In which I leave Twitter: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/26/Bye-Twitter
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Tim Bray
@timbray@mastodon.cloud
Web geek with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
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Joined April 06, 2017
Wrote a blog on why AWS never dove seriously into blockchain. Features groovy pix from a trip to New York, which is part of the story: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain
Hey everyone, this is to alert that I will be switching instances later this evening and become @timbray@hachyderm.io
If you’re following me, you *should* be dragged along and see no real change. But sometimes things break. So if I seem to go silent (and that’s not an improvement) you might have to re-follow.
If I’m following you, I’m using Masto’s nice export/import and that should take care of itself too.
All this may take a day or two to complete, they tell me.
See you on the other side.
OMG an actual real no-armwaving production application relying on #blockchain: https://www.nozominetworks.com/blog/tracking-malicious-glupteba-activity-through-the-blockchain/
The application? Malware enablement.
Really first-rate crypto-skeptic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/cryptocurrency-ftx-collapse-dirty-bubble-media/672440/
I don’t think it says anything that hasn’t been said by others (including me) for the last 5 years or so, but James Block is articulate, eloquent, puts it better than most of us have. Reading it might help you warn friends away from crypto.
[Now wondering if I’ll get swarmed by cryptobros like I would on Twitter…]
Fire all your guns at once
and explode into space.
or in other words, launch migration. Bye, mastodon.cloud, and thanks for all the fish.
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All these people coming back at me saying “not an IPv6 problem, a business problem”. Well OK, but so what?
It reads to me like IPv6 is not usable in the general case. In the vernacular, “broken”.
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Except, ha-ha, while it works in the Masto compose window, it doesn't work in my feed display. *Sigh*. The future, unevenly distributed as usual.
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@adrianco@mastodon.social If QLDB had been more like internal QLDB, with appliers and so on, it should have found an audience. I was baffled when it turned into something else that I could never really understand.
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@nelson@tech.lgbt BTW have been really enjoying your Starlink posts. It's impossible not to have complicated feelings about that operation.
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@Pxtl@mastodon.social OK, I realized the discussion page was still there at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33759340 and it shows as "flagged". Now to figure out what that means…
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@brennansv@sfba.social So, you want an independent background-check provider, which you trust even though you don't trust Lyft & Uber. Fair enough, sounds reasonable. How does a blockchain help?
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@nelson@tech.lgbt It's relevant if you're a network professional trying to fix the problem, but if you're just trying to use IPv6 and you're told "OK, but it won't support connections to customers of this one particular big ISP” my management brain hears “IPv6 is broken”.
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@bcantrill@mastodon.social @sogrady@mastodon.social @ahl@mastodon.social @oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io
So 5PM Pacific tomorrow Nov 28? Someone shoot me a Discord link and I'll drop by.
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@roblach@hachyderm.io @b_cavello@mastodon.social That's *exactly* what I've been waiting to see happen, since 2015 or so, and it hasn't. If it were going to, it would have by now.
@OliverC@glasgow.social So, decentralized in theory but not in practice.
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@nelson@tech.lgbt Agree with everything you say, except for too many people will read the word “simple” as implying “easy”. Which, obvs not the case. I mean, I’m an example of a person who didn’t know about this and IPv6 in my brain has been pushed further back on the “someday” shelf.
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They offer a consumer-commerce infrastructure platform and are doing quite well. They gather a *lot* of data about platform users, and their customers - the people building on the platform - are always asking for analytics on the interaction data, and so far, they haven' managed to automate this, so they're doing custom code. The need to build a customer-facing analytics interface, freeing customers to answer their own questions.
If this might be you, DM me please.
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@sogrady@mastodon.social Good questions! Was about to start answering them when it occurred to me that this dialogue deserves long-form home. By default, I'll just turn them into an ongoing piece but is there a scope for a podcast or some other mode?
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@Pxtl@mastodon.social Hey, I noticed that. My stuff gets on HN fairly often and I'm used to getting beat up a bit there, but sometimes there's really useful commentary.
I've never had a piece vanish before.
How/when does something get taken down? Are there organized downvoting campaigns or something? Or just an HN mod doesn't like it?
Look, I understand blockchain. And while I suppose quite a few miner and exchange coins are held in hardware wallets, the proportion of retail Btc holders who use them rounds to zero. I made quite a lot of money buying & selling Btc 2013-17 and never ran any wallet.
So for the mass of retail investors, also known as the Greater Fool bagholders being robbed by the Ponzi, Btc is de facto centralized.
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@bcantrill@mastodon.social
Hoo boy, just totally screwed up my discord by logging in with the wrong email, now my phone is blocked. With any luck I'll be back on the air by tomorrow…
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@clairep@mastodon.social Thanks! It's not clear to what extent you get to see boosts from other people. Anyhow, that article got plenty of traffic.