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maol, 11 months ago to random

Ben Thompson can ask and answer this about Apple Vision Pro much better than I, go read it!

What exactly is this useful for? Who has room for another device in their life, particularly one that costs $3,499?

Apple Vision Stratechery https://stratechery.com/2023/apple-vision/

codinghorror, 11 months ago to random

I regret to inform you that we are currently at the Apple Newton level of AR/VR, and will be for another decade at least.

maol, 11 months ago to random

Ok looks like it's getting worse before it may get better again! This one is a surprise so quickly after the Binance case yesterday, at least to me.

SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102

maol, 11 months ago to random

I'm excited about the possibilities Apple mentioned for the Vision Pro mixed reality headset. It's getting us closer to the Cyberspace imagined by William Gibson et.al! https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

Imagine a world where many more billions of people live and work with a lot less personal space than we have today. No space for a desk for everyone. And we collaborate globally, no longer in offices. We need new personal communication, creation, consumation devices.

Read more: https://maol.ch/2023/06/06/apple-vision-pro

maol, 11 months ago to random

"we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro."

I got nothing to add!

SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-05/sec-sues-binance-and-ceo-zhao-for-breaking-us-securities-rules

maol, 11 months ago to random

40 years of Wargames! And most of the topics are still current affairs: passwords, nuclear, computer simulations - and the question of how much decision power should be left to the computer (Chat GPT, anyone?)

Not even sure I've seen WarGames! Sneakers was my first hacker movie, and Tron also left a good impression

“WarGames”: Vor 40 Jahren erscheint der erste Hacker-Film
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/WarGames-Vor-40-Jahren-erscheint-der-erste-Hacker-Film-9163231.html

ben, 11 months ago to random

I like my coffee like I like my timeline. Dark and bottomless.

andrewt, 11 months ago to random

Something US brands need to realise is that if they're going to use their ridiculous date format, they need to do everything else they can to make it look like a date.

If I see "2/15/2023" then it might take me a second to parse but at least I know it's a date right away. If I see "2/15" or the even more ludicrous "2.15" my first reading is that it's a number.

Maybe Americans see "6/10" at the end of a product announcement as a release date but I don't believe I'm alone in seeing it as a review score.

maol, 11 months ago to random

So that “AI powered drone turns on its operator” was total nonsense - the Colonel who described it as a simulation now says it was just “a thought experiment".

AI doomers cannot have it bad enough!

Highlights from the RAeS https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/

carnage4life, 11 months ago to random

Twitter’s head of brand safety & ad quality is leaving? Why would you leave a job where you got paid to do nothing all day?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-loses-second-safety-executive-within-days-1954a51e

maol, 11 months ago to random

"Decentralized applications"... rely frequently on people and web 2.0 infrastructure to operate. And are operated by amateurs who don't understand the basics e.g. BCM

Multichain team says it can't contact CEO amid protocol problems https://www.theblock.co/post/232754/multichain-team-says-it-cant-contact-ceo-amid-protocol-problems

maol, 11 months ago to random

I might fold for this foldable, looks gorgeous!

Motorola introduced the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra yesterday.
https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_40_ultra-review-2574.php

maol, 11 months ago to random

This is long! I love the due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) for digital-asset investment managers and funds, to he industry needs frameworks to deal with these new assets.

Asset Allocator's Guide to Crypto Hedge Funds https://www.coinbase.com/institutional/research-insights/research/market-intelligence/asset-allocators-guide-to-crypto-hedge-funds

maol, 11 months ago to random

CMTA's Digital Assets Custody Standard v2 is finally ready for prime time! It's designed to help institutions find fit and proper crypto custody providers with state of the art security measures in place.
I'm glad that I and my team of cryptographers and IT architects at Bitcoin Suisse were able to contribute to the #DACS.
https://cmta.ch/standards/digital-assets-custody-standard

maol, 11 months ago to random

There's a new contender for the best home server on the market: Umbrel just released their first hardware. Good for everyone who doesn't want to deal with Linux or assembling a server.

Umbrel — The ultimate home server and OS for self-hosting https://umbrel.com/

maol, 11 months ago to random

Great news initiative, Scaling Lightning, to test and improve how the Lightning Network and its applications will react to shocks in transaction volume, channels, nodes, gossip messages, etc.

A Testing Toolkit for the Lightning Network https://github.com/scaling-lightning/scaling-lightning

maol, 11 months ago to random

Looking for a hardened phone OS where Apple Google don't know everything you do, including your financial transactions? GrapheneOS and CalyxOS work great on Pixel devices.

Should You Use GrapheneOS or CalyxOS? https://blog.privacyguides.org/2022/04/21/grapheneos-or-calyxos/

maol, 11 months ago to random

A wake-up call for everyone storing user data to make sure they store as little as possible for as little time as possible.

PyPI was subpoenaed - The Python Package Index https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-24-pypi-was-subpoenaed/

maol, 1 year ago to random

Lightning sliding into my notifications twice today - first zap I got on Nostr, thanks mate! And the thunderstorm was just the usual this time of the year in Ticino, not too bad

maol, 1 year ago to random

Interesting and not too deep conversation about privacy and Zcash.

Privacy Is a Gradient: An Interview With Zcash’s Josh Swihart https://cryptobriefing.com/interview-with-zcashs-josh-swihart/

maol, 1 year ago to random

No wonder crypto has such a bad rap when even "traditional" investment scams claim to be DeFi.

But remember: if it sounds too good to be true... 100% RoI cannot be guaranteed!

Morgan DF Fintoch likely exit scams for around $31 million https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/morgan-df-fintoch-likely-exit-scams-for-around-31-million

maol, 1 year ago to random

Password nihilism is understanding that sites have shit complexity requirements and shit password storage, and then not giving a shit because you recognize that none of it matters.

Passwords, but make it nihilism
https://infosec.exchange/@epixoip/110347121771733466

maol, 1 year ago to random

Really looking forward to speaking about NFT security at our Cybersecurity working group event at the CVC 2023 next week: 1 June 4:30pm.

Let's connect in person if you're also there.

Crypto Valley Conference 2023 Agenda
https://cryptovalleyconference.com/agenda

atomicpoet, 1 year ago to fediverse

Decided to delete my old blog.

Mostly, it was because I was having domain issues that seemed too much of a pain in the ass to troubleshoot, and I decided that deleting was ultimately easier than figuring out a fix.

What can I say? I'm lazy.

But ultimately, I'd rather put all that stuff on the #Fediverse anyway.

Sure, I can't make everything look just so. But I think the truth is that most people don't care about the aesthetics of my blog theme. They care much more about receiving my messages.

When not considering themes, there's not much of a difference between maintaining a blog and updating a Fediverse account -- especially when you consider that so many platforms already support Markdown and HTML.

I'll go even further. #WriteFreely is a blog platform that has #ActivityPub integration out of the box. It works well.

And if you want a full CMS suite, both #WordPress and #Drupal are capable of being federated with an ActivityPub plug-in and they're getting better all the time.

At this point in time, I don't even want to blog without federation capabilities. That would be like opting for a unicycle instead of a bicycle. Sure, a unicycle is fun but not very practical.

If a key part of blogging is the practicality of being read -- but initiating dialogue -- then federation is extremely important. And it's becoming more and more important each day.