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Over the past 15 years of developing secure web apps for various organizations, I ended up architecting solutions which had to deal correctly with ITP, webauthn, CHIPS, iframes and more.

This year, I ended up publishing an open protocol that can be used for everything from secure authentication to API requests to micropayments, and it works with the existing Web stack and P256 curve with JSON serialization curves as well as EVM blockchains via K256 curve and EIP712 serialization.

I encourage everyone to take a look at it and consider using it, so we can stop reinventing the wheel. Everything has already been deployed, it’s an extremely simple protocol, much simpler than JWT and requires no global registry.

https://openclaiming.org

https://github.com/OpenClaiming

It is also used in stuff like https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud/


As a libertarian, I am okay with laws that allow people to sue for fraudulent or intentionally very misleading statements, especially ones made publicly and impose compounding costs on a lot of people. This is public harm. The laws are protections for regular people, in this case people who are looking for jobs. I'm also okay with Pigovian Taxes for the same reason: forcing actors who externalize costs to the public, to internalize those costs.

Laws are frameworks. My brand of libertarianism is "decentralizing concentrations of power" and "giving people the software tools to self-organize". But in the meantime, yeah, if there would be laws for anything, it would be this kind of stuff. It is why I can get behind Intellectual Property for Trademarks, before I get behind Copyrights and Patents. Trademarks are about making sure actors don't misrepresent who they are and appropriate the brand of other actors. I think many libertarians would come to support Trademark enforcement laws if they were presented that way.


I say this with respect for you and genuine intention for constructive discussion. Not here to bash you.

I'm not sure your described viewpoints are libertarian at all. I'm pretty sure Montesquieu-esque separatation of powers and Anti-Federalism gets you where you're at.

I don't really think a single one of these viewpoints is contradictory of the modern Democratic Party.

But anyway, maybe I'm just making this comment because my belief is that the word “libertarian” has become so cloudy that almost nobody should use it as a descriptor for their political beliefs. You can't actually just say "I'm libertarian" and have anyone come close to understanding what you mean, which might be what you are experiencing right now from me.


This is just begging for a class action-ish lawsuit.

Oh, I’d say they had some good clues.

Literally on the front page of https://safebots.ai … “Don’t let your AI Agents run amok”. Sadly we will see a proliferation of not just agents, but swarms

I think Facebook with their money and Vercel with their VC funding tried hard to push the React and then the Next.js everywhere. So it arrived in time for AIs to all train on it. And now it’s the one true way :)

But do we really need all that stuff? Build steps, bundling, tree shaking, all for what? And is it really simpler… hmm


There are some advantages, but the main one is probably that it stops everyone from using NoScript and breaking tracking.

What's wrong with having a website where you scan a QR code, and have your own private chat, and it sends notifications using, say, Web Push?

Wait, I kind of don't get it.

So Obfuscated C Code Contest works but Capture the Flag doesn't? Because of AI?

https://twit.tv/posts/tech/ai-disrupts-capture-flag-what-mea...


Capture the flag has clear objectives while obfuscated C contest does not. I understand improvements in AI for goal-orientated contests, I am not sure what would be considered improvements in open-ended contests with artistic flair.

Maybe you are asking "can't someone think up a clever idea and ask the AI to implement it according to IOCCC constraints?" And I believe current AI tools are still unable do that at a level that the human judges find worthy.


Think of it like this

You’ve already faced this the entire time with… libraries on github.

If employers knew how much you can just use a new standard library, or ask you to “use React”, that’s a lot like asking you to use an LLM to speed things up. You also benefit from the collective wisdom of a lot of people. Do you write assembly or pixel shaders by hand?


RSI is dangerous. That is why we designed CDE:

https://safebots.ai/declarative.html



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