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I'm not an expert on the topic; it's just something I've read about and wanted to share. Wouldn't want to get the more intricate details wrong. I think it's great you want to learn more though. It's fascinating stuff. I'd recommend checking out better sources than I.

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This is super cool. And... wildly humbling to see how far away retirement on just ETH is...

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Gosh it's been so long and I mostly just dove right in to start experimenting.

Maybe start with explainers from around the time it launched?

https://ethglobal.com/talks/liquity-introduction-to-liquity-cbvq9
https://medium.com/@bloqarl/liquity-protocol-34380c7a977d

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Tuna might be prohibitively expensive to send over to you, but let's put our heads together. What are the expenditures and costs for running Caches? Can you set up a https://ko-fi.com/ and maintain it? Have you presented to a DAO or github raise? Could it be put into hibernation while you regain your financial footing?

PineTime - a $27 smartwatch that runs open source firmware and software that's easy to flash and easy to modify and tinker with (liliputing.com)

This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the...

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Meet Willow!

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Dude! This is awesome. You should invite some testers from https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta. They've been clamoring for a combined suite of upgrades.

I can see this becoming one of those software things where it starts as EthFinance Buddy, then becomes a standalone thing called EF Buddy, and years down the line people are like "TIL EF Buddy stands for EthFinance because the developer originally..."

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Primarily alternative L1s, especially with the roller coaster regulatory process we're seeing in the US.

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That's great in terms of a speedy recovery. Coming away from this, what sort of node maintenance do you think you'll add to the regimen?

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Yeah spez acts like they generate, well, anything. reddit is a glorified server farm, an easily accessed infrastructure and storage space. They should be treated as such and paid as such. No issue from me if ads keep up their certainly enormous server load. But to claim user IP is disgusting.

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There are some early "enhancement suites" being written up. I'll see if any include this and get back to you.

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Good stuff, thanks!

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Same issue with fedia.io, it found the magazine but did not bring over any posts. Meanwhile readit.buzz was instantaneous.

KillaBeez, to gaming

Who here has had a chance to play the new Final Fantasy 16 demo? What are your thoughts?

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I had a blast. As a lifelong FF fan since III, I love the return to medieval fantasy. The combat felt so good with that DMC / Bayonetta touch. And while the story isn't world-changing, it is at least more adult and the actors seem to be giving it their all. The main con is just the frame rate dip -- even on Performance mode -- during the biggest environments and most epic scenes. If reviews say that's extent of it and it doesn't get worse through the entire game, I can stomach it. If it struggles, then I'll be at least waiting for the first major patch or possibly the PC release.

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This is fantastic. I wonder if Aether's "data replication" should be yellow? As it relies on users manually deciding to save/archive anything before the six-month mark. Easy to setup, but the expectation of that is slightly less than green dot, no?

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Good work going into this kbin mobile app. Send the dev some support if you end up trying it!

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/19856/My-3rd-party-app-is-coming-along-Got-it-pulling

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Awesome, glad it's re-enabled! This is what I saw in the days leading up to the blackout and what I wanted everyone to see. Thanks for trying out the federation stuff!

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Yeah there's a little leeway. From the announcement of the cut, to the execution, to the final rollover there's a warning period. 2008 was about a four month period to begin easing out of positions and prepare for the drop. It also had two "humps" to the cut cycle. The markets topped for good in between them.

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At this time, my understanding is that content is nominally mirrored -- not "mirrored" in the sense of the word any IT pro would use. Should an instance go down...

  • First, the two would coincide. There's nothing at this time "destructive" in starting up another m/ethfinance on any kbin instance, or lemmy instance, or anywhere in the fediverse. It would live there just like r/gaming and r/games and r/truegaming do, and users would gravitate toward the community best fitting them.
  • Threads/comments/external links/posts (in the microblog) are cataloged by any other instance that properly federated and subscribed to the magazine from the point at which a user subscribed.
  • So, let's say I or someone else signed up over on new kbin server readit.buzz, we'd have to register on readit as a user there, then browse to and subscribe to ethfinance@kbin.social to start bringing over data. I've seen signs that the number of cross-subscribers (inventing this term) on a given instance helps prioritize the speed of syncing.
  • Caveats are as you've mentioned before: the data earlier than subscription is not brought over, original media is lost unless re-hosted elsewhere, and perhaps most importantly... the links are erased from time (eg. Google searches) so that archival threads, well, aren't. It's similar to the days of lost phpBB communities and forums in that regard.
  • Lastly, it is a very easy process to backup and transfer the database. However, because there is at least one step involved there with an admin, we cannot yet call it anywhere near "trustless"
  • I believe admin Sign-in With Ethereum (via Safe) partially solves this and a VPS company accepting Safe SiWE nearly entirely solves it. But that's a wish and a dream at this point. (Sidenote: what's the old dApp that used to parcel out CPU cycles for tokens, was it Gnosis? Or something else with a G?)
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Hanni covered most of it. There is a greasemonkey -- or tampermonkey/violentmonkey, whatever kids call it these days -- script that moves the comment box up, but that relies on your comfort with JS scripts in your browser you use for crypto. If you sandbox your crypto and have a separate public browser, then greasemonkey scripts are historically usually fine but keep an eye on it. Otherwise best to wait for the dev to fix. His philosophy was that people on kbin should read all comments before adding to a discussion, but while that's very noble, it's unsustainable beyond the small community his beta was planned for haha.

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Correct, no mod tools yet. Ironically, the first lemmy or kbin spam bot (of course) has shown up in more popular comm/mags. folks are just manually working on it for now.

With the open-source nature and now many eyes on, development should move rapidly. But it's good to remember the software is only a little over a month old. The main dev is focused on stability and security for now while others appear to be making pull requests on user-friendly features.

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I believe the front page is currently operating like an r/all. In fact when they restore federation, you'll start to see content from other instances (Lemmy, almost certainly)!

But while that's super cool, many don't want that. I'd set your bookmark for https://kbin.social/sub for now. That'll filter it.

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But my big realization today is that I don't have to understand all that to get started!

Love that! Yeah, the lack of federation on kbin.social while the dev prepares the server has been a gift and a curse. It's definitely allowing native magazines here to thrive, but it does feel a bit hollow like subreddits started to.

If you want to dip your toes into the full breadth of the fediverse from the safety of a kbin (reddit-style) app, the fedia.io instance is fully functioning and federated. You can browse content from all around the fediverse, including what I imagine may be larger, more active forums currently for anime and news on instances like lemmy.ml (careful, they're under load too), lemmy.one, beehaw.org, and of course fedia.io itself.

With OAuth from Github, Google, and FB available to kbin logins, I'm sure SiWE is doable. Might just take a chat with the dev once things calm down and we're still nascent. That'd be a huge win.

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Hey, welcome!

  • Definitely overloaded. Every instance across the protocol is unfortunately. It's gonna be a rough few days/weeks as servers get spun up. But it's... low-key exciting? Idk to me it feels like the first "new" thing on the internet in well over a decade. I know it's not new new, but it went mostly unused since creation.

  • And yes, we're currently contributing to that. We're on the KBin.social instance, not a self-hosted one. I was having a tough time spinning up the Lemmy instance on a secure site and I wanted something for us on the 12th so folks could gather. It's far from ideal.

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With my only real remaining "event" being the fed rate cut and that being delayed now at least a year, it seems to align with a final bull run for crypto before a secular bear. By that I mean what I've theorized for a while -- that BTC would have a new, lackluster top ~100k and ETH would have a grand blowoff $10k-15k -- could happen in this timeframe.

2019 (wave 1 bull, flat to dippy) -- 2020 (wave 2 boring then parabola begins) -- 2021 (wave 3 parabolic rise and disbelief blowoff top).

2023 (wave 1 bull, flat to dippy) -- 2024 (wave 2 boring then parabola begins) -- 2025 (wave 3 parabolic rise and disbelief blowoff top).

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Unfortunately their mobile apps are still under heavy development and I couldn't even find the repo. Luckily the site renders pretty decently on mobile.

It's very much the beta, wild west stage of KBin (and all the fediverse really). A mixture of excitement at a new web frontier and anxiety for sure. This feels like 2004/2005 to me.

edit: i should add -- and i'll talk more about this as the magazine (subreddit) / mag begins to fill out... the whole point of KBin, Lemmy, and the entire fediverse is that it's all connected. think of it less like reddit vs twitter and more like... Gmail vs Yahoo Mail, in that all the content can be read by any program you prefer. so, there are apps available for the Mastodon (federated Twitter) protocol such as Mammoth, Tusker, and tusky. and you can read Lemmy/KBin threads on those apps, just formatted for Mastodon. might not be ideal but it's a start! we're very early to all this so it's new to us all! share any tips you come across too

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