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Re:Paying People for Their Attention on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:26AM (#36136298)
I quite like the layout of this blog, was it bespoken made?
Re:Lets talk about how NFTs are a giant scam on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:12AM (#28850756)
This was an insightful thread, but I think these arguments miss the "bigger picture" that NFTs carry with them. Yes the popular use case right now of expensive art and "selling a JPG" is rather silly, just like the art world always has been. What I see in the space however is a lot of opportunities to grow community-building tools - POAPs for example are rarely sold for profit (some still try to) and are a great way to encourage participation and attendance of events, with added functionality of rewarding said participation after an event for example. A lot of media coverage is on the absurd art market use cases, and though the possible profits make it a loud use case, it is just one sliver of potential of Blockchain technology. I am excited to see NFTs move beyond these cases, and I see that happening quite often.
Re:Engineering a modern-day typewriter in which less is more on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:53PM (#28622405)
I have never tried out one of these, though I have seen the adverts before and thought they looked quite cool. I wonder how useful for the Art of Writing, however, going "backwards" really is. I am all for distraction-free writing, and think that ignoring some (if not all) of the attention economy is a wonderful life decision. However, wouldn't the lineage of writers look fondly upon certain aspects of technology? To put it another way, I would love a device like this (or even just an updated Alphasmart from back in the day) that could also include something like gemini network connectivity, allowing the fruits of my distraction-free writing to be incorporated into my life here in 2021.

Will certainly be on the lookout for such 'revolutionary' devices.

Re:Spice.ai – Open-source, time series AI for developers on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:57PM (#28450442)
Unrelated to the programme, but I wonder if the naming is related to "Dune" at all
Congrats again on launching - appreciate the openness and the project seems interesting! Simple question here, as I somehow always seem to miss this feature on most blog sites, does this project handle pdf hosting as a blog post?
Re:Radiooooo – The Music Time Machine on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:02AM (#22492055)
I have been wondering why it stopped working for me half the time about a year and a half ago, and you just now made that click in my head haha, cheers for that.
Even when I managed to click on the link itself it only brought me to the page I was already reading (the Gibson article)... were you able to find anything else about them?
Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:05AM (#21919823)
Glad to see any encrypted mail grow their services, this is a bit of a sidebar, but what are some of the updated thoughts about the return of Lavabit and the Dark Mail Alliance group?
Something interesting that may want to be worked on one day is that searching for an author's full name seems to bring up different results than just searching for their last name.
Nice searches, I searched for Clarke first and there is even less than Asimov :(
Re:Analyzing the Panama Papers with IP Street on Friday April 15, 2016 @05:59AM (#11503193)
And how many more errors will continue to be made.