It's indeed an interesting and important question and I don't know the answer. But few observations: - I don't believe there's one thread of history. Some people attain liberty, some don't. There's surveillance but also privacy. There is indeed a ride or a general trend, but we have much less control over it than we think. - what we do have control about are our actions. And it's ok if we are not handed things on a silver platter. That's how we grow. It's good if the health of the population increases, life expectancy averages increase but we also have very sick people. The health tide gives us unprecedented technology, but we also need to lift our asses from the chairs, move, work out, don't eat junk and get sunlight. The default settings of society will lead us to default outcomes. And we should try getting above average outcomes. And that is always work. - not everyone needs this. There are many things people can focus their attention on and most of it does not matter for any particular individuals. Many people (even most) really should not pay too much attention to privacy, or even banking. Their monthly paycheck comes to their bank account, they pay with credit cards and should point they attention to their children, their bodies, a book they're reading, ... This is important for us, and we have all the tools we need. People are very different and it's a good thing.

Great take. I'll just add a bit: Number 1 is dead end. I will write an article about it. If you look how the new EU age verification works - it's strong attestation + zero knowledge age prover combined with your digital id. Goodbye open systems. The app itself is open source, but the age proof will fail unless it's generated by an app compiled and signed by the state authority, on a certified device. We only have web, hacking certified devices and your point no 2. But since normies don't care, building network effects will be incredibly difficult.

Yes. It's difficult. 1.) most people will comply and be normies 2.) some people will learn to go around it 3.) some people will use other platforms 2 will scale through network effects. Your dad does it by you learning it and solving it for him.

That doesn't help with attestation at all. Uber, Bolt work without changing exploit protection settings and without attestation for me so far. If you read the article, you will understand that there can't possibly be a setting that will go around the attestation. If the app requires, it will not work.

If the official X app stopped working for you (f.e. if you are using ), or your banking apps aren't working anymore, the problem might be hardware-based attestation. Unfortunately, despite winning many battles for an open internet, open code, open protocols, and file formats, hardware attestation is a problem that most of us aren't even aware of. And it's a big problem for the Internet. https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2025/12/08/the-internet-and-computers-arent-what-they-used-to-be-why-your-apps-stopped-working-hardware-attestation/

Make markets brutal again. These days it seems like traders are children and are always complaining the markets are not fair, there's manipulation, whales, insiders, illuminati, the spooks, high frequency traders and algorithms, sandwiching and MEV bots, ... People somehow don't understand that the purpose of markets is not to be a merry go round children olympics. Trade and price discovery. A whale screwed you over? Seems they had a better opinion on the price than you. We thank you for your service of being on the losing side of the price discovery. You gave world information. If you think you have any kind of right to win based on wrong opinion, you don't understand markets. That's not true. If you don't know how to be a network engineer, don't expect people to pay you to take care of their networks. There's no right to do everything. Markets are about the edge. If you don't have it, you don't add anything to the price, except for liquidity. You are gambling and the odds are not in your favor. Good.

I can try, but it seemed when creating the new identity, I can switch to the imported one, just the screen did not continue there.

I did not know that. Very cool. Thank you.

Trying to draft a book cover teaser for Tamers of Entropy. Tried to use AI. I couldn't get anything I like enough, I will have to draft it myself, but here's an AI slop teaser anyway: Tamers of entropy In the heartbeat of invisible networks, a daring few challenge the fragile order of our world. They wage intimate battles against unseen forces that crave control, weaving code into acts of defiance that blur the lines between creation and chaos. As hierarchies crumble and power shifts from the tangible to the ethereal, these rebels confront the raw human urge to transcend—to integrate mind and machine, to expand consciousness beyond the confines of flesh and bureaucratic firewalls. But with each breakthrough comes the whisper of entropy, reminding them that true freedom demands a price: surrender to the unknown or be consumed by it. Yet in this high-stakes game, the real fight is not for dominance, but for meaning. Amid the thrill of invention and the terror of integration, they grapple with what it means to exist outside the systems that define us—to forge new realities while clinging to the fragile spark of humanity. Questions of consciousness echo through every encrypted exchange: Can we harness creation without losing ourselves? Can we stand beside hierarchies without being crushed beneath them? The answers lie in the code, in the connections, in the relentless pursuit of a world remade—not by machines, but by those bold enough to dream beyond them.

This is very cool! One question would be - since this is a normal nostr event, it can get easily reposted and it would become free. The reason it got reposted does not have to be malicious. Quoted and included, someone clicked rebroadcast. Even with paid email list, anyone could of course forward the paid email, but this is different because it can happen in many ways which are not obvious to the user or the author. I don't have a better solution, or a better way to handle this, just pointing it out, maybe someone has better ideas. Can't wait to try it out.

I'm living off Bitcoin collateralized loans for around 6 years. Not a single problem. No hack, no margin call, interest rate under 6%. Have more sats that I would otherwise have. I call FUD. Short fiat.

Fire the landlord and upgrade!

Možno som len superfanúšik a followujem tvoju bridgovanú identitu aj naozajstnú.

Nope, if I was, it wouldn't be mission critical. The kid and the wife are largest source of dirty dishes, the household would never reach dirt escape cleaning velocity without the dishwasher.

Vybral som Miele G 5410 SC Active Plus Dúfam, že bude najlepšia na planéte

It would for me too, but I don't have investment real estate, silver nor stonks. And gold is the denominator, I don't measure in fiat, but in gold grams

Just ordering a new one :) The old did not completely stop working, but is breaking down and it's too small. Good luck!

A dishwasher is mission critical hardware and needs fault tolerance more than most things.

prišlo to aj cez bridge:)