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 :)

X does something similar (if you post links via API): https://www.theverge.com/tech/916178/x-link-post-api-expensive-techmeme

Running on your hardware is always going to be less efficient than running in a data center. You can run small models on green data centers - best of both worlds (unless you need privacy then run local).

Ever since I switched to Cortecs I'm spending like 20 cents / month for my LLM usage cuz I mostly use small models and try using them responsibly.

I’ve got a pair of Skullcandy Dime 2’s that cost around $25 and I’ve been using for at least four years now

Same. I have some Anker model for 5 years now or maybe even longer. All of the previous wired earbuds (I even bought an expensive pair) didn't last this long. I use them regularly as well. Battery seems to last ok even now, enough for most tasks.

Global problem probably.

Here in Eastern Europe if you have the money you go to private clinics and for the most part you will get the care you need but even in paid ones the good doctors have pretty long wait times. And you're paying ~100 eur for 1 consultation.

So that's all they had on him? Or all the gov asked for?

I will have to re-visit telegrams privacy policy at some point, but aren't they known for storing quite a lot of info (at least when compared to other private messengers like Signal?)

I had to re-index my gears ~2 years after I bought my new mountain bike... It's not "hard" but if you've never done it before and don't have a place where to properly work on your bike I can see why people would rather pay whatever the fee is at a shop.

Like with most stuff you do it a couple of times and it becomes easy.

Just checked Patreon's fees:

on Patreon's standard plan you pay a 10% platform cut on everything you earn plus payment processing of 2.9% + $0.30 per charge.

So if I donate 5 eur roughy 1 eur will be going to Patreon.

I also thought about reaching out but I feel it's a bit... weird asking them to do such a thing for a small donation.

There is a time for nuance, but there are also times when one side is simply evil. Giving them the benefit of the doubt only supports their pushed narrative and enables them to continue doing what they're doing.