@astraleureka they keep funding people to prop up the decomposing husk of w3c (who specifically ensures that web pages can never be compressed because of that whole thing where every server is forced by vint cerf at gunpoint to inject secret data into the beginning of every web page it returns to the user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME) as if json-ld is anything other than an actively malicious force created to hurt people for fun
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@astraleureka i'm pissed off because mixnets are obviously good and i independently invented the concept. but david chaum is a fucking loser for writing that 1979 paper that's like three pages on a typewriter (which is exactly as long as it needs to be because this shit honestly isn't that hard) and then like ten years later immediately demonstrating he didn't understand anything he wrote in that paper by stumping for cryptocurrency and immediately making it his whole identity
@astraleureka i called mine an anonymity network because mixing is an implementation technique and anonymity is a promise to users. and he refuses to even pretend to define success or failure. nym's site repeatedly claims that mix routes are exactly 5 nodes in length and they're specifically not nodes you have ever seen before in your entire life
@astraleureka i also find it to be insultingly fucking obvious that any "switch" from a VPN (btw the wireguard paper is so deeply unserious and anyone who has read it and subsequently chooses to call wireguard a secure cryptographic protocol is my enemy) to a mixnet encourages really unsafe behavior even if we afford them the grace not to assume it's just a blatant backdoor
@astraleureka i really truly believed when wireguard went off for a whole paragraph about how important it was to avoid responding to packets without the appropriate authentication that they were going somewhere meaningful with that. i certainly did not expect them to just drop it and never explain why this very strong behavioral constraint (directly used to justify multiple protocol decisions) would be so obviously created as a pretext to pull some fuck shit
@astraleureka the next generation internet project very specifically does not support any project that undermines the IETF, w3c, or google more generally and i have absolutely jumped to a conclusion in response
@astraleureka sorry the same governmental body that does frontex is absolutely not going to be diverting taxpayer money to anything that could jeopardize being able to do more frontex
