1. Social operating system for the Web, to liberate people from Big Tech and let them choose where to host their own community:
https://qbix.com/platform
2. Economic system for the Web, to monetize open source, journalism and other digital content without ads:
https://qbix.com/token
3. Economic and governance system for the real world, leveraging blockchains to enable local community currencies, universal basic income and democratic governance decision making on-chain:
https://intercoin.org
I have been working since 2011 on liberating people from Big Tech, and move digital society from Feudalism to a Free Market. A lot of the above is working, documented, and in some cases has attracted millions of people in 95+ countries, and translated into 15 languages. Feel free to reach out and join.
I do not believe solutions to these issues will be found with government regulators. I believe they can be enabled by new technology that is designed to balance interests on all sides and actually enforce the guarantees IN CODE AND PROTOCOLS.
Having said that, I don’t think the tech industry is what it once was, dominated by cypherpunks working to create a better world. It has been captured by greed and “moving fast and breaking things”, as well as infighting. Greed (both in the form of web3 numbers go up, and benefiting from the greater fool while delivering no utility) and moving fast (web2 facebook / VC / dump shares on the public / lock in / extract rents). So no wonder the government eventually steps in, when the industry spends a decade without adults steering the ship. We have giant platforms controlling everything, and the rest has devolved into zero sum games and memecoins. The tech industry hasn’t led or even organized enough to get behind technology that can liberate users. Instead it’s been captured by for-profit interests. Mozilla and Apache are rounding errors.
Here is what open source can do when it comes to mass surveillance, and this would also solve the Flock problem here in the States, too:
The correct way is to have M of N signatures on specific package manager pinned versions. And you trust the auditors to look at each new version, of a well-known package.
We should start a project and get it funded, to do just that. The money can go to LLM tokens for audits, at least, and hosting the multisigs and the package managers.
Anyone want to partner on this? See my profile on HN and email me.
One major trick in distributed systems is to always attempt things in the same order. And then locally, you just store what you’ve seen, for “a long time”. That takes care of a lot of transactional issues — idempotency, retries, exactly-once delivery with no distributed locks, etc.
But as someone who builds distributed systems, I can tell you that transactions should be local. Anytime you want to lock something across the network (eg Canisters in ICP) so you can read it, that’s probably a code smell. You probably want to have evented reactive things ripple out, you do need idempotency, but you shouldn’t design your system to read remote state if you can help it. Only subscribe to remote messages.
Peer to peer Livestreaming is much easier than storage + streaming, because everyone is online at the same time, and can restream to each other using webrtc. If someone drops out, those listening to their stream can join someone else. It helps the livestreamer save money and not have to rely on Big Tech platforms ingesting RTMP.
Did you read the academic paper? It proves otherwise.
Yes, the government already knows your age, it gives you a driver's license for example. We're not talking about erasing their memory or databases. We're talking about you being able to prove your age range to others, without revealing your identity.
I like to think that I change my mind based on evidence, but the more I battle test my ideas in a specific thesis, the less reluctant I am to give it up, and prefer to see a synthesis incorporating the new arguments.
Often though, I find the arguments are things I have already heard before and either incorporated or debunked - either way they do not affect my positions.
In a few years: Did you go home and make love to your wife, and put your kids to bed? Great, now give Claude Code access to those, so you don't have to. It is trained on 10,000,000 kids' behaviors, will remember every one of your family's health profiles, preferences and microexpressions, and can prevent tantrums and motivate them to lead much healthier lives than you can.
Oh for goodness’ sake, can’t the government (federal or states) create a service that will simply give out a token when someone has passed the age they want (eg 18), and provably goes through a multipart mixer, or just give you a zero-knowledge proof on the device of your choice, anytime you need?
On a related note, if they will require a specific kind of ID to vote, can’t they just make sure everyone can receive that ID?
Of course they can. They don’t want to. And they pretend like they don’t know how to. What this government is lacking, is a distribution system.
To be fair, they will need digital IDs or NFC chips in IDs since deepfakes can now fake the physical IDs next to your face in real time.
1. Social operating system for the Web, to liberate people from Big Tech and let them choose where to host their own community:
https://qbix.com/platform
2. Economic system for the Web, to monetize open source, journalism and other digital content without ads:
https://qbix.com/token
3. Economic and governance system for the real world, leveraging blockchains to enable local community currencies, universal basic income and democratic governance decision making on-chain:
https://intercoin.org
I have been working since 2011 on liberating people from Big Tech, and move digital society from Feudalism to a Free Market. A lot of the above is working, documented, and in some cases has attracted millions of people in 95+ countries, and translated into 15 languages. Feel free to reach out and join.
http://qbix.com/about to contact me