Magnetic_dud

joined 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

A program that is supposed to make money when you're sleeping by automatically trade currency pairs. Usually they aren't as miraculous as their devs are stating.

It stands as "expert advisor"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I did, because I wanted to run multiple copies of it.

The cracked version was running much more smoothly (10x less memory usage) due to missing DRM encryption

My thoughts on it from a decade ago: https://www.forexperiments.com/2012/10/the-price-of-protection.html

This said, most expert advisors programs aren't really functional, need a human supervision. IMHO the devs make more money from the sales/subscriptions of their software than running their "money making machines". After all, if your "completely automated money machine" actually works, why would you bother in paying marketing, DRM schemes to have other people using it?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they fired the guy that single handedly managed meshcommander https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCommander

it was a tool to remotely control intel vpro machines, intel's own tool is not as good as what the old ex-employee did in his free time

 

It was a video of someone pretending to tell you a secret: thanks to a new israeli app based on ai, it's possible to make 8000 euro per month with trading by just opening an account with their referral and depositing 500 euro. 100% safe and definitely not a scam.

Maybe not a literal scam but imho deceiving people just because they're going to give you $100 in referral money is a scam

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I tried to seed the torrents but I never found anything that needed seeds, most users download via browser

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But they promised that they won't use the data for it 😜

They paid millions for it just for charity

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Generally good at supporting phones but not at supporting computers, a 5-6 years lifetime is unacceptable from an environmental point of view.

I experienced it last week when I turned on an old Mac with MacOS 10.7. It can't run anything. Everything that you download doesn't run anymore, Firefox and chrome are limited to some ancient version like 40 that breaks every modern website and due to some expired SSL root certificate you can't access any website that's using let's encrypt which is a big chunk.

And it's like this not from recently but at least 5 years, so it was put in a corner and never turned on anymore until last week

It can theoretically be updated to some newer version but the updater to 10.8 has been delisted from the store so you have to alternatively source that.

For comparison, a PC that was purchased the year prior to that Mac is running the latest version of windows 10 without any issue (except slowness due to the 1st gen core architecture)

[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago

The CPU speed and ram size is irrelevant in this case, it's slow because it needs to load ads and sponsored results from internet first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How can they know that the user has a 27" or bigger screen?

Screens report the size via HDMI and not only the name/resolution?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

enshittification happened to scribd, not bugmenot

scribd used to offer free hosting for all pdf files, then when they hit critical user mass, they decided that only paid users can download the (mostly pirated) PDF files. Literally profiting from piracy while pretending it's designed for business.

 

Also: FUCK SCRIBD AND EVERYONE THAT UPLOADS STUFF THERE!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

For years I assumed he was just a student in college arguing for something and not an actual POS 😢