He was nuts before that in the rust community as strncat. I suspect he's clinically paranoid.
But why not benefit from his paranoia? I was running CopperheadOS when the keys were destroyed. I appreciated it. The smartest people are often the nuttiest. I'm gonna keep on with GrapheneOS.
That link doesn't support your case. PostgreSQL beat SQLite on every metric he tried. And he kept PostgreSQL's hands tied behind it's back by using only the intersection of features via an ORM and barely touching performance tweaks.
SQLite is a weird mutant. It is an RDBMS SQL database designed to be a persistence layer of a single application. It doesn't work as the former (not a server) nor is it well suited for the latter (kv databases work better as I have recently learned through experience). I think they did a great job of building the mutant to be the best mutant possible, but I don't see the use case anymore.
If you want to bind a key to a name, use a petname. That idea was there from the start (afaik). What is a name anyways other than a way for you to remember who that key represents?
The whole business of binding keys to other sorts of identifiers was always murky to me. Why are these other sorts of identifiers important? Who are they important to? Are the centralized? Do they promote centralization? Why should I trust some 3rd party with this binding?
Back at Sun Microsystems IT, I made a proposal I was (and still am) very proud of, but it wasn't accepted and probably wasn't really well understood either. The proposal was to send new recruits a javacard with a Sun PKI keypair pre-generated on the card, along with a serial port smartcard reader (this was pre USB). They would fill out their job applications under a session authenticated by (or else digitally signed by) the keys on that card. Everything the company knew about the person happened through those keys. In this way, the problem of authenticating people before giving them a keypair disappeared. The problem of binding some knowledge about them to a keypair was solved, because all that knowledge was acquired in the first place through that keypair.
I have no idea who fiatjaf really is. I don't know his real name. No third party bound some identifying information about him to his keypair and shared it with me in certificate form. And yet I have a good idea who he is and how much I trust him and in which regards. "By their fruits shall you know them" - Matthew 7:16
Nostr has other issues. How to roll over a keypair. How to export/import private keys without risking their exposure. IMHO these are much better issues to have than ... oh shit Thawte/StartCom/Comodo/DigiNotar/TurkTrust/NICCA/CNNIC/WoSign/LetsEncrypt/Symantec/StartCom/GoDaddy/Certinomis fucked up and aren't trustworthy.
Thanks. The pile on wasn't too overwhelming but I just wanted a break from it. I don't plan to block mostr for long, and I'm following you. I'll have to rework the code to allow all follows, and only potentially block replies from unknowns, rather than all events with mostr tags. Was a crude first pass, I think all censorship should be fully distributed to the end user, so I hope you don't do anything on your end beyond possible tags of some sort, but by whom? I dunno, see NIP-56 (my client doesn't support that currently though). The gateway is super-cool and well functioning AFAICT.
Because it allows me to educate the people who say dumb things. If they couldn't say the dumb things in the first place, I couldn't correct them. That's just one reason out of dozens.
Years ago I tried to read Mein Kampf and about 30 pages in I still had no idea what he was talking about. So I gave up and decided Hitler was a nutter.
Ok I looked into the event, looked at the page at gleasonator.com, and I'm going with the working hypothesis that your Alex Gleason.
So I have many questions. First, if the place to find a post is encoded in the post, 2 things immediately spring to mind: (1) that's a catch-22, I don't know where to find it, I can't find it to find out where to find it, and (2) what if that place decides to delete that post?
Second (for now I'll leave it at this) when you talk of arcane knowledge, are you referring to some technical knowledge, or contents of posts that could be accessed via a bridge?