Then there's IPFS https://ipfs.io/. It's not blockchain but it is decentralized (unless I'm mistaken.)

Mistaken. What a cool word. It has so many elements.

And if you are afraid of the woods, don't go camping.
And if you are afraid of camping, don't buy a tent.
And if you are afraid of tents, don't go shopping.
And if you are afraid of shopping, don't find yourself in need.
And if you are afraid of being in need, hoard.

I want to go. I want to go now. I've learned to control my impulses, so I won't go now, but I want to. Thanks for sharing, and see you in a couple years.

Nice. I have only listened once, but noticed that I enjoy it more when I don't try to catch every word, and so I wonder what listening to a similarly well produced piece in a language I don't understand would be like. Very musical.

I miss the tropics, storms and all. Here is my world now.

Agreed, and I certainly do not understand AI beyond what I read in the media. Along these lines, in the late 70's/early 80's, when 'computers' were still mysterious, I used to get so pissed off when a bank or utility rep used the excuse of, "That's what the computer says."

The AI algorithms that lead to the bans are discriminating, so it's not indiscriminate. I suppose you could say that it's indiscriminate discrimination, but that's an oxymoron and it's excusing the original AI flaw. http://url.site25.net/7c

Why not a crappy picture of crappy feet?

Florida

Spider vs frog. Spider wins.

For example, we are using gmo to allow for MORE spraying of herbicides, not less. That is a misapplication of a technology, IMO. http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/about.html

That is my initial reaction as well. For me, the threat is not the technology, but the misapplication of that technology.

Best thing: working with teens
Worst thing: working with teens
Plans for the weekend: swim, rest, eat/drink/movie, repeat

In other words, perhaps a nifty tool that allows user to rebuild a wallet with a fingerprint would be handy. The anonymous (?) seed/key is still intact, but software allows the user to 'not get their hands dirty' with that stuff, no pun intended.

I think it can be done because we are amazing beings, and where there's a will, there is a way. Biometrics? Implants? Bread crumbs? Electromagnetic signatures? The problem here is that one tool is ahead of another essentially complimentary tool. Blockchain is ahead of ID.

You're comparing physical objects to digital information. It's not a good analogy. People can't even remember their own passwords to their Email, hence the ubiquitous 'Forget my password' button. You don't have signs in parking lots saying 'Lost my keys.'

The people who are into crypto now are into it for the tech, the money, or both. For wider adoption to happen, it has to make sense to, work for, and benefit people who care nothing about either the tech or the money. So the answer is 5: ease of use.

Thanks for then Enso Bevan! Here is the initial picture in the series which I took over breakfast from a hotel in Aomori, Japan. The first is more elegant, if snowy parking lot pictures can be so.

Hello all you crazy Peepers! Flowers for you all.

Well put. And justice cannot be realized without forgiveness.

Yes, indeed. I'm guessing a sewer cover. Japan has some really cool manhole covers. I'll try to add more.

Perhaps we only want more time because we fail to appreciate the moment. After all, that's all there is really. We want more time so we can appreciate the moment later, when it's convenient, when we've finished working or planning or thinking. There's no such thing as more time.

I want more of my own recognition of what really matters, which I only consider when confronted with death. Absent that confrontation, I can't help but focus on less meaningful things. In fact, I have too much time, hence my mental laziness. It's a product of affluence.

#Bugs - Grieving stinkbug on windowsill.

#Manhole cover in Japan

Why are robots saying we are fucked if we ever get in a war with humans? Just make their water inaccessible.

I'm in a required PD session and I have set up my Zoom camera on my Peepeth computer so as I'm peeping they think I'm being PD'd. I'm so naughty.

Cheers @piotr. Noted and appreciated.

If somebody totally new to the scene were to ask you what the heck crypto, blockchain, decentralization, distributed data, etc. was all about, what 3 sources would you direct them to? I'm seriously considering putting this together for coworkers. Noted that this is a broad net.

I hadn't seen that before. Thanks for sharing.

At the time, the law was that work entered the public domain 50 (75?) years after the creator's death. I'm not sure what it is now.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I may be mistaken, but I remember reading some 25 years ago that the copyright law was changed as a result of Mickey Mouse approaching the age at which he would be in the public domain. Disney was largely behind the increase in copyright reach. -?

You can find a good write up about the file at http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/skeleton-key-gemstone-file-turns-40/

The previous 18 pages were posted earlier under #Gemstone. The platform won't take pdf files and I'm too lazy to compile pages into one long jpg, so I uploaded them separately. The source file is in pretty bad shape, so trying to make one jpg probably wouldn't work anyway.

#Gemstone p22, and that's the last of it.

#Gemstone p21

#Gemstone p20

#Gemstone p19

I can't find much entry level documentation, but one thing I found is that if you make a source page, you can use a URL for it, like this: https://d2r2.solid.community/public/test.html. You can also upload files. I have more questions than answers.

Anybody play around with #Solid yet? -- https://solid.inrupt.com/ -- I'm at https://d2r2.solid.community/.

@Shigako, So sad to hear the news. I know I didn't express it, but Ron, or rather your sharing of your pictures of Ron, brightened my day since I first came part of the Peepeth community. Ron spread happiness and joy. What more can one ask of a life?

#Gemstone p18
4 pages to go after this. I'll get around to it when I get a round tuit.

#Gemstone p17
The end is in sight.

#Gemstone p16
Hang in there you crazy peepers.

It's due to the size limit on uploads, which I think is 7MB or something. The source file for this is so bad that I can't shrink it. Sorry.

10 points for phonetics
0 points for relevance

Hi neighbor. It's indeed a beautiful day in the neighborhood because you are here.

Thanks for sharing. Your post reminded me that I left a great book of poetry by Bukowski that I'd picked up at a thrift store in Brooksville, Florida for a buck. It's now rotting along with my house, with Bukowski rotting somewhere else. Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself

#Gemstone p15

#Gemstone p14 (and I'll stop at 15 for now, of 22)