AtHeartEngineer @ AtHeartEngineer @lemmy.world

Aspiring polymath. Applied R&D @ Privacy and Scaling Explorations #make

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People watch the super bowl FOR THE ADS

100% it's bogus. They aren't using it as a distraction for any specific thing. They are using it because qanon and Jan 6th scared the shit out of the government and this is a way to keep conspiracy theorists busy.

Or unix epoch time

I think you should take 5% of donations to pay yourselves personally. I appreciate your work!

Right, there is a potential path here that could be awesome, non transferable tokens that represent voting rights/karma, and points you can sell that could later be use as "gold" used to be used. But I don't think that's what they are doing

Ya exactly, which... I'm curious how they will transition moons and that whole community. There's a lot of people heavily invested in moons.

They have been working on it and experimenting with it in /r/cryptocurrency for a few years now.

They have been experimenting with this on /r/cryptocurrency for a long time. I was a moderator in that ecosystem and am good friends with some of the mods there. I've always been weary of moons, but I didn't think they would actually bring it to the whole platform.

This is definitely a paradigm shift that'll be an interesting dumpster fire to watch.

I work on Ethereum related things full time (and love the core parts of it), but I also, like you, think most crypto stuff is a slimy scam. Stuff like this is exactly why. It's a way for reddit to encourage bots to farm karma for real/fake money on garbage repost content.

I know crypto/blockchain in general is mostly hated in this community, and stuff like this absolutely does not help.

Internet companies that are forced to take people's personal information could do it at their cost

There technically is, but it's going to be a while until the government is ok with it. It's called zero knowledge cryptography, where a user could prove they have an identification that is government issued, and that they are of age, without revealing any other information.

yay -Syu && reboot && 😉🤞

Ahhh, home

Agreed, I started donating to Lemmy as soon as I switched, and I'm happy to pay for sync too. I want to support this ecosystem.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview it's proprietary, but it has a lot of features geared towards writing novels/screenplays/etc

If that's osb (plywood) on the other side of the wood, and it's small spots like that, I wouldn't worry about it.

That is a great picture, subbing

In some ways yes, but current solutions arent always the best solutions. They aren't always the most secure, or the fastest, or the most private, or the most trustworthy. With almost all main stream solutions, you have to trust some company, and then they have their fees, and sell your personal information to data brokers, and they try to get you in debt, etc. It's not a solution looking for a problem, it's a solution that isnt nearly as easy to use as current systems (yet), but all the hype has let scammers ride the wave.

Crypto is far from perfect, we have plenty of work to do, but don't discount it entirely. There is a lot of smart people with good intentions working on the core technologies, that want to see a better world, me included. Definitely continue to be skeptical, but don't write it off.

I believe it's the future and I 100% understand how it works. There are a ton of bad ideas, scams, and money grabs... But at the core the fundamental technologies have a lot of potential.

Edit: to those that downvote, I'm willing to be civil and discuss if you want. If you want to down vote and move on that's cool too, I definitely get the skepticism.

We all want a free and better Internet, that's why we are on lemmy. The core principals of bitcoin, Ethereum, monero (and a few others) are that. I don't want scams, or a bunch of "digital collectible"/nft cash grabs either.

Feeling this lately. Also "well it works on my machine".

Honestly I like typescript, actually writing the language, but as soon as it comes to build time it becomes a hot mess. Trying to transpile to node and browser, I might as well use fucking cmake.

Distilling down all the options to be us vs them. Are you an android pleb or do you have a blue bubble. Glad some people are fighting back.