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I took a moment out while coding to answer a question that comes up a lot: "Why isn't there much commercial adoption of crypto?" I let myself ramble on quite a lot longer than I was anticipating, but covered a lot of useful ground. Pondering the timezone problem (Time is fake, relative sequence is real) Easy problems with crypto Hard problems with crypto Business models beat windfall profits Back to work

Me rambling while solving the timezone selector problem in a really silly way. A bit of digression into the totally ridiculous world of timezone offsets and marveling at Australia's underbelly in the process.

A short video of me discussing exactly what is in the title.

Another screen recording of working on the backend of a point of sale system based on Aeternity. Most of this is me rephrasing the problem to myself to make sure I am not missing any important aspects of the problem in general, and coding a bit to make what is in my head concrete (which tends to have a way of showing you were you are wrong!).

A test video of me rambling and coding while working on a point-of-sale backend based on the Aeternity blockchain. I'm not entirely sold on the coding livestream/desktop recording thing, but it has been suggested to me several times, so I'm giving it a go. For now. A little. Maybe.

The path from an empty directory to a minimally working web server you can start playing with is not always straight forward, and for newcomers to Erlang in particular the traditional "Erlang release" concept can be a bit of a stumbling block. ZX brings a workflow more familiar to modern developers to the Erlang world and Cowboy is a popular, modern, and battle-tested webserver that fully implements http1, http2, spdy, websockets, etc. Together the combination is fantastic, whether you are familiar with Cowboy already or are just trying to figure out how to get your first Erlang web project up and running. To install ZX you require an Erlang runtime on your system, visit this page: https://zxq9.com/projects/zomp/qs.install.en.html The one-liner install method for unix-type systems is very quick and easy. The demonstration is performed on a unix-type system. ZX does work on Windows, but development is a bit more cumbersome on Windows, so be aware.

Blockchain tooling can be pretty confusing and tends to suffer a strange situation where the blockchains with the most utility often have the worst tooling and interop libraries. The tooling necessary to connect to the Aeternity blockchain happens to be very easy to get working with Erlang using ZX, however. In this demo we continue on from the previous video (creating a Cowboy web service using ZX, here https://rumble.com/v2xvn0k ) and extend that to adding the ability to talk with the Aeternity blockchain.

Ah... clickbait style video title glory... This is actually a straightforward video with no hype to it. But it is true: There is a real marketplace now where you can use crypto directly on chain as a payment method -- and the process is arguably smoother than Visa (and the site fees are only 2% compared with 13~20% for eBay/PayPal). Also, sorry about the audio -- sounds like I'm in a can! Aegora.jp is the first boringly ordinary person-to-person sales site that uses a #cryptocurrency (#Aeternity ticker #AE) governed through smart contracts, as its primary payment method rather than Visa/PayPal/etc. No NFTs, no "digital assets", no hype. All trades are completely on-chain, for real tangible items, and the negotiation is left up to the sellers and buyers. Mainnet site: https://aegora.jp Testnet site: https://testnet.aegora.jp Testnet faucet: https://faucet.aepps.com As for actually buying AE and getting them out of those creepy exchanges and onto the chain for real, so far we have had the best experience using Gate.io -- if something takes too long, open a support ticket and they will actually get to your issue right away (yes, actual support people doing support things -- what a wild concept). More tutorials, explainers, howtos, help articles, etc. are planned but as the site just went public on Thursday this is an early first look and can act as an English-language demo/howto for early adopters to understand how it works and discover where they can find the testnet version of it to play around and figure things out for themselves. The site will be changing rapidly over the next few weeks to improve discoverability, but the minimum feature set is fairly small and easy to comprehend after a few minutes poking around the testnet site. As a side note, the backend is implemented entirely in Erlang, and the backend libraries necessary to communicate with the chain (aka "Vanillae.erl") and the in-page code necessary to communicate with the wallet (aka "Sidekick") are open source, though not packaged nicely yet.

Development on Windows in any other environment than Microsoft Visual Studio/Code/Whatever is a major pain in the ass. For this reason Erlang development is almost exclusively a Unix game (typically Linux or OSX), but development/packaging tools like ZX and GUI launching tools like Vapor make cross-platform packaging and execution of Erlang code on Windows easy. If, however, you are trapped on Windows for whatever reason and you want to explore and tinker with the Erlang source code of an existing ZX-based program on Windows, you still can. This video shows you how.

Dr. Youngblood's presentation to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors regarding the nonsensical situation surrounding the COVID vaccines and arguing for patient autonomy.

What use are peaceful protests if the "root of negotiation is the mutual capacity for violence"? This is a question I have been asked quite a lot over the last two years and has increasingly become a theme of its own ever since the Australian protests and last weekend's eruption of Europe-wide protests appeared to achieve nothing in terms of policy changes. In this video I explain what protests really are and in turn what they achieve in the context of negotiation and the mutual capacity for violence. This video is a short-ish take that stays pretty much on topic and avoids digression. A more extended discussion can be found here: https://rumble.com/vpphf1 Some people want me to digress endlessly, some want me to get to the point, so I'm trying both approaches to see what sticks. Reference "Geopol: Mutual capacity for violence is the root of negotiation": https://rumble.com/vei3dh

What use are peaceful protests if the "root of negotiation is the mutual capacity for violence"? This is a question I have been asked quite a lot over the last two years and has increasingly become a theme of its own ever since the Australian protests and last weekend's eruption of Europe-wide protests appeared to achieve nothing in terms of policy changes. In this video I explain what protests really are and in turn what they achieve in the context of negotiation and the mutual capacity for violence. This video is a long-ish first take and I allow myself to wander to peripherally related subjects a bit (but it doubles the length of the video). I'll be posting a shorter take next. Some people want me to digress endlessly, some want me to get to the point, so I'm trying both approaches to see what sticks. Reference "Geopol: Mutual capacity for violence is the root of negotiation": https://rumble.com/vei3dh

A 1978 video warning about Global Cooling and the inevitable global freeze that may spring on humanity at any moment. Archived for reference.

The CCP seems to be turning from its prepared return to Maoism and onto the path of having no real plan at all but putting a happy face on troubles that quite clearly risk collapse. SerpentZA's video about the Maoist editorial: https://odysee.com/@serpentza:5/breaking-did-china-just-declare-war:8 CCP editorial (pro Maoist): "Everyone can feel that a profound change is underway!" http://www.news.cn/politics/2021-08/29/c_1127807097.htm Review of CCP editorial rebuttial (pro market fascism): https://uscnpm.org/2021/09/03/breaking-down-hu-xijins-challenge-to-li-guangmans-dazibao/

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has some pointed questions for U.S. military leadership. Seems he has already been fired. Situation is still unfolding as of 2021-08-28

Terry practices drumming on a piece of paneling to a variety of TempleOS generated songs.

TAD watches a cultural dance in his room and gives it a go himself.

One of TAD's TempleOS-generated hymns called "Silently". A unique thing about nearly all the music and lyrics in the TempleOS catalogue is that many of them are generated at random by the random number generator code that lies at the core of a surprising number of TempleOS features. Unlikely to hit the top 10 charts any time soon, but without this TempleOS just wouldn't be TempleOS.

Terry, the man, the musical legend, once again practices drumming on a piece of wood paneling as a practice pad while rocking out to the divine beats emitted by TempleOS. It is unclear whether he is still in heavy competition with Mister Derek, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Once again, TAD accompanies the holy melodies of TempleOS using a board as a drum practice pad, but this time with a jacket on instead of going full shirtless hair band with it. This is all because, of course, he must compete with Mister Derek, because Derek is a man he has to compete with (of course!).

TAD plays his mini drum set that sounds like timbales with an ashtray attached. This time he goes it fully solo with no assistance from the divine sounds of TempleOS. This was all prompted because nothing broke and he's going to be careful.

Terry accompanies the holy melodies of TempleOS on a block of wood used as a drum practice pad.

What it says on the tin: TAD uses a board as a drum practice pad, though it is unclear what rudiments or cadences he is intending to practice.

TAD livestreams as he plays with the music editing facility he has built into TempleOS.

TAD shows off an HTMLizer in TempleOS that simplifies exporting code or documents from TempleOS to a public website for display.