- Mobile banking by photographing checks
- Check out a bike with a companion app and a QR code
- Video conferencing using the built in camera and microphones
- Morning alarm that also reads the headlines.
Sounds like a petty bourgeoisie pleasures, ie nothing really important for life
and as for combining things in one device, I agree, it happened, but all this works worse than dedicated devices. If you really need gps for real stuff you would better use professional device, if you need camera not just for fun, you would prefer to use normal camera etc…
Having better ux than windows mobile doesn’t mean that it makes history. It is just a bit better version of a cell phone. The main goal of this device was to ease content (mostly paid garbage or hidden ads) consumption.
If you exclude everything that is not needed to you specifically, you will find that there is just gps + maps, cell-phone, mp3 player and camera. And all of these features working worse than the same via dedicated devices.
Is it a revolution we deserve to combine good features and make them work worse?
even with addons disabled when firefox is ready to update it freezes browser at least or like slowing it down. Anyway librewolf or seamonkey is so much better without bullshitting with useless accounts and hidden ads on the main page selling you amazon or other sites.
looks like firefox is playing a “no other viable alternative” game and exploiting this for many users.
it sounds like it is approximately equivalent to the old paradigm where you give a merchant your credit card number and trust that they will only deduct from your account the correct amount of money for what you’re buying. I mean, with all this fancy “smart contract” tech, are people really building NFTs on top of contracts with less security than chip-and-pin?
yeah almost like that. it is not erc721 specific, the same process is with erc20, the approval simply required when you call a smart contract that doing something with tokens on your address on your behalf.
idk the exact case, but asking for approval is pretty common request from smart contracts needed in order to transfer or sell nfts for ex and people can behave as usual trusting such request. Or maybe people may thought they are getting approval for erc-20 tokens in order to mint a new nft and not for nfts themselves.
if the contract requires people to risk losing their current assets to be able to receive new ones… >that doesn’t sound like a very smart contract at all!
there is no problem in BAYC contract at all, it is common erc721 with extensions. Attackers just created a smart contract with a functionality to drains peoples BAYC NFTs and it seems to work pretty well.
for ex someone pretending to be a mod can publish a link / announcement with some “special” proposal for BAYC token owners, like minting a super rare companion to your BAYC token etc, doing so let’s say user have to approve (“setApprovalForAll()” function for erc721) their tokens and voila, now it is possible for smart contract to transfer your tokens from your wallet.
so, ceo doesn’t mean that you decide what to do, right? _