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Dan Finlay 🦊

@danfinlay #2074

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.
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Want to make sure a kid is staying hydrated to beat the heat? Try feeding them some spicy food!
Debugging is like a video game where the victory screen for each level is seeing a different error show up. The princess has moved to another castle, indeed!
/dev
WC feedback:

I had a moment where I opened Warpcast, moaned "nooo.." and closed the tab.

The reason: It was all posts I'd seen before.

Keeping the feed fresh might be key to re-engagement. Once I've seen what my following is saying, I'm definitely happy for it to start to dredge a bit. Better than old stuff.

Maybe this is a fringe issue bc I follow too few? Surely a newcomer issue too, at least.

I'd have narrow-casted this to a feature request channel if you didn't want me spamming criticism.
LLMs can be reliable as their context window.
Gold in, gold out.

The core skill needed will increasingly be gold sifting, at a time when the whole internet has specialized in sludge distribution.
/AI
@depatchedmode what's that one secure UX flow chart you've shared where it is a spectrum of friction severity levels based on things like whether the action can be taken back easily?
This book threads a miraculous needle between covertly retelling the story of Alien (for the parent) and teaching a child the alphabet. Excellent work.
I love this. It makes perfect sense that there's no free lunch, even from the tides. The moon's distance like a battery charge.
What’s your favorite way to get a steppable simulation of a tx that has occurred on an evm chain?
/EVM
@gakonst Does forge support EIP-7702 in tests yet? Any guess on timing for that?
/EVM
Fantastic year, and the team just keeps cooking. I especially loved the features that caught me by surprise, like supporting JSX for rendering custom UI, and supporting permissionless installation for many snaps.

But really what I love is how it's accelerating all sorts of development, in and outside of our company. Year 2 is going to be even more fun.
Guile Hoot 0.5.0 is probably the most performant, meterable, safest to write language to ever become trivially executable in the browser. It deserves to spark a modularity renaissance.

It is a strong answer to "how to give an AI agent limited permissions that are also dynamic?" People have no idea.

https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v050-released.html
Dad: Earth Wind & Fire, Mom: The Beatles, Me (semi-chronological): Pearl Jam, Green Day, Radiohead, Rancid, Sublime, Operation Ivy, Link 80, Skankin' Pickle, Slow Gherkin, Fifteen, Streetlight Manifesto, Eyedea, Sage Francis, Buck 65, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Captain Ahab, Cloud Cult, David Bowie, Brian Eno.
What if a site wants to manage a key directly, but have it derived from the user's wallet? This seems like a growing use case with embedded wallets. Should we have a method that just passes sites keys that are generated deterministically to their domains?

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/wallet-getexposedappkey/20958
Happy Labor Day, folks. Amazing how much people have managed to organize to protect themselves in the face of the mill of economics. I wonder how much further people might negotiate their positions given more ideal coordination tools.
People throwing around "proof of personhood" like it's a problem that has already been solved, or is trivially solved.

I can't shake the feeling we've done our people wrong by letting this stuff slide.

Is it too late to adopt a culture of being specific about the solutions we're referring to?
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We have the tools to slash abusive bots/accounts! Let's do it!
Was thinking about what I play board games for (fun + collecting mechanisms and their intuitions), in light of what I hope those mechanisms can do (empower the disadvantaged), and it started making me wonder if you could make a board game where:
1. Players start with deliberately unfair distribution of points/resources.
2. Resources could be purchased directly from other players at agreed/colluded prices.

Could we start a genre that develops the muscles for coordinating under severe imbalance? Seems like it could develop more relevant skills than the normal ("zero to win") type games today.
I think it’s awesome to create avenues for people to start small cottage businesses, yes even with a little warning on the label.
The bots will never be this easy to detect again.
The llm reply bots here reinvented gpu mining crypto.
Donate if you can to accelerate research on a promising avenue to accelerate the benefits of meditation with ultrasound.

In the future, quieting intrusive thoughts and finding simple clear awakening should be a normal accessible tool for anyone.

https://x.com/shinzenyoung/status/1828282468312502335
I took a similar lesson from a summer twisting balloon animals. Two cents of rubber could instantly become worth hundreds of dollars with the right story and a little skill.
@kumavis had a bad experience pairing his qubes rig to a projector for a talk so now we’re blessed with a qubes like vm runner for mac: https://youtu.be/0bwsipDLUBo