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- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 4 days ago:
Indeed, just four impersonal words is a great password. Mix up the capitalization and it’s even better.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 week ago:
I also used to make a distinction for apps where the majority of content was rando internet user created. But all the apps are now just fulltime creators and very rarely does a true rando go viral.
The “going viral” technique got ruined similarly to how seo ruined search. Completely ruined to the point that the little guy never appears.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 week ago:
Yeah when musically/tiktok came along, twitter, insta, snap, and YouTube all copied the model so you’ve got this dual use thing going on there.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 week ago:
I think the words were used not just by different generations, but also different level of users.
As someone who was around and heavily involved in tech during the bbs days, then walled garden services, then internet forums, THEN social networking and media, I agree not with you but with the prior comment.
The dictionary definitions are rewriting history based on a word that hadn’t even been coined yet. They created a definition which retroactively lumped nearly the entire internet under that term. It’s incorrect and unhelpful to do so.
However, given that language changes and us old geeks don’t make the rules, “social media” now indeed includes the entire internet. I can’t argue with the dictionary, but I can explain the reasoning behind my disagreement with the term. I think that’s the same the last person was saying.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So much repetition and fluff. Obviously AI written and told to use hundreds of words instead of making it short and succinct.
You’re not doing the world a favor with this slop.
Let’s not ruin Lemmy yet? Please?
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
I’m genuinely sorry that my words upset you.
Good day sir.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
Sorry you feel that way. While I am very experienced in the field, and as such would be surprised that this snuck by me, I miss things from time to time. That’s why I asked for references.
If experience in a field isn’t an argument for being knowledgeable in the field, you’re likely hard to please.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
You’re not my enemy. You’re batshit crazy, but definitely not my enemy.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
What part of that is related to this? I just read it.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
This is just disguised anti-Trump nonsense under a veil of bits of facts tossed around. This is the equivelant of the right claiming that Joe Biden is wearing a mask. Ppl on the fringe are crazy.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
OOOFFF GOT ME
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
The Wikipedia in on the term debanking and what it means. Not some wild anti-Trump conspiracy to come after you.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for ANY of this dribble?
I was homeless for years, and have worked with homeless addicts for the last 10 years. Never in my life have I heard of these things happening for the reasons you give. Hell even to this day I don’t update a bank with my new address.
Could you provide a reliable source for more information about this actually happening to real people en masse? I have no doubt it’s happened to someone somewhere, but would be surprised if this was a real problem and I wasn’t aware.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
I thought that word might bug someone.
It’s not just a distributed hash table. That’s not a trustless cache. It’s Byzantine fault tolerant. Trustless.
It combines game theory with distributed hash tables and makes them irreversible.
And yes, even satoshi himself was upset he couldn’t get the anonymity perfect. Great strides in other chains to do that, and zk stuff for confidential activity.
Look, it’s not for everyone. It’s not for you obviously. But it’s a breakthrough for sure - tech, science, whatever category you want.
It’s the first time man created a system that can’t be reverted. That’s a big deal.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
I’m not an idiot that’s buying shit that rug pulls. It’s just dd. A lot of ppl like to gamble memecoins and shitcoins.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
Irreversibility is what Bitcoin brought to the table. Prior to it, nothing else has ever had that capability. It’s literally the scientific breakthrough. It’s why it holds value.
If you can’t see that value, that’s one thing. But it is there.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
Scamming is done by humans, not digital currency. Scamming isn’t new.
Crypto is liked by scammers for the same reason it’s so valuable to everyone else, including nation states. It’s irreversible. It’s a mathematically perfect ledger objective of corruption and military might. It’s a source of truth in a very grey world.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
Indeed. But only one can be printed by state actors who over millennia have proven to mismanage and fail.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
The usd has a huge dependence on other nations accepting it, and capital being injected by wealthy nations and people. It’s backed by military might and threats for not using it as a reserve currency to trade oil.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
Both are dependent on banks and whales. Only one is dependent on the trustworthiness of a govt tho.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 3 weeks ago:
Ok I’ll bite. What’s a scam? Currency in general, or currency on a distributed censorship resistant immutable ledger?
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 3 weeks ago:
not tied to oil in any way
Like a company that doesn’t use plastic at all in any way?
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 4 weeks ago:
Wow you typed a LOT to defend not making a GitHub issue. That energy redirected to writing a GitHub issue would be stellar.
- Comment on Desperate search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll rises 5 weeks ago:
They say the same thing when I say this same thing to them. Can’t yall just mind yer own and love one another?
- Comment on Desperate search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll rises 5 weeks ago:
Coincidentally I just sat next to one of these crazies at the diner also.
My point stands tho. To laugh at these deaths because of ignorant ppl isn’t helpful at all. It simply furthers the divide and is completely just as batshit crazy
- Comment on Desperate search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll rises 5 weeks ago:
They’re already trying to claim it wasn’t a real flood, but was caused by cloud seeding to fake climate change, and saying the kids were murdered.
Who’s “they”? Some crazy person’s opinion you read? I hardly feel that’s relevant. Your leap to lump everyone into some red v blue bucket is root cause to most this infighting.
Even if the whole state were ignorant to the science causing this, I fail to see why we’d use it as a rallying cry to make fun of people’s deaths.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 2 months ago:
I wondered the same thing. Seems we’re getting older than the median age on here. Lol
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 2 months ago:
I don’t follow much politics, and I dont follow political history either. I felt that this was a quality post and I appreciated it.
You’d do yourself a favor by not thinking and speaking for all of us.
- Comment on China plans to build nuclear plant on the moon to power base shared with Russia 3 months ago:
Same thing they always try to imply. Just ignore the jerks on this platform and you do you.
- Comment on DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers 3 months ago:
Ah so you meant to write the op was “hey, as a homeless dude, I’m offended ya prick so fuck right off”. Cant argue with that!