Category: Whassup News
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Vote NO to Add Age-Verification to Software!
FB Posting on Mar 24th 2026 When I read about the news of mandatory age verification laws, such as those emerging in California, Brazil, and the UK, I got all flustered and angry cuz’ that is in my very honest opinion, is certainly posing as a highly significant threat to the open-source software (FOSS) ecosystem…
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The MCP Concept
FB Posting on Apr 17th 2025 Model Context Protocol (MCP): AI and LLMs have been a buzz word for the past year, nothing more…but now with this MCP, it is open-sourced and recently announced by Anthropic in late November 2024, it gained significant traction and recognition within the AI community in early 2025. This surge…
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Bitcoin IS a commodity, it is NOT a Currency.
FB Posting on Dec 10th 2024 Bitcoin IS a commodity, it is NOT a currency. Commodities trade involves goods like cocoa, coffee, and products that can be mined like oil and gold. On the other hand, forex —or foreign exchange — is a global market that trades in currencies like Euros, Dollars, Yen, Yuan, etc.…
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“Software Is Eating The World”
FB Posting dated Nov 24th 2024 It was August 20th, 2011, when Marc Andreessen (Cofounder and General Partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz), proclaimed that “Software is eating the world”… Specifically, its ALL of these tech now ie, blockchains, AI, cryptos, Web3, digital assets, etc. The number of use cases for all these is growing…
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When Binance moved HQ to the US
FB Posting on Nov 19th 2024 My biggest bugbear back in 2021 was when Binance was unable to obtain a MAS license in Singapore, while FTX managed to get it. That was when it dawned on me (back then), the relevant (government) authorities knows sh*t about the crypto world lol.
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Apple launching ‘Apple Intelligence’ at Apple WWDC 2024
FB Posting on Jun 12th 2024 Apple is launching an AI system of its own called “Apple Intelligence”, it’s the company’s new personal intelligence system for its range of product devices, of which all user data will have to be channeled thru them. So that means you must trust them, their devices and their ability…
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When I Called It
FB Posting on March 12th 2024. In light of the current NFT craze, I’m putting up my Dec 2, 2018 FB post for sale… Back in Dec 2nd, 2018, price of BTC crashed down to USD$3k…
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Gamers… Get Off Windows!
FB Posting on Dec 19th 2023 Already ditched my Windoze and moved on to Linux with Garuda Linux for gaming, work and everything else…!
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The Day I Found Garuda Linux
FB Posting on Oct 15th 2023 This is probably THE longest FB post that I have ever done, but it is a highly significant one for me as for so, so many years I have searched and longed for, the perfectly balanced FOSS (Free Open Source Software) computing operating system that I can firmly put…
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Bitcoin Unleashes The Sovereign Individual
FB Posting on July 27th 2023 “Bitcoin unlocks financial sovereignty, but its ideals and technology pave the road for the possibility of a fully-sovereign individual. When the idea of the sovereign individual is realized, gone will be the constraints placed upon citizens by modern nations.”Behold the coming era of ‘Sovereign Computing’…