How is there even a presidential debate, when neither of the participants haven even been nominated as candidates by their party yet?
I guess their goal is to see if Biden, in his current condition, has any chance whatsoever of winning against Trump; and if not, to nominate someone else to avoid a certain loss.
Another chapter closes. I vividly remember watching Julian presenting Wikileaks 1.0 at the 26C3 in Berlin in December of 2009.
Less than a year later, the Swedish government issued what we now know was an arrest warrant based on bullshit accusations, intended to get Julian to a place that would immediately extradite him to the U.S. Then-vice-president of the U.S. Joe Biden called him a "hi-tech terrorist" at the end of that year.
After the initial legal back-and-forth, the Ecuadorian government at the time granted him asylum in their London embassy building, where he was then holed up until 2019, even though in 2017, the Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation against him and the European arrest warrant was withdrawn. But in 2018, we finally got proof of a sealed criminal case by the U.S. government against him, which was the reason for his unlawful detainment all along.
When British police were finally allowed to arrest Julian, mainstream media ran another smear campaign, claiming that the Ecuadorian government was sick of Julian's political opinions, like e.g. supporting the Catalan independence movement. Laughable.
Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian government had changed. After the socialist president Correa had run the country's finances into the shitter (and just by the way, Ecuador is using USD as their own legal tender), the newly elected former vice president was much more eager to cooperate with the U.S. government. So it wasn't that big of a surprise when Moreno signed MOUs with USAID in 2019, which resulted in a direct $62.5M investment, followed by a $6.5B IMF loan in 2020. Julian obviously being part of a quid pro quo.
Then, the worst part began. The U.K. government, stooges of the U.S. as they are, decided to not just detain Julian on behalf of the U.S. government (with Donald Trump being president at the time), but they thought putting a journalist and publisher in a supermax prison built for terrorists, rapists, and murderers was the most reasonable course of action. And they kept him there, in a 2x3 meter cell, isolated for 23 hours a day, for 1901 days.
The process was the punishment. Julian exposed war criminals, who *all* walk free today, and never served a day in prison. And he's one of us. A hacker, whose only goal was to help people by giving them the information that their own warmongering, secretive governments denied them.
There are not many people I have more respect for than this person. And I don't think I ever felt this much sorrow for someone's misfortune, outside of my own family's tragedies.
I can't wait for the next chapter to begin. But I'm so incredibly glad that this one is over!
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I just deployed a few things that I was working on over the last week, and some of them should make the zapping experience with the Kosmos relay and Lightning accounts/addresses a bit faster and more consistent:
1. When we zap someone to a non-Kosmos Lightning address, their server is now able to post the receipt back to our members-only relay.
2. When someone who's not using our relay zaps us, our accounts server publishes the receipt to the non-member's requested relays, but it will also publish it to our own relay in addition to theirs.
This means that we now reliably (and quickly) see all incoming and outgoing zaps in all of our clients, especially when other people's relay lists don't overlap with ours.
I think everyone running members-only or paid relays should implement a similar policy for allowing zap receipts to be published for their own users' outgoing zaps. Here's the relevant code in our own policy:
Gitea
Allow non-members to publish zap receipts for members
Only members can publish events to our relay. But if we zap someone, we want their Lightning account server to be able to post a receipt back to ou...
If someone spots a mistake, or this is generally a bad idea for some reason, please let me know! 🙏
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Should paid relays accept zap receipts, if the pubkey that signed the contained zap request is on the allowlist to post? I think it would make sense.
I'm asking, because my Lightning account just received a zap with not a single relay in the list that it could post a receipt to:
["relays", "wss://nostr.wine/", "wss://theforest.nostr1.com/", "wss://filter.nostr.wine/?broadcast=true", "wss://purplepag.es/"]
There is no way to control user devices and the software they run for any of our open protocols, so there's simply no way for server providers to scan E2EE content transmitted via their services.
Let them cripple WhatsApp and Signal. Why do you care so much?
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