gianmarco.eth ~ gianmarco.lens

Industrial engineer Ass. - Denmark - Italy. Fighting for a better future. My fav pokemon as a child was Dragonite 😏

[gianmarco.eth ~ gianmarco.lens @gianmarcoeth]

1/ This thread will list some pitfalls and general security recommendations for #solidity codes but can, of course, never be complete. Also, keep in mind that even if your #smartcontract code is bug-free, the compiler or the platform itself might have a bug [..]

#web3 #security

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Ask ChatGPT:

If you were the devil and wanted to keep an entire nation sick, what would you do?

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

When Nissan made self parking office chairs just for their own offices

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

For many years, Bill Gates used to fly Economy, not because he couldn’t afford First Class, but because he didn’t consider it good value. It’s five or six times more expensive, but only marginally better (and you all get to your destination at the same time).

In the same vein, I could afford a really nice car at this point, but I’ve never been a car guy, and I don’t need a Lamborghini or a Mazerati (which I can’t even spell). A Volvo station wagon does the job just fine, and I wouldn’t value the difference. I don’t need to drop $1000 on a bottle of wine at dinner either, since I know I’ll get the same enjoyment from a $35 bottle.

So what is wealth good for, in the end? Besides providing security, it also gives flexibility. After all of the experiences I’ve had, the most important thing I’ve learned about money is that, once you have enough (by the previous definition), you can choose to have less of it in exchange for choosing how to spend your time. And spending your time doing something meaningful to you…that’s worth way more than a Mazerati.

[oswaldo cepeda @moodydarkroom]

it feels like you’re still here

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Thread: Online misinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict - Day 8

This video, viewed 340,000 times, falsely claims to show Palestinians faking their inuries.

It's taken from a 2017 @trtworld report on a makeup artist doing work for Palestinian films and charity projects.

[jess @_jessicasachs]

dev rel circa September 2000

there's an entire generation of devs who have never seen Steve Ballmer sweating through his dress shirt during a Microsoft keynote screaming "developers".

let's fix that. also if you've seen it here's the full video with context.

[gianmarco.eth ~ gianmarco.lens @gianmarcoeth]

@DSantanche Reminder giornaliero: si dimetta

[gianmarco.eth ~ gianmarco.lens @gianmarcoeth]

stay with me

[Stella Assange @Stella_Assange]

On this day in 2006 Julian #Assange created @wikileaks.

Julian is 52 now. He was 38 when WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder and was last free. The video shows the US army killing a dozen civilians, including two Reuters employees on assignment and the rescuers who stopped to help the wounded. Reuters formally attempted to obtain the video but the Pentagon refused to hand it over. The evidence of what had happened remained on US military servers until intelligence whistleblower Chelsea Manning sent it to WikiLeaks.

Collateral Murder had a massive impact. The millions of dollars that had been poured into Pentagon PR messaging couldn’t make the public unsee the war crime.

#FreeAssangeNOW

[Riccardo Magi @riccardomagi]

Vi ricordate quando qualche anno fa Giorgia Meloni rimediò una figuraccia con Christian Greco, il direttore del @MuseoEgizio ? Ecco. Ora che Meloni è al governo, serve la sua vendetta e ne chiede le dimissioni. Forse Greco è troppo competente e forse ha rilanciato con troppo successo il Museo Egizio di Torino: insopportabile per questa maggioranza. Insopportabile per Giorgia Meloni, le cui accuse sono state rispedite al mittente con ignominia dallo stesso direttore.

Troppo insopportabile per una destra che vuole la cultura asservita al potere, che vuole occupare ogni poltrona per favorire amici e parenti magari della stessa Meloni. @g_sangiuliano dimostri di avere la schiena dritta, riconosca l’autorevolezza, la professionalità e il lavoro di Greco ed eviti questa umiliazione alla cultura italiana.

[Sam Altman @sama]

caffeine is by far the best drug

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Un architetto ha impiegato 22 anni per costruire un enorme modello in scala dell'antica Roma.

Il plastico in gesso alabastrino, che si estende su una superficie di oltre 250 metri quadrati, fu progettato da Italo Gismondi e realizzato dal maestro artigiano Pierino Di Carlo ⤵️

[nader dabit @dabit3]

having worked in the blockchain space for ~2.5 years I've formed some unpopular opinions that I'd like to share.

1. the problems with security are laughably underestimated by almost everyone here.

most people act as if losing your identity and all of your money because you clicked the wrong button is not a massively huge, unacceptable, gaping problem. this still happens all the time, even to "veterans". this is such a problem that I find it tough to recommend to people who are not tech savvy to even try using most of this stuff.

2. the large majority of companies are absurdly overvalued.

at peak euphoria there was software that barely worked and with hardly any actual users valued at multiple billions of $, there are still protocols valued a billion $ or more who have yet to launch a working product and if launched, the majority of these projects will no where even close to live up to their marketing or self-imposed hype and often have critical issues they have yet to actually figure out that are part of what they promised, and are often just overly complex ponzi schemes who have successfully overpromised and confused investors enough to give them money.

3. I love most of the people I've met and have worked with.

that being said, there is a massive variance of people working in this space, more-so than anywhere else I've worked and by a long shot. this means being bombarded by a countless stream of grifters and people who want to simply use you as a financial instrument or a stepladder of some sort. when you reach a somewhat high profile this becomes unmanageable and will affect your mental health.

my dms and many of my tweets are bombarded by airdrop farmers or scammers. people will go to almost any length to get your attention only to often just be trying to get something out of you once you actually talk with them.

4. there are few use cases that actually make sense today.

finance / payments, digital ownership, data archival, recently our infrastructure is beginning to be able to handle the scale of things like gaming and social.

but as a developer building an app outside of these domains, it's extremely tough to find a use case that's valuable to the *average* person in the world, especially with the limitations of wallet UX and security.

instead everyone keeps building for the exact same set of users over and over. these are *extremely* talented builders, this isn't their fault, it just isn't possible today with the current state of the technology.

5. almost everyone you meet is founding a company of some sort, often competing with a hundred other similar products that do or are hoping to do the same thing, instead of collaborating. almost all with the hopes of launching a token and striking it rich.

yes, this happens in the traditional software world, but it is at an extreme in the blockchain world. innovation is great though, so this could be looked at as a good thing if you take into consideration that a percentage of these people are actual geniuses with good intentions who deserve to be successful, which is the case IME.

6. business models are fucked.

there are very few protocols or apps generating actual revenue, most are just hoping to launch a token. this is because it is very tough to build a product, get users, and monetize with the current state of the technology. there are a few outliers of course, but they are just that.

7. hype as a measure of integrity. it's all a blur.

the more hype a team, company, person, etc... tries to gather around themselves the less I can trust them. every day there are countless announcements all claiming to be revolutionary or game changing. there are teams who have raised hundreds of millions simply from tweeting out the right things.

instead the teams and people I've learned to trust are the ones who ship then shout, and who are pragmatic about their updates. @paradigm is a great example of this, only talking and gaining excitement once a big thing is ready, and usually it is of very high quality.

an announcement of an announcement or an announcement of a pre-announcement is not unheard of in this space and is a huge red flag.

>> conclusion
I have more I could go into but I'll stop for now.

the point of this isn't to be negative, I am one of the biggest believers of this technology.

instead it's to be a realistic view of how things are in hopes that we can improve the entire space.

again I will underscore that most of the people I've actually had the chance to work with, meet at conferences, or meet through acquaintances have been some of the most exceptionally smart, kind, and socially conscious people i've ever met.

even with all of the negatives, things have come a long way in the 2.5 years that I've been here. some of the issues i've outlined are things that we're working on at @AaveAave and @LensProtocol which is fulfilling work.

[gianmarco.eth ~ gianmarco.lens @gianmarcoeth]

@AngeloCiocca @MovArtGarbaMi Si, caduta per prescrizione. Ma ci fai tutti deficienti?

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

What if there was a way to:
• Mitigate climate change
• Create more life
• Grow the economy
• And make money along the way?

Let's call it *Seaflooding*

[Natangelo @NatangeloM]

Un veloce aggiornamento

#satira #lollobrigida #meloni #natangelo

[goff @G0ffred0]

@NatangeloM Sarà anche una pura formalità, ma i vari Giordano, Belpietro, Sallusti, Cruciani non sono mai stati richiamati dall'Ordine. Segno che l'Ordine sa da chi prendere ordini. Ci meritiamo il 41° posto nella classifica della libertà di stampa

[Lewis 🇺🇸 @ctjlewis]

this shit will tell you the Bible and the Bitcoin whitepaper are GPT-generated and Princeton had like no issue with this apparently

golden age of institutional grifting, crypto was just a fucking taste test man