This article immediately brought to mind a particular conversation in season one of Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Jenny: "Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much?"

Giles: "The smell."

Jenny: "Computers don't smell, Rupert."

Giles: "I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly."

By “on the edge”, I mean that if you’re in London and I’m in Amsterdam, and we want to exchange messages, the messages shouldn’t have to do a round-trip through Virginia, they should go through a server closer to both of us. (Of course, if I’m in SF and you’re in London, this is less of a win.)

The way it works in DriftDB is that everything is siloed into “rooms”, which are effectively broadcast channels. The room is started based on the geography of the person who first joins it (Cloudflare handles this part).

So? It is a system external to the blockchain with NFTs, that's the problem. One of the problems.

Except most probably that license itself and rules regarding it's usage are stored in a centralized way somewhere. Simply because NFT can't store anything this big inside, not even a sufficiently long text only file. The tech doesn't allow this.

>but from my understanding they are a way to extend "ownership" for digital entities like you would do for phisical[sic] ones.

But it doesn't. Unless that NFT includes a legal sales agreement or contract transferring ownership, you don't 'own' anything. If I'm an artist and sell you a NFT for a digital copy of my art I still 'own' that art. I am still the copyright holder. You are not legally entitled to anything and the NFT legally confers nothing to the buyer. You're not 'buying' anything. You're just making a non-deductible donation.

This made me think about the case of mobile network operators recycling phone numbers. How does WhatsApp handle that? What about Telegram which isn’t e2e encrypted and stores everything on their servers by default?

There are operators recycling numbers after less than a year of inactivity/zero balance on pre paid SIMs.

Somehow Facebook and Twitter never get a pass on HN using similar reasoning:

"Sure social media can be harmful, but on the other hand there's Mastodon and Jane's Wholesome Baking Forum showing you can do better, so there's nothing to worry about."

Scale matters. Probably 99% of crypto trading takes place on destructive PoW platforms.

What's Win10/11 story on m1 macs?

I measured the Gflops/W and the big cores give 2.5 which compared to f.ex. raspberry 4 at 2 is not revolutionary.

What gives the M1 an edge is also it's weakest point: proprietary designs, it cannot run things like Unity or Java Minecraft that require generic x86 CISC to run well.

From my perspective the only hope apple has is linux reverse engineering the GPU to allow OpenGL.