I’m fine either way. It’s cleaner to have it consistently denoted at local.intermediate.root authority structure. The @ prefix is just a notation thing that I believe was invented by Twitter, so in the early days @trbouma was exclusively Twitter but can now be generalized to express a full authority path. It would also work for @trbouma.
Great points. I need to digest that. The ‘cult of the original’ (works attributed to creators) only emerged in the late medieval era. Also the idea of institutional identity (monasteries, then eventually, limited liability corporations) aside from the Church and Sovereign emerged during that time. Patents and copyrights have always been ‘monopolies’ granted by the State/King and part of our institutional framework that they are taken for granted.
The most interesting part of this article is the RFC 8141 non-compliant URN.
E.g., my handle is @trbouma.bsky.social versus what would be rfc compliant trbouma@bsky.social
The definition of 'decentralized' is pretty loose. The platform as I can see if centralized, but you can bring your own handle means that it is 'decentralized'
Once again, Cory Doctoriw has the right idea about rights.
Related to this, I saw a particularly frightening article that the Crown (as we like to call government here in Canada) might not be able to back your privacy rights, because they weren't nice when negotiating treaties, and that the land rights might need to revert back to the descendants of the originals. Imagine that, you did everything in good faith, toiled your whole life and the Crown says 'oopsies' as you are escorted off your front lawn.
I don't think it will ever get to this, but always a remote possibility.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/rights-without-power/#careful-what-you-wish-for
The digital wallet industry has this idea that you want to store everything in their wallet (I say ‘their’ because it’s really a government-approved app).
Nothing can be further from the truth.
A wallet evolved to carry coins (payment) that could easily hidden or defended on the person. You could lose everything else, your horse, your provisions, but if you kept your means of payment, you could easily get set up again at the local commandry.
If you also lost your wallet, you’d likely have hidden away an issued letter of credit, that once verified by the commandery preceptor, funds were withdrawn from your credit, you’d be restored, an on your way.
So all of this focus on building a wallet having all your eggs in one basket and that an authority can shut down at a moment’s notice is just the wrong way to go.
If you study the beginnings of the international banking system (before big banks and governments took over), you’ll see we are headed that way once again.
That is my vision of #nostr #safebox - bring back the old order of banking and payments.
#history #technology
What is convenient for you, should not be convenient for the state.
GN 
Reverse proxy is one of the most powerful concepts on the internet.
4. The banks get bailed out by taxpayers.
Aliens and Bigfoot were so much more interesting when nobody had cameras.
I did a safebox zap to your nip05 address. Can you confirm you received?
I pay for a car not just to use it 100% of the time, but to control it 100% of the time. So, I guess it’s ’decentralized’.
Now, four handy ways to pay with #nostr #safebox
The user need not care about the underlying transport
safebox zap
safebox pay
safebox send
safebox withdraw
My next project- a decentralized toaster
Yeah, it's kinda meaningless statement. That was the point. 😀
I want my next car to be decentralized.
You might not like Jason Lowery’s thesis, but if you make a perfectly liquid capital that can flee any territory at a moment’s notice, you take a major economic incentive out of warfare. Then warfare becomes solely about capturing resources, people and ideology. If the capital along with people have fled, you have a heck of a time rebuilding, and it may not be worth it all. nostr:note14uce3y7g2xprzgtwyjfrmur3e8rdw7mv9mye8u7z30t7f8ztmmqq7hrdge
More likely: regulate hash out of existence. Maybe make random numbers illegal, too.
Architectures that assume a single source of truth eventually become centralized (despite claiming to be decentralized) and a single point of failure. That’s the reality.
The alternate reality:
There is no single source of truth. Just signed events from authorities (npubs) that you may or may not trust.
There is no global store of signed events. Just signed events from relays you’ve connected to.
Once you realize this, the desire to police others goes completely away.
There must be an EU Hash Rate Regulation on the books.
Can’t we just get all this energy redirected toward BTC mining?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-attack-ukraine-energy-infrastructure-1.7385672
Only nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft can kick off a whole new wave of innovation by staying up late on Saturday night. nostr:note1daga63tkeawkfdsj7g7ahecxjdsq5g23qscrpvs5amx7de7hxwssdeupcf