Zaskoda

I would like to take one comment in this post to recognize Aaron Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

I've been running Ubuntu on a Dell XPS at work since 2016. I had problems using a docking station from the start so I removed it from the equation and haven't had any significant other issues since. Battery life is good, no significant networking problems, etc. I've very much enjoyed the experience.

I just assumed that life would only be better on a System 76 machine. I was very surprised by this post.

If tensions ease too quickly and we release everyone into the wild, it could cause another outbreak. I don't personally know the parameters of that risk, I just know it is a risk.

But on the bold assumption that we somehow contain the virus, we have a global economic collapse to tend to.

I suspect that by this time next year Bitcoin will be seen as a safe haven. The events that are about to play out are exactly what Bitcoin was designed for.

I don't know exactly what you mean, but I agree.

It's interesting that all of the current activity is speculation and the actual impact of supply chain disruption really hasn't started to hit yet. Given that we're at record levels of corporate debt, I would think we are likely to see a lot of ripples.

Update: oh yeah, that broke a lot of stuff

I just gave it a try and now apt is installing a bunch of new kernel .img files. So for me, yes, this seemed to be required before 64bit kernels were installed. I'm feeling surprised. I'm 40% of the way through the install and hoping it reboots okay in the end.

Edit: to be more clear, I also run 'apt update' afterwards

I've been reading the updates there and have been making specific purchases as a result. For example, I read about disruption to clothing manufacturing and bought some summer shorts, pairs of boxers, and packages of socks - stuff I was expecting to buy soon anyway.

> I tend to talk too much about myself, I don't enjoy listening to other people, I tend to judge situations only from my perspective, I have an inflated ego and take things too personal.

Isn't that 95% of us?

I've been learning how to design game play mechanics for the Ethereum EVM by building a game dapp with features I haven't seen before.

We should own our friends lists... which we used to call our address book.

Ah shucks, seems we're all so excited we've crushed them. (web servers timing out)

This seems like a popular topic right now and I wanted to add to the conversation some startup concepts I care about:

Game Dapps: The gaming industry is testing the "blockchain" waters by introducing tokenification into games. These games call themselves "blockchain games" but they barely use the blockchain. Meanwhile, a small group of games are being developed as game dapps that run directly on one of the DLT networks. I believe that game dapps will be one of the break out use cases for blockchain tech and that's where I'm putting my energy right now.

Cloudless "Smart Speaker": "Smart speaker" is the wrong name for this product, but it's what we call the products in this class right now. We no longer need to depend on the cloud to perform language processing. Moving the ability to process spoken language into a device opens up a lot of opportunities for a home network appliance. For example: instead of one "personality" like Alexa or Siri, a local device could be highly configurable and customizable.

Crowd Funded Investigative Reporting: In a nutshell: people want reliable news and the news is not well funded. A good system could allow reputation tracking for investigative reporters and a fundraising platform to support their future investigations. I would do this using some form of cryptocurrency but that's not required.

A New Car Radio (carputing): Most cars still use the 1 or 2 din form factor for the car's audio. If you shop for replacement units online, you'll see that they're all extremely similar. Compare those units with the experience someone expects from a Tesla. Somewhere in between exists a product that people driving older vehicles would greatly benefit from.

I have a few thousand more, but I like these a lot lately.

In 2020 I would like to reach beta with my blockchain game project release a full feature demo, and establish a studio around the game. If the whole thing works out, I would love to be able to say that my company was established in 2020.

Also: I would like to release something good enough that you guys will upvote me into existence.

Now if someone will make some sort of union I can join so I can strike and support others who share the same fundamental ethics. :)

Yes, even my relatively simple scenes are expensive to render. I'm hoping I can optimize it enough to be playable.

An interesting plus side: I can export the SVG as a file and get an extremely high quality screenshot.

I'm current using Vue to manipulate a complex SVG as the foundation of my current game engine. It's not super snappy but it's effective and interesting. I've taken the concept pretty far and, thus far, I haven't see anyone else manipulating SVGs with Vue (or React or whatever) in this way before. Its surprising because it feels extremely intuitive.

It's merely federated, but IRC doesn't get mentioned enough.

If you want to make a dent in the ticket market, come up with a solution that Burning Man will adopt. Their system almost never performs correctly. Every year something new goes wrong and thousands of people take to online forums to complain about bugs such as being kicked out of queues or not having their preregistration links work at all. If someone can earn BM's business, then they'll likely get a ton of business from their regional network of smaller events.

Yet the spam continues and the need for the spam filters isn't going away. This property of the ecosystem makes it considerably more complex to own your own mail server.

And those hackers became competitive to see who could put the coolest looking intro in front of the hacked/cracked software bragging about who crack it.

And then those intros eventually gave rise to what they called the Demo Scene where "hackers" would gather to see who could write the coolest visual/audio experience under various levels of constraint.

And many of the graphic algorithms derived by hackers in the demo scene gave rise to the algorithms used in today's 3D videocards.

Blockchain Gaming: I only saw one other crypto/blockchain comment and I suspect people are avoiding the topic because of the amount of noise from the scene compared to a lack of real world applications. It's that lack of real applications that speaks (for me) about how far out we are from feeling the real impact of any blockchain related solution. However, like so many other technologies, right now is a great time to explore, learn, and evolve the technology through gaming. My gut feeling is that blockchain gaming will do well over the next 3 to 5 years.

The cartoon if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMFM-Jqji0

Backdrop: I was inspired by games and went to CS undergrad with the hopes of becoming a videogame developer and ultimately a designer/director. I started college just as BBS distribution gave way to the World Wide Web; I had to learn HTML in order to distribute my shareware games.

Moonshots: I dropped out of school with only a year left to graduate because the Web development startup I launched with two of my friends was getting out of control. We were charging over $100/hr in the 90s and still having to turn down clients. We worked on amazing projects I can barely remember and made a pile of cash. But we were kids and couldn't get along so we split. I joined another startup that got bought out and put more cash in my pocket which led to me following leadership to yet another startup... that died pretty hard in the Fall of 2001.

Aftermath: Money, parties, travel, and then boom... it was over. Although I had been an irresponsible child with my earnings, I had the good fortune of having some saved some before I was laid off - and I could collect unemployment benefits.

Like everyone else, I couldn't find work anywhere. There was a flash cartoon back then called "Laid off: a day in the life". Good times, good times. I went back to school to finish earning my BS in CS. While in school I tried desperately to get a job in the service industry. I couldn't even land a job waiting tables. Managers told me that they had plenty of people that could work at any time and they didn't want to fuss with people who had school schedules. One manager told me he had over 1,500 applicants at his new restaurant. After having held a Director title in 2001, I ended up starting over again with a fresh degree and a job as a Jr Videogame Programmer in 2003. At least I was working on videogames instead of web! (spoiler, I'm back in web, but that's another story)

I still don't think I've fully come to terms with the unrealistic expectations I developed early in my career. I rose to success quickly because I had a head start in web tech just as the industry around it was taking off. After the crash I had to work hard for things like everyone else which means coming to terms with the realization that I am not as special as I thought I was.

Location: Seattle

Remote: Sure

Willing to Relocate: Only for something amazing

Technologies: extensive full stack web (strongest with Laravel/Vue currently), extensive knowledge of social software design, minor experience with game engine tech (unreal/unity), exposure to distributed application design (solidity) and game design theory

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaskoda/ (sorry)

Email: zaskoda@gmail.com

Looking for: Director level role creating blockchain/distributed gaming products.

I have been in gaming and tech since the 90s and am excited about the wave of change about to hit as gaming and DLT collide. I would give up my pretty decent current job if I can apply what I know towards leading a team in building really cool decentralized games.

Decentralize.

I've been working on a federated address book and thinking about how to sync contacts with other address books... It's like Really Simple Federation.

A personal CRM should be federated. I shouldn't need to keep my friend's contact details up to date manually. If they run a digital address book of some kind, my software should just ask their software for the latest data and subsequently update my local data. This should be an open protocol like email or calendaring.

I will be eagerly awaiting the Linux version. =)

What's wrong with your omelets? I've made hundreds of ugly omelets but now I can make a pretty one about 3 out of 5 times.