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- Submitted 1 hour ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on NSFW on Lemmy 2 hours ago:
I’ve been working remote ever since COVID. Also, if we’re going this far, I think this whole culture of absent personal space at work isn’t something to defend. If anything, it’s kind of nice to punish this system by having something shocking or insulting on your screen. But we all need money and people don’t want to get fired so I can understand that. We’re all going to get fired and replaced by AI anyway though.
- Comment on NSFW on Lemmy 4 hours ago:
I personally don’t consider this NSFW.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 13 hours ago:
Most people don’t care whether AI is intelligent, can it think or reason or understand concepts. What matters is that it can give helpful replies, and it does that a lot. In my experience maybe 1 reply out of 10 is seriously flawed, others are either mostly helpful or just tell me something I already knew until I reprompt for more, which, again, also works well most of the time (especially when you allow it to search for more information online). So if you wanted to say it’s dangerous in some ways, this is definitely not the proper way to say it, since neither it being dangerous nor it being right or wrong or helpful or useless has anything to do with intelligence, ability to think, reason, feel, comprehend or whatever.
- Comment on Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube account 23 hours ago:
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peertube.wtf: https://peertube.wtf/c/fedicon_videos@spectra.video/videos - Comment on What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital) 1 day ago:
I prefer Steam because I like having achievements, gallery of screenshots (I take hundreds/thousands of them for games I enjoy), backlog with notifications when items go on sale, all the forum/groups/review stuff, etc. If I were to pick purely politically, I would definitely choose GOG though. I wouldn’t ever consider Key Cards as that’s just the worst of both worlds (physical vs digital). Physical rarely makes sense, but I’d consider it for some super unique releases, for example a box release with usb of Morrowind + OpenMW + bunch of modpacks preinstalled including stuff like Tamriel Rebuilt etc + some nice physical stuff in the box like artworks or huge worldmap to put on your wall. But I can’t imagine a release like this being even remotely close to legally possible (because it’s a huge salad of licensed properietary paid content and opensource/cc free content under a variety of licenses).
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 4 days ago:
I think 4 of those games (including Postal) look very decent/promising, others either not my style or looking too generic/slop.
- Comment on Major payment firm behind Itch adult game cull say they themselves face "restrictions" from another banking firm 4 days ago:
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 5 days ago:
No I mean, it’s easy to have interests, but hard to find people with similar interests, and 100x more hard in hookup context. But if you mean getting new hobbies based on what is available in some local circles just for the sake of socializing there, that could work I guess, but it does feel off somehow. I mean, you’re probably not genuinely interested in that and you have enough of your own interests and only pretending just for the sake of socializing/hookups.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 5 days ago:
Easier said than done.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 5 days ago:
Crypto currency isn’t backed by a nation’s GDP
Stablecoins? USDT is the most traded crypto globally since 2019.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 5 days ago:
I personally think what they do for general audience is way too niche and it all starts to make sense when you massively decentralize and switch to crypto for everything regarding money. Now do we see a massive surge in big P2P decentralized systems for end-users? I don’t see it. There are few alternatives for some chat apps here and there and that’s it. So maybe it’s just too early. Prime time of this tech is yet to come. If someone builds a huge P2P cryptopowered platform level of Steam or YouTube that’s when you should expect to hear about all this stuff solving real problems.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 5 days ago:
I think the point this article is trying to make is that while individualistic consumer-level ways to sidestep enshittification do work for those who follow them, they don’t fight the bad actors back efficiently and to achieve that it needs to be done collectively.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 6 days ago:
Sad news. This is the only PSX emu I’ve ever used because I always considered it the best.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
It’s not so easy to ban VPNs. They need to setup DPI everywhere. And then people will start using DPI circumvention software.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Yeah, even though I hate the whole thing, I can’t deny it brings me joy to hear about “VPN use surge”, centralized sites dying in favor of shady clones, etc. I’d take total wild west any day over somewhat-free-but-very-polite-mild-and-centralized status quo of yesterday’s internet. The only problem is that there’s no guarantee people actually go that wild. They already did with VPNs, but regarding big site alternatives - I’m not so sure.
- Comment on 18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs 1 week ago:
💡 Lifehack: Unclog Your Sink with… Your Own Urine? Science Says Yes!
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Yup, you read that right. According to fluidic chemistry enthusiasts and some Reddit plumbing veterans, urine can actually help break down and dislodge vomit clogs.
🧪 The Science Behind It
- Urea & Ammonia Action: Your urine contains urea, which breaks down into ammonia—a compound found in many household cleaners. When urine sits on the clog, the ammonia can start to denature the proteins in the vomit (like partially digested meat, dairy, or stomach mucus), helping to loosen the goop.
- Temperature Matters: Fresh urine is close to body temperature (98.6°F), which is actually warmer than most tap water. This warmth helps soften fatty or gelatinous chunks that may have solidified in the drain.
- pH Balancing: Vomit is highly acidic (thanks to stomach acid). Urine tends to be slightly acidic to neutral, and when mixed together, they may chemically neutralize some of the acidity, reducing corrosive buildup and helping dislodge bio-sludge stuck to pipe walls.
- Flow Dynamics: A good strong stream of urine can generate a pulsed pressure wave, which some claim helps to dislodge partial clogs. (Think of it as “hydro-jetting on a budget.”)
🛠️ How to Do It
- Remove your pants.
- Stand over the sink. (Yes, aim is important.)
- Let it flow.
- Brag to your friends about your eco-friendly DIY plumbing hack!
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 1 week ago:
Its moddability/extensibility is way inferior to Minecraft, where you can change basically everything, including rendering, networking stack, main menu, sound engine, etc.
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 1 week ago:
In my opinion Luanti is a living proof that top-down extensibility aka “we make monolithic engine in C++ and then provide some APIs for scripting via bindings for some scripting language on the side” doesn’t work well. You can’t change main menu, you can’t fix player controller (and the default one sucks), you can’t write your own renderer, etc. Because developers didn’t imagine someone would want that (actually they probably did, but they simply don’t have capacity to provide this). Good extensibility show be automatic, on binary level. Like what you get by developing in JIT-compiled languages like Java/C# or in old Unreal Engines where everything was done in bytecode-(de)compilable special language called Unreal Script.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Well, I don’t really know what exactly they’re doing, but there are people like Elon Musk that probably have ways of converting cosmic volumes of crypto back and forth to/from fiat. I’d just assume that crypto -> fiat is more of a problem for individuals currently but huge businesses and corps can make it work in high volumes. So maybe Steam could make it work too for games. And then crypto becomes massively backed by games. And then maybe someone else big jumps in. And then someone smaller can also jump in, and then one day crypto might be backed by such many things that you don’t even need to leave ecosystem, because you can already buy pretty much anything there. But again, this is just assumption, I don’t know how exactly this should work. Perhaps big corps can register a crypto-branch of their business somewhere crypto-friendly.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
I’ve seen some article recently that the patterns of Wi-Fi/Bluetooth (don’t remember which one) interference with brainwaves can be scanned to reconstruct brainwave signature remotely, meaning that it might be possible to scan anyone’s EEG from Wi-Fi/Bluetooth distance. And there are some AI advancements for reconstructing inner monologue from EEG. So maybe we’re not so far from actual remote mind-reading.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
If exchanges close, websites stop accepting them, and you can’t withdraw to fiat
You can still trade with people directly on forums/chats, like before exchanges existed.
Trading on non CEX is a massive pain as well
Why?
If exchanges close, websites stop accepting them, and you can’t withdraw to fiat
Even in the worst case scenario there is a possibility of anonymous crypto-only exchanges on darknets.
Storing for long time on cold wallets makes you vulnerable to volatility, which isn’t good for high amounts.
Agree, long-term storage on external wallet isn’t a good suggestion.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
AML and KYC
Ofc KYC is everywhere. But that is only relevant to inputting fiat to crypto. Are there precedents of exchange asking its user about the address where he sent his crypto? Even then, what exactly happens if you answer them with whatever, like you donated to some guy, or it was a present? Regular money laws don’t apply to crypto -> crypto transfers, they are not subject to whatever taxes for presents, charity, etc, and even if they were, that wouldn’t be for the sending side.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Also, do you realize that even if all exchanges are taken down, this doesn’t in any way harm crypto in general or any of your independent wallets? I mean, you should only look at exchanges as places to input and forex trade crypto, but you should always output it to your external wallets in the end for long-term storage. If some day some exchange suddenly asks any of its users to explain why it did send money to a certain address, that would be the death of this exchange. You don’t need to explain, it is not bank, there are no taxes to pay (you already paid all the taxes before you converted your money to crypto), there are no laws that could make this demand legal. Move to the next exchange.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Who is gonna ask? It is not your bank account, there are no rules where you send your crypto and you don’t have to explain to anyone. And there are no ways to enforce any of this. Also, a lot of crypto payment services and exchanges automatically generate unique intermediate wallets for every transaction. There is a technique to wallet management called “Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet)” which seems to be golden standard nowadays, not only it makes it hard to compute your total balance, it also makes it easier to achieve “public address changes with every transaction”. So this is what most exchanges use for those intermediate addresses I assume.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
No, they don’t know who that wallet belongs to and even though they may hypothesize its yours they don’t have any way to prove it. Moreover, anyone, including sellers can use unlimited amount of wallets and register them at rate 1000x faster than even the advanced CIA group would be able to tie even a single address to a particular person/company. So if Steam operated in crypto, it would take days/weeks of some of the most advanced feds in the world to try to prove that you bought something from Steam using your crypto. And they might even fail at that if you or Steam’s wallet are handled carefully, and they wouldn’t even know what exactly you bought.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Okay, how exactly will this allow to ban selling legal porn games via blockchain? Because this is what is happening with payment processors.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Then explain how exactly is this incorrect. If you buy and smuggle weapons for example, feds do undercover operation and pretend to sell guns, they set their own wallet, they track transactions, they co-operate with exchanges and have access to KYC data, they see you sent from exchange to wallet X, and then wallet X payed for weapons to their undercover wallet Y. What they achieve here is: they just see there is some chance that wallet X also belongs to you and maybe it’s you who are buying those weapons, but they can’t use this as proof of anything, what they can do is start spying on you from other vectors: your regular bank accounts, your social media, or even IRL to check if they can find any real evidence. That’s basically all. This is not at all a concern for people who don’t run international multibillion crime syndicates, etc. And also this all is extremely irrelevant to original topic. Because those games aren’t even illegal, it’s basically just a fkin preference of payment processors to demand Steam and Itch to take them down. If Steam operated in crypto, no amount of transaction tracking would make it possible to enforce something like this, because this is not law enforcement to begin with, it’s not illegal games and they are not taken down due to any legal concerns.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Look, when you use some platform with KYC, they indeed can tie that id information you give them to your internal addresses you use on the same platform. But the moment you send it to your external wallet that link is lost. They can see the transaction but they don’t know and can’t check if that destination address belongs to you, or it’s a person who sold you something, or it’s your friend/relative, or someone you donated to, etc.
