as setting up lobbying organizations.
The tendency of bitcoiners to just say "fuck politics" and disengage is deadly. You can't avoid politics with code. You can gain some power. But not enough to resist all politics.
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Can you make something in the preview of SN posts to not display the original file name of the uploaded image by the user?
When you share a SN post on telegram or nostr this is displayed.
Can you change it in the image id ? Sometimes it could leak more info about the user than is necessary...
Network security is a field that industry professionals typically study and practice for years before achieving competency. You are unlikely to find a single nugget of information that teaches you everything you seek.
Instead of worrying about what the world already knows about your internet usage, take some actionable steps towards making your router STFU (shut the f*** up).
People on the internet (and those running the internet) only know what your router tells them. They won't know very much if you make your router STFU.
Build your own router/firewall server or flash a store-bought one with open source firmware like OpenWRT or pfSense. This firmware will surface new configuration options that you can use to make your router STFU.
For example, you can make your router encrypt 100% of traffic and send it to an anonymous offshore no-KYC server with a Wiregaurd tunnel. The traffic is decrypted on the server and forwarded to the next hop. Even tor traffic will go this route, encrypted again so it no longer appears like tor traffic.
With a setup like this, go ahead and run dozens of services that are very chatty. Tor relays, bitcoin nodes, webservers, torrent seeders. Make it very noisy to distinguish patterns among the already encrypted data.
The offshore server knows very little about you because it was anonymous signup and paid with bitcoin. They just know your account number, and they know every request you make on clearnet. But the hope is that the offshore server doesn't have an obligation to share data with foreign government agencies.
Hopefully, only your ISP is forced to share data. And all they know is how many GBs of encrypted packets you send/receive to the offshore server.
You don't have to jump straight into this idealized setup. In fact, its probably impossible to set this up in a weekend unless you're already a professional.
Just try to make your router STFU a little bit more every week. Study the dark art of Network Security and practice building your own defensive networks at home.
Recommend this book: https://inteltechniques.com/book7d.html
Specifically the section on firewalls.
Unrelated, but last summer my daughter and I made a rock garden underneath one of the downspouts on our house. Now when it rains you can watch the water flow down over the rocks. Definitely a pleb water feature. Haha
We had a lot of fun doing it and it was a good workout collecting and carrying all those rocks back home.
For me it has nothing to do with what we have. I live very simply and I don't have much and yet, I feel infinitely abundant. Meaning, I always know I will have everything I need and so I do. In my past life, I made a lot of money and enjoyed consuming. And I was in a scarcity mindset. Now I am abundant through having less.
We've got JP Sears headlining The Bitcoin Rodeo this year.
We're also doing a roast of BTC Sessions.
Explain to me why you should get a free ticket to The Rodeo this year.
LOL, I DOS'd a family member's phone as a prank as well @elvismercury
Without a doubt Brant Lake Wagyu.
Find a natural park in some mountains, look at alltrails or similar app, find some cool hikes and find a trail between them, depending on how much time you want to spend.
Things you want to stop by are lakes, cool vistas, waterfalls, historical buildings...
If you are in Netherlands, then just take train to another country that has mountains 😅
I would like you guys to watch this incredible mini documentary posted by @nerd2ninja - #513797
How America Became So Stupid - and is mentioning about Ed Bernays (methods of propaganda) what I always said about it, that are the core principles of dumbing down population.
Please give it a watch. Good share @nerd2ninja !
I made a notebook the other day.
I actually went to an art store and bought very nice quality paper, folded each sheet and sewed them together.
Will give to a friend so he can journal when he leaves for seattle.
He is a big fountain pen guy, and he has told me about his frustration getting good writing paper in the notebook style he likes.
I've been thinking the same thing. I haven't thought it all through yet but there is strength in numbers. If they do attempt this path it is important to remember other examples of peaceful disobedience that have worked before.
The first one that comes to mind is home schooling. It was once illegal in most US states but so many parents did it that the state slowly "legalized it".