202308100000, August 10, 2023

  • “A version of a thing is a ~40 char string of hex noise”
    • Via Erlend #Subconscious/Discord, this is Graydon Hoare explaining how the affordance of hashes-as-versions became normalized. @[email protected]
    • And:

    • (IMO this is also why all the web3 stuff as well as secure p2p messaging like SSB and nostr had their moments when they did: elliptic curve crypto finally meant a public signing key could be “a ~32 char string of hex noise”, which is actually a psychologically tolerable threshold in UI we hadn’t previously identified, but is real. Dropping below the “full page of hex” RSA/DSA key-size mattered.)

  • re:Mix is an open source blender where you use your own glass jars https://www.openfunk.co/pages/re-mix
    • ((64d4f1d7-cb62-4770-b280-3fc531b1a3e7))
    • via forresto #Subconscious/Discord
  • LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud Chad Kohalyk #LoFi #Fission
  • Completed #reading Translation State
  • Started #reading Rose House