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  • paholg@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPlease Stop
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    8 months ago

    The only selling point of blockchain is that it’s trustless. This becomes a less-useful property when it comes to things in the real world, as you tend to need to trust at least one party.

    For example, anything they achieved there with blockchain, they could have achieved with a simple government-run web service and a traditional database.


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    8 months ago

    That is not a use for blockchain.

    Say I want to say that I created an image. I could post that image’s hash to a block chain, and point to it as something anyone can check.

    But you already have to trust me for that to be valuable. So I can just host that hash in any of a myriad of conventional methods that are simpler, more performant, and less wasteful.





  • Why isn’t there a way for Linux users to automatically install every missing dependency for a program?

    There is; actually there are several. Every^* distribution has a package manager, that’s what it does. But you have to make a package for the program, similar to what the tegaki folks have done for Mac and Windows.

    Another option is to statically link everything.

    One issue is the fragmentation; because there are so many Linux distributions, it’s hard to support packages for all of them. This is one thing that flatpack aims to solve.

    I would expect this to be an issue for old closed-source software, but not for old free software. Usually there’s someone to maintain packages for it.

    Some cursory searching shows no tegaki package on flathub or in nix (either of these can be used on any distro; the nix one is surprising to me; it hosts soooo many packages).

    But I do see it in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=tegaki