Domain names have little to do with privacy, and also wise to mentally separate the domain name from your website. If you’re looking host a website and not deal with the US, it’s probably more important to focus on who your domain registrar is and who your web host is (and what countries both are based in). The TLD you pick is almost irrelevant.

2.75 mothafucka!

USian here - thanks for your nice reminder, and please to all of my neighbors up north: keep it up. Nothing is going to change down here until businesses (ie, the money) are hurt.

Ohhh, hiii again!

Mmmm - turbo button. Classic.

Get what you’re saying, but that sounds like a bit of a stretch. If any employer did want to go all in on stupid like that, people would still be able to do the following:

• don’t contribute money to it (I certainly wouldn’t - I’d pay out to another account under my control)
• roll over / transfer any funds that are already in there into an account of your own control
• look for another job (big red flag for an employer, if you ask me)

Yep - exactly right. I didn’t say the new rule wasn’t colossally stupid, but it gives everyone a greater ability to gamble with their retirement. “Luckily” they don’t work like a pension which you have no control over. Example: if your employer decided to invest in Trump coin and then your pension fund tanked. That would be a different level of horrible, but in this case, the rule is giving us all new ways to be stupid with our money (by choice).

Not a finance expert, but I don’t think there’s any “401k system.” 401k is just a type of account (a bucket you put your money in) that has special rules, such as:

• you put money into it tax free and are taxed on it when you take it out (opposite of a Roth - you put money that’s already taxed into it and take it out tax free)
• employers can contribute to it
• age restrictions on when you can take it out without being penalized
• special circumstances on when you can borrow from it

So it’s an account type with some rules. No money there other than what you put in and where you invest it (that’s where you have the choice in where to invest it, and in that case, there’s no way I’d be investing in crypto). No “system” that’s funded or anything like that, other than how each individual investment is put together.

Example: pick something like an S&P index fund. Far as I know, there are no crypto companies/currencies that would qualify to be in that.

Not sure if others’ 401ks work differently than mine, but in mine, I can select the investments that I want to have my money in (not unlimited choice on investments, but quite a few). I agree that it’s pretty stupid to add crypto and private equity into that, but if this is becoming/already law, just pick more stable investments that are already likely part of your investment options in your 401k accounts?

I went to the dump and saw garbages as far as the eye could see.

And it goes aaaaaaaalllll the way ‘round.

Pacific Ocean feeling pretty smug right now about maintaining its status as the largest ocean.

I tried it and just couldn’t get on board with it. Severely lacking in features that I use often. Would have been my preference but it came up short.

I’ve been using Strongbox since 1Password switched to subscription only and it’s been good. It’s based on Keepass and supports all the normal password manager stuff (TOTP, passkeys, etc):

https://strongboxsafe.com/personal/

I use the desktop and mobile apps, and keep my vault stored in my iCloud account so everything is always synced real time without relying on a third party cloud (yes, I know I’m still relying on Apple for that).

“Just jenkin it.”

• Cyril Figgis