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I've never owned an MPC before because of cost and it seemed too complicated. I will purchase the MPC Sample though; all the goodness for $400. What a steal.

Oh, and the product page with tutorials! https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-sample/

#84

Music / Breakcore playlists I found on...

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#85

Dap / The case for a new protocol (d...

Last post by netopwibby - Mar 25, 2026, 11:51 PM

For an alt-root, barrier to entry is an uphill battle. By default, no one can reach the domains on your system and asking people to download some weird app that will let them access said domains is a LOT. As untrusting as people are of existing tech companies, unknown systems/companies are a major red flag for most, especially the technically-inclined. This is why alt-root systems try to work within existing ecosystems/protocols as much as possible; get potential buy-in from curious onlookers with less convincing.

Explicitly adding a new namespace is a death knell, right? Well, depends on your perspective.

On 2026.03.16, L'Oreal won a cyber-squatting case involving more than seven HUNDRED domains using their name to scam people...this is on the default web, the DNS root. You see this in other naming systems like Ethereum and Handshake too, first-movers/crypto enthusiasts who think they'll get a payday by registering domains of corporations. The reason why these particular domains haven't garnered a single sale is because there's nothing being built on those platforms. No reason to go there, no reason to invest.

With Dap, I intend to build an ecosystem of products, a refuge for folks who are sick of the existing web and the endless fear-mongering, doomscrolling, invasive privacy/tracking, &c. I foresee a future where Dap becomes a compelling internet that people choose to build and collaborate and enjoy leisure on...so when I saw that L'Oreal case, I realized I had to do more than present a Neue Internet using existing protocols. Unlike most blockchain-based alt-roots, Dap doesn't respect ICANN; no kings have reserved seating here. As such, opportunists could register .com and quickly setup shop with Fortune 100 domains and wait, giving Dap the reputation of "the squat chain."

With dap://, that possibility still exists but the financial incentive to do so dissipates. Any tech noob will see that and know immediately not to click on it because it's "scary" (different). Tech novices and advanced will understand this is something else and may investigate further.

The internet we currently have was the default and for a time, it was decent. Banner ads were all over the place and Flash widgets made sites slow but we could manage. As technology has gotten better, the internet has gotten worse and even the tech literate are giving up. This isn't the internet I wanted. Evolution happens, sure, but this shit is disgusting. The idea of "changing things from the inside" is cute in theory but will not work here. The corporations making the internet a terrible place to be fund lobbying groups to entrench themselves further through law. David vs Goliath isn't an apt analogy here, it's more like Mega Man vs a consortium of Dr Wilys and each Dr Wily has several boss underlings and those underlings have spike traps and lasers and okay this is basically Mega Man Legacy Collection. So like, not insurmountable but MAN, what a slog!

Dap is opt-in, intentionally.

This self-imposed friction is to remove an easy phishing vector and to signal that Dap is worth checking out, if only to understand WTF it is.

#86

General Discussion / Feature Requests

Last post by netopwibby - Mar 25, 2026, 11:44 PM

These are more notes to self:

- custom BBCode for Nickel videos
- file/image uploads should just work
- crisp icons for the post editor (probably just use the central icon set from iconists)
- better HTML structure (requires copying files from the default theme into this one and modifying from there)
- autoplay MMBN internet music on load that persists through navigation ala Soundcloud (not sure if this is possible)
- jack-in animation when logging in (how? idk, sounds cool)
- actually, footer text and submit buttons could probably be MMBN fonts
- dark mode (requires custom theme to be 100% first)
- make it so that uploaded avatars aren't limited to 65x65, they could be 650x650 FFS!
- remove jQuery dependency, I could rewrite all the JS in ES6

#87

Gaming / Mega Man Star Force Legacy Col...

Last post by netopwibby - Mar 25, 2026, 10:36 PM

I forgot this was coming out this week! I noticed I didn't flip through this month's Nintendo Force magazine and boom, March 27th.

#88

Nickel / Intro to Nickel

Last post by netopwibby - Mar 25, 2026, 10:19 PM

Nickel is a short-form video platform where videos are 5-minutes or less.

— Homepage: https://nickel.video
— Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/nickel/archive

Why work on this? A few reasons:

1) I wanted a place to upload my Fortnite clips. YouTube felt gross to use, if only because they're owned by Google. I'm not giving them even more info on me by choice.

2) Of all the work I've done involving the web, I've never worked with video. I was curious about it so why not see for myself how it's done?

3) I envision Nickel as being the place where creators connect with their core community and where that community (and new fans) can directly support these people financially. Every platform is incentivized to separate creators from their supporters in the service of ads. Nickel is in service of people who enjoy creating and supporting creators.

Nickel is subscription-based and is ~75% done. Currently it's just myself, my son, and one of my friends on the platform. I'm currently working on a payments product that I can dogfood with Nickel so I can have an alternative to Stripe.

You can view my profile to get a feel for the platform so far: https://nickel.video/@netopwibby

#89

General Discussion / Re: Whoah

Last post by netopwibby - Mar 25, 2026, 10:04 PM

I changed some boards around, still getting the hang of this thing. I thought I removed all the "Verdana" fonts in the CSS but it's still prevalent in the post creator...I think I like it though? Idk.

Testing an emoticon:

#90

systemSOFT / Intro to systemSOFT

Last post by netopwibby - Mar 25, 2026, 05:52 PM

systemSOFT is the current iteration of my computing ideas dating back to checks deviantART sometime before 2013. That year was the first time I actually put thoughts to code and shared the web browser I was building at the time, based on node-webkit (pre-Electron).

— Homepage: https://systemsoft.works

Why work on this?

The incumbents aren't going to so I might as well take a crack at it. I believe the "desktop" metaphor has run its course and Big Tech is focused on increasing shareholder value by monetizing PII. No innovation, only profits.

Anyhoo, the homepage and the mailing list has a LOT more writing within so check them out.

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