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@routstr, your Privacy page returns 404: https://routstr.com/privacy You, or the providers in the marketplace, can read the prompts. I need to know why I should use this instead of OpenRouter or Poe.com.

A KYC'd internet will be uninteresting to me. Nobody will post anything controversial. We will retreat to Nostr, darknets, E2EE chats, etc. A more obscure alt internet.

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seen on nostr.mom, no.str.cr, relay.snort.social, relay.nostr.band, nos.lol, relay.damus.io, nostr.oxtr.dev, nostr.bitcoiner.social, relay.snort.so...

And a KYC'd internet might be the end of Web2.0. In the sense of the beginning of the end of crowdsourced content, with our clicks data-mined as the new oil. But we have the darknets and the distributed uncensorable web3. The Web is dead. Long live the Web.

The demolition of the free Internet continues at full speed: EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google https://reddit.rtrace.io/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1mah79o/eu_age_verification_app_to_ban_any_android_system/ We're going to need VPNs, Tor, I2P, BlueSky, Nostr, Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, the Indieweb, etc.

ICYMI: IPFS now works behind Tor.

TIL: To opt out of Google Maps using your Wi-Fi network for location services, you need to name your SSID (network name) so that it ends with "_nomap". For example, if your SSID is "NachoWiFi", you would change it to "NachoWiFi_nomap".

Farcaster has the best community. Nostr has the best protocol.

An AI agent that insta-blocks ad hominem replies before you read them.

Encrypt. Now.

Encrypt. Now. — blog.tripu.info

We have come to a point where end-to-end encrypting all your private data and private communications

We need podcast over Nostr. Let's accelerate.

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Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) on X

When Trudeau's Liberal Party leaders said they would only regulate Big Tech social media platforms, they lied. They are now demanding that independ...

"What’s interesting here is the language spoken by and to the Educated Gentry. Both reveal the extent to which this group has become detached from normal reality, (...) As this evolution takes place, more of your and your peers’ language will become Posturetalk, and more of the language that gets spoken to you by outsiders will become Babytalk."

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The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class

I’m happy to finally share a thesis I’ve been chewing on for a little while. I call it The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, which states: ...

Blocking/muting people, and leaving groups/channels/rooms, is how you trim not only toxicity, but information overload.

Usability matters.

I can't post on Twitter anymore. The Twitter app saves the tweets as drafts, but can't send them.

Twitter is throwing an error saying my tweets look automated. So here I am on Nostr.