Also, on reflection, I don't really agree with the characterization "only defends against a narrow set of attacks". To me, it's a broad and significant set of attacks that are defended against with encryption at rest: the most likely way to get your secrets stolen is for someone to get access to your physical hardware (stolen laptop; evil maid attack), or perhaps getting access to backups of your filesystem. True that someone actually taking control remotely is a big risk too, especially on Windows, but that is such a catastrophic failure mode that nothing matters .. not a good excuse to have zero defences imo - people regularly assume some level of security at least on MacOS and Linux and they should be able to, I think. A desktop is not a phone.

Anyway all arguable I guess. But not giving the option or any warning - I don't see a justification of it, really.

The protocol is called atproto and not Bluesky and you just read the article of a grumpy guy to confirm your biases without activating your critical thinking

It’s quite a shame where Bluesky ended up. Having infrastructure be neutral was a core tenant of the way it was originally pitched, and is why the whole “labeler for moderation” thing was built at all. They’ve ended up rebuilding Mastadon with the insane cross-instance blocking wars.

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Don't get married if you're not into it.

Controversial = not approved leftist-origin thought

That’s the quiet part out loud

Hypothesis:

Ancient civilizations were not nearly as male lead or ‘patriarchal’ as we tend to think they were. We are viewing those places through our current patriarchal lens.

I was having a chat with ChatGPT about ancient civilizations and was wondering why it wasn’t mentioning some of my favorites. It explained that some of those places didn’t have clear hierarchy, or clear military rule, and so they didn’t count… interesting. So any culture that didn’t have a clear hierarchy or clear military leaders essentially doesn’t count as a civilization? Wow.

Have you ever read a history book and noticed that it’s 90% the history of wars? Kinda sad to view the world that way. And our culture seems to equate military might and military decision making with leadership. ...we equate violence with leadership. Very patriarchal, and not at all healthy.

And of course men have a natural advantage in violence and we need women to make the babies, and so it’s mostly men in the military. In a world ruled by violence the most violent will rule. Patriarchy.

What do you think?

Note: As always, "patriarchy" ≠ men bad. Patriarchy is a culture that hurts everyone.

Mining centralization is still horrible. Most users prefer non-private custodial wallets. Next gen wallets are lying about their trust model in marketing and people are eating it up.

Things aren’t terrible but if you’re this bullish you aren’t paying attention to anything but price.

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USA is governed by a pedophile that gave national secrets to a drug addict. (Not my words , theirs)