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deweller commented on Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate   theregister.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111
deweller · 2 months ago
AWS Amplify was supposed to solve this. It is built on the AWS CDK. But I found it too clunky and slow and gave up on it.

These days I use SST (https://sst.dev) which is built on top of Pulumi. I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.

deweller commented on Show HN: Decentralized Bitcoin Incentives via QR Codes   github.com/DT7QR/Bitcoin-... · Posted by u/Yodan2025
deweller · 4 months ago
Sybil attacks are very difficult to mitigate while maintaining privacy and decentralization. I see a nod to anti-gaming in this proposal, but it does fully address this.

Why did you choose Bitcoin for this? Other blockchains can have significantly lower fees and allow the distribution of application-specific reward or governance tokens.

deweller commented on Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?   paulkrugman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Qem
evrimoztamur · 5 months ago
Hello..? SEPA? IBAN-to-IBAN? iDEAL and many other integrated payment systems in Europe allowing instant C2B/B2C/B2B payments?

We do not need crypto, the technology is here and implemented, and bank transfer fees are archaic rent-seeking structures.

Well done Brazil, wake up America.

deweller · 5 months ago
An important feature of (some) crypto stablecoins is that they function like cash.

Cash is fungible. And cash in my wallet is not subject to being frozen like a bank account.

One can argue the merits of a digital cash for society. But a crypto-based digital cash is fundamentally different from a digital bank-based payment system.

deweller commented on Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms   psypost.org/secret-change... · Posted by u/DocFeind
deweller · 5 months ago
The title implies that the data was manipulated. What happened was column headers were renamed without an official entry in the changelog.

Most of these changes were the column heading “Gender” renamed to “Sex.”

deweller commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists   holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh
deweller · 6 months ago
This is an interesting example of an AI system effecting a change in the physical world.

Some people express concerns about AGI creating swarms of robots to conquer the earth and make humans do its bidding. I think market forces are a much more straightforward tool that AI systems will use to shape the world.

deweller commented on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks   github.com/jackjackbits/b... · Posted by u/ananddtyagi
repeekad · 6 months ago
> I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead

Like the US dollar and Postgres?

For like $200 anyone can start a business entity in the US with a tax ID and a bank, I’m still yet to understand how crypto is better other than for circumventing regulators

deweller · 6 months ago
Cryptocurrency transfers are irreversible, publicly verifiable and pseudonymous. For a privacy focused application, these attributes make crypto a better choice than USD and the traditional banking system.
deweller commented on Remix Breaks Up with React   github.com/kayac-chang/re... · Posted by u/fantasticsleuth
aitchnyu · 7 months ago
Does this mean Remix will become a framework (with no stated benefits) that wont benefit from React ecosystem?
deweller · 7 months ago
According to this post, Remix v3 aims to not build on top of React:

> We're simply struggling to build something that feels like React did when we first found it.

> That's why Remix is moving on from React

> Remix v3 is a completely new thing. It's our fresh take on simplified web development with its own rendering abstraction in place of React.

> Inspired by all the great tech before it (LAMP, Rails, Sinatra, Express, React, and more), we want to build the absolute best thing we know how to build with today's capable web platform.

deweller commented on Standard Chartered apologizes for $120K Bitcoin price call, 'may be too low'   cnbc.com/2025/05/08/stanc... · Posted by u/koolba
footlose_3815 · 8 months ago
Speculation is value now I guess. Also, it helps when every bad actor on earth is laundering money through it.

I hope for, and anticipate that crypto will be reigned-in and we will go back to more predictable currency. The spikes and drops of it make it much less of a currency, and more of a speculation market where everyone is going to lose big one day.

deweller · 8 months ago
The technical term is "monetary premium".

Gold has a utility (or industrial) value. But that value is significantly lower than the actual price. The rest of the price of gold is monetary premium.

I say Bitcoin's large network, censorship resistance and worldwide adoption give it some base utility value. The rest is monetary premium.

I do agree with your sentiment. Stablecoins (UDSC, etc) are predictable and are much better suited for actual spending.

deweller commented on DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show   reuters.com/world/us/doge... · Posted by u/pseudolus
hypeatei · 9 months ago
But the article says they publicly posted about being "valued partners" with DiamondCDN. That seems to be more than just some criminals signing up and using the CDN. At the very least it creates more questions than answers, no?
deweller · 9 months ago
Is a public post from a cybercrime ring credible evidence?

I get that the potential connection may warrant more investigation. But I don't see any real evidence of anything in this article other than they were a customer of DiamondCDN for an unknown amount of time.

deweller commented on Bitly injecting ads into shortened links   social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/1140... · Posted by u/ColinWright
bananapub · 10 months ago
that is indeed the email they sent out and it definitely suggests all links will get interstitial junk.
deweller · 10 months ago
Links from non-paid users will get an interstitial.

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