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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨youtube getting more agressive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used ublock to block the popup by using the pick function, but I have not run into this 3 flags your out popup yet, so depends on how they disable the video I guess. I’ll try to report back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This was actually the original idea of non-fungible tokens, but because you need special legislation to tie an object to this digital receipt (there is nothing legally tying one thing to the other), they just skipped over it completely and said the NFT itself was the commodity, which is why they could only do it for digital art with the a web link.

  In fact, many NFTs don’t even contain any language about copyright or licensing, they don’t even attempt to pretend that the NFT holder owns the copyright. The owner of the NFT in these cases only owns the NFT, and not the copyright. Of course, you have to transfer the copyright separately from transferring the NFT, which makes this whole thing redundant, but they could have at least tried to pretend they could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, smart contracts are not contracts at all… they are friendly suggestions. Unsurprisingly a contract needs a mechanism to enforce it, which makes decentralized contracts redundant at best (as you still need institutions outside of the blockchain to monitor and enforce the contracts), and or worse, completely useless if there is no legal way to enforce them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it is exactly what people engaging in fraud rely on. The more money that is on the line, the less likely the heuristic works. Reddit had an obsession with popular heuristics. The whole point of one is to quickly make an assessment when you don’t have either the time or resources. It is not a proof, never has been. The other one people always bring up is Occam’s razor. All razors are heuristics, heuristics are never proof.

  Although in this case the claim is that Elon is intentionally tanking twitter, which is also a ridiculous claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens if you lose all citizenship?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It was someone suffering from a mental illness or personality disorder. They went out of their way to be stuck at the airport. Refused help from family, refused help from a reporter who actually went through the trouble of proving his citizenship. He wanted to be at that airport and live that life.