“how long was she using for?”

Oh she didn’t use them, she just kept calling my heroin stupid and useless.

Maybe I’ll actually get round to implementing my ideas 🤷

I guess there’s no harm in making it work even if nobody uses it.

I know the peertube one is sorta broken at the minute because the WASM POW script doesn’t accept difficulty as a variable. Maybe I should check up and see if anyone has fixed it.

A lot of crypto projects are ready for implementation right now, but they all have their own unique problems and one rather large shared problem.

I made a peertube plugin a while back that will tip XNO to any creators you watched based on watch time.

The user journey for everyone was as simple as could possibly be imagined. Viewers added a few quid to a browser wallet and forget about it. Creators added an XNO address to the video description and the plugin would automatically pay like 10p a minute or something. Nobody even needed an account to make it work and there was no issues with federation as long as you were watching from the instance with your wallet.

I’ve even been writing my own fedi-first blog engine and been thinking about adding paywalls. It’d be super easy to do technically and the UX would be as good or better than any existing services.

You’d just set a cookie when people look at a post and generate a new wallet on the server. If a reader wants to view a paywalled post, they click a link or scan a QR code to send payment, the payment clears in two seconds and refreshes the page. Server checks the cookie and that the new wallet has the fee in, sees the article is paid for and serves it.

The thing is that this project is targeting a niche within a niche within a niche within a niche.

The deepest niche is why XNO? It has JS wallets, is feeless, actually decentralised, clears within two seconds and the project leader seems to be ideologically driven to create a functional currency above all else. The problems are that it’s not anonymous, it’s premined, and that it’s deflationary.

Already this is a hard niche to get out of. I can already see that people will be arguing to use alternatives like monero because it’s more secure, but it also has fees, is difficult to exchange for real currency and will probably get you on a no fly list. Or SOL because the fees are really low and a lot of people already use it. But I’m wanting to do instant transactions with no fees so sending pennies is feasible, so this makes me a statist spy wants to push my shitcoin because I’m a massive bag holder.

The next niche is that we have a small user base here that’s incredibly sceptical about crypto. The whole crypto sphere is incredibly toxic. It’s mostly environmentally destructive and the vast majority of what it holds up is fraud, organised crime and gambling.

The majority of pro-crypto people here are cypherpunks who put their ideological commitment to monero or bitcoin above usability. The majority of anti-crypto -and overall majority- of people here are jaded by crypto nonsense and won’t give a new project a hearing.

The next niche is marketing. We don’t do that here. It’s uncouth and immoral. A spam campaign would be annoying and get the spammers banned and is just generally bad in everyway. Alternatively if any of the influencers on here decided to sell out to help us reach a critical mass where crypto payments aren’t entirely stagnant, we wouldn’t have the money to pay them. Crypto kind of has to be unprofitable to move on from being another form of gambling.

The last niche is onboarding. The market we want for microtransactions really isn’t the market that centralised exchanges want. A decentralised payments network really should be competing with netflix and substack. We want high churn, low volume for people to be able to feasibly make an income. That’s going to be ruined by the fact that people wanting to pay a tenner a month are going to lose most of that money before they even get it into a wallet, and the people recieving that money might just lose 20% of it at any given moment due to market movements.

So after narrowing it all down this leaves us with maybe a dozen people on here left to support it but they aren’t even going to cross paths enough to make any transactions.

It might* be worth trying this and installing home assistant.

*I say might because I just got some IoT stuff on sale and installed home assistant before realising there’s nothing useful in home automation except zoned heating. Fun to play with though, I guess.

I’m all for scamming scammers, but I’m quite happy to give a tip to YouTubers I watch by way of e-commerce commissions.

To deal with moderation conflicts you could basically just unlink the thread.

Also we could also just add flags to activitypub messages on creating posts to tell the boosting server whether or not merging is permitted.

If you’ve worked hard on something and want everyone to see it, set it to True and people can boost it to different communities.

If it’s something personal or an in-joke that you only want to be advertised to the community it’s posted in set it to False and the option won’t be available when cross posting in the UI.

Tribler has it’s own in-built onion routing. That might be difficult for your ISP to identify. Idk

It doesn’t have to be a solemn vow. The definition of insurance is that it’s a guarantee. If it’s denying claims it’s technically not even providing insurance.

Linux is actually kinda designed to be less fragmented than windows really.

The reason you don’t pick an install directory is because the standard is that binaries live where binaries live, dependencies live where dependencies live, logs live where logs live, etc.

All the user should worry about is where the media or whatever your program works with is.

Always try to find the apt install instructions for whatever program you want, and it’s easy to uninstall with apt remove.

Apart from a few deb packages, almost everything that can’t be managed via apt should be considered incomplete or experimental. If it was ready for you to just use it without issue, it would be in an apt repository.

It may seem a bit daunting to have to use command line at first, but once you’re used to it, you’ll realise how absolutely broken and archaic managing software on windows is. (Like seriously, it’s 2024 and you’re still having to fish through slow or sketchy websites to find installers for tools and drivers.)

I’d like some kind of visual task scheduler instead of having to read up on how to do cron jobs every time.

I live in a pretty diverse area and everyone loves talking about where they’re from. It’s like a universal ice breaker that can start an engaging conversation with people you otherwise have nothing in common with. Honestly if someone asks where you’re from there’s a far greater chance they’re trying to get off with you than fine tune their racism.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a Lemmy UI without JS because it serves up JSON not rendered pages. You could sign up on a kbin/mbin instance though to get a static frontend.

Cold water falls to the bottom of a kettle and boils on the bottom. Microwaves can miss the bottom, possibly?

It’s integrating as best it can. It has an embeddable player and LDAP logins. It’s kind of a failure on the part of other platform Devs to use it.

The fundamental problem with cryptocurrencies is that the people with the enthusiasm to make them (libertarians), are too stupid (libertarian) to understand why a deflationary asset cannot work as a currency.

It’s inherently a speculative investment. Nobody is going to spend something that might be worth dramatically more tomorrow and nobody is going work for something that might be worth dramatically less tomorrow.

Is there really a significant difference between steamOS and using big picture mode + proton? I’ve had hardly any issues using steam on Ubuntu to play windows only games. Even Microsoft flight sim works despite trying it’s hardest to act like part of windows.

I’ve used TH72 a bit. I’d describe it more as shock proof than flexible. It’ll certainly make your miniatures robust, but it’s nowhere near as soft as something like TPU.

In the UK, weed is measured in authentic receding British imperial units where an ounce weighs one less gram every year.