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anony23on Google Play adds NFTs

Indeed. I also like the "no one wants this" comments where people like me comment along the lines of: "I'm an example of someone who wants this." And get moderated down to oblivion.

anony23on Google Play adds NFTs

Fiver is a nice way to finance some tacos, meanwhile NFTs have enabled artists to make life changing money.

anony23on Google Play adds NFTs

I want it, and so do others that I know.

anony23on Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"

Big brands don't care. They have massive budgets that they need to spend and are happy to spend them or else they get cut.

anony23on NYC Congestion Toll Could Cost Drivers $23 per Trip Starting Next Spring

This toll will have 0 impact on congestion and just extract money from folks that are already over taxed. It's a slap in the face to working class NYers.

anony23on NYC Congestion Toll Could Cost Drivers $23 per Trip Starting Next Spring

Are the FDR and west side highway exempt from the toll?

anony23on Before he was the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski was a mind-control test subject

The strength is there for those that leave and set their kids up for good times in a better place.

anony23on Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for

Crypto fixes this to some extent, but would require a chain that could handle a large volume of small transactions.

anony23on Lua: The Little Language That Could

What are some of the nmap scripts that you use regularly?

anony23on US govt under fire for promoting sales of spyware

Do Israel next, they export surveillance companies like nobody's business.

anony23on The networkQuality tool on macOS

Pbcopy/pbpaste are huge productivity boosters for me

anony23on Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

That sounds like having a union baked in.

anony23on Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs

Here's the world's smallest violin to those poor Google engineers who have some of the highest compensation in tech.

anony23on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app

What are some examples of these types of mods?

anony23on The crypto detectives are cleaning up

Chainalysis frequently hints that they have visibility into monero.

anony23on A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities

"Manage" to live there, but not well. Maybe they pile 4 people intona four bedroom apartment and work 2 jobs to do it.

anony23on ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

What are you building?

anony23on GPT-4 Week 4. The rise of Agents and the beginning of the Simulation era

I don't know how you can read this list and find it boring.

anony23on ‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR

You are free to chose from a number of local car service or taxi companies.

anony23on State of AI co-author: we must slow down the race to god-like AI

Apples, meet oranges.

anony23on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down

The artice is literally about how this will lead to a hostile superhuman intelligence that will wipe out humanity. It's not about AI tooling as an accelerator, which is a valid concern that imo can't be avoided.

anony23on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down

How does it make sense to assume that this is all leading towards a hostile entity?

anony23on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux

I installed ubuntu on my 2013 air aboit a year ago and it's a solid experience.

anony23on LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round

What is the python3 thing?

anony23on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses

1000 similar random anecdotes would still be random anecdotes.

anony23on The early 90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace

We are all us.

anony23on Signal is for everyone, and everyone is different

Sms support was probably single-handedly the reason they were able to onboard as many users as they did. Removing it is an epic fuck up.