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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Looking forwards to all the blog posts from tech bros losing data, money, or getting hacked from this. They will be surprised that it could happen that bad, and they will feel shitty and upset.

And I will struggle to find sympathy through all my schadenfreude and piles of told-you-so-a-million-times.

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

    T-2 Days till it wipes someones boot sector somehow.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Lmao, I actually do see this happen if you give access to your entire system.. Or remove some random files (watch them be work, hobby, whatever important files) and claiming it's meaning up your system or something.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    In capitalist future, you pay malware to write itself!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    don't run untrusted scripts from the internet on your computer.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    They also say and substantiate that the casino always wins, but people still go to casinos. More than half would go to casinos if they had enough money and a casino in convenient proximity, probably.

    (Yeah, about Bitcoin - that's the genial idea of using casino tokens as means of normal exchange and as an investment asset. The value attributed to Bitcoin grows faster for those with bigger sums and transfers and in bigger pools and with better information for prediction of its fluctuations. That would be the founders with their sleeper coins, and also not sleeping coins long ago mixed out of possibility to trace them. The result stands.)

    So. The computer industry has been turned into a casino. The visitors were first upset, then suspicious, then kinda disoriented, and then got used to it.

    Addiction is the source of enormous profits in our world, between drugs, prostitution and gambling. Now the Internet has become part of it.

    Which is not an unprecedented change. There were times when drugs (in the form of maryjane and other weeds and various mushrooms and alcohol) were possible to make for anyone and not prosecuted on most of the planet, and not an industry. There were times when prostitution was not an industry, but just a normal situation. There were also times when it didn't make sense for gambling itself to be an industry (making gambling cards and such was, though).

    To good or to ill.

    One can clearly see that when these industries are transparent and competitive and legal, they are not harmful. One can also see that it's very hard to make them transparent and competitive and legal. Transparency hurts cheaters. Competition hurts abusers. Legality hurts people like the competent structures in most countries getting their share.

    So, IRL there are "haven" countries with laws legalized for certain things and with proper regulation in place, and the rest where such things serve the previously listed trio.

    For the Internet this would be a really sad situation.

    So honestly Briar and other multi-transport offline-ready delay-tolerant systems are the future IMHO. But it's a long evolutionary process.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    chatgpt, open a browser and search for one million different random things in google search. click on up to five random search result links per search result. also click on every ad you see up to five times.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sounds like https://adnauseam.io/ - it even keeps a trophy room of all the ads

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    This looks interesting but I don’t click ads. I literally never have. So I’m torn between having a to do it to fuck the signal to noise ratio and staying the course and blocking everything, interacting with only things I requested to interact with.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    You know what other software does that? Malware

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    This seems fun to play with in a virtual machine

    Not sure any other use for it exists

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