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ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1486025976819552263

# ? Jan 26, 2022 05:05

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 22:17

Hammerite: Mar 9, 2007; And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.; Jade Ear Joe

Shame Boy posted:

oh no

he has now turned into a horse. like in Disneys Pinnochio

# ? Jan 26, 2022 10:35

olorum: Apr 24, 2021

ultrafilter posted:

https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1486025976819552263

Four years ago I had a conversation with some people I know who do research in zero-knowledge and secure multiparty computation about cryptocurrencies and they seemed very hopeful that the growing interest in them would lead to their research finally being put into practice. Instead they're realizing now that what follows poo poo crypto (like bitcoin) is even shittier crypto (like NFTs)

# ? Jan 26, 2022 11:58

jisforjosh: Jun 6, 2006; "It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"

ultrafilter posted:

https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1486025976819552263

Don't sleep on the replies lol

# ? Jan 26, 2022 15:05

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

I came up with the term �non-flangible toilet� to avoid searching on twitter and I thought it was funny.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 16:31

neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Silver Alicorn posted:

I came up with the term �non-flangible toilet� to avoid searching on twitter and I thought it was funny.

non-flushable turd is also a good one

# ? Jan 26, 2022 16:54

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

neutral milf hotel posted:

non-flushable turd is also a good one

eric andre made an actual NFT he called the non-flushable turd so that kinda ruined it for me

# ? Jan 26, 2022 17:02

Baxate: Feb 1, 2011

jisforjosh posted:

Don't sleep on the replies lol

I wish I had, op

# ? Jan 26, 2022 17:30

LanceHunter: Nov 12, 2016; Beautiful People Club

Looks like the NYTimes podcast "The Argument" is about to do a crypto episode (and people are already recommending they bring in :gerard:

)

https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1486381876508045315?s=20

I just hope that this goes better than when Ezra Klein brought in a crypto VC and got completely rolled.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 18:06

Khorne: May 1, 2002

jisforjosh posted:

Don't sleep on the replies lol

"Netscape sucked in 1995 turn off the internet" is the dumbest argument these morons parrot. The internet was awesome in the late 80s, 90s, etc, and it's only through the lens of the future that you can say it's worse than what exists now. People loved the internet as it existed then.

The only parallel to crypto is all the dotcom bubble scam companies shilling lies & impractical crap that were rightfully scrutinized by some.

also some things were better then, notably that "advertising", "the algorithm", and "monetization" didn't really exist so content was optimized for effectively conveying information instead of time spent engaged [on 5s of information padded to 12minutes in the most inefficient format imaginable] / [viewing as many ads and 3.25s videos as possible]

The problem with the current crypto ecosystem is nothing in it is good and for a decade+ now there has been no one moving anything forward. Instead, they're reimplementing what already exists on top of a lovely system and avoiding that system as much as possible. Not many people are hating on the idea of a secure currency not controlled by a central authority -- just the execution, transparent compute is actually useful but not as it exists on the eth blockchain, and the idea of ipfs is good while the execution is lacking.

"the playstation 1's graphics suck; stop making all video games" is the latest in a series of unbelievably stupid true believer takes. The graphics were great at the time. No one thought that.

Khorne fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jan 26, 2022

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:18

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Khorne posted:

"Netscape sucked in 1995 turn off the internet" is the dumbest argument these morons parrot. The internet was awesome in the late 80s, 90s, etc, and it's only through the lens of the future that you can say it's worse than what exists now. People loved the internet as it existed then.

it's all been downhill since the great renaming

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:29

Taerkar: Dec 7, 2002; kind of into it, really

The internet was great until the biggest mistake was made: Letting people use it.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:30

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Khorne posted:

Not many people are hating on the idea of a secure currency not controlled by a central authority -- just the execution, transparent compute is actually useful but not as it exists on the eth blockchain, and the idea of ipfs is good while the execution is poisoned by starting from "blockchain" instead of starting from the problem that was trying to be solved.

ipfs didn't start from blockchain it started from bittorrent and distributed hash tables and then the word blockchain got glued to the side of it

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:40

Khorne: May 1, 2002

Shame Boy posted:

ipfs didn't start from blockchain it started from bittorrent and distributed hash tables and then the word blockchain got glued to the side of it

ah, ok, well I'm sitting here wrong as hell and have edited my post to reflect that

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:46

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

like it definitely seems like the kinda project that bitcoiners would start, but the fact that it doesn't use a blockchain to begin with makes me think it actually started as its own thing and bitcoiners saw it and went "hey free storage!!" and glomped on to it

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:48

qhat: Jul 6, 2015

bitcoiners don't start any projects, they just appropriate poo poo that already happened and jam a web3 sticker and a picture of an ape onto the side of it to make it look like a whole new thing.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:50

Presto: Nov 22, 2002; Keep calm and Harry on.

SubG posted:

it's all been downhill since the great renaming

The great renaming was OK. The real inflection point was the September that never ended.

In other words:

Taerkar posted:

The internet was great until the biggest mistake was made: Letting people use it.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 19:51

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Shame Boy posted:

like it definitely seems like the kinda project that bitcoiners would start, but the fact that it doesn't use a blockchain to begin with makes me think it actually started as its own thing and bitcoiners saw it and went "hey free storage!!" and glomped on to it

nah, ipfs was coiner poo poo from the start. the guy who came up with ipfs came up with filecoin at the same time, even though the functionality wasn't added to ipfs until later. the project was absolutely "file system but with bitcoin" from the start

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:19

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

there's been a whole bunch of projects identical to ipfs over the years e.g. freenet

decentralized anything doesn't work, you need a trusted authority to keep the assholes out

with decentralized file storage what's to stop your node from becoming a cai distribution node, or just plain flooding the network with crap data and requests for that crap data so that it fills up all the local storage on each node

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:21

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zi12wrh5So&t=222s

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:24

qhat: Jul 6, 2015

it's telling that out of all of the possible apes, paris hilton has to pick the blandest more boringest ape possible because it reminds her of herself

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:27

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

so much of the unpleasantness of the current traditional internet is the way it is precisely because it was built by a previous generation of techno-libertarian assholes

the open internet is a loving warzone where there's bots doing constant drive-by shootings and that's just accepted as a fact of life and you have to always remain on top of your security patches to defend against it. and we still have the worst of both worlds anyway because the media cartels will jump down your throat the moment you sing anything more copyrighted than Happy Birthday on twitch or happen to have it in the background of a video uploaded to youtube or whatever

there will always be an orderly centrally-enforced society for the rich. whether the rest of us will also live in a somewhat law-abiding environment or in a free-for-all shanty town is the only policy question that these decentralization idiots will ever be able to exert any influence on.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:29

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Presto posted:

The great renaming was OK. The real inflection point was the September that never ended.

nah, creation of the alt.* hierarchy

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:37

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

qhat posted:

it's telling that out of all of the possible apes, paris hilton has to pick the blandest more boringest ape possible because it reminds her of herself

more like whoever paid them to do the promo gave them the most boring apes possible

# ? Jan 26, 2022 20:42

Presto: Nov 22, 2002; Keep calm and Harry on.

SubG posted:

nah, creation of the alt.* hierarchy

Tell me alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die wasn't worth it.

# ? Jan 26, 2022 21:54

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/1483158789339725827

# ? Jan 26, 2022 21:57

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Presto posted:

Tell me alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die wasn't worth it.

i'm pretty sure that the alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb thing was played out before alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die was created. like it all started out with alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork, and i think the first copy was alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg. i think the alt.name.die.die.die variant started with alt.dinosaur.barney.die.die.die, and reached its apotheosis in alt.british.princess.di.di.di (or whatever the exact name was).

like i think the real "justification" for the alt.* hierarchy was the alt.binaries.* stuff. because slowly downloading several dozen individual uuencoded files so you can view a single low-quality porn gif...only to find out part 17 of 39 wasn't on the server anymore so it fails...is like the quintessential late '80s/early '90s usenet experience

# ? Jan 27, 2022 00:10

coelomate: Oct 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1486474030014099457

# ? Jan 27, 2022 00:16

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

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# ? Jan 27, 2022 00:16

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

you kids with your fancy 4K streaming porn videos

back in my day we learned how to get off to a fancy haircut

# ? Jan 27, 2022 01:25

Taerkar: Dec 7, 2002; kind of into it, really

If you haven't jacked off to ASCII porn then how can you claim to be a true internet veteran?

# ? Jan 27, 2022 01:52

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

retired idiot soccer player john terry has been promoting nfts with other peoples trademarks in them

https://twitter.com/telefootball/status/1486314354324742144?s=21

# ? Jan 27, 2022 04:14

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

don't worry, it's decentralized

# ? Jan 27, 2022 04:21

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

now that's the one time I want to see a footballer take a dive

# ? Jan 27, 2022 04:32

neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

https://twitter.com/ser_paperhand/status/1486377579691053059

# ? Jan 27, 2022 04:34

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

I mean, why wouldn't there be a puma nuts in your mouth NFT?

# ? Jan 27, 2022 04:43

coelomate: Oct 21, 2020

Oh I get it now, post-scarcity means unlimited artificial scarcity:

https://twitter.com/heyellieday/status/1486345205083443205

# ? Jan 27, 2022 04:45

Boxturret: Oct 3, 2013; Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

ah yes, if we burn real resources shuffling fake resources around eventually we will reach post scarcity

# ? Jan 27, 2022 05:19

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

https://twitter.com/heyellieday/status/1486344135791751183

some kind of... communitynism? idk i'll start the wiki

# ? Jan 27, 2022 05:26

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

anyway i hope i don't get drawn to compete in the Scarcity Games, I'm terrible with a bow

# ? Jan 27, 2022 05:27

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