Piefayth

the cursed thing about engaging with the crypto community on twitter is that you can't do it without immediately discrediting yourself to every other community

@bumbadum14 if a particular group feels the need to commit fraud at scale, they must be a severely disadvantaged population. we need to support these groups with additional social programs so they don't resort to fraud

Can’t get over that 1 dude decided to just drive to the addresses of Somalian owned day care centers and literally all of them are fraudulent. No due diligence from the state. Just handing these people money

@beaversteever optimizing for the bare minimum for the business to function is the most cost effective way to go about it doubt mission critical hardware is much different. the only reason a company would worry about killing people is if it was net more expensive to kill them

As a hardware engineer I can't imagine getting paged at 3am because of a system outage if our hardware had outages like that people would literally die why can't software engineers just make more robust software?

@litteralyme0 rookie move tbh

Said “almost done” on the project update, then opened the doc for the first time and got hit with a “request access”screen

@bigpey products that haven’t shipped are worth more than products that have shipped

Based on my YouTube views, people care more about Midnight than Cardano right now...

@StakeWithPride this is absolute garbage isn’t it

The Midnight Tokenomics. #Cardano

@voidcompiler @jacques_web3 cannot express how tired i am of politics and infrastructure. what a nightmare

@jacques_web3 I find the job to be mostly politics, managing accidental complexity across endless layers and stacks, infrastructure. Maybe one day soon I will get back to writing code?

Unpopular opinion: Software engineering is the only job where the interview is harder than the actual job Interview: Design a distributed system for 10M users Job: The login button moved 2 pixels, please fix

@shellscape a provider shipped a subtle breaking change in a minor version that locked us out of upgrades until we could navigate it across our 100s of users, which took years fun stuff

so far my biggest gripe about terraform is that most third party providers are straight ass with bugs that never get fixed, and platforms don't keep their providers maintained. (supabase, sentry)

nobody wants the truth, they just want control of the narrative

@SebAaltonen honestly it’s shocking how often bad ui performance shows up in games. plenty of pc experiences where you are cranking 120 fps in game and it slows to a crawl in the menu. and those are in-engine menus!! having a ui wrapper sounds even scarier

My hypothesis is that somebody vibe coded that 500 line Liquid Glass shader with AI. It's so bad. Does everything in the most unoptimal way possible and uses so much memory bandwidth too. I am educating our UI/app team :)

Turns out that our Flutter app build consumes over 2x more energy than our dev build (only engine + game + editor). Started investigation. WTF 1: We use 400 Flutter plugins, including this shitty third party "liquid glass" shader that costs more than our whole game renderer :)

@cryptorinweb3 @notalexchoi the silence in response to this post is deafening

Not to be rude (and sorry if this actually happened to you), but a few things to point out, since there are also a lot of people to use these kind of stories to farm engagement: - Why the picture? Like it was taken live at the moment it happened? It’s good for engagement, ngl about that. - You didn’t share any technical details about the type of links you joined, so we can’t verify anything. - Why do you even have 150 hot wallets in the first place? And why keep $1M in hot wallets? - This also matches how messy your desk looks. If your administration is that chaotic, there could easily be 100 other reasons for the drain. - You wrote: “The Spark page looked fine at a glance but had botted followers and a handle history showing it used to be @humansrealm, a previous rug.” How did you check this? Where’s the evidence? Why wouldn’t a scammer just start fresh instead? I’ve never heard of such a check being relevant before, nor I understand why a hacker wouldn’t start clean. - You also wrote: “You can just get screwed by some code the second you join the meet through an outside extension.” That’s very vague. Do you have proof or known cases of this happening? Otherwise it’s just your claim. Not implying you’re lying, but we also have to acknowledge that a lot of people use these stories for engagement farming. If you’re legit, then you’ve actually shared no technical info at all on how this happened or how to stay safe. So I’m left with mixed feelings here.

I just got drained for $996,000 🧵 I’m honestly still processing that this happened and even writing it out feels completely unreal. I just spent the last 24 hours looking into it, wiping out all my devices, and moving my files. Part of me was considering whether I should even reveal this or not but let this be a good wake up call for everyone in this space regarding security, because if it can happen to me, with all my experience in this space, it can happen to anyone. If my loss prevents this from happening to even one person, then it wasn’t all for nothing. Not asking for pity, money, or anything. I know I made a mistake. Just want to help others.

@intertreeJK @leemolou @bobasfk @BrockCardano @shaggyrax delegators definitely underestimate the amount of effort and domain knowledge required to be an effective drep

@piefayth @leemolou @bobasfk @BrockCardano @shaggyrax I planned to be this and made a good start at it. Then I got hit with 190+ Budgetary Proposals and Retired as a DRep due to not feeling I was qualified enough to assess all that(!) 😅

I highlighted the important bits for you Also, not everything need be decentralized done on top of a blockchain, just frontrunning the next oppositional argument since you guys dont seem to run out of them Also also, what collateral did CF post for takijg money to host a party they will charge attendees out the nose for, of which the proceeds will not go back to the treasury? Oh, they didnt take a loan you say? We just gave it to them? So if i make the same proposal as CF you gonna grant me the money or does reputation matter? Its almost like we can do things case by case as to not shoehorn ourselves into imaginary precedents...

@leemolou @intertreeJK @bobasfk @BrockCardano @shaggyrax is there any drep that both votes on everything (most things, anyway) and always posts rationales?

@intertreeJK @bobasfk @BrockCardano @shaggyrax Fixed by delefators moving to dreps that do prilovide one!

@JaromirTesar if the response to a default is sane, i think i could be convinced snek is a good ecosystem partner, even if you’re a meme hater

I'm currently reviewing the SNEK proposal for a 5 million ADA loan, and I haven’t yet decided how I’ll vote. I do believe a loan is more equitable than a grant. It encourages responsible use of funds. I support it. Anyway, I want to share an observation about meme coins, which may be relevant to the broader context. Take the two most prominent ERC-20 meme coins: Shiba Inu and Pepe. ▪️Shiba Inu has around 1.5M holders, yet only about 6,000 on-chain transactions occurred in the past 24 hours. ▪️Pepe has roughly 480K holders, with a similar number of daily transactions, around 6,000. Despite their popularity, most trading happens on CEXs. For example, Shiba Inu sees millions to tens of millions of USD in volume across ~30 CEXs, while its largest DEX barely reaches $300K in volume. CEXs: DEXs: You will see similar numbers with Pepe. This example highlights the negative impact centralized entities can have on DeFi and the broader on-chain economy. But that’s a deeper conversation for another post. I examined how SNEK’s recent listings on CEXs have affected on-chain activity. ▪️Kraken listing: Volume rose from 1.2M ADA to 2.8M ADA, then dropped back to 1.3M ADA. Interacting accounts increased from 1,800 (11K TXs) to 3,000 (22K TXs), then settled at 1,900 (11K TXs). ▪️Crypto-com and KuCoin listings: Volume climbed from 1.7M ADA to 2M ADA, then declined to 1.1M ADA. Interacting accounts rose from 1,800 (12K TXs) to 3,000 (23K TXs), now down to 1,500 (11K TXs). It can be said that the recent listing on CEXs caused a negligible short-term pump in volume and on-chain activity. Nothing more. In September 2023, on-chain activity was nearly identical to today—around 11K transactions per epoch and 2K interacting accounts. Since then, volume has dropped roughly 5x, from 5M ADA to 1M ADA. Conclusion: CEX listings haven’t led to sustained growth in on-chain volume or transactions. Based on typical meme coin behavior, I don’t expect a significant increase in on-chain activity. Cardano processes 150K–200K transactions per epoch, with SNEK accounting for 5–10% at peak. Interestingly, SNEK currently sees more on-chain transactions than Shiba Inu or Pepe on Ethereum. But as trading shifts to CEXs, Cardano’s SNEK-related activity will likely decline, even if the user base continues to grow. This highlights a key point: meme coin activity is heavily centralized, and on-chain engagement remains limited, even for the biggest names. It’s something worth considering when evaluating proposals tied to meme coin ecosystems. This isn’t a critique of the SNEK proposal, just one part of the bigger picture. It’s important to set realistic expectations about what listing SNEK on CEXs can actually achieve. At its core, the proposal hinges on a key question: Can the SNEK team realistically repay the 5M ADA loan? If the answer is yes, then supporting the loan could be a smart move. I’ll continue analyzing this to reach a well-informed decision.

@EdnStuff isn’t it just because we aren’t integrated with chainlink

This is becoming a problem #Cardano fam.

@Jush21e8 all infrastructure products are just psyops to trick you into a profitable state known as “vendor lock-in”

okay but why does a database have a stock price

@jacobrodri_ i wouldn’t be surprised if TT stole this and used it to let users develop those little games you overlay on videos would go crazy - they are the exact appropriate complexity

This app idea has insane potential: TikTok for vibecoded minigames Play minigames and scroll to another when you get bored. User retention could be crazy. You can even create new games with AI inside the app. It could easily grow organically on TikTok.

@powerbottomdad1 @trubecomefalse apple settlement with doj for discriminating based on citizenship: justice.gov/d9/2023-11/ier… facebook settlement for the same: justice.gov/archives/opa/p…

@trubecomefalse any sources?

lol i was just talking w a friend about the anti-indian sentiment thing and we agreed that there was very likely not widescale cheating going on in tech hiring. welp

@effectfully great developers are born from trauma

OK, I'm not saying unsigned ints need to be removed, but hear me out. I work on stuff that if you get wrong, you may end up losing millions of dollars of users' funds. I have PTSD from unsinged ints. Whenever one jumps on me, I immediately start asking myself - do we let any third-party libraries play with those? The chance of those getting unsigned ints wrong is higher than signed ones - do we have any conversions between ints and unsigned ints? If you only have ints, you just need to make sure that you never downcast unsafely and that under/overflows are handled. Well, converting an unsigned int to a signed one is neither an upcast nor a downcast and the result may not fit in its type - are we sure we are not subtracting anywhere a large unsigned int from a small one? - why the hell are we doing it? Yes, -1 isn't correct in some places. Neither is 2147483648. You _are_ going to perform the checks anyway when doing anything with that unsigned int, except you just made it more complicated for yourself, not least because all APIs are singed-based anyway and all you achieved is that now you need to jump through more hoops to ensure correctness Oh yeah, I write Haskell, I can't imagine what sort of nightmares can macros + implicit casts + unsigned/signed ints cause in C. BTW, my favorite example is `- x` and `0u - x` meaning two completely different things for an `int x` in C. Put that unsigned int down bro. Unless you're doing modular arithmetic or using unsigned ints to represent bit arrays, chances are, you are not introducing any type safety -- only more ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

@DelAisaka @Megadetta no, no you LOVE helping Addison stand the sign up for a useless reward 80 times how can you hate a game with this much content?

@Megadetta The TotK video is actually good and I’m tired of people treating it like the others. Skittybitty is right in their response to people because they’re met with so many that try to excuse the genuine flaws of TotK or attack them for having a negative opinion

@CONEY super paper mario splitgate diablo 4 watch dogs legion

Finally nailed down what I believe to be the 4 worst video games ever made Not like, nonfunctional like ET/Superman/whatever, but the 4 worst examples of totally whiffing an otherwise brilliant concept Will stream it tonight, reply with your pick and maybe I'll change mine