Tom Salfield

Co-founder and CEO @wikifactory. Entrepreneur and technical architect, interested in social and technical systems that distribute power (open source/p2p)

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@wizzair Incredible to amount of attempts at identity theft that I received in response to this. A shame that Wizzair's own customer service isn't as attentive as the bots that want me to send them my email and phone number!

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@wizzair Boarding a flight from Vienna to Malaga I fell fowl of Wizzair's nasty policy of closing online boarding 3 hours before take off and charging 50 euros for checkin at the airport. Worse I was told the flight was overbooked, so I had to pay 50 euros to *maybe* get on the flight.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@wizzair This goes against wizzair's own stated policies https://t.co/2EzqhhMXIV, and in fact it's the responsibility of the airline to ensure that the customer is made aware of their rights when denied boarding.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@wizzair At the boarding desk, rights under E261 to offer compensation to all other passengers for not taking the flight were systematically ignored by Vienna ground staff (sub-contracted by Wizzair). Despite my requests they insisted that they would see if anyone didn't turn up to fly.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@SEUR @travelclub_es Nunca había visto tanta incompetencia. Hace 4 días creé 3 tickets en el 'sistema de atención al cliente' y no he recibido respuesta. Quise cancelar el pedido en cuanto hice el pedido, pero fue imposible. Puro robo. Cualquiera que trabaje aquí debería estar avergonzado.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@KonstantinKisin I'm no fan of identity politics because it's a massive distraction from important issues. How is that related to climate change specifically? Yes, climate change will be solved by tech progress and work, not behaviour change or protest. Specific connection between the two points?

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[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@LisaColdstorage @djvalerieblove Intrigued to know your theory why Bitcoin is good for human rights? Sounds esoteric ;-)

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@LisaColdstorage @djvalerieblove Also, I read the bitcoin whitepaper in 2009. So I have done a bit of research. Not saying Bitcoin is going to go to collapse, though I wouldn't be surprised as crypto matures. I'm saying it's a terrible replacement for national currencies. As are all crypto that I'm aware of.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@LisaColdstorage @djvalerieblove Above is all true. More importantly, Bitcoin is structured as a deflationary asset and lacks the basic properties of currency. Also bitcoin is fiat. I'm all for Hayek's denationalisation of currency but bitcoin isn't it. Crypto as a whole probably is.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

If we actually want to #StopPutinNOW this might be the most effective way? Is there some reason why there is no precedent for this tactic in modern conflicts - seems like the most humane way of ending conflicts. https://t.co/qJ3WuWzTlL @Ukraine @gavofyork #StopWarInUkraine

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@elonmusk @FedorovMykhailo Can we please use Starlink to offer internet access to Russian troops? Redirect them to a page, offering $40k and EU/US passports to desert, offer instructions on safe desertion. Just $6B to buy Putin's army, who don't want to be there anyway. Obviously block Russian state media.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@elonmusk @FedorovMykhailo Can we please use Starlink to offer internet access to Russian troops? Redirect them to a page, offering $40k and EU/US passports to desert, offer instructions on safe desertion. Just $6B to buy Putin's army, who don't want to be there anyway. Obviously block Russian state media.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@PabloASXcobar @jbaach @niloz @janole @tav @jdaviescoates @freenetproject @Qualcomm @kennyog @ISGnews The only one in the list who would have had the depth of knowledge of both crypto & programming capability would have been @tav . Tav are you Satoshi?!? You did mention that you think #bitcoin was named after opencoin! Do you have inside knowledge?

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@PabloASXcobar @jbaach @niloz @janole @tav @jdaviescoates @freenetproject @Qualcomm @kennyog @ISGnews There were only a few hundred people in the crypto-currency community back then. So I agree it's likely that Satoshi was close to us. Given the wild speculation about his identity, (including obvious frauds like Craig Wright) it's surprising no-one suggested it before.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@PabloASXcobar @jbaach @niloz @janole @tav @jdaviescoates @freenetproject @Qualcomm @kennyog @ISGnews lol, just saw this. You've just listed all the participants in the https://t.co/8YY7C5oatm page, including our lawyers and designer! So not too much research gone into the list. If I had billions stashed away I doubt I'd need any investors for my startup: https://t.co/8wpLI4tIze

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@divalbanerjee @tjrwriting Well, most CAD files are effectively proprietary binaries. Deep down they are BREPs which can be represented as text, but usually aren't. Much better to think of them as trees or technically DAGs. If anyone is serious about solving CAD file diffing, we're hiring!

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@tmincey Hi Tyler, we are building https://t.co/PzN6a4aXh7 to allow project collaboration, version control, documentation, and manufacturing all from one workspace.

[Tom Salfield @tsalfield]

@tomfleet @divalbanerjee @Tauss_srgl Publishing STL is kind of like publishing software binaries i.e. not source. At https://t.co/PzN6a4aXh7 we have a version control and visualisation of Step files and most major proprietary file formats.

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