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In the tech industry, when a system doesn’t work and can’t be fixed we throw it out and start over.
In the tech industry, when a system doesn’t work and can’t be fixed we throw it out and start over.
It really isn’t a different debate when you’re talking about putting them on the blockchain, and all that other engineering has already been done by other distributed social networks.
Trust, consensus, and access control are session-layer issues that don’t need to be solved by a transport-layer protocol. Social networks deserve to be able to forget things.
We already have that, it’s called a Distributed Hash Table, no blockchain required.
No worries, I’m merely confident that the tradeoffs necessary to employ a blockchain aren’t worth the supposed benefits thereof.
What if we don’t want global usernames? What if we’re entirely satisfied with global user IDs in a DHT?
Seems inefficient, couldn’t the same thing be accomplished using local DBs rather than the world’s most inefficient ledger?
Such a good doggo, herding the precious bebe _
Lol, worst autocorrect ever. XD
Dunno! I haven’t been to Twitter since Elon bought it and activated our scorched-earth protocols. Twitter hasn’t been accessible on any device in our network since then.
You’ve got that backwards.
They’ve been convicted in the court of public opinion. This reversal doesn’t make them innocent of their crimes, but it does justify reducing the sentence to parole.
The black mark stays on their record, but they have the opportunity to start rebuilding trust. If they want good reviews on future titles they need to avoid squandering the chance to prove they deserve them.
Lol, what goodwill? Sony has been on my shitlist since the music rootkit debacle that bricked a bunch of CD players.
Sure seems like Helldivers’ multiplayer works just fine without a Sony account.
Hence my reference to the Wayland compositor rather than just Wayland.
Crypto is just as insecure as credit cards. The whole point of the blockchain is that everyone can see all transactions.
Super-short version:
The system that Linux uses to draw anything on the screen (showing the desktop, your windows, their contents, etc) is called a display server.
Linux has been using a display server called the X Window System (or x11) since its inception, but it’s ancient and has limitations that can’t be fixed without breaking everything that depends on it.
The Wayland compositor is the new display server that will be replacing x11, improving security and adding support for newer features like HDR. It’s nearly ready for a full release now, and is already the default for some Linux distributions.
I work in this industry and I can confirm that there’s fucking nothing ensuring the privacy of these transactions. Tens of thousands of people have full access to everyone’s credit card history, and that’s not counting unauthorized access and card skimmers.
Oh heck, that sounds promising. 😺
Don’t bother.
Instead, start preparing for the inevitable: