I feel like it's one of those cases where they wrote an EULA that would probably be thrown out of court but nobody is going to actually take them to court over it.
I like the FAQ:
My antivirus has flagged the Razer cryptominer as a virus. Is it a virus?
We use open source software to build our cryptominer. Our software is not a virus, and you can have your AV let it through.
They've likely just picked up open source cryptojacking malware from Github, and then asked your permission to run it.
Actual quotes:
My antivirus software reports Razer SoftMiner as a virus. Is Razer SoftMiner a virus?
Razer SoftMiner is not a virus or a malware - we use open source libraries to build Razer SoftMiner.
Do I need to whitelist the Razer SoftMiner App on my PC?
This depends on whether the program is falsely flagged by antivirus, but we recommend doing it just in case. For step-by-step instructions, do check out our guide here on how to whitelist Razer SoftMiner on your system.
Links to an instruction PDF where you exclude the Razer folder from your AV scanning.
You know, so that all the other not-malware has a safe spot to install to in future too.
I like the FAQ:
My antivirus has flagged the Razer cryptominer as a virus. Is it a virus?
We use open source software to build our cryptominer. Our software is not a virus, and you can have your AV let it through.
They've likely just picked up open source cryptojacking malware from Github, and then asked your permission to run it.
Actual quotes:
My antivirus software reports Razer SoftMiner as a virus. Is Razer SoftMiner a virus?
Razer SoftMiner is not a virus or a malware - we use open source libraries to build Razer SoftMiner.
Do I need to whitelist the Razer SoftMiner App on my PC?
This depends on whether the program is falsely flagged by antivirus, but we recommend doing it just in case. For step-by-step instructions, do check out our guide here on how to whitelist Razer SoftMiner on your system.
Links to an instruction PDF where you exclude the Razer folder from your AV scanning.
You know, so that all the other not-malware has a safe spot to install to in future too.
You'd be amazed how many people will let malware run on their computers, so long as you tell them "Hey, that's a false positive. It's cool."
If you aren't paying for your electricity (because you live in a college dorm, say), technically the coins aren't worth less than the electricity (to you). Still...ugh.
yeah, i wouldn't really mind if they were compensating people with credits for doing useful math on their online store. No blockchain overhead, minimal cryptographic overhead just like tls, and do useful distibuted computing.
So Razer has launched a scam to get people to mine for them and in exchange their miners will be compensated with worthless Razer bucks. The Razer bucks have a store value less than the cost of the electricity you used to mine for them and they expire in a year so you can't accumulate enough to get anything.
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
So Razer has launched a scam to get people to mine for them and in exchange their miners will be compensated with worthless Razer bucks. The Razer bucks have a store value less than the cost of the electricity you used to mine for them and they expire in a year so you can't accumulate enough to get anything.
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
So Razer has launched a scam to get people to mine for them and in exchange their miners will be compensated with worthless Razer bucks. The Razer bucks have a store value less than the cost of the electricity you used to mine for them and they expire in a year so you can't accumulate enough to get anything.
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
So Razer has launched a scam to get people to mine for them and in exchange their miners will be compensated with worthless Razer bucks. The Razer bucks have a store value less than the cost of the electricity you used to mine for them and they expire in a year so you can't accumulate enough to get anything.
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
It mines crypto. They get the coins, you get funbux with an expiration date for their online store.
So Razer has launched a scam to get people to mine for them and in exchange their miners will be compensated with worthless Razer bucks. The Razer bucks have a store value less than the cost of the electricity you used to mine for them and they expire in a year so you can't accumulate enough to get anything.
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
It mines crypto. They get the coins, you get funbux with an expiration date for their online store.
Like a 19th century mine that pays workers in company scrip.
While putting the system under increased load, shortening its life expectancy.
So, likely requiring an earlier replacement than the user might have wanted otherwise, while trading that spent wear and tear/electricity on their own funbux with an expiry date.
Yeah, can't say I was a big Razer supporter in the past, but this puts me against ever snagging their products in the future.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
Honestly reading that article about the crypto cruise was painful. Like bad subject matter and I felt the reporter wanted to get herself over so much I just found myself in disbelief.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I like the FAQ:
My antivirus has flagged the Razer cryptominer as a virus. Is it a virus?
We use open source software to build our cryptominer. Our software is not a virus, and you can have your AV let it through.
They've likely just picked up open source cryptojacking malware from Github, and then asked your permission to run it.
Actual quotes:
My antivirus software reports Razer SoftMiner as a virus. Is Razer SoftMiner a virus?
Razer SoftMiner is not a virus or a malware - we use open source libraries to build Razer SoftMiner.
Do I need to whitelist the Razer SoftMiner App on my PC?
This depends on whether the program is falsely flagged by antivirus, but we recommend doing it just in case. For step-by-step instructions, do check out our guide here on how to whitelist Razer SoftMiner on your system.
Links to an instruction PDF where you exclude the Razer folder from your AV scanning.
You know, so that all the other not-malware has a safe spot to install to in future too.
You'd be amazed how many people will let malware run on their computers, so long as you tell them "Hey, that's a false positive. It's cool."
I mean, it's not that amazing. It's pretty a obvious and compelling argument if you don't actually understand what is going on. It's like saying "don't let strangers into your home" and then going "but this guy is our official furnace repairman, so it's ok to let him in, even though he's a stranger". The mental model most people use for how computer stuff functions makes this kind of exception seem perfectly reasonable.
Honestly reading that article about the crypto cruise was painful. Like bad subject matter and I felt the reporter wanted to get herself over so much I just found myself in disbelief.
I would have enjoyed the article more if at every point it took the time to highlight that nothing that was bought/spent would accept crypto currency as a valid payment.
I mean, it's not that amazing. It's pretty a obvious and compelling argument if you don't actually understand what is going on. It's like saying "don't let strangers into your home" and then going "but this guy is our official furnace repairman, so it's ok to let him in, even though he's a stranger". The mental model most people use for how computer stuff functions makes this kind of exception seem perfectly reasonable.
It's a convergence of bad ideas, all rolled into one!
I wish people would understand that currency is just a medium of exchange. Building the dumb fucking wall is a diversion of labor and resources that could go else where, like the hundreds of run down roads and bridges we have to fix. That is the real cost of building the wall, not currency we can magic out of thin air, but real labor and real concrete and fuel and machinery.
Using stolen or subsidized electricity to mine cryptocurrency is a fancy way to launder our planet's limited resources and environmental sinks into your own personal bank account.
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
It's a convergence of bad ideas, all rolled into one!
I wish people would understand that currency is just a medium of exchange. Building the dumb fucking wall is a diversion of labor and resources that could go else where, like the hundreds of run down roads and bridges we have to fix. That is the real cost of building the wall, not currency we can magic out of thin air, but real labor and real concrete and fuel and machinery.
Using stolen or subsidized electricity to mine cryptocurrency is a fancy way to launder our planet's limited resources and environmental sinks into your own personal bank account.
This sounds like an overly efficient interpretation to me.
Like, the electricity aspect of Bitcoin is...incidental? Like on a very fundamental level it's hard to explain just how useless the resultant "product" really is.
So Razer has launched a scam to get people to mine for them and in exchange their miners will be compensated with worthless Razer bucks. The Razer bucks have a store value less than the cost of the electricity you used to mine for them and they expire in a year so you can't accumulate enough to get anything.
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
It mines crypto. They get the coins, you get funbux with an expiration date for their online store.
Like a 19th century mine that pays workers in company scrip.
Sham there is no regulatory or law enforcement entity that gives a shit if that's true.
I don't understand why it wouldn't be the norm if there was a way the find profit in it.
I mean I'm perfectly willing to gamble on former crypto-mining graphics cards. But I'm going to be doing it while asking for a steep-discount from people's liquidation sales...
Tulips were a much better investment, long-term. Tourists still visit Holland to see the beautiful fields of tulips.
Yes, but here's the thing - turns out that, unknown to the science of the time, the fanciest and most prized breeds were that way because of a virus that infected the bulbs and caused their petals to be striped with multiple colors. That same virus weakened the plants, so that those same rare breeds were sickly and soon died out. Today, most of them exist only as illustrations - images of a brief glory made possible by the same flaw, grafted into its genetic code, that doomed it to extinction.
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While putting the system under increased load, shortening its life expectancy.
So, likely requiring an earlier replacement than the user might have wanted otherwise, while trading that spent wear and tear/electricity on their own funbux with an expiry date.
Yeah, can't say I was a big Razer supporter in the past, but this puts me against ever snagging their products in the future.
I mean, Razer isn't selling the stuff that's getting wear and tear from this program. It's not a clicker that's going to wear down your mouse.
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*looks at stock price of the past few years*
Oh...
Getting pretty desperate I guess.
I feel like it's one of those cases where they wrote an EULA that would probably be thrown out of court but nobody is going to actually take them to court over it.
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My antivirus has flagged the Razer cryptominer as a virus. Is it a virus?
We use open source software to build our cryptominer. Our software is not a virus, and you can have your AV let it through.
They've likely just picked up open source cryptojacking malware from Github, and then asked your permission to run it.
Actual quotes:
Razer SoftMiner is not a virus or a malware - we use open source libraries to build Razer SoftMiner.
Do I need to whitelist the Razer SoftMiner App on my PC?
This depends on whether the program is falsely flagged by antivirus, but we recommend doing it just in case. For step-by-step instructions, do check out our guide here on how to whitelist Razer SoftMiner on your system.
Links to an instruction PDF where you exclude the Razer folder from your AV scanning.
You know, so that all the other not-malware has a safe spot to install to in future too.
You'd be amazed how many people will let malware run on their computers, so long as you tell them "Hey, that's a false positive. It's cool."
also, meaningfully informed consent
So is it mining tbitcoin or something, and they're compensating yiu with their own crypto, or is it doing something useful like modeling protein folding?
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahhahahahahhahaha
'Bitcoin is a way to use impossibly complex Su Dokus to convert coal into heroin by cooking the planet'
It mines crypto. They get the coins, you get funbux with an expiration date for their online store.
Like a 19th century mine that pays workers in company scrip.
So, likely requiring an earlier replacement than the user might have wanted otherwise, while trading that spent wear and tear/electricity on their own funbux with an expiry date.
Yeah, can't say I was a big Razer supporter in the past, but this puts me against ever snagging their products in the future.
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I mean, it's not that amazing. It's pretty a obvious and compelling argument if you don't actually understand what is going on. It's like saying "don't let strangers into your home" and then going "but this guy is our official furnace repairman, so it's ok to let him in, even though he's a stranger". The mental model most people use for how computer stuff functions makes this kind of exception seem perfectly reasonable.
I would have enjoyed the article more if at every point it took the time to highlight that nothing that was bought/spent would accept crypto currency as a valid payment.
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It's a convergence of bad ideas, all rolled into one!
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I wish people would understand that currency is just a medium of exchange. Building the dumb fucking wall is a diversion of labor and resources that could go else where, like the hundreds of run down roads and bridges we have to fix. That is the real cost of building the wall, not currency we can magic out of thin air, but real labor and real concrete and fuel and machinery.
Using stolen or subsidized electricity to mine cryptocurrency is a fancy way to launder our planet's limited resources and environmental sinks into your own personal bank account.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
This sounds like an overly efficient interpretation to me.
Like, the electricity aspect of Bitcoin is...incidental? Like on a very fundamental level it's hard to explain just how useless the resultant "product" really is.
I guess when everyone else's money can actually be exchanged easily for goods and services, everyone looks "Well funded and coordinated".
Sham there is no regulatory or law enforcement entity that gives a shit if that's true.
I don't understand why it wouldn't be the norm if there was a way the find profit in it.
(and some people are finally waking up to the fact that they're selling fucking tulips, as it were.)
So you're saying we should make all the burned out video cards into an RGB tourist attraction?
Yes, but here's the thing - turns out that, unknown to the science of the time, the fanciest and most prized breeds were that way because of a virus that infected the bulbs and caused their petals to be striped with multiple colors. That same virus weakened the plants, so that those same rare breeds were sickly and soon died out. Today, most of them exist only as illustrations - images of a brief glory made possible by the same flaw, grafted into its genetic code, that doomed it to extinction.
I mean, Razer isn't selling the stuff that's getting wear and tear from this program. It's not a clicker that's going to wear down your mouse.
Still super shitty.
Ok sure but they have pointy bits and as we all know point bits mean they're better for gaming
It's kind of like how overpaying for an uncomfortable racecar chair means you're a real gamer