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I use xmonad and won’t switch until there’s a viable alternative (probably never).

Remove the subsidies on agricultural products that get sprayed with glyphosate to increase yield. Corn, wheat, and potatoes in this country are poison because of the chemicals they spray them with…then they go and put that tainted product into sugars like HCFS.

Capitalism turns anyone into a fucking soulless ghoul.

shouldn’t be be required to use a cloud service in order to use a piece of hardware that you bought and paid for.

of course. I didn’t really insinuate that it should.

But surely, a 3D printer could/can. It’s just that the software that runs on it shouldn’t have shit security and there should be multiple safeguards and redundant fail-safe systems.

I have MPV setup to play any YouTube link when I press ctrl cmd m with a YouTube video url in my clipboard.

You know more about proof of stake than me? 🤣🤣🤣

I’m a dApp developer who works on DApps that run on PoS chains and I’m also a stake pool operator. 🤣🤣🤣

Did I ever assert that a decentralized solution was better for power consumption? Why would I say that? It’s not true. Decentralization adds overhead of course. I was asserting that Proof of Stake is VASTLY more energy efficient than Proof of Work.

Your whole reply seems woefully uninformed about the mechanics (or even the existence) of digital identity and how even after a centralized entity exists doing on chain verifications, those verifications can live on as long as those wallets are functioning. It’s being talked about in regards to land deeds that can survive changes in power structures and authority. Identity and possession that can survive anything (as long as earth’s electronics aren’t wiped out by a EMP from the sun).

I’m also very excited about the possibilities of homomorphic encryption when it comes to being able to operate on data that remains obfuscated. That has all kinds of applications for democracy but I digress. Subscribe to my community (https://infosec.pub/c/blockchainvoting) if you’re interested too.

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Look into proof of stake. Also a centralized database has many applications just as a decentralized public ledger has many applications. I wouldn’t, for example, implement liquid democracy on a centralized chain because that would invite corruption from that central entity.

I have many counterpoints but I’d offer just one: the energy inefficiency is a thing of the past with proof of stake.

Agreed on all points. Thanks for speaking reasonably. I too think the technology is INCREDIBLY promising but also acknowledge that it is in its infancy…and will continue to be because of the hivemind.

I think crypto technologies could work toward making a better democracy and other applications of a public ledger. I think it is currently the best solution to a decentralized, open source way to add incentive to the act of running public infrastucture. It’s actually my hope that perhaps it can be used to incentivize the act of running a lemmy/kbin instance (for instance).

I absolutely despise the moonboi bullshit and am honestly only in it for the technology and its relevance to the realization of a truly borderless, open source, anarcho-syndicalist, cypherpunk way of life. I want to own my property and I want to help use technology to make corruption impossible…and NFT’s, as a technology, are currently a key part to one of the best solutions to many of these issues. They, like crypto, are misunderstood.

To analogize my sentiment: it feels like the hivemind is espousing the benefits of for-profit healthcare that kills 70k people/year in the US while Single Payer stares them straight in the face around the world.

I, for one, have never bought a single NFT in my life. I just think technological ignorance is annoying.

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marketed? Maybe do your own research and stop relying on marketing to make decisions for you. Just because tech is used to scam idiots doesn’t mean tech is bad.

The fact that people are easily manipulated is somehow the fault of whoever invented unique ID’s? Your logic is not sound.

You’re clearly demonstrating that you have no clue what an NFT is.

they’re infinitely copyable and renewable

Let me educate you:

Quite literally, they are not possible to copy. Sure, you can download the image and copy it, but you will never be able to create a crypographically verifiable unique ID nor can that unique ID be copied to another asset. THAT is the entire point of NFT’s…they were never meant to be DRM for a goddamned JPEG. They were made to be a unique proof of ownership of something…ANYTHING.

Let’s put it another way:

You’re playing a MMORPG and you discover a unique sword. IF the authors of that game didn’t use some sort of unique ID for that sword, that sword can be cloned to anyone else in the game. If they did, however, by using NFT style verification, that sword is impossible for anyone else to own or discover. It is cryptographically GUARANTEED to be unique. They can even release a new version of the game and have people pass their assets on to the next generation of game since the NFT has verifiable proof of ownership built-in. THAT is what an NFT is. It’s the concept of uniqueness in a digital form.

a good reminder that NFT’s are simply unique identifiers in blockchain technologies and just like UUID’s in most software engineering are not, indeed, shit, NFT’s also aren’t.

It’s hard to find instances that offer what world offers, so I get it.

OTOH, I ended up moving or handing over most of my communities that I had created on world because this instance is TOO popular and bogged down all the time. Plus, they make arbitrary and drastic decisions without discussion on matters like defederation and often banning. It’s smart to go to a smaller instance but it’s also risky because any instance could go down at any moment. That’s why many of my communities are duplicated (across world and infosec) because it would be devastating to lose all of those quality links and engagement.

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