miridius

@miridius@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  donating online

  Yeah i suppose any form of payment that you have to keep secret for some reason is a reason to use crypto, though I struggle to imagine needing that if you’re not doing something dodgy

  avoiding scams for p2p transactions

  Wat. Crypto is not good at solving that, it’s in fact much much worse than traditional payment methods. There’s a reason scammers always want to be paid in crypto

  boycotting the banking system

  What specifically are you boycotting? The money that backs your crypto (i.e. that you bought it with) still sits in a bank account somewhere and continues to support the banks. All you’re boycotting then are payments, but those are usually free for consumers (many banks lose money on them) so you’re not exactly “sticking it to the man” by not using them. Evem if you were somehow hurting banks by using crypto, if you think the people that benefit from you using crypto (crypto exchange owners and billionaires that own crypto etc.) are less evil than goverment regulated banks, you’re deluded.

  What about avoiding international payment fees?

  You’ll spend more money using crypto for that, not less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, doing illegal things secretly is a valid use case for crypto. So far, it’s also the only one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have zero sympathy for people who don’t use an ad blocker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fuel cell could enable electric aviation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the fact that they just gloss over the fact that all the sodium will FUCKING EXPLODE if you even get so much as a crack in one of your fuel containers or the battery or any kind of leak in the connections etc. Definitely not keen to be on an airplane with that on board!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decentralised currencies are fundamentally too expensive to operate, while providing dangerously little safety and a far worse user experience than fiat.

  The scam part is the idea that any crypto coin is an asset with inherent value, when in fact the price is created entirely by new investment, in other words it’s just a ponzi scheme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for clarifying. In my case that’s basically zero gain then cos all my devices have ad block in their browsers and I generally either use apps that have no ads or use revanced to remove them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Non stick doesn’t have to be Teflon. Fuck Teflon!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably depends on the specific field of study. My experience comes from software engineering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a good non stick pan you can fry an egg without any oil at all, so no, adding a bunch of oil is not a replacement for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the key take away is that college is over rated, as you can easily find and create your own course materials on par with (or often better than) what the professors create

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy crap… slashdot still exists??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing in this article describes it solving any problem that isn’t better solved by an ad blocker. In fact they even admit that you still need an ad blocker anyway. So why bother with the pi hole?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is one of those rare occasions where the foss app actually looks better and is more polished than the commercial one! The new beta plex mobile looks much better but you can no longer hide the live TV and on demand stuff, the entshittification is real. And the jellyfin video player still shits on the new plex one.

  There are still a number of areas where jellyfin lags far behind plex though like offline playback/downloads, ability to skip intros/credits on mobile. And plex overall is slightly better at transcoding, downmixing etc and requires a lot less manual setup in general.

  Personally overall I rate them roughly equal when you balance out the pros and cons of each, assuming you already have a plex pass. But there’s absolutely no justification to pay for plex when jellyfin is just as good for free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By leaving you are voting with your feet, one could argue it’s one of the most effective ways to fight. Staying means that in many ways you will be continuing to support the broken system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saved you a click: power = rate of energy use (energy/time)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use Chrome, just pointing out facts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, all the other ad blockers besides uBO support mv3, and for uBO there’s uBOL which seems just as good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lemmy hivemind Firefox bias is a little bit insane lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a silly comment. Chrome has plenty of good ad blockers still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple has a conflict of interest too: they need to keep safari gimped so that users have to install apps instead of using PWAs, so that Apple can keep getting 30% of the app sales.

  As a result, Safari is terrible and very far behind in standards. It’s the new internet explorer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they understand the meaning of the word pledge lol. Image