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So, in general: there has been a depressing lack of seriousness among the Altcoins. A handful – Ethereum, Monero, Namecoin, zCash – have an actual vision for the world. The rest are just get-rich-quick schemes, or hobbyist projects.The low quality of today's Altcoins has –lamentably– contributed to Bitcoin's complacency. With no competitors to keep it honest, Bitcoin has mostly wasted the last 10 years.

Source: ecash.com

Contrary to popular belief, it is impossible for any L2 to give 8 billion users the ability to “unilateral exit” the L2. It has nothing to do with the L2s themselves, instead it is because 8 billion new UTXOs [ie, new users] do NOT fit on L1

Source: www.truthcoin.info

This is your regular reminder that this false memory is mythological. It's a very common false memory, but it never happened. Facebook never federated, nor was their over even XMPP at the time so far as we know. They had a mediocre bridge for accessing FB chats from an XMPP client, but you absolutely could not chat to that from your Google Talk account.

Source: lobste.rs

circa 2008 - when actual, real "normal" people in my personal life actually knew what XMPP was and they had an account. This was when AOL Instant Messenger, MSN, Yahoo were all a thing, and Trillian and Pidgin were commonly used programs that "everybody" knew about

Source: www.kirsle.net

Looking at Gas Town (and Beads) from the outside, it looks like a Mad Max cult. What are polecats, refineries, mayors, beads, convoys doing in an agentic coding system? If the maintainer is in the loop, and the whole community is in on this mad ride, then everyone and their dæmons just throw more slop up. As an external observer the whole project looks like an insane psychosis or a complete mad art project. Except, it’s real? Or is it not? Apparently a reason for slowdown in Gas Town is contention on figuring out the version of Beads, which takes 7 subprocess spawns. Or using the doctor command times out completely. Beads keeps growing and growing in complexity and people who are using it, are realizing that it’s almost impossible to uninstall.

Source: lucumr.pocoo.org

And then there are things like Beads and Gas Town, Steve Yegge’s agentic coding tools, which are the complete celebration of slop loops. Beads, which is basically some sort of issue tracker for agents, is 240,000 lines of code that … manages markdown files in GitHub repositories. And the code quality is abysmal.

Source: lucumr.pocoo.org