phil

@phil@cryptodon.lol

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Ex-programmer, failed Phil/osopher. Digging the rabbithole ⚡️🤖. Tweets mine, results dubious, COIs many, don't read...

#crypto #economics #technology #ethereum

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VeeSilverball, to random
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The phenomenon of rewriting a very substantial piece of code, fixing a few things that come up at the start of the unit test, and then everything else instantly passes. Suspicious

phil,

@VeeSilverball did it work?

davidrevoy, to linux
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:neko_cats_eye: Today I'm going to show you how I turned a cheap USB numeric keypad into a pad that I use for my digital painting shortcuts under GNU/Linux.
→ Tutorial: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article989/how-to-customise-a-usb-numeric-keypad-under-gnulinux


phil,

@davidrevoy are there any good starting tutorials you recommend on a Linux-based drawing software/hardware stack? My partner draws and has been looking for a while.

VeeSilverball, to random
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Another iteration of design:

  1. Start with a static-typed FBP graph system
  2. Expose graph programming with a REPL syntax
  3. Develop query systems based on URI syntax to describe the blockchain data that enters the graph, so you could have account:// and mosaic:// and transaction:// and testnet:// and other things.
  4. Now the action - the posted transaction, the browser's output, etc., is an endpoint of the graph.

That gets the effect done declaratively, with room to add custom processing.

phil,

this is a cool development log, thanks for posting! there's almost no thought put into organizing related data/transactions so that sounds very interesting indeed

VeeSilverball, to random
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Gradually converging on the idea that what I want to use to access a blockchain is not a wallet and apps, but a shell, an advanced shell like the ones in plan9 or oberon. Access to on-chain data should feel well-integrated with the OS; access to the private key should be governed with modern permissions. Software utilities should be small and easy to glue together. There should be a browser - a utilitarian one, not a web browser.

phil,

@VeeSilverball I've used an interactive Python console with some of the rpc libraries to approximate a console explorer before, it works fairly well

phil,

agreed, redditors are welcomed in the fediverse!

phil,

would be very cool if this let you log in with a Mastodon account!

phil,

16 years on reddit and same, don't miss it, so long and thanks for all the fish

phil,

wow, I looked it up and you weren't kidding. absurd, how is the population OK with this?

phil,

they are likely terrified of being sued under GDPR

Don't feel bad for the Moderators of Reddit

I should begin by mentioning that I am (was) a moderator of three subreddits: one large subreddit, one NSFW subreddit and a medical-related subreddit. After u/spez’s calamitous AMA, I joined Lemmy and haven’t looked back. I am really enjoying the Lemmy/KBin vibe. It is very much an alpha (almost beta) product and the ad...

phil,

I moderated a top-15 subreddit for over 5 years. reddit got so corporate so long ago that the 80% of the mods left are just on some kind of power trip. So no, I won't ever feel bad for them.

matthew_d_green, to random
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In case you haven’t seen it, this spreadsheet of infosec Mastodon addresses is pretty great. Not sure how up to date it is, but it’s definitely adding to my follow list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t13k5_cNhP9_TgoUmqDZk2ROkWkF6Bg3O5269vKIqWw/edit

phil,

@muzzle @matthew_d_green you do it through import/export in preferences. Step 1 - export your existing follows. Step 2 - copy the "Mastodon handle" column from that page into the first column, remove the first "@" from every entry so every address is in "username@domain" format. Step 3 - make sure the second column says "true" for every row and the third column says "false", extend if necessary. Step 4 - Save as CSV and import with the "merge" bo checked.

phil,

@muzzle @matthew_d_green here I made an importable CSV you can just upload directly -- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pdaian/adde406df5d3238f93ecc72760bb335f/raw/19a296c2a59c2d770e2ffbe56be708b73605dfb6/mastodon_infosec.csv

phil,

maldr0id is only in that linked list once. I only pulled out people who used the @[handle]@domain format so it may have missed a few who chose their own formatting; I think 379/416 entries are on there. you can add the rest manually if you'd like (or write a script to add them to the CSV).

phil,

reddit is the new digg, lemmy is the new reddit, paradigm++

my guess is that many people forget the days when the reason people used reddit was because the UI was actually so bad? they've lost everything that made them successful early on, but I suppose as they say, "so it goes"...

phil,

I run a Thinkpad and my partner is an early adopter of the v1 Framework. She had quite a few early adopter issues on her leading me to believe the hardware polish isn't there 100% (eg hinges too weak they had to release an upgrade, this broke the display cable and led to BIOS issues, etc).

I mostly agree, the one place I think Thinkpad could use more maintainability is in mainboard compatibility. Framework promises (TBD) Mainboard compatibility across upgrades, we'll see if they deliver.

phil, to random

I don't believe in numerology, but...

phil, to random

great post about how to filter language on Mastodon in case you want the "Federated" tab to be more usable! https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-block-posts-based-on-language-on-mastodon/

phil,

people often forget that reddit initially achieved network effect because a small number of high quality users left digg for being too captured by corporate interests. the rest took 10 years to play out, but inevitably when the mainstream follows these initial users, the platform dies and it is time for another migration. I think we've been ready for a while.

phil, to crypto

FYI you can follow Lemmy (reddit-alternative) communities from within Mastodon; for example if you follow @crypto you will get the Lemmy crypto community.

If that spams your feed, you can also add them to lists!

phil,

@crypto you can also comment directly from Mastodon. different platforms become differnet skins on the same data, ain't federation grand?

phil,

@crypto (ok what I didn't realize is that this is also how you post a thread on Lemmy, so condolences to all the Lemmy viewers who already knew this <3 on the upside if you want a crypto-focused Mastodon UI, always open signups on this instance!)

phil,

@r1veRRR I was on social media both before and after algorithmic curation, and I find it no more interesting now (less if anything). YMMV.

phil,

I find the "explore" page super useful for exploration! Spend a few minutes twice a day or so and the content quality is quite high, great place to branch out into boosts from. On my instance, I also do my best to curate the global feed to be somewhat useful (though things to creep in at the edges, I need to do some culling now for some Misskey bridges that are pretty loud in that feed).

phil,

added in March of last year, and not sure about third party apps since I use the official interface. I find it very useful though, between that, hashtags, public lists of people to follow, and boosts, I set my feed up in about 6 hours and it's been on minimal-maintenance-mode since and serving me fine. depends on how much the niche communities you like adopt the Fediverse too, YMMV!

phil,

one UX improvement is also in replies. I comment from Mastodon, and because I'm replying to you my post will be federated to feddit.uk but not to your parent comment on feddit.de or the OP on lemmy.ml :|

phil,

it is :)

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