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The same can very well happen in the real world. I see an artwork online, upload it to my portfolio and claim it's mine. There are then many ways one can prove they are the original author and minting an NFT is just an easier one (assuming the claim doesn't get invalidated off chain).

Otherwise it's like dismissing NFTs and not minting your own but then getting upset someone did it on your behalf. You can't have it both ways.

No, it's exactly the same as the "native" app (API differences aside, as I mentioned). Have you tried GitHub Codespaces?

> NFTs prove neither ownership nor uniqueness

Except that's literally what they do, using a combination of digital signatures and timestamp. You can have a copy of the same NFT even on a different chain but the timestamp will be higher, therefore proving it's not the original.

Plus the problem of referencing the content is solved by having all data on chain (likely on layer 2). Recurring problems in the world of art trade such as provenance, certification etc. are elegantly solved by NFTs.

> someone copied and pasted this guy’s real-life artwork, created an NFT out of it

Ironically that's exactly because the artwork was not (referenced) on chain. If that was the case any subsequent copy would not be recognized as the original because of the timestamp and wouldn't have nearly the same value. That's why a simple digital signature scheme based on something like Keybase wouldn't work.

I understand and appreciate the author's skepticism but, IMHO, he did end up looking like David Letterman in that video.

VSCode literally runs in the browser with identical performance to the Electron app (because aside from some differences in APIs, the runtime is pretty much the same). Try GitHub Codespaces and you'll see.

> no hundreds of stupid features that product people stuff down in the name of experimentation.

Amen to that!

That is not at all how I experience the web today.

I also get annoyingly loud and flashy autoplaying videos...

How long before someone exploits this?

- Build an app that injects malware but also shows the restaurant's menu. Give it the same name as the restaurant.

- Go to the restaurant, overlay your QR code sticker on top of the restaurant's.

- When someone scans the code they are asked to install "[Restaurant's name] menu", obviously they are going to do it.

- They open the app -> malware is activated, menu is shown. Profit.

> he likely killed his neighbor

> he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams

Well, that escalated quickly.

My claim is that it's ridiculous to send $0.01 monthly invoices for an inactive account, not sure what you mean by "validate", maybe it isn't that funny of a story? :) But it doesn't make sense for me to spend even $1 on anything regarding this matter. I'm ok with not having access to that account anyway. If anything they should pay me to go through the hassle.

I'm not interested in recovering that account anyway, I'd spend more money (in terms of time spent dealing with them) on trying to get it back than what I'd owe in a few decades.

It is unreasonable but it's just not worth engaging with them even to exchange a few emails, financially speaking :)

I'm not from the US.

I'm not from the US. This is not available in any of my banks.

I'm not from the US.

Funny story: I keep receiving a $0.01 monthly invoice from AWS for a very old account (opened 5+ years ago) I have lost access to. I have no idea why (the invoice doesn't list the services being used) and the associated credit card has expired a long time ago. They requested notarized documents to prove my identity. Obviously I'd rather settle my $6 (+ interest) debt 50 years from now than give hundreds to a notary today!

Wait, this is article isn't sarcastic?

Why on earth is text selection disabled on this website?

Hey great post! Thanks for sharing so many details. Just one question: how do you approach profiling in production? Specifically in those cases where copying whatever slice of data from the prod DB would be too much to handle.

You can use whatever ORM or templating library you want. But at least if one day you realize you need something that Django offers out of the box it's there for you to use.

And if not it's not like it has any perceivable effect on performance.

There are connectors for noSQL databases as well. Or it's surely easier to implement one than to reimplement everything else around the ORM.

Honestly, I don't see the point of using Flask anymore. You can set up a Django project and just use a single module with a bunch of view functions, built-in testing and sensible defaults. Done. Not choosing that approach just because it takes a few more MBs on disk or needs a few more KBs of memory is shortsighted, IMO. You can't always predict what a project will end up needing.

I'm legitimately asking: why would you use Flask instead of Django, even if you don't (but might) need the ORM, admin etc.? Thanks!

No idea why you're getting downvoted. This makes perfect sense. Especially for up and coming economies, they almost need to resort to these schemes. Anything "global" that doesn't take into account details of specific realities is usually a bad idea.

What do you use for remote debugging? And do you run all production instances with a debugging server attached? What's the overhead?

"If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it must be an object"

Not sure about the first point, after all with digital art what matters is the NFT since anyone can copy the artifact 1:1 at virtually no cost and no risk. I agree with many that NFTs are best suited for digital worlds but that begs the question: what happens if the game is centralized? They can still prevent you from actually having or using that item, regardless of any proof of ownership.

Re: wash trading, that also happens in the art world with shell companies.

Apple adds limitations to protect the system: "too strict!"

Apple gives the chance to disable these limitations to power users: "they should be disabled by default!"

Apple disables limitations: "temporary convenient oversight?"

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Isn't this the same argument people were making about those huge mainframes 50 or so years ago? If there's one thing we can all agree on is that we don't really know the implications of a new technology in the long run.

Do you have pictures of the offices at the time?

How is it a Ponzi scheme if any photo uploaded before July 2021 will still be stored for free? In such a scheme the last N people to join lose their "investment". In this case any new user could easily upload their entire library before then and have it hosted on Google's infrastructure (theoretically) forever, for free.

Awesome! I've seen videos of people running Android Studio on a recent Samsung model and I was impressed by the fact you can now build Android apps on Android. As far as I know there is currently no way of building iOS apps on an iOS/iPadOS device.