[Patrick] Today, in the Valley, and indeed in the technology sector generally, you [have] two influential movements and sub-sectors are crypto and AI. And I think they have sort of something striking in common, which is they're both cults.

 in both cases, they have fervent believers who, for whom these technologies become sort of part of their self-identity.  Does that remind you at all of the Homebrew computing movement?

[Bill]:  Yeah, there's a lot of similarities in that.  There were a small group of people who saw what personal computing would become.....

 There was a small group and some of them were fairly counterculture....  And it had kind of this great feel that we were in on something.  We're gonna change things.

 Those early machines were so limited in terms of what they could actually do, then as we get discs and we connect them together and the memory size gets to be decent, you know, then the sky's the limit

It's fun to see this analogy picking up steam

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

👀 lol

https://tao.news/community-articles/bittingthembits/yuma-rao-the-cerebral-artisan-behind-bittensors-fabric/

'Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. “I did this without knowing about Yao’s conjecture"'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/

Many such cases of progress being stifled by the chained elephant.

Cryptography might be the most beautiful form of mathematics, but this is definitely a close second.

Merry Christmas!

the-arena

Quilibrium

Shipped this week on /quilibrium:

- Initial release of public beta of Quorum, our E2EE and P2P alternative to Discord (why Q was originally built in the first place!)
- Probably the reason you saw a bunch of casts with a long string of letters starting with Qm
- Launched with one of my favorite ads I've made so far: https://x.com/QuilibriumInc/status/1871465836789346539
- Milestone 2/3 next up for testnet, though Quorum is already testing some of this now

Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/20/futures3.html

(I tried my best to be fair to all sides of the debates here!)

6pm UTC, the stasis lock lifts, and mainnet creates its genesis frames. Be sure to update!

17 days before I start listening to Christmas music nonstop. Those in earshot, you've been warned

europoooooor

security

https://crzphil.github.io/posts/ssh-obfuscation-bypass/

Not good enough. See you in a few years when they finally support fixed constant bandwidth use.

With the creation of $zoz

I would like it to be a curating token

If you see content similar to what I post in /zoz then use $zoz tips to tag it.

The more based it is, the more $zoz it deserves

/zoz ✊☀️ autofollow list created #qDAU

In 2006. I saw the beginnings of the financial system slipping off the rails, and the failure of fiat unbounded by any tethered entity with scarcity being manipulated by the same voices that screeched they were making finance clear and transparent for all. There was no clarity, no transparency, no real rules. And instead of seeking a return to sanity, the same crooks got a bailout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRYXhU4kxM&t=1290s

Base

$LIBRA ($wLIBRA) 🔵  7/15

https://frames.neynar.com/f/0a80d483/a021f2d4

Quillers and Chillers, we return today, 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET with part two of our live dev session, reviving the old project that started it all, to show how easy it is to build on Q. Don't miss it!

Quillers and Chillers, we return today, 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET with part two of our live dev session, reviving the old project that started it all, to show how easy it is to build on Q. Don't miss it! https://www.twitch.tv/0xcassie

Quilibrium Builders

father, meditator and programmer. working on @anky. jpfraneto.substack.com

grateful for the opportunity to learn like this. the stream of today helped me understand how to think in terms of Q

if you missed it, it could be a good idea to catch up the recording

and the streams are going to be weekly now, every sunday at 9:30 pm est

GREAT read! 👊🏻✊☀️
https://x.com/danielkz/status/1798388333942382952?s=46

Warpcast

sobriety

Today marks exactly six years when I put an end to my vice of alcohol. I'm going to reiterate something I've offered many times to folks here and elsewhere. If you're struggling with quitting your addiction, and need someone to vent/cry/yell at, my DCs are always open.

sirouk

@sirouk