Software is truly dying in front of our eyes. Replaced with both an explosion of AI-fuelled creativity and flooded to oblivion with slop.
Software development as done in the previous 30 years is gone. Code doesn't matter, programming languages don't matter. We'll be passing more time caring about products than the way they are written underneath.
It ain't all bad. In fact, this happens because plenty of it is good.
The world just changed.
It is accurate. This happened before, at some places got called "eternal september".
Slop was already there from the start, just got enabled and now floods the internet. This truly feels like the death of software.
I like ecash and the blazing fast micro-payments.
My only complaint is lack of privacy since hostile groups will be able to map a profile from you based on those small payments.
With all the tech we've built so far, private micro-payments without ambiguitities would be the necessary situation for the upcoming times.
Being poor is a choice, your bad choices ain't my fault.
I'm retired since my 30s, couldn't care less that you choose to remain poor
The difference is that I see things for what they are.
Privacy was never optional on cryptocurrencies, reason why we moved to Monero several years ago. Anyone telling you otherwise is only benefiting from fooling you.
That is accurate, yet there are protections to those merely acting as platform providers.
This doesn't mean that "everything goes", it just means that you need to include some level of measures for people to report dangerous media and nowadays include some kind of AI to spot unwanted types of media on the server.
These aren't unreasonable measures and mostly apply when your server becomes large enough to matter.
Are you reading replies to your posts or is this just AI generated?
Crypto has a Latin origin which means "to hide". You've been using virtual coins all your life without ever understanding why crypto was created in the first place.
The only crypto currency in past years that is worthy of such definition is still Monero.
That's not hacking, any android does that when looking on the connection options.
They aren't hackers when they are promoting a fedcoin that has less privacy than your bathroom.
Stop with the bullshit.
Monero fixes that.
The enemy is infiltrated and confusing normies to adopt some gov-sponsored as if it was Monero. Fools them to think it will give them privacy or "freedom".
The monero train will continue.
Just wait until you discover monero.
No more GitHub — publish your git repos on Blossom:
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cargo install hashtree-cli
cd your_repo
# self is an auto-generated nostr identity (nsec) in ~/.hashtree/keys
git remote add htree htree://self/your_repo
git push htree master
clone:
git clone htree://npub1xndmdgymsf4a34rzr7346vp8qcptxf75pjqweh8naa8rklgxpfqqmfjtce/hashtree-rs
view at files.iris.to e.g. https://files.iris.to/#/npub1xndmdgymsf4a34rzr7346vp8qcptxf75pjqweh8naa8rklgxpfqqmfjtce/hashtree-rs
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Vibe coded this in 3 weeks, using Claude Opus 4.5, along with
https://docs.iris.to collaborative docs editor
https://video.iris.to decentralized youtube
https://files.iris.to decentralized filesharing
https://meet.iris.to decentralized video calls
I believe AI will be actually good for freedom tech: soon everyone will have the resources to create the software they need, not just big tech.
Good work
As others mentioned, IPFS is great in theory and quite a pain in practice. Here in NOSTR there is Blossom which tends to work far better and just about anywhere.
That sucks. A person puts the effort the effort to fit into a group of crazies and can fool them for a good while but sucks to be kicked for being normal and just want to hang out with someone. 😑
Lightning was never meant for more than paying coffee and small stuff, with a lot of effort to maintain "channels".
Here is NOSTR surfaced Cashu which in my opinion is far more advanced and practical. Basically enables instant payments like lightning but adds:
+ No limits on values
+ Guaranteed payment on source
+ Can be shared off-line
+ Monero or any other currency as usable
Which version did you use? I2pd is usually included on Linux distros. Just install it and enable the systemd process (sudo systemctl enable i2pd) then you should be good to go. Use SOCKS proxy port 4447 on your monero wallet to connect to i2p nodes. Way lower bandwidth but good For alternative.
For browsing eepsites use HTTP proxy port 4444 on localhost on any browser and you can go to any eepsite. Try http://notbob.i2p to find them.
This was on Android, very difficult to implement and then too heavy to use both on speed and battery of the device.
There are technologies that didn't exist at the time like NAT hole punching and WebRTC. With those two features alone is easy to achieve similar results with a simpler approach and far higher bandwidth.
For example, two phones can directly connect with each other no matter in which networks they are, or you can configure multiple jumps when needing to access Internet sites.
I've tried implementing I2P and my opinion after that experience is that it seems intentionally unusable.
Everyone, even I2P, is nowadays pulling you to Tor.
Instead of feeding that kraken I've just implemented our own network. For sure not as polished, but at least works for what is needed.
Privacy+ subscription model to enable password reset based on the user fingerprints and will sell like hotcakes.
You are welcome to already try it.
Those tips are accurate and being worked upon.
Until you use it.
Then your wallet is exposed forever, and to wherever your transfer money.
It's just stupid.
Good share.
Good share.
Tax on crypto? 😂
Monero fixes that.
A good SoV tends to be diversified. Always a good idea to keep a few Monero around just as it was a good idea to keep some BTC around 10 years ago.
Don't know the future, just recognize a bad option when I see one.
Oh my.. still ignoring the technical explanation and now quoting some random anon writing from a government controlled platform.
Color me surprised. 👍