Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

"After reading supposedly secure messages for five months, authorities then arrested the alleged owners and some users of [encrypted phone service] Exclu."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnve9/dutch-police-read-messages-of-exclu

this was quite possibly the best political meme of our generation

@garethpotter @NanoRaptor yep. Goteks. They act as a floppy drive, but load disk images off a USB stick.

USB Type A Nanofloppy for covert data exfiltration

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

there are a lot of problems still to solve with rapunzel. collaborative reputation management is a key one.

but i have thoughts on what that might look like: https://ariadne.space/2022/12/03/building-fair-webs-of-trust-by-leveraging-the-ocap-model/

ring logs are:

- cryptographically attested logs which can be forgetful. e.g. they can support a quota, where old data is evicted from the ring log to make room for new data.

- merkle trees in the same way git repositories are merkle trees (e.g. messages are like git commits)

- optionally witnessed by trusted notaries: this is intended for people who want to reduce trust in the ring log storage providers they choose, by ensuring that the ring log provider is serving them the same data as the witness.

Some chef's kiss film leader transferred to a UMATIC tape that I digitized. This was a pile of tapes destined for a discard bin someone bought from a recycler.

I am officially deceased after reading this Wall Street deli owner's response to the question of whether he asks his customers for stock tips:

this cart is now property of

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@bobbyd0g Has a good view on the local bridge

Some strings attached, though.