Ursium
Joined 12 years ago
Karma
106
Submissions
36
Member since
Mar 30
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/stephantual; my proof: https://keybase.io/stephantual/sigs/dRGQpcJVRzopGamaqYCZhskAhKnAx8-1fcZslwRSiJ8 ]
View on Hacker NewsRecent submissions
Comment · 5 years ago
Ok so let's say this passes... surely we can't boil them alive anymore and social media platforms will delete the strange 'muckbang' videos. Right? RIGHT?
Comment · 9 years ago
Ah yes, what you describe is what Christoph Jentzsch dubbed the Universal Sharing Network, or USN. Slock.it [recent round of seed funding](https://blog.slock.it/slock-it-secures-2-million-usd-seed-fu...) is dedicated to its development. We're really lucky to have some amazing partners such as [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com/) to help bring this to life.
We expect the first integrations to make their way to the general public during the course of 2018, with some private betas kicking off Q3-Q4 this year.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's a soft launch. Looks like the media jumped on it a tad too early, but the proper launch is imminent regardless.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not yet allowed to give out numbers but it's going to be the largest IoT + Blockchain deployment on the planet.
It's early days, the tech is young, and we're nowhere near 'mainstream' yet but I'm excited we're finally able to release real-life 'dapps' to the general public so people can experience blockchain for themselves.
Comment · 9 years ago
Stephan from Slock.it here. Essentially the idea is to recoup the cost of your investment in a charging station by renting it to other electric vehicle drivers that might be passing by. Can't wait to be able to tell you more about it on our blog.
Comment · 9 years ago
Actually, the Euro Token is a virtual FIAT implemented on Ethereum. I can't reveal much more information on it until the project formally goes live (which is imminent), but I can't tell you it thankfully goes a lot further than what you noted.
There's a lot more information coming up because it's my understanding Carsten only intended his tweet a bit as a 'teaser'. I had written this piece back in September when we entered live beta: https://blog.slock.it/blockchain-energy-p2p-sharing-project-... might give a bit more context.
Comment · 9 years ago
Hi, Stephan from Slock.it here - there's going to be a lot more info about this project coming up, but I wrote this blog post back in September when we entered live beta. I hope you find it helps answers some questions:
https://blog.slock.it/blockchain-energy-p2p-sharing-project-...
Comment · 9 years ago
To understand why some people (including myself) are going nuts about Pico-8, here's one random feature: when you save your virtual cartridge as 'mygame.p8.png' it automatically generates a neat cartridge png representation with the screenshot of your choice from the game. Like so: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/cposts/1/10022.p8.png.
Big deal you say! well, check this out: this png IS the game. It embeds the executable written in LUA. Try it for yourself - take the png I posted above, load it in pico8 then press escape: voila, full source code, sprite sheet, tracker data, etc. Type "RUN" and the game plays.
Pico8 (and its cousin voxatron) also contain an online cartridge browser that lets you discover and learn from everyone who contributed a cartridge.
Pico-8 is choke-full of these incredible little details that make all the difference. Unfortunately it's not open source itself, which some find a bit odd considering it encourages the open sourcing of the cartridge written for it. Good to see some projects such as TIC-80, LIKO-12 and now PX8 mixing things up a bit, that said it's still a nascent environment and let's not forget it's very much the arbitrary, sometimes amusing limitations imposed by the lead dev that makes these things fun.
Comment · 9 years ago
And 2017.1b2 is finally available for Sierra :)
Comment · 10 years ago
It's not censorship as long as you have to install the extension yourself.