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- Comment on San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death 1 day ago:
Dressed in a T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, and wire-rimmed glasses, Yu declined to talk about the false report of his death or how he may have benefited financially from it.
“You can see the PTSD in my eyes, right?” he said before telling this reporter to leave.
That epitaph should be etched onto his gravestone.
Although the obituary touted his alleged successes, the more significant self-tribute was Sunday’s release of a memecoin that one of his social media accounts promoted in what claimed to be an automated message. “If you’re reading this, it’s because my 72 hour deadman’s switch triggered so i’m not here, at least physically,” the message said. The message described the new coin, dubbed $LLJEFFY, as “my final art piece” and “an eternal grave in cyberspace.”
Who doesn’t have a deadman’s switch to capitalize on one’s own death?
On-chain analysis shared on social media by Bubblemaps, a crypto analytics platform, showed accounts linked to Yu moving up to $1.4 million in cryptocurrency after his supposed death. Several accounts accused Yu of orchestrating an elaborate “pseudocide exit strategy” to cash out his holdings.
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
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Before his staged death, Yu published a manifesto introducing the concept of “legacoins” — described as an “evolution of digital assets commonly referred to as memecoins” that function as “a vault or storage, securing and preserving value indefinitely.”
What an incredible coincidence!
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 1 week ago:
They’ve been frantically rolling back repeatedly, and the simulation just keeps going off the rails. Didn’t you see the posts in ten forward?
- Comment on Shinji need a little bit of motivation 1 week ago:
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they’d still be fucking us over.
- Comment on Enemy Mind is a PC game about psychically possessing ships. In 2015, I was just trying to hijack a moment of peace. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 2 weeks ago:
He still hasn’t added me to any chats. What should I do?
- Comment on AI may aid screening for opioid use disorder 4 weeks ago:
It looks like an offline tool that reviews existing medical records to find indicators of addiction:
Overall, the AI screener was as effective as provider-only assessments in leading to addiction specialist consultations. However, those who received AI screening were 47% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after initial discharge.
The team calculated that each readmission avoided saved about $6,800 in health care costs during the study period. The findings suggest that investment in AI could help to increase access to addiction treatment, improve efficiencies, and save costs.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 5 weeks ago:
Postcrime will be there?
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 5 weeks ago:
Precrime will be here!
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 5 weeks ago:
and “enters” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 1 month ago:
My machine is not a workhorse. I got it second hand. It has around 8gb of RAM, and an 80gb HDD I found in a laptop.
But it’s enough to work as a testbed, so it’s fine with me.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 1 month ago:
I’ve finally powered on a 15 year old machine to run a bot I’ve been writing. The thing is slow as dirt and stuck behind a flakey power line network, but it’s working. I got to write my first systemd service definition, which is kind of cool.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 month ago:
All existing health data and features, however, will remain free.
Perfect!
- Comment on Disappointing coyote attack 1 month ago:
there’s always next time
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 1 month ago:
I don’t really get what selling Chrome and Android would accomplish.
There was a leak of Google’s old page ranking algorithm (not PageRank, but how they change the order of results on search) - it looked like they used a bunch of signals from Chrome about the amount of time users spend on a page, how quickly they go back, etc. Chrome gives the search side of the business an advantage.
Conversely, Android feeds a bunch of extra data to the ad business about what people do in real life.
Both products give the rest of Alphabet a significant advantage over their competitors, and make it harder for new entrants to get a foothold.
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 month ago:
Times are tough.
- Comment on Foxconn unveils first large language model 2 months ago:
Ask it about the nets!
- Comment on I'm a provider 2 months ago:
thank you daddy kayaks
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 2 months ago:
on Lemmy that’s just karma farming.
- Comment on I'm a provider 2 months ago:
We are your family and you are providing
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
But if the only way to do it is to have ads or selling our data etc, then I don’t want that.
Nobody wants that. It’s a bunch of lil features:
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following users in Lemmy,
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allow mods flair users in a community (so subscribers/patrons can show off),
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Make it easier to see popular posts on Lemmy and Mastodon,
Stuff like that.
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- Comment on Viking-Age Skulls Reveal Widespread Disease and Infections - Medievalists.net 2 months ago:
Isn’t that a New World disease? Unless you’re saying the Vikings raided Columbia (and made it back), it’s at least 200 years too soon.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
It’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization.
There are upvoted positive posts and comments about
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the Switch 2 announcement (but not Nintendo’s legal policy),
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the Framework advertising event last week,
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Valve/Steam/SteamOS/Steamdeck/Gabe Newell in general,
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Costco in general,
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EVs in general (excluding Tesla and Cybertrucks 😂),
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podcasts that solicit funding and carry advertising,
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anime and anime adjacent products,
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Lenovo’s laptops,
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individuals selling stuff on Redbubble/Etsy/OnlyFans,
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subscription razor blade delivery (not from Amazon),
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and “voting with your wallet”.
It’d be cool if the platform made it easier for orgs to build and interact with a following here. Niches of users really like talking about them. That doesn’t mean ads, it means features that would benefit regular users as well.
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- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
maybe this place is just not for influencers - not like the corp platforms, anyway
The things people need to build a livelihood on a platform are quality of life features. In a lot of cases, I think it’s small stuff: being able to reward patrons with a tag on a specific community; automatically highlighting popular posts; making it easy to find a user’s monetization page; etc.
I think the fediverse will attract more and more people with its network effects, but probably never all of the people all of the time.
At the moment, Lemmy is an ad-free version of Reddit missing some community and notification features. There are good political reasons to be here, but that hasn’t driven a sustained increase in users.
So we won’t get critical mass for network effects by being a better Reddit.
One to make the platform self-sustaining (or grow) is to give creators a reason to use the platform, which will give people a reason to come and stay.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
Absolutely - I wanted to list interactions between regular users and someone who makes money with a platform.
After a bunch of Twitter users (including journalists) bounced off Mastodon when Elon bought it, the fediverse needs to understand why, and think about what it means to be a viable platform.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 2 months ago:
To be clear, users can still manually share Google Photos pics with connected frames.
It’s shitty that they removed apps ability to see all photos when authorized, though.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
I want to be among people who interact as equals, who share ideas, who cooperate in a genuine way.
I think online journalism might be a good example of influencers and users interacting as equals. Users provide extra information, ask questions, reify, and help highlight where the journalist can focus. The journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.
If we try a shortcut to more users through money, what is the point?
To build an interesting, self sustaining network, where people can express themselves fully, and understand each other.
The features I’m suggesting would benefit everyone: a decent view of trending topics/posts/tags; mod-controlled tags; stuff like that. Most users would find them helpful, but a few could use it to build a livelihood that others value.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
The unix surrealism Lemmite is awesome. They deserve my donations. Saying that people shouldn’t be able to use the platform to express themselves rejects a whole bunch of people.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
Now, I also think that the monymaker needing to serve millions of people can go and do that elsewhere.
That’s the issue. If we’re gonna get evil tech bros out of our human interactions, we need to build a platform that doesn’t reject people who like to eat.
Journalists need to get access to sources, and want to see when events are happening.
Documentary creators want a way to create interesting and useful videos that will earn them a living.
Streamers want a platform that can serve a bunch of users with near-realtime (okay, just fast) interactions.
That’s what OP’s link is missing: being able to use a platform to do your preferred job is one of the things that makes a platform compelling. Until we have that, we’re rejecting a big part of our audience.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 2 months ago:
The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it.
Part of that is making it monetizable. Influencers can build huge followings (and make some cash) because existing platforms recommend their content to other users.
Mastodon devs have chosen not to provide recommendations and quote posts. That’s reasonable, but it reduces the utility of the platform, and it cedes space to Twitter & co.
To my knowledge, the only creator that’s exclusive to Lemmy is the unix surrealism author. Until it’s easy to monetize content, we’re gonna have a hard time attracting creators, and a hard time attracting users.
