deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 12 hours 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 5 days ago:
Let me help.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks ago:
This would be cool 20 years ago. Now it’s just a stunt.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks 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' 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
What the actual fuck…
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
