A thorough (though slightly dated) article on hardening Signal and adjusting phone settings by @privacyguides.org (www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...) can be an excellent starting point. They also mention an enhanced fork of Signal, Molly (molly.im), which some people might find useful. #privacy

Taking this bridge and the route by the water down to Muiderslot is one of the nicest day trips from Amsterdam. It can be easily done with an old 'omafiets' as we did with my wife:

Plus they just recently did an interesting interview with developer from u-he, you might find interesting.
linuxaudio.dev/linux-audio-...

Here's a great resource for finding plugins and daws that run on linux: linuxaudio.dev

Thinking of the state of social media or projects like wikipedia, this part specially resonated:
"...commons can exist without police, but resources cannot...
...By definition, resources call for defense by police. Once they are defended, their recovery as commons becomes increasingly difficult."

wow this brings back memories. great game indeed. 🤖

There's also Waterstones (a "normal" bookstore) and Athenaeum Boekhandel Spui en Nieuwscentrum - which has some excellent magazines, right next to it. I usually visited all 3 if I had time. 📚

Well, this is fun...

The preposition of "You expected to gain 20%" is completely wrong. The math ain't mathing there. Who would expect to gain something if one side of the coin doubles your net worth and the other MORE THAN halves it? +100%-60%=80%, and -60%+100%=80% of the original value. You are expected to lose 20%!