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No, your cryptocurrency cannot work

Explaining in understandable terms why Bitcoin uses so much power, why all these supposed 'alternatives' cannot fix the problem, how other coins are a scam, and how proof-of-stake is ultimately a dead end too.

gist.github.com/joepie91/daa93

@haskal They should, yes. I just don't think it's a web/js specific problem, those devs would cut the same corners in any other ecosystem.

@haskal no not really, but I hate seeing that conflated with the programming language itself, which in modern versions is actually really nice imo

working with/without javascript (for all those cavepeople with irrational programming language hatred)

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fuck it i'm gonna finish adding content warnings to the thread view too tonight

@kim yay, I always just piece some shit together when it comes to Go, but I think it's not tooo bad this time

also so far finding documentation for golang libs has been atrocious. 👏 Autogenerated 👏 javadoc👏 comment 👏 dumps 👏 are 👏 not 👏 documentation 👏

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also funny that the best way to get automatic golang recompile and restart is with nodemon, a Node.JS utility

nodemon --watch '**/*.go' -e go --signal SIGTERM --exec 'go' run ./cmd/gotosocial --host localhost testrig start

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it's such a waste that some programming languages force you to use a strict typing system (Go in this case) but it doesn't even have the option to make *actually useful* type constraints, like "this is a string AND it has to start with @"

Pre-disclosure: we are planning a coordinated security release of several Matrix clients starting ~1pm UK (UTC+1) Monday Sept 13th to address a critical vuln. We have no evidence of it being exploited in the wild, but please be sure to upgrade on Mon! matrix.org/blog/2021/09/10/pre

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