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cachvico··on European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
Quite!
cachvico··on Open 3D Engine
Consider for example that TCP sockets are not available in the browser. There are other protocols available, but no simple TCP sockets. So you can see there are fundamental differences there that cannot simply be abstracted over.
cachvico··on Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
I used RescueTime when I was freelancing. It's an app you install and it tracks what you're working on down to the second. It works by reading the titlebar of your current app, so it works well for development, and you can set up filters in the web dashboard to divide by projects and so on. Of course there's a privacy trade-off to consider as it's a SaaS.
cachvico··on European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
Appreciate the correction. I assumed it because of the last line "More Information on Chatcontrol: www.chatcontrol.eu" - that link literally redirects back to his own website.
cachvico··on European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
Yes; or satire, or propaganda.
cachvico··on Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
That is an extremely enlightening link.
cachvico··on Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
Agreed, I noticed that too ;)
cachvico··on Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"
That's incredible!
cachvico··on Towards the Science of Essential Decentralised Infrastructures (2020)
> You could argue bitcoin is centralized by that same logic because it depends of the internet.

https://www.wired.com/story/cypherpunks-bitcoin-ham-radio/

cachvico··on Understanding Coinbase
Because that's never happened (see: QuadrigaCX, Cryptopia, ...)
cachvico··on Understanding Coinbase
Until you can't.
cachvico··on Understanding Coinbase
USD
cachvico··on Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Less-popular and original, interestingly in this case.
cachvico··on Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
How many people get to vote on EIPs, out of curiosity?
cachvico··on Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Fantastic post.
cachvico··on Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
It can compute anything you want it to compute.
cachvico··on Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Impressive!
cachvico··on Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
The miners do not give Ethereum its value; the market does.
cachvico··on NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
That's correct. Which makes it all even more absurd. Although the smart contracts are there forever, so at least it can't "go bust" (although the web front-end certainly could).
cachvico··on NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
It would be equivalent of Sotheby's starting a second brand competing with themselves, but yes.
cachvico··on NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
Correct. Although there is only one brand that has sold a Tweet NFT for $3mil.

The enforcement, interestingly, is more traditional; the owners of the "Valuables by CENT" trademark can use existing legal structures to prevent anyone else using that name.

Meanwhile the NFT is digitally linked to the Valuables by CENT smart contract on Ethereum, which will presumably have an 'author' property attached to it, set to the string "Valuables by CENT".

cachvico··on NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
It certifies two things:

1. That you paid a certain amount for the certificate.

2. That there will never be another certificate for the same thing, from the same brand of certificates (e.g. "Valuables BY CENT").

Pretty much exactly like owning a baseball card, then.

cachvico··on Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
Let's hope nobody will lose their head over this.
cachvico··on Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
As I understand it:

level 1 = expect car to go into ditch if you're not careful

level 2 = hands on steering wheel but it should be ok (Tesla)

level 3 = hands off steering wheel, looking around, expect to have to take over control (Honda's beta test)

level 4 = either taking over control rarely needed, or vehicle has limited ability (e.g. can't drive in snow)

level 5 = you can sleep

The confusion lies around whether we're allowed to watch TV - however I'm fairly sure no country or state has passed legislation allowing us to take our eyes off the road while driving.

cachvico··on Flutter 2
These demos remind me of Flash..
cachvico··on Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation
Yeesh
cachvico··on Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers
An enterprise client of a cloud vendor will have dedicated account technicians - response time is extremely fast (minutes or hours). Perhaps things have improved compared to some of the other comments here.

The other consideration is that things generally don't just 'go down' like they do with bare metal (because HA - replication and so on), but if they do, it's likely affecting a large portion of the internet too.

cachvico··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Indeed, 1-click remains the most egregious land grab of the web yet.

"I'm going to patent shopping".

cachvico··on u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
By providing value, therefore driving up the market price of the integral reward. Currently at $22, not bad for a random coin.

I.e, the value of the coin is driven by the interest in the tech it provides.

cachvico··on 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing
Just use Grid view.
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