Gork

joined 1 year ago
[–] Gork@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

They say they get around the easy linking of a single wallet address to your identity by using subaddresses. I don't think this fixes it, it merely delays it.

The number of these subaddresses are capped to prevent botting. But suppose you use this account every day for years or decades. You've meticulously allocated subaddresses for different categories of spending, assessed the risk profile of using each one, and used them throughout the years until you're out of subaddresses.

Now you're vulnerable to having your identity tied to the account since the risk of getting had goes up every time you use any of your subaccounts. And this risk only increases the more you use your Worldcoin.

Even if the biometric privacy safeguards they built in (hashing yer Mk. I orbs) work perfectly, I wouldn't use it for the reasons I mentioned above, there isn't a way to ensure transactional anonymity if your account/subaccounts can be linked to your real identity regardless of the method.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Just speculation here, but is this a sign that CDPR is tilting more towards mainstreaming GOG over prioritizing game development? Valve did exactly that with Steam and they very, very rarely release games they make any more.

Steam is a cash cow that literally just prints money for them. I'd imagine CDPR corpos to be salivating over that kind of low maintenance income that comes with owning a large digital distribution gaming platform.

 

Five times slower for us distant observers, regular time (1 second = 1 second) if you're actually there, if I'm understanding this correctly.

Still, difficult to wrap my brain around.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you set up to receive RSS feeds on your phone?

 

This is something that keeps me worried at night. Unlike other historical artefacts like pottery, vellum writing, or stone tablets, information on the Internet can just blink into nonexistence when the server hosting it goes offline. This makes it difficult for future anthropologists who want to study our history and document the different Internet epochs. For my part, I always try to send any news article I see to an archival site (like archive.ph) to help collectively preserve our present so it can still be seen by others in the future.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If enough of us do it, entire comment chains will be illegible lol

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

From a cultural perspective, I found the Mayan counting system to be quite intuitive for a base-20 system. We're used to base 10 or base 60 (clocks) so it's interesting to think how that number system evolved in their society. Having five fingers probably helps.

 

Why use pi when you can use 🥧

fn main() {
    let pi_emoji = "🥧";
    let pi_value = 3.1415926535897932384626433832;

    println!("Let {} {:.28}", pi_emoji, pi_value);
}
 

It wants to say "Good evening, may I hold your towel please?"