- beefletThis is really the consumer's fault for not reading a 5-billion word terms and conditions contract before they sign up for one of the two nearly-identical phone brands they need to operate in the modern economy.
- charge 5$ for the ability to send your first iMessage. problem solved.
- We criminalize behavior based on whatever we feel like, based on our cultural expectations of what is allowed. That's what "we criminalize behavior not only on its base but due to its intent" and "considering the context" is all about. That's why we have juries. We reserve the right to break the rules if public opinion allows, based on our feelings. It turns out that justice in practice is not so blind.
For example, we feel like it is fair for credit card companies to monopolize payment systems, charge fees to businesses, and use a portion of the money from this scheme to set up this bullshit reward point system.
But to undermine this system is criminal, because the system is established, but undermining it is novel and therefore disallowed. Any new way to play the game is breaking the rules, because the purpose of the system is what it does.
- I think so, but it is hard to say. Could be a lot of people with extra power (or stolen power), but their own equipment. I mine myself with waste solar power
- assuming peers are trustworthy is assuming away the whole problem.
The problem isn't with p2p, but specifically with full-sync mutexes in p2p. There are petname systems that avoid the problem by avoiding the mutex itself, and there are centralized systems that avoid the p2p, but it comes down to zooko's trilemma.
- How would we know who did it? As I said earlier, it could be a false flag attack triggering a civil war, or a war with another mutual enemy.
China could kill every anti-russian politican with robots, and start a nuclear shootout between the US and Russia.
- I don't use apple products
- what happens if you lose your password? You click a link to reset it, and it gets sent to your email. What happens if you lose access to your email password?
It is the same problem.
- It doesn't need to be a mass civilian death event. They can wait, collect data and kill 90% of our most important soldiers, heads of state, spies and everyone needed to maintain critical sectors of our economy. They could kill everyone who is anti-china. They could kill all the members of one political party (any one) as a false flag and cause a civil war.
Surveillance technology is nessisarially selective, so these "all or nothing" hypotheticals do not apply.
See also "slaughterbots". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
- The security risk of backdoors in your IT may drive you crazy, but backdoors in your car may drive you off a bridge.
I agree with your point. But cars are the last line of defense, and they are technology most people understand. With computers, you can just unplug them at the end of the day. A backdoor in a car or a drone or something just kills you.
- how is it any more difficult than taking care of a password?
- Yeah I think this nostr stuff is a dead end. Social media should be bittorrent-like
- the blockchain is useful in solving double-spending problems in purely p2p applications. Aside from cryptocurrency, take for example name systems like namecoin or ENS: these systems need a way of reconciling who owns what, which involves synchronizing some data across the whole network.
It is inefficient, but the inefficiency seems to lie at some fundamental problem with p2p. Centralized systems need to do the same synchronization, but between fewer actors, and may outsource some of the verification for an exponential increase in speed.
- they already manage passwords and passkeys. It isn't that complicated.
- This isn't china, we don't need to engage in this race to the bottom. Banning foreign websites violates the 1st amendment.
- Apartments can ban pets, I don't see why they would have a problem banning weapons. If you want to be a gun owner, you basically have to live in a gun-friendly county of a gun-friendly state and only carry in the minority of gun-friendly private spaces that allow them.
It's like how we have 5th ammendment rights, but they don't apply 100 miles from the border, which just happens to include 90% of the population and the entire state of florida. We have rights that are de-facto illegal to practice due to the way they're implemented.
In the last apartment I was in, my mail went directly through my landlord and I was dependent on them to filter it by apartment room number.
Almost every landlord I've had has thrown out mail they've received after I've left. So if I order something and it ends up taking 2 months to get to my apartment, and I leave after the first month, I don't have access to that mail. They just throw it out.
The landlord, at the end of the day, holds all of the keys. They can change the locks. Even if it's illegal, are you going to go to court while homeless and without access to all of your possessions? My last apartment had an app that allowed them to remotely change the lock code.
My takeaway is that it is totally impractical to run a buisness out of an apartment. When you rent, you're a basically a peasant. You don't have a permanent mailing address, you don't have real security, you have no incentive to improve the property, and you are just paying out the ass for someone else's mortgage. For anything serious, it's better to live in an RV and get a P.O. box.
- I wouldn't develop software for apple, MS or Google if I had the option. If I did, i would intend to diversify when it's practical to do so.
The only platform you list I would build for is MS' Win32, which they can't afford to deprecate and can be somewhat emulated with WINE.
- living in an apartment sucks for security. You can't really own a gun and practice castle doctrine. Your landlord has a key to your home and can lock you out at any time, or can go through your mail.
There are other options like living in your own property, living in an RV, etc. that are better if you are worried about security.
If I was living in an apartment, I wouldn't be stashing all of my money under my mattress. I wouldn't run a business out of my apartment such that I would lose all of my equipment if I got evicted.
Similarly, I wouldn't do anything of importance on an apple computer. I wouldn't stash cryptocurrency on it, I wouldn't save my bank account details on it, I wouldn't run an important business that depends on their platforms. Because you're just renting and your lord can change the keys tomorrow.
- To what extent is the victim their own perpetrator? They allow the status quo to succeed by endorsing it. They voted for this with $30,000 of their own money, and they will likely vote again.
- anything can trigger this. it is totally at the company's discretion