deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on Microbes trapped in permafrost awake after thousands of years 1 day ago:
Speaking from the evolutionary perspective, we’ve dealt with influenza successfully. I’m still glad I wasn’t there to watch us win, though.
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 2 days ago:
If they are training on historical dubs, just be thankful you’re not Polish.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 5 days ago:
I once put my homelab rack outside of my apartment, in the hall. Then used it to catch a bastard who kept stealing my bike light, and later tried to snatch the whole bike.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 1 week ago:
I love these weird micro-cult stories, thank you for posting this!
What made it extra weird for me was the fact that I grew up among people obsessed with tolkien and larping, ocasionally being labeled as a cult by the general public, except they actually pulled off the fantasy/scifi convention part. And they are still going strong for more than a decade. It was a humbling experience for me as a young adult to see my peers exhibit such dedication, discipline and organization skills just for the sake of building something together.
Seeing how the same drive can backfire under different conditions was quite a ride!
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 1 week ago:
Admins: ArtemZ
Forgot to switch from personal to work account? :D
- Comment on bruh, i just realised that the last time i played Garrys Mod,Obama was still president lmao 3 weeks ago:
The last time I watched the “Don’t date a robot” episode of Futurama, it was a fiction.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 3 weeks ago:
The more shocking is that one guy who KNOWS it’s sqlite, but ain’t afraid to admit it!
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 4 weeks ago:
Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk
Nobody has ever explained why. What is the difference between executing a script directly from curl, and adding a repository which downloads a package which contains a script.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 5 weeks ago:
I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 month ago:
Let me help.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 month ago:
This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 1 month ago:
What I really don’t get is people delivering with someone else (also an adult) in the vehicle
If you could spend the boring part of your job chatting with friends, would you decline?
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 month ago:
A favor is just a form of debt, and debt is money. It does not matter whether it’s written down on paper, or just remembered.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
Wait. Bitpay is still around? That was the company Valve has used before. It was the de-facto standard for every eshop accepting bitcoin. Until they decided to implement identity checks, and only support payment from wallets implementing certain protobuf-based payment protocol. Which made them slide into obscurity pretty fast.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
It was the support cost as far as I remember. Way too many people were too confused about how Bitcoin works.
Volatility was not the concern, at least for Valve. They’ve utilized a payment gateway that just swapped the BTC to USD right away. Which was still a single point of failure, but in case of bitcoin, the company switching a payment gateway does not affect the UX for the customer as much.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
Next up: Un-inventing fire!
- Comment on Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. 1 month ago:
It is a buerocratic nightmare, but filthy bolsheviks has zero rights to criticize it.
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 1 month ago:
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Capitalism, is in fact, Fascism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Government with Benefits.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
People don’t browse the PSN store, because it’s crap. I mean, the steam store is pretty bad, but I still manage to just browse and bookmark some games there to get back to later.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 1 month ago:
When I hear people talking about books, they often speak of them as if it was a comodity. Do some people just read a random book every once in a while?
What am I missing?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 month ago:
Yes. The most clever gangs even incorporate and offer legit security services for the government.
Although, it took them a while to realize that this is the best exit strategy, so the '90s were a bit crazy in the eastern europe.
- Comment on Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info 1 month ago:
Do we want mandatory ID checks? Because this right here is the way to get them.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal 1 month ago:
There was no $70 alternative back then. There is now. Hell, my first smart watch was 30€.
https://en.nothing.tech/products/cmf-watch-pro-2?Colour=Dark+Grey
- Comment on Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 1 month ago:
It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people…
But this is not new. People have been drinking bleach and giving themselves cyanide poisoning long before the spread of LLM chatbots. Some dare to call it “doing their own research”
- Comment on Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 1 month ago:
A man uses the internet to poison himself. The story as old as time But if we stick the AI in the title, we can get some sweet clicks out if it.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 1 month ago:
Having a union-wide regulatory framework for soda bottle caps, or mandatory categorization of cucumbers seems a lot less like a government overreach in comparison. Thanks, I guess… 🥲
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 1 month ago:
This would be cool 20 years ago. Now it’s just a stunt.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
ID checks on the streets and everywhere you go in the city, except much of the city got virtualized
Except on the internet, you can still create your own street with your own rules.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 months ago:
I used to buy a lot of pizza and burgers with bitcoin when I did night shifts. Still use it to buy electronics at least once a month.
It’s also the best way to donate to nonprofit projects. I can just send ~ $10 of value, one time. No need to risk accidentally signing up for a monthly subscription or being bombarded by spam.
If you don’t keep 100% of your monthly budget in BTC, you don’t really care about the volatility either, because long term it always goes up.
