I don't think there is a right size.
The problem is that Iris is a website and its fully implementing the protocol.
The local data issue is due to a scaling problem in the protocol. If you query as you want to view, you're potentially querying a relay you don't typically connect to or you're querying a relay thats very busy. You have overhead to connect to it perhaps or you're waiting on your turn. This is worse because everyone has 7+ relays and at least they're gonna query more than one to get a fastest return.
The amount of work the relays do in responding to client requests scales poorly. They rate limit these requests to keep from being DDoS.
I think we'll see that the websites/phone apps need to use a middle layer service and index that scales better and pulls notes only as you need them, and not just every note seen for only a few hours or days.
Fully implementing the protocol, a global protocol for every message basically, is going to need some hardware resources. It doesn't seem to work great in a light phone or web app.
Alternatively, you can limit things to only the last 1-3 hours, some small set of friends of friends, instead of friends of friends of friends or more, which is what it seems like it's doing if you close and reopen #[3]. It doesn't get slow or unresponsive, but it only has a few hours of the global feed. It seems to have no follower feed until global has synced those notes, and then you return to the follower feed.
The problem is that the relays don't respond promptly to queries so we need to sync and save every message seen, for viewing it later on demand. If the relays were fast like professional cloud services with indexed databases, etc. then we might be able to dump the sync data and just query as we go, which is how a web app is supposed to work.
The data needs to be removed from the web site/browser cache. That will never work well enough for the amount of data used in a day or week, from 5-10 relays. It needs to be put into a real database, a real cache, a real index and that would only be possible for a service style client like #[5] and Nostragram, or a full database backed desktop client like #[6]
Well, they have to mail you the hardware but the ISP doesn't know your address, only Calyx who would hopefully require a warrant as a 'Privacy' focused non-profit.
It's like an email. You don't say anything in an email, you wouldn't want the whole company to see. Because emails get forwarded, cause thats how email works.
The problem isn't that people shouldn't share the note with other relays, it's that they could and inevitably would. The note is self-authenticating, if it's valid, if it's Nostr. The server isn't the database of record, or anything. If it's read by someone other than you, it can be shared and instead of it being someone just claiming you said this, it would be as if you said it yourself, and all of Nostr would accept it as valid and authored by a public key.
Totally absurd. Nostream is not in possession of any data that can be considered personal or private, it's literally the point of all the data that is sent to the nostream service, to be shared openly.
I don't live in California, but I wouldn't worry much, if I were.
There's no such thing as a private relay, only a secured relay. Someone will have access to the notes, and since any user/client can verify that you signed the note, any of those people or their clients can republish the note, and often do, to any relays they might want.
The insurance is in the operational security. There's no need for further insurance. Except life insurance and perhaps physical security guards.
The real issue, for me, is that Microsoft Defender is producing a false positive for
Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml
I should just build from source, I guess. I'm lazy.
100%
Consensus is hard as fuck, but if there's an existential issue, like the bug from 2010 that created infinite Bitcoin, everybody is aligned and consensus is automatic.
Coinbase wants an 'inflation tracking stablecoin - flatcoin' on its new chain ...
Since someone would have to manage the inflation measure, this is nothing more than another managed fiat trick.
Bitcoin is the inflation tracking stablecoin.
I have the 0.5.2/gossip.0.5.2.msi
I don't think it's a virus, I think the build config is putting 0.5.3 in there when it's really 0.5.2. I didn't get updated but Windows thinks there's a virus in here, for some reason, when I don't think there is, given the SHA 256 checks out. It's the installer you produced.
the 256-SHA hash is correct but it says this:
Subject: Gossip 0.5.3 Installer
It works for me when I run the MSI manually and tell it to go ahead anyway, but I presume it has an update feature because occasionally it stops launching because the binary has changed.
Because the 'new version' wasn't on github, I checked the installed programs list and see its 0.5.3 so something did update the program and change the binary.
Perhaps the auto-update feature can be disabled on Windows, if it's not going to be signed because it stops working if the binary changes.
I don't know where this 0.5.3 version came from, if there is no 0.5.3 release or auto-updater.
I haven't run it successfully or decrypted my key with it, so I'm probably ok, but something changed the install on Windows without my input.
Fighting is a waste of time. This is market/anarchic forces in a nutshell.
We don't make them pay by validating and strugging to win the game they define. We make them pay by the exit option. If we don't exercise this option, as a culture/community, it might as well not exist.
We can do this with local ad-hoc circular and/or digital economy, but this will be hard in an unfriendly jurisdiction, and risky to a variety of levels. It's possible to do this, but the level of knowledge of operational security required to do so successfully grows exponentially large and means that as your advesary is more capable, your ability to use Bitcoin requires more and more capability to avoid severe consequences of confiscation, prosecution and death.
The 100% sure-fire way to avoid those consequences, regardless of your technical capability, is to physically leave, and remove your body from their direct authority.
#[0] My windows install of gossip was updated to 0.5.3 but won't launch because you're not signing the releases, but the 0.5.3 release isn't up on github.
I'd say that we're stuck with our past. We're not likely to throw off our governments. We're building infrastructure out into the wild so people can escape, but we'll never be rid of them. Like with biological systems, when the environment gets tough and resources thin, creatures get smaller. Governments will get smaller.
Ideally we remove from them all responsibilities, that we can. Anything thats really just a protocol, desirable coordination systems, easily voluntary. Titling Real Estate and cars, smart property, Marriage, Money, Digital Rights, Decentralized Identity, Financial contracts/products, decentralized smart grid/power systems, decentralized spectrum management. Whatever we can make a protocol for, that doesn't require violence in some degree, like police, courts, security. Deal with the rest with existing governments to minimize bloodshed.
If your money and real estate titles and other protocols and grids wouldn't be impacted, you're more likely to choose to revolt against an authority who is being oppressive, but that will merely put some other group in charge of physical security with a different ideology. The devil you know is typically preferrable to the devil you don't.
I do agree with 'fix the money, fix the world', but I think the tendency to desire government to take responsibility will not be fixed.
What will be fixed is merely the government's ability to have power too far beyond what is required to execute the responsibility it takes on.
To truly be rid of government is cultural and there's no environmental pressure that would disincentivize government, even if money is fixed.
We've had governments for 6000-8000 years now, long before fiat banking 500 years ago. My hope is that once we fix the money the world will be free to organize local communities around any culture, religious or secular, corporate or cooperative, anarchist and self sufficient or communist.
However, heirarchical states and their militiaries and corporations are just too good at managing resources and directing effort. I don't currently see a realistic alternative. It's really not feasible to do what I previously suggest, to take all the responsibilities back and do the work as an individual.
You'd never 'gain' in the market, competing with the big corporate/national machines, so you'd run out of resources and then go bankrupt. You have to coordinate and organize as a union, cooperative or government around your cultural identity, and then you're back to the same old games.