Aram Zucker-Scharff @Chronotope@indieweb.social

Users threaten to sue after yield generation project Stablegains loses $44 million in Terra collapse

May 19, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=users-threaten-to-sue-after-yield-generation-project-stablegains-loses-44-million-in-terra-collapse

I am interviewed in the Wall Street Journal today about the difficulty/futility of identifying bots on social media, and more generally why Elon Musk is likely blowing smoke saying that bots are the reason he is pausing his Twitter acquisition.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-twitter-bot-problem-is-fake-news-11652868000 (paywalled, sorry!)

This is rad af @ defer and @ stream in graphql https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/pull/2319

All my code is perfect and never has conditions in it! race

The architecture of MediaWiki

The Architecture of Open Source Applications: MediaWiki it's a very interesting read about the software that powers one of the busiest sites in the world, specially since it was specifically for Wikipedia. It's not terribly up-to-date, but it's a good introduction to understand how MediaWiki works in general, nevertheless.

https://felipe.lavin.blog/2022/05/17/the-architecture-of-mediawiki/

#Ephemera #mediawiki #OpenSource #php #programming

Four pricey NFTs stolen from actor Seth Green

May 17, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=four-pricey-nfts-stolen-from

On the bright side they expertly coded against the oracle SNAFU that cost two projects a combined $21.8 million. Don't have to worry about pesky oracles if you just hardcode the price to $1!
https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1524951853837991943

New round starting; you can now get #COVID eight tests. Just ordered mine.

https://special.usps.com/testkits

Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration Through Abstraction https://hyperallergic.com/732799/remembering-japanese-american-incarceration-through-abstraction-noguchi-museum/

NSA crosses its fingers and pinkie swears. https://gizmodo.com/nsa-no-backdoors-new-encryption-standards-promise-1848924186

You can create your own Mastodon server even without technical knowledge 🐘

There are companies that provide Managed Hosting, where you pay a monthly fee and they do all the technical stuff including hosting, installation and updates.

You own and run the server, they do the tech stuff behind the scenes.

The best managed hosting companies for Mastodon are probably https://masto.host and https://federation.spacebear.ee

It's not just Mastodon either, there are lots of Fediverse platforms and other online services available through managed hosting. Try visiting https://growyourown.services for more options (or follow them at @homegrown).

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #ManagedHosting

hey humans! if i enjoyed oneshot, and i enjoyed a short hike, and i enjoyed untitled goose game, do you have any recs for other games i might enjoy? preferably:
- with good music
- no big time constraints/need to memorise complicated key combos
- indie enough to be on itch.io

The https://indieweb.social Mastodon instance has about 3600 users, only 4 (me included) are supporting @tchambers with a little contribution every month. So this is a reminder that running a server comes with fixed costs and contributing financially is the only way to support. Please have a look at
https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial/ and consider supporting too.

Just in time to finish this week's #Fedipixels challenge. Wide ratio is kind of challenging for me, and the restrictive palette is no joke either, but I think I pulled through.

The category for #Fedipixels1 was Combat Vehicle, so I chose a Tachikoma (タチコマ), from Ghost in the Shell!

(More info: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108260008474107823)

#pixelart #mastoart #DigitalArt #karvisprite

A statement I need to make:

#Fediverse #ActivityPub