ReneeVandervelde / Renee Vandervelde is on Nostr

Engineer @ Block; Bitkey 🪨

Friend of Open Source.
Passionate about Kotlin, Security, and Plants 🌱

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2024-08-30 00:33:00

I just want a small phone that runs LineageOS 😔

2024-08-20 00:38:04

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The point of Google's Play Protect is to protect Google from competition.

2024-05-31 22:07:04

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👀
Roughly how much of the app would you say is multiplatform-ready today?

2024-04-27 04:37:57

It's time to end phone numbers as a kyc login.
I hate this dystopia where creating an account requires a carrier number with all my info and even the burner/virtual numbers are typically blocked or used up by spammers.
Just stop. Find a better way to fight spam.

2024-03-23 18:11:07

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In a sense, data ownership on traditional platforms like Facebook and Twitter is governed by a terms of service, but on Nostr, it feels somewhat closer to publishing to the public domain.
It doesn't feel forthcoming to compare Twitter's ability to delete your data upon request to Nostr's. Someone could, theoretically, be backing up your tweets, sure. But large platforms do quite a bit to prevent that, it's against their terms, and anyone using it would or should know that the data was obtained in bad faith. On Nostr that's not the case. Nostr's operating model has no real agreements. And the core idea of the model is that anyone can and should be backing up that data on their own servers. It seems much more reasonable for someone to think that the data could be used for whatever they want in that model. That is the de facto ownership model on Nostr and fediverse content right now. You own the identity, but you don't own your data.
To be clear -- I don't think that's bad. I *like* the idea of that data being free and open when it's published -- who owns your words after you say them aloud?
But it does inform what data I put here. And I think that's a big shift for most people coming from large traditional platforms. We should embrace that distinction to help people's experience here.

2024-03-20 13:46:53

I really want to dig into "you own your data" on nostr.
Do people feel like that's true?
I certainly don't feel like that. I feel like I can author whatever data I want, but once I publish it I don't have any control over it anymore. My data gets published to many relays in control of many different people with different ideas of how the ecosystem works. I generally have no way to delete or modify the data. I have access to my data whenever I want, but so does everyone else. And that data can be used for seemingly whatever purpose anyone that receives it would like. I'm not sure what would stop a company from using that data to, say, target ads at me.
It's not even really clear where the authority to do any of this comes from. There's no user agreement or anything. If I do own the data, it's certainly not treated that way.
I don't believe any of this makes the system *bad* per se. It just feels like something we haven't figured out yet.
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2023-11-11 04:05:32

👀 Hello World