@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

molly0xfff

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat creator • subscribe to my newsletter at http://citationneeded.news/
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molly0xfff, to web

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

molly0xfff,

@insidertreat highly recommend

molly0xfff, to random

Former CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison.

molly0xfff,

Prosecutors wanted 36 months
Defense wanted 0, just probation
Probation Office recommended 5 months
Judge settled on 4

molly0xfff,

@csdummi i suspect SBF still would've served more time than this had he pled guilty, simply because of all the fraud charges and the amount of money lost by victims of the FTX collapse

molly0xfff, to web

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

sheephorse, to random
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The latest article by @molly0xfff (whose writing I always enjoy) coincidently compliments my Save the Web by Being Nice article from a few days ago.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

molly0xfff,

@sheephorse I read your article earlier today, and loved it!

chahalAman, to Wikipedia
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does anyone here know or contribute themselves to ?? or work there.

molly0xfff,

@kalfatermann @chahalAman hello! i contribute (don't work there)

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random

all i want for christmas is CSS support for underlines to extend below SVG pseudoelements 😔 (as in the first image)

molly0xfff,

@davidrevoy i'm looking for something that can be applied without editing the HTML, and with SVGs rather than unicode chars

molly0xfff,

@connie i have some good news for you: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-underline-position

molly0xfff,

@connie \o/

molly0xfff,

@ozone89 well I have that to be grateful for then 😅

molly0xfff,

@heracles thank you!

sarahhbickerton, to random
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Really like this ever so much from @molly0xfff

It speaks to something I often mention to or remind people of ... namely, there was a time before the commercial capitalistic web, there was a time when we wondered if you could even make money online.

The not-for-profit web was messy, it was difficult to get on to, but for the early days, and even over the first dotcom bubble, that WAS the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

molly0xfff,

@sarahhbickerton i love this, thank you for sharing

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random

<s>Two</s> Three more questions. Please answer both!

  1. When were the "good old days" of the net?
molly0xfff, (edited )
  1. How old are you now?
molly0xfff, (edited )

I lied. Three questions.

How old were you during your "good old days" period?

fraying, to random
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I used to call myself the web's last optimist, but I think that title belongs to @molly0xfff now.
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

molly0xfff,

@fraying a lot of people assume i'm a cynic and then are later very surprised

GossiTheDog, to random
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    molly0xfff,

    @GossiTheDog heya, i can help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials#Donating_your_photographs and the section below it are good starting points

    molly0xfff, to boston

    silver lining: it was awfully thoughtful of all these boston college administrations to draw the attention of a group of young, energetic, politically active students to last year's "tent ordinance" that cruelly targets the unhoused and is now being used to crack down on speech

    notgull, to random
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    You know, two weeks ago I said to myself "okay, I really need to learn this Nix thing", but I ended up getting busy with work and I didn’t have much time to try it out in practice.

    Sad to see that the entire ecosystem is collapsing now. Why does this always happen for any technology I try to learn?

    molly0xfff,

    @notgull you taking requests?

    molly0xfff, to random

    took me a few attempts to say "bitcoin memecoins" in my newsletter voiceover without saying "beancoins", but I think I may be on to something here

    molly0xfff, to random

    "Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

    That's not something you read every day.

    https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

    molly0xfff,

    On unexpected signup waves: "Then something would happen, and thousands of users suddenly joined. We started referring to these days as EMEs (Elon Musk Events) because they were normally precipitated by some change on Twitter."

    molly0xfff, to random

    oof to whoever paid the 10¢ PACER fee for this

    molly0xfff, to ArtificialIntelligence

    I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

    https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

    molly0xfff,

    When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains.

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