i think about this often. but for tea

something i love is that NFTs were supposed to provide a way to make a cryptographically timestamped message with verifiable authorship

but nobody is using that, and bored ape's twitter thread about the blinded attendees ended with this message, because NFT threads are full of scamscams

This is the final tweet in this thread. Anything below this that looks like us is spam/phishing links. Do not click on links unless you have determined they are safe. You can also cross-reference with http://crouton.net and official brand communication channels.

lol. lmao.

(editorial note: i added the crouton)

every one of my posts is 100% serious and describes something that has happened or is a premonition of something that will happen #apefest

all jokes aside, yeah, the #apefest hashtag on twitter was chock full of people who woke up early in the morning with tweets struggling to make sense of burns on their eyes and skin

now it's full of cryptogrifters saying shit like "When your eyesight returns, come & have a look at our collection. " nft link

you are describing something plainly and accurately but it's funny inherently

this is similar

Same situation! It's a bit more boilerplate on everything I write, but the main problem is not everyone does it.

Thankfully, now nobody writes Go at my work (^:

Unthankfully, we're language-shy because of it, lol

I much prefer Every Other Language, where you get a stack trace that runs into the library code!

something like

some_call() failed at call another_call(x, y, z)

another_call(x,y,z) failed at internal_library(x[123])

internal_library.c failed on line 1025: index 123 is out of bounds for array x

ya, what i mean is, i think you gotta:

1. write val, err := something() and use err to build your own stack trace
2. make sure something() returns that err in the first place, if you wrote it

otherwise you don't get a stacktrace when something() fails.

i'm not confident about this, because i can't imagine Go reaching any acclaim while being so hilariously designed. but "Errors are values" so maybe we are right and go is bad

to be clear i have not done a lot of go and what i have done was mostly a year ago

this is because i did not like go

I agree, and feel like Go was meant to solve problems Google had.

You have to explicitly pass and handle your own error stack, you can not have unused code, etc. It's such a pain to write and iterate in.

When I use Go, every weird thing eventually clicks into place when I imagine a first-year Google SWE writing it. It instills cultural values into compilation errors.

With Rust, all the weird things click into place, but in a way that feels empowering and not alienating. The x = match y { Ok(T) => {...}, None => {}} used to feel so alien and weird, but now it feels like a powerful incantation that all my thoughts can fit into.

There's this strange parallel. With Go, all the "clicks" were like the snapping of a bone. With Rust, all the "clicks" were like the popping of an estradiol bottle

Oh, and Kiff. How could I forget Kiff? Kiff is good if you need to watch a kids cartoon, or if you want to relive the feeling of watching Spongebob for the first time.

12:01 AM and im bustin

i like that they gave us pictures and also a dog was in the picture for those of us who can't read

(good article and thank you for sharing, i would not have seen it otherwise)

Theres tons of online services I use where I know the owner has weird politics. It's kind of unavoidable

this is why i luv jstpst dot net. nobody here is weird and i love everyone here hehe

Theres also a history of services like this that get used in ways the owners don't really intend.

Yeah-- at least Kagi isn't cultivating a community. I'm okay sharing Mastodon (the software, not an instance) with creeps and nazis.

It looks like Kagi isn't an outright scam though, which is good?

And it also has Bangs Lol. So they know what's up!

yesssssssss

if they were marketing to me, this would've been the first thing they show me on the splash page. I luv bangs

i know :( i am so desparate

I appreciate this. I couldn't find any obvious scandals or weird stuff either. I could put up with cryptocoin libguy stuff if it means Good Searches, but I haven't seen any super-good-reviews yet.

Hey, thank you for posting this. I haven't called congress before but I'm going to do this now.

done!

This was my first time doing this. A lot of things caught me offguard and this took me 1.5 hours in total, but if you are a functional human being and comfortable reading a script, it would probably be closer to 5 minuntes.

Things that might catch you off guard:

• Scripts: The site provides you with a script right as it calls you. This caught me off guard and messed me up, as I tried to adapt my script live. I usually write my own script and take three or four rehearsals before I can make calls. I have copied the provided scripts below.
• You might reach someone: I did not expect to get reach someone so quickly.
• They might request your contact information: I'm proud to put my name down when begging to stop war crimes, but I didn't expect them to ask for this information.
• Senators and Representatives: I'm a smart person, but I accidentally got these mixed up when trying to adapt to the script and I think I lost legitimacy in the eyes of the office for it.
• Adapted script: I used the numbers on the Wikipedia outline of the war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war), and I compared the number of displaced Palestinians in proportion to that of my district.
• iPhones are difficult to call with: If you're used to landlines or Android phones, and are not familiar with the iPhone dialer, be warned. I absolutely fucked this up, and I'm someone who regularly uses the mainstream desktop and mobile OSes.
  • iPhones can and will allow other audio to take over your call at any time. I have no mental model for understanding it. Close any other app you have open, and do not interact with Airpods if you are using them (since they can invoke Apple Music).
  • I don't understand how phone calls are supposed to work on this phone. The numberpad in the phone app is not the same as the numberpad in the phone call you receive.
  • EDIT: Turns out this is true on Androids too. There is nothing to obviously indicate that you have two different numpads. I am going insane

Scripts copied below:

Script 1 – For House offices My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Representative's Name}. I am calling you regarding the unfolding crisis in Gaza. It is absolutely urgent that the Representative join H.Res 786 calling for a Ceasefire Now and for humanitarian assistance to be let into Gaza. I also ask that they oppose sending any more weapons to the Israeli military as it carries out mass atrocities against Palestinans in Gaza. The only way forward is addressing the root causes of violence: Israeli military occupation and apartheid, and ending U.S. complicity in this oppression.

Script 2 – For Senate offices

My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Senator's Name}. I am calling you regarding the unfolding crisis in Gaza. It is absolutely urgent that the Senator call for a ceasefire, call for humanitarian assistance to be let into Gaza, and to oppose sending any more weapons to the Israeli military as it carries out mass atrocities against Palestinans in Gaza. The only way forward is addressing the root causes of violence: Israeli military occupation and apartheid, and ending U.S. complicity in this oppression.

Script 3 – For House offices sponsoring Ceasefire Now Resolution

My name is {Your Name}. I am a constituent of {Representative's Name}. I am calling you regarding the unfolding crisis in Gaza. I want to thank Representative {Name} for standing up for humanity and calling for a ceasefire. The Representative's courage in calling for peace and de-escalation will save lives.