What if my opsec has been terrible and anyone putting in a tiny effort can discover who I really am?
On a lighter note, rejoice that things are still pretty good relatively speaking.
During the great purge of Soviet Russia, there was a guy named Stanislaw Kosior.
He was an ally of Stalin.
He was not a good guy.
During the purge he was arrested and tortured to confess to being a traitor. To get him to confess they raped his sixteen year old daughter in front of him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Kosior
"Kosior was arrested, and stripped of all Party posts, on 3 May 1938. During Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress in 1956, he disclosed that Kosior's case was handled by Boris Rodos, a particularly notorious torturer employed by the NKVD, who was ordered to force a confession out of him. Under interrogation, Kosior withstood brutal tortures, including being interrogated for 14 hours at a time, but cracked when his sixteen-year-old daughter was brought into the room and raped in front of him." After he had been broken, he was called to Stalin's office, to confront Grigory Petrovsky, the Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (de jure head of state) and the co-Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, who refused to believe that Kosior was guilty."
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TL;DR?
Don't underestimate the lengths people will go to get what they want, nor the depths of their evil.
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During the great purge of Soviet Russia, there was a guy named Stanislaw Kosior.
He was an ally of Stalin.
He was not a good guy.
During the purge he was arrested and tortured to confess to being a traitor. To get him to confess they raped his sixteen year old daughter in front of him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Kosior
"Kosior was arrested, and stripped of all Party posts, on 3 May 1938. During Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress in 1956, he disclosed that Kosior's case was handled by Boris Rodos, a particularly notorious torturer employed by the NKVD, who was ordered to force a confession out of him. Under interrogation, Kosior withstood brutal tortures, including being interrogated for 14 hours at a time, but cracked when his sixteen-year-old daughter was brought into the room and raped in front of him." After he had been broken, he was called to Stalin's office, to confront Grigory Petrovsky, the Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (de jure head of state) and the co-Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, who refused to believe that Kosior was guilty."
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This thread is interesting. On one hand, the theater is fun (I think so, anyways) so I see Mcd's point. On the other, home theater with projector also sounds nice. And I can have buffalo chicken dip at home.
"Turn over your Bitcoin or we'll kill your family"
I have not seen it yet, but I definitely will be seeing it.
I currently expect: If it does become standard, the people or entities who are best suited to use bitcoin will have started using it. Most people will not have their own bitcoin, and they will be using some other monetary instrument (like cashu maybe) to transact.
Homemade bread is great
nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8 is noogle your project? or a project you are contributing to?
That is a good question. I'm not 100% sure about this. But I don't believe this is how DVMs work. A DVM only uses your data when you give it some as an input.
Additionally, NOSTR is a public protocol, so there is little you can do to stop what you post on here getting consumed by these services. Besides not using NOSTR.
I would go talk to the developers of DVMs to get the specifics of how they use data.
I believe nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 is associted with unleashed.chat (correct me if I am wrong, please)
I don't know who is working on noogle.
Regarding "DVMs",
I'm interested to see how people–who are used to getting pretty much everything on the internet for free–adapt to having to pay for them in this way.
For anyone who is curious about the jargon of NOSTR.
A "DVM" is a "Data Vending Machine". It is defined in NIP-90 (linked at the bottom)
It essentially allows a marketplace for data processing to built on NOSTR. The types of services that can be built could be anything: Search, Generative AI, and more.
Examples of services that are or will be "DVMs":
1. Dune
2. The Gulag Archipeligo
3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
4. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
5. How to Solve It
6. The Stranger
7. Starship Troopers
8 . The Way of Kings
9. The Anarchist Handbook
10. On Doing the Right Thing