I don’t think it is Jack’s project as such but he seems supportive.
You can see the contributors on github
but that is obvs just the protocol then there are seperate clients and relays too.
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Sounds very good for Safe, folks are catching up with the separation of data from apps. We cannot do this fast enough.
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Yes! Was thinking exactly this if it gains traction which seems to be happening it will ready people for the separation mindset.
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If she wanted to make a difference she could have let everyone know before they were caught 
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The Ukrainian adventure is unravelling quickly. FTX role in financing that will become apparent soon so the damage limitation starts.
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It doubtless is a non-sequitur… the outline I gave is super loose/rough. I have in mind to study principles of formal logic and hopefully one day build up a “theory of everything” using pure logic… much as the ancient greeks attempted.
Anyway, the rough concept I have in “mind” is that conciousness is a product of the etheric spirit/soul/mind. The ether is a sum of the fractal infinities at all scales lower than ours, and the spirit/soul/mind is a coherent pattern of the ether, much like a vortex is a coherent pattern in a fluid. So then, the “building blocks” of “true conciousness” are infinitely small, infinitely divisible. If that is so, then attempting to artificially reproduce this using building blocks sized at our scale, or our scale-n (eg atoms, molecules) is always doomed to fail because they lack the granularity and thus complexity that is required. Perhaps it might be possible to treat existing spirit/soul/mind as building blocks for a higher order conciousness though…
I believe that things are mysterious until they are properly studied. The dominant materialist paradigm of our era holds that there is no “life energy”, no ether, no spirit/soul. As such, we do not even attempt to study them. So they remain mysterious. circular.
There has been work done in this area around the fringes. Tesla was getting into life energy and helped kick-start an industry of electric healing devices, some of which seemed to work, many of which didn’t. Wllhelm Reich took it much further with his study of “orgone energy”. Was imprisoned and had his books and papers burned by a U.S. court. Today James DeMeo, PhD has taken it further, replicating Reich’s experiments, and furthering Dayton Miller’s ether measurement experiments.
Dr. Robert Becker did pioneering work published in his book “The Body Electric” which demonstrates that a subtle electricity is present all throughout our bodies and it can be utilized to cause bones to mend and even amputated limbs to regrow. He found physical evidence of the acupuncture points. fascinating stuff. Others are furthering that work.
Also though, quantifying the infinite is… tricky. 
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lol - not at you, but at me … I already tried that To be kind I will only say: “Give up now”.
If you study the logical positivists to the end you will see that it’s probably not possible. David Hume, well before them (a demi-god level genius) explained quite clearly why it’s not possible too. Wittgenstein nearly went mad trying IMO and later in life changed his tune.
The best we can do for a pure perfect logical theory of everything IMO IS Descartes’ theorem - which is stuck in meta-physics. As soon as you go into the real world Hume’s “problem of induction” takes over and there’s nothing for it except individual pragmatic “acceptance” of working hypotheses. Karl Popper too later realized that falsification wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.
The issue is that we always rely on limited data sets. We can never even know how limited they are, so we can’t really know what we can possibly know - not even probabilities.
In the end, Socrates had it in a nutshell - the wise man knows he knows nothing.
It’s interesting for sure - I tend to think of vortices in the ether as what we perceive to be particles and the waves they cause in the ether to be electromagnetism. The “ether” to my mind is the plank-scale fundament of the universe - the base field of all fields.
I suspect that understanding these deepest of layers of our universe, be them physical or spiritual however must require gleaning smaller bits from huge data sets over long periods of time - much how physicists have gleaned the “Standard model of particle physics” which yields a mighty fine equation, but not the theory of the universe itself that explains that equation.
standard model equation of everything
In a way, it’s a bit like the number 42 in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” - getting the answer was very hard - but getting the question is much much harder! 
There are many hypotheses that attempt to explain the standard model of course – seeking to wrap up the universe in a semi-tidy way – String theory for instance … but they always seem to be too many steps away from scientists being able to test them.
So … I suspect you will find a similar difficulties with what you seek to achieve. Gathering enough data to determine a soul-ether relationship itself sounds extremely tricky, although you will likely find some interesting numbers/equations/relationships. What will likely be near impossible though is to subsequently test any hypotheses you come up with to explain them.
Almost as if the universe wants to keep it’s secrets from us!
Perhaps there is simply too much information for our minds to comprehend it all. Maybe a future AI that is smarter than we are can put it together better. But then … we would still remain in the dark ourselves.
Maybe Elon has the right idea - to merge with AI.
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So a gray-hat hacker stole some funds from a defi protocol and then returned them for a reward and a promise that he wouldn’t be prosecuted. But now the US has arrested him and charged him with manipulation.
The worry is (of guy in the video) that this will discourage white hats because even if they were hired to attack the protocol they are still manipulating markets and violated the letter of the law.
I would propose that a simple solution might be to create dummy tokens that can be returned to the protocol creators for a reward. In this manner it’s not manipulation of a token that has any street value and so none are harmed.
Thoughts? Would Safe Network benefit from creating a dummy network token?
Thought this may be of interest.
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a number of interesting posts
and noting also potentially interesting there
Hardware https://puri.sm
Software https://pureos.net
Services https://librem.one
Nice to see Privacy; Security; and Freedom front and centre elsewhere… time is ripe for tools that cater for those.
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Used Pure OS for a while there when transitioning towards more Free Software, it’s a fully free distribution, no propietary blobs in the kernel, all that good stuff. I can report that it was a lovely experience, it’s a very solid operating system.
I really knew nothing, but they have a graphical software installer and updater, it was easy peasy to figure out.
Wifi worked for me with no drama, but if you were running a new machine with propietary drivers you may need something like this Technoethical N150 HGA Wi-Fi USB Adapter for GNU/Linux - Technoethical to get the wifi working on top of Pure OS.
Would recommend to all fighting grannies and little brothers.
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Chaos in Mexico (see thread)
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Internet Censorship is COMING! This You NEED To Know!
Not Hyperbole. It’s really bad. Looks at legislation (coming and passed) in Canada, the UK, EU, & the US.
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The Session Private Messenger App is one of a select few platforms for hard core secure messaging that truly demonstrates real knowledge of privacy. This app knows that it’s about data as well as meta-data, and understands the distinction between just security vs security and privacy.
Let me explain how this app and its entire infrastructure is different and why you should use it as your secure messaging platform instead of the many flawed but super popular apps like Signal, Whatsapp, and Telegram.
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I use qtox and set the proxy on it to Tor (which is running on my system). Peer to peer and fully encrypted as well, so about as private as it gets.
Frankly, I don’t know why people keep making new ones when we have good open source ones available now. Nice to have some diversity in case bugs found, but there are several alternatives now. e.g. Bitmessage is also good.
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