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[–] 13 points 4 months ago

They wouldn't key me in until I committed to qbittorrent! Auckkk! The horror! It was fine though

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    someone do one for crypto mining please

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    cf. the Drummers in “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    My neighbor and her entire family came back from a boat cruise with COVID. Somehow, I don't think sending them this would be appreciated.

    Guess I learned something since my Hight School Physics Teacher wrote in my yearbook "You could benefit from learning more tact".

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    [–] 60 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Mitochondria is the Napster of the cell.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    You wouldn’t download a virus.

    Oh, wait

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If every cell in my body was seeding, you'd be able to download The Bee Movie in like 2 seconds.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Or just silently mining crypto

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Back before writing when everything was oral history this was technically true. I mean files were stories and peer to peer transfer was telling each other stories.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    ? That has nothing to do with viruses?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    True but also the image didn't either?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Are we talking about the same image? Because the image I'm talking of says: (my emphasis)

    fun fact:
    your internal body temperature rises when you are infected because viruses are using your body for peer to peer file sharing

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Ok fine, it used the word virus, I just didn't consider that the primary point. Sorry if I upset you with my response earlier

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Not upset, just confused.

    The joke of the meme is that computer viruses will use your RAM to do stuff like mining crypto which will heat up your computer. Now the meme claims that biological viruses do the same with your body. This is wrong (obviously) because the body heat is actively done by the body to kill off the virus. Your comment has nothing to do with any of this so I was confused

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think you misunderstood my post. My point was not that viruses are trying to give you a fever. My point was that thousands of years ago this was true. Random stories were files, story telling was file sharing, telling a story by definition burns energy so increases heat. Anytime you use energy you make some amount of energy which gets burned off and often results in atleast minorly increased temperatures.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no I'm overheating how do I avoid thermal throttling

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    ... they're mutating (brute force cracking encrypted patterns) and transmitting (peer to pert data sharing)... I am a nucleic acid server

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Whatever you do, don't close port number 2 permanently.

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