Nostr notes by Fromage

Wow, thanks for helping me put into words the deep-seated feeling ...

2026-06-30T08:12:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…j3lm
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Wow, thanks for helping me put into words the deep-seated feeling I had that WSocial is meant to be the lab where mandatory EU digital ID is to be developed and tested on willing participants. It is right there in their mission statement, and yet I hadn't even mentally registered it. Now I get why they are pushing it so hard and awkwardly.

This could be the case, as their village is reasonably close to a ...

2026-04-08T14:47:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…9tcx
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This could be the case, as their village is reasonably close to a border. All I know is that they got this working on their own using local and cheap technical means (definitely no money to use starlink but I imagine starlink endpoints might be part of a proxy chain), and that we are reaching them using apps Bale and Soroush. I'll ask my partner as I don't speak farsi, but I got the impression that they were regularly talking to friends and family deeper in the country too.

while this isn't technically incorrect from your point of ...

2026-04-08T08:12:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…yz8c
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while this isn't technically incorrect from your point of view, "near-total disconnection" in practice isn't as rough as you make it sound. Iran is a country where VPNs and techniques to go around the blocks have been used by average citizens for years. I can confirm that my non-tech-savvy family has been reachable during the whole period including video calls except for a short period at the start of the war.