madphilosopher
Mad Philosopher

My comment was based on Peter Gutmann’s paper entitled “Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog.”
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

2026-03-31 14:38:25 UTC

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But it’s way more fraudulent than Google presents. Quantum computing researchers design the experiments toward finding the answers they’re looking for. Then, when the circuits give that answer, they claim success and get a gold star. That’s not science, mate.

2026-03-29 11:11:18 UTC

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I think it’s becoming more critical than ever, personally and for humanity’s sake, to spend less time online and on devices. I’ve started meditating again, to quiet the madness, and I’m reading more books deliberately.

2026-03-28 22:01:37 UTC

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Where is my mind today? When I read your first sentence about “a man in a red hat”, I immediately thought of a man in a red, felt fedora. 😬

2026-03-27 19:27:36 UTC

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Always be grateful. Never complain. Never explain.

2026-03-26 18:38:57 UTC

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It’s actually touching that, as he berates the woman’s question, he throws in a tiny compliment about her character to soften the blow.

2026-03-25 17:06:37 UTC

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Is this how you play cricket?! It’s wildly different than I had imagined.

2026-03-17 22:29:49 UTC

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I’m ASCII till I die, I’m ASCII till I die! I know I am, I’m sure I am! I’m ASCII till I die!

2026-03-14 20:25:39 UTC

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“100%.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

2026-03-11 00:50:10 UTC

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Winamp

2026-03-09 18:24:24 UTC

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When I worked an office job, I asked my boss if I could come to work an hour early in the wintertime and also leave an hour early. Consequently, I got to arrive home at the end of the day while it was still light out. This was my goal. But then I noticed my coworkers got miserable for two weeks twice a year because they changed time, whereas it was smooth sailing for me because I didn’t. I loved it.
Try some variation of this to see if it can work for you.

2026-03-04 08:22:32 UTC

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Your video cuts off the quote mid sentence. What more was Jeff saying here? 🤔

2026-03-04 05:33:16 UTC

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Good job today! 😀👍

2026-02-23 07:35:31 UTC

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I thought BitTorrent already does this. Anyone can setup a node and mirror (seed) whatever they want. When a torrent is created, it’s hashed, and thus the contents cannot be altered. And when a torrent is published—and the world starts mirroring it—it cannot be revoked.

2026-02-22 01:56:50 UTC

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This is an excellent documentary!

2026-02-19 21:11:30 UTC

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I have “Location Services” completely disabled on my iPhone, for all apps, for this reason of privacy leakage.
I will turn it on when I’m being a tourist and need my location to show on maps and such, plus I don’t mind the geotagging of my photos then. This puts me in control, and I take the responsibility of knowing when I have it turned on and when I have it turned off.

2026-02-16 22:42:50 UTC

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I feel like this is a response to something. Where can we find it?

2026-02-16 16:52:27 UTC

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I get it!! Australia isn’t real. 🤪

2026-02-13 14:19:04 UTC

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Yes, this is great! But I can’t help thinking that BitTorrent solved the hosting / bandwidth / global distribution problem 25 years ago.
The world needs more BitTorrent!!
#bittorrent

2026-02-08 15:50:51 UTC

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Now bomb it! 😬

2026-02-08 15:00:34 UTC

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In this day and age, observing the world and actually seeing what’s around you is a superpower that very few are employing.

2026-02-04 20:59:31 UTC

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Jeff Booth has recently released an AI version of himself on Twitter. Perhaps this is how the new Jeff wants to be seen by the world. 🤪

2026-02-01 22:25:20 UTC

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sudo rm -fr / all of it

2026-01-31 01:25:11 UTC

17 hours left to get your early bird tickets to the 2026 Bitcoin Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta this June. 🤠 🐮
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-bitcoin-rodeo-2026-tickets-1527947525179
@npub1hxg…phjq

2026-01-27 20:16:58 UTC

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I’ve been using RamNode for over a decade, and I’m happy with them.

2026-01-24 07:24:30 UTC

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Yes. This. 💯

2026-01-23 05:59:29 UTC

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I’m fully expecting to see gangs like the Hell’s Angels begin to knock over data centers to get RAM, SSDs, and video cards to sell on the black market. 🤪

2026-01-23 05:22:08 UTC

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I walk out to the west hill and watch the sun slowly drop below the horizon. I do this as often as I am able.

2026-01-23 05:12:25 UTC

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Bored of Peace? 😬

2026-01-23 04:59:58 UTC

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I’m glad you’re back!

2026-01-19 19:09:04 UTC

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I agree with you—Nostr called them relays, but they don’t actually relay. 😢

2026-01-17 20:06:47 UTC

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iOS apps:
Fantastical
Threema
Overcast
Prowl (server notifications)
iPeng (for Squeezebox music player)
BrainWave (binaural beats)
Yamaha Chord Tracker (turns MP3s into music charts)
iStroboSoft (high precision guitar tuner)
I tend to be very conservative with purchasing apps on my phone, but these are ones I’ve ended up with, and no regrets with them.

2026-01-17 19:51:01 UTC

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This video clip is of Taylor Kenney from ITM Trading. Taylor is an awesome YouTube presenter. 😀👍
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCom1i7_NVeSUNyJyuR_NbMQ

2026-01-11 02:03:28 UTC

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apt purge nano
vim all the things!!!

2026-01-10 08:02:22 UTC

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I think the MAIDENHEAD system might already do what you are getting at.
DO33hm
It’s a series of nested grids. At the first level, the DO tells you it’s in Alberta. DO33 covers Edmonton. And DO33hm tells you the neighbourhood.
Any two points within this six-character gridsquare will be at most 10.4 km apart. More precision can be obtained by adding two numbers on the end to yield an eight-character gridsquare.
The conversion between latitude/longitude and a Maidenhead gridsquare like DO33hm is a simple algorithm. No database nor lookup table nor online service is required.
If you have a Garmin handheld GPS, you can set its “unit” of display to be Maidenhead, and start using it today. There are websites with Maidenhead explorers so you can visualize what these grids look like on a map.
Hopefully this is helpful to your mission. 🧭

2026-01-09 01:40:55 UTC

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99 was a perfect 10!

2026-01-08 20:47:56 UTC

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Holy Shit, that’s unhealthy!

2026-01-08 08:17:20 UTC

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Great read! 😀👍

2026-01-08 08:03:01 UTC

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The western Christian nations did a lot of terrible things as they expanded, but everywhere that Christianity went, it ended slavery and ended cannibalism. Those are the “backwards” aspects of the world being referred to here.

2026-01-07 22:59:30 UTC

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My wife and I start every day with this song. Even better: literally follow the advice given in the lyrics. 😀👍
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJMk4-cJq5I

2026-01-07 15:46:04 UTC

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There are superior and inferior cultures, however. The morality of a people matters.

2026-01-05 21:25:23 UTC

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We’re gonna need a longer clip… 😋

2026-01-05 21:13:56 UTC

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He said one country breaks, and now the door is open a crack. I’m not in the loop. What event is he referring to?

2026-01-05 21:07:11 UTC

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BitTorrent originally had the same problem you describe, with their trackers analogous to Nostr’s relays: centralized and censorable. In response to the threat, they invented the Distributed Hash Table as a decentralized database for finding peers for each torrent.
Nostr will have to come up with some similar solution in order to survive, I think.

2026-01-05 04:25:35 UTC

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“All I need is the air that I breathe, and the timechain…” 🎵

2026-01-05 04:23:18 UTC

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If by salsa you mean Nutella, then, yes. But from the jar. 😋

2026-01-03 02:21:27 UTC

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“Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, who was very rarely stable…” 🎵

2025-12-30 21:56:41 UTC

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It’s not whiteness and not Christianity alone that gave us the Western Liberal society that the whole world benefits from. I would argue that Tribalism was bred out of the western white societies because the Church and the Crown forbid cousin marriage. Combine that with the Divine moral code that Christianity requires, and a consciousness was created that seeks to benefit all peoples in our collective decision making, and not just one’s own people. Most societies are tribal, and you can’t export your democracy to such societies and expect it to do anything but spectacularly fail.
(Feel free to argue. These are just thoughts that I’ve been piecing together over the last few weeks.)

2025-12-30 21:38:26 UTC

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Bitwarden is freedom and self-sovereignty technology.

2025-12-27 18:16:43 UTC

GM!
https://image.nostr.build/946c1dfc4bd608ce8a3a37b695d896564a7ca5966010a396660267a13a53c64d.jpg

2025-12-24 21:42:53 UTC

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If his DNA algorithms are as crappy as his cryptographic algorithms, then those children are gonna have a bad time…

2025-12-23 00:14:43 UTC

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You can just record songs off streaming services and make a mixtape using your boombox from the 80s.

2025-12-22 07:45:33 UTC

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I watched Fargo and O Brother when they came out, but I didn’t start recognizing that the directors were the common element until Big Lebowski.
I’ve probably seen The Big Lebowski over 50 times. I still go back to Burn After Reading for the fun of it. And The Lady Killers is a favourite too.

2025-12-22 07:30:01 UTC

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Whoa! She has an amazing head of hair!

2025-12-22 05:45:32 UTC

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The artist’s mistress probably asked him to surreptitiously put her face somewhere into one of his paintings. Well done, sir!! 🤪

2025-12-22 05:40:23 UTC

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Happy Solstice, Farfallica! ☀️😊 My wife said to me this morning that the Great Exhale is coming to an end. I really like that.
So, as our world begins to fill with more light every day, may your life begin to fill with all the good things that are now coming to you!

2025-12-21 08:36:51 UTC

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“Tsalty”

2025-12-20 06:19:25 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwQJzCfogQ

2025-12-19 05:15:40 UTC

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Because it’s fraud, perhaps? 🤔

2025-12-18 06:59:33 UTC

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🍪😊

2025-12-18 05:42:30 UTC

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The pandemic experience taught me that Science + Politics = Politics. Perhaps that’s what you and @npub1rtl…jtfs are both speaking to.

2025-12-15 23:12:48 UTC

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By law, helmets must be worn by all fuel tanks. 🤪

2025-12-15 17:08:13 UTC

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Best Gromen quote from the interview: “When the tornado is blowing, even the turkeys fly.” 😬

2025-12-10 17:26:56 UTC

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I see my future use of the Internet being so narrowed down by authoritarian policies that I’m forced to scrape the BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table myself and then accessing what I want from peers. That is, until they lean on ISPs to take away the Internet connections from people like me.
Maybe I should just create my own version of the Internet, but with blackjack and hookers! 😬

2025-12-10 17:17:20 UTC

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I’ve tried searching for my npub in web-based nostr clients and tools. They never find it. 😢 I guess I’m not worthy enough to exist.

2025-12-09 16:18:21 UTC

GM! There were two suns in the sky this morning!
https://image.nostr.build/9e12bccacdac3c5517e4d29bd077577bf6b1029fba969faa22e0232247a3be31.jpg

2025-12-08 18:49:47 UTC

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Richard Stallman was right. From a proprietary printer driver in 1980 to modern vehicles today—if the software is not free, the hardware is not yours.

2025-12-08 06:01:08 UTC

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<dons flame retardant suit>: Just store your references in the Bitcoin blockchain! They’ll be there forever. 🤪

2025-12-07 21:54:06 UTC

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RV (2006)

2025-12-06 16:21:11 UTC

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Wait, what?! You want economic freedom for these countries so that it can lead to economic prosperity? That’s crazy talk!

2025-12-06 16:16:21 UTC

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“We the People, eh?!”

2025-12-03 22:09:06 UTC

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Walk the Line (2005) — the biography of Johnny Cash

2025-12-03 11:24:10 UTC

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https://youtu.be/AhAB6Wj0pGw

2025-12-02 07:17:08 UTC

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Huh? What are you talking about? In Canada, I don’t pay income taxes—my employer does. For me. Out of my salary. Before that salary comes to me. And they try really hard to overpay the government so that I have to be the one doing the work to get my money back, and not the other way around. Is that not how it’s done in the U.S.?

2025-11-30 18:08:27 UTC

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Surely this isn’t real. Once you’ve tasted Häagen-Dazs, you wouldn’t be reaching for any of that other crap! 😬

2025-11-30 18:00:51 UTC

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You post the best stuff. Truly.

2025-11-29 01:44:48 UTC

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I, like others, have inverted the question for myself. My dashboard shows me that $1 of snow pesos (Canadian currency) is worth about 786 sats. That number will go down as more snow pesos get created and the currency diluted.

2025-11-28 20:32:53 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQJlGHVmdrA
This interview inspired me to the new habit of sun bathing regularly, even with clothes on. The guest talks about the benefits of full spectrum sunlight, especially our need for infrared exposure.
(Just note, the podcast title is dumb. The interview is way less about vitamin D and ultraviolet light and way more about mitochondria and infrared light.)

2025-11-28 18:33:12 UTC

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Where am I going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?! 🤪

2025-11-27 19:15:34 UTC

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Remember kids, offence is only ever taken, not given.

2025-11-23 04:52:52 UTC

I just learned about Tether Gold for the first time yesterday. Nice and convenient for acquiring and holding gold. But help me out here, Nostr friends, with the gaps in my understanding. 🤔
Wasn’t there that fun time when the QuadrigaCX Bitcoin exchange just disappeared and took everyone’s coins with it? Or that other time in 1971 when Nixon said that dollar tokens were no longer exchangeable for gold?
So, even if you trusted Tether and their tech stack completely, some entity more powerful than Tether could just nope the gold out of there and into their own pockets.
Or am I just too small-brained to be thinking about this new-fangled tokenized world?
#asknostr #tether #bitcoin #gold

2025-11-23 04:31:35 UTC

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God, I pray so hard that I could be a member of the Khaki Scouts of North America one day! Beige lunatics, indeed!

2025-11-22 22:15:20 UTC

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Which book is this? I want to read it now. 😀

2025-11-21 00:13:06 UTC

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Now go watch “Joe Versus the Volcano”. 😀🎞️

2025-11-20 23:57:32 UTC

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I don’t even understand what is being said here. It uses English words, but it’s not English that I recognize.

2025-11-13 05:51:00 UTC

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If I’m searching for some software to solve a need I have and I land somewhere good, if it’s written in Python, I swiftly close the tab. Just give me a single executable like golang produces, thank you very much. And stop breaking the language every few years. And I say this as a Python programmer. 🤯

2025-11-10 23:56:37 UTC

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Oh yeah. 🤨

2025-11-07 01:55:54 UTC

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Mozilla is the joke, giving users everything they didn’t ask for.

2025-11-06 16:45:32 UTC

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Amen!

2025-10-25 13:44:56 UTC

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All AI was trained on my blog. That’s why you see so many goddamned em-dashes now.

2025-10-25 13:37:55 UTC

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Years ago, I got this advice: when lending out your pen to someone, give them the pen, but not the lid. When they’re done with the pen, subconsciously, they won’t want to put it in their pocket or purse, so they’ll just hand it back to you. And it works!

2025-10-25 13:30:58 UTC

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I love JS8! I’m only set up for 10m currently. But I’m working on constructing a 20m vertical doublet antenna today, to expand what I’m able to do with my station.

2025-10-22 14:35:42 UTC

GM
Happy “National Make a Dog’s Day Day”! 🐶
#dogs #dogstr

2025-10-22 03:07:54 UTC

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Welcome! I’m sure you’ll do just fine here. 😊 There are so many builders here, and people doing interesting things. So, enjoy your Nostr journey!

2025-10-21 17:17:05 UTC

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I posted this in another thread, but maybe it makes sense here, too:
All of the danger and controversy about messaging platforms/companies being required to install master keys (colloquially called “backdoors”) into their encryption algorithms by western governments so these governments can spy on citizens en masse—all of that goes away if the phones we carry were general-purpose computers (like our desktop computers).
The mathematician-cryptographers solved the problem of how to communicate privately. And the free software movement wrote the code and provides the software freely.
With general-purpose computers, governments can’t pressure an Apple or a Microsoft to remove a software title from your computer—cause it’s your computer. And there’s no such thing as a company like Signal having to threaten an oppressive government that they’re going to pull out of their market/territory. With general-purpose computers, peers just run the software they want to run, and they communicate peer-to-peer.
So why do we tolerate closed, controlled devices?

2025-10-21 16:46:40 UTC

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All of the danger and controversy about messaging platforms/companies being required to install master keys (colloquially called “backdoors”) into their encryption algorithms by western governments so these governments can spy on citizens en masse—all of that goes away if the phones we carry were general-purpose computers (like our desktop computers).
The mathematician-cryptographers solved the problem of how to communicate privately. And the free software movement wrote the code and provides the software freely.
With general-purpose computers, governments can’t pressure an Apple or a Microsoft to remove a software title from your computer—cause it’s your computer. And there’s no such thing as a company like Signal having to threaten an oppressive government that they’re going to pull out of their market/territory. With general-purpose computers, peers just run the software they want to run, and they communicate peer-to-peer.
So why do we tolerate closed, controlled devices?

2025-10-19 21:09:16 UTC

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Wait, what??!! Claude Haiku doesn’t give answers as haikus? I’m thoroughly disappointed. 🤨

2025-10-19 20:58:24 UTC

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I hope it’s not a long book. My attention span is kinda short these days for some reason… 🤪