Monthly Archives: July 2026
Some surveillance I noticed today
My city is getting digital price tags that have cameras on each individual tags, and lithium batteries, and need charging (despite having solar behind the screen?), therefore are necessarily more expensive than a $0.01 printed tag delivered by a stocker … Continue reading
Somewhere between the trees and the troons
One wrong step and… Many interesting cliffs to fall off of if you’re dumb, or jump off of if you hate life! I jumped and barely made it due to the fairly slippery foliage, so I kept going… I decided … Continue reading
The seven principles of sound money
The seven principles of sound money are as follows: fungibility, divisibility, durability, portability, acceptability, scarcity, and recognizability. Lets go through them one by one. 1. Fungibility 2. Divisibility 3. Durability 4. Portability 5. Acceptability 6. Scarcity 7. Recognizability Ok, got … Continue reading
A pretty good primer on PGP
Here’s my guide on how to set up and use PGP via Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) to create keys, sign messages, add other’s public keys, and verify the integrity of their messages. I couldn’t find any simple instructions on how … Continue reading
There really are no good email providers
I’m one of the first 1000 users of Tutanota, and I can confidently tell you there are NO good email providers! Email itself seems doomed to centralization and surveillance because the original designers didn’t anticipate a duopoly. About Tutanota; it … Continue reading
Keep an eye on Project Agorá
Keep an eye on Project Agorá, it’s the Fed’s attempt to create a “totally not CBDC” trojan horse. Read the PDF here: https://www.bis.org/publ/othp110.pdf [archived] From the Institute of International Finance: Project Agorá seeks to explore a new approach to wholesale cross-border payments … Continue reading
