Hiking Again

I haven't gone hiking in ages. Growing up in scouts it's something I use to do all the time. It's nice to be out and in something more tangible. I went out at night and hiked to one of my favorite pinnacle areas that

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I. What Is Bluesky? Bluesky began in 2019 as a Twitter initiative under Jack Dorsey, aimed at developing “an open and decentralized standard for social media". In 2021 that project spun off as an independent company, Bluesky Social, Inc., with the mission to “develop and drive large-scale adoption of

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I. What Is Proton Proton AG is a Swiss company founded in 2014 by scientists from CERN. As Proton’s official site explains, it was “born in Switzerland in 2014” with the goal of “building a better internet where privacy is the default”. The project launched via a public crowdfunding