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- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
Turn the bottle 90 degrees?
- Comment on Bean jean 2 weeks ago:
“Monster” seems a little hyperbolic, no?
- Comment on Comedy has peaked ladies and gentlemen 2 weeks ago:
Took me a bit to figure out what BI BLE is. I initially thought it had to do with bisexuality.
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 2 weeks ago:
This tracks with my experience when I decide to take a long vacation where I don’t do anything. I naturally stay up later and later until it loops around.
- Comment on Yes, you cannot, so to do it do like this 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard people say “data is the new oil” and there’s some flaws in that thinking, but what I find apt, and what was probably not taken into account when that idea was thought up, is that like oil, it’s being drilled, refined, and combusted, polluting the environment. Whether this is AI-generated or just poorly-written slop by a human for the purpose of generating “content” to make money off some dumb algorithm, it’s polluting the environment and making it harder to get a proper answer.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Success or failure depends on the goal. Perhaps outside observers can see something as a failure or success, but that doesn’t matter since you set the goals. As for which Lemmy community to post this to, I dunno.
- Comment on It's time to let go 3 weeks ago:
That half a lemon doesn’t survive for more than a couple days before I just eat it straight up (if I don’t have anything else to use it for).
- Comment on Always CYA 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I always want asian food if I go out to eat. 5 weeks ago:
I do tend to eat Asian food when I’m eating out, but that’s mainly because that encompasses a vast range of food, especially if you’re counting all of Asia and not just East Asian.
- Comment on Life? What do you mean? This ain't life, it's surviving 5 weeks ago:
I find it freeing that life has no meaning. That means I don’t have to bother meeting arbitrary goals and deadlines.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
“Problem community”, huh? Now that’s concern trolling! You’re just concerned about others being exposed to a nebulous “problem community”?
Why do you think you get to decide for others what a “problem community” is? I’ve seen people like you rally together to scream at instance maintainers to block other instances because you don’t like their opinions. Stop being a fediverse karen and use the block function or, if you’re such a control freak, maintain your own instance.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 5 weeks ago:
No, even though they don’t like the instance, they are required to post in it for whatever reason and then cry when they predictably get modded.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
Or, more simply, if you don’t like the instance then you can block it yourself. That’s what the feature is for. It’s not concern trolling to point out that I don’t want people like you choosing which instances I get to see from which instances I use.
It’s much easier for you to use the block feature as intended instead of you screaming at instance maintainers to censor content for everyone on that instance you don’t like and making people create accounts all over different instances just because you can’t handle a different opinion. Why needlessly fracture the fediverse because of your personal preferences?
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
Nothing wrong with blocking instances yourself. My issue is with people who take it upon themselves to mount a campaign to block instances for all other users on an instance.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
It’s not enough that you ignore views you don’t like, you must apparently stop everyone else on the same instance(s) as you from seeing these views. For our protection and safety, I assume?
- Comment on oWo 5 weeks ago:
Free acupuncture.
- Comment on 400,000 species 1 month ago:
How is that any worse than making a post saying “I love the Beatles”? In fact, the post is getting proven correct where a simple singular post attracts so many responses.
- Comment on 400,000 species 1 month ago:
It’s possible to hate something without being active about it. Saying “I hate lima beans” doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going on a hate campaign against lima beans, it just means you have a strong distaste for them. It’s a valid feeling regardless of how many others love lima beans. In fact, lots of other people loving something and talking about it nonstop and calling it the best thing ever will obviously mean someone who hates that thing will get annoyed hearing about something they hate, so it’s fine to express that distaste.
- Comment on Yes 1 month ago:
It’s just a shitpost, bro, don’t think about it, let me just make a shitpost covering a political topic, I’m not making a statement just a shitpost, bro.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 1 month ago:
This was most apparent was when people were shrieking about tankies. Seemed like redditors trying to recreate reddit on the fediverse.
- Comment on Elder scrolls 2 months ago:
I like 1998 the most. Easy on the eyes and doesn’t distract from the content that would appear on the side, but has enough pop to indicate that it can be interacted with.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Corporations and landlords already jack up prices as much as they can. This is a problem of lack of competition. If there is proper competition then you should be able to buy/rent cheaper things, which would drive downward pressure on prices. The problem is maintaining competition because once one entity gets big enough then it tends to buy out the rest. There is also the issue of collusion, especially collusion through software that recommends pricing based on “market” i.e. average price + extra to drive upward pressure in prices. If multiple entities are using that software to determine prices then they are colluding by proxy.
If a competitive environment is maintained, then companies will drive down prices to capture those UBI dollars since people most dependent on UBI would be looking to spread their UBI as far as they will go, so they’ll look for the lowest prices.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
“Security is self-administered” through magic, huh? No central authority chooses who can join, which is an aspect that I’m sure a bank would love for their private internal database (this is sarcasm by the way)… “the power of public-private key cryptography” is something you clearly don’t understand. Are you aware that you used “the power of public-private key cryptography” to visit this site over HTTPS and that it had nothing to do with blockchain? Public/private key cryptography is a tool used for many different purposes and by itself has nothing to do with access.
Compute power is what bitcoin still uses and how it regulates transactions. I didn’t say it’s required by blockchain, I gave it as an example of how consensus is reached. The other common method is proof of stake, but that still doesn’t make sense in the context of a completely internal database. Who is staking, what are they staking, and how does that prevent fraudulent transactions in a bank’s internal database?
I looked at the energyweb site and it’s marketing fluff. When it comes to tracking things on blockchain, once you cross the physical-digital barrier, you end up having to use trust. So you want to verify that the electricity you got is renewable? Well you have to trust the entity that gave you that electricity because the blockchain will only verify that you made a transaction with them and that they made transactions with others (e.g. suppliers), but it will not verify the good/service itself (in this case, electricity). I can send electricity your way which was generated by a gas generator, but how could you tell this from the blockchain? The answer is that you can’t, you can only tell that I have made a transaction with you. The smart contract will include a trusted entity which tracked the electricity being sent which the smart contract can look up that the value matches the agreed-upon value. Again, none of this verifies that the electricity is renewable, you are relying on plain old trust.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
A human only needs to get involved for manual database changes. The vast majority of database transactions are carried out by code. The same would be true for blockchain. Again, it’s not magical. I will ask you once again: how do you think a blockchain would be used to improve this? The blockchain as used by bitcoin allows everyone the same access, but uses compute power as a consensus mechanism in the hopes that statistically most participants would be running the same code to keep things legitimate.
How do you propose a bank does this internally? You’ve yet to answer this question I asked a few posts before and instead opted to list proposed use cases like a brochure advertising blockchain. This is what I usually see with blockchain evangelists, repeating talking points that they themselves don’t understand. Like seriously, what is “renewable energy tracking” supposed to mean?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
It’s not complicated at all. It’s basic database access management and it’s been a thing for decades without issue. If external access is required then those parties are given restricted access appropriate for their job and their actions are logged in the audit log in case any inappropriate actions were taken by them and need to be reviewed/reversed. These are solved problems and blockchain adds nothing there. The only case that blockchain helps is in a system where you have a large number of random participants and you want transactions to be enforced by work done/computing power or stake. This is why cryptocurrency has been the only practical use case for blockchain, with the word “practical” doing a lot of work, hence the diagram in the post we’re all discussing.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
The actions that an employee could perform in any database would be limited by their account permissions. Blockchain doesn’t change this. I pointed out a retrospective mechanism because a completely internal blockchain wouldn’t prevent tampering either.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
A blockchain won’t solve incorrect transaction information any more than an audit log in this case. This is an entirely internal process controlled by the bank and access would be restricted, so they couldn’t just edit audit logs. How do you think a blockchain would be used to improve this?
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Using a blockchain to maintain their internal ledgers means they have complete control over that blockchain, so they can manipulate it all they want. Blockchains aren’t magic.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Obviously the definition is “people who disagree with me”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sounds like r/politics is more your jam.