Once again I got convinced that my theory was true: if someone doesn't talk to me within a relatively long period of time, it means that either everything in their life is too bad, or too good.
If I ever run a cryptocurrency node, it will be something like #MinaProtocol node, because it doesn't require huge space to run (and, in theory, can even be fully placed into RAM: I wonder how their browser-based node PoC will work although I'm not a fan of putting workloads into browsers).
Because even with Monero, we're talking ~70GB in the _pruned_ mode as of now. That's definitely not what it should look like.
Also, I don't know why O1Labs chose a dialect of TypeScript for their Mina zkApps (it's a terrible choice IMO, even worse than vanilla JS) but the node codebase itself is written in OCaml which I highly respect. Maybe will return to it myself unless I find any decent replacement working on both Linux and OpenBSD (spoiler: Myrddin doesn't fully work on OpenBSD anymore).
No surprise bitcoin fanbois also employ false dichotomy trick: "either our One True Coin, or fiat/CBDC". Denial of reality is so funny... until it isn't anymore.
The font though...
I know a guy who wants to buy everything new just because it's new. He has top-notch motherboards, videocards, monitors just for the sake of it. He wants to have a 100GBit network at home, not knowing what to do with it, he doesn't run any home servers or Monero/Tor nodes or something. He wants it just because he can afford it. Peak consumerism.
Meanwhile, I reduce every video quality to 720p because most of my screens aren't larger than 1366x768. And even on the one with 1920x1080 (which is already huge by my standards), I still view in 720p at most because it spends less processing power and overall energy.
And yes, there's an old saying: "if people really knew sh, ed, sed, grep and awk, millions of software products would never need to be created".
I'd add bc/dc to that list, but whatever.
Why not? Bitcart supports much more cryptos.
How did it go?
Which merchants use bitcart.ai for their checkouts/invoices? I can't find any public information on Bitcart's site. #asknostr
I already can't decide which people are more brainwashed and propaganda-driven: those who call everyone to trust banksters and say KYC is for greater good and every crypto user is a potential criminal, or those who believe in One True Coin, reject any blockchain progress made since 2011 and are ready to crucify anyone measuring things in USDT.
s/bitcoin/monero/g
Because I reckon that by now the majority of bitcoin is already owned by establishment systems. They are just trying to take control of the rest of it.
On the weekend, I watched several documentaries: about Quadriga, about Centra and about Cyberbunker. All of them left a lot of questions unanswered but the #Cyberbunker one puzzles me the most: did they really have all their drives unencrypted? How stupid is that?
Neither do I. I just point out why looking at FOSS repos to find potential employees is pretty much inefficient.
Oh, and here's another factor: there is a small fraction of people who just don't accept any kind of control over them.
I understand, seems like we've been talking about different things in the same thread.
There's another factor to consider though: a lot of people (me included) also lose their enthusiasm and energy very quickly whenever their hobbies become their full-time job. Up to the point they start really hating what they liked to do before.
Anyway, as I said, I'm not *that* old but, in my 30s, I already have decided I will stop working as soon as I have a chance, i.e. have enough money to spend throughout the rest of my life. Meanwhile, I know a guy who, in his 40s, earns 2 or 3 times more than me and keeps saying he loves to work and loves his job position (senior Java developer). Not sure he'd necessarily go nuts otherwise but he had some mental problems in the past, so maybe focusing on the work is a part of his therapy.
Maybe. Sometimes. More often though, it looks like this: "let's offer him less, he'll agree anyway, he doesn't have anywhere else to go"
FOSS movement doesn't have anything to do with good old corporate greed.
By exploitation, I mean paying those reliable workers half the real price of their work because they are enthusiastic and cannot see they are treated unfairly because of that.
The problem is, employers are looking for such personalities for a very different reason: exploitation. They prey on their enthusiasm, and responsibility too. Responsible enthusiasts are easier to manipulate into doing more for less. They don't know how to "sell themselves" because they don't want to do this in the first place.
I think there is a slight misconception here.
There are several types of FOSS developers, the main two of them (besides RedHat-like corporations) being 1) ones who treat this as a hobby and have main jobs totally unrelated to this, and 2) ones who deliberately write FOSS projects in order to get noticed and eventually hired by some companies. What you wrote only applies to type 2. Type 1 doesn't need to prove anything to anybody. Everyone is free to use or not use whatever they publish.
Yes, that is a problem, irresponsible FOSS developers pollute the space and often promise what they can't deliver. But the responsible ones, if they belong to type 1, reject any money proposals to implement something far more often, precisely because they are responsible. Taking money for features takes away your freedom to do whatever *you* want to do with this project. Yes, a responsible FOSS hobbyist can accept donations, but the donators don't have any right to dictate how to develop the project any further.
So, every such developer needs to make a choice between being independent (but probably non-profitable) and selling oneself.
Many years ago, I heard something like this: "always write your software in assumption that one of your end users will be a violent psycho who knows where you live".
Looking at e.g. NodeJS "ecosystem" I realized that, alas, there is a significant lack of such individuals from both sides of the process.