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- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 1 week ago:
Are these so-called experts supposed to have me believe that gambling apps designed to get people addicted to their gambling app might be a gateway to gambling addiction?
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 2 weeks ago:
20+ years behind
- Comment on BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s realistic, but what they mean is that the community can in theory get together and decide to fork the code, collectively deciding that BlackRock’s Bitcoin addresses are no longer part of their Bitcoin network. The BlackRock Bitcoin would be incompatible with the forked code.
The result of a fork like that is two coins: BlackRock Bitcoin and Everyone Else Bitcoin. Each holder of the original Bitcoin gets an equal amount of both. It’s a popularity contest between the two resulting Bitcoins to determine the price of each.
In 2017, Bitcoin was struggling to scale. It had absurd transaction fees due to demand (just like Ethereum a few years later), and the community couldn’t come to a consensus on how to upgrade it. 10% of the community forked the code to upgrade it by increasing block size, while everyone else opted for an L2 scaling solution. The result for holders was that they ended up with both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in their wallets. Weirdly, the combined market value ended up being higher than value of the Bitcoin before the fork. I sold my Bitcoin Cash immediately and pocketed the money, expecting the price to go to zero. It did not.
- Comment on Australians may soon be able to download iPhone apps from outside the Apple Store under federal proposal. Apple opposes the plan. 2 weeks ago:
I eagerly await an F-Droid-like open source app store for Apple. Fapple.
- Comment on Revolutionary cooling technology emerges from Slovenia 5 weeks ago:
I searched for “nitinol cooling system” and found articles dating back to 2016 about the same technology at a German university –
newatlas.com/shape-memory-refrigerant-free/41652
Cool tech, but this recent article lacks substance compared to the older ones. Also interesting that the German team claimed 2x better efficiency than a typical heat pump.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
I don’t see this talked about much anymore, but the day Plex added telemetry in 2017 was the day I became five-alarm desperate for an alternative. Had to wait a 2-3 years with Plex’s telemetry IP’s and domains blacklisted before Jellyfin was mature enough for me to make the change.
How Plex users can be comfortable with any telemetry is beyond me.
- Comment on Support dips for U.S. government and tech companies restricting false or violent online content. 2 months ago:
Example?
- Comment on Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware. 2 months ago:
Isn’t every app that’s not open source assumed to be spyware nowadays?
Wake me up when this sort of thing is actually illegal. Preferably punishable with jail time.
- Comment on Amazon is testing a Buy for Me button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app. 2 months ago:
Actually, this is a great idea in principle, because the inverse is possible.
We could use Amazon’s resources for search, then use an AI agent in a browser plug-in to replace the buy button and buy the product from somewhere else.
- Comment on Commentary by german Climate Impact Research Institute: Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climate 3 months ago:
In the decades that people have been screaming about nuclear plants “taking too long to build” stalling progress, we could have built many nuclear plants and significantly reduced emissions.
We’ve kicked the can down the road for far too long. We are well past the point of preventing the devastating impacts of climate change we were warned about 20+ years ago.
If this institute is so convinced wind and solar are the answer, I hope they also have vast amounts of lithium pre-mined or a novel approach to energy storage that isn’t so damaging.
- Comment on Upvote RSS - Generate RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker News 4 months ago:
Reddit natively supports RSS feeds as well. The major feature here is comment support IMO.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 4 months ago:
Is there any way to fling YouTube videos to SmartTube from a smartphone?
That’s the one thing locking me into Kodi.
- Comment on YouTube is a hit on TVs — and is starting to act like it 6 months ago:
This is a hit on my TV, because it includes ad and sponsor blocking
- Comment on WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book. 8 months ago:
Or reinforce your walled garden and strengthen user lock-in?
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 8 months ago:
This is sad. Google Play should never hold this weight the self hosted community. For Android users dedicated to open source software, F-Droid is the target.
I don’t think SyncThing users would have much issue with the app disappearing from Google. Doing away with Google is the goal.
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 8 months ago:
Hal Finney, no?
The software engineer, cryptography expert, and cyberpunk who received the first ever Bitcoin transaction and had a neighbor named “Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto”?
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 8 months ago:
Surely the original “someone” is Meta. Good to have a redundant system I guess /s