Aaron Parecki

I've said repeatedly for all of 2021 that NFTs provide worse solutions to problems that have already been solved, do not help the art scene in the big picture, and comes off as a cult every time I hear about it - challenging everyone I can to change my mind. it hasn't happened.

exactly! we and beka are talking about two separate proposals; the bearer token QR code part of ours is how we'd handle this.

so to be sure we understand, your proposal is that this would be separate from any form of sender *identification*, just a first line of defense?

i think it'd be good to use something as a bearer token which isn't an alternative to an email address but which instead acts as a way to say to an email server "hi, you know me, please let me talk"

the core idea of the email-replacement layer is that, instead of giving out an email address which functions as a bearer token giving people the right to email you, you'll go through an oauth-stye authorization where you give each sender a unique, revokable token.

Google Search nowadays:
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Pro tip for my fellow content creators. If you’re doing a giveaway for something, consider the value of that item. If you’re running a contest to give away some with (ex) a $50-$100 value, keep the barrier of entry for contest entries accessible and you’ll get more engagement.

Added some hexagon sound tiles on the right side of frame. It nicely filled in the white space that had been bothering me. Always evolving!

The first rule for implementing something with machine learning or blockchain…is to figure out if you can implement it without machine learning or blockchain.

The house is coming along slowly 🥰

NFT are now New Ferengi Tokens and the Crypto Bros can‘t do shit about that.

I just wanted to share this because I keep seeing NTFSfans saying things like "you only criticize it because you don't understand it!" and yet the more I learn about it the more I hate everything about it

It's almost like this was designed to require more steps than was needed, solely because it supports the ecosystem as each step has a cost associated with it

JUST BECAUSE YOURS RUNS ON CRYING MATHEMATICIANS AND FAIRY FARTS DOESN'T MAKE IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM A FUCKING COMMODORE 64 YOU SCAMMING FUCKERS

At the end of the day, OAuth is just a messaging protocol for communicating between services and users, and as such it's easy to grasp and non-controversial.

Ooooohhhhhhhhhh. Yes please.

I’m curious about how subscriber views play into a video’s initial success? YouTube Studio usually seems pretty clear on the “fewer/more subscribers are watching this video decreasing/increasing its reach.”

Funny, when I looked under the hood “Web 3.0” is exactly the same as Web 2.0: centralized (except for blockchain), certain companies still own the content, and it is “Read-Write-Owned” by crypto whales and VC firms (those on top of the pyramid). https://thenewstack.io/web3-isnt-fully-decentralized-a-look-at-alchemy-bitclout/

so funny thing about this whole @ghost fiasco is i wrote an article a while ago titled

9 Ways to Make Your SaaS Customers Hate You, Ranked

https://stackingthebricks.com/9-ways-to-make-your-saas-customers-hate-you-ranked/