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#3119015 22-Aug-2023 15:09

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Ahh, are you saying owning an NFT brings some kind of exclusive rights as well ? Well if so, that's great for the owner. But yeah, apes ......

NFTs are a scam in my opinion. What I'm saying is that most things in life are indistinguishable from NFTs except that people will come deal with you if you break whatever the rules that society has agreed to around them.

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#3119024 22-Aug-2023 15:49

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elpenguino:

Ahh, are you saying owning an NFT brings some kind of exclusive rights as well ? Well if so, that's great for the owner. But yeah, apes ......

NFTs are a scam in my opinion. What I'm saying is that most things in life are indistinguishable from NFTs except that people will come deal with you if you break whatever the rules that society has agreed to around them.

They're gotta be a scam because Trump has them: https://collecttrumpcards.com/

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#3119036 22-Aug-2023 16:43

freitasm:

Obviously, creators aren't happy -

How tall are they? 😇

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#3119037 22-Aug-2023 16:44

Maybe this will help:

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#3119065 22-Aug-2023 18:18

Well they've got the fungible wrong, everyone knows that Funge is a programming language. So a nonfungible token is from the Chicken programming language, which isn't Funge98 therefore not fungible.

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#3119208 23-Aug-2023 02:17

The NFTs seem to be a reminiscent of Hans Christian Andersen's story of the Emperor's New Clothes. 😄

When I happened to see the film "Idiocracy" for the first time, I wanted to press the stop button after only 3 minutes because I thought it was one of those silly American Sunday afternoon entertainment films. After seeing what is going on in the world, I now consider it a serious documentary of current affairs and the near future. 🤔

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#3119252 23-Aug-2023 09:09

Why would anyone buy tickets for the second edition of a scam, with the same convicted fraudster running it?

Ah, right. TikTok influencers and NFT buyers.

(I say TikTok influencers because the original Fyre Festival was targeted at Instagram influencers, TikTok is the new grounds for scamming people).

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#3119340 23-Aug-2023 12:49

freitasm:
Why would anyone buy tickets for the second edition of a scam, with the same convicted fraudster running it?

If you read the in-depth writeups of his career he has a checklist of many of the traits of a narcissist (NPD), so no doubt he'll be able to con people into contributing again, and it'll very predictably fail again because he has close to zero ability to get anything done that he can't get someone else to do for him.

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#3119823 24-Aug-2023 15:11

Finally got around to finding out why the Stuff quiz is so slow to load. It turns out that it's hosted in Germany!

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#3119958 25-Aug-2023 00:15

Behodar:

Finally got around to finding out why the Stuff quiz is so slow to load. It turns out that it's hosted in Germany!

But that doesn't make answering the quiz any slower (faster). 😄

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#3120316 25-Aug-2023 21:27

Youtube recommended to me, for no reason I can fathom apart from that I'd been watching physics videos, this fact-check video on why some viral images of supposed directed energy weapons used on Maui are fake. I watched it out of a morbid sense of curiosity, they traced down the original images all of which predate the Maui fires by years and none of which are photos of directed-energy weapons.

Then if you scroll down to the comments it's just endless "no, this is all fake, they really did use energy weapons on Maui, the fires were deliberately lit because $random_brain_fart".

Man, some people are stupid.

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#3120698 27-Aug-2023 06:10

The ad blocker reached a staggering 53.2% of blocked domains within 24 hours today.

All routine DNS queries are already recursively negotiated directly with the public root master servers (13 or 14 worldwide) and cached. Although I have over 1.4 million usual suspects in the blacklist, I have only had to whitelist a tiny 2 to 3 domains so far. In the meantime, digital self-defence has become indispensable - it is mercilessly tracked and traced, even against given, flowery promises not to do so.

The winner is web.facebook.com with over 4000 requests, although I have neither an account nor anything else to do with them, possibliy a spying app with a link to facebook.

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#3120707 27-Aug-2023 08:20

Have removed the last part of the above comment. As per the FUG, no calling people funny names here please.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

Keep calm, and carry on posting.

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#3120713 27-Aug-2023 08:59

Tinkerisk:

The ad blocker reached a staggering 53.2% of blocked domains within 24 hours today.

All routine DNS queries are already recursively negotiated directly with the public root master servers (13 or 14 worldwide) and cached. Although I have over 1.4 million usual suspects in the blacklist, I have only had to whitelist a tiny 2 to 3 domains so far. In the meantime, digital self-defence has become indispensable - it is mercilessly tracked and traced, even against given, flowery promises not to do so.

The winner is web.facebook.com with over 4000 requests, although I have neither an account nor anything else to do with them, possibliy a spying app with a link to facebook.

Absurd, isn't it? I saw a thing the other day about web pages that mine bitcoins in the background. The comment was that the very fact that it was possible for this to happen in the first place - inside a glorified document viewer (web browser) - shows that the companies making these browsers don't care one whit about user privacy/security/energy usage etc.

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#3120721 27-Aug-2023 09:33

Stu: Have removed the last part of the above comment. As per the FUG, no calling people funny names here please.

That‘s completely ok for me, I just „forgot“ my good education for a few seconds, especially since I had inadvertently omitted the formal form of address "Mister". ;-)

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