Can’t be kicked off of Nostr and PayPal and other services can’t freeze Monero.

I’ll be honest, I read the link fully expecting to completely disagree with it, and actually I don’t. There’s actually a decent amount of it I do agree with. Bitcoin has evolved and not in a good way from what it was meant to be which was peer-to-peer digital cash that anybody could use to send money around the world in an instant with no government oversight. That’s actually the big reason that I’m interested in Monero, because it still fulfills that vision while providing user privacy and low fees. It does use proof of work mining, so uses electricity for that, but it is much better than Bitcoin simply because it uses your general CPU that you find in your phone, your desktop, your laptop, etc. and does not require specialized hardware that costs a ton of money and burns a crap ton of power to only mine.

You may or may not find my arguments above compelling, but I appreciate the link. Because, as I said, I expected to fully disagree with it and found more agreement than I expected to.

Nostr + monero = 🖕

Tor hidden service

I started using Linux in 2011 with Ubuntu 10.10 and then quickly up to 11.04 and have used an uncountable number of distributions since then and yet my main computer now runs Linux Mint Debian and I don’t have to worry about it. It just works.

Edit: I’m definitely not your standard computer user, but I also would not consider myself a highly advanced user either. I feel like I fall somewhere in the middle as I do use the command line quite frequently and am comfortable in it. But I do like things to be easy when possible.

I mean, it’s obviously the only solution, right? You don’t have to pay for a domain name. You don’t have to pay for a hosted IP address. You don’t have to forward ports. You don’t have to do any of that shit. Plus, you’re on the darknet, and everything should be on the darknet. All the time.

Correct, it will be in the dark net. And it’s as secure as your web server. So I guess if your web server is set up in a very insecure manner, it would be very insecure as well. But since nobody would know the onion address besides you or anybody you give it to, it should be all right.

You add the tor repo, install tor, edit /etc/tor/torrc with hidden service info, set the port as 8080 and systemctl restart tor. Then you get a hidden service address in like /var/lib/tor/hiddenservicename/hostname. It’s a long string ending with dot onion and once you have that you just put that into the tor browser.

Glad you got it working, but you could have hosted it with a tor hidden service and not had to pay for a public IP address and shit.

I host my own Monero node

I use my password manager to generate 32 character or 64 character passwords whenever possible.

That’s actually a good part of why I trust cryptocurrency over my bank because my bank has all sorts of personally identifiable information and stupid short password requirements where cryptocurrency has no personally identifiable information and seeds are extremely long and complex.

I wonder if default gateway might work. Because at least in an IPv4 network, if you go to like your settings and look at the network information, the default gateway is your router’s IP address. I’m thinking like the Wi-Fi settings in the Android system, for example.

Edit: Also, thanks for the multicast address. I’m at least somewhat new to IPv6 networking myself, and so I was not aware of that address. About the most I’ve been able to do with IPv6 so far is set my own DNS server and Configure a static IP address for one of my Systems to act as a server By doing like ISPPrefix::1

Fair enough, I guess I’m thinking quite far into the future when IPv6 is just the absolute dominant form of connection and most people are turning off IPv4 or operating systems aren’t really shipping with IPv4 support.

Honestly, the biggest concern I have with IPv6 is how do I get to my router? Because I know if I purchase a new router to go to 192.168.1.1 or 0.1 or 2.1 etc. to get to it to configure it. With IPv6, this seems like it would be much harder.

Last time I checked the cloud flare radar about a month ago, it seems like about 38% of cloud flare traffic was occurring over IPv6 and Google commonly shows about 50% of their traffic over IPv6. So it is definitely growing, which is a good thing.

Take a look at Thunder. It has had notifications for quite a long time. They are delayed by 15 minutes, but that’s nothing compared to not getting notifications at all.

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Perhaps the economy is not as good as everybody says it is, and a very cyclical sector like tech is the first one to feel it.

Too bad I’m not on Twitter anymore. Otherwise, I would check some of these out.