The Watchman Privacy Podcast

https://escapethetechnocracy.com/digitalmarket/

Gabriel and Urban discuss the 2024 Monerotopia event: new technologies in Monero, changes we recommend, Starlink and Moneronodo, other privacy crypto, and how the event functioned in an antifragile way.   Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker   WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Kevin of Altair Tech: a shop in the US that sells home mining equipment, including devices they themselves have created. Altair Tech might be the solution that home miners have been looking for.   PREVIOUS BITCOIN MINING EPISODES (START HERE IF NEW) → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/EconoAlchemistBitcoinMiningPrivacy → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/DiverterNoKYC   GUEST → https://altairtech.io/ → https://x.com/btctwatterpants (Kevin, the speaker) → https://altairtech.io/blog/ → https://x.com/altair_tech → https://altairtech.io/product/urlacher/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio   Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:20 – How Altair Tech solves problems of Bitcoin home mining 7:40 – The Urlacher  11:25 – The Bitaxe 12:45 – Estimates of profits from home miners (check also at 32:22) 14:50 – Highest end models 16:00 – Kevin’s lessons from home mining 20:00 – Choosing a mining pool 22:30 – Privacy while mining 23:45 – Common mistakes 25:00 – Space heater miners 26:08 – The Bitaxe phenomenon  27:50 – Future of home mining 28:30 – Big self-mining operations 30:00 – Shipping time, etc. 32:22 – Estimates of profits from home miners 38:00 – Final thoughts

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Will Freeman about the prevalence of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and his solution: Deflock, which maps these anti-American tools across the globe.    GUEST → https://deflock.me/ → https://github.com/frillweeman/deflock → https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Erik Voorhees of Venice AI. They discuss how Venice takes a different approach to the Big Tech AI options: namely, it does not have access to your prompts, and it does not censor them. Along the way they discuss how surveillance and censorship manifests in the paternalistic AI industry, the future of open-source AI models, the IP question of AI, and why regulating AI might have unintended side effects.   GUEST → https://x.com/ErikVoorhees → https://venice.ai/ → https://x.com/askvenice → https://moneyandstate.com/blog/the-separation-of-mind-and-state (explanation of project) WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio   Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 3:27 – Privacy-invasion of Big Tech AI companies 6:50 – How does Venice AI give the user privacy? 9:55 – How long will non-account service last? 10:25 – What does Venice (the city/concept) have to do with anything? 11:40 – How do open-source models work in AI? 16:50 – Phone version of AI (not app store version) 18:05 – Censorship within AI 24:42 – Uncensoring AI makes it faster and better 25:55 – Other uncensored AI companies 27:10 – Making AI “safe” 30:30 – IP question of AI 34:45 – Who owns the creation of AI tools? 35:10 – Any red lines where AI should be “regulated”? 37:20 – Does Venice have any access to our prompts? 38:15 – Venice AI vs self-hosted models 39:40 – Would Venice ever train their own AI model? 40:25 – Final thoughts

Gabriel and Urban discuss their recent free course on contributing to Tor. The course can be found at: https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/running-a-tor-relay-video-course/   Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker   Free course on Tor: https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/running-a-tor-relay-video-course/   PREVIOUS TOR EPISODES MENTIONED → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/TorPartI → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/TorPartII   WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel and Urban discuss the recent cyberattack against The Internet Archive, details about how the company and its services function, and some thoughts about how we can start backing up the Internet ourselves.   Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker   Harddrive image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#/media/File:Incoming_additional_storage_at_Internet_Archive.jpg   WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

A discussion of cults and how they operate: including Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple, Aum Shinrikyo, Heaven’s Gate, and OneCoin   Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker   WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Mike of Parallel Systems about the benefits of owning your own boat, of living in Poland to prepare for economic collapse, and of owning strategic denominations and versions of gold and silver. Mike also explains The Great Taking and his contrarian take on Javier Milei.   GUEST → https://parallelmike.com/ → https://parallelsystems.substack.com/ → https://rumble.com/ParallelSystems → Podcast: Parallel Mike Podcast → Coins of the realm episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLUy08kMhCQ   WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/   CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio   Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 2:24 – Father is a well-known British gangster 8:10 – Why is Poland the place to await economic collapse? 13:20 – How to own a boat 20:52 – The Great Taking 26:22 – Reading list: the corrupt monetary system 30:03 – Recommendations for gold and silver 40:04 – Is Javier Milei anti-establishment? 45:10 – Final thoughts