Nah man, the wall of text speech doesn't work. People don't care. I do one thing. I make fun of the idea that people are afraid to install an app, that people want one app for everything. "My phone is better than yours because it can run more than one app" "it's not like you've got to carry 2 phones" or "you'll install the taco bell app for 50¢ off a garbage taco but you won't expand your ability to communicate with the people you love?" Very effective. What's this hesitation to run an app? It's marketing. What's wrong with having 3 communication apps installed? That's why these things exist. Network effects are less effective when people realize they can be part of multiple networks, and when you help them realize that wanting to use one app for everything is stupid they'll feel stupid for pushing back from that point on.
So the rendering engine is qtwebkit, it should look like safari or epiphany browser to everyone. I forget what the user agent string says by default, I've changed it.
Yeah, why session over briar? You've brought up publicly the problems with session and big rooms, briar is p2p with forward secrecy.
Trocador... I like trocador. But there's nothing stopping them from logging everything, they could be a honeypot. Their monero bridge is great, unless theyre using it to make themselves valuable to people who want to know what you're doing.
I've never liked libredirect, I found it cumbersome. I use Redirector, a web extension for ff and chromium that automatically changes URLs based on predefined patterns written in regex. On desktop I use my own tool with qutebrowser that does something similar to be found here https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/qutebrowser-url-mutator
There's currently no reason to believe Monero has hidden inflation. The range proof checks out. But it is possible, I'd say less possible than the trusted setup ritual in zcash being exploited, but sure, still possible.
As far as USD exchange rate, yes bitcoin outperforms it. But it still outperforms USD so far as a savings vehicle. You pick the best SoV you can, and Bitcoin is by far the best SoV, but if I'm going to engage in person to person commerce I want to keep my activity between myself and my counterparty. There's nothing out there that enables me to do that with the same guarantees and liquidity as Monero.
Why is monero a joke? If we are interested in using these things as money instead of fiat, what do you mean by "has no monetary value" and "losing money"?
How is zcash better? From my understanding of zcash it's run by a for profit corporation, has a founders reward that goes to them, and privacy is optional which means private transactions stand out.
I don't have a problem with liquid or blockstream. But if your goal with liquid is privacy, it's not the only thing out there, there's also Monero. What do you think about Monero?
I think, generally speaking, the final form something takes, and every intermediate stage in between, emerge from it's initial form. It is created, it interacts with the world as the world is, it is weathered and carved and shaped, but its final form always emerges from it's initial form. Even deliberate modifications to something emerge from it's initial form and retain clues, echoes and features from it.
How we architecture a system is very important in determining what the system becomes. Things get used when they're useful, and they get used for things they're useful for, deliberate or not. If we build a centralized system we should not be surprised when we find that it is being used as a lever to control people. They're useful for that. When we build a federated system we should not be surprised when it splinters into distinct systems. If we build a system of distinct, autonomous actors, we can have a very interesting chaotic interplay that emerges that, even if it doesn't work exactly as intended, is beautiful.
I'm a fan of the idea "don't bend, break." Build something with the form it needs to do exactly what you want. Don't worry about contingencies and adapting to future realities when building something. And if it doesn't work as intended, demolish it and move on, build something with what you learned from it's failure.
If there were something else would you use it? Or to rephrase, is this a face value rational statement or an ideological position veiled as one?
Why would I swap one closed sourced proprietary solution for another? I don't want to be at the mercy of a company ever again. I'd go with bitbox, trezor, blockstream jade or seedsigner over a coldcard any day.
There are a plethora of reasons to discount this possibility.
1) life incorporates hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons present on the earth would get exposed to the surface over time and get devoured by living creatures
2) the presence of oxygen would cause them to oxidize into carbon dioxide and water over time. You'll note, in all the hydrocarbon rich planets out there they all have simple hydrocarbons, alkanes basically, the hydrocsrbons not produced or replenished, just present, and they all lack oxygen
3) the amount of energy hydrocarbons contain has to come from somewhere. The only thing we know of that traps sunlight in hydrocarbons is life.
It is pretty obvious what hydrocarbons are: biomass that has been sequestered by geological processes. I personally have no problem replenishing that sequestered biomass back into the biosphere, and I think there is probably a lot more of it than we think.
Seriously, if you just want to publish, you generate a keypair and broadcast to relays. No ads, no cruft, no accounts, nothing, just your words. And it's censorship resistant. You really can't beat nostr for publishing.
This brand new animated video goes over how our new bot for Session messenger is a game-changer for resisting censorship:
https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/sessionbot/
To join, message the bot at Session ID: Simple
I'm a little fuzzy on the details of how it works. Isn't the bot a central point of failure? Would using tor with regular session solve the problems this tool solves?
I'm also not really a session user so I'm not too familiar with the ins and outs of how it works.
Born just in time to poke a hole in the balloon and benefit from the cantillion effect as it deflates.
The government uses taxes as a way to reduce monetary inflation. Think about it: issue bonds, borrow Fed money, spend, the monetary inflation affects everyone equally in proportion to their fiat holding. It's regressive. Then, collect taxes and destroy some of the printed money by paying down debt. You get to reign in some of that inflation and also decide who benefits from it the most. Progressive taxes are supposed to ensure that modulation of inflation benefits the bottom people more, who are affected by inflation Kore because they don't hold Jon money assets. Of course, we always see ways to avoid taxes for people with complex finances, so it never works that way.
In case you're a developer and working with GitHub.
“GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.”
Src https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-github-may-terminate
Not just that, github's ToS requires you to give rights to github that supersede your license. I'm not sure how truly enforceable it is, but as written it is incompatible with the GPL.
Democracy shifts power from those with guns to those with newspapers. Power is a force, an amorphous fluid that flows the way wind flows between spaces of higher and lower pressure. Democracy itself does not stop this, and democracy on it's own cannot save us. If we want the people to weild the power in a society, we need more than democracy. We need a civic culture of eternal vigilance. Unfortunately those with newspapers have gone to great lengths to demoralize us against this virtue, with much success.
In truth, the masses always have outsized power. All power structures exist to manage us due to this fact. Those that have power don't have any without control over us. So their goal is always to convince us that this is not true.
The real reason they expect degrees is that it signals 1) that you're in debt up to your eyeballs and really need the job, 2) that you tolerate hazing and busywork well. Also it allows them to easily filter out applications.
Yep, I personally like nostr without all the verification, avatars, bios and what not. Just npubs, messages and relays. Your identity is your signature and your ideas rest on their merit, not your name. "You" becomes the things you think and say, and proof that the same entity said them.
I was reading Soros' book, and he explains it in terms of his world, but it gave me an insight. Markets approach efficiency as a limit. They are never efficient, they are never done getting priced in. the facts on the ground are always real in the moment, but the information doesn't propagate as fast; there's latency. In some situations that latency is great enough that it can be capitalized on. Generally speaking, if you can glean any information from the future and have information assymetry you can pry alpha from the either.
Only when the available native clients all suck.
For example, I watch YouTube in the browser (redirect to invidious automatically). I also look at reddit when I do look at it in the browser (redirect to old reddit automatically). If the native clients were any good I'd probably use those instead.