Vent

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vent@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

There is nothing in the algorithm tied to BTC price. Sure, you'll likely tend to get less miners as the price decreases, but that doesn't guarantee that it's profitable. Plenty of people, organizations, governments, etc do things that aren't immediately profitable and may never be.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that yellow and red thing an indoor firepit? How does that work, is there a giant vent hood above it?

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It's secure messaging for the average joe. Organizations can achieve this compliance with an MDM, but I'm not asking Grandma to install my MDM on her phone to see my Wordle results. And sharing your device list (plus, you'd likely need ip location for this feature to be useful, in addition to interrogating your friends about what devices they use) with any random person you're messaging is arguably more of a security threat than the risk of some moron linking any random device that asks to be linked.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

LMAO this is soooo true. Recently went on a hiking trip at a national park where there were lines to get into the parking lot, but as soon as you stepped off the paved trail the crowd went down 90%, and a short walk later and we were the only ones in the whole park.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The other glaring weakness is that if you invite Putin to your group chat, Russia gets access to all of your messages!! /s (though, I guess it's a real threat with this administration)

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The housing market almost doubled prices during COVID. I don't think it's unexpected that prices would settle down and readjust in the years following.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (8 children)

1.7% YOY decrease is a bubble popping?

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Anyone that wants to scrape Lemmy would have an easier time setting up their own server, federating with everyone, and reading straight from their DB. No web scraping required. Though, web scraping defenses would be useful against general web scrapers/crawlers.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

They typically don't. They do proxy it if there is something preventing a direct connection, but the proxy bandwidth is super limited and results in pretty terrible playback quality.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Traditional currencies are backed by governments and the global economy. Boiling down USD/EUR to "it's worth money because we say so" is many many magnitudes larger of a splicification than saying the same for crypto.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Lol, and what would the ransom be for taking down someone's money-burning hobby project?

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