Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)

Woke up to blue skies at @hackerbeach today. The morning cofe tastes even better now.

@burrito.space Bocas del Toro, Panamá.

@lain @dansup Plz rename to Pixelfred immediately.

@84dee6e676e5bb67b4ad4e042cf70cbd8681155db535942fcc6a0533858a7240 It hurts both my brain and heart, that so many FOSS developers advocating for open protocols and open networks have given in to cynical anti-bitcoin FUD, and positioned themselves against a truly open-source, decentralized, permissionless, inclusive, fast, and cheap alternative to the utterly centralized, controlled, surveilled, exclusive, proprietary, corporate currencies and payment systems of the world.

Lightning works.

Off-grid #hackerbeach paradise found! Solar power and rain water only, Starlink for Internet, a bunch of nice humans, and two good-hearted doggos. Only accessible by boat, and with a coral reef for snorkeling on the door step.

I'm going to try something new for Getting Shit Done™ this year. I'm going to set one priority goal per calendar week, putting it somewhere I see it all the time, and documenting the results.

Let's see how it goes...

Nobody uses Linux on the desktop. Nobody uses XMPP. Nobody uses email. Nobody encrypts email with PGP. Nobody uses RSS. Nobody uses the fediverse. Nobody uses Nostr. Nobody uses the Lightning Network. And nobody uses bitcoin as actual currency.

Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Nobody.

@lain LowER in sugar. 😂

Dat German tea technology.

@Haydar "Don't encrypt email, because there's always metadata! But do use Signal (with metadata on one central server, tied to KYCd phone numbers), because some XMPP clients let you turn off OMEMO!!"

Logic, how does it work? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Haydar Looks like the whole article boils down to an ad for their private key directory thing. And the first half is basically just "listen to me, I'm an expert, all these other people are dumb".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

@silverpill @feld My point is that architectural basics *that* important should be on the roadmap of e.g. the Mastodon company, and prominent AP authors and proponents should be calling for them.

@feld I thought it would be obvious to everyone how important client-side signing and portable objects are. But I hear mostly crickets when it comes to those FEPs and the problem in general.

It would seem that a lot of people actually like control over other people's stuff. As an admin, I absolutely hate that our users have to depend on us to even enable follower migration in the first place, while content migration is not even a thing.

Why would I care if *any* ActivityPub implementation pulls my public posts? If they're not addressed to specific people only, then they are just that: public. They're already scattered across hundreds of instances, and that is the intention of the fediverse to begin with.

If you don't want your posts to be imported by other instances, then you need to not make them public.

@laurenshof.online I see your point, but I just call that the Web, or even the Internet. Things being loosely connected is already the case for almost everything on it.

@silverpill Fair enough. However, the nature of VC doesn't change the nature of the protocol in this case. If they would compromise privacy, they would lose most of their users, since that's the USP of the product.

The biggest drawback of #simplex seems to be that it doesn't really have multi-device support, or am I missing something? Can't speak to how solid the rest of it is, especially in real use. But it does seem to solve a lot of issues of existing chat protocols, especially regarding privacy and account portability.

@lain Anzeigenhauptmeister vorbei schicken.

@newstik Bitcoin, like a physical commodity, and unlike any other financial asset, is 100% *non*-derivative. The mentioned ETFs are backed by actual BTC and audited for it.

The U.S. gold reserves on the other hand, one of those nasty conspiracy theories I'm sure the author would state, have not been properly audited in half a century now. The last available report is from 1974.

But hey, gold was a bad idea anyway, according to that author. Let's just print more dollars!

@newstik By the way, it also seems like the author either doesn't know about the Bretton Woods system, or is choosing to misinform the reader intentionally, since the U.S. Dollar, and thus also the other 44 currencies pegged to it, were convertible to gold at a fixed price, until Nixon unilaterally (and allegedly "temporarily") bailed on that in 1971.

These are not simple mistakes when someone chooses to construct arguments based on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system