Matt BlazeNov 25, 2022

Stop saying there are no algorithms. Algorithms don't necessarily involve opaque machine learning-driven decisions. Showing posts in chronological order is an algorithm. Showing a partial ordering of posts coming in from other nodes in a federated distributed system is an algorithm. Anything involving computers uses algorithms.

Even if you can predict what it does, there's an algorithm. ESPECIALLY if you can predict what it does.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

Show threadMatt Blaze
Next: Crypto means cryptography, damn it.
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Show threadFrank RiegerNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze And we will get it back. Given the predominant way the coins are lost we should call them Cyber-Currencies.
Show threadJames BrittNov 25, 2022
@frank_rieger @mattblaze PonziCoins
Show threadAdamHertzNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze Digital means fingers (and toes, if you’re willing to stretch).
Show threadthatdosboxNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze is this your way of flushing out the most annoying people so you can block them?
Show threadSteve BellovinNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze Well, yeah. (Thanks, @amiest !)
Show threadKevin McCurleyNov 25, 2022
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @amiest
Show threadSteve BellovinNov 25, 2022
@tragiccommons @mattblaze @amiest Frenemies at best.
Show threadRyder C   🔭 🚲Nov 26, 2022
@tragiccommons @SteveBellovin @mattblaze @amiest @ryderdavid also remember when cryptofascist meant cryptofascist and not Blake Masters 🥁💥
Show threadMatt BlazeNov 25, 2022

@SteveBellovin @amiest

What kind of weirdo has a shirt like that?

Show threadcwNov 25, 2022
@amiest @mattblaze @SteveBellovin I’ve got a green one and enjoyed wearing it until randos started asking about ICOs. Maybe time to pull it out of storage.
Show threadRyanNov 26, 2022
@cade @amiest @mattblaze @SteveBellovin be the change you want to see!
Show threadPat WilsonNov 26, 2022
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @amiest I know someone who needs that shirt!
Show threadMatt BlazeNov 26, 2022
@paw @SteveBellovin @amiest Everyone needs that shirt, Pat.
Show threadNicholas WeaverNov 26, 2022

@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @amiest

I have the line art, I just need to make the shirt for "Crypto: It means cryptosporidia"

Show threadknocknockNov 26, 2022
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @amiest where can I get this shirt?
Show threadarkNov 26, 2022
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @amiest
Got damn boomers!
Love it 😆👍
Show threadDan McDonaldNov 25, 2022
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Attached: 1 image I just realized I don't have to worry about my crypto, mainly because:

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Show threadMrs Mouse at workNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze Unless the government offers it, then it means "we can spy on you"
Show threadLouis MamakosNov 25, 2022

@mattblaze And another thing, it's spelled "Internet", not "internet".

It is capitalized as it refers to a distinct entity. I don't know who decided it wasn't to be capitalized, but I was there helping to build the big-I Internet and I know how we spelled it then.

There is an "internet" here and another random private "internet" of networks over there; but there's the one public global "Internet".

That is all.

Show threadRyanNov 26, 2022

@lmamakos @mattblaze Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

...the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

Show threadZudaNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze I gave up on that hill a long time ago. I accept it has 2 meanings.
Show threadSandrew Nov 25, 2022

@mattblaze Says a guy from the country where gas could mean gas or petrol (gasoline)!

Yes, English is very context dependant, but I can only imagine some of the frustrations for non-native speakers.

Show threadCranky DavidNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze
efficient to entice all the block candidates in one day.
Show threadKatNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze
Show threadJames BrittNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze Or cryptozoology :)
Show threadIan McKellarNov 25, 2022
@mattblaze nah, crypto means cryptozoology.
Show threadBrian Danger HicksNov 26, 2022
@mattblaze I remember seeing a lot of baffled and worried tokenbros passing around some news item about the NSA doing crypto
Show threadSpaceLifeFormNov 26, 2022

@mattblaze

That is two hills. Pick one.

Show threadClyde MorganNov 26, 2022
@mattblaze Damn straight. It's a library we use in programming and now when I type it, a dumbass voice in my head says "bro" everytime. It's like the Meathead Rob on the DirecTV campaigns.
Show thread  JuhaNov 26, 2022
@mattblaze Keep that secret.
Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsNov 27, 2022
@mattblaze
Having watched the cryptography community bemoan this, I've always said "cryptocurrency" to make the distinction out of deference. Also, give it another year and maybe you'll be able to take the word back since everyone else will be too embarrassed to utter it 😆
Show threadMatt BlazeNov 27, 2022
@Mikal it may take a generation or two to wash away the stink.
Show thread安斯文 Nov 27, 2022
@mattblaze Exactly! I recently had to remove "crypto" from my profile description, because people thought I'm into some shady business. I hated it.
Show threadDavid GerardNov 27, 2022
@mattblaze look, cryptosporidium can have its currency if it insists
Show threadSean ColbathNov 27, 2022
@mattblaze rip your replies
Show threadMoto Nov 27, 2022

@mattblaze WELL AKSHULLY it’s “concealed or secret.” Modern linguistic references notwithstanding.

But yeah. Nobody wins a pedantry war.