deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 3 days 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.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 3 days ago:
Not really. Just a bunch of volunteers trying to get the police all over the world to do their job.
- Comment on YSK Iranian developers have created an open-source censorship bypass solution that works on desktop and mobile. 3 days ago:
What the actual fuck…
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
Ever since I switched to lemmy, I constantly stumble upon people trying to guilt other people for their hobbies. That’s pretty unhealthy.
Whoever reads this, don’t feel guilty living your life. Spend time on whatever you’re passionate about. Build new things, even if they do not have a rational use case at the moment. They might play an important role in your future.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 1 week ago:
The comoanies are completely capable of doing something, but this is not a competition in doing something. Plus, aiming for a PG13 world will have consequences far worse than a text generator doing exactly what it is asked.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
There. We just broke the law.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
They absolutely are. It’s one thing to beg for the right to do something. It’s entirely different to be able to just do it without the permission.
Did people forget how big of a deal the printing press was?
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
Also turn on the electric blanket if we are out and heading towards home after 9pm
Make sure it defaults to OFF after power loss. My colleague had a close call when the smart plug with the infra panel plugged in decided to turn on after the power outage.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
They are a dangerous cult fueled by a ton of repressed feelings. But so is Tate! If they wanted to fight each other for a while that would be pretty sweet.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
It’s not supposed to be a secret. Most companies here publish it on their invoices, so you can pay them. Some nonprofits even display it on their websites to accept donations.
Even the some governments publish the treasury account numbers for anyone to see.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
They list this as one of their main goals, right on their website.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
SEPA payments are push. Not pull. A vendor could request recurring payments, but you have to specifically authorize them. They are very rarely used, except maybe for monthly utilitiy payments.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate’s pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins.
On one hand, they help tighten the grip of economic fascism, on the other hand they also piss off Tate… #confusedboner
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 1 week ago:
When I was complaining about the 10 pieces of paper, each needing a signature and a stamp, just to close one of my bank accounts, the clerk has informed me that some of their procedures has switched to an electronic signature instead. I was pumped! Until he finished the rest of the sentence. By the electronic signature he meant the squigly line, just on a touchscreen.
Some people strive to achieve the pure zen. At that moment I’ve achieved pure cringe instead.
It’s strange though, because that same bank has an excellent API and batch processing available.
- Comment on Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps 2 weeks ago:
Imagine being so brainwashed by the omnipresent DRM and always-online devices, you forget how podcasts work.
- Comment on Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews 2 weeks ago:
dck
- Comment on Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Security Snag 3 weeks ago:
God hates people who abuse a security vulnerability disclosure to write a shitty clickbait article, and there’s an extra special place in hell for those who mention a name that’s cool to hate in the title to bring more clicks.
These are the founding principles of my new religion. We meet at fridays. Bring your own cookies…
- Comment on China’s Next-Gen TV Anchors Hustle for Jobs AI Already Does: The rise of AI in broadcasting is pushing China’s top journalism schools to rethink what skills still set human anchors apart. 3 weeks ago:
The per viewer cost saving must be fractions of a penny.
For a national television, sure. For the hundreds of thousands of small influencers seeing this free advertisement on TV, it would be a major cost saving.
Imagine all the ladies from the tiktok mills not having to make funny faces on camera for hours at a time anymore.
- Comment on China’s Next-Gen TV Anchors Hustle for Jobs AI Already Does: The rise of AI in broadcasting is pushing China’s top journalism schools to rethink what skills still set human anchors apart. 3 weeks ago:
Talk about the uncanny valley… They look like an instagram filter dialed up to 11.
- Comment on AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us. 4 weeks ago:
More taxes being available to the government means better public services.
You forgot the /s
- Comment on AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us. 4 weeks ago:
More sponges to begin with.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
People hear “technology” and imagine Facebook, when in fact technology means not dying after scratching your foot on a dirt road.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 4 weeks ago:
Nope, it’s a CityEL. Originally made in Denmark in 1987. The manufacturer went bankrupt several times. Each time someone else took over up until 2018. The design has never canged much. There has been something like 3 iterations of the top cover and 3 different motors throughout the years. Mine was made in 1995 and utilizes a motor originally intended for a forklift.
When I’m done with it, it will hopefully get a proper registration and will be able to recharge either by connecting directly to the DC output of a solar panel, as well as the standard grid outlet, and a type 2 charging station.
For anyone who’s interested in joining this low power EV cult, check out these videos by @bleeptrack
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, you can see the french doors in the background. The car itself is a little more than 1 meter wide, with rear-view mirrors sticking out even further. I got something like 5cm to spare on either side.
- Comment on Reaction Channels Death: YouTube cracks down on ‘unoriginal’ monetized content with improved detection. 4 weeks ago:
Another seemingly strange trend is some kids uploading screenshots of technical manual PDFs and reading them out loud.
On one hand, kudos for the ingenuity. I love to see young people being entrepreneurial. On the other hand, I’ve read the PDF an hour ago, now I’m looking for hands-on personal experience with the product, to solve a very specific probelm!
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 4 weeks ago:
Can’t speak for the rural people of the US, but when you’re working on a bunch of projects, while the life keeps getting in your way, causing delays, stuff tends to… pile up. For example, I have a car in my living room at this very moment.
Did it seem like a good idea at the time? Sure. 24x7 access regardless of the current weather means more time to work on it.
Did I work on it? Nope.
Was there a wasp nest embedded inside, releasing a steady flow of young wasps inside the house? Absolutely!
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes the victims even pay the attackers money upfront and install the wiretap themselves. looking at my IPTV box suspiciously, while the robotic vacuum hums in the background
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 5 weeks ago:
The best thieves steal from the poor.
- Comment on Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features 5 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for the first pair of twins to sue each other.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 5 weeks ago:
I can see the headlines… “Tesla. De-funding the police!”
