Musk is a charlatan IMO. If you believe his words (I don't) he doesnt get bitcoin. The fact he embraces Doge is all you need to know.

I tend to agree @DarthCoin. Its connected

Not sure if I've told this story before but I know a guy got a speeding ticket in a small town in the south. He had to report to a school gym where they handle all the cases each month. They sell hotdogs and the judge is on the stage burning through traffic cases. Friend told me it was the biggest joke he'd ever seen. Town is tiny and pretty sure this is how they fund their police dept.

Thanks, makes sense to me. I forgot about him surrendering. You often hear about deals being made. The state can make your life suck if they want to.

I've just been thinking about all those people I know that falsely believe the US state is not an empire. Sure seems like the evidence is to the contrary. Seems like the US has a long arm that reached into any nation state that hasn't stood up to them.

Yeah, what is the basis?

I will add that many years ago, 2006 I think. I gave a talk in public speaking class in college on NN and how it was important...

Over the years I have learned that its nonsense from people in tech as well as people that own and operate small ISPs.

My belief is that these "rules" are simply another poorly veiled attempt to censor use of the Internet. If you read any of these rules you will see the term "lawful content" or "lawful use". The function of governance is needed. Monopoly of governance is the problem. The FCC is corrupt and even if it weren't its centralized and therefore would become corrupted.

Been many years since I watched it last. I need to re-watch it.

Another way to think about this is that the 1 trillion dollar bug bounty will likely be a bad actor, not a good actor. An actual bug bounty would set some expectations for compensation and not just be game theory based theft from the network. Or why not have both. Bitcoiners have skin in the game. Our money is on the line literally. Seems only logical that all of us that use lightning should seek out incentives to harden the network.

I think you are on to something. Its easy to get complacent. Its easy to say you believe or think things but when someone points a gun in your face it becomes all to real. Talk is cheap. Thoughts don't change things. Actions do. It was thinking through game theories that really opened my eyes to bitcoin so I think I'm in agreement with your thoughts here.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, they are.

I don't like Bush, but politicians of his era had more class and presented better than those we have these days. Also the media was even more controlled back then. No clue if he was involved but the author's book "Family of Secrets" is well worth reading. Covers Poppy Bush, the Clintons, and W.

Great news for iOS users that haven't realized they need to switch to Graphene.

Haven't tried Bitwarden's new app but Aegis is the best OTP app I've used. Its FOSS.

Have my old travel router working with Mullvad. Firmware was way old.

For those coming later to this post.

Both look promising. I have an older revision of the Slate but I haven't used it in quite some time.

I have an older GL iNet router I'm going to test out. I like that their travel routers.

I forgot about that post... been rather busy with other things and just getting back to this. Thanks!