I've never actually tried exercising while listening to music or anything else. Closest I've ever done would be the music my old climbing gym occasionally played, and that was when I was a teenager.
Telegram is almost entirely unencrypted. So no, the product doesn't prevent him from doing anything. Telegram has banned a bunch of content at the request of the Russian government. They've also done a good job at banning porn or anything remotely like it, probably because they know child porn claims were coming.
Poor quality privacy is dangerous.
Telegram is a service, not just software.
Nostr's problem here is that it too is pretty close to a service, a fairly centralized one...
We arrest people on the basis of having a poor quality product all the time. It's called commercial fraud. This may be an example of it, depending on the statements that Telegram has actually made about the security of their product.
Telegram had such terrible privacy it might have been reasonable to arrest him in the basis of fraud...
This is a case of bad people getting arrested for bad reasons. The outcome might end up being good for the wider world, if users of Telegram move to something more secure.
Today I'm raising some concerns based upon observations of a withdrawal I recently made from Coinbase. I suspect the issues I'm pointing out apply to many exchanges and custodians across the ecosystem.
https://blog.lopp.net/problems-with-coinbase-withdrawal-fees/
“Do a better job ensuring that users are charged for the on-chain fees that are actually paid. Perhaps that means refunding back overages when the withdrawal is processed in a large batch that enables the fee to be shared among many users.”
I really like this idea.
He was defending Twitter's lack of privacy, which is 100% an influencer type of social network.
He was talking about the possibility of, eg, blue checks being purchasable via non-AML/KYC methods. In that context failing to provide options for an important minority is stupid.
It's as stupid as saying "Only a small minority of Twitter users have a lot of followers; there's no reason to make their experience good."
Obviously, the small minority who really need this stuff are often your most interesting users, who drive user interactions from the majority.
Snowden being a great example! Who Jack went on to point out had left Nostr due to bad privacy!
"People don't care." @jack on privacy and AML/KYC re: Twitter at #nostriga
What a fucking stupid argument. The market created Nostr for starters, used by people who do care. Equally _lots_ of people are failing to get blue checks for privacy reasons.
Since nostr doesn't have any type of blockchain tech, mirroring isn't reliable. You have no good way pf knowing if you're being censored.
Caching on nostr doesn't work well because nostr left off any kind of blockchain tech to make it simpler. Nostr should have had something like the architecture of Scuttlebutt, with something like a per-user chain or graph. But that's more complex than doing something dumb that doesn't actually work well...
“Users should own their own data”
That is fundamentally impossible in a digital system, especially if you want it to be decentralized and/or open access.
Data can be copied. That's just life.
If you're trying to prevent mirroring, at minimum, put it on a website. Though even then copying isn't that hard.
Just sat through the "Scaling Nostr: The Future of Decentralized Relays" panel at #nostriga
I'm very disappointed. Despite this supposedly being a talk about decentralized relays, _nothing_ mentioned in the panel was actually decentralized. Not a single damn thing.
Because you lived in a community where enough other people wore shoes, and has functioning sewage systems, that hookworm had been eradicated.
Like vaccination, you only need a certain % taking counter measures for the remainder to be protected.
Properly treating sewage is the second way that hookworm was eradicated: the lifecycle of the parasite includes spread via feces. But shoes were the first effective measure.
A big part of why people culturally wore shoes was probably hookworm infestations. Over a lifetime you're more likely to survive if you and the people around you consistently wear shoes.
We eradicated hookworm by getting everyone shoes.
The root problem here is that nowhere near enough young people vote.
If they did, they'd still be able to sway the vote enough to cut spending on the elderly. But because they mostly don't vote, they're going to get screwed.
Frankly, they collectively deserve to get screwed. Inaction has consequences.
Damnit, you keep on promoting it and I might have to go even without a talk. 😂
Dude, by that standard there was plenty of racism against Germans too...
The populations of both Japan and Germany at that time were deserving of scorn and hate. They both supported mass murder and had their own ideologies of superiority. Japan in particular was practically a death cult.
Almost everyone alive then is now dead, with the extremists of the time suffering a particularly high death rate.
It's also psychologically healthy to dehumanize your enemy in war. You have to kill or capture them, and more often then not it's the first option. No reason to spend valuable sanity worrying about their humanity when they're trying to kill you. That's especially true with large scale wars like WW2 where the whole population is meaningfully working together to kilk you.
Sound isn't an electro-magnetic wave. Sound propagates through pressure waves, a very different mechanism than electro-magnetic waves.
Like is said, there were far more Germans, making a indiscriminate approach impractical; on Hawaii where there were far more Japanese, the indiscriminate approach was also impractical, and not followed.
There's no racial difference here. Just circumstance.
The US did intern German Americans too, in both WW1 and WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
About 36% of all people interned in WW2 were Germans. There were far more Germans in the US (millions) so interning them all was totally impractical, unlike the much smaller number of Japanese (~125,000).
In Hawaii about 1/3rd of the population were Japanese. And again, due to the enormous numbers involved, only a small % were interned.
The policies weren't about racism. They were about practicality.
