I'll give you the strategy that works for me.

Do NOT talk about privacy, E2EE, or any of that. To regular people, "privacy" has negative value, so even if they wanted something, your talk of private communication and not being scanned by data brokers and governments will make them want it less.

So what to do then?

I present Signal as a novelty and focus on one single feature: "hey, video calls work much better than WhatsApp! Try it out!"

Bam, instant download.

Why do you say negative? My impression is that it has zero value to them.

That... is a great idea. Does the audio call go through your app? Or the regular network?

Through Beacon via encrypted VOIP!

I love how your idea of the failed murder dinner party seems to still include an actual murder ; the problem is only the absence of an arrest.

> My phone is always VPNed into my home network which has DNS-level ad and tracker blocking.

I've been looking to do this setup. Would you share a few details of which tools you've used?

RethinkDNS does everything for me. You're tied to their DNS server if you want to use the in-app interface to make changes to the blocklists in use, but that's not a hard requirement. As a bonus, it also supports actual VPNs (wireguard, http connect, and socks proxy). If you don't care to micro-manage it, trackercontrol is also pretty good. There's other apps as well, like personalDNSfilter.

In this setup you're explaining, the phone is doing all the work though right? Filtering DNS and sending traffic to a wireguard VPN, is all done on the phone.

But it's not tunnelling traffic to a desktop station which then processes that traffic like its own (filters DNS as set up on the desktop, and forwards traffic through the same VPN that is set up on the desktop). Am I getting this right?

My setup is similar: A server at home runs Unbound for recursive DNS, filtered by Hagezi's blacklists. The phone (running GrapheneOS) consumes the DNS service through a Wireguard tunnel. This is 100% self-hosted and does not rely on Tailscale or a third-party DNS service. All the mobile carrier or WiFi hotspot used sees is a single encrypted connection to the server.

I absolutely love this. I thought Tailscale was necessary to establish that kind of wireguard tunnel. Would you have a link to a tutorial or write-up on how you got this set up?

I'm also interested. I use tailscale and there is supposed to be a way to configure it to use my pihole DNS, but there is something in Android that prevents that. I think I have to set a custom DNS on the phone.

A "prompt" is what goes into the LLM, so I'm not sure what you mean by "a final prompt HTML".

I often compose prompts from various sources (my "AGENTS.md", "CURRENT_TASK", "CURRENT_PHASE", ...). Last year I was composing in markdown and that got very tedious very quickly. I tried various text and text-like formats, and it turned out HTML is already one of the best formats for this, including for an "AGENTS.md" (which I keep in HTML despite the required ".md" extension).

Of course, if you build up your prompt entirely by hand (copy pasting snippets, etc.) you can get away with markdown or plain text. That works okay for some harnesses, but it leaves too much control (or more accurately, opportunity to misunderstand) to the harness.

Monet's often been classified as A Genius Impressionist, so arguably one step above A.I.

If there were suddenly thousands of websites advertising "taking chemicals" as cure-all solutions, and a two-year fad where thousands of accounts advertised "chemicals" on social media, and vernacular use of "taking chemicals" meant "self-inject unregulated substances from unknown foreign manufacturers", then do you see how it would make no sense to make this pedantic point to dismiss any concern over the new "taking chemicals" craze?

Maybe I wasn't clear, when I say people should be dismissed for saying "taking chemicals," I mean that they don't get to turn the conversation into a battle of anecdata to try to make their arguments.

For the vast majority of these chemicals, there's no evidence they do anything beneficial. Until there is, you're an idiot for taking them and our regulators are idiots for letting them be marketed to you as if there are benefits.

The entire conversation is goofy because once there's solid enough evidence of safety and efficacy, we just call it a "drug" like any other drug, but somehow a lot of the voluntary lab rats in this craze trust a gas station kiosk more than a billion dollar RCT.

TLDR I agree with you

ESL as well ; I was assuming that this sign-off was referring to the kind of tourniquet you'll see drug users strap on before an injection.

This comment looks so much like today's YouTube comment spam that I fully expecting you to mention that you finally found this miraculous ebook/website, and then a stream of comment replies saying "me too!" with their own "testimonials".

I think, if you wanted to find out about the topic you mention, you might first want to look for literature that would support such claims (even preprints on arxiv would at least be a start) before looking for actual products.

Not really spamming, just in need of a solution. I've spend decades researching different literature for the many issues that I have. Not afraid to admit that I suffer from many issues, most of which are painful, uncomfortable, and limit my productivity as well as ability to make a living. Employers, it turns out, are clearly very hesitant to hire somebody with medical conditions. Suffice to say, that reading about a possible solution, new medications, treatment, has yielded little results, most things only promise pain management, no cures, at least for me hence my lack of patience with reading mainstream medical, journals that don't seem to cure anything, thus my preference for AI-based research, to the dismay of many here.

Sure, let me help.

Let P = batteries;

If (P == NP) then both are the answer.