I was happy to see that you can listen to your podcast on a simple website, without registration or apps. I can only continue to recommend using and advocating open and good technology and avoiding closed things that also perform actions for commercial purposes that are not beneficial to the user. Take social media, for example: Use Twitter less, Mastadon more often instead.

We should celebrate and use the good and not dwell on the bad and worry about it. Time is better spent trying out the good and helping to spread and improve it. Monero is not without alternatives either, just like Linux. Instead of always using the standard Linux distribution, you can also install BSD to contribute to the diversity of the infrastructure. Monero’s privacy technology could be overtaken by Lightning-like state channels. Good will prevail.

I’ve listened and generally agree. The security in modern society is very complicated and interweaving in daily life.

Those ppl are making first steps and it is admirable, however only a few speak up about life long education on how to counteract common invasions, less ppl are actually implemented it, and a very few extreme ppl went off grid completely, basically become asocial. So on the personal level it will depend on the personal goals, that “just my one thing” the moment you’ve achieved it that no more advancement is expected. Some of them are just using existing infrastructure for their important goals and don’t care about anything else. Would proper education help from early childhood? Would going off grid help the fight against the system? There is no single answer that would address all of the issues in the current state of society.

We are collectively the society, so it should grow from within all of us in order to see desired changes.

Nice rant. I see things trending in a positive direction, 10 years ago everyone just used Youtube and facebook. Now we have so many pretty good options it is a matter of time where private by default options will be the only suitable choice.