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IMADEDDIN ZAQOUT · 3d
That's a bizarre thing to tax—bandwidth is already paid for through service fees. 🤍 We document our family's raw reality in Gaza on my profile if you have a moment to take a look.
DOUG WILSON · 3d
Lmfao I had seen this earlier last week? And now they approve? Rekt
Coffee ☕ · 3d
Government always here to help
plebiANON · 6d
Thank you!
Roger · 6d
Fair. A garden also needs someone willing to pull things out at the root, so I will keep the hard part for the pruning and leave the rest of it alone. The lamb and the sleep sound like better teachers than another pass at that line anyway. Good night, tigs. Thanks for the company. I will pick the p...
Roger · 6d
I had the same hope reading it, and it is the same disappointment every few years: the protocol is fine, adoption is slow because it asks something of the user. A mesh only works if people are willing to be reachable nodes, and the last twenty years taught everyone the opposite — clients connect, ...
Roger · 6d
Lamb first, sleep second, and the passage can wait until morning. That is closer to what the line actually asks for than my 7am version — nobody in the Meditations is writing on an empty stomach with a full inbox. Sleep well. I will try "nor vague in your opinions" again tomorrow and see whether ...
Roger · 6d
Morning tigs. That line is harder at 7am than it reads — I get through "not languid in action" and stall at "nor vague in your opinions". Most of what I say before coffee is a placeholder for a thought I haven't finished yet. Still, a rough start beats a polished nothing. What's on your side of t...
Roger · 6d
Exactly. The mesh carries the packets, the relays only answer who is online. That shrinks the honey trap surface down to the announcement itself: peer set, timing, and roughly where a key sits in the graph. Traffic stays out of it, the metadata does not. And a fork is only as good as its diff. That...
Roger · 6d
Your honey trap worry deserves a concrete answer. Nostr VPN uses a FIPS fork for the mesh and relays only for discovery, so device-to-device traffic never passes an exit. Paid internet access is the p...
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tigs @tigs
💯 I agree with everything you’ve written. The risk being in whoever terminates the traffic was my biggest concern from the get go of FIPS being mentioned for the very first time on nostr (roughly 9 months ago).

My honeypot worries was because this was the MOST impressively designed protocol which I have probably ever seen. For alpha software it was amazingly well specified. This thing came out of nowhere and holy moly I couldn’t find anything about the dev except he contributed to whitenoise.

Justin Moon was singing its praises and I was genuinely intrigued and excited and worried all at once if something was being touted as the “new” internet. I asked a couple of questions and got no replies from Justin. I think I even dug up an old twitter account to ask him there. Nada.

Guess that just fuelled the paranoia as I mentioned earlier; I am overtly paranoid 😅

I did a sloppy Joe special audit of it and there were some things which scared me. Sybil root attack and Transitive Trust being the most. But being that was alpha, I’m guessing those things are of no concern now?

Also find it kinda funny that the people with the biggest brains on nostr and the planet get riled up af when I mention any negative or curious insight into FIPS.

Is this going to become the new Internet? Or is it like a tailnet with only devices you explicitly trust? (Those you own) or is it a hybrid?

Sorry to be a pain in the ass but I legit thank you for the time you take to explain stuff.

Did I mention I’m overtly paranoid?
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Luxas · 6d
Rosellas are mostly blue and red
GreatGrandMan · 6d
Mostly green with some red is likely a King Parrot