What’s crazy, is that I don’t usually eat breakfast, but yesterday I have a little leaflet to read saying I would be eating something for breakfast today as part of some tests, and my stomach seems to have set an appointment.
Yeah, occasionally I have some all consuming busyness to deal with.
I’m currently fasting for one of these health metric kits and doing a bunch of blood and guts test.
But I had to do the school run this morning, ad hoc, and now I’m 2 hours late on every meal, and the hunger is killing me. 🤣
What have I signed up to?
That is an open ended fiscal system, and that’s not what we have.
The US government has the Treasury General Account. The UK government has the Consolidated Fund. These bank accounts are a part of the economy, they don’t ever go negative and their balances are published daily. Look them up.
In a capitalist economy (pre-2008), government deficit spending is supposed to drive up interest rates, as the gov has to go to the bond market to borrow more money. But since 2008, the Central Banks have just created new money to buy bonds and force rates low whilst encouraging ever more deficit spending.
2008 really broke capitalism and since then we have had a sort of monetary command and control economy. But it doesn’t work like the diagram shown above.
Start at the very bottom of the stack.
1). The physical network exists and it’s not yours. Not your servers, not your routers.
2). IP addresses are assigned by IANA. This is a permission request.
To create a decentralised network, the network ID’s / addresses would need to be self generated not assigned from a permission granting institution. You should self declare an identity and the network should propagate it with your traffic. First time connections would be slow, second time connections would be fast.
The Internet Protocol we all use at the base is highly centralised. You can create abstract networks within the internet like VPN’s do, or onion, but all the exit points are centrally assigned IP’s.
Why bother when we have encryption?
As great and fundamental as TCP/IP is, it is not permissionless and although this permission is always granted and is always frictionless, the result of IP design is a central register that geotags and ownertags every IP address.
Whilst the content of your message can be hidden, the TCP table cannot. The TCP table contains all the information required to go fish for the message.
Is there no hope?
Well if someone were to make the effort to devise an alternative routing system with self generated addresses, a permissionless network, then you could have a free network. The barrier is that all the physical network all the network cards and routers run IP. It’s a huge barrier.
But we are gradually approaching a world where you can do the impossible and circumvent the physical network that exists today.
Within a decade or two it will be fairly easy to replace the physical internet with a network of cubesats that hosts a decentralised network architecture.
It won’t be as fast as the internet, it would be slow and expensive, but it would be secure and untraceable.
Will it happen? No.
But it’s not as impossible as it once was.
I need to get back on top of nostr. nostr:note1q7zvtu6jd3dkjuhg4fs6srsj59dkwr4x6224a6u3w6gyg6rc4jrqmlts0y
Her hair gets longer and shorter.
There will be zero tells within a year and soon after that video will be inadmissible in court.
It’s also the death of the internet, you will soon be able to hallucinate an internet on demand.
Zap to join livestream.
Digital gig tickets.
Sell live music events over the internet.
Could be enormous.
Hoping to move some of my side projects forward over the summer.
I still want to make a doesn’t-exist-computer that iPXE boots into RAM only using nothing but a USB cable.
You just have a USB cable with small flash memory hidden in the connector, it doesn’t even have an OS on it. Plug it in to a machine and it iPXE boots a web hosted image into RAM only.
Computing without a trace.
How is everyone anyway?
I’ve been working too hard recently and that makes me a dull boy.
Here’s the video I posted in 3rd Feb 2023 to suggest to Jon Leger how nostrgram should load…
This is exactly how X Pro works 1 year later??
Weird. https://video.nostr.build/5c5248c3fee4de5f7674972302477628a6ed715c0e9803138443005e4ba4e1b6.mp4
Something got poached. It even does the top loading animation that I talked to Jon about.
Can’t be a coincidence can it?
Huh. X Pro’s UI is indistinguishable from the nostrgram UI that nostr:npub1t9a59hjk48svr8hz6rx727ta6kx53n5d6fw8x26vsua0zytpl87sa6h4uw built here 12 months ago. 
Agentina is going to start growing quickly and voters elsewhere are going to notice.
https://m.primal.net/HhZK.mp4 Milton Friedman, in a visionary 1999 interview, predicted the Internet's potential to diminish government's role and pave the way for a #Bitcoin future.
His foresight into digital currencies highlights his ahead-of-time understanding of technology's impact on freedom and finance.
Freedman’s laissez faire economics is going to come roaring back out of Argentina this decade.
Should I get a Nothing phone (2a)?
Anyone here tried one of these?
Tempted to have an off ramp from iOS, I sort of expect big tech is going to do big overreach stuff, as AI battles pan out… and this Nothing phone looks like something I could like.
I’m pretty sure people try this route and then go back to apple after 6 months. But I don’t need iMessage at all.
There’s an age where you stop giving AF about what people think, and for some people that happens too young and for others it happens too late.
Crucially, your only currency here is time and if you spend most of your time chasing the same thing, did you really get the full experience out of life?