ConsciousCode

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[–] ConsciousCode 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Nebula is so cheap I have a subscription even though I almost never use it. I would use it more if they had a better recommendation system, as it is now you almost have to search for a specific video you want or dig through piles of random videos you don't care about.

[–] ConsciousCode 7 points 1 year ago

Also worth considering with self-report that Gen Z may just be more open about their failings

[–] ConsciousCode 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😮 Where's the link? I don't use Discord but I like free /s

[–] ConsciousCode 4 points 1 year ago

To be honest it's making my phishing senses go off. Javascript shouldn't be in a PDF/XFA/whatever basically ever, but it's why PDF is a potential malware risk

[–] ConsciousCode 7 points 1 year ago

So how long until people start advocating for the nonhuman, nonsentient robot over actual PoC? "Silicon lives matter"?

[–] ConsciousCode 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IIT confuses me. Every time I try to understand it, it sounds like incoherent pseudoscience using technical-sounding language that doesn't actually describe anything actionable. Yet it's also very popular and has some implementations approximating its metric? Maybe I'm just dumb... Though I'm pretty sure random networks of XOR gates aren't conscious fwiw.

[–] ConsciousCode 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is victim blaming. He isn't at fault for trusting a company to have the bare minimum of respect for his property and autonomy, the company is at fault for not actually having that respect. Whether the company is actually trustworthy is as immaterial as saying someone "deserved" to have their car stolen because they forgot to lock it.

You can criticize him for not being cautious in this low-trust environment, but don't let it get to the point where the party actually at fault gets off without criticism.

[–] ConsciousCode 4 points 1 year ago

They aren't mutually exclusive, I have a few smart lights and I try to plug them into switched outlets so I can turn them off manually and also control digitally.

[–] ConsciousCode 23 points 1 year ago

Can't be a billionaire if you pass a certain threshold of self-awareness, it's the rules.

[–] ConsciousCode 1 points 1 year ago

Hm, yeah I think you're right. I was wondering why it wasn't sitting right in my head. Deflation encourages hoarding because the value of each unit keeps increasing so if you spend now instead of later you lose some amount of potential value. I don't think it was meant to be a scam though. In this case I'd consider it ignorance of the knock-on effects later exploited rather than an explicit conspiracy from the get-go.

[–] ConsciousCode 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bitcoin at least is inherently deflationary because there's a fixed market cap of 21 million bitcoins. Once all of those are mined, all value from then on is some fraction of a fraction of one of those, thus they decrease in value over time. I should also note, I like Bitcoin as a proof of concept but don't think it's viable as a currency, and PoW isn't viable as a consensus protocol (although it demonstrated that such consensus protocols are possible).

[–] ConsciousCode 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Squandering" is a great description of what they've been used for. The only implementations I've seen thus far that seem genuinely useful are FileCoin and a few decentralized computing attempts like ICP (not Ethereum). I could see a potential niche use-case for NFTs to decentrally coordinate ownership of abstract properties like domain names, but speculative monkey jpegs ain't it chief.

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