I need to keep reading, but having got the basic gist, I feel like one of these models might be better: Relays issuing their own ecash tokens in exchange for access Aut-ct tokens Proof of work (I don't favor this but it is especially simple) To be clear we're talking about defending against high volume spam here; not against low quality or objectionable content. View quoted note →

There was a boa constrictor under my toilet seat today.

So the recent midterm elections in Argentina were curious to me in one specific sense: people kept talking about the "boleta unica" and while I understood the concrete meaning, I couldn't quite work out the "delta" - how did it work before (context: BUP or boleta unica de papel basically means a single paper ballot, which, outside of electronic voting, seems like "duh, that's how it works, no?"). So here's the rather fascinating reality: the previous system was as follows: each political party produced its own ballot papers! Then when you went into the voting booth, you had to choose the one you wanted, and to maintain voter secrecy (more on that in a mo' ..), you put it in an envelope (still in the private voting booth), went outside and dropped your envelope into the "urna". I'll let you sit on that idea for a moment ... One obvious problem (among others!) is that the adversarially minded voter can simply remove the ballots of the party they hate, while in the private booth. But there's an even more evil idea to partially remove voting secrecy: the political operative gives the voter, in advance, a ballot for their own party (possibly marked somehow), and demands that when they come out of the voting station, the voter hands them an unused copy of the ballot of the other party. Es una locura. Probably there's a lesson about blind signature schemes here somewhere ...

Working in VSCode and having the AI auto-complete whole sentences at a time when I'm trying to write code comments completely throws me off. The thing is I'm always scared to turn off AI features because they're useful, but some of them are getting so intrusive.

The sarcasm 😆 https://www.audacy.com/podcast/the-bugle-weekly-57ef3