sharperguy

While I recognize the dangers of splintering sources of truth into various fragmented opinion spaces, if you were to fork wikipedia it would make sense to simply clone all the information there and only change the parts that you consider false. Ideally, you make a reasonable case for why particular sources approved by wikipedia are invalid and why some sources considered invalid by wikipedia are indeed valid, and systematically remove all claims covered by invalid sources while verifying further modifications against the updated set of sources.

The community around NOSTR are basically building a kind of semantic web, where users identities are verified via their public key, data is routed through content agnostic relays, and trustworthiness is verified by peer recommendation.

They are currently experimenting with replicating many types of services which are currently websites as protocols with data types, with the goal being that all of these services can share available data with eachother openly.

It's definitely more of a "bazaar" model over a "catherdral" model, with many open questions and it's also tough to get a good overview of what is really going on there. But at least it's an attempt.

Two things are true:

* It's not as simple as sending the transaction back to the previous holder

* With some basic detective work the paper trails exist to find many of the victims and verify the amount that was lost.

The trouble I have is that when I see a headline like this on hackernews my first thought is always "huh.. so what are netlify and vercel?" Maybe most people on here already use those daily but not being in web development I usually don't.

Reminds me of in the show "The Good Place", in the afterlife they are not able to utter expletives, and so when they try to swear, a replacement word comes out of their mouth instead, leading to the line "Somebody royally forked up. Forked up. Why can't I say fork?"

I didn't realize that nextcloud can act as an oidc provider. I use authelia for logging into nextcloud

It's all about balance. Private venues want their customers to have the best experience they can so they will want to come back. The purple lanyard solution MIGHT work, depending on the ratio of people wearing them and the number of people filming. Or it might be that lots of people want to film and the one guy with the purple lanyard keeps getting in the shot and ruining it. Or it might be too many people want to film and end up ignoring it. But in the best case, it allows youtubers to make their videos while not requiring those who don't want to be in them to stay home, as non-customers.

Funnily enough I use nextcloud to upload my photos and then immich with the external dir pointed to my nextcloud directory to actually view them. Mostly came about because I installed nextcloud first. But it means I get to keep both immich and still have a regular file structure.

The venues for these things are private and so they can set their own rules. The author proposes a rule: A simple purple lanyard indicating that you don't wish to be included in the published film.

This doesn't necessarily need to be an article, because the author could have just handled it with each venue individually, but this just gets the conversation going about general sentiment and wider applicability.

My guess is that early on this kind of youtuber was relatively rare and so being captured occasionally wasn't a big deal, but that now the trend is catching on, a it's happening regularly and becoming a concern for some people.

It won't fit on my head next to my POOR IMPULSE CONTROL tattoo.

This is why for learning Chinese I use Pleco, which is a dictionary that allow has a button to instantly add any word to your flashcard list. So when I encounter a new word I just look it up and then add it to flashcards which I review each morning.

I don't know what similar tools exist for learning other languages but it does help a lot for Chinese.

Why can youtube not just give a micropayments backed API? Just charge a few cents per video download and be done with it.

Honestly I made similar mistakes back before AI as a junior developer, by just copy/pasting code or confusing two things.

This is a big part of why Android was developed in the first place. The operating system and application architecture that makes sense on desktop just doesn't make sense on mobile. Despite the many problems Google's restrictive APIs which you are forced to use can cause for developers, they are also highly optimized for power usage.

My current best guess is that people are finding stablecoins valuable because they are effectively barer assets issued by an entity in another jurisdiction that has no requirement to surveil or control how those tokens are moved around between parties, and hence it allows you to skip a lot of the regulatory overhead you would normally have in dealing with a local bank. Of course this can be stopped by states eventually, but it helps when the jurisdiction of the issuing entity is allowing it.

It's interesting because usually correctly collecting requirements and specifying a program is more difficult than actually coding it. Especially when you get into things like building secure, maintainable, extendable applications, that integrate well with legacy systems and so on.

Not any different to losing your job to someone who knows the next JS framework though. And we know the standard ways of protecting yourself from that.

While you have a point there is another aspect to this: If our current situation were already different, netflix and banks would not be able to pull these things in the first place.

E.g. if using open free platforms was already the norm, netflix requiring a verified OS would just result in netflix becoming unusable for most people rather than just killing a couple edgecases used by a relatively small number of people. And so it would no longer be in their financial interest. It's why we've had desktops for so long without this happening, although the pieces are finally being put in place to make it a reality.

On the other hand, that extra money can be used to expand the business in other ways, plus most kids coming out of college these days are going to be experts in getting jobs done with AI (although they will need a lot of training in writing actual secure and maintainable code).

If you oppose it then the right will say you support criminals and illegal immigrants and the left will say you harbor racist desires to express hatred under the guise of free speech and privacy.

LLMs are famously bad at producing rust code. I'm not sure how much of it is the lesser amount of Rust code in the training data, or just the fact that Rust has a very large number of pitfalls, and a large standard library with many edge cases and things you'd imaging should exist but don't for a variety of reasons. Rust also has a much wider variety in the way things could be structured, compared to something like go where there is often only one way of doing a particular thing.

Hmm I can imagine that while LLMs are good at producing working code in Go they might not be as good at structuring larger applications, compared to building on opinionated frameworks.

I imagine there could be some presets out there that guide the vibe-coding engines to produce a particular structure in other languages for better results.

It's mostly a convenience, so that you don't have to look for coins or remember to tip online later. Uber here even tells you that the driver doesn't get informed about the tip until an hour after delivery, so you can still edit it in case you change your mind.

So in the hands of someone whose main expertise is in writing the secure login and data protection part of an application, maybe it is a bit better? At least they could eliminate much of the low hanging fruit. Of course anything put together quickly by a small team is going to be full of vulnerabilities until it gets battle tested and security checked.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I self host my own Jellyfin(1) instance, and I've had it recommended to combine it with pinchflat(2), which will auto download and label entire youtube channels, as they publish new videos. So then you could use it to archive and provide access to the channels you want without worrying about the recommendations and other channels.

1. https://jellyfin.org/

2. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

What happens if you just point it at its own source and ask it to add the feature?

A better analogy would be a balaclava. Lots of legitimate uses but it's uncommon to see people wearing them day to day and is very popular with criminals. But we don't imagine we could ban balaclavas to prevent crime.

There are very few unbanked people in western countries, and so its natural that it would be unusual to come across those use cases there. There are in fact services that will act as a glue between the bitcoin ecosystem and "fiat", such as bitrefill which allows you to buy gift cards for many different stores using bitcoin. However for most people and every day payments there isn't really a compelling reason to try to use bitcoin. In fact, if you have both bitcoin and national currency, with rising prices it makes more sense to hold onto the bitcoin and spend the national currency.

There certainly have been some countries where stablecoins have gained in popularity. They are a little easier to use than bitcoin and prices are more stable. It tends to be in places where governments are not heavily enforcing against their use, while at the same time the local currency has been unstable, such as in Argentina.

The downside with stablecoins is that they rely on trusted entities to maintain the peg, whereas bitcoin enforces its own scarcity and trades at its own value.

I don't really think its responsible to go around telling people that bitcoin will gain in value, but there are certainly many people who believe this to be the case, and the pool is growing. I think the key value for this community is that we have something which is easier to transfer globally than a hard asset like gold, while being independent from particular jurisdictions such as the US, EU or China.

And yes I see the lack of awareness in bitcoin community about the extent to which it has become the defacto standard for internet scammers, who trick vulnerable people into depositing their life savings into a bitcoin ATM using various methods. You can see many examples of this on kitboga's youtube channel. At least, he has been able to work with some bitcoin exchanges to fight back against this in a small way.

It's not the how but the why. If you know you need bitcoin you know. If everything seems fine without it why would you bother?

Explaining bitcoin to someone who has no interest in it is like trying to explain to your mother in law that she should remove windows and switch to linux. From their perspective it just seems unneccesarry and overcomplicated.