AtHeartEngineer

AtHeartEngineer , 5 days ago

Good for him, I hope he is ok

AtHeartEngineer , 30 days ago

ARM is not paltry, it's in small/portable devices because it's efficient, not weak.

AtHeartEngineer , 30 days ago

Your article is a pretty reasonable and fair evaluation of farcaster, but then your post saying crypto/web3 is "mostly really dumb and bad" is not very nuanced. I know a lot of people on Lemmy don't like crypto, and that's what's in the meta right now, but if you are going to give something a fair shake, give it a fair shake, don't just anticipate backlash for covering a crypto topic and preface it with "it's mostly really dumb and bad". Ya there are a lot of scams, and a lot of bullshit projects, but there is a core of really useful infrastructure there, which farcaster is using for self sovereign account registration/ownership.

AtHeartEngineer , 30 days ago

Farcaster uses decentralized hubs and multiple clients, if you want global usernames you need a global db

AtHeartEngineer , 30 days ago

Those are different design choices that have different trade offs, I didn't make these decisions, I'm just explaining how it is

AtHeartEngineer , 29 days ago

I understand, don't get me wrong, 99% of stuff in crypto is hot garbage, but having a global database that isn't controlled by any one (or even dozen) entities is pretty powerful. The 2 guys that started farcaster could quit, or get hit by a bus, or decide it's not profitable enough and pivot, but at least you have control over your profile still. If reddit was decentralized more, they wouldn't be able to shut down their APIs for 3rd party clients.

Trust me I understand the criticism of block chains, but if we want open source and the internet to thrive and not be controlled by companies, we need a global layer that is neutral.

AtHeartEngineer , 29 days ago

But there's no global consensus, it's not trustless, and smart contracts unlock a lot of additional composable capabilities.

AtHeartEngineer , 29 days ago

Which is a whole lot of extra engineering that is already taken care of with a blockchain. Whether social networks should forget your username/registration is a different debate.

AtHeartEngineer , 26 days ago

Ok, we are talking in circles, you have your opinions, I have mine. If you want to talk about this over voice at any point, let me know, I don't think text is going to get anywhere, and Lemmy has a pretty strong bias against crypto (which I understand, but obviously disagree with)

AtHeartEngineer , 1 month ago

Also, who decides who needs help? Some cases are obvious (neo-nazis), but many aren't, and the majority of people won't have enough context or time to make decisions for everything.

AtHeartEngineer , 1 month ago

Which can be missed by an examiner

AtHeartEngineer , 1 month ago

I never say this, but fucking preach

AtHeartEngineer , 3 months ago

So many people on Lemmy are pessimistic as shit, makes it hard to read the comments sometimes

AtHeartEngineer , 3 months ago

100k

AtHeartEngineer , 3 months ago

I think they are doing this above board, so it's just "contracts". It's not illegal, just shortsighted. Just like lobbying isn't technically bribery because it's "official bribery" so it's got a different name.

AtHeartEngineer , 4 months ago

The best way this could be handled is a green check mark near the video that you could click on it and it would give you all the meta data of the video (location, time, source, etc) with a digital signature (what would look like a random string of text) that you could click on and your browser would show you the chain of trust, where the signature came from, that it's valid, probably the manufacturer of the equipment it was recorded on, etc.

AtHeartEngineer , 4 months ago

Fair point, I agree with this. There should probably be another icon in the browser that shows if all, some, or none of the media on a page has signatures that can be validated. Though that gets messy as well, because what is "media"? Things can be displayed in a web canvas or SVG that appears to be a regular image, when in reality it's rendered on the fly.

Security and cryptography UX is hard. Good point, thanks for bringing that up! Btw, this is kind of my field.

AtHeartEngineer , 4 months ago

I ran /r/cryptotechnology for years, and am good friends with the /r/cc mods. Reddit is a mess though, especially in the crypto areas.