mattdesl

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by mattdesl 3y ago
RSS isn’t a social media protocol with follows, comments, usernames, etc.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
If that was the cost of decentralization I am sure a lot of users and especially content creators would consider it. I would rather pay 5c per year on Twitter and own my social graph, rather than pay 0c and leave the platform in the hands o
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Have you seen the fees on Ethereum rollups lately? It can be very low compared to trad payment processors. https://www.gasfees.io/
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Happy to see this! Would love to see somebody try to re-implement some limited Canvas2D API but using Rive Renderer as a backend. Would likely be faster and more flexible in some ways (e.g. I've found that Canvas2D clipping is not anti
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Ethereum (the protocol) is not only developed by Ethereum Foundation; and further, the several client implementations are all open source and run by independent organizations. Seems like wild speculation.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
I’ve already given you an example: Sloth Zine, an indie digital comic by illustrator Burka Bayram that is selling via crypto & tokenization. You can even read about his story here: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-burka-bayr
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Your argument lies on the assumption that consumers are too lazy to follow their favourite content creators to new payment avenues. The reality is that a number of artists have already added crypto as an alternate and additional payment str
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Owning a passport and electricity bill is hardly “paperwork,” lol. If an artist can’t manage to set up a crypto account—or a bank account, which requires the exact same documents—they are probably not in a position to run their own art busi
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by mattdesl 3y ago
By what metric are these better solutions? Modern blockchain payment systems (see Base) have transaction fees that are an order of magnitude cheaper than any trad processors; they don’t discriminate based on moral grounds; transactions sett
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by mattdesl 3y ago
A lot of artists already are using crypto to accept payments. Look at “crypto art” space as a whole. You don’t need tons of paperwork to set up on and off ramps.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Looks great! Is it capable of doing real-time editing? For example hooking it up next to a canvas element and having the nodes change the colors or shader uniforms.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
As it turns out, a lot can be. The concept of a ZK VM is that it is able to prove arbitrary code. Risc0 and the more recent SP1[1] both compile arbitrary Rust programs into ZK circuits for generating and verifying execution proofs. [1] htt
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by mattdesl 3y ago
This seems like something that could be verified through ZK proofs. The data to search could be represented by a public merkle root, and the searching/indexing given the user query could be programmed in a ZKVM like RISC0[1]. [1] http
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by mattdesl 3y ago
If “nobody doubted” AI, there would not have been an AI winter in the first place. > Now, you can try to change the topic again to hypothesize that some non-blockchain technology will become popular but that’s no more relevant to this th
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by mattdesl 3y ago
the whole idea of an “AI winter” is that people did not feel that AI was capable and worth pursuing, the Wikipedia link makes that sentiment clear. The remaining computer scientists still working in AI space obviously continued developing
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by mattdesl 3y ago
> Similarly, nobody doubted that neural networks were capable of very interesting things - the holdup was the level of processing power needed to run them. As soon as that changes, useful applications abounded. This is incorrect. AI has
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by mattdesl 3y ago
My advice: split your work into two camps, the types of projects you would be happy if everybody used and benefited from (even without crediting you), and the types of projects that you would not be happy seeing others republish without you
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Vinyl? CDs? Cassette tapes?
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by mattdesl 3y ago
If that messaging is allowed, it is a huge change from before, where external links for taking payment was not allowed at all within an app. A lot of users will probably opt for the 27% discount if given the choice.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Can’t a developer just add a message to their website to circumvent this link tax? “Open this again in any regular browser to receive a 27% discount.” I don’t see anything that prohibits this: https://developer.apple.com/sup
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by mattdesl 3y ago
1K years sounds far-fetched, it seems just as possible the framework holding up the pinhole camera will fail before then. The longest exposure photo is about 8 years, and it looks quite good. https://www.cnn.com/style/a
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by mattdesl 3y ago
In that case, it would be a new NFT, with its own contract address (and hash), and users seeking to collect the original token would not find any interest in a copy. You can test this theory yourself, by minting new CryptoPunks (or whatev
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Better to use this tech as digital certificates of authenticity, or records of provenance of digital ownership, rather than a means of tracking physical inventory. To use a comparison: if you buy a game skin from an app, a record of ‘digita
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by mattdesl 3y ago
In the context of art, it is basically a digital certificate of authenticity. More details: https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/eUrK8MrRfKFJYVKTwi5F4mCIBJEB...
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by mattdesl 3y ago
“Generative art” has been around for decades; over the last several years it has often been used as a catch-all term that often covered algorithmic art & computer art, and generally with a focus on coding and computation. A lot of artis
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Sure, but even then, not all traders. Preference will depend on risk tolerance and other factors. The point is: just because there is a 0.3% fee (or lower, as sibling comment noted), does not mean this option will never be viable or prefera
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by mattdesl 3y ago
How problematic is a 0.3% fee? If the two options were otherwise equal, I think most users would rather pay that than deal with potentially losing their funds altogether due to fraud or insolvency.
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by mattdesl 3y ago
It doesn’t seem that surprising; compared to entire NYT articles, poems are short, structured and more likely to be shared in multiple places across the web. I’m more surprised that it can repeat 100 articles; if that behaviour is consisten
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by mattdesl 3y ago
It would be curious to test this on a larger sample than just a few. It is hard to believe that a majority of NYT articles are verbatim stored in the weights of a web-wide LLM, but if that is the case it would be a pretty unbelievable revel
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by mattdesl 3y ago
Trying to prohibit citizens from something potentially risky is a poor approach to safety — we've seen it play out with alcohol, drugs, abstinence, etc. Another approach is creating new frameworks to engage and interact with these topi

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