Well first of all, blockchain technology has become so overhyped that its bound to draw scoffs even if the business case were legitimate. "Blockchain" anything almost sounds like a joke at first pass these days.
But in this specific instance, it is even more ridiculous as one of the biggest concerns surrounding blockchain technology is that it is insanely inefficient in terms of energy usage, and concerns have been raised about how widespread usage of blockchain technology could exacerbate climate change.
It's sad to see YT community members being so ill informed. Proof-of-Stake is coming in leading blockchains such as Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos, etc. This is changing. It's a new technology it takes time to improve. Anyway, do your homework before commenting on things you don't understand.
There have been so many proposed algorithms on this idea over the past years, yet here we are, still waiting. For now, it's either vaporware or it has a security flaw.
Or, like traditional proof-of-work mining has become, it will coalesce into the very thing it was meant to remove: control by a few powerful and centralized authorities.
Regardless, blockchain is not going to help solve climate change. A distributed carbon credit market is not going to solve climate change.
I want proof-of-stake to work. I really do. But I just don't believe it can anymore...
> There have been so many proposed algorithms on this idea over the past years, yet here we are, still waiting. For now, it's either vaporware or it has a security flaw.
There are several proof of stake networks running right now. Care to elaborate on the security flaws?
The use of proof-of-waste for cryptocurrency, which allows people to get rich by consuming extremely large amounts of electricity, is one of the worst inventions for the environment since CFCs and tetraethyl lead.
It's sad to see YT community members being so ill informed. Proof-of-Stake is coming in leading blockchains such as Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos, etc. This is changing. It's a new technology it takes time to improve. Anyway, do your homework before commenting on things you don't understand.
That's a step in the good direction, I think curating the news is going to be a very precious service. I'm looking forward to decentralised ways of achieving this though, such as with https://civil.co/
To replace Google Keep, you definitely want to checkout https://standardnotes.org/ - Going back to Google Keep would make me feel like a second class citizen today...
As for the Pixel it's ok, just switch to LineageOS, but you'll want F-Droid + Yalp, or F-Droid + Aptoide if you feel adventurous (awesome project but they are just getting started.
Drive... I'd recommend Nextcloud, but then you need to choose a provider since it's decentralised. If you're in Europe I'd say woelkli.com, if you're in Asia or America sorry I don't know what to recommend but I'm sure there are good options. Nextcloud will do a lot more for you if you need (CalDAV, CardDAV, Password manager, Bookmarks manager, etc).
I use (and pay for) Standard Notes. The philosophy of the project is amazing which is the main reason I support it. Currently it lacks some of the features I would need to commit 100% to it. But, it's slowly and steadily improving.
If we can get support for self-contained inline images/attachments, and inter-note linking then I'll be all-in.
Standard Notes looks interesting, but isn't the root issue that these services tend to drift over time into places we don't like? Evernote, Apple Notes, etc.
Would it be better to just use something like Emacs org mode and store the data in .git?
Check out some of the principals of Standard Notes [1]. It's built to avoid this exact problem. I've been using it for over a year after migrating from OneNote and highly recommend it.
This is a very exciting development, it's great to see more developers take this centralisation issue seriously.
On this subject, many people including myself have been failing (hard) to convince Moxie that dropping FCM (or GCM or whatever the name) is the way to go for Signal, if anyone want to give a hand...
Can we stop with the blockchain trolling please? It only makes you look very ignorant.
Yes, there is a humongous number of scammy projects. But there are also projects working really hard to succeed and they deserve a chance. Right now I'm particularly impressed by what Augur pulled off, it's not certain whether it will succeed long term but credit should be given where it's due.
Yes, everyone who's spent two minutes thinking about designing a decentralized prediction market has spotted that weak link. Hence that's what Augur is designed to address.
Think it won't work? Go get your bug bounty, or even put in a massive short and then break it.
I'm in no way affiliated with this project but that's what I use to write and I absolutely love it, but I'm always open to trying other tools should it make sense.
I speak for many people when I say the world doesn't want the U.S. to keep its military superiority. We're tired of their shit. China or U.S. having it, same difference.
Although we are way way off that, a better, more organised, more democratic, more powerful U.N. should have that role.
Do you hate the systemic racism, military-industrial complex, environmental abuse, corruption, and overreaching government surveillance present in the US? Yes? Anyone not intentionally being dense can see all those problems are far worse in China. Then consider fact that the Chinese government is actively trying to make those things worse. It fucking infuriates me that anti-American sentiment is so trendy now that people (even as a joke) propose that China might be a better world police.
While the US is far from perfect, it doesn't risk your life or your freedom to speak poorly of the leader of your country as a US citizen. That same cannot be said about a citizen of China. That is the main reason I think it better that the US has the worlds leading military over China.
No. I was referring to the difference between China and the U.S. WW2 is a good point to look at how the two world powers grew to be very different(I intrepid what you were saying was that they are the same) you know the whole 1949 communist thing, cold war into the Korean war, the U.S. having nukes and having just dropped then five years before could do it again but did not. I think that shows something not to negate some of the very horrible things that were done. If we move forward we get to 1989, Tiananmen Square. I'm just saying the two are different and enjoy a mostly open and free internet.
US already lost the benefit of doubt and the excuse of WW2. They literally invented modern terrorism by training the would be terrorist orgonisation leaders against russia during the cold war. Then later invaded afghanistan and iraq for oil, which caused the rise of ISIS. From the world's perspective, US is the biggest culprit in the modern world. Invading other countries and also elected an orange buffoon as their leader.
Ignoring things like democracy, capitalism, socialism, "communism", etc for the moment. China is an ethnostate. Unless you are Han Chinese you will never ever be represented by the Chinese government.
