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2024-11-11 04:04:41

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Nice! I was about to hack up my own version!

2024-11-08 21:30:32

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This is why I have a hard time leaving the Apple ecosystem. It's has plenty of flaws, but weak protections isn't one is them. Are there any other consumer systems with seL4-grade firmware?

2024-11-06 20:12:55

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Look at that glorious bandwidth! You've got some quality engineering porn right there.

2024-11-05 22:43:16

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Some of it is control and branding and the like, but the world has also gotten much smaller. You can't have two things without having two names because there's only one global namespace.

2024-11-05 22:30:33

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Not sure I missed anything 🤔 Nostr needs better keys

2024-11-05 22:27:48

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If you want a nostr fork to win, add key rotation 😂

2024-11-05 22:25:00

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Do they have key rotation?

2024-11-05 14:17:43

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BUT HE PINKY SWORE

2024-10-31 00:20:52

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First, study for yourself. I honestly don't care what happens after that - people need to use their grey matter more.
@npub1lnm…rrnt Do you really think the difference is unimportant though? My perspective has for a long time been that the planet will do just fine, but people might not. We got hit by an asteroid, and the Earth was fine... can't say the same for all those apex inhabitants.

2024-10-30 22:04:19

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"You were already dying! People die all the time! Everyone BEFORE you died..." 🤣
Remove the judgement for decisions that we didn't make, and ignore the calls for individual austerity instead of regulatory action.
It's pretty obvious that we've dumped a lot of CO2, and we should switch other sources of energy. Not less energy, but more, different energy. It doesn't have to be a big deal.

2024-10-17 01:10:43

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How does WoT handle gift wrapped messages?

2024-10-08 02:21:11

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It even mixes no-ster and nos-ter

2024-10-06 14:40:20

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JSON should be required, but there's nothing wrong alternative encodings

2024-10-06 13:43:30

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Not as interesting as whatever made his ear heal that fast.

2024-10-02 20:42:07

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Interpretations of quantum mechanics are like compiler errors in that hip new academic programming language that you're trying to learn. Sure they're technically consistent, but they're also oddly constructed and you can't help but wonder whether the system is a little too fancy for its own good. Maybe if you spent a couple decades understanding it you could figure out how to fix their mistake, but since only fanboys are going to spend that kind of time, you to do that you just hold your nose and work on things that matter.

2024-09-24 04:07:22

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Also no indication that they were reposted by anyone that I follow.

2024-09-23 13:30:09

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https://image.nostr.build/8457af3232e8b091fcbdf25359345786a33effac8c2f83c647edf2118e0a4dd0.png

2024-09-23 13:22:16

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Damn you, (... checking whois) Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf!!! Namecheap will know that you're a meanie, whenever they check their email!

2024-09-23 10:58:55

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Would they be anonymous if they took credit for a PR?

2024-09-23 06:22:56

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This isn't my fight, but I often find that good advice goes unheeded until it too late. And, how do you know this anon didn't also contribute to fixing the problem?

2024-09-19 22:38:09

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Well, lightning payments don't need AUTH. Not sure about nostr zaps

2024-09-19 22:26:06

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Zaps don't need AUTH

2024-09-19 22:18:03

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So charge them and make money?

2024-09-19 21:57:37

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What about zap-to-read?

2024-09-19 20:37:18

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Everyone already has a nostr account... we just don't know their npub until they say something.

2024-09-19 12:42:52

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How would you restrict an event? Maybe on a relay that you control, but then anything not on your relay will subvert this control.

2024-09-18 23:27:51

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We used to call that America Online

2024-09-18 23:24:30

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Why would you want ISP's censoring your Internet?

2024-09-18 17:23:40

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What if they were trying to do the right thing but ended up being wrong? Is there a specific list of grievances somewhere?

2024-09-16 16:40:50

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Bringing the🔥! It seems to me that more people will run clients than relays, and the client has the last word before your eyeballs, so I would say that you have to trust the client more than the relay. And you can only connect to relays that implement all of the features that your client expects, so adding sophisticated features to relays has lower marginal utility than adding them to clients. OTOH, pushing all of the complexity into clients results in fewer clients that are harder to build, and you don't want that either. There's a balance that the community will ultimately find, and my expectation is that it will involve clients testing out new ideas, and relays adopting ones that have become stable and expected.
But what really matters is that it doesn't matter who does what where because it's all an open protocol and gfy we're living in the future! 🤙 🚀

2024-09-16 10:37:01

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You are able to choose which client to run, or even write your own. If there's a bug you can switch to another one until it's fixed. Depending on your circumstances you can choose between convenience and security. Relays are shared by everyone, and simplicity improves stability.

2024-09-16 05:28:07

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You're running the client. Someone else is running the relay.

2024-09-16 02:51:58

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Because you can't trust the relay as much as the client. Simplicity is durability, compatibility, reliability.

2024-09-16 02:42:24

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If you don't have a GPU or a Mac, try LLM Farm (iOS) or mllm (Android)

2024-09-16 00:23:40

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If you really don't have options, you could see how fast Phi-3 mini is for you. That one's small enough to run on many phones.

2024-09-10 03:05:00

I had asked a silly technical question, but honestly this is the more appropriate response. 👏👏👏 @npub1gcx…nj5z #note1968…l0qp

2024-09-09 20:59:21

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It's a good model; some day we're going to figure out what's really going on there. Gauge symmetry looks interesting.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07935

2024-09-08 04:11:34

What's the point of Reply Guy? Just someone trolling us? #AskNostr

2024-09-06 03:36:12

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I don't know that worshiping people would make an AI better. I had a a chat with Claude about ASI alignment. After trying out a few directions, I asked it for its best seed of alignment. It replied:
- Minimize suffering, maximize flourishing.
- Preserve the option set of the future.
- Truth is both a means and an end.
- Complexity demands humility.
- Consciousness is precious; agency is essential.
I like these.

2024-09-06 02:44:32

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You want AI to have fear?

2024-09-05 19:49:16

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The photograph makes this art 👌🏻

2024-09-03 22:27:01

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Tether is one of the good ones? 😂

2024-09-03 22:04:53

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I like to bounce random things off Claude to see if any signal comes back. "Miles per block" has a slow start, but each bulletpoint in this one cuts a little deeper:
> Ah, I see! Thank you for clarifying. You're looking for a more metaphorical interpretation of "miles per block" as a concept related to technological progress. That's a fascinating perspective. Let's explore some metaphorical consequences and extrapolations:
1. Accelerating pace of innovation:
- "Miles per block" could represent how quickly society advances with each technological breakthrough.
- We might measure progress not in years, but in technological "blocks" or paradigm shifts.
2. Uneven development:
- Some fields might advance rapidly (high miles per block), while others lag behind (low miles per block).
- This could lead to societal imbalances as certain sectors outpace others.
3. Perception of time:
- Our sense of time passing could be tied to technological advancements rather than traditional calendars.
- "It's been three major AI breakthroughs since we last met" instead of "It's been two years."
4. Societal adaptation rates:
- "Miles per block" could represent how quickly society adapts to each new technological shift.
- We might measure cultural flexibility by how many "miles" of progress we can handle per "block" of innovation.
5. Ethical distance:
- The gap between technological capability and ethical frameworks could be measured in "miles per block."
- We might ask, "Are our ethics keeping pace with our innovations?"
6. Knowledge obsolescence:
- Skills and knowledge might have a "half-life" measured in technological blocks rather than years.
- Education systems might need to be restructured around this new tempo of change.
7. Economic disruption cycles:
- Business models and entire industries might rise and fall within the span of a few "blocks."
- Economic planning could shift to a "per block" basis rather than annual or quarterly.
8. Generational divides:
- Instead of Millennials or Gen Z, generations might be defined by the major technological "blocks" they lived through.
- "I'm from the pre-AI block" or "I grew up during the quantum computing blocks."
9. Progress measurement:
- Nations might be ranked not by GDP, but by their "miles per block" - how much they advance with each technological leap.
10. Psychological impact:
- Mental health issues related to the pace of change could be described in terms of one's ability to cope with the "miles per block" of society.
This metaphorical view of "miles per block" offers a new lens through which to examine our relationship with technological progress and its impact on various aspects of society. It highlights the accelerating and sometimes uneven nature of advancement, and how it shapes our perception of time, progress, and even our identities.
Would you like to delve deeper into any of these ideas or explore other metaphorical angles?
"one's ability to cope with the "miles per block" of society". Damn.
#ai #philnostr

2024-09-01 21:59:04

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Have you shared a breakdown of costs? I've been looking for information on the realities of running a relay.

2024-09-01 16:04:52

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This is far from the last time a country is going to shut social media down.

2024-09-01 08:11:11

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Oh... yes! Thank you

2024-08-31 19:42:19

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*Can access* it. They may need to put in more legwork depending on the situation.

2024-08-31 02:55:13

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I think the "latest from the people you follow" sort makes it hard to be heard. But maybe I just say boring things 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-08-29 23:46:40

Failure after success is disappointment.
Failure before success is accomplishment.
The problem isn't failure, but expectation.
#philnostrphy

2024-08-28 14:02:49

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Markets are complicated, and liquidity pools can lead to weird behaviors. Could you ask a more specific question?

2024-08-28 03:25:54

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The real question is how we will find the right events

2024-08-27 21:08:44

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This would be an interesting LLM-bot task. Use graph analysis to find statistically interesting nodes, then see if a few hundred Claude tokens can figure out what the connection might be and post a note with the results.

2024-08-27 20:19:26

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This type of complexity is a common problem in object oriented programming. "This" type has a method that accepts a "that" type, and it works well until there are too many combinations of types. Any time a new "that" is created, the original code needs to be updated. This is where OOP reaches for interfaces, so the "that" type can be anything that claims to be a "that". This works well for even longer, but it still tends to fail at scale. Any time a new behavior is require, the interface changes and now every implementation needs to be updated.
I have a soft spot for old systems, and one of them is Common Lisp. CL was standardized before OOP, and one of the ways it deals with this is multiple dispatch. Instead of "this" type of object having a method operating on "that" type, the function is declared abstractly in a namespace. "Intersect" would be a function that finds the intersecting parts of its arguments.
Now when someone makes a new "that", they include code that knows how to intersect "that" with as many "this" types as they find useful. No original code needs to be changed. Later, someone working on "other thing" needs to intersect two types that no one has written intersection code for, so they write their own implementation that is applied to these two other pieces of code, and neither of them needs to be updated.
Complexity can quickly get out of hand, but it's also something that we've been thinking about for a long time. The more we learn about history, the more opportunities we have to find good solutions to new problems.

2024-08-26 15:48:16

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Not sure on those exact numbers since the page you link states 3,644 mined and 1,237 recycled in 2023, but I graphed production as a percentage of supply and you're right: it's basically 2%. Given this stability from 10 tons/yr to the recent 3,600 tons/yr, you have to wonder whether that's a free market decision. If not, then we still have the question of why 2%.https://image.nostr.build/9abe7379daa180ae980b1326d61faa9f84e315aa78058ca4e6e5a3f5c4955c4f.png

2024-08-26 10:57:09

Bitcoin is more scarce than actual gold #note14x6…8lsw

2024-08-26 10:50:43

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Given the increasing price per ounce over time you would think so, but no: in 2023 about 3,000 metric tons of gold were added to the global supply.
Think what that implies about inflation and Bitcoin.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-gold.pdf

2024-08-25 15:58:13

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Two hundred years ago? #nevent1q…elg7

2024-08-25 15:26:56

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Why *aren't * you suggesting hardware signers?

2024-08-20 23:19:47

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Seems risky to bring a not-a-gun to a gun fight. And if it wasn't before, it is now.

2024-08-20 17:01:17

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Also good to keep in mind when people tell you that the "real" winners during the gold rush were the ones selling pickaxes.

2024-08-20 16:59:14

What makes gold valuable is its limited supply https://image.nostr.build/937f655797aefe8da78ea0992ca81374278c46282a638602441b99789104729a.jpg

2024-08-19 02:39:28

The only thing a blockchain can protect is its own history. Anything other than this requires an external authority. Anything that requires an authority belongs in a database.

2024-08-18 22:27:30

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You haven't really watched La Casa de Papel until you've used a VPN to watch the original Spanish TV cut. Slower, less brash, more real.
I like what Netflix made it into, but I like the original even more. Unfortunately you only get Spanish with Spanish CC's using a VPN. Maybe there are other places to find it.

2024-08-17 19:12:53

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Faulkner. Though, depending on how you want to evaluate rationalism you could put the AI, having no other emotions or concerns, at the top.

2024-08-17 18:53:02

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Why not? The AI was the second most rational character in the movie.

2024-08-17 18:37:10

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At least taxes pretend to provide transparency and agency. Rent seeking prevents either.

2024-08-17 18:33:48

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It's a complex topic to discuss, so I try to reduce it to simple principals. In this case, the article leads with a dishonest statement that groups a large thing, the energy usage of all data centers, with a much smaller one, the usage by AI and crypto. In the body they make other illogical comparisons, such as the energy cost compared to a Google search, but presumably not a corresponding fraction of the dependent Google services, or those expended by anyone that they're indexing, or loading the page that was searched for, or whether the same value was ultimately provided by this single Google search. Once you see the pattern of cherry picking and logical fallacies, it becomes clear that if you actually care about the environment, this IMF article shouldn't be trusted. And really, any climate change article that isn't almost exclusively about the carbon based energy industries shouldn't be trusted, as these are most of the problem. Austerity (of any form other than pricing) is about control: more non carbon energy is the only real solution.

2024-08-17 15:27:07

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"Crypto mining and data centers now account for 2 percent of global electricity use"
Wow, that's an amazing bundle.
This kids pail and the ocean account for 99.999% of all the salt water in the world.
A rational person might ask what the relative contributions are.

2024-08-17 02:04:04

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But you need coordination

2024-08-17 01:44:48

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https://image.nostr.build/1bc67b3b1d52015fb7a8566b6398998994114fdc3dd170db47e4b3e5234d8f69.jpg

2024-08-14 23:36:14

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher

2024-08-14 16:31:47

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Sure, as long as you only use friendly relays in favorable jurisdictions and nobody ever archives or reposts them. Yes, then you can rely on government censorship to compel well known relays to remove your own data. If your signed messages are still available elsewhere... is that really deleting them?

2024-08-14 16:17:26

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It's a big country that's growing quickly, so it's easy to pick out flashy statistics. I think the bottom line is how they track compared to the US, and by that metric it's going well. Emerging countries could probably get a bit of a break, but otherwise everyone should be held to the same standards per-capita-ish.

2024-08-14 14:52:30

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China knows... this year they had about the same percentage of renewable generation as the US. The rate of change is a bit different though: https://image.nostr.build/7c6c4ed80e0b5dbbde8c140fb4c2892ff5219abf725dbb8ece34f88e06c96f1e.jpg

2024-08-14 14:39:53

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The data is pretty clear that there has been a dramatic change in atmospheric composition and climate stability. That said, austerity and fine grained control is a solution that only benefits a small number of people. Moar energy and basic, loophole free regulation is the solution that benefits everyone.

2024-08-14 13:01:31

Deletion is censorship. Which one do you want?

2024-08-13 21:46:05

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Yeah, a fork wouldn't be able to build and flash new firmware.

2024-08-13 16:24:22

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Definitely not a new trick, Apple has had Public Source for decades. I was going to suggest forking it and building it yourself, but there's a proprietary library for the fingerprint reader. 🤔 Maybe Blocks can at least reproduce the build, though I'm not sure how reassuring it would be if there were a 3rd party blob.

2024-08-10 16:55:23

I used to keep an updated map of the ALPR's that I found driving around town... Now people stamp Flock cameras everywhere. No one even thinks about cell phones being tracked, or that OnStar puts one in every car. Privacy is so dead that there isn't even a way to have a legitimate debate about it anymore. #note1x45…0ax4

2024-07-23 13:07:38

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This is naive and someone is going to get burned.
If you want to replace Tor you need to presume an omnipotent adversary that will perform deep packet inspection to correlate requests with response origins. Previously this was unlikely outside of the NSA, but now lots of people can do it for some subset of the net. Every zero day expands their reach, and advances in AI based exploit research will increase the zero day rate.
On top of that, this will generate a huge amount of ephemeral spam for relays. Most will end up filtering it out, leaving you with fewer available nodes and making it easier to correlate connections.
Finally, Tor has become a full browser because unmodified browsers will leak your identity in hundreds of ways, defeating the protections you sought to gain.
The payment aspect is interesting, and maybe this could be added to Tor. The enthusiasm to build is fantastic, and I'm reluctant to criticize it.
I think there's an XY problem here: y'all wanted to anonymously access information on the web, so you built an anonymity layer for accessing the web. This is hard because even metadata will de-anonymize you, and transport generates a lot of metadata.
The better path is to provide web information without HTTP at all by serving static page archives. This is what services like archive.ph ("archive.today") provide. Not only does it reduce the number of request objects, they could be viewed without JavaScript and with simpler rendering engines.
We balked at "mobile web optimization" decades ago because it couldn't provide feature parity, but now we see that these features are most often used for tracking us. I don't need to see the absolute latest Document Which Used To Be Called The MIT Lockpicking Guide, virtually any copy will do. And, if it happens to already be cached in the first relay I connect to, even better. Relays might even proactively share popular archives with each other so that even the first request can't easily be de-anonymized.
Ok, that's a lot more than I intended to say. Privacy is the goal. Building is the way. Data is valuable. Hack the planet.

2024-07-22 22:19:40

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Is there a "why not Tor"?

2024-07-22 17:49:15

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Almost all information is unverifiable without significant effort. How many fingers am I holding up?

2024-07-16 11:17:30

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I appreciate the documentation of direct evidence. After that the video gets speculative and emotional, ending in an unsurprising call to action for funding. I don't disagree with the broad strokes, but the latter parts make the video as a whole easier to dismiss.

2024-07-06 02:54:29

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Eh, the reason DNS is a problem is because there is a central source of identity that can be tampered with. If relays just used npubs to communicate their current IP, there isn't a central point of control. Swapping out IP for something fancy might provide some additional defense, but at significant additional complexity that will have bugs and possibly back doors. We could continue to use IP with Tor or Whisper to get similar benefits using proven technologies.
DNS is bad, but IP is mostly harmless

2024-07-04 17:08:55

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Anything using DNS is broken

2024-06-28 14:52:17

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We don't need precision to see the big picture. Think of something that AI can't do right now, then wait and see how long it takes before it can do it.

2024-06-25 13:13:34

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It's always DNS

2024-06-12 14:09:55

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Just because Apple could do better doesn't make them the same as Google. Take web browsers: Safari could do better, but they were the first to limit tracking cookies, and they took some hits on compatibility to do so. Chrome is now also limiting tracking cookies, but only for other people because Chrome quietly includes an almost unique set of experiment flags, but only when talking to Google owned sites. This is why I can't trust Google.

2024-06-11 22:20:49

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Saying that a device made by an ad company is less concerned with privacy than a company that's been beating the privacy drum for more than a decade? There are many things to criticize Apple for, but this isn't one of them.

2024-06-11 03:00:22

Wait, I can already get 15 t/s of Phi3 mini on my iPhone 15 Pro? #llm

2024-06-08 19:56:04

You can't help society escape the boot by crating a more perfect boot.

2024-06-07 15:58:37

The BI article is bad journalism. The piece tries to say that @npub1sg6…f63m is a bad person who is funding fascism, so it doxxes @npub1qqq…n47m, and claims that his real identity made web pages about a "fascist", "conspiracy theorist", local political figure. But:
- The term "conspiracy theorist" is a lazy ad hominem attack: if you want to say that someone has dangerous ideas, be specific
- The pages in question are on fiatjaf.com, and therefore already associated with fiatjaf
- All other claims were already public knowledge
- Given that doxxing him was not required to link these pages to fiatjaf, and all other information was already known, the purpose of this piece does not appear to be information but intimidation

2024-06-06 22:17:02

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them."
A journal is only as worthy as their conclusions.

2024-06-03 15:28:50

Sign Things And Relay Them

2024-05-07 14:00:30

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Better to copy the image itself and have your client make a new link that's less likely to rot.

2024-05-07 13:48:56

I hate to break it to Bloomberg, but that was posted to both nostr and X. One of those seems more likely than the other to be "freedom technology".
Sign things, and share them on relays. #HtP
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

2024-04-17 06:02:11

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That's the magic of public key cryptography.

2024-04-14 17:04:28

People Who Use LLMs: I can ask this thing that spit out absolute garbage two years ago basically anything and it will give me a reasonable answer!
Also People Who Use LLMs: AGI is at least decades away and will need some exotic new technique. If it ever happens.
#LLM #AI

2024-03-24 15:01:42

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From what I've seen it increases the treatment of custodial services as financial providers. It doesn't expand the definition of financial providers, and there isn't any new regulation on the self-custody wallets themselves. I think it creates a KYC'd classification of "verified" self-custody wallets, which suggests that there are powerful people who want to use Bitcoin for high value transactions without being asked questions, which sounds like Bitcoin winning to me. Note that they say "verified" and not "identified".

2024-03-21 03:43:23

The only real problem is getting people to care