Aaron Parecki

Not sure that sounds like a great protocol for patching exploit bugs. "I'm sorry, we can't patch log4j until the votes are counted"
It's also not what happens in practice in cryptocurrency circles either. See the 2013 bitcoin accidental fork, for example.

This is one of the most important aspects of Web 2.0 that web3 advocates have tried to retcon. That generation also started with optimistic creators talking about decentralized, user-owned, open protocols (open standards, even!) that would empower people. Guess how it played out.

One of the smaller things that grates about the crypto push is its boosters just unilaterally redefining “web 2.0” to mean “the big platforms like Facebook and Google”. It didn’t mean that! It meant “Ajax websites that don’t need to be refreshed every time the content changes”!

People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and http://del.icio.us that had open data and interoperated. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ross/49490304 https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1479636522282455042

lol the us covid bubble is so big it's being distorted by the map projection and wrapping around the arctic ?

If you’re in one of those newfangled four day work week setups for the new year, this is your reminder that this is your Friday

oh you have a weighted blanket? haha that's cute, I sleep with the crushing weight of all the shitty code I wrote years ago still running in production

LATEST: Hyperloop trial successfully transports vehicles across vast expanses of time in short distance

"Imagine a train where every car had to be individually piloted, and if any one pilot fucks up then everyone dies" - Reddit

Yikes

i am sad every time i'm forced to confront the fact that "vermillion" is a shade of red and not a shade of green. wish it was green tho. just feels like a green word. no i won't explain

it’s true, I used to have to use Google to find questionable information about a given topic but now I can just tweet about it and as long as I put “crypto” in it someone will come help

No one was, or is, waving centralization flags. The only thing happening right now is the people waving decentralization flags are accusing everyone else who doesn't care or support their movement to be on the opposing side.

A typical website visit in 2022

1. Figure out how to decline all but essential cookies
2. Close the support widget asking if I need help
3. Stop the auto-playing video
4. Close the “subscribe to our newsletter” pop-up
5. Try and remember why I came here in the first place

How the US is handling COVID

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If someone has said something stupid enough to make me want to explain that to them, I block them, because the chance that this person will ever say something I want to hear is... not large.

But, maybe some day Mr. Firstname Bunchanumbers dot Eth and I woulda been pals. My loss!

Learning this stuff has involved help and advice from friends including @heretorecord, @aaronpk, and @thomas_cantrell. Thank you! 🙏

as long as you don't cry while implementing oauth, you're a winner, barely a winner today