rschulman

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 remember because I had to go to some extra lengths for the process as a non-UK citizen.

I'm not surprised that Companies House is lagging behind right now. Basically everything is broken because of Covid, I can't imagine non-profit paperwork is at the top of the priority list. I will also say, as someone who has worked most of my professional life in non-profits, government paperwork is the bane of everyone's existence and having some sort of screw up (whether it is your fault or not) is practically a rite of passage.

As Arathorn mentioned in a sibling, we're chasing down our accountants to see if we can get this sorted out, but this isn't a sign of any larger trouble than a paperwork mixup.

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 Parler. I'm just saying that a social network predicated on the idea of "we will never moderate our platform" will be an actual legitimate trash fire of a place to spend time.

Moderation is not censorship. If you're being moderated at a particular community, it means that the community thinks you're offensive and don't want to hear from you anymore.

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 is going anywhere any time soon. Portable accounts/identity is on the spec roadmap and is a personal passion of mine, so moving servers while keeping all of your identity will hopefully be possible in the not-too-distant future.

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 be a little distracted for the next while until my son goes to bed.

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 today. I do have some ideas about breaking apart the compute and display components, allowing the compute (and wireless) to go in a bag (or something) and connect up to a hefty battery while the human interface components are lighter weight.

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 to wait an hour before they see the new photo of my son, that is not an epic tragedy. There are also maturing p2p ways to help solve this problem. If my sister gets my update with the new photo before I hit the tunnel, she can share it with my mom whenever they manage to connect.

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 distributed network model. With that said, there have been demos of streaming video over IPFS.

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 not sure that current smartphones are actually what you would want to use for such a vision. They're convenient because lots of people have them, but they're not purpose-built for the kind of work that I'm discussing here.

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 can remember.

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 thinking of it.

Generally speaking, keys are embedded in a DID document in a standard text format and proofs are published as a signature using one of the published keys.

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 document is then published on some ledger (can be blockchain but could also be, e.g., IPFS) so that others can discover it.

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 their jurisdiction.

The most the UK government would probably do is issue a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request with the US government, who would then go get a warrant and serve that on you, which you would have to respond to.

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 government meet German standards for obtaining criminal evidence, rather than the US standard. If you don't like the German standards, you should take it up with your government. That's why the law also requires the US government to evaluate the human rights standards of the other government before entering into a relationship under the law.

Only the repercussions that the UK government could exact upon you. If you have no assets in the UK and don't plan on going there, there is relatively little they can do to you.

It's important to note that the CLOUD Act does not compel you to respond, it permits you to do so where you were prohibited before under US law.

I am a lawyer, but certainly not yours.

Jesus, why on earth does the mascot for this thing have to be an underage anime girl in a short skirt? Already guaranteeing I'm not going to be using your software, let alone suggesting it to anyone.

I love it when people make this argument. The IPv6 adoption hurdle is NOT the usability of v6 addresses. 99% of the world thinks that IPv4 addresses are a horrorshow and would never bother to memorize one or even write one down. They use DNS because they are human beings. The layout of the address behind the DNS they couldn't care less about.

At least two of these three senators have been yelling into the wind about NSA abuses for around a decade. But sure, jump on to the Internet and spout nonsense if it makes you feel better about your government turning into a surveillance state.