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what is the ideal future and how do we get there?
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the three kinds of gaming streamer: - entertaining: come and laugh with me - educational: learn how to get better at this game - competent: watch someone who's incredible at this game

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

I'm very curious about the rationale, LSM seems like it should work pretty fine here. The circular bufferarity means every insert also inserts a tombstone so there's some unfortunate write amplification, but it doesn't seem outrageous to add a max keyrange length while sticking to the LSM model

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

a "small world" custom feed which throws you into a cohort with ~20 other small accounts. the cohorts slowly change over time as it learns from who you interact well with and tries to match you with the perfect little community key engagement metric: how many users eventually become irl friends?

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

the paradigm of running `sudo apt install calibre` seems wrong every tool in the apt repositories should be "installed"; it is downloaded into a local cache when I first try to use it and automatically removed from the cache if I haven't used it in a while. nix, uv, bun, docker approximate this

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

a cool visualization from the washington DOT, the optimal amount of traffic is a lot higher than you might prefer it to be (ht www.construction-physics.com/p/reading-li...)

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

some proposals for passwordless wifi. All of these are possible, and have been possible for many years, but standards are hard to bootstrap:

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

love it, - did:plc, you trust bsky not to censor your account, otherwise have full control - did:web (typically), you trust your registrar to control your identity - did:web (this monstrosity), you trust your ISP and their dynamic DNS, famously very trustworthy and stable (!), to host your identity

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

this must be the mathematician's version of finding a bug in your compiler all your derivations are correct, it's the published result which is wrong!

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments

a single-payer blockchain: the network is subsidized by one entity which directly pays out block proposers this makes sense by the same economic logic which powers franchise restaurants

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

love this! some more nostr's which nature has grown: - historically: books are sent to many libraries - academic papers: submitted to both journals and arxiv - music: submitted to both spotify and soundcloud - burning man: if it ever fails there are many other events which could pick up the slack

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

I always assumed PLC uses some kind of merkle-powered append-only ledger a la certificate transparency, call me a crypto bro but that's the right way to do what PLC attempts to do appalled to find out today PLC uses the nostr approach but with a single trusted relay which can censor anything 😮

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments