Echo Dot

@Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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Yes I appreciate that but what I'm saying is that there isn't really a reason to hack Earth 2 accounts.

Ostensively it is an upcoming game, It isn't it's just a crypto scam, that people have registered interest in but I don't believe there's anything they can actually do on the accounts yet. It's essentially just pre-registration.

So really all that anyone has got out of this is a list of email addresses they could use for phishing. It's not like they'll get any new passwords out of it to hack on other services such as email providers or bank accounts

It just means that it is a representation of some other wealth. Gold isn't fiat because gold itself is the thing that has value, currency is fiat because it is a representation of value not in and of itself valuable.

All currency is by definition fiat because all currency is a representation of value. And the crypto Bros keep telling us that bitcoin and similar are currency so they are therefore fiat.

Every single time anyone mentions crypto always some idiot comes out of the woodwork and starts to have an argument about the definition of fiat.

So let's just say this right now and then move on shall we, If it's currency it's fiat, therefore crypto is also fiat

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Only usernames and email addresses were taken so nothing particularly valuable although if you're subscribed to Earth 2 you're probably a bit gullible, so maybe it is worth having a list of known idiots email addresses.

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This is like normal Earth except more crypto. So it's more like Earth Z

You are correct that people commonly reuse passwords. People are stupid after all. But in this case passwords weren't taken because they were encrypted, so all they've got is user names and email addresses.

From the sounds of it, the database was actually pretty secure the problem was the interface between the database and the website wasn't. Good news is because the database was secure not a lot of sensitive information has been leaked.

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What sort of content are you archiving. I was trying to backup Wikipedia at some point and it was just a nightmare.

is a bit fucked up that it's more profitable to use rechargeable lithium batteries than something disposable

That's because the global manufacturing industries have almost exclusively gone over to lithium-ion batteries. Disposable batteries are ceasing to be commodity items. It's seriously difficult to find a D cell battery these days.

If your entire workforce is ai and you don't have any humans then how do humans who don't have a job pay for your product?

The entire concept of replacing the workforce with AI falls apart when you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. Only way it would work is if we actually got rid of the entire concept of money.

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Go to a nightclub sometime. Discounted vapes in the outside areas are a tripping Hazard.

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I think Apple refunds people once.

You seem to be basing your defense of your instance on the misguided belief that they don't defederate from people. I'd look into that if I were you.

No one's judging you based on his actions, they're judging you based on your actions. That being to have your account on an instance that supports those actions.

Does it? Russians can't do Russian stuff anymore isn't really controversial.

It is somewhat chucking the baby out with the bath water but I doubt anyone's losing sleep over it.

There is a lens material that is currently in development that can change its optical properties based on an electrical current, so it's entirely possible.

I do find it interesting though that the finals is another game that basically has not been advertised to anyone, and that has a very strong but small community. So not advertising your game is not automatically a death sentence although it probably doesn't help.

Get one from Halfords then. They'll repair any e-bike that they sell and they sell a wide variety of brands. Where I got mine from.

Yet I have done, it doesn't work. Because what do I know? I only work in cyber security it's only my job. I'm sure Bernard the C-Suite middle manager knows better, pay no attention to all the ask toolbars he has installed.

Stark actually was intelligent though. He really invented all the stuff he used, he earned the right to be a bit of an arse.

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I've just had to look out a morbid curiosity and yeah it's all Trump. I am being encouraged to vote for Donald Trump. This is a man who is to anathema pretty much all of my beliefs, of course I'm not going to vote for him he seriously wants to be a dictator.

Also, I'm not American so I can't vote for him anyway.

And yet we all know what it means.

So it is a word.

English isn't like French we don't have council of arbitrary definitions of what is and is not a word. If you know what it means it is therefore a word.

Stop trying to gatekeepe stuff, it's weird and boring

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Even Google doesn't follow their own design guidelines.

It's always being an attack vector. Phishing scams have been the oldest form of fraud from the beginning.

It's basically the same principle that con artists have been using for decades long before the invention of the internet

Because it turned out that no one really needs to get between the UK and the US that quickly. If they do need to get between the UK and the US they're prepared to pay less for it to take longer because the price difference is substantial.

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I had an argument with someone who kept claiming that it was all okay because it was "in alpha", all the developers have to do is claim that the game isn't finished yet and is still in development and then they can sell it for whatever price they want an idiot will buy it and defend it.

Maybe that request for a compressor should not have been rejected.

Isn't the point that they like a dictatorial government? Presumably they're okay with their every move being watched.

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Of course humans also have a brain whereas computers don't exactly think about things. Perhaps we should have given them a competitive advantage

Also it's such a shit excuse anyway, I am perfectly capable of driving a car myself, but I would like it to drive itself so I don't have to, so clearly just because humans do it without additional aid does not mean the additional aid is not warranted or desired.

To be honest conferencing was pretty easy even back in the days of Concord. It was kind of a pointless vehicle really.

I have two computers that I attempt to install Windows 11 on just out of curiosity. My old gaming rig which has a motherboard from I would think 2016 (technically the entire computer is from 2010 but other than the case I don't think any component is that old) can install Windows 11. A laptop I got in 2019 can't install it. How does that work?

I'm pretty sure we're a human would not have made that mistake though so it's already not better than humans.

It's always the ones you most expect.

Good God, what an arsehole.

We apologize for the confusion...

Confusion? No, there was no confusion. You announced a policy that was terrible, but there was nothing confusing about it, it was just stupid. I wasn't at all confused you condescending twat, I fully understood what was being announced, as did everyone else, hence the backlash.

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Because the US is controlled by corporations

Asia for the most part doesn't care

Australia is run by right wing nut jobs

New Zealand is quiet so they probably do do something like this but we haven't heard about it.

Japan is Japan. Civil rights isn't really a thing.

And China and Russia love invasion of privacy it's basically the entire basis of their countries.

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That's actually quite impressive because most satellites just don't do anything when they die. Boeing's vehicles die with flare, and depressing regularity

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Batman was a CEO of a company.

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Despite all of their machinations my strategy of simply ignoring literally everything they say and continuing doing the same old same old appears to be flummoxing them.

I've literally not done anything and have never experienced any inconvenience. Are we sure they're doing anything at all?

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So what of the kids going to do instead? People like this always demand that children go outside but there's literally nothing for them to do.

When I was a kid we used to sellotape each other to the swings and other wholesome activities. But we can't do that anymore because the park activities have been removed apparently due to "vandalism" i.e normal wear and tear that took place over 10 years has occurred, but we cannot afford to fix it because central government hasn't given us any money since 2014.

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Because it's a festival in the middle of the fucking desert. It's an utterly ridiculous place to have it and totally extravagant.

They'll go there claiming there to be going I to some kind of getting away from civilisation, hippie commune thing but the amount of effort and infrastructure to make that environment survivable is ridiculous they actually doing more damage to the environment by being there than if they just stayed in the city.

No one's glad someone died but their death has nothing to do with the ultimate problem of them all being there, and without being too macabre, people die music festivals all of the time, usually because of drugs. Most music festivals are held in a field, where it's at least reasonably possible to have basic infrastructure without huge expenses of money and effort.

Hello I am Tim from Microsoft Apple Your computer has a virus and I need you to do the needful

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