March 9, 2022, by Timur Timak

It is still cold here in SPb, RF. Down to -20C some nights. Getting brighter day by day.


Idena Chronicles always show how Idena fares against other blockchains.

I want to see a comparison to other identity systems. If the number of identities is a good metric, then Proof-of-humanity has 15 K, Bright ID has 12 K.

Idena - 14.5 K.

Then it would be interesting to compare how much Google and Meta are spending on their bot removal and moderation efforts. I didn’t dig too deep, just a couple of articles, one says at least $500m a year for Meta, the other from 2018 says it’s 10K people for Youtube and it should be no more than 4 hours per day job. Glassdoor says that Accenture content moderators earn some $19 an hour.

Idena - $44.5 K for the last validation, for, let’s say, with flip creation, one hour of 14.5 K people's time. $3 per hour.
Apples to oranges, yeah, but at least some reference point.


I decided to read on quadratic voting and funding. Skimmed through the Buterin’s article . Too many words, went to Youtube. I like the way Ashley Hodgson sheds light on things - voting and funding.

I remember one interview on Charbax channel with an Azerbaijani who worked on advertisement billboards on top of Uber/Lyft cars with cameras that register impressions. Wonder who’s gonna be the first to use cameras on consumer devices the same way.


Some time ago when I studied Arabic, I couldn’t find a decent source of videos where people speak Arabic with subs in the same language. None on the topics that interest me at least. Found one nice Instagram channel with songs.
Same story with languages of India. Persian, Swahili…
To listen to native speakers I often resort to wandering on the Snap Map. Easier to narrow the search by region than on Youtube or Insta. Extremely rarely I find a creator, subscribe to them and watch their stuff in the Spotlight. For example, there is an Omani “lifestyle influencer” who likes food. Me like food too, so we have this in common.

For my limping Chinese I watch Douyin, the putonghua isn’t that putong there so the captioning is prevalent. I like videos of this guy he shows and describes wild plants and animals.


I tried Geforce Now for one month this winter. Works like a charm, for 5 USD a month it's a gift. Got some games on new year’s sale on Epic and Steam, played Control👻😶‍🌫️, Supraland🥴, and Death Stranding❤️ the most, games the Buddha wouldn't play.
One of the reasons - I wanted to see how they do raytracing in big titles after I saw browser games by Erich Lof.
The other - I test the waters before VR cloud gaming gains ground.

VR is notoriously low on consumable media. Hungered, I was lurking for solutions. Could it be the 6 degrees of freedom videos by LifecastVR?
Or someone commercially inclined will make MatryODShka work?
For now I just watch flat and 3d movies from rutracker.org in VR. Youtube washes ashore occasional gems.


A couple of videos Károly Zsolnai-Fehér would recommend, on virtual bodies and garments.
No meaningful gaze simulation as of yet.


There was a talk to marry Idena and Pornhub. Maybe I go there too rarely, but where are new ideas on PH, where is innovation? I slide to camgirl podcasts and Minecraft letsplays there. Reckon one Colombian girl went paragliding as a passenger, inserted a vibe and gave remote controls to the pilot. That was fresh.
Speaking of inventive. I don't like the restraints, but the wordplay!


I am surrounded by regular LCD screens and want to try some other display tech. Eyeing TCL NXT PAPER 10S, Playdate and E-ink phones.

Monochrome varieties of these are more reflective. Why not making colored monochrome, like old green/black CRTs? An eye craves for color in bright environments.

Looking Glass Portrait is also cool, needs more autonomy.