On a local site as a teen I sold like 20 books or something and lots of unused crap I no longer needed, including phones, PC's, keyboards ... both by mail and face 2 face.

The government announced it would ban under-16s accessing social media in June this year, with children prevented from accessing 10 of the biggest platforms. YouTube will also be banned for under-16s, but YouTube Kids - a version of the video-sharing app designed to be safe for children - will not be included in the measures. A complete list of affected platforms has not yet been released, but the government said it would cover those "whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material". That means platforms that have livestreaming or features that enable the potential for strangers to contact children will also be restricted, which includes gaming sites.

Don't worry they're on it. They will ban everything, just in case.

Interesting feature. I've been using the Vimium extension to bookmark 2 places in the same page and jump between them if there's a need. I suppose this makes it slightly better.

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Had no clue Mozilla VPN is using Mullvad under the hood. Also, I can see why now NordVPN is considered shady.

https://vpn.techlore.tech/

This is so funny because that's what literally happened to me. When I was in first grade my parents sent me to a basketball academy. It was the first day. I went to the vending machine to get some gummy bears or whatever and for some reason the machine gave me 2 packets instead of 1. My dad told me to give one to some other kid. So I did and just like that we were best buds for the next couples of years until i stopped attending the academy. Sometimes it really is that simple.

Thank you I will take a look! Are you guys somehow related to https://xmr.club/? Came across them while researching.

Yeah I got the wallet set up but still haven't figured out how to actually get XMR.

I installed RetroSwap but the "no deposit" offers from what I see tend to be not such a good deal. For example Monero -> Revolut swap. I pay 65 eur but only get 53 eur worth of Monero. I have read there is a fee for a transaction but from my understanding it's like 7-20 cents depending on how many transactions / miners there are so I don't think it's that. I'm not paying 19% to go fiat -> monero. I could do my own offer or try to buy monero from a Cake's wallet provider directly (which again not sure if I want to do).

Thanks. I don't think I'm up for the task of running my own node, at least for now.

I suppose if I use something like Cake Wallet they will have a remote node already configured? What about the official Monero GUI / CLI? I would need to find my own remote node?

Is Cake considered to be one of the most popular / trustworthy wallet apps?

I saw an interview with the founder but haven't got around to watching it yet. Saw some other people talk about it as well.

Yeah, I've heard Bitcoin is not private at all and can be easily traced.

They're currently the best search engine - that's a fact.

Whether or not that's something worth paying for will really depend on what kind of searches you do. Personally, I have found that most of my searches were pretty basic and could easily be found by using something like DDG(Bing), and if unsuccessful, Ecosia(Google). On top of that, they use Yandex. So I didn't feel they are worth it for me.

I ended up paying 5 eur / month for Uruky. Cheaper, I really like the small team behind it and I'm supporting european, big-tech independent indexes, they're also really transparent.I wrote about them awhile back. One of the problems with Kagi is again you can never be sure where your money goes to, for all you know they might be using Bing and Google for 80% of your searches. They're no longer transparent and even removed all mentions of Yandex from their documentation.

Thanks, ill take a look.

Couldn't the gov track down my Monero wallet address through services like changenow or is that not an issue with Monero? Also if i'm reading correctly they do KYC:

ChangeNOW complies with applicable regulations using a risk-based approach. Suspicious transactions may trigger identity verification.

Next time try scanning an image of a person you find online, should be enough for twitter.

It doesn't. Buddhism, for example does not require a belief in gods.

My search engine even labels AI slop websites, that it pulls from open-source lists like https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist. So yeah every day I feel like the need for curated lists is getting stronger even for "useful websites". Too much noise these days.

Like in the pre-search-engine internet you would have indexes, or whatever they were called, listing useful websites.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NDb5ArWdj1c their youtube short for quick summary of the article to those that want

It really doesn't. The time you spend learning it and setting your config will never pay off and even after you do these things the time it saves you is negligible. I can use Zed and have 90% what Neovim offers me, it even has really good vim motions. Picking them up for productivity is a bad reason to do it.

I really liked a talk by TJ titled (Neo)Vim Made Me a Better Software Developer. The reason he uses it - is because it was basically a playground where he could play around with his code and get instant feedback as he's the "customer".

I can relate to this. Neovim is really extensible and minimal by default. This encourages 2 things:

1. To live close to your code. You really get an understanding of all of the underlying tools related to your development environment and it gives you control to make it as minimal as you want it. There's wayy less abstractions on top to simplify stuff for you. When I was a beginner using Webstorm or whatever I had no clue what a LSP was. Git? Just use built in GUI why bother learning commands? Terminal? Why would I need that? Ripgrep? Treesitter?
2. To play around, customize, build stuff. There's lots of API's and you can change a lot in the editor. I made Neovim my main markdown editor with a few tweaks in my config. It's minimal and I like it. Wayyy better than Obsidian.

And at the end of the day it's kinda fun. It makes writing code more more enjoyable as you always end up learning how to navigate your code base more efficiently. Like a game almost :)