cryptocurrency, tokenomics
Are people that aren't already wealthy actually making money on "tokenomics"? Like, I get the promise of cryptocurrency enabling microtransactions for contributing to either compute or content and people getting paid for that, but is it actually worth it for the average person?
Can a person pay for rent and food from some distributed compute project if they don't already have lots of disposable income?
Just for fun I created an account on #reddit and started to reply to /r/AskReddit posts using #chatgpt generated responses. Everyone thinks they are legit - they are being replied to, up voted. It is a bit overly formal and wordy in places and also it isn't using a consistent persona across all the replies, but I think that can be easily fixed with a more complex prompt that encourages terseness and gives it a persona.
I'll make another account and fix that.
Hey, remember when we learned that a right-wing terrorist network extensively planned a violent coup to overthrow the German government and constitution and establish a reactionary, ethnic nationalist, authoritarian monarchy with them as its leaders, and this network included members of the German judiciary, the police, one of its major political parties, the army, and members of the bourgeois (and formerly royal) societal elite? That was earlier this week.
(there are plenty of people in #advertising today who are sympathetic to #adReform, but pitching a post-surveillance ad project to work or clients now is like pitching an HTML5 project when almost all users had Flash installed. Advertisers are always a couple steps behind early adopter users, and ad-supported sites are at best one step behind advertisers #endSurveillanceCapitalism is going to be tech early adopters first, followed at some point by innovative advertisers+sites, then more users)
Fellow library workers -- please pass around word about @libraryland.social - a Mastodon instance set up for public librarians, academic librarians, school librarians, archivists and other library workers to share ideas, inspirations, questions, announcements and the like. If you're looking for a new home to move to after landing at mastodon.social -- that might be your new home.
Earlier this year, I became aware of STANDARD EBOOKS, a donation-dependent group of edtiors and layout experts who have been doing the amazing work of taking out-of-copyright books, turning them into top-quality ebooks, and then releasing them for free.
Some of the books they've done are in the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/standardebooks
They're seeking 75 patrons in December to keep themselves afloat, consider donating to this amazing cause.
With complexity dissolving into chaos so frequently, authoritarian simplicity looks appealing to too many.
You know what’s a great antidote to authoritarian tendencies?
✨Giving many people real power. ✊
What are the biggest obstacles to sharing power in your communities, organizations, or teams?
Here's a cool example I just got working.
The data here is being represented with a single array of strings, but the schema can expose it as a Map where the array is split into tuples.
Your application can say `{op: 'add', path: '/Goodbye', value: 'Cruel World'}`, and IPLD can find where in the array that keypair is, update it, and save the IPLD data back in the tuple form. That way you can avoid having to find the array index for your tuple entirely!
https://github.com/RangerMauve/js-ipld-url-resolve/blob/initial-patch/test.js#L230
Tl;dr IPLD lenses make it easier to work with data at the application layer while giving you hatches to optimize encoding and to use more advanced data layouts.
This is important for structured linked data in p2p systems where otherwise you'd need to manually write code to work with all these use cases. With IPLD you can think about schemas for your data, pathing over those schemas, and using patch operations on your schema'd data without needing to worry about the details.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.