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The USA used to fight proxy vs proxy against Russia. Now we have a chance for us to fight through a proxy against Russia itself. This is a huge geopolitical opportunity to diminish or even destroy an enemy with low risk to the US itself.

The whole liberal-democratic world should be all-in on Ukraine assistance.

Instead, Trump just made it clear that the optimal time for PRC v ROC round 2 is within the next 3 year 10 months.

Curious - what's your crypto exposure?

I'm starting to diversify into it as a hedge against the collapse of the US dollar. Definitely not all-in though.

I'm anti-fasicist today, but I wonder if I'd be a Muskovite had TradeHill not kept 'my' bitcoins when it closed in the early 2010s.

Lately I've been working on strategies to use software in unusual enough ways that I'm essentially off the radar of, well, anyone looking. The dark forest approach to the internet.

To avoid interacting with the web directly, I'm thinking of running some AI software in a container on a home server that would be a translation layer between me and the real web. All webpages would be converted to a simple, and secure, format. Gopher, gemini, asciidoc, or maybe just static html.

Is that a tractable problem with modern AI tools?

The only way to win is not to play, but I'd like to have my cake and eat it too.

Icecat is the GNU build of the open-source base of Firefox. I think that's the best bet until Ladybird is ready for daily diving.

Fennec on Android.

They're making a rational judgement based on factual information about current events.

The authoritarian coup currently happening in the US is real. Do not let your conditioning cause you to view it a conspiracy theory.

Transition to cloud infrastructure that you control - open source SW running on personal HW.

Credentials - KeepassXC + Aegis/WinAuth

File Sync - Syncthing

Video - Jellyfin

Music - Navidrome

Audiobooks & Podcasts - Audiobookshelf

Books - Calibre Web

Pictures - Immich

Finances - ActualBudget + SimpleFIN

DNS Filter - AdGuard

Email - FowardEmail + Thunderbird and RoundCube

Git server - Forgejo

Probably because all the competent employees reported the first email as phishing. The only box it didn't check was asking the employee to buy and Amazon gift card.

I wonder how many federal workers created their emails with AI, and whether that will be good or bad for them.

Trump and Musk may be 'leaders', but they are not good managers. Putting employees into fight or flight mode does not optimize for productive outcomes.

This is remarkable. I tried to replay U7 over the pandemic and it was just too clunky, even with Exult. This looks like it addresses my issues while perserving the original aesthetic.

AI voice acting on-the-fly from in-game text would be slick.

Tangent - Do any games let you set a speed multiplier for in-game speech? I'd love to run dialog at 1.5x like I do for podcasts.