shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@monero.town
- Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam 12 hours ago:
TIL: Tesla is not powered by batteries. It’s powered by steam. Lol.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 2 days ago:
monerica.com. your welcome.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 2 days ago:
Exactly, companies and services have scammed users, but the core protocol is as good or better today than it was in 2010 and it has not been hacked. Trust me, many people would be extatic to see it happen. The fundamentals are rock solid.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 2 days ago:
Yeah, we are going to have to agree to disagree there. What you call real money backed by the government and justice systems has always failed eventually. Because people manipulate it for personal gain. I wish you good luck manipulating Bitcoin since it hasn’t happened in the 14 years it’s existed. Lots have tried, all have failed.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 2 days ago:
The same things that make it like that make it good money. If i habd you a $100 bill i cant get it back without either asking you or force. With todays payment methods i can just call the bank crying that i never did that transaction and fuck you over. Deceptive auto renewing memberships like gyms and other things dont work either because crypto like cash is a push payment instead of a pull payment. I cant just take your money whenever i damn well feel like it you have to actively give it to me.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 2 days ago:
We also wouldnt want anyone doing anything illegal with dollars, euros, yen, etc. Crypto is money and all money will be used for illegal things
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 5 days ago:
This is absolutely to be expected. If I was able to work from home remotely and then was told I’d have to go back, I would look for another job with the specific requirement that I must be able to work from home.
- Comment on Media Release: The Bureau issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm 1 week ago:
No, it doesn’t. It would stop satellites from communicating with Earth on those frequencies due to having the ionosphere in the way, but it would not stop ground-based equipment from communicating with other ground-based equipment on those frequencies.
- Comment on Media Release: The Bureau issues a warning for a G4 geomagnetic storm 1 week ago:
No, they don’t. They would stop satellites from communicating with Earth on those frequencies through the ionosphere, but they wouldn’t stop ground equipment from communicating with each other on those frequencies. L
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
buy an old Honda LOL
- Comment on TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban 1 week ago:
Well, then the only hope it has of winning is on first amendment grounds because they already said that they would not be willing to sell the algorithm.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 week ago:
It wasn’t a requirement when I signed up several years ago, and to my knowledge, it’s still not required now. Just as long as you keep your email and password in something like a password manager and don’t fuck it up, you’re fine.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 week ago:
I just have no backup email at all. If I manage to lose my password manager file and forget my password, then I’m just fucking stupid anyway.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 1 week ago:
I was not aware of this used to open street maps at all. I thought it was based on Google Maps. Still.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 1 week ago:
Is xda still a real player? Last i saw of it it was becoming a shell and shit was dumbly moving to telegram (bleh)
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 1 week ago:
They could, and they should. But good luck getting them to do that. LOL.
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 1 week ago:
Because tons of workers are losing their jobs in California because of a twenty-hour minimum wage. If it was twenty-four, it would be even worse. That is a three-and-a-half times increase from what it is currently. As I said, it should go up, but it should not go up that much. Double it to $15.5 maybe. Most places i am aware of pay around that so it shouldnt spark a mass layoff.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 2 weeks ago:
Some password managers support passkeys, such as one password and proton pass, which will allow you to use multiple different devices. Personally, I am waiting for key pass to have proper support before starting to migrate to them.
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 2 weeks ago:
You do realize that if that were done, there would be a mass layoff, right? Because minimum wage is a price control. And so if most companies don’t think that workers are worth $24 per hour, they will just lay them off instead and give them zero dollars per hour. If you’d like an example, look at California fast food workers right about now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I have really enjoyed my time here and have no intentions of going back so much so that I ended up deleting my Reddit account entirely on like June 30th of last year.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, i actually discovered Lemmy about a year before the API issues but bounced off because there was not good 3rd party app support yet and i honestly didnt try hard enough to fill out my subscriptions list. Once that whole thing with Reddit happened, I came back and started using Lemmy again and actually put in the effort to make it work and deleted my Reddit account entirely, which forced me to use nothing but Lemmy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy 0.19.4 is in active development. I haven’t felt any decline personally.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Came here to say this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Say what you want about him, but this guy is at least willing to stand up to the tyranny of these companies.
- Comment on Major depression on recent events 2 weeks ago:
I can’t blame you, but do keep in mind that you are not responsible for their decisions. You told them they should do so, and you gave them reasons why they should do so, and they chose not to listen to you. That becomes their problem, not yours. Although I agree, it does suck.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 2 weeks ago:
I would personally prefer to see peer tube because it’s open source.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I didn’t mean to come off quite that grim, but reading it again. I definitely see where it was a hell of a lot more morbid than I meant it to be.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t have some sort of optimism, you might as well just go ahead and commit suicide because life’s not worth living.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I know it’s obviously possible to do so.
- Comment on YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers 2 weeks ago:
Eventually, the users will rebel and just stop watching, and then the video creators will follow, because if nobody’s watching, then there will be no reason to create on YouTube.