doubtingtammy

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[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OP, you should know that Radio Free Asia is American propaganda in the most literal sense. Although this is bad propaganda, since it just makes Chinese workers look cool af

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Please don't be silly. If you're in the US, you should absolutely never be "interrogated" by police. Get a lawyer. Always. No matter how innocent and clever you are. You should be terrified of the police, not plagiarism machines.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

As a kid, tho, I loved 9volts because they had the best connectors.

It's the best connector because you can lick it

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago
[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also unsurprising that the stochastic parrot simulation is fucking up its mission of being a propaganda machine

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Sometimes you need to enable something in the bios (virtualization? i forget what it's called)

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

IDK if you can have a live windows usb, but virtualbox is great for that sort of thing.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Money ≠ Capitalism

I never said or implied otherwise. I actually implied the opposite. Money isn't inherently controlled by capitalists, but a capitalist society needs to have the bourgeoisie controlling the money.

How the bourgeois controls money in Bitcoin ?

Because they own the massive "mining" operations that do the vast majority of the entropy generation. Those datacenters are capital. They also control the markets that determine the speculative value of bitcoin.

We have no proof that bartering existed before money, the idea that money was made to fix bartering issues is false.

I never said or implied that. I'm actually a fan of David Graeber who wrote about that in Debt: the first 5000 years

Bitcoin is not a currency, it’s a decentralized p2p network of trust building a consensus over a common immutable history that qualify as truth

You're describing the concept of a blockchain. Bitcoin is an attempt to use a blockchain to implement a currency. Of course it has failed as a currency, so they've changed the purpose to be a financial instrument that's easy to speculate on

We currently don’t know other consensus mechanism that would be as resilient or neutral

This is the crux of why bitcoin is a shit idea. You can't be neutral on a moving train. It's far more efficient to establish actual trust instead of chasing a mathematical ideal of trust.

The core idea you're getting at is: because of the blockchain, you can be certain that when satoshis are added to your bitcoin wallet, the transaction was authentic, and as long as your key isn't compromised, you can trust that it will remain in your wallet. It's a neat mathematical trick, but you still need to be certain that your computer is secure, that the person isn't sending you money tied to a crime, that any third parties being used haven't built in backdoors, that your wallet isn't physically destroyed, and so on and so on.

It makes much more sense to have a handful of trusted entities (like with ssl certificates)

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

We're surpassing the credulity of 19th century yellow peril propaganda

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Recipes should be written with the quantities in the procedure. So instead of reading

Mix flour, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl

It should be

Mix flour (300g), salt (1/4 tsp), and sugar (20g) in a large mixing bowl

That way you don't need to read/refer to ingredient list, read/refer to ingredient list, etc

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Krita is nice. IDK how it compares to commercial products, but ctrl-c + ctrl-v works like you'd expect it to

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