Aspiring polymath. Applied R&D @ Privacy and Scaling Explorations #maker #Ethereum🦇🔊🐼🐍🟨🦀 Trying to make the internet better. Opinions are my own and subject to change
Ok, we are talking in circles, you have your opinions, I have mine. If you want to talk about this over voice at any point, let me know, I don’t think text is going to get anywhere, and Lemmy has a pretty strong bias against crypto (which I understand, but obviously disagree with)
Which is a whole lot of extra engineering that is already taken care of with a blockchain. Whether social networks should forget your username/registration is a different debate.
But there’s no global consensus, it’s not trustless, and smart contracts unlock a lot of additional composable capabilities.
I understand, don’t get me wrong, 99% of stuff in crypto is hot garbage, but having a global database that isn’t controlled by any one (or even dozen) entities is pretty powerful. The 2 guys that started farcaster could quit, or get hit by a bus, or decide it’s not profitable enough and pivot, but at least you have control over your profile still. If reddit was decentralized more, they wouldn’t be able to shut down their APIs for 3rd party clients.
Trust me I understand the criticism of block chains, but if we want open source and the internet to thrive and not be controlled by companies, we need a global layer that is neutral.
Those are different design choices that have different trade offs, I didn’t make these decisions, I’m just explaining how it is
Farcaster uses decentralized hubs and multiple clients, if you want global usernames you need a global db
Your article is a pretty reasonable and fair evaluation of farcaster, but then your post saying crypto/web3 is “mostly really dumb and bad” is not very nuanced. I know a lot of people on Lemmy don’t like crypto, and that’s what’s in the meta right now, but if you are going to give something a fair shake, give it a fair shake, don’t just anticipate backlash for covering a crypto topic and preface it with “it’s mostly really dumb and bad”. Ya there are a lot of scams, and a lot of bullshit projects, but there is a core of really useful infrastructure there, which farcaster is using for self sovereign account registration/ownership.
Jan 1 1984 of course
Oh ya, don’t get me wrong, im glad they have what they have and it’s opt in
Same, I report crashes, but regular telemetry is rather not
Id swap the blades, it’ll probably be fine
Very speculative
Zero knowledge and multi-party computation, and technologies that allow, like TLS Notary and proof of email
It’s federal, so 50% minimum. Also I think he pissed a lot of people off, I think he’s going to be in there a while
Nope rocm works great with open source drivers and is way better than it was 6 months to a year ago
I also think it’s probably a good idea to try out the new career path. Doing software dev as a job, and doing it as a hobby because you like to, are very different when it comes to motivations and goals. Don’t think of it as walking away and just being a lowly hobby dev though, you can build your skills and work on what you want to as a hobby, for the problems you are trying to solve and things you like to work on, and that’s totally ok.
Not everyone wants to put in the effort to play guitar for a living, but you can definitely still enjoy guitar.
That, and when switching from reddit to Lemmy I realized how toxic the relationship there was, and I just use all social media way less now.
I could think of a few dozen on the top of my head, but I imagine it’s one of those things that as the collective "me"s got used to it, we could probably all use an extra hand and it would quickly get into the hundreds
A lot. It would be quite a few just to fully get into the hobbies I have, and quite a lot more to pursue all the things I’d like to learn.
Yep, CPU scheduler is the correct answer. Id recommend reading this arch wiki on it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/improving_performance