In the UK, some people have found a way to stop paying tax too. Basically, they asked the govt to prove that none of their tax money will be used to fund terrorism - and the govt failed. So they place the taxes in a trust with the govt as the beneficiary, give them some time to react, then take their money back from the trust.

No Tax For War

No Tax For War | Lawful, Peaceful Tax Resistance Movement

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Another super-user-friendly privacy howto from Naomi Brockwell - on Signal usernames:

Odysee

Enable THIS Setting If You Use Signal!

Did you know you can use Signal without sharing your phone number with other users? Signal introduced usernames last year, but many people still do...

Had to replace a specific hard disk today in a PC which has 8 of them. At first a somewhat puzzling task as I didn't want to unplug all of them one by one and test boot. Then I noticed they all have serial numbers on them and you can print them with `lsblk -o NAME,SERIAL`. Phew.

Bitcoin may be dipping, but the plebs are buying. Bisq has a good few buy offers at 1-2% above market value. If you need to sell I doubt you will find a better price anywhere else.

LLMs strenghts and weaknesses - by Courtland of Indie Hackers: https://storage.googleapis.com/indie-hackers.appspot.com/info-products/LLMs%20Good%20vs%20Bad.pdf

"The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create personalized, reality-distorting bubbles" This one sentence describes a false premise and shows why it is false. The financial incentives will not disappear, they will just get limited to people willing to pay for the creation of 'personal, reality-distorting bubbles'. There is plenty of people with money who will pay to manipulate the plebs. If we take this further and say that PR is advertising, then effectively we will be banning the publishing of information which can alter people's opinions in a positive or negative way on any topic. So... banning advertising is banning speech 🤯 I must be wrong, show me how 😅 View quoted note →

Apparently over 1500 database servers were exposing the postgresql port to the internet protected only with a bruteforceable username and password 🤯 The people who hacked this to do crypto mining did those admins a fucking favour.

The Hacker News

Over 1,500 PostgreSQL Servers Compromised in Fileless Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign

Over 1,500 PostgreSQL servers compromised via weak credentials and SQL abuse, enabling fileless crypto mining.

Prince Andrew accuser, and the most well-known of the victims in the Epstein case, Virginia Giuffre has said on her personal Instagram page that she has four days to live after apparently being involved in a road traffic collision.

Prince Andrew Accuser Virginia Guiffre in "Fatal Accident" Prior to Epstein Files Release

Dateline NBC's Chris Hanson Vows to "Catch the Predators" Among Epstein's Client List - Plus the WARRIOR CREED Podcast

I wish I was able to rate limit some accounts. Cool people, I want to follow, but not at the cost of everyone else cause they post 60 times an hour 😅

Yes, except it is not about left vs right. The people in power are no longer limiting themselves to jailing significant people who are not in the public eye, like Assange and Reiner Fuellmich. They now feel in position to jail anyone. If you are justifying this with 'they must have done something to end up in jail', you are part of the problem. What they have done is threaten the establishment. View quoted note →

"Nostr slowly grows because weirdos find it by rummaging through the bins down the pissy "decentralised web" alleyway." Meh, weirdo is fair enough, but "pissy decentralised web alleyway"? It is more like a hidden sanctuary somewhere off the beaten path, where you can breathe easy and be free ;p View quoted note →