mleku on Nostr: the topic of people being unfamiliar with cryptographic signature based ...
the topic of people being unfamiliar with cryptographic signature based authentication on the internet isn't just user side
even yesterday i have a colleague wondering why using usernames on a request endpoint returned an error containing a message about being unable to encode hex
people are used to governments giving out database identification numbers, but those are always relatively short numbers that a person can memorize, around the same size as a phone number
the struggle to teach people about the necessary limitations of database systems is real, and even you bump into *programmers* who have trouble with it.
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2025-06-03 06:39:38Event JSON
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