Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@mastodon.social)

Wow, Magic Wormhole is so cool!

It's got to be the most convenient and secure file transfer program I've ever seen! And it (or it's techniques) can be used to address the usability problems of pubkeyhashes present in most secure-by-design tools.

(I wonder if @aral@ar.al has heard of it before, I'm sure he'd like it)

@indie I found it informative when the artical pointed out that a major driver towards People Farming was the inability to pay people directly over the early Web.

We can do better now with more traditional business models, and we should.

@mayel Neat ideas!

I'm just left wondering on Ora, what if I'm doing (eventually) paid work contributing to the commons? Because that's what I've been doing today.

@mayel @cykros @gracie @ebel @alanz

Very true. Going decentralized (federated or better distributed) is great, but we must remember the cause we're doing it for.

Cryptocurrencies meanwhile tend to be the extreme of forgetting the cause: they (with few exceptions) just make the privacy problem worse at the cost of slow performance.