Monday, March 11, 2024
Micropayments for humans - I wrote a few days ago about an easy way to make a crypto wallet discoverable on personal websites. The use case I had in mind was AI visitors to a website. AI tools that browse and synthesize information from websites is becoming insanely popular recently. They are great but they break the web. Content creators essentially get cut completly out of the loop, so they no longer have any incentive to create content. Eventually thus there will be no human content creators online. Auto-discoverable cryptp wallets for websites could be part of a solution.
Auto-discoverable wallets could also be used for human website visitors. For example a human visitor might consume some content they like while visiting a website, and if their browser had a built in crypto wallet, theoretically they could then send a micro payment to the website in a single click. No setup required, even if they had never visited that particular website before.
There's already a protocol for it, though it doesn't appear to be very well used.
I think something light-weight like this would ve very useful, both for AI and human website visitors. #
Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide - It took 30 years to get to 3%, then they reached 4% in just a few additional months. Interesting fact. Maybe they've started getting the Desktop looking good enough for regular non computer nerd folks. linuxiac.com #
Moore on Moore - Quite an in depth look at the history, lots of stats and examples, and also the future. Sort of reminds me of how things are progressing with Bitcoin. thechipletter.substack.com #
Guide to software engineering contracting in UK - All items covered seemed like good advice to me. It's additional effort but you can get paid quite a lot more. codedeepdives.com #
Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works - Increasing number of copyright litigations are arising because of AI training and uses. Interesting to see content makers going after the maker of the AI chips in addition to the AI companies. reuters.com #