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I am one of the other Guardians (aka Members of the Board of Directors) of the Matrix Foundation and I can confirm that we submitted the paperwork on time in October 2020. I rememb…

Oh, interesting. I came here to post this link and someone else beat me to it. :) I'm the author if anyone wants to chat about the piece.

I'm so sick and tired of people who have no idea what freedom of speech means. Nowhere did I say that the government should do anything to this pile of fascist idiots over at Parle…

Translation: Bored of 4chan and gab? Come join our network of nazis, racists, and vaccine deniers!

My first year CS classes went by SCIP and were taught in scheme. Of course, I went to a place that didn't much distinguish between comp sci and comp eng, so what do I know?

No, they're both named after Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes' equally brilliant brother from the series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Thank you for trying to be a voice of reason against this poorly done journalism.

So, New Vector (the for-profit org that the foundation has just spun out of) operates the matrix.org homeserver on behalf of the community. With that said, though, I don't think it…

I am thrilled to be one of the newly announced Guardians of the non-profit foundation. I'm happy to answer any questions people may have, though bearing in mind that I'm going to b…

Awesome! I will check it out.

Author here.... I'm actually really interested in what we can do about the battery situation. The vision I laid out is clearly more battery intensive than your average phone is tod…

There are lots of places where we have trained ourselves to think that timeliness is the most important quality when it absolutely isn't. If I drive into a tunnel and my family has…

I appreciate the thoughtful feedback and I admit that I'm less confident about some parts of the vision than others. Some things, you're probably right, are much less amenable to a…

I live in Washington, DC, actually... But I appreciate the feedback. I think you're right that I'm being a bit optimistic here, but the whole vision is a work in progress. I'm also…

Author here... thanks for the feedback. I'll give some thought to how to better introduce the thesis up front.

This is completely the opposite of my experience. I'm in probably a dozen Freenode channels via bridge and another 5-6 Mozilla IRC channels, and haven't had a problem in as long as…

I don't know in particular how they intend to portray Idemix, but both Hyperleger and Sovrin are heavily involved in the development of the spec, so I'm pretty sure they're thinkin…

The DID system doesn't use any central registrars. Connecting a key with an entity consists of the entity represented by the DID publishing the key in their DID document. That docu…

1. Reconsider whether you actually need to dive into this cave...

Came here to say this. Why? What defect of password managers can you possibly be fixing by adding a global trustless append-only ledger to it?

There aren't really a lot of shortcuts. Start with therapy.

This is incorrect. The US government has no interest in turning over their citizens to the UK government. The UK government is unlikely to sue a US citizen in US court to assert th…

So I fought against the CLOUD Act as an American because I think it does lower privacy protections for many people around the world. With that said, all it does is make the German …