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Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript, Swift/Kotlin. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches

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I’m sure we will have false positives. Luckily, having your comment or post shared on hailcorporate doesn’t disqualify you from anything.

I’ll hopefully be able to recognize witch hunts for what they are. If this community isn’t for you, please exercise your right to ignore it. :)

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You’re arguing semantics here, weird nerd. Who cares what you call what I did to bring this community into reality? I pressed a few buttons and the thing that was in my mind now exists in the world and is impossible for you to do anything about.

Did you want to add anything of value to the conversation?

demesisx,
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There are tons of them on hexbear.net and other niche instances.

demesisx, (edited )
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As a moderator who did that and stopped, that’s not the case. What it actually was: we didn’t want to go back to Reddit ever again. So, we desperately tried to lift the quality posts and communities from stubborn holdouts to have that quality come with us.

IMO, it was a failure because people were so anti-bot. But that’s why I was taking part in moving everything over from there. I had no financial motives. I was just hoping to 100% boycott Reddit and was looking to draw their communities away from that utterly enshittified platform.

I failed but I haven’t been back to Reddit.

Energy Efficient X Compositors?

Hi! I’m currently using XFCE on my laptop, I was previously using Compify as my compositor (XFWM is quite rough), but stopped when I noticed I could no longer get through the day on one charge. My battery life doubled when switching back to XFWM. So I was wondering if anyone knows of any X compositors that have a focus on...

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I use picom with XMonad and it’s pretty damned efficient.

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I think I see NixOS in your future. ;)

demesisx,
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Are you sure about that?

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Agreed. That and I hate Docker with a burning passion.

demesisx,
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Guilty. But substitute Mormonism with the proper way to do things.

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It’s funny when you pretend that each of those weren’t 100% coordinated by the DNC to prevent Bernie from winning a bunch of states and perhaps the presidency.

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Colin Furze takes oil money.

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I wish you luck… but honestly, it sounds like a lot of painful steps to get the exact same thing that a solid config flake in NixOS would get you.

I use NixOS btw. ;)

Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)

Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...

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Nice. He recognized a good technology. You sound SO stupid.

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Here’s some easy ways to spot fraud in a crypto project:

  • not open source
  • not decentralized
  • anonymous team (not always a sign of sketchiness)
  • the crypto is locked in someone else’s wallet (not your keys, not your crypto)
  • promises of ROI that are too good to be true (like TerraLunas 20% guaranteed return or the unsustainably high return promised by FTX)
  • not formally verified
  • an actual use-case rather than leveraging buzz-words to sell a utility token (looking at you IOTA and AGIX)
  • initial token allocation is all insiders (Ergo had one of the fairest launches in the whole space, for example so I’d be shocked to see that one be a pump and dump)

I didn’t predict the failure of FTX or TerraLuna but they also didn’t smell right to me because they ticked MANY of the warning boxes above. I’m fairly centered around Cardano ecosystem projects but even in that ecosystem there’s bound to be some fraud. I protect myself by sticking to my gut feeling and using that small checklist. I have yet to be defrauded and I’ve been investing the space since 2017. It’s not hard and I am not Nostradamus but thanks for the compliment.

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“You drink water and breathe air. Peter Thiel drinks water and breathes air too. Therefore you are just like Peter Thiel!”

You’re a troll. I literally hate Peter Thiel. He is invested in so many technologies that it’s VERY likely that we’re invested in the same tech somewhere. Pretty sure he doesn’t give a shit about Cardano which is the project I develop applications for.

Spreading your investments out is kind of how investing works when someone is a billionaire, dipshit.

Anyway, that’s enough feeding the trolls for today. Have a good night, intellectually dishonest hiveminder.

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This video only mentions ERC-20 tokens as NFT’s. Are you so ignorant that you don’t realize that Ethereum is not the only crypto currency project? Do you realize that many projects have entirely different tech stacks? Actually, if you wanted to, you could go through my history and find me criticizing Ethereum’s badly flawed accounts model at least 20 times.

I’m not wasting any more time trying to have an intellectually honest debate with a person that blindly writes off an entire class of technologies yet doesn’t even understand beginner level things about it.

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It’s interesting that you can identify cherry-picking on my part but fail to identify it on your own. I merely mentioned situations where fraud (which I didn’t fall for because I follow certain principles about transparency and auditability of the crypto technologies that I prefer) was easily detected because the nature of the technology puts all transactions on an immutable ledger.

What valid criticisms of THE TECH have you offered so far? You’ve simply pointed to situations where stupid people failed to protect themselves from clear frauds then went and used that brush to paint the entire crypto space. You’re not really the intellectual heavyweight you seem to think you are.

demesisx,
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If you dislike corruption and capitalists, then why do you like cryptocurrency?

Because properly-implemented cryptocurrencies make corruption impossible. Even the shitty, scammy FTX project had a decentralized ledger, allowing the FTC to quickly and easily forensically untangle SBF’s tangled web of lies and fraud. Even Do Kwan’s TerraLuna hack would have been possible to detect had the project been open source (like any viable crypto project) but regardless of that, it will still now be quite trivial for the regulators prosecuting him and his co-conspirators with fraud.

More learning for those listening in that haven’t already made up their mind like you have: youtu.be/J5xegDJphvc?si=x3tJw9s1c1WL_WNy

demesisx,
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Is this article (and the many sources I see confirming it) inaccurate then?

www.theregister.com/AMP/…/linux_kernel_email/

I’m happy to be wrong if you have any evidence to refute what I’ve written.

Ps. I’m talking about the kernel.

demesisx,
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Interestingly enough, someone actually did release two nix derivations for this software!

search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=…

demesisx,
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Agreed!

demesisx,
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Good mods don’t ban people for swearing.

demesisx,
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Agreed. I mean, there’s nuance at play here.

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This is why: youtu.be/OZ28knLt5Rs?si=SddCmwZnETY3n_1R

Edit: I see I’m not the first person to post this video.

demesisx,
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What are these new things you write about? The studios haven’t greenlighted a “new thing” in 20 years.

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