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theplumber
5y ago
What's the big news? I fail to see the "bombshell".
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theplumber
5y ago
>>it used to be that the whole village got together every week It'a a good thing until you end-up being excluded from that big community which means excluded any kind of social life or even worse(i.e killed with stones). I say: g
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theplumber
5y ago
Boom! Now you know what NFTs are.
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theplumber
5y ago
ETH is expensive but there are other "cheaper" blockchains compatible with ETH whose "gas" price is negligible. You can also deploy for free on the "testnet"
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theplumber
5y ago
OpenID is a closed system both to the end-user and the website owner based on secrets(`state` `code`, developer keys) from identity providers(google/facebook) not cryptography.
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theplumber
5y ago
I think it depends much of expectations. It actually exceeded my expectations. I recently built a small and useless program in solidity and deployed it within few hours. It's definitely better than what we had available years ago (i.e
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theplumber
5y ago
No wonder this kind of stuff happens when you trust some magic institutions with your data/security...only a "trust-less" system can be trusted.
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theplumber
5y ago
But you don't buy property anymore. You are licensed to use it under various T&C. The age of property is gone. I wouldn't be surrised to see our fav OS(ios, macos, win etc) stop working once the cloud account is suspended. For
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theplumber
5y ago
I don't see the chinesse people raising against CCP for this. Not even if the olympics are cancelled. It's well-known that CCP leaders are untouchable in China just like Kim is untouchable in NK. On the other hand if you look a bi
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theplumber
5y ago
That looks like a feature request, not a bug. Am I wrong?
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theplumber
5y ago
It looks like as long as you do things publicly they cannot really be considered "personal" only. The higher you climb on the social ladder the more visibility and responsability you have. If you want to express a "personal&q
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theplumber
5y ago
An even better solution is webAuthn...I don't understand why it's not supported more than "2nd factor" which very often happens to be a phone/sms verification service, easy to steal as well.
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5y ago
>> People should be able to talk about something and let it be unaffiliated with the company they work for. I doubt that's doable. What if the CEO of Pfizer goes to antivax protests or suports them online(i.e on Twitter)? I'
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theplumber
5y ago
"Old" people are boring. They dont start Tesla companies either
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theplumber
5y ago
People could contribute "anonymously" without to go through banks and payment processors. Now eth fees are not that low and transfers not as fast as we want but if we can cut the middle man(banks) I think it's worth it(for so
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theplumber
5y ago
A proper online identity framework is long due though. Maybe this is not the proper one but sending copies of my passport, electricity bills and lately selfie recordings as well to "prove my identity" doesn't seem right eithe
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theplumber
5y ago
Anyone knows how this relates to webauthn and why they need a new way of doing online authentication?