💯 Liberty and inviolable property within finite units. Freedom has an increasing number of dedicated bidders.
I had my share of unprovoked fights back in school but I learned grammar at home from just reading a lot. The breaks between classes were not useful for learning due to hostilities. (Thanks to Swedish socialism)
I know the feeling.😁
I had a period some years ago where I had forgotten the distinction between lose-loose. Glad it was reparable and wasn't the onset of aphasia.😄
I commit verbal crimes from time to time, especially if I'm tired or in a hurry.
What grinds my gears is the mixup between *then* and *than*.
If {x} then
x > than y
Welcome Sean. ☀️🧡💜
For anyone wondering, he has verified his account on the blue bird:
https://twitter.com/seanonolennon/status/1636938918695424001
Agreed, looks suspicious.
According to the log, Vitor started his work on the covid authenticator in November 19 2021, and still worked on it by December 2022.
What other Android Nostr clients would you recommend? I am not interested in using Google Chrome extensions.
Sounds like we are going philosophical.😄
The pen is.
The pen is mightier than the State. 😅🤣
Freely chosen restrictions can be creatively rewarding. The voluntary aspect is crucial.
My own happiness is not reduced by the options I have available at any moment. Happiness is a state of mind and we continuously create and furnish our own internal environment.
Depends on the intentions of the attacker
If the intention is trolling, then yes, they could send spam from the account. If the intention is identity theft, then they would merely attempt to redirect subscribers (without any supporting evidence).
I disagree with the nuke functionality being dependent on merely one key. It would be better if a nuke function involved *two* private keys, so that the account owner can decide when to nuke the account. If 1/2 keys was unused then it wouldn't likely be compromised.
My pleasure, Jay!
Your music is awesome!! 🧡🔥🔥🔥
Citadel Islands premiere. 🧡💜⭐️🌟✨️
Music by Jay, #[0] .
Art and video editing by me.
I see. I guess we have to live with bad security implementations then.
One solution is that we prepare by creating one or several backup accounts and use them to verify our future account when the old is nuked.
Why would all relays support such a tool?
An attacker can send messages from my account before I even know that my key is compromised.
When my account is compromised, both the attacker and I can post from my account, as long as your idea isn't implemented.
In such a scenario I will post that my account is compromised and provide *evidence* via other social media accounts. The attacker can't do that.
I could also prepare in advance by setting up 1-2 backup nostr accounts that only I have access to, which are unlikely to be compromised at the same time.
Your idea would prevent me from posting from my account, and that is very dangerous.
I can verify myself via other accounts or other social media. However, I would still want to post from my account if it was compromized.
Terrible idea Vitor.
If my Nostr private key is compromised, I would still want to send some message from my account to re-direct my subscribers.
In your scenario an account thief could nuke my account and prevent me from using it.
Absolutely, central planning can go on for a long time under the worst circumstances. Cultural differences may also play a role.
Tragically, China have a history of over 70 years of communism, that's over three generations who have been born into a dictatorship. Yet even Xi Jinping had to back off his most extreme policies last year in the face of mass demonstrations.
Communism in the West has been dramatically less successful and the countries of Eastern Europe are relatively inoculated against Marxism. It is not at all certain that we will have totalitarianism everywhere and at the same time.
As many of us have been saying for years, it is far easier to exit totalitarianism before its infrastructure is in place. However, I don't share your sense of impossibilities. Technology is still far away from being all-powerful.
A few reflections on central planning:
All central planning systems are unstable at their heart. One defining feature of authoritarian regimes is a lack of error-correcting mechanisms. This is partly caused by the prevention and crippling of individual decisionmaking. Without local decisionmaking based on local data and experience, the system becomes further and further removed from any semblance of reality alignment.
We know what happens to a complex computer code without error-correction; the code becomes increasingly vulnerable. There's a point of no return when even obvious errors must stay in place or you risk a breakdown of the system. From there you have a downward spiral preventing course correction.
As a central planning system progresses without error-correction, it causes increasing amounts of harm. The dependencies on a few central chokepoints also makes the system frail; the slightest problem reverberates with expanding consequences.
The inevitable harm caused by the system leads to protests and exposes novel cracks in the architecture. This in turn triggers the government to wield lies, gaslighting and rigging of data to cover up and deflect responsibility from the harm caused by central planners and to keep their narratives in control of public perception.
As the data becomes increasingly manipulated, to support failed policies that are hammered into place as a child would hammer a square peg into a round hole, the assumptions drawn from the corrupted data becomes so removed from reality that they represent a reversal of facts.
War is peace, liberty is tyranny, up is down, et cetera. Policies based on assumptions drawn from the incorrect and manipulated data increases the destruction caused by the system, which in turn leads to widespread protests and further instability.
This is how the path toward 'total order', based on the application of force, coercion and false narratives, in actuality leads to instability and fragmentation.
As instability worsens, we can expect internal fights for power among the leadership strata, combined with defections of competent personnel. We can also expect programmers and engineers, being among the first to grasp the ramifications of obvious negative systemic downstream consequences, to go on strike in a variety of manners. They will demonstrate their disapproval from the simple act of ignoring flaws and bugs in various systems, to introducing vulnerabilities in an act of defiance.
It seems clear that the downfall of tyrannical regimes is inevitable from their dislodging from reality.
Bitcoin, in combination with decentralized communication channels allows us global tools to turn the tide and hopefully reduce the damage that central planning systems will cause in their hopeless quest for ultimate power.
The universe favors decentralization, variety, competition, options and sovereign decisions; hence the proliferation of life and individual consciousness.
The characteristic pattern of life involves complex self-regulating eco-systems and emergent order based on autonomous decisions. There are no top-down central planning machinations to be found in either nature or the universe.