mattdesl

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-aliased in some browsers).

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.

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-bayram/

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 stream, and this includes comic artists and illustrators. This trend will probably continue as more platforms and payment processors make changes that are generally against the interests of their users (eg: the OP).

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 business.

> You're conflating collectibles

No—I am talking broadly about artists selling their work through crypto, and some of it does include $5 comics, like Sloth Zine:

https://x.com/slothzine/status/1763674161333834057?s=20

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 settle in seconds rather than days; they are not bound to only certain countries; funds are not custodially held by a single centralized tech company; the list goes on.

Much of the rationale for anti-crypto among communities that would most benefit from it (eg: NSFW art) is ill conceived and held together by an almost religious zeal.

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.

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.

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] https://github.com/succinctlabs/sp1

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] https://www.risczero.com/zkvm

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 thread than the 80s expert systems people were to modern machine learning systems.

Practical ZKP and accessible circuit programming is definitely relevant to blockchains; it is one example of technological advancement in crypto that has led to significant advancements. If the only technology you look at is Bitcoin, which is stagnant and hasn’t progressed in many years, of course it will look like nothing in blockchain technology has progressed.

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 the technology despite the lack of public interest and major funding, but the same happens in crypto: engineers are still developing new ideas and technologies within blockchain space (ZK proofs, verkle trees, etc). Bitcoin has stagnated but other technologies have not.

> 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 gone through multiple ‘winters’ where there were serious doubts and pessimistic attitudes toward its capabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

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 your name. Choose a permissive license like MIT for the former, and keep the latter closed source.

In my case[1], although I have several hundred MIT repos, I have many others that I feel an emotional connection to and do not share publicly.

[1] https://github.com/mattdesl

Vinyl? CDs? Cassette tapes?

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.

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/support/storekit-external-entitl...

Apple cannot (or, per antitrust law, should not) tell a developer how to design and sell their merchandise in their web based storefronts.

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/article/can-eight-year-photo-intl-...

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 whatever) with slightly altered pixels—or even the exact same pixels—and see if anybody values them as highly as the original.

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 ‘digital ownership’ is modified in some central database. If you imagine a technological solution to this same problem that doesn’t rely on centralized payment processors and ownership databases, you might end up with something akin to NFTs.

In the context of art, it is basically a digital certificate of authenticity. More details:

https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/eUrK8MrRfKFJYVKTwi5F4mCIBJEB...

“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 artists who practice this (myself included) have long been using this label to define our work.

It has always been a niche topic, but now that “generative AI” is beginning to enter mainstream conversation, it’s basically competing with the terminology.

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 preferable to many users.

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.

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 consistent in larger sample sizes and beyond just NYT dataset (which might be repeated on the web more than other sources, causing overfitting), that would be impressive.

You could imagine at some point a large enough GPT5 or 6 or 7 will be able to memorize verbatim every corner of the web.

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 revelation about their ability to compress an entire web’s worth of data. But, more likely, I assume it is a case of overfitting, or simply finding a prompt that happened to work well.

FWIW, I can’t replicate on either GPT 3.5 or 4, but it may be that OpenAI has added new measures to prevent this.

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 topics in a safe and secure manner. The SEC and US administration is taking the former approach.

I checked, and the complaint[1] lists specific tokens, including ADA (Cardano), NEAR, SOL (Solana), ALGO (Algorand), MATIC (Polygon) and others. I have purchased some of these in the past from Kraken to evaluate the technology on my own terms. It would be a shame if the SEC forces consumers to use less reputable exchanges to access these tokens all in the name of "consumer protection."

There appears to be no clear path forward for crypto exchanges to legally list new crypto tokens to the public. I suspect that is the goal of the SEC and administration; to limit what is available to the public, rather than define clear policies that would enable regulated trading. The only token actually tested is XRP, which was deemed to not be a securities offering[2], and is notably absent from this new filing.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-exchanges-allow-xrp-trad...

Laws change as society and technology progresses. At one point it was illegal to drive a motor vehicle faster than 4mph.

How do you propose Bitcoin, or Ethereum, or any other decentralized & peer-to-peer asset be registered as a security? Coinbase and Kraken argue that there is no clear path toward registering these assets within the current framework.

For an example, some of the stringent per-transaction KYC/AML reporting requirements in traditional financial systems are often incompatible with today’s mechanisms of distributed ledgers.