ZodiacSF1969

@ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Personality-driven' influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a nice pipedream, but why would airlines move to this system? They seem perfectly happy with the current system where you have to pay to change anything.

  And the game thing doesn’t make sense. If the game shuts down, where are you going to use your NFT? There’s a few crappy crypto games that have tried making it so items are transferable, but for larger games it sounds like a nightmare to implement.

  NFTs are like crypto, a solution in search of a problem. I’ll be honest, I’m anti-crypto and NFTs, but if a valid usecase presented itself I’d be happy to be wrong. I just haven’t seen it yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study suggests single dose of psilocybin safe and effective as treatment for major depressive disorder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you expecting it to last forever? It’s common for relapse to occur with mental illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to block hexbear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao do you actually believe this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you a mod?

  I suspect they are coordinating to boost their comments in other communities/instances. Their fringe political views are always highly upvoted, I just find it suspicious. Many places have rules against brigading, so where I suspect it I will report it.

  Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right. But I still think it’s good to communicate to the mods/admins that a lot of users do not like hexbear because they are disruptive in every community they visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People say negative things about that? That’s crazy, people are judgmental about stupid shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so you understand how everyone else feels about you then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As if you come and participate in good faith anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you kidding? They unironically are fans of Stalin and other left wing ideologues. I have never seen a hexbear user who was anything but left wing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Report every hexbear comment and let the mods know how you feel. Should send the message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol I would bet the majority of that crap is from just normal people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The article isn’t aolbout what you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you’d just need to show that you actively moderate/apply content policies.

  This will vary by jurusduction, but most of the West has laws similar to this I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy instances are likely already protected in many countries legally so long as they act in good faith, ie actively moderate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Image uploads are now disabled on lemm.ee due to malicious users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they have oversimplified the situation to the point that it is wrong.

  1. Arguably, Lemmy instance providers are protected in the same way Facebook or other content hosts are. So long as you are acting in good faith you are protected against any illegal content your users upload. This does mean you need to remove illegal content as you become aware of it, you can’t just ignore what your users are doing.

  2. There have been cases where although a user technically ‘possessed’ CSAM, it was shown that they did so unknowingly via thumbnails or it being cached. The police do investigate where it came from. It’s not as simple as just sending it to someone and you can have them convicted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can never really trust someone to turn off the remote desktop connection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that show, and Naked Gun. So funny 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a really shitty way to express your disagreement.

  And the fragmentation is definitely an issue worth discussing. It’s a lot more prominent here, in my opinion, than reddit, and that could discourage potential users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon: do as I says, but I don't have too....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you not read lol, it says the user viewing the profiles is blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screen time linked with developmental delays, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of studies in this area will suffer from the same issue. You can’t exactly take two groups of toddlers and start mandating they watch 4 hours a day. So you’ll have to depend on self-reports.

  I don’t know about other problems with this particular study, but it’s not a surprising result really. Children need interaction with their caregivers to develop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved it as a kid, I used to run around the playground with my friends pretending to slide through different dimensions 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cryptocurrency is not about making money. It’s a distributed ledger. Technology like that could maybe be a scam if it didn’t do what its creators claim it does. But it’s been around for a long time and we know exactly how it works.

  I would venture that the majority of people see it as an investment of one sort or another. I think the insane market cap, and the devestating effect the recent crash had on its reputation and use, are evidence of that.

  It has problems, but like every technology it keeps improving. I choose to use it despite its flaws and will probably use it even more in the future.

  Most cryptos have fundamental problems that I don’t see being fixed, eg it’s deflationary properties, BTC’s wasteful PoW, ETH skirting/crossing the boundary of being a security, etc.

  It gives me privacy and anonymity when paying online. No other online payment technology does. It also doesn’t require trust, since it’s decentralized. I’m not aware of any other technology that solves those problems.

  This is like the one thing they are good for, and Monero is the best at it. This is an arguable point though, others may say that this is a negative due to the implications and governments have cracked down on privacy enhancing tools like Tornado Cash for this reason. I personally value privacy to an extent, but do not see the need in my life to use Monero. I certainly wouldn’t fault you for using it, though.

  That’s possible, but over time it is accepted by more and more stores. So it keeps growing. But even if it didn’t, you can use crypto to buy gift cards for any store. It doesn’t have to be popular.

  I think adoption has stagnated. And look at El Salvador, they basically had to force crypto on the populace and they use their own proprietary wallet, nullifying privacy benefits. And again, it is treated as an investment by the government there who are buying BTC to speculate.

  When someone wants to invest in crypto, I can see how that could be a problem. I just use it to pay for things online.

  Yeh this is dependant on your country. Here in Australia every crypto transaction is a capital gains event 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit that’s crazy lmao

  Thank you for taking the effort to show that, can’t believe they’ve stuck that on there ha ha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google search is over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like everyone is getting different results, some get what the post claims while others are getting the actual answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to re-watch Sliders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people are using the word scam not in it’s strictest sense - that is to say, I don’t think Satoshi personally invented BTC to defraud everyone who bought it so in that sense, no, it is not a scam technically. A better way to describe it would be via the greater fool theory: the only way to make money is to find someone even more foolish than yourself to buy it.

  Crypto as it is currently implemented is inefficient, riddled with problems, and is deflationary which you can argue about but most economists would say deflationary currencies are bad as they lead to shrinking economies and do not encourage investment.

  There also aren’t that many problems that it ‘solves’ that aren’t already solvable by existing tech. And even in the case of things it’s useful for, if it were to be widely adopted the ‘benefits’ would be overshadowed by the massive new problems that would be created.

  I think crypto will always have a niche, especially for black markers. I don’t think anything similar to currently existing crypto currencies will ever be adopted for widespread use as legal tender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao they call it AI powered for real?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really since RiF stopped working… That’s not surprising to hear though lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 Not in my backyard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s either from the fires or the time that dust storm blanketed the east coast. That was crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fugitive‘s 30th anniversary: ‘I Didn’t Kill My Wife!’ — An Oral History of ‘The Fugitive’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite trivia for The Fugitive us how much they sent on a ‘realistic’ dummy for the scene where he falls from the dam… Money very well spent 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  quality users

  [citation needed].