Jakeroxs @ Jakeroxs @sh.itjust.works

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That's why I bought a fold, not a Samsung fan but I didn't want to buy a separate tablet and I really like the sweet spot this phone offers.

99% of the time I'm just using the front screen, but when I want or need that extra real estate (gaming, admining my homelab remotely, partially watching a yt video while doing chores) it's really nice that it's the same device and I can continue exactly what I'm doing on a bigger screen.

I ended up blocking a bunch of German instances, I don't dislike it or anything I just get nothing out of it lol.

Heh

That's what I hoped would happen the first time but here we are.

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

Or NOT patenting it and open sourcing the vaccine so it doesn't cost any money for them to license and we're not gatekeeping life saving medicine. Just a thought.

I didn't have the energy to reply then, and I still don't now.

You seem to misunderstand and assume my intentions and thoughts and it'd take a lot to unravel so I won't.

Name one of the developers and early adopters of a non-scam crypto like bitcoin (debatable at this point with lightning network being shoehorned in) or ethereum that is a grifter. Scammers making scam coins doesn't mean all crypto or people who are for crypto are scammers.

Crypto didn't spawn out of a vacuum, it came from earlier technologies like hashcash that was intended to prevent spam due to requiring a cost (PoW) in order to send the email. For bitcoin, go read the bitcoin white paper to see what the initial intention was.

Regular banking requires more people to manage those funds, think about how many skyscrapers for banks or other financial institutions you've seen, a lot of those jobs (and all the electricity requirement that goes into doing their jobs in that office) wouldn't be necessary due to how crypto functions. If you were to take away all those jobs at once with a crypto solution, I believe it would be a net negative in energy usage, or at the very least not an increase.

That's entirely speculation but one I don't see many people entertain at all, they just see the energy usage for PoW coins (which ETH isn't anymore BTW) and without any reasonable frame of reference (besides small countries because that's shocking) come to the conclusion that crypto bad because it uses energy.

Bad actors do bad actions, that doesn't mean the technology itself is bad, there's been a lot of real development in this space in the 14 or so years I've been following it that you completely undercut out of ignorance and preconceptions.

There's no fundamental difference, a tool is a tool, and people will find ways to abuse those tools, all we can reasonably do is attempt to prevent that to a reasonable extent (again going back to the glass example, we physically can't yet make a glass that can't be broken) and depend on external enforcement mechanisms like government.

Doesn't help our current govt in the US is coopted by a fascist mafia Don who's actively scamming with his own garbage coin.

Edit: I figure you might latch into my point about financial industry jobs and figured I'd point out my opinion on that concept https://sh.itjust.works/comment/17763409

They actually are that open, there's nothing forcing it to be used only as a currency that's why NFTs are a thing, it's just code.

Alright on break so it's gonna be shorter but feel free to reply if you want to continue later.

The first aspect of your reply was conflating developers of crypto and especially the initial intent with bad actors who've latched on and USED IT for scams, gifts, etc.. I don't see how that's a crypto specific critique at all, people scam and grift with essentially any form of ownership or commerce, seemingly that's just shitty human nature.

I work in the financial industry (blech but it pays the bills) and you see the same shit happen here even with the huge amounts of regulation that are applied, plus all the regulation came AFTER. Which is what I am assuming will happen with crypto as well as it continues to mature.

It's really not all that complicated to understand/use but it's certainly not as easy currently as just swiping a debit card, with that said though how many people do you know actually understand how their card functionally transmits money? Likely very few because you don't really need to if it works.

The electricity usage argument is partially fair, however I would love to see how much energy is required to run the already existing non-crypto payment methods, I have never once seen a single attempt at a comparison but I would wager it's likely extremely close.

Everything is politics because politics and the policies that come from it dictate our lives, there's nothing more inherently political about crypto though then any other form of payment could be when put under the microscope.

On the point if "accountability is for the people who design build maintain use and moderate a program" I'd ask you to apply that logic to other things in your life.

If you had a glass cup, broke it and used the edge to cut someone, is that the fault of the glass cup designer for not making an indestructible glass cup that couldn't possibly be used as a weapon? No right, because it's not possible to completely control what someone else does with a product, you can build in safety guardrails all you want but someone will find a way to missus it, which is where laws come in.

On the point of forking out transactions they don't like, that's where you lost me entirely, that's simply not how it works and it'd be a huge undertaking to explain why that doesn't make sense.

Then going back to accountability you use CP as an example, do you think the users web browser should prevent them from posting CP? How could that possibly be accomplished? Goes back to my point about enforcement mechanisms outside of the system being our only real option in a ton of already existing technology, but by your logic they're all just vehicles for misuse.

I am working so I can't right now, but sure later I'll give more specific critiques.

They actually improved this recently however you need a second account and add it to your family, prior it would work just like this with one account, only one user can use a game attached to a library. However now as long as it's not the same game, it let's you play whatever on the second account.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Meanwhile for centuries we've had religion but that's a fine delusion for people to have according to the majority of the population.

Yeah completely agree, I like trees and don't want them completely gone or anything.

Ironic the image is of a switch, like Nintendo has been on the cutting edge at all in the last 20+ years

And with how frequently car stereos were broken lol

If it's actually more efficient then trees, could be a good idea. Saw a 51/49 video where he explained the urban development in the US requiring only male trees be planted leads to increased pollen levels and has made the "allergy season" 30+ days longer over the past 50 years or so.

I'm curious what her hypothesis is, I don't think there is a correlation at all personally, seen a ton of people who know nothing about their computers regardless of Mac/Windows as their primary os.