I’ve been blocking every account that ever appeared with a promoted tweet in my timeline forever
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That linked paper is a fantastic read
How popular was the DX7's sound? In 1986, over 40% of top hits used the DX7's electric piano sound. Other DX7 presets such as flute, calliope, and bass were also extremely popular. Prof. Lavengood studied the cultural impact of the DX7 and its sounds.
meganlavengood.com/wp-conten…
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How many promoted tweets do y’all see on this hellsite here? I used to get them only very rarely, but suddenly it’s every fourth tweet, which will make me stop wasting my time here if it stays that way
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How about an SSH-based alternative?
New blog post: It's Now Possible To Sign Arbitrary Data With Your SSH Keys agwa.name/blog/post/ssh_sign…
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“Browsers render content and perform navigations, but if you’d rather recreate that functionality from scratch in JavaScript, you can.” Indeed.
“Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web”
Gonna link to this again ‘cause it’s so good. adactio.com/articles/18580
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Sure, though once you include a mechanism for transferring ownership to a new owner, you’d have to build a more than trivial infrastructure.
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Hey @FAST_UI folks, why does something like this not simply wrap an existing HTML element? Why is your button not a button? explore.fast.design/componen… Why doesn’t a data grid simply wrap a table? explore.fast.design/componen… Why do you hate HTML so much?
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If not for the energy thing and the ridiculous speculation going on at the moment, you could even argue it’s a legitimate source of income for artists (but only if they’re the ones selling the tokens, of course)
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True, but typically it’s very cheap to create your own print. So my point is that in both cases, it’s the silliness of wanting to create artificial ownership/value of an easy copiable reproducible of art in the first place
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If the art’s creator creates an NFT associated with a piece of reproducible, digital art, how is this different from a signed print? It just seems we’ve created the digital version of our analog stupidity
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I think they will definitely continue to show ads because the official story is that “prompted tweets” are not ads at all. They “enrich” your “experience” by bringing you “relevant” “content” or something
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I don’t think they have become much more popular than they were back then already. Co-workers of mine and I have written a few articles and done a number of talks, I guess we should collect them in one place
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It’s definitely funny that the non-conformist option for devs these days is to voluntarily run Windows
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