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by grumbel 5y ago
NFT behave like physical goods, they can't be duplicated, but they can be transferred. A plain PKI signature does not and if you surround it by additional bookkeeping that you can, you are just reinventing your own NFT. Furthermore you
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by grumbel 5y ago
I think the biggest potential use for NFTs would be the transfer of games/movies/books between services and users, e.g. buy a movie on Amazon Prime and than watch it inside Netflix or sell your used digital movies to somebody else
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by grumbel 5y ago
P2P cash that cost me up to $50 to use for a single transaction isn't exactly a success. It might be great for collecting some ransom money, but is completely useless for buying some donuts. Whatever bitcoin is, a replacement for cash
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by grumbel 5y ago
Blame your browser for being crap at doing the main thing it was created for: Rendering good old plain HTML.
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by grumbel 5y ago
Even if all the novelty fades away, you'll still be left with a gigantic virtual TV that you can carry everywhere. VR gaming doesn't need to succeed for AR/VR to be able to replace every display you have. It will still need s
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by grumbel 5y ago
I would include the commit metadata, otherwise you have no easy way to figure out where that source came from. The issue of out-of-VCS builds can be solved by putting the commit-hash into the directory/tarball name or a VERSION file, e
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by grumbel 5y ago
They are also algorithmically curated and have a heavy bias towards new content. Those sites vs the old Internet is basically the difference between a modern supermarket and a flea market, both provide you with lots of stuff, but it's
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by grumbel 5y ago
That's like outlawing knifes instead of murder. We should outlaw what the tech is used for, not the tech itself. Doing the later will just mean companies switch to other equally effective technology.
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by grumbel 5y ago
Then why are Internet ads so terrible? Ever more annoying ways to present ads might make people accidentally click on an ad, but seem like a bad way of getting people to buy the product. Even video ads are generally terrible, many of them f
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by grumbel 5y ago
The biggest issue with RSS in my eyes is that it tries to replace the Web instead of just being a better way of viewing the Web. The info RSS provides should be extracted out of the HTML itself by your Web browser, not a separate document p
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by grumbel 5y ago
> That still requires you to deliberately decide to archive a certain page You don't "archive" a page with IPFS, with IPFS everything you keep a copy of stays available under the same address, that either happens automatic
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by grumbel 5y ago
GUI options to use it exist. You can use IPFS via the IPFS Desktop client or just use the Brave browser which has support for it build in. That said, if you want to actually host anything on IPFS yourself, you need the CLI client so you can
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by grumbel 5y ago
With IPFS you access content by hash. So if you have a plain IPFS link to "Lagrange multiplier", it will always point to exactly the same version you are looking at right now. No way to change or update that. If you want to update
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by grumbel 5y ago
Command line client can be found over at: * https://docs.ipfs.io/install/command-line/#official-distribu... Single pre-compiled binary, no dependencies. Starting it is just a matter of: ipfs daemon WebUI wi
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by grumbel 5y ago
IPFS doesn't give you any guarantees about if the content is actually stored anywhere, it however gives you reasonable guarantees that the addresses for that content stay the same. Meaning if somebody finds an old backup tape decades d
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by grumbel 5y ago
The main benefit of reproducible builds isn't security, but sanity. There is just no reason why your build process should produce different output for the same input. That just means it's broken in subtle ways and information is l
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by grumbel 5y ago
> Citation please? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
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by grumbel 5y ago
It's a ToS violation, but you can still do it. Facebook will only ask for ID verification after they locked your account, but not while creating it. Locking of accounts is however pretty common.
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by grumbel 5y ago
As long as you are sitting or moving naturally, motion sickness is pretty much solved for most people. Refresh rate and tracking are good enough these days. Where motion sickness is not solves is with artificial locomotion, e.g. using to us
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by grumbel 5y ago
Every account on Facebook must be attached to a real person and every person is only allowed a single Facebook account. A throwaway account is an automatic TOS violation and can lead to an account ban. Facebook does actively enforce their T
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by grumbel 5y ago
Quest2 requires a Facebook account, only Quest1/Rift/S still work with an old Oculus account (at least until 2023 when that goes away as well and it's Facebook for everybody).
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by grumbel 5y ago
Quest2 requires a FB account today and for everybody, the 'until 2023' is only for old Oculus accounts used on old devices, i.e. Quest1 and Rift/RiftS.
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by grumbel 5y ago
Freenet feels very similar to IPFS, but it differs under the hood. On Freenet the network itself is the data store, you don't host your own files, you upload them and they spread over the network. If you go offline, the files still rem
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by grumbel 5y ago
The difference is the granularity. A torrent is like a tar file, it's a big blob of static data that can't be updated. IPFS in contrast works more like a file system, you have a top level directory that points to the content withi
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by grumbel 5y ago
Not really. The issue is that you aren't the same from one moment to the other in the natural world either. You constantly change, large parts of your body even get rebuild regularly. So demanding 'quantum level perfection' o
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by grumbel 5y ago
I find subscriptions completely useless when it comes to recommendation, as the recommendations seem to be build up of what I watched in the last week, while my subscriptions have little to no visible impact at all. There are numerous chann
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by grumbel 5y ago
Downvotes on Youtube do nothing, as the system still counts them as engagement and continues to recommend the videos. The issue with the "Not interested/Don't recommend channel" is that it's the nuclear option. It d
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by grumbel 5y ago
That's why I started using multiple accounts, makes it a lot easier to keep the algorithm on topic and not get side tracked just because you searched for a song or game once. In the end the core problem with the recommendation system i
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by grumbel 5y ago
I always liked the doors in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory ( https://youtu.be/ajlONBnhLkE?t=81 ), as they give you numerous ways to open them, including a sneaky way where you get full control to slowly open it in an analog fashi
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by grumbel 5y ago
> And then what would the Blockchain provide in this case? The main thing a blockchain provides is a cryptographically secured logbook of history. It doesn't guarantee you that the entries in the logbook are true, but it gets a lot

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