relevant: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

I saw the thumbnail and thought this was a map of The Netherlands

Alpine Linux

Dorsey took care to hire on for the Bluesky staff a collection of LessWrong rationalists, neoreactionaries, VibeCamp anti-wokeist race scientists and crypto developers. And Bluesky still had to asymptotically approach a tolerable degree of moderation and — eventually, despite the CEO and several devs being followers of the test case offender — ban the Nazis.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

Pocketbook also makes great devices, not that well known outside of EU but their software has more features than Kobo and is (as of yet) not in the book selling market so no conflict of interest (and no analytics, contrary to kobo).

Export your OTP database to an (optionally) encrypted file on a USB stick and put that in a lockbox/somewhere safe. If encrypting the stick/file: make sure you use a memorized/written down password.

Step-Elon I’m stuck!

You can set up a VPS and tunnel that to your minecraft server using wireguard some iptables magic if you’re into Linux.

After updating my uBlock lists to the latest version the popup no longer appears. Something to try out.

Why?

It has had quite a bit of downtime/undercapacity issues but for me it’s has been working fine the last year at least.

I think some work was being done on rewriting the backend to make it more efficient but I don’t know the exact state of that currently.