cadekat

@cadekat@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EggCoin is now officially notarized at a United States bank!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is one “inherent use” (if I’m understanding that term correctly) of bitcoin, and that’s to pay for space in blocks. Again, that only gives bitcoin value if people want to use bitcoin, so take that as you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EggCoin is now officially notarized at a United States bank!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So… That isn’t exactly true. You’re correct that there’s a limit to the total and circulating number of coins, but if the world suddenly decides 1 BTC = US$0, it doesn’t matter if there are less coins tomorrow than today. Both days, each coin is still worth zero.

  All that to say, there’s no guarantee that a bitcoin’s value will increase over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A penny saved is still a penny saved. I’m not saying it would amount to much, but it is non-zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how much traffic you’re talking about. Encrypting/decrypting isn’t free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not claiming that it was “intuitive”, just that the browser did tell the user exactly what the add-on was allowed to do. Sure, Chrome and Firefox deserve some blame for not making the warning more explicit/dire, but they did make an attempt. Overwriting cookies and rewriting affiliate links are subsets of “access your data”.

  Also, I’m not claiming that I knew exactly what Honey was doing, just that I suspected it was shady and recommended no one use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t “uncovered” though. This is their business model. I’ve told every person I know using Honey for years that it’s a shady extension and they should stop using it. Unfortunately I don’t have a huge following to offset Honey’s massive ad spend.

  I’m not calling anyone stupid, but stop treating this like it’s new information. Your browser warned you this might happen when you installed the extension:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh fuck no⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn’t a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 2024. It’s rude not to jam your tongue in there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And dick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you couldn’t release your own projects based on this under pure MIT or Apache-2.0. Presumably you’d need to include the same restriction about selling on Atlassian’s marketplace.