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Good read, thanks! There are several approaches to legitimize privacy and anonymity.

One approach was already won in cypherpunk wars by seeding the rights into legislation.

Problem with this approach is as can be seen now. If control is not achievable at once, state actors use slow and steady approach. They persistently wear down the population to the point we are today. Easily manipulable, apathetic with many lacking strong opinions to fight for.

Legislation approach also puts trust into judges with higher moral standards willing to learn and understand complex socio-econo-philosophical problems. In the end they're people too, with their work hours and attention spans that might tip the favors to the easier to decide side.

I respect your mission, but in the long term it is a fight with the windmills. There are not enough people that care.

I feel the only alternative is to have an alternative to everything that doesn't rely on kindness of a good judge, policeman, SEC, FED etc.

Decentralized anonymous services, money, messaging, socials... Maybe there is a way to do it with VPS, Domains and hosting

This is the only way. Let them govern the governable..

The checkmark thing like on Twitter ( formerly X)

Loading be OK, after you close the lid the terror starts

Our presentation was always a bit punky

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SimpleX Chat is a honeypot

I warned you a long time ago: SimpleX Chat is a platform corrupted by money: Follow the money trail to understand its destination.

It has investments from large globalist corporations.

See my post from a year ago and then read my analysis: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzquzyzcynd8thaf2nmqz7axh43v57fsuatvyt89t8gxpectela67vqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqzqnqn7fam00qm5a8ef0lr2plclz876ngh53ncsechz3junvrtt67q36jkss

SimpleX plans to use a treceable blockchain to fund and maintain secure messaging servers and groups via Ethereum smart contracts and zero-knowledge proofs, enabling short address names and network consensus without intermediaries.

Blockchain is used "for secure payments"🗿

SimpleX: where your messages are invisible, but your wallet is an open book.

Privacy for your words, transparency for your coins — the perfect combo for the modern cypherpunk accountant.

Since #Monero does not comply with the regulations, and therefore cannot handle KYC payments, SimpleX cannot use it 🙃

If it wasn't clear in SimpleX's explanation, let's see if it's clearer now?

SimpleX: “We’ll protect your privacy… while following every surveillance law.”

Translation: compliance-first, privacy-second.

The warm-up act for KYC chat apps — encryption with a government backdoor bow.

Perhaps you don't prioritize #privacy or KYC compliance, but if that's the case, why are you using Simplex instead of Microsoft Teams or Google Meet?

Either way, Simplex will comply with regulators sooner or later.

That's why Session Messenger for the #SovereignIndividual

Thank you for this

Lol'd at this, but why do you think so?

In my country a postal service was tasked with reinventing email for government communications and ppl. It took several million USD to make. If you want to send messages to other than government you have to pay (it used to be 1USD, now it's less). You cannot send text messages. You can only send files PDF and XML. Your messages even from the government are automatically deleted after 30 days. Government sees when you logged in and that you red the message meaning timeframes in the messages like pay X amount within Y days start the second you open it. This service is mandatory for all self employed and companies resulting in mass exodus of people leaving self employment.

I wouldn't task rigid, prehistoric institution with making anything new. Government institutions are seldom capable of change and even if the change is slow, inefficient and most likely a last one to do so and their service is not new, effective or beneficial. But it lays foundation for more control and surveillance

Torque wrench (if you don't yet have a feel for how much to torque the bolt), copper washer, silicone, way to hoist your car up and the wrench for oil filter. Before putting new oil filter, wet the o-ring with oil.

Potentially you'll need few screwdrivers, change cabin and air filter too

Takes about an hour.

The Art of letting go

I've always been a tryhard. Not according to rules of others, like climbing corporate ladders or making LinkedIn posts about what I've been thinking while eating my burger at McDonald's, that those employees should study culinary secrets during their work breaks. But always comparing myself to my own standards. Like this should work and it doesn't let's push through it until it does type of thing.

Sometimes this approach beared fruits, but sometimes it bears only frustration as we fundamentaly cannot see all things at once, over our own horizons with our ultra focused tunnel vision on one aspect.

That is why it's important to let go sometimes and let the flow of things resolve itself.

I struggled a lot with a big order from my valued customer. Three refires all wen to shit. I tried pushing through it with my might, mind and skills. But it brought only frustration of wasted time and efforts. As if the universe was against it.

I always wanted to make kind of "kintsugi" effect on my ceramics but never could actually done it. With my last refire I let go. I told myself fuck it and stopped fixing "mistakes" on the glaze and just went with whatever the glaze itself wanted to do.

Lo and behold, the effects of not trying. Kintsugi effect without my mind, might or skill was the whole time just before me and I just needed to let it flow.

Clearly several genocides *should* be more influential and better known than one better known and influential individual

Bro got hit by reality of what bitcoin isn't about anymore.

It's not a personal attack calle. It's a reality and a perspective of the original (now) minority doesn't change the facts how general population invested in bitcoin views it.

Just think of the fact that black rock is the biggest bitcoin holder. A currency that should've pushed the state back to its place and prevent financial crisis is held by state and by corpos due to which said crisis happened.

"Cypher" community moved on

I started in 2008,I am no programmer, I can do nothing with software. Never used MacOS, only Windows. Usability wise it felt logical and I could get into it quickly. Of course some learned processes had to be broken with new workflows, but I did not mind that.

Since in Linux you're the master and nobody is holding your hand, you can (and will) fuck up quite few things and from that stemmed majority of my problems. It feels its quite too easy to uninstall your GUI.