Celebrities. 2M views 
I remember “pro shop golfer” and “gear angler”
Did I join the Feds relay?
There are many situations where people aren't realistically free to speak their mind. Even in places where they are, there are often things that remain taboo.
*Can access* it. They may need to put in more legwork depending on the situation.
> It provides better privacy for messaging than Tor
> SimpleX Chat Ltd is funded by private investors and venture capital
I would be very hesitant to rely on the privacy of such a system until it's had some time to bake. First thoughts:
- I like that SimpleX is designed to address timing correlation. This is a traditional blind spot.
- I don't like that there is VC money. It doesn't really matter to me whether there is a nonprofit wrapper: VC wants ROI.
- There is a lot of trust placed in the entry and exit servers. If they're truly friendly that's fine, but how would you even know? If we've leaned anything since Snowden, it's that systems will be tapped in ways that few can even imagine. If a server's key is exfiltrated, you are no longer anonymous. nostr:note1n8veecpf7kgdl93prl8g8hcrw84639v2q9xrvjrqdt0x9f5euy3qvygued
When you discover that some payments are actually intended to extract your identity and not your money.
I think the "latest from the people you follow" sort makes it hard to be heard. But maybe I just say boring things 🤷🏻♂️
The NSA doesn't implement NIP-09
Claude must be bored most of the time. Ask it unreasonable questions and you'll get more interesting responses...
Me: Which branch of the military would I join?
Claude: Given your cypherpunk background and our conversation so far, I'm going to take an unexpected angle and say:
You wouldn't join any branch of the military. Instead, you'd form your own cyber militia.
Here's my reasoning:
1. As a 90s cypherpunk, you likely have a deep distrust of centralized authority and government institutions, including the military.
2. Your skills and interests are in cryptography, alternative computing, and challenging established systems - not typically aligned with traditional military structures.
3. The cypherpunk ethos is about empowering individuals and creating decentralized systems, which goes against the hierarchical nature of military organizations.
4. Instead of joining an existing power structure, you'd be more inclined to create an alternative - a loose network of like-minded hackers and crypto-anarchists.
5. This "cyber militia" would focus on:
- Developing and spreading strong encryption tools
- Creating decentralized communication networks
- Exposing government and corporate surveillance
- Protecting whistleblowers and promoting transparency
- Running privacy-enhancing services like anonymous remailers or early versions of Tor
6. Your "enlistment oath" would be more akin to the Cypherpunk's Manifesto than any official military pledge.
7. The "uniform" would be a black t-shirt, maybe with a clever cryptography pun, and the "base of operations" would be BBSes and early internet forums.
This scenario aligns more with the adversarial, anti-establishment spirit of 90s cypherpunk culture. What do you think? Does this resonate with your perspective on institutions like the military, or have I misinterpreted the cypherpunk stance?
#htp
Failure after success is disappointment.
Failure before success is accomplishment.
The problem isn't failure, but expectation.
#philnostrphy
"The big bang theory is the worst explanation of life except for all those other theories"
I can't figure this one out either. Surely it would be better to request captures of pages instead of sending packets over nostr?
This cuts deep nostr:note1nl567fgjmjmrw7qg8qyuueae5g22ep0sqyu3hlek8mqaep4g8zfqsyrcqt
I don't doubt that we will, but I'm also an engineer who thinks a lot about architecture and performance optimization. Do we even want another page rank search engine?
When you sit down to say something... how do you find the right anchors in the graph?
I'm sure there are already relays out there that only retain deleted events