This is how giant bureaucracies work. A large number of disconnected sources of authority. Esoteric legalese–often not actual legislation–that mandates cross-jurisdiction compliance. Whether it's legal or not doesn't really matter... only very large players will have the resources to challenge these requests. Everyone else will simply comply for fear of being ground to dust by the legal system.

GitHub

Hey, The Good Guys just called! They'd like some data. · markqvist/Reticulum · Discussion #1004

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Louis D. Brandeis You've p...

GM 🌞 The war for digital privacy is happening RIGHT NOW. Whose side are you on?

The Rage

Recapping The SEC's Financial Surveillance Roundtable

For once, the Government seemed to have a better understanding of what privacy entails than some of its event participants.

Watching a very large quantity of nostr events being processed into binary and batched into clickhouse… Fun things coming. 📈📊🎯

GM maniacs. 🌞 Today; we build.

GM 🌞 So happy to be back into the code cave and done with traveling for a while. Lots to catch up on and lots to ship. 🚀

Chat control, digital ID, and age verification are all badly designed attempts at treating the symptoms of the real issues our societies are facing. Real solutions treat root causes and only come from the distributed consciousness and intelligence of all of us.

GM. Trend I’ve noticed in all my travels this year: Airports in developing nations are waaaay nicer and better run than European airports, which-in turn-are waaaay nicer than most major American hub airports. The empires are crumbling under their own weight.

Oh yay! I now have permission to apply for permission to ask for permission to publish our app. 😭

If you haven't heard of the CFA franc, have a watch. Colonialism is unfortunately still very much the reality for a huge portion of Africa.

This looks very cool.

Caligra is a new computer company.

The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.

A very grateful GM to you all. 🌞

GM 🌞🏝️ @Max killed it here at Africa Bitcoin Conference! 👏 It’s been so cool talking to so many builders about Marmot this week.

This is some of the coolest shit I've seen in years. 🤩

Yup. Can confirm. 😅

Thank you for being annoying

OR: whack 'em if you got 'em

It's almost as if the market was the correct mechanism for making sure healthcare costs were reasonable... huh. who would have thought? 😂

I Canceled My Family's Health Insurance (and joined CrowdHealth)

How it works and why it made sense

Anyone here very familiar with I2P? Is it suitable for Nostr relays? I'd love a quick chat if you're up for it. #askNostr

GM 🌞 The most beautiful thing in the world is someone working hard to manifest their ideas into the world.