Digit-Al

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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Just wanted to add that one of the worst things about digital currencies is how they turn us into serfs, toiling away for currency that can only be used to purchase different ways to toil away in the same hamster wheel.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I am completely in agreement that loot boxes are exploitative. I think we are partially in disagreement at what constitutes a digital currency, but we might be in agreement just discussing it in different terms. For me, I think the best ana
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
The trouble is that with many games loot boxes are purchased with an in game currency that can be both earned through game-play and purchased with real money. This blurs the line between what is and is not a real money transaction.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
> You sure as hell wouldn't want the company to not be liable if they just installed the cheapest shit they could find and the building does burn down. What? You mean like a company installing bad cladding that burns really easily,
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The real story of Pinocchio(smithsonianmag.com)
56 points by Digit-Al 4y ago|27 comments
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
This is mentioned in the article as a concern that is being studied; you may have missed it.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Troy Hunt did a short series on using Home Assistant https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-bu...
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
> want to have protections against government haircuts I feel like you may have been auto-incorrected there, but I can't work out what you may have been trying to type that got changed to "haircuts".
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I was amused by the praise at the end. The Monty Python team must have had a time machine because they managed to parody Nadine Dorries tweeting exactly the same thing as Boris Johnson decades before it actually happened lol
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Replacing Attenborough as the narrator on a nature documentary is a crime against humanity, and should be treated as such ;-) What we need to do is feed all of his narrations from the last 60 years into an AI and get it to process them; the
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Why not just use ctrl-alt-v to paste without formatting? Or right-click and select "paste special", then select "plain text"?
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Will the video games industry ever confront its carbon footprint?(theguardian.com)
1 points by Digit-Al 4y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
I think you mean they underestimate how resilient kids are.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
> One of the difficult things was figuring out if the final version of the crank was going to be a floppy crank or a stiff crank > I had a little technique where I would grease it just enough for it to feel really good Dude! Really? l
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Please don't "Godwin[1]" the conversation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Don't know why I put Quentin Blake. Think I had a brain fart or something.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
When the Wind Blows by Quentin Blake was a bleak look at what it might be like to live through a nuclear winter. It doesn't end happily.
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by Digit-Al 4y ago
Archive to get round paywall https://archive.ph/QIH6D
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The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’(wired.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 5y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
I'm a bit confused by that; I'm on Firefox and I see nothing wrong with the site at all. It loaded fine and looks fine. That's with full protection turned on and the Disconnect plugin loaded as well. Any idea what was interfe
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
Not the OP, but I think you are misunderstanding. Not a legal condition, a physical one > The physical cringe of wanting to correct the record is unbearable It's like me when I hear someone at karaoke singing out of key and out of t
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The Internet Is Not as New as You Think(wired.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 5y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
The author of the article is called Peter Jakubowicz, so unlikely to be a "she".
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
> If lucrative careers and some middle-class opportunities were largely shut off to minorities and women, whoever was left was suddenly a more valuable resource than they really were. For me, this was one of the most interesting takeaway
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
I don't really understand how the EU can enforce this. If the major browser vendors threatened to prevent their browsers from being able to be used in the Eurozone over this they would have to back down because without the big four bro
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
I have a similar story. I was tasked with randomly generating strings to be sent out to customers as activation codes. These were shortish codes generated in a SQL script. I dutifully created the required code and it was handed to the teste
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
> A landmine is programmed to attack a target of a specific weight when it enters a specific area. You've literally just said it is programmed. If it is programmed, how can it be autonomous?
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
Look how many people work for arms manufacturers. How is this any different?
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by Digit-Al 5y ago
You have to admire the ingenuity. Just wish it was being put to better use. I can't even fathom the amount of effort required to, basically, create an entire scripting language running in an environment like that.
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Stream big: how Netflix changed the TV landscape in 10 years(theguardian.com)
1 points by Digit-Al 5y ago|0 comments

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