“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”

― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

Crypto trading is still fake

Hello, crypto fans! I haven’t forgotten you! I’ve just spent the past nine months or so writing the same article about bitcoin repeatedly:

Trading is thin;
The price is set on unregulated offshore casinos;
Bitcoin is pumped with stablecoins printed out of thin air as loans;
This isn’t a bubble, it’s a balloon being inflated with hot air.

because .com and .org are so basic...

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.

What are we left with?

You cannot set up a home email server.

You cannot set it up on a VPS.

You cannot set it up on your own datacenter.

At some point your IP range is bound to be banned... It's not if, it's when. Say goodbye to your email. Game over. No recourse.

The era of distributed, independent email servers is over.

What is more important to discuss, I think, is the fact that as of today, you only have two viable choices for browser engines