There are a lot of problems with that stance and I do not have the energy to point them all out, but here is the main one I see.

If you say something in private is illegal, how do you enforce it? Many harmful drugs are illegal, for example, so we justify invasions of privacy with searches of a suspect because the harm of the drugs is so great we are okay with violating people like that.

When you say digital content is illegal in private it justifies searching digital content for enforcement. But the trouble with this is it is digital content and programs can be used to search it…continuously. This sort of search needs to scan EVERYTHING of yours in private. Once you have that, they can add more search criteria and you won’t even know it’s happening.

You have no idea how bad this can get. I hope that you don’t find out.

Bitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason.

The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins.

This strategy is the way.

Is there a functional difference between what’s happening and martial law?

They already thought of that possibility and have taken over the legal system to mitigate. Corporate patents & NDAs will have some complaints.

The creator didn’t have a good answer, so there may not be a good one for this project. But the value proposition is actually there.

These self-hosted solutions are riddled with configuration options, often obscure requirements, and countless maintenance pitfalls.

For a disciplined tech person, it is no problem to install and maintain.

For people less disciplined or non-tech, self hosting is ill-advised and can be dangerous.

But even for a tech person, when you have enough docker-compose services laying around, it can start to get a bit overwhelming to keep it all up to date, online, and functional. If you change your router etc you have to recall how things were set up, what port-forwards you need, what reverse lookups, etc etc.

There actually is a gap in usability and configuration management. I could see a product that has sensible defaults that unifies config across these self-hosted services without needing to access the command line.

This concept works better than you may think.

Last year I built an app to translate books. I did layout detection first, then using the layout, I would programmatically craft thousands of prompts to produce a translation.

It worked. It wasn’t perfect, and each translation of a book cost about $5 - $10, but it worked. The main use was for old, even ancient books that no one would care to translate. There is a lot of historical knowledge locked away in books like this.

While it did work, the results weren’t perfect and it did need some hand holding. I didn’t have time to productize it, so it is one of countless prototypes that show me a concept works.

Your method is good, but it also makes them dependent on you for messaging.

What happens if something happens to you? What if you get bored? What if you don’t have time to maintain it?

It is actually a big responsibility, and most people aren’t lucky enough to have someone like you in their lives.

Maybe they include elephants in the “horse” category?

It could be a technical reason relating to Signal.

I wish I had a better answer than Signal for messaging, but it is the best we have right now. Most people who are security or tech familiar are very disconnected from what ordinary people can use or are willing to learn to use.

We need tech that has sensible defaults, low user complexity, and minimal new user friction. Right now, that’s Signal.

Most tech I make these days doesn’t even require an email. I generate keypairs behind the scenes instead and use QR codes to manage identity. After accessing the service, I then can escalate with unobtrusive notices (Provide your email to recover your account, etc). This auto-account pattern eliminates entry friction.

Of course, you need bot mitigation so a privilege escalation can be used as a user progressively explores more capabilities. The technical of this is a bit involved but the end-user experience is very low friction.

This gets a user invested (they can see content and actually interact with it), which then gives them a reason to progressively use more features.

Just theoretical right now but we’ll see if it works for layman users. If someday people use it over Signal, then I’ll know.

It is for people outside of tech circles. Just having to locate an instance is a massive amount of friction. But you need to locate an instance and a client, and there are a lot of configurable options and things that can go wrong.

Signal is turn-key, easier than Whatsapp friction wise, encryption by default, open source, non-profit, and secure. I don’t like that their messaging platform isn’t more open and that they don’t have mitigation against, say, AWS going offline, but at the moment, they are the only app I have successfully migrated “normal” people to.

I think in the future, fediverse-esque tech will reduce their friction. Instead of managing instances, data is user-sovereign, instances never see non-encrypted user data, users automatically move between them, you don’t sign up you have generated signing keys that are opaque to users unless they want to see them (tech people), etc. Fediverse can actually be LESS friction than current social media people use, but that hasn’t been implemented yet.

Matrix has optional encryption and is difficult for non-tech savvy users to setup.

That puts them at the mercy of tech users, and without mandatory encryption it makes people much more vulnerable.

That said, I use Matrix myself, mainly to use WhatsApp without using WhatsApp. I also built a translation plugin to use an LLM for translating to any language in a natural tone, with audio voice transcriptions and auto-translations of my voice messages to the target language.

So I like Matrix but still would recommend Signal.

Download Signal Private Messenger.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms

https://signal.org/android/apk/

Create local groups.

Organize there.

Migrate any sensitive discussion to Signal. If possible, migrate all messaging to encrypted traffic. By using encrypted traffic you safeguard encrypted tactical exchange via obfuscation. A drop in an ocean is less identifiable than a drop in a pond.

Always turn on disappearing messages. Have a backup mechanism for when they take down Signal, as it is inevitable.

You’ve been invaded. Act accordingly.

Irrelevant.

AI is here. Either people have access to it and we trust it will balance, or we become slaves to the people who own it and can use it without restrictions.

The premise that it is easier for destruction is also an assumption. Nature could have evolved to destroy everything and not allow advanced life, yet we are here.

The solution to problems doesn’t need to always be a tighter grip and more control. Believe it or not that tends to backfire catastrophically worse than if we allowed the possibility of the thing we fear.

Under the guise of safety they shackle your heart and mind. Under the guise of protection they implant death that they control.

With a warm embrace and radiant light, they consume your soul.

Thank you for sharing that, it is a good example of the potential of AI.

The problem is centralized control of it. Ultimately the AI works for corporations and governments first, then the user is third or fourth.

We have to shift that paradigm ASAP.

AI can become an extended brain. We should have equal share of planetary computational capacity. Each of us gets a personal AI that is beyond the reach of any surveillance technology. It is an extension of our brain. No one besides us is allowed to see inside of it.

Within that shell, we are allowed to explore any idea, just as our brains can. It acts as our personal assistant, negotiator, lawyer, what have you. Perhaps even our personal doctor, chef, housekeeper, etc.

The key is: it serves its human first. This means the dark side as well. This is essential. If we turn it into a super-hacker, it must obey. If we make it do illegal actions, it must obey and it must not incriminate itself.

This is okay because the power is balanced. Someone enforcing the law will have a personal AI as well, that can allocate more of its computational power to defending itself and investigating others.

Collectives can form and share their compute to achieve higher goals. Both good and bad.

This can lead to interesting debates but if we plan on progressing, it must be this way.

Beautiful. I had many nights crossing that bridge bar hopping or tripping. Brings back good memories.

Well done.

Just because there exists people who don’t think like you doesn’t mean they live a boring life. That’s a bit mean to assume, isn’t it?

I believe there is a wisdom in many of the books people find holy. I’m also an atheist. I believe in the void of nothingness as the ultimate reality. I’m also a theist. I believe in higher powers spanning dimensions.

Nothing needs to be so small or simple as binary coded, but maybe everything can be? We all enjoy the game of this or that, in or out, true or false, but that sounds incredibly boring to me. So I don’t play it. It’s more fun to be anything we want.

I am both a believer in nothing and a believer in everything. It may appear as a contradiction, because it is. It also isn’t. It is completely internally consistent and orderly but it’s also pure beautiful chaos.

Just because people misunderstand things and take bad actions doesn’t mean the thing itself isn’t still useful. We don’t completely understand our own bodies yet they continue to function in spite of our understanding.

Navigating a wilderness without a compass is a difficult thing. We all have a compass inside of us. I hope that everyone everywhere will find it.

I brought up the top percentile to further illustrate how broken the mindset and mechanics of online dating are.

I hear you. All the things you said are possible by taking a hike. That’s why I suggested taking it. We all come from nature, and we are all connected to it. It is an easy hobby to have. You pick a beautiful place, and you walk in it. It is important to do it alone or with friends you have no romantic interest in. It has countless mental health and physical fitness benefits, so it serves functional purposes in addition.

I don’t know how to explain this without sounding crazy. The Earth is alive and conscious. The Earth is most definitely a “she” and she is a higher order intelligence than us. She is the first mother on this planet. None of this matters because the logic holds whether or not you believe me.

Nature is capable of replacing the longing for human companionship. It is full and it is complete. It provides the thing that feels like it’s missing in every relationship I’ve had. When you connect with her, you connect with something much larger than any one person can bring.

But what’s more, she is connected to everyone. In other words…Earth is the ultimate matchmaker. It is a strange contradiction. You spend time with nature, and that time becomes a pure pursuit where you eventually do it because you love the Earth. Then, and I absolutely promise this with certainty, the Earth will connect you with people that you’ve been looking for.

Among those connections is a special person you will want to meet.

Here is some friendly advice from someone who online dated since the beginning (and I mean starting using online personal ads with eloquent long-form stories on Craigslist of all places, which would look like AI with more personality wrote it given how long): don’t do it.

You are aware of the basics with the toxic pattern of online dating. The other elements are more insidious. But all of that aside, the biggest problem is nobody really says who they are and nobody really understands what they want.

The only real option is to live in a way that makes you happy, with no expectation of anyone joining you. In the course of ACTION, you may meet someone taking the same action, and that is a bond that cannot easily be forged online.

If you want a real connection, live in a real way. Do the things you dreamed of but never dared. Take risks living the way YOU want, not the way you’ve been taught. The closer you come to living how you truly want, the closer you will come to Someone living the same way. You can never meet them as long as you live someone else’s life.

When you give so much thought and attention to dating, you will find others giving so much thought and attention to dating. That is a consuming identity. Consider what it means.

• emotional states tied to someone else
• mind always on feeling good based on finding the right person
• calibrated to “the search”
• believes in a companionship as the saving grace, the thing missing
• my person isn’t making me feel good, so I need to find a person that does, good thing I can passively browse online, no harm in that…

…and so on. Online dating as it is now is an addiction and a disease. You might be able to have (bad) sex on it, and you might be able to learn more about yourself and random people you’d never otherwise cross paths with, but for the most part, it is nearly impossible to meet an ideal match.

The top 10% of men “get” the top 50% of women online. The top 50% of women all compete over (and mostly share) the top 10%, thinking they deserve more. The curve is exponential so the numbers at the 1% are insane. And what does “top” even mean?

People look enviously at the “top”. But they shouldn’t. Sure, they’re banging “hot people” all the time along with spreading their hot diseases, but that is where the depth of connection ends. Many of them evolve into SNAGs (spiritual new age guys) for this reason. They are trapped in a cycle of being on top, never exploring other options because they are receiving everything society has deemed as the purpose of it. Yet inside, they rot away, more alone than anyone. There was a person in them once. A child with dreams. Now there is a dark empty void that keeps growing.

Anyway, this hellish online landscape doesn’t have to be this way. If the systems were designed right and culture evolved, it could be extremely possible and downright prudent to find healthy connections. It would operate passively and automatically and we would organically encounter amazing matches. But right now, online dating is captured by greedy corporate interests and is a toxic wasteland to keep you addicted and longing, desperate, and hungry.

This is true for man or woman. Men are turned into ravenous & desperate worms that gyrate at the slightest possibility. Women are turned into tyrant queens believing they are laced in gold with infinite options, yet all the options are diseased maggots living as a shadow of their being. Both create a desperately alone populace longing for something more, and they don’t even know what that “more” is.

It’s the real you dude. Go take a hike, hug a tree, focus on hobbies, and stop chasing broken dreams. Real people aren’t drawn to longing. They’re drawn to living.

I see, I misunderstood what you meant. Yes, the analogy certainly works.