Mark Hughes @markhughes@mastodon.social

The Real Pied Piper – SAFE Network: What is it?

An interview with SN community member Dimitar. #SiliconValley #PiedPiper #SafeNetwork
https://safenetforum.org/t/the-real-pied-piper-safe-network-what-is-it/34774

Curious about Safe Network? This post gives the essentials in a few minutes and has just updated. https://safenetforum.org/t/10-key-facts-about-safe-network/12948?u=happybeing #SafeNetwork

Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline - https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/05/belnet_belgium_ddos/ gosh, if only we had some idea of who might be behind this attack... #uyghurgenocide

China's Disappeared Uyghurs: What Satellite Images Reveal - https://www.rand.org/blog/rand-review/2021/04/chinas-disappeared-uyghurs-what-satellite-images-reveal.html "sudden rush to build what appear to be fortified preschools." as sat images get better, it gets harder for #china to deny #UyghurGenocide

Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax

https://inkl.com/a/QNylnptLqXL

Our tiny not-for-profit based in Ireland pays tax at the full rate. Meanwhile, Bezos doesn’t know what to do with his money and we don’t know if we can pay the rent next year.

People don't care about privacy.

Oh wait... only 96% of people care about their privacy.

So 96% of people will see value in SafeNetwork.tech and applications built on its secure, surveillance proof platform. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1388468643093168130?s=20

Could #Bitcoin fail and if so how? Some thoughts on the back of an envelope: https://safenetforum.org/t/can-safe-network-become-the-green-alternative-to-bitcoin/34656/8?u=happybeing

If top politicians give out their personal mobile phone numbers willy-nilly or publish them in press releases like Boris Johnson did, then having Popbitch find out is prob the least of your problems. Astonishing intelligence agencies didn't insist BJ change his number years ago.

When I say it's astonishing intelligence agencies didn't insist Boris Johnson change his mobile phone number, I obviously mean *UK* intelligence agencies.

Other countries' intel agencies would have been fine with it.

Tweet from a thread describing the Draconian measures being considered by UK lawmakers to punish - retroactively - those providing it building #e2e encrypted services:

https://twitter.com/WebDevLaw/status/1379713655802109953?s=20

Another feature of #SafeNetwork that will turn heads will be Digital Bearer Certificates. These are like electronic checks, but can carry anything not just Safe Network tokens, and you don't need to have an account on the network to receive one or sign it over to someone else. #DBC

Some use cases being discussed now: https://safenetforum.org/t/how-we-might-market-a-dbc-s-digital-bearer-certificate-unique-cash-like-features/32877/60?u=happybeing

From 30 Apr: ‘Black day’ leaves UK fishing worse off than before Brexit - The collapse of talks on a fishing quota deal with Norway has exposed the vulnerability of the UK’s fishing industry and left it in a weaker position than when the UK was in the EU, fishing leaders have said. https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/black-day-leaves-uk-fishing-worse-off-than-before-brexit/ #brexit #common-fisheries-policy #iceland #norway

Did you know: MaidSafe switched Safe Network to #Rust from C++ six years ago? Six! #visionary

This hurt my brain

When I first explored the interwebs it was like an unknown land. Fighting through lack curation or search to find interest or relevance.

Now it means fighting algorithms, click-bait, targeting, dark patterns, and trickery.

We deserve better.
We deserve SafeNetwork.tech.

Fleming test v4.2 is finishing and StephenC says...

"We hope to have Fleming testnet v5 ready towards the middle-end of this week."

That would be incredible, I mean amazing. Fingers crossed and thank you again everyone at @MaidSafe!