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lifty··on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains
It's useful because it's coming from the original source, instead of having an oracle network made up of 3rd parties which vote on it.
lifty··on US to put economic data on 9 blockchains
The reason why this is useful is for DeFi applications that are blockchain native. If an applications needs to rely on the economic data, it will be able to use it natively without using an oracle. This doesn't improve the integrity of the data or replace the old ways of getting the data, just makes it more accessible to the blockchain ecosystem.
lifty··on GPT-5
It seems to me that there’s no way to achieve AGI with the current LLM approach. New releases have small improvements, live we’re hitting some kind of plateau. And I say this a a heavy LLM user. Don’t fire your employees just yet.
lifty··on Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager
One is for cluster orchestration the other is a single machine container/vm runtime.
lifty··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
A fixed supply, digital bearer asset. It’s nobody’s debt. Not that many of those. And US debt, even though it’s still the predominant reserve asset, things are slowly changing. And yeah, btc is still not a proper currency.
lifty··on Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks
You’re right. It’s the embodiment of enterprise software sales. But some how AWS and GCP do it a bit better.
lifty··on Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks
Microsoft doesn’t really respect their users because most of the users don’t decide by themselves to use Azure. Someone else make the decision for them. And it’s probably like that for many of their other products.
lifty··on People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees
This is the first time I hear about librdx and Chotki, very cool projects. I skimmed over both projects but I haven't seen much written about conflict resolution. Does it mean that last write wins based on version vectors?
lifty··on Matrix v1.15
Super happy to see matrix chug along. I’ve been self hosting dendrite home server for a long time but it doesn’t have sliding sync support, so can’t use the new modernized client. Anyone using conduit for self hosting and do you know if it works with the new client?
lifty··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
It’s not possible to subscribe to the stuff that you’re interested to?
lifty··on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
You sound like Data from StarTrek. You too, with enough observation, will understand the importance of feelings to humans.
lifty··on Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project
This is an awesome effort, thank you, knowing that one of the authors is in the thread. How far is this from usability, at least in some reduced context? Would love to be able to build server images based on this kernel and play around with it.
lifty··on First thoughts on o3 pro
You tried to one-shot it? Because context and access to troubleshooting tools is of utmost importance to get good results.
lifty··on Go is a good fit for agents
What are the main differences between temporal and hatchet?
lifty··on Getting AI to write good SQL
Excuse my ignorance, but is the good experience somehow influenced by Google AI Studio as well or only by the capability of the model itself? I know Gemini 2.5 is good, have been using it myself for a while. I still switch between Sonnet and Gemini, because I feel Claude code does some things better.
lifty··on Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
Love the inspiration from Yggdrasil with the hashed key -> IP concept. How do you enforce the geographical part? And what do you use from transport? WireGuard?
lifty··on Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Done occasionally it’s fine. It can lead to crashes and also anger or increased irritability. Things that mess with neurotransmitters can be hit or miss. A better long term strategy is to focus on fundamental things that improve the metabolic health of your cells.

One other “light” supplement that can dampen addictive behaviors or cravings is l-theanine.

lifty··on Spain is about to face the challenge of a "black start"
Not sure why you are downvoted but this rings true to me.
lifty··on Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures
What are you talking about?
lifty··on Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures
So, very accessible
lifty··on Sync Engines Are the Future
Is Zero based on prolly trees?
lifty··on Sync Engines Are the Future
Indeed. So conflict resolution that takes input from the user needs to be part of the protocol. Just like in Git.
lifty··on Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
Indeed I haven't used that term correctly. What I meant, is some kind of asset that is not easily inflated, something that in the long term can retain its exchange value better. Of course, nothing is guaranteed, and especially with bitcoin, it super volatile. But you have a better chance of judging your purchase power based on that.
lifty··on Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
Find a better unit to report your costs in. Like hours of work, or any other hard asset (real estate, gold, bitcoin etc.). Otherwise you are bound to be disappointed every year.
lifty··on Sync Engines Are the Future
Very good point. The local-sync ecosystem is still in a young phase, and conflict resolution hasn't been tackled or solved yet. Most systems have a |last write wins" approach.
lifty··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
All the expensive endpoints should be behind user registration. Only static pages, or other cheap endpoints should be public.
lifty··on Show HN: Open-Source MCP Server for Context and AI Tools
Still waiting for someone to implement and MCP to LSP bridge.
lifty··on Go European: Discover European products and services
I hope there will be more adoption of EU stable coins like https://monerium.com, and a payments ecosystem will form around it. The rails are there, we need the apps and the integrations next.
lifty··on Magnesium Self-Experiments
I’ve tried probably most forms of Magnesium and they all upset my digestion, unless I take a small dose.
lifty··on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
I think it's equivalent to a laptop 4070, not to a desktop one.
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