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  • neatchee@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•17 years*English
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    3 days ago

    See the link in my other replies for some examples of internal uses that still benefit from immutable, distributed ledgers.

    Large organizations still have loss and risk from individual bad actors. Operating a central authority that validates every single transaction in a ledger, and validates ledger history and consistency, can be prohibitively complicated. A well designed blockchain implementation can resolve most of these issues.

    A great example is a pharma/healthcare company that wants to manage medicine batch and expiration tracking, as well as distribution/patient assignment. With a traditional infrastructure every participant needs to phone home to a central authority. In a blockchain setup, peers can report ledger events one hop up and propagate it through the chain.

    That’s a very simple example but I hope it gets my point across

  • neatchee@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•17 years*English
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    3 days ago

    Lol you’re a judgemental prick. I have zero crypto because that shit is absolutely moronic.

    It’s like you talked to someone who supports nuclear power and responded “good luck with the nuclear bombs you definitely don’t have, true believer”

    Sounds like you just want to hate on shit you don’t understand. Go on with your bad self though 👍

    EDIT: LMAO from the article you linked they even point out that the tech itself isn’t the problem, but the willingness of businesses to invest in the improvements (which is, like, an incredibly common problem in business that does not in any way make the tech bad)

    Its plan to digitize global supply chains hasn’t received sufficient cooperation and support to remain viable.

    That is the downside of corporate blockchain projects. They need everyone to share a mindset and commit to a long-term plan. Unfortunately, businesses face ever-changing conditions and financial problems. Few can warrant the cost of buying into such systems under the current market conditions.

    You probably preach about how nuclear power is terrible, how if it were so great there would be more of it, and people sticking to coal is proof that coal power is better.

    Big brain you’ve got there 😂🫡

  • neatchee@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•17 years*English
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    3 days ago

    You are exactly the type of person I’m talking about :\

    Crypto is not the only use case for blockchain.

    Blockchain can be useful in inherently trusted, closed ecosystems.

    Depending on the use case, proof doesn’t even need to be anything more than a valid certificate (not work, not stake)

    Consider a bank that develops its own blockchain ledger for internal use only, replacing their branch ledgers (which require daily reconciliation and propagation).

    An immutable, distributed ledger has plenty of valid, valuable use cases without looking like crypto.

  • neatchee@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•17 years*English
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    3 days ago

    sigh

    Once again:

    Blockchain is not synonymous with cryptomining

    Blockchain does not require proof of work

    Cryptocurrency and NFT grifting does not devalue blockchain as an immutable distributed ledger

    I swear to god people just copy paste whatever makes them feel good without any effort at understanding

  • neatchee@piefed.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Side rulingEnglish
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    5 days ago

    No, you have to transfer the APK directly onto the device, either via download or ADB, to install f-droid. That means the OS has no concept of the source of the application (it’s just a raw APK).

    Just because you personally trust the source (the website you download it from) doesn’t make it a known/trusted source from the OS’s perspective (whether that OS is Google Android, Graphene, or any other OS)

    It’s a “chain of trust” issue. When you get something from a store, there are (usually) a bunch of things that happen behind the scene to make sure that the OS receives the application that is intended. Hash verification, signing certificate validation, SSL handshake with the source, etc. When you install an APK directly none of that happens.

  • neatchee@piefed.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Side rulingEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’m unclear: did this term come from language evolving, or is it a corporate move like the meme says? It can’t be both.

    And that’s my problem with the meme. I don’t disagree that language evolves but the meme is trying to say it was crafted with purpose by Google et al and it’s just not

  • neatchee@piefed.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Side rulingEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I mean, for etymology Wikipedia is about as good as the next source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

    The term was coined in the 90s by i-drive, and roughly means “use an alternative transfer method than established norms”. If I make software that has a standard transfer method (in the case of mobile devices that’s the rule “installed apps should have a known source, e.g. a store”) and I transfer stuff from another source (an unknown source in this case), that’s a sideload.