Doesn't work. Blockchain is, and always will be, a fundamentally useless technology for just about every situation. We have had transactional ledgers for years. What do you think Git is, conceptually? Beyond blockchain buzzword nonsense, crytocurrencies are also dramatically useless for practical usage. In their current implementation, they're nothing but assets to bid on. You'd be better of transacting your business in Venezuelan Bolivars than Bitcoin. Furthermore, "Tether cryptocurrencies" are nothing but assets held in trust to ensure conversion between it and the legal tender it is exchangeable for; if they're not backed by anything, then they're worthless because they have nothing to support their value, and thus cannot be a tethered store of value if that value can fluctuate.

In regards to Web 3.0 stuff in particular, similar proposals have been made in the past for distributed filehosting wherein people would dedicate a portion of their storage and be compensated for their hosting. I don't think I should have to mention this, but this is an awful idea for many reasons: 1. data integrity; if the data you're storing is not properly encrypted, what's stopping someone from unscrupulously accessing your personal files, or anything else that is sensitive, such as user data or credit card information? Nothing. 2. Distributed hosting akin to bittorrent makes no guarantees in regards to the speed of downloading or uploading, nor does it ensure the data will be stored forever, which leads to 3. If, for whatever reason, all of the hosts for a particular set of files goes offline, what happens to the files? In all likelihood, they're gone forever just as the many torrents over the years have died, but in this case you're potentially facing the loss of your entire business front, personal website, or personal storage. Finally, this leads to 4. If the only guarantee against the instability of distributed networking is centralization, what is the point of having a distributed network in the first place? There are lofty ambitions in saying, "anyone could host files for others and be paid in crypto to keep hosting them," but the reality is that this will quickly be monopolized by large players if it is to succeed in any measure.

I might be missing some of their other points, but one stuck out to me. They mentioned the possibility of having a single profile not bound by any platform. This is an admirable goal, but again, when facing reality there isPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Okay, going to make comments as I watch. The thumbnail was not misleading; it seems heavy on internet clipart.

>Papa Elon
*vomits violently*
Feelman, social media emojis, and now this. Fuck this guy. Anyway...

[crypto talk for a few minutes]
Ignoring this, it's unrelated to the topic.
He called a website a "web 3.0 app". He spent a couple minutes talking about a P2P program and implying it was incredible even though he admitted a couple minutes earlier that napster existed 20 years ago. Some talk here or there about encryption, again old hat.
[programmer BS talk]
How does this relate to "3.0" at all? How does this change how the user interacts with the internet? It won't. 2.0 was a major change because the common man could submit content, a huge change from the largely read-only nature of the earlier internet. Privacy? Unrelated, and people don't care about it.
To me this looks like a reason to justify the energy-wasting, environment-destroying pyramid scheme called crypto. The guy is probably a /biz/ or /g/ memer, the images he uses seem to go along with it.
When a headline asks a question the answer is always going to be negative because if the writer was confident it wouldn't be a question. Youtubers seem to follow the same rule.
Grifters, grifters all the way down.

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Web3.0 is an eternal retcon of itself

I certainly don't think the web 3.0 people are talking about is something. Not only that but I don't even think it's wanted at all. Your average person doesn't care if the websites he is using are decentralised or not, well actually if anything they probably lean towards centralisation not away from it.

However, I do think there is going to be a web 3.0 but that is going to be AR/VR and the internet of things.

>>443
Average joe didn't care that he could get his plumbing instructions by watching youtube videos. Though I'm not sure he cares about NFT grifters and buying things through crypto (though it's worth pointing out that paypal is very very very very bad and will withhold thousands of dollars in funding somewhat arbitrarily while it's competitors such as stripe are not globally accesible)

Friendly reminder that although wild animals may seem friendly and cute, you shouldn't not touch them for two very important reasons: 1. There's no way to foresee an animal's behavior, and it may suddenly lash out unexpected, and 2. Petting young animals, such as was done in this video, can result in them being rejected by their parents if their scent wavers or is masked by the scent from your touch.

going to piss on a vtuber

>>398
Nice that video's back. Was worried it was gone once Siva disappeared...

>>407
They're still around making MMD videos, but I feel like their views are a lot less than what they were before their channel got banned or deleted.

>>408
Oh yeah I knew about that backup channel, but it was lacking that vid you posted. Didn't know they had two.

>>409
perfectly fine with joing to this thumb

Born in the season of death.

>>41
season of win

nice

>>50
the seasonal banners are all really nice

Bit on the busy side so I won't change the sticky image as yet.

>>344
Can they do this!?

>>345
They can move the year.

Could be worse, we could live in one of those civilizations with a fixed 365 day year. That's why you can't trust those elites and their calendar systems, gotta get up before sunrise and see what constellation the sun is rising in. Except that drifts too.

Alternately we could move to Iran.
>The modern Iranian calendar is currently the official calendar in Iran. It begins at the midnight nearest to the instant of the vernal equinox as determined by astronomic calculations for the Iran Standard Time meridian (52.5°E or UTC+03:30). It is, therefore, an observation-based calendar, unlike the Gregorian, which is rule-based.

what if I'd rather move to Turkmenistan?

>>348
Then the calendar will still move around relative to the equinox, but if you're lucky enough to live through a crazy dictator, he may rename all your months:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_renaming_of_Turkmen_months_and_days_of_week

>>297
https://srch.eurekalert.org/e3/query.html?qt=boson&pw=100.101%25
>Document count: boson (2599)
extremely boson

>>295
Hmmm I see how it is.. what are you gonna do jump on plasma universe, huh buddy? HUH?

>>295
Dark matter is dumb. I like the idea that it's actually just the recently discovered "cosmic web," which is comprised of very cold, and diffuse gas that doesn't give off any radiation because of how cold it is. As for what dark energy is, I dunno.

>>300
Some of it could be. But most of the dark matter has to be something other than atoms, or you don't predict the right power spectrum for the cosmic microwave background

https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/resources/camb_tool/index.html

and you don't predict the right ratio of elements in the primordial universe

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/BBNS.html

Something about fancy videos for cooking/food just rubs me the wrong way. It's like it's focused on displays of social status instead of information.
I tried to find the Good Eats lasagna episode but of course it's scrubbed off the internet because of bots enforcing copyright...

related but not exactly

>>339
On youtube cooking videos are like asmr videos. It's a fancy "look at me" thing, but has a functional appeal

suppose these things process food into components as soon as they eat it.

I did this once. Wouldn't recommend it

Yes but has science found out how slugs can survive in salt water yet?

>>325
Apparently they incorporate chloroplasts from the algae they eat directly into their cells so they can photosynthesize.

>>318
the waifu menace runs deep

>>320
But why is it something you need to defeat? Why not "live and let live" and take it easy?

>>318
ACK was bound to find this place someday

>>319
I assume less than you do though, you are assuming that her taste equates to he being interested in you and a myriad of other things that would have her marry you. I assume nothing but only go by what the character was written as being.

OOP Miku? The theory that all Miku are unique and a separate program or something? It makes more sense given that she is a program but I don't like it still.

>We don't fall in love with people themselves, we do with our perception of them.

Falling in love with a character is fine, it's saying she is your wife and changing that character itself that is the issue.

>It's impossible to know what the creator really intended when we only see a small facet of her.

Exactly, so all one can go by is the facet that is actually shown and not make garbage up, or else you start having the character be something completely different which is more likely to go against the creator than just accepting the character for what it is.

>>321
If people kept it to themselves then fine, I don't care. But when people bring it up and talk about it and mention how it's their anniversary with x character and how they are going on a date and then putting a bunch of their own opinions out as her thoughts and actions that it is an issue. If you keep it to yourself and never mention the fact that you are butchering characters then fine. But they don't.
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This thread...

Could use a good trainride like that right now.
aside from running into a giant cat anyways.

>>258
you hate cats

think i've done the rosary only a few time
also i didn't go to an ash wednesday mass
maybe i should do something to make up for it

>>273
Do one every day

pyrrhic victory
you bite their finger they eat your arm
expect regulations and social division/disinfo psyops to skyrocket in the foreseeable future

I heard of it. I don't like the idea of poor people making money, at least a good portion of them are going to hold too long and lose it though.

The weak are meat, the strong eat.

>>230
This post aged well

where i used to live it was like this, there was very little light pollution
i wonder how easy it is to dox someone with these
i changed the time to a random one

>>177
>i wonder how easy it is to dox someone with these
>i changed the time to a random one

I tried it on my own image by adjusting parameters until I got the original image back and was able to get the original latitude very accurately (5 arcseconds off) but, as you might expect, was not so accurate on the longitude (4 degrees off). But the longitude could have been found more precisely if I had generated the image immediately before posting it. Time randomization and delay between generating and posting can be somewhat defeated and if you include the moon and planets in the image, but I used the moon and planets and was still 4 degrees off. If you're paranoid, it's best not to enter your latitude or longitude more precisely than you're willing to publish. I personally set the latitude/longitude to a nearby city (San Francisco). Pic related were the coordinates I reconstructed.

reminded me that this exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Astro-Inertial_Navigation_System

also in ww2 they used little wooden mechanical flight simulators combined with planetariums to practice celestial navigation

also i believe that ballistic missiles and ballistic missile submarines can still use celestial navigation just incase that GPS is exploded
>>178
im impressed

>>176
>>177
Even with light pollution I'm jealous of your sky.

>>176
Thought I'd try this again since I'm currently on holiday in the middle of nowhere with effectively zero light pollution. Could see to 4.0 or so but the sky was at least half covered in cloud which certainly didn't help (also the noises outside were rather unsettling so I decided not to stay observing out there very long).

>>243
>>244
no

>>245
FFFUUU

>>246
rude