this blog post from the creator of Signal
Moxie's politics are a bit weird but because of him I was able to get free wifi everywhere i lived for many years through WPA cracking... he aslo wrote sslstrip which i used for more dubious purposes in a previous life.
yeah i mean anyone who says they are an anarchist but also their hobby is restoring sailboats and taking them around the world.
Fixing a thing and then using it seems like a pretty effective way to not be alienated from the product of your labor, but what do I know? (Moxie is almost definitely CIA, but what is this take?)
fixing a thing and using it is one thing but the financial barrier to entry on fixing and re-using sailboats makes it a pretty bougie little hobby
what kind of lunatic is pollitically opposed to copy paste. That's the best thing about computers
Shut up Sony might hear you!
Are y'all old enough to remember the DMCA and "You wouldn't download a Car?"
OR even older; When the movie industry tried to make VCR tapes illegal?
Lol. Remember when Sony got busted installing rootkits from their CDs?
Since the invention of digital recording capitalism has been trying to enforce the information scarcity with violence.
What if I told you there was a shortcut to erase AND copy something at the same time?
ctrl-z. I could reimplement ctrl-v fairly easily, and ctrl-z with a lot more effort. therefore, ctrl-z wins handily.
The "verified collections" problem AKA only sources we collectively agree are valuable may mint currency wow this is sounding more and more like the value of the currency is only that that can be guaranteed by an entity with the power to enforce it's value like maybe a state or something idk
nah bro. crypto is decentralized bro. you don't get it. my IQ is very high
Yep. Another example would be that OpenSea and other platforms already mark things as frozen due to being stolen. This is of course, based on one person saying "my NFTs were stolen" and who knows what kind of investigative followup on it. You can still trade the NFTs via direct access to blockchain trades, but that's so complicated for the average user that they are de facto frozen.
Moxie Marlinspike did a good writeup on the problems with all this NFT shit and correctly pointed out that while it claims to aim for old school decentralization, the same forces and problems that caused the shift to the new platform-driven web have come into play here too.
and that's why the matthew account PFP is actually just a hexagonal jpeg if you click through and check
https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/1484343496605519874
nobody is re-minting that shit when you can just TAKE it
Just waiting for this guy to find out about the print screen button.
it's in the name tho, like only the token is non fungible, not that damn pixels
I'm just pissed off they appropriated my favorite shape for nft bullshit
lmao I thought so. I debated trying it but then that would mean I'd have an NFT pfp.
Why do NFT-investors not understand NFTs?
Why the fuck would someone who understands NFTs invest in them?
