Oddbean new post about login | logout someone who touts themselves as an expert has a higher grade to pass
No, they don't. You just don't care about the OT and only joined the conversation to insult them.
yeah it's very relevant because if you are really worried about not being able to delete your posts you don't post them which is elementary signals intelligence
she doesn't get a handicap because she is a "girl" if that even means anything for someone who if you actually follow her stuff you'd see that she is constantly making shit up
Nah, by far one of the most high-signal npubs on here.
Agree. One of my favorite accounts on Nostr. Keep the posts coming.
good to keep abreast of who is a dupe
If a Note is on 1 node that deletes it, and another node still has it, will it somehow populate back to the node that deleted it if enough users are searching for it? i guess what i'm asking is are the Nodes interconnected. if this is like a Hub and Spoke network, then sometimes you have to fly from one hub to another hub to get to small towns or small relay villages.
the specification is very vague about this but part of the reason is there is no consensus you basically have to assume two things: 1. anything you publish is probably picked up immediately and stored by somebody 2. any delete or replace event is probably not going to be acted upon by somebody this is why fiatjaf and the general consensus among everyone who understands the protocol is that delete just doesn't work i'm one of the small number who points out that the very concept of replacement should involve a reference to chain them and that deleting should not be all or nothing but moving old versions to a state where they can be deleted but usually not immediately most of the nostr devs do not really understand distributed systems theory adequately, and i'm not a competent expert but they mostly understand less than me (i've been working on distributed systems since 2018 pretty much full time) anyhow, i hope that helps
oh yes and i probably should add this the delete event, iirc, is an ephemeral event it should be a tombstone event, and it should not disappear until quite a bit longer later this is standard protocol in distributed databases, until all traces of the deleted item are gone from replicas the delete event should persist nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqnyqqft6tz9g9pyaqjvp0s4a4tvcfvj6gkke7mddvmj86w68uwe0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpqz0s7s35sj47cgwckpsakk6uw9r68vkaukz096pp5z0evyqjp2ynsf0zedq
i am thinking along the lines of "censorship resistant" so i was imagining self-healing network. so i was mainly worrying about the opposite which would be, you plug in your relay with wisdom, and it gets immediately truncated because the network has issued delete requests for those notes. perhaps some people will make lists of "Do-not-delete notes" for wisdom . so these can always be persist if there is demand from the users and will from relays.
i don't think you really understood what i just said deleting requires you to at least leave the tombstone around for long enough that all replicas implement the intent of the publisher but that is completely and utterly naive because someone probably has a value in keeping all of the data and nobody can force them to delete it if your system depends on virtue to function it's fucked at minimum you can count on the spook agencies throwing their infinity funding pool from all the coke smuggling into paying for infinity storage to keep everything i'm not "worried" about anything it's simply going to happen, and if you want to live in the real world and not be shocked by how things actually work, try to think through the scenario that we are discussing in full detail and realise that hoping everyone is deleting something that is already out there is foolish they aren't, and they won't and for the sake of actual protocol, the delete event needs to continue to exist as long as possible from a data storage and especially now SSD operational principles perspective, deleting events is also... EXPENSIVE because every time you rewrite a block it gets one write closer to death
rereading everything, and i think I understand better. making a personal note to reread your notes 'cause there's lot of info density per sentence. thank you for explaining
Agree, if something can be performed as an "attacker" then you cant just standardize non-forceable good behaviour in participants. When online-status on nostr based on recent connections to relays!?😋
That's like saying we shouldn't bother locking our front doors because someone could break through a window. There is value in making misbehavior inconventient or counterproductive.
If the front door is really locked by a tech implementation that actually works, then yes. But internet makes things scale in a hardly to imagine way, and a "mostly locked door" easily become equivalent to an open door. Imagine exchanging offline paper messages using some sort of Ceaser Cypher to crypt them. In most cases, if you are not an high target or someone is motivated to see the messages, you have a mostly closed door that can work for some situations, protecting messages from accidentally leaks. Put that exchange-scheme on internet and you have an open door, you can consider your flawed encryption as exchanging cleartext.
this is why rule number one is: don't put sensitive data on a public network. period.
anyone who is trying to sell you any idea that you can ignore that rule should not be trusted and probably is a spook trying to keep the newbies confused about security
Nope. I disagree. I may decide to delete something just because I want to clean up or accidentally posted something. And it's bizarre if it stays in my feed, regardless, because a relay operator doesn't have their shit together or holds fanatical views on data retention.