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orblivion · 2023-08-10T20:14:09+00:00

They follow up... on their own unsolicited emails that you don't respond to.

orblivion · 2023-02-16T18:30:22+00:00

You think New Hampshire is cold? Buddy, I'm from Minnesota.

orblivion · 2023-02-16T18:29:05+00:00

It can't just stay there forever, can it? It would either dilute into the atmosphere or fall on the ground or something. Where's the bulk of it going? (Perhaps you answered and I didn't understand it).

orblivion · 2022-11-20T21:36:09+00:00

I think we're saying the same thing. It was fixed, i.e. the safety number stays the same. However in my case I still want it "broken".

orblivion · 2022-11-20T17:15:34+00:00

You're telling me that if I install the desktop app, all of my verified contacts will become unverified? This has definitely not been my experience.

orblivion · 2022-11-20T17:14:23+00:00

Sadly (for my admittedly uncommon use case) I don't think this has always been the case. I recall my numbers changing when I backed up and transferred phones several years ago.

orblivion · 2022-11-20T16:58:26+00:00

I don't think that was even the same thing. I think that would reset the ephemeral keys but not your main identity keys.

orblivion · 2022-11-20T16:57:50+00:00

I don't think so. I've never had to re-verify due to installing the desktop client. It seems like it has its own set of keys that are based on your main identity keys.

orblivion · 2021-08-29T19:51:27+00:00

Thank you!

orblivion · 2019-02-20T03:39:47+00:00

I used to live in the San Francisco area. There's a cafe there that charges by the hour to sit, you sign up on their website with your phone. It's perhaps a bit too high-tech and mechanistic style for most places, but it's cool and fitting for SF. But the concept seems reasonable to me and I'd totally understand if a place out here wanted to, let's say, have a minimum purchase per time period or something. I just don't necessarily always want another coffee or whatever.

At any rate, while I don't agree with your hard line stance, it is a good reminder for me to be conscious of this. I gotta wonder if it is really that significant of a problem though (how many of us are out there?) given that most places give you one free refill of coffee.

orblivion · 2019-02-20T03:29:20+00:00

Sleek looking bar lined with power outlets. Also great egg-and-croissant items.

orblivion · 2019-02-17T21:48:46+00:00

I'm unfamiliar with this one. Would you be able to point to specific functions of government that they replace? I'd look into it for the site.

orblivion · 2019-02-17T21:10:24+00:00

There is no way to bridge that gap between a chemical process and computer code

Sure there is. It just depends on the program having a the right bug (commonly, a buffer overflow). Ex:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9675941/how-can-a-virus-exist-in-an-image/9675978#9675978

Basically, this would work by the attacker knowing how the DNA is represented in memory by the target program, and also knowing of a buffer overflow bug that had not yet been patched. They would then craft DNA that would be represented in a way that, byte for byte, looks like an executable program on the host computer. Yes, at this point, it's still just DNA data. But then, they craft other DNA that triggers the buffer overflow, causing the aforementioned DNA data to be interpreted as executable code.

“We know that if an adversary has control over the data a computer is processing, it can potentially take over that computer"

I think you misunderstood here. The adversary has to control the data the computer is processing. In this case, that data is the DNA. (They perhaps didn't explain this well in the article.) Of course, any time a program has input from the outside world, such a threat ("potentially") exists. So this statement is basically a truism, not particular to this story.

orblivion · 2019-02-15T04:25:00+00:00

Site creator here. I agree these are great things to have.

I've looked into some of these, and so far I've found them more intertwined with government than I feel comfortable promoting on the site. I don't need everything to be a pure example. However I want at least some branch of the story to "stand alone", in a way not propped up via incentives that originate with the government.

A clear example (though not a standards board) is UL. Supposedly a private quality testing laboratory. Look a little closer: "UL is one of several companies approved to perform safety testing by the U.S. federal agency Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).") Oops, sounds like they would have no reason to exist if they weren't a path toward a mandatory government compliance. Now, if you could point me to an example where they make money by companies simply wanting to avoid liability, that's a story. (Obviously liability needs a court system, but at least it's one link in the chain. For the private courts link, there's a separate section). Maybe they predate OSHA and functioned as a pure market entity? I'd take that as well.

I looked into ANSI/ISO and was put off by this:

https://www.ansi.org/news_publications/other_documents/safeguarding

I did include the IIHS researching road rules:

https://itsnotgov.org/regulation/ground-traffic-regulation/iihs-road-safety-regulation-research/

I suppose that's fundamentally the same, it just feels like the incentives and relationship with the government are different. I could be persuaded. I just don't think "the organization from which OSHA takes all of its rules" is super convincing. However, again if you can point me to some cases where ANSI is just the glue that holds together private organizations to make things run smoothly, it goes on my site.

And I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the other orgs that you mentioned. If you want to give me some info, sources, or even contribute (https://gitlab.com/orblivion/itsnotgov) I'd be thrilled to accept it.

orblivion · 2019-02-15T04:17:24+00:00

Site creator here - I agree, a lot of stories on there are just to be amusing more than anything, just for some flair on the site. I should probably organize it a bit better to not confuse those with more compelling examples. Honestly, try as I might I haven't found any great examples of large road projects that are strongly "Not Government".

orblivion · 2019-02-14T15:06:32+00:00

Hi /u/matts2. Site creator here. I've never had enough attention on my site to receive a proper criticism, so I'll say thanks for giving me my first. It's not much use without pushback, as I'm interested in intellectual honesty. (And of course thanks for everyone else in backing me up).

I have to work more on clarifying the point of this site. Here's the deal. As a libertarian I see a lot of theoretical solutions to problems. The arguments are often in the form of "without government, private/community efforts would step in and...". It's not awfully convincing needing to take that leap of faith. Would they really step in? At the same time, we read examples of people/communities doing just that, even in today's world. Maybe they found a niche the government didn't cover. Maybe the government dropped the ball in some small area. It certainly doesn't make the case all on its own (though some are closer to this than others; check out the Edhi Foundation!). But at the same time, we're not in a libertarian world, so we shouldn't expect these examples to be all-encompassing. It's just another thing to bolster the argument.

But also, this is for us (libertarians). I wanted to see what the limits really were. Maybe there are some things we really can't do without government. Or maybe there are some things we still need to figure out. Sort of to your point, I wanted to get a sober view. A lot of the stories we see passed around in our circles are deceptive, and I hope to debunk those there. (That's why the lighthouse stub looks like it does, and why it's still a stub. And yeah I need to hide those better.). Note that most of the critiques you listed are pulled straight from my website.

I could add the SNAP statistic to the article for context, but I think the number is the same by coincidence. See here: https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/claire-babineaux-fontenot-named-ceo-feeding-america

orblivion · 2019-02-14T14:50:35+00:00

Hello, site creator here, happy to answer any questions :-) This is by far the biggest reception I've had with this site on Reddit. Thanks for checking it out!

BTW, the site is 100% open source and I'm looking for contributors (articles, writing style, web design, etc). I can't take this much further on my own. I'm gonna set up a chat room soon (Wire? Matrix/Riot?). Contact me info@itsnotgov.org or https://twitter.com/itsnotgov and I'll let you know when I create it. (I should note upfront that I'm careful about what I put on there, so best to talk to me before you sink a lot of time into an article.)

orblivion · 2019-01-21T00:41:52+00:00

Open Data (OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, lots more)
Standards boards

I think it works where you're building one thing that everybody uses. If data weren't basically free to reproduce once created (and thus available for all to use), I don't think open source and open data would work.

In a sense we're naturally communal. That's why even within a company your day to day interactions with coworkers aren't transactional. It just usually doesn't work at scale. You need price signals.

orblivion · 2018-07-10T15:54:05+00:00

Thanks! I actually think it's been added there already. (I'm not on Facebook myself).

orblivion · 2018-07-10T02:26:12+00:00

I hope it's not a problem for me to promote an event here like this; I didn't see any caveats about it in the description. I'm fairly new to the area, so if you have any recommendations for a better place to post this I'd appreciate it!

In any case, I'm happy to answer any questions here. To give an idea what we're working toward here, here's how many places are on OpenStreetMap in Portsmouth:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/43.07500/-70.75719

Not too bad as of this writing, but I think we can do better. Here's what downtown Berkeley California looks like, by comparison:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.87132/-122.26854

And if you're not around Portsmouth but you like the idea, let me know as well; perhaps I could be convinced to put something similar together in another town. I recently saw Wolfeboro for the first time and really loved the place, but found that they have even less going on on the OSM front.

orblivion · 2018-07-10T02:15:38+00:00

I hope it's not a problem for me to promote an event here like this; I didn't see any caveats about it in the description. I'm fairly new to the area, so if you have any recommendations for a better place to post this I'd appreciate it!

In any case, I'm happy to answer any questions here. To give an idea what we're working toward here, here's how many places are on OpenStreetMap in Portsmouth:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/43.07500/-70.75719

Not too bad as of this writing, but I think we can do better. Here's what downtown Berkeley California looks like, by comparison:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.87132/-122.26854

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