The boiling frog of digital freedom

Which boils majority democracy down to the median level of education.

I started Intercoin and Intercloud later. Our apps are named Groups and Calendars.

In a matter of decades or shorter, I expect the following to happen as well:

* Governments will give themselves new, expanded legal rights for mass-surveillance on their citizens through their electronic devices.

* AIs will be plugged to surveillance data-streams to search for "criminal behavior," whatever that be for each country.

* As part of the above, a signal-processing mechanism similar to the Chinese social score, but way more sophisticated and comprehensive, will be implemented, by almost every nation with the resources to do so. One nation, China, already started. In the decades to come, other major nations will lean on threat of XYZ to follow suit. (In case you need some examples of XYZ: ordinary terrorism, bioterrorism, avoidance of laws limiting AI, child pornography, access by children to pornography, minor solicitation, parent abuse, sexual harassment of nature X, lax morals regarding Y, information warfare by foreign powers).

Even if those things seem unimaginable to us now, it is a slow slope to roll down through a year at a time. Public perception will gradually change enough to tolerate the privacy invasions. And who knows, for certain category of threats, it may be that the general public of the time enthusiastically supports the surveillance. (For example, I would love to see a study where people with children are asked if they believe that the government should have access to the telephones of people who are statistically likely to engage in CP, like men who are single and under a certain age, in order to prevent CP).

Where did anyone mention climate-destroying proof-of-work? Last I checked, only Bitcoin uses that amount of energy — every other decentralized system does not.

Shitcoin is a term bitcoiners use for every other coin so your own diatribe is incoherent.

Most people on HN are techbros

Blockchains are not the most efficient distributed systems architecture. But if you think you can do better, please do it!

For instance, I am. I think we can do better than BlockChain. That’s why I designed InterCloud, and putting together a team to build it.

I care about open and free technologies. Dat/Hypercore. IPFS. Maidsafe/Safenet. Matrix. Nostr. Literally none of them fit anything you’re bitching about.

In every case, people like you prefer bitching while the frog is being boiled, and actively spreading FUD about any open, free, permissionless alternatives. You’d do better by doing nothing, getting out of the way and let innovation happen. You seem to have no solution.

What needs to change is the open-source community's perception of this coexistence as something mutually beneficial as opposed to betraying their own principles.

This hostility manifests in two ways - one is the belief that not fully open software is somehow evil, and shouldn't be supported, and one should always use (often janky) alternatives that are fully open. The second is the constant churn without any thought given to API or ABI compatibility (never mind making the same binary run across versions, even source-level breakage is extremely common), leading to people wishing to ship commercial applications having to package half of the userland with them.