phoenixz
@phoenixz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 12 hours ago:
The instability?
You’re giving it too much credit, especially the altcoins that didn’t look beyond “existing”. I know, I made one like 7 years ago or so and I ain’t proud of it.
The instability of the worth of these crypto coins is just inherent to the instability of it, and actually not that different from currency fluctuations. You don’t think the entire world works with US dollars, no?
- Comment on Nobody say it ain't a hawk 16 hours ago:
That’s the sound of the joke going over your head
Search for Hawk Toah girl
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 16 hours ago:
None of that is “by design” its just the result of an unstable system. Crypto sucks for a long list of different reasons.
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 16 hours ago:
Crypto is not a scam, it’s just plain stupid.
The entire idea behind it is what a third grader might come up with and think it’s a great idea. It’s not.
It literally requires every connected wallet to process the same transactions as everyone else. Can you imagine doing billions of transactions per day this way? It is extremely inefficient and yes, this is one of the reasons why even the relatively low amount of transactions that Bitcoin processes costs more electricity than a small modern country.
It’s in a way comparable to a cpu doing 6+7 in a single CPU cycle whilst AI needs to burn down a forest to answer the same question
Crypto is stupid.
I get what its trying to replace and i agree that the current system sucks as well for a long list of reasons, but crypto is NOT the solution. A fundamentally different system must be designed to be able to solve the issues that crypto is trying to solve
- Comment on mood 17 hours ago:
What did Ukraine do?
Ukraine is awesome and I stand with Ukraine
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 22 hours ago:
venture capital
Aaaand it’s gone.
- Comment on Apparently his crew is big 22 hours ago:
… my beats are sick aaaand Jesus Christ is mah removedh!
Www… Wut?
You don’t mix certain things. Don’t mix potassium with water. Don’t mix Jews and Nazis. Don’t mix trump with people having brains. Generally you don’t want to mix something nice with something awful, so please don’t mix awful Christianity with gangsta rap
- Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users 22 hours ago:
Seriously, hasn’t any of these companies looked around for the past decades?
Whenever I read a report like this, said company will be dead or sold off for parts within a few years because all the customers walked away.
You’re facilitating a basic service, a basic service people can easily do without. Don’t get cocky, be happy with what you got, be grateful, be sure your customers know you’re grateful.
Get greedy gets death
- Comment on UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network 22 hours ago:
If you work with palantir, you’re evil. I don’t care if you only asked it for a coffee, you’re evil.
- Comment on Nobody say it ain't a hawk 1 day ago:
Wooooosh
- Comment on Sounds interesting. Would definitely like to try it out 1 day ago:
Man, that thing will make a bass that you can feel, it’s awesome!
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 2 days ago:
Thwapped
Wut?
- Comment on WhatsApp to get channel subscriptions, promoted channels, and ads in Status 2 days ago:
ads
Bye
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 2 days ago:
I still got my first teddybear from when I was a baby. Mind you, I’m a big guy, tough guy. I don’t sleep with it, it’ll fall apart at any movement, but whenever I go (permanently), it goes. If my house catches fire, I’ll rescue the bear, anything else can burn to the ground, it’s all replaceable.
I don’t think it’s weird, I find it endearing and it makes you human.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 2 days ago:
So this is obviously satire but reading this it just sounded way too close to current reality for comfort.
I know that parts of the document are acme levels over the top but other parts sincerely read as if written by your average Maga idiot
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 2 days ago:
Well after these peacocks were crushed by a piano, they might have been unable to recount anything at all.
I dunno, but I feel like the author might have taken some creative liberties here…
- Comment on Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab 3 days ago:
Mythical?
Plain imaginary
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 6 days ago:
Soooo, that means that android is fucked but custom roms should be able to continue from android 15, not?
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 6 days ago:
Because it’s not right?
Because it’s fraud?
Because fuck these asshole companies?
Take a pick why
- Comment on Home cooking 6 days ago:
Are… Are those balls?
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 6 days ago:
Let’s change it to “in many situations” and yes, learn how to read documentation
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 6 days ago:
Yeah, just that this has shit to do with the stated reasons. Google hasn’t been an open source ally for quite some time now
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 1 week ago:
I passionately hate the corpo speech she’s using. This fake list of “things she’s done wrong but now she’ll do them right, pinky promise!!” whilst completely ignoring the actual reason for the pushback they’ve received (which boils down to “fuck your AI, keep it out”) is typical management behavior after they were caught trying to screw over the workers in some way.
We’re going to screw you over one way or the other, we just should have communicated it better!
Basically this.
- Comment on Android 16 is here 1 week ago:
Yeah, good luck with that, ain’t gonna happen. Best we can hope for is open source teams being able to modify android into that.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 1 week ago:
Ding ding ding
Advertising has funded many things yet hasn’t made anything better, ever.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
Most of that can be traced back to Elmo being a giant idiot who got lucky because he lies all the fucking Time about everything. Everything he promoted, every promise he made over more than the past decade, its all been lies that people have been lapping up because reasons
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 1 week ago:
I applaud this, but I still say it’s not far enough.
Adjusted, the amount might match, but 121.000 is still easier to cough up for a billionaire than 50 is for a single mother of two who can barely make ends meet
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 1 week ago:
We have enough copper for a lot more than that, depending on how far and deep we want to go
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 week ago:
Bullshit
Capitalism at its core that you allow free trading. And. It. Has. Been. Successful. Capitalism is what killed the USSR by sheer force.
The problem arises when it’s not controlled at all. Apply those rules well and you get a powerhouse generating huge progress for everyone and the taxes and all will be able to pay for the social security network on top of that ensuring nobody gets left behind
You can go to communism Island if you want and suffer under economic mismanagent, bit I’d rather have capitalism, thank you
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 week ago:
Like Wikipedia says: <citation needed>
I’m sure studies haven been done, and I’d love to see them.
Where, though, what demographics? What types of people, men, women, rich, poor, what language, what culture, what ethnicity? All of those matter.
I can tell you right now that Muslims would probably cheat less, mostly because of less opportunities and the extreme punishments involved. Mexicans, on the other hand, different story. Having lived there for two decades in different cities over the country, having had friends in different layers, rich, poor, brown, white… I can tell you from personal anecdotal experience there that 80+% cheats or has cheated. You can meet a new guy and presume he has cheated or will cheat. Some guys cheat weekly, some women cheat weekly. There are fuck hotels within a 500 meter radius in whatever city you are. Cheating is also seen differently than in Muslim countries.
Yeah, loads of people cheat and if you really believe it’s only 10% then I got a bridge to sell you.