any folks around here have experience with those oreo styled pancake lenses? using a lens out of a disposable camera seems like it'd be kinda neat, but there are like, proper primes available in the same form factor :neocat_think:
@Paradox bit of an inside joke of sorts, but carafe as giraffe (or perhaps graph) was at a restaurant with my sister, said it like that and never really stopped :p i can technically say it 'correctly' but this is more fun
@Starcross kinda funny how it all works out like that sometimes, isn't it ^^ best of luck on your interview thingy, i hope it goes well!
and yeah, getting the gears all turning again after a long weekend is always a bit of a time, but it does sound like you've got a decent task to start building that inertia for the rest of the week :3
@Starcross mornyaa~ workweek went well, lots to do so it flew by.. entering my weekend doing really well here.. it's rainy and a bit cloudy, great day for reading ^^
ooo this hoptea drink thing is pretty tasty, 'the calm one' this one's called it's a hopped chamomile sparkling tea, very bright with a sorta.. piney or.. lemongrassy finish gonna have to find more of their drinks, i think
drugs, perhaps don't, tidy no@rail hmm, iunno becoming horribly addicted to a substance sounds like a form of winning to me :neocat_think: after all, what is heroin but a less classy fentanyl?
@ww@ity ah, the qr codes thing is cool, and something i didn't actually know about. still tethers me to my phone or similar device though.
how i had imagined a theoretical 'crypto card' working was very similar to how payment cards work now a transaction is generated by the vendor, signed with the card and pin, sent to the authorizer, authorizer/wallet holder transmits the payment, the payment shows up at the vendor, transaction complete it enables one to be their own payment processor/authorizer, assuming they can program their server details into the card, also allowing for cool stuff like, say, dual authorization, a sort of y/n prompt showing on a device for any transactions over a certain amount
it still doesn't solve so many blocking problems, of note, incompatible currencies, the 51% rule and accessibility to non technical folks... seems like introducing a whole hell of a lot of pain for such tiny benefit
@Paradox though, it can't do the same for nitrogen as i recall, you can suffocate on nitrogen and not even realize it's happening :neocat_googly_woozy:
edit: oh, right. you said that, wow, that didn't parse right blinks
@ity nice subpost. it's completely valid to add to existing systems, improve what's already there instead of destroying the old and replacing it with something objectively worse
@ity great that you've got good server uptime. what about the average person, ya know, the kind that doesn't have one? and, how are you going to pay for it in the first place? say, you're starting from zero and getting a job for the first time, where do they put the currency? and, if a new job doesn't use the same cryptoX that you'd prefer?
sound an awful lot to me like, for digital currencies, middlemen, or 'payment processors' are kind of inevitable. sure, it'd be neat to be able to be your own but for the vast majority, you're suggesting huge amounts of friction for no change
i realize a lot of what i'm arguing is based on the fragmented nature of cryptocurrencies as they stand, but if it is standardized on one option, you've just got modern banking. 'ah, but distributed ledgers', no, those payment processors for the average person will almost certainly break the 51% rule. fragmentation is kind of necessary for crypto to have the qualities it does
beside my point, if your bank is messing up that often, it sounds like it's time to change banks. it might be my privilege talking again, but i've changed banks four times in my life, it's not exactly hard.
@ity you so sure about that? crypto, is, from what i understand, a push based model rather than a pull, so fantastic for sending unsolicited, but godawful for taking payments. yes, hardware wallets exist, but i'm fairly certain all those do is hold cryptographic keys. they don't really enable payment in any way, that requires a connection to whatever payment network you're using
whereas modern banking (barring ach transfers) is a pull based model, so a vendor can request that a payment happen, the card signs the request and it gets authorized. the vendor can have the network connection
so what server would authorize the request for your 'crypto card'? and hold your crypto wallet for that matter? ah, a payment processor. sure, you could in theory run your own server for it and have all that info embedded into the card, but if you have an outage? out of luck, sorry, you can't buy groceries until you fix it not to mention, that's completely inaccessible to the average person, so they'd be stuck using some sort of middleman anyway
not to mention if you and your vendor aren't using compatible networks. what then? am i no longer allowed to go to the store i prefer because i use coinX and they use coinY? guess i could use some sort of middleman to convert it?
crypto is super cool awesome for those that need or want to make payments in that fashion, but the vast majority just don't care it adds far too much friction in the day to day for even a nerd like me
@ity it is worth keeping in mind that i can only speak from my own point of view, which i do realized is decently privileged here in the states, cash will probably be an option for the rest of my life at least, unless something massive changes.. hell we have trouble getting rid of pointless coinage
from what you're proposing, if cash isn't an option, i'd need to be tethered to my phone to purchase anything on the out and about i don't much like the idea of always being forced to carry my phone what's been suggested only kills my ability to make that decision
and atop that, it implies that your phone has a data connection all the time, so even if i had my phone on me, i oftentimes still wouldn't be able to buy things, my data connection all too often fails when i go into buildings and i refuse to connect to public wifi
it only seems like a massive loss to me. i suppose we could go back to using paper checks, but even then, you need banks to back those...
@ity i mean, if you say so sounds like a pretty bad time to me i for one, like being able to leave my phone at home sometimes and absolutely refuse to carry cash
what you're proposing here only seems like it'd remove potential options, rather than add them crypto is steadily becoming an option for those that want to use it in the states, i was in a restaurant that took bitcoin the other day, and cash is always an option for those that prefer it
