kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@strypey

But why? Once you start getting into people's distribution zones their "my name is" messages start populate your node and you see their nicknames. You only see public key ids for people who are too far from you, but their id was references in responses etc.

@klaatu

This depends if ephemeral would be "lost forever" or "I just don't want it to take space on my storage". The latter can be implemented with a cron script on SSB :) The architectural problem (depending on how you look...) with SSB is that it's not only a storage but actually an append-only log, a bit like a blockchain. There were a lot of architectural disputes back when SSB wanted to introduce a "delete message" feature (which would be really "please don't show this").

@strypey

@strypey

Fully concur, in case of SSB the size of your `.ssb` dir grows at alarming rate as you follow more people.

You can however periodically delete the whole dir and as long as you preserve your secret key it will over time download all messages you ever followed *and* your own posts too from the others.

I don't think there's a reasonable compromise here but eternal storage isn't really what I'm looking for in social network...

@strypey

Yes, I've been using SSB for a while and the AppImage is definitely the easiest way to run it.

I had to struggle with the npm mess though as I also run a SSB pub at ssb.webcookies.pub 😃

Tectonix GEO live mobile surveillance - and they boast it as something really great. As they say "anonymised", pay attention to the "Device id" field on the right...

https://scitech.video/videos/watch/584a804f-c002-403f-ab46-2482b2f8ba7f

A list of telemetry domains and URLs used by mobile location tracking libraries.

https://github.com/craiu/mobiletrackers

Opera just added ENS support joining Brave and MetaMask. This essentially mean you can browse decentralized web based on .eth TLD and IPFS from a mainstream browser, no tricks.

https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/all-the-ways-you-can-surf-the-decentralized-web-today-bf8e7a42fa27

I personally more like #dat protocol but hey, if it works it works.

This "there's no such thing as society" quote allegedly from Margaret Thatcher is beloved by neocons (exhibit #1) who make some kind of Ayn Rand selfish god of her, and among leftists, who make some kind of Ayn Rand devil of her.

In reality, Thatcher's quote is about social cohesion: society isn't some abstract overlord, quite the opposite - society is *you* and your neighbour and other people around. Society gives to you, you need to contribute too.

Full interview https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106689

@matrix Yeah, social sciences have a huge deficit of creativity as it comes to naming things :) It's like people in microbiology called every single infectious thing a "virus" just because it sounds evil, regardless of whether it's single-cellular, multi-cellular, has RNA or maybe is just a poisonous inorganic substance.

@matrix

BTW I posted it only because there's a whole lot of shitstorm on Twitter now on "look how effectively communist China contained the pandemics and even helping CAPITALIST West hurr-durr" 🤦‍♂️

@matrix

Authoritarian or totalitarian - yes, absolutely.

I don't like the word "fascism" as it's quite meaningless today. Fascism started and ended in WW2 Italy as it was absorbed by German national socialism (Nazism).

Before you call China a "communist" country...

@ZenCoder Yeah, I've read about US health insurance policy a lot in the past but first time hearing it first-hand... Why don't you migrate? Lots of Americans in UK and there's tons of jobs in IT and disabled people get a lot of support.

@freemo

Concerned about feral hogs? 😂

@ZenCoder

Ok, from the currency I guess you're in the US. That about insurance sounds quite... harsh to be honest.

@ZenCoder Ah, more HDD placed in the foam vertically! Wow, what are you using such massive storage for if it's not confidential?