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Edit: is Max Howell even involved with this? If not then it's just another cryptocurrency scam trying to monetize someone else's work. Look at: https://brew.s

by api 5y ago

Edit: is Max Howell even involved with this? If not then it's just another cryptocurrency scam trying to monetize someone else's work. Look at: https://brew.sh https://brew.sh The donations link is at the very bottom. If they need money they should put it up at the top the way Wikipedia does and make it a one-click easy thing with an embed that takes things like Apple Pay. I've never been prompted or asked to donate to Homebrew at all.

RL_Quine 5y ago
This basically popped into existence 30 days ago with a discord instance and not a whole lot else. https://twitter.com/mxcl https://twitter.com/mxcl 'ceo @teaxyz_' https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads-$8-million-seed-funding-round-for-tea-421499824684903608 https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads... Does look like they just got caught up in making cryptobro scams though.
- api 5y ago
  So here's the problem with this naive model... As soon as they start paying app creators, a bunch of hustle culture shonkwankers will git clone a bunch of repositories and spam a bunch of bogus apps just like they currently do with other artists' work with NFTs. Compensating creators will turn into compensating people who front-run creators and squat names and stuff. "It will be gamed. No exceptions." ... and my own new law: "The Internet is a dark forest." Announcing an opportunity to make any amount of money is the equivalent to announcing your existence in a literal dark forest. You are instantly overcome by tidal wave of spam, scams, and fraud.
  - RL_Quine 5y ago
    NPM has a market force towards people spamming uselessly small libraries, and the result has been obviously extremely poor software. I can't imagine how terrible it would be is you made direct, open financial incentives to do so.
unmole 5y ago
Max Howell is involved in this and it still is just another cryptocurrency scam.
latexr 5y ago
Max is not involved with Homebrew in any capacity, and hasn’t been for almost a decade.
- api 5y ago
  Okay, so definitely cryptocurrency shonk then.

by api 5y ago

RL_Quine 5y ago

This basically popped into existence 30 days ago with a discord instance and not a whole lot else. https://twitter.com/mxcl https://twitter.com/mxcl 'ceo @teaxyz_' https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads-$8-million-seed-funding-round-for-tea-421499824684903608 https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads... Does look like they just got caught up in making cryptobro scams though.

api 5y ago
So here's the problem with this naive model... As soon as they start paying app creators, a bunch of hustle culture shonkwankers will git clone a bunch of repositories and spam a bunch of bogus apps just like they currently do with other artists' work with NFTs. Compensating creators will turn into compensating people who front-run creators and squat names and stuff. "It will be gamed. No exceptions." ... and my own new law: "The Internet is a dark forest." Announcing an opportunity to make any amount of money is the equivalent to announcing your existence in a literal dark forest. You are instantly overcome by tidal wave of spam, scams, and fraud.
- RL_Quine 5y ago
  NPM has a market force towards people spamming uselessly small libraries, and the result has been obviously extremely poor software. I can't imagine how terrible it would be is you made direct, open financial incentives to do so.

unmole 5y ago

Max Howell is involved in this and it still is just another cryptocurrency scam.

latexr 5y ago

Max is not involved with Homebrew in any capacity, and hasn’t been for almost a decade.

api 5y ago
Okay, so definitely cryptocurrency shonk then.