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This sounds like a reflexive "I hate blockchain and cryptocurrency" reaction but I'll give a reply regardless. You can't do transactions with just a database. You'd have to add a p…

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I found that feeling again while building a game on the EVM. All of the constraints were new and different. Solidity feels somewhere between and high and low level language, not as…

Every once in a while, at random times in life, I hear "I am not an atomic playboy" in my head.

I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and …

So many PHP libraries are just wrappers for some other library. I think that's mostly a strength, but in this case it was clearly a weakness.

> My current mindset for this is that social media should only work augmenting my real world social life, not take what's left of it away from me. 110%

People are seeking multiple things on social media. One common one is connection. I am in Mexico dealing with family business. I am in a rural area. My Spanish skills are developin…

I once interviewed for a tech job at the Seattle times. I didn't land the job, but the interview was enlightening. I was told that the investigative reporters at the newspaper did …

Oh I've been a decentralist long before anyone coined the term "Bitcoin Maximalist". I've been watching haters whine and complain the whole time. Speaking of google searches, you c…

A lot of this work was done by Walter |2| Costinak. He was an absolute legend and he's still doing a bit of design work today. I know because he did the branding for my last compan…

Might I point out this instance of Elon's company using gas powered generators to boost power at their data center: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk... …

We followed this practice at a Non-Profit I volunteered for some years ago. For us, it was motivated by a few reasons: - we trained the community around us to look to our website f…

What this site does not show is how much of the power used to maintain the network is waste power such as gas that's normally burned off at the well site or hydro electric that goe…

What is the next best alternative to throw support behind? I did a very shallow search and the forks of Firefox I found don't appear to be actively maintained.

I have been not happy about it up until this post. While reading the article, I thought about it differently. What Firefox provides today isn't drawing in new users. Those of us wh…

I was in Colorado at the time.

I disagree. Sort of. I agree that the things you listed like altcoins and stablecoins and NFTs aren't that valuable. Note: I hate using the word "blockchain" to describe these dece…

There's a lot of talk these days about the enshitification of the Internet. What I rarely see mentioned is that the Internet's first steps towards enshitification started when we a…

> I also don't really care if the content is chronological Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. It depends on the content. And that's one thing I've longed to see solved in RSS fe…

I am resisting the urge to detail my insane story with my most recent Dell XPS purchase. Long story short, I will never again buy a Dell laptop. I went months without my machine du…

Sort of? My thoughts are that there's something of an AI arms race and the US doesn't want to lose that race to another country... so if the AI bubble pops too fiercely, there may …

His childish sexual humor is far from the most significant thing that makes me question his moral compass.

The closest I've personally experienced to the "dream" is Vector: https://anki.bot/products/vector-robot The little robot was heavily inspired by Wall-E. He'll play around when he'…