BaconIsAVeg

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well no, in my example the shirt is the image and the signature on it is the NFT bit. Physically, it's just a bit of ink, but the shirt itself is no different than one you can go pickup at the store.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whenever I see these Musk posts, I always marvel at how people seem to think one man builds spaceships, programs self-driving cars, pushes all the buttons on Twitter, and does all the research himself on monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Try telling that to sports memorabilia collectors though.

"Look at my hockey jersey!" "Yeah, so? I have the same one." "Yeah but you're wasn't signed by Wayne Gretsky."

Or even trading cards, or comics. Or hell, even plain w-shirts with a brand logo on it for $250. People assign arbitrary values to stuff all the time. I don't understand it at all, but there's a whole ton of people that just eat that shit up like it's candy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had never heard of it either. I had PIA when I was on Windows, still haven't gotten it setup on Linux though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The vegans of the software world.

PS, I run Arch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using qutebrowser as my daily driver, and which it doesn't have extentions it does have a basic adblocker. The really useful thing I found though was a greasemonkey script that just sets the playing speed of youtube adds to "Ludicris Speed", so the creators still get paid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/ntl2ko/easy_youtube_adblocker_greasemonkey_script/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Land of the Free*

^*some^ ^conditions^ ^apply^

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's not wrong. The amount of information people share publically is insane, and all the focus is on how the big tech companies abuse it and not how inherently dangerous it is to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While I appreciate the sentiment, isn't that effectively the same as "if the restaurant won't give you the complete recipe for their pizza sauce, how do you know they're not trying to poison you?"

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With an optional purchase to support the dev.

You mean the schuckster trying to make a buck using another free API after the last one booted him out? Guy's a slimeball.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a mobile app for Reddit on my phone, you know when I used it last? 9 months ago when I was sitting in a waiting room waiting for an oil change. Every other time when I'm away from the computer I'm doing non-fucking-computer things.

This guy's whole shtick was to make enough money to quit his day job, so he wrote a wrapper around someone else's content using their free API. "Oh he did it all by himself, that's amazing!" It's really not, especially if you'd rather not share the subscription profits with other employees.

The FOSS alternatives? Done by guys with day jobs. They're passion projects. I can respect that.

But you lot, who will drop to your knees the minute the guy wants to repeat his shtick now that Reddit kicked him to the curb? Zero respect at all.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It amazes me the how far Reddit users will bend over backwards to suck this dude's schlong. Must be a mobile-user thing.

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