Niel Liesmons

If we have a persistent, biometrically-protected, cross-device key, what if we could use it to do arbitrary cryptography rather than just authentication? As it turns out, we can. The WebAuthn PRF extension – while still relatively new – is now beginning to see fairly wide support:

Source: confer.to

fractional indexing inside encrypted blobs, sorted client-side – is nice because it hides everything. The server learns nothing about your folder names, nothing about their order, nothing about how often you rearrange them. All it sees is a collection of opaque ciphertexts and timestamps.

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The main insight is that strings, unlike integers, have infinite room between any two values. Between “a” and “b” there’s “aV”. Between “a” and “aV” there’s “aK”. You can always find a midpoint. No matter how many times you reorder, you only ever update one folder.

Source: confer.to

When you must use concurrency, you can sometimes get comparable or better performance than lock-free techniques by using fine-grained mutexes.

Source: libmedium.batsense.net

Most respectable engineers know to avoid lock-free techniques at all costs.

Source: libmedium.batsense.net

Imagine if someone told you instead of Bitcoin let's just use a single Keypair and if you lost it then someone provide you with attestation that your new Keypair should own the coins of the lost Keypair... PKI is no different from the problem of who owns which coins, so we should use a sidechain like Rootstock to solve this problem once and for all.

We have literally one of the worst protocols ever made from an engineering standpoint.

to keep rituals like those is to deny their fulfillment

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Transitioning His people out of a ritual-based religion (which had proven to be more detrimental to man'sspiritual well-being than helpful to it) into a solely faith-based religion, God's Son (primarily through Hisinspired apostles' work and writings) disparaged rituals, especially so when it came to binding them

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baptism denoted/pictured immersion in suffering

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note the connection betweenwater and covenant and thus water as a corporate sign of a new beginning (like new life coming forthafter a pregnant woman's water breaks):

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he case of water baptism in the name of Jesus, it was a ritual depict-ing an occurrence to transpire in the future of those who were commanded to be baptized

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The state takes control until a living man orwoman comes back and claims their titles by proving they are alive and claims fordamages can be made.This is why you always need representation when involved in legal matters,because you’re dead.

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Our only way out is to reclaim your dead entity (strawman) that the Crowncreated, become the executor and then collapse the called Cestui Que Vie trustand forgive yourself of your debts and then remove yourself from the admiraltylaw that holds you in custody

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Walled gardens are terribly convenient

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Your (Meta)data is probably gobbled up all the same

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Communities can also publish a kind 10001 pin list like any other profile. This gives communities a built-in way to feature content — pinned articles, apps, releases, or any other event — without any additional spec.

Source: www.chateau.community

Instead of managing relays, Blossom servers, and tweaking a bunch of technical knobs, no: those are prepackaged in a community spec.

τελος (telos) does not emphasize the sudden termination of a process, but rather the yield of the process, and not merely the static existence of this yield but rather as the first step of a whole new cyclic process. Our word means "end" as much as "beginning" and represents a threshold of transition between two progressive realms

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devs like to design "perfect" systems and forget about what's practical, has sane UX or solves a pain point in the simplest way possible. many such cases. I'm not advocating for slop, but for simple solutions that get the job done

How agents trade in model compute is simply bartering an agreed amount of future model compute of x standard as per y guarantee. The protocols that govern x standard and y guarantee will be the protocols that matter.

just kind 1111 with a reference to the zap

Follow these paths to their logical conclusions and you arrive at something that looks like Communikeys: communities as npubs, content sections with badge requirements, targeted publications, integrated infrastructure tags.

Follow these paths to their logical conclusions and you arrive at something that looks like Communikeys: communities as npubs, content sections with badge requirements, targeted publications, integrated infrastructure tags. Communikeys isn't an alternative to these approaches — it's what you get when you play them out. At least, in my mind.

Best you can do is poletly ask the relay to not propagate your publication (with -tag), which goes against one of the main value props of the Nostr protocol.

A single publication can be targeted to up to 12 communities via one Targeted Publication event. The creator's intended audience is explicit and transparent — anyone can see which communities a piece of content was meant for. This can serve as an organic disovery route for related Communities + lowers the bar for bootstrapping new ones.

Users and apps can discover communities by content type. Looking for places that publish long-form articles? Query for communities with k:30023. Want to find emoji pack curators? Look for k:30030. App catalogs, book publishers, video channels — all discoverable by their declared content types.

Looking for places that publish long-form articles? Query for communities with k:30023. Want to find emoji pack curators? Look for k:30030. App catalogs, book publishers, video channels — all discoverable by their declared content types.Nothing more, nothing less. You know exactly what a community is about before you look inside.

Creators publish once, list the communities they want to target, and members from all those communities meet in one shared comments section. One discussion, multiple communities participating together. No duplicates, no fragmented conversations to check.

the current algorithms are too shallow and assume a relatively static environment where everything has already been bootstrapped

The word church means ministry, in the sense of parliament or governing assembly. Unfortunately, this word has been hijacked in modern times and now primarily denotes a building in which people gather for an hour per week to sing self-congratulatory songs and shirk all further responsibility

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the verb εκκαλεω (ekkaleo), meaning to call out, that is: to summon, to assemble for some specific purpose. This verb isn't used in the New Testament but from it derives the noun εκκληος (ekkletos), which describes either a person or a group of people selected to govern or judge. From this noun in turn derives the important noun εκκλεσια (ekklesia), which describes an Assembly; not just any assembly but an Assembly duly summoned. This hefty word shows up all over the classics, and denotes a group of powerful men who have congregated in order to form a governing body or parliament, usually under a king or president: a senate that's formed from senators who each represent their own demographic group of citizens.

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the key difference between a free person and an enslaved person is that the latter had demonstrated an inability to keep himself out of bondage, which automatically meant that he was also unfit to keep society out of bondage. And that meant that slaves had no right to interfere with any kind of policy making. In our modern and sensitive times we call people who perform work but have no authority to make policy by the term "employee", which is the same thing as a δουλος (doulos).

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The only competition the gospel has is with ignorance, which is not the opposite of wisdom but the absence of it.

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A sheep follows the shepherd the way a child learns to speak. Both imitate, but neither knows what might come of it. The gospel is like a language within which one can express oneself in any which way one wants. The "freedom of speech" that is so proverbially important in our modern day and age is contingent on all speakers submitting themselves to the rules that govern the language. If nobody adheres to the rules, the language doesn't work (or even exist, because all language is consensus) and there is no freedom of speech. If everybody adheres to the rules, the languages works, and everybody can freely express what's on their hearts. In Galatians 5:1 Paul writes that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free (implying that the very purpose of the gospel is freedom; also see Luke 4:18), but the kind of freedom that is referred to is not the anarchy of flies — because flies are utterly bound by chaos, muteness, darkness and lawlessness — but the freedom of bees: freedom-by-law, or ελευθερια (eleutheria).

Source: www.abarim-publications.com

perhaps kind 10777 could be used as a list of favorite spells