As a mental preparation for a blog post about privacy, I thought about when I started to care about my privacy online. And I actually don't remember.
When I was a child, I definitely did not care. I grew up with the internet where it still made sound when you're connecting to it and if someone in your household made phone calls (looking at you, mum) the internet stopped working iirc (-5 privacy). I mostly used it to play online games like StarCraft 2 and message friends on ICQ (I still remember my ICQ number). I also messaged random strangers on ICQ and I did not care about not revealing any PII. At least I wasn't conscious about it. I think I never revealed any PII but I think there was never a situation where this was tested. Common sense, inability, not enough interest, not being sexually attractive enough (lol), being introverted ... (?) protected me from visiting dangerous places on the internet. The most dangerous place
dangerous in a sense where people might lurk for unsuspecting, innocent children - I ever visited on the internet was probably internet chat rooms / chat roulette (knuddles?) but with no cam, only writing. And I think even that I only did with friends, it wasn't my own idea.
At some point, I created an account at Facebook and SchülerVZ (not sure if that exists outside of Germany) because my friends also had accounts. I think when I created an account at Facebook, it still required to get invited? Or maybe I only wish so to feel like an OG, lol.
However, I didn't enjoy Facebook and SchülerVZ. I even found a bot account on FB which copied all my pictures and pretended to be me - without using my name however iirc, lol. I reported it but I think it just popped up again or was never deleted. That was kind of a weird experience. At some point, I just stopped using any social network because it all felt so fake - at least in hindsight. As mentioned, I am not a social person so looking at all these social persons with their social activities and social friends and oooh, what a great life they must have because they posted a funny picture - it just made me feel miserable.
Fortunately, I was friends with like-minded people (no coincidence probably, haha) so none of my "real" friends ever used social networks much. We had our instant messengers with group chats and that was all we needed.
One friend of mine even had a hilarious first experience with FB where he was surprised that others joined a conversation. He thought it's a private conversation but it was actually public. That was very funny and we had a good laugh about that for a long time in school. In hindsight, thinking something is private when it actually isn't is actually a very dangerous situation.
I think that I got interested in online privacy and why it's important because of university. When I had my first classes about it security, we also talked about data protection including laws. I think that's where it started.
Making a cut here since this post already got a lot longer (as usual ...) then I intended. I want to hear about your experiences!
I think the issue was that our load balancer wasn't passing the user's IP to the relay properly so it thought all users had the same IP. Should be resolved now.
Also yes we are open source and our NWC implementation is here: https://github.com/coinos/coinos-server/blob/master/lib/nwc.ts
As every week, I'm working in a new video.
This time is about Nodes (on chain & LN) and why are they very important to the network, the video will be available (in Spanish) next week on my Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@criptopanas)
Keeping my longest cowboy streak going until __@_'-' reaches its destination: 5
I've been using nostr via Iris or Snort as a Twitter alternative. I find it slow and clunky. So I've been using it less. I'm interested in what others are building on nostr, but I'm seeing these same issues.
@FrickFrickFrick I don't know if you will see this but sincerely here is some advice. Don't take "people" online personal. None of this is real. I'm including myself here. We are all personas. You are as well. You are better off adjusting your perspective of online discourse. I'm not excusing or condemning anyone's behavior online but when you realize it isn't real... it changes the way you receive communications. I don't know you, you don't know me. We could have 1000s of exchanges on this site. You still don't know me. Don't kid yourself. I see this a lot online. Our online personas are just that. Personas. Not the real person.
Take it or leave it. My advice here is sincere, I have allowed others to trigger me online. I still do at times but now I realize, that's my flaw. I need to see the Internet for what it truly is.
https://metadata.nostr.com/ might work
Weak entropy is closer to the anonymous envelop. There is no way to contact the owner of a wallet created with weak entropy.
But, put it this way: if your mother created a wallet with weak entropy, and you serendipitously found the weak entropy wallet and then took the funds, but you honestly didn't know they were hers until months later when she complained about an anonymous "hacker".
Would you give her, her funds back? Would you tell her you 'just found an anonymous wallet' and so you wouldn't give it back? Would you just stay quiet, lie by omission?
Does this change, if its a stranger?
You asked to have somebody change your mind. I have tried. I have my own answers to the above. I wish you the best, in figuring out your own answers.
Couple thoughts: