They are comfortable. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.” - Luke 6:24 I pray for their awakening.

Has anyone tried any of the “open” yubikey alternatives? Is there one that does NFC, usb, and supports FIDO2 and TOTP? I’ve looked at a couple, and didn’t see great support… I’d love something I could download gerber files and solder together myself (should I want to).

Ah, well that’s the trick: you don’t lose your key if you lose your phone. At least, not with the major players’ implementations. It syncs “with the cloud”, and you can simply buy a new device and auth with the same account to recover it. Yep. Simple password/secrets management. Password Manager in google, keychain in Apple… And so here we see a hint of the end game: they control your logins to every account you use the passkey on. Power concentrates. Fuck that. The answer is to get a couple of yubikeys. Take 5 minutes to learn it.

I was saying the same thing this morning. I’m not as sure if it will be a fully kinetic war, tho. Seems inevitable as the current empires continue to crumble under their own weight.

“As much pressure to be an influencer” I am intrigued by this observation. What about the nostr clients fosters “influencerization”? Is this a good thing for nostr? Is it good for people? If not, what can we do to disincentivize against it? I’ll admit I’m greatly against it, but I can also acknowledge that this is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to the sheer volume of begging/manipulating peoples heartbeats that is so pervasive on the internet these days. In light of that, I *could* see some positive benefits of it for the ecosystem at large.

Past performance doesn’t guarantee future performance. You can train your kids well, as I’ve done, but you have no idea what kind of environment or temptations they’ll run into later in life. And certainly not grandchildren. Gotta have some boundaries in play. No one respects the money like the people who first made it. I don’t see how it’s possible. There was no shedding of blood, tears, and heartbeats.

A honeypot of identity, payments, and tax history? What could go wrong?

Forgive them, for they know not what they do. They need to see that the “rulers” are the ones creating the “need” for the theft to begin with. I don’t know if a better way for people to learn than through suffering, unfortunately. I keep thinking we’ve got to hit a sort of rock-bottom before this takes root. Maybe that means the 2%-ers being unable to have a living wage (and think of how fucked everyone else will be).

Some of the worst people running America into the ground are native-born Americans. Just look at the government and Silicon Valley. If anything, competition disrupts that hegemony a bit.

You can do both. I have worked hard so that there may be an inheritance for my descendants. But that inheritance can also have rules and limitations to prevent “spoiling”. But I get your point.