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  1. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    Maybe it's because I'm in the EU, more specifically the SEPA area. I was sending money to people without interference before the blockchain. ^^ And even here in Germany, where many people could...

    Maybe it's because I'm in the EU, more specifically the SEPA area. I was sending money to people without interference before the blockchain. ^^

    And even here in Germany, where many people could not imagine why a non-company entity (vulgo: person) would want to have a website, having an email address was considered very useful. (Maybe those people didn't consider email to be a part of the internet? I don't know.)

    Oh, and a small nitpick: You aren't sending money on the blockchain. You are putting numbers into a database. The day I can pay my taxes in Bitcoin it is money, but not before. (Yes, "fiat money" is also just numbers in a database, but the powers that be say that is money and until the Libertarian Uprising it will stay that way.)

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  2. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    Pet peeve time, sorry. The early internet was never a solution in search of a problem. Universities, the military etc. had computers. They found that they could more things with their computers...
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    It probably sounds like an academic point. A solution in search of a problem. But the same was true of the internet.

    Pet peeve time, sorry.

    The early internet was never a solution in search of a problem. Universities, the military etc. had computers. They found that they could more things with their computers networked together.

    Doing even more things by connecting those networks together was not a big leap of logic. Email was a killer app from day one, as was file sharing.

    The innovative idea was to keep the network dumb, to push all the capabilities to the endpoints, and that together with the WWW providing a user friendly interface lead to the explosion of usage, where a lot of things, some of them stupid, were tried. Many failed, some got wildly successful. But there was never a period of uselessness.

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  3. Comment on What is the "bible" of your hobby or activity? in ~hobbies

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    Influential, yes. But not a Bible and more for „Object Oriented Business Software Engineering“ than computer science. I rather think of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs or Knuth‘s...

    Influential, yes. But not a Bible and more for „Object Oriented Business Software Engineering“ than computer science.

    I rather think of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs or Knuth‘s The Art of Computer Programming when I think about foundational texts.

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  4. Comment on Have you ever compiled a custom Linux kernel? in ~comp

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    Yes, back when I started I had only a very old PC (Pentium II, I think) built with whatever other parts I could scrounge together. Leaving out everything I didn‘t use made a small but noticeable...

    Yes, back when I started I had only a very old PC (Pentium II, I think) built with whatever other parts I could scrounge together.

    Leaving out everything I didn‘t use made a small but noticeable performance difference and I had to customize things to get my graphics and sound card working.

    It was kinda fun but these days I have better uses for my time. And money for supported hardware.

  5. Comment on What is a simple tech tip that changed how you use your computer or other devices in a significant way? in ~tech

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    Yep. I didn‘t use sudo back then, but now that one climbed up to a close second place.

    Yep. I didn‘t use sudo back then, but now that one climbed up to a close second place.

  6. Comment on What is a simple tech tip that changed how you use your computer or other devices in a significant way? in ~tech

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    In Bash: Learning about !$. (Substitutes the last argument of the previous command.) There lots of other cool shortcuts in Bash, but this is the first one I learned and I think my most used. And...

    In Bash: Learning about !$. (Substitutes the last argument of the previous command.)

    There lots of other cool shortcuts in Bash, but this is the first one I learned and I think my most used.
    And it made me actively look for more, starting my journey towards becoming the Linux witch I am today.

    28 votes

  7. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Richtfeuer by Rană -- A great mix of Post- and Black Metal, with some punkish influences. Really powerful sound The Demos by Mephitic Entrails -- Great Death Metal/Gore Grind, hope they do a full...
    • Richtfeuer by Rană -- A great mix of Post- and Black Metal, with some punkish influences. Really powerful sound
    • The Demos by Mephitic Entrails -- Great Death Metal/Gore Grind, hope they do a full length album soon
    • God Cum Poltergeist by Sigil Crisis (Ada Rook), released only yesterday but I'm on my 5th listen now. Great chaotic electronic noise/Cybergrind
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