do you find i2p even slower than tor?

I agree IPFS is flawed and Nostr is more useful/better, but the two are not mutually exclusive.

For example Nostr doesn’t do images/video, and IPFS could do that for Nostr. The reason that’s unlikely to happen is cultural, not technical.

on his site blog w the update. its just giving you 1 hop before you hit the relay you recieve from

Tor & IPFS are opposites

Tor Onions are famous for "No JavaScript" since JavaScript can be used to fingerprint your browser and identify you. While most darkweb markets completely avoid JS, many other sites such as WordPress can achieve this same trick. Our team did it a year ago by moving the WooCommerce code to the SERVER side, so the client's browser does NOT have to do it.

IPFS is the opposite. There is no server, and IPFS nodes share copies of static files. The word "static" doesn't mean it doesn't have JavaScript, it means the code is pre-defined and known to the client in advance (so it’s more truly open source). With IPFS, clients are running all code locally.

In summary,

Tor Onions do it all server-side, hide where the server is, and who is connecting to it.

While as IPFS does it all client-side, turns your local PC into a node, which publicly broadcasts you are sharing it (like a torrent).

Both are difficult to do complex apps with, and that's why they both are not that popular. However, it is possible. And as long as it’s possible, there’s hope.

Self-hosting is trusting you. the operator of the server. it could even be on a tor onion in your home

How is trusting you better than trusting Threema? doesn't make sense

That's just librewolf settings, it will do that for many sites. If you hit accept and continue, it will load the page with SSL lock

Some come with a SIM card built-in. Also there's security benefits to external routers, please see: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/glinet/

No not bad,

It’s good they are adding these features (that are similar to Session)

The new SimpleX release hides IPs with onion routing.

Next he's going to do blockchain vouchers to pay the relays. And add a 2nd identity with PGP keys.

-Onion hops to hide IPs

-Relays paid w/ blockchain

-2nd key for identity

Sounds like Session.

Now if he's going to step-by-step copy Session's features, while promoting propaganda about Session, I will still try to promote education of both, to benefit the end user's freedom. I wish those who tried to haze me over the last year for promoting these ideas would do the same.

The purpose of Session's onion routing is to prevent a single actor from gaining knowledge.

Or with SimpleX you can self-host the server.

With Threema, you’re trusting a single entity with censorship/privacy.

Aren’t you on Nostr to avoid centralization?

Monero 164

We're back above the Binance delisting. boo ya!

I'd assume the pump is due to RebelNet.me

There's never going to be the utopian government you desire. It doesn't exist.

At least with a private business, it is voluntary. Government is force. You're interested in blind allegiance to the crown.

Hey maybe instead of you owning your nostr key, we should have the government decide what you can type? Let’s have a vote!

The entire system of fractional reserve banking causing inflation is corrupt to begin with. The free market should decide the price of money and interest rates, not the central bank. To add minimum wage on top of this is disorting it even further.

If your landlord charges more, you don't have "nowhere else to go", you can go to a different landlord and change apartments. If they ALL rise, then that's what it's worth, that's the true value.

It's only because the Fed disorts interest rates that real estate goes up to begin with. That's why your rent is so high

I'm going to email him. And the larger the response on Nostr, the more likely he'll reply.

It might even raise his attention that Nostr exists

Can Nostr sway a Raging Hypocrite?

Jake Peterson of LifeHacker wrote an article

"Google Is an Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare Than You Think"

In which he describes the usual abuse cases like leaking corporate data or abusing children’s data without consent. But he ends the article with, "There's no getting away from it: Google is now everywhere, and we can only hope they are being as responsive and thorough as they claim in safeguarding our data."

No man, that's where you're wrong. LifeHacker chooses to have Google analytics on it's site.

From a DNS lookup, I can see, LifeHacker chooses to route emails to Gmail, which means you got your direct by-line contact jpeterson@lifehacker.com going to Gmail.

As a “Senior Technology Editor”, you make it seem like we have no choice. But there are, here’s just a few to scratch the surface:

Android → Graphene/Calyx

Chrome → LibreWolf

Gmail → Mailu

Google Docs → Cryptpad

Google Authenticator → KeePass XC

Google Play Store → F-Droid

I say, you have more power than you think. There’s an entire world out there of options and choices. And we do not have to sit by and take it.

And if you want Jake Peterson to get the message, I want you to tell him right here in the comments what technology alternative he should be writing about that ain’t on my list. Because if we make enough noise, he just might listen.

Yes. But offering self-host and linking with other instances too. As well as other protocols beyond Nostr with Ethereum keys as well. So it’s about interoperability and linking up groups, for a shift away from Big Tech, to encryption as identity.

No but he isn’t the kind of influencer I’d pitch it to.

Here’s the thing on covid-19 restrictions,

Some people are allergic to Peanuts. If you take out a peanut sandwich, you might kill someone.

The vast majority of people are deadly allergic to Anthrax. If you open an Anthrax container, you might kill someone.

Well our society accepts that so few people are allergic to peanuts compared to the overall population, that it’s tough luck for the allergic ones. We say, “you are such a small minority, we will not inconvenience the entire population, like we would Anthrax”. This is called cost benefit analysis.

Now is covid-19 anthrax? No. Is covid-19 peanuts? No. Where is covid in-between on this scale?

Well, I don’t get to decide. And the government shouldn’t either. Because no small elite group can weigh the cost—benefit for all of humanity. Instead, I propose that individual participants and land-owners at a local level decide what the peanuts and anthrax of their own lives are. Only they can weigh the benefits vs the cost.

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If people can’t own land, and there’s no government, then who decides what happens?

Yes I agree with this. And WHY do these elites influence government? Because it has power.

So the less power government has, the less these leeches will push to take control.