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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I read the Gizmodo review - the tap-near-the-buds to control them feature is more interesting than the hole. I’d like some normal solid buds with that feature.

    I like the hole, but i almost exclusively use my buds in places where i need to hear things.

    The tapping seems cool, hopefully it doesnt end up in a hitchikers guide to the galaxy radio situation.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I've got some Jabra earbuds, and they've got a Hear Through setting that works way better than I'd have expected. It just uses the microphones to mix the ambient sound into whatever you're listening to. So I can turn it off when I'm using the stand mixer and don't want it to drown out my podcasts and turn it on when I'm walking outside and need to listen for cars and large predators.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Today's "boy the Web3/NFT crowd is full of goobers" story involves a group of people trying to make NFTs out of Magic: The Gathering cards, without Wizards of the Coast's involvement of course. My favorite quote, out of a bunch of good ones:
    “In the long run, I think there’s a chance we can just buy the Magic brand from Wizards of the Coast. mtgDAO could be the next evolution of what this game and this community is and how it is operated and controlled.”

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    Peen wrote: »
    Today's "boy the Web3/NFT crowd is full of goobers" story involves a group of people trying to make NFTs out of Magic: The Gathering cards, without Wizards of the Coast's involvement of course. My favorite quote, out of a bunch of good ones:
    “In the long run, I think there’s a chance we can just buy the Magic brand from Wizards of the Coast. mtgDAO could be the next evolution of what this game and this community is and how it is operated and controlled.”

    To paraphrase Charles Baggage.
    I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I understand the grift as a grift/pyramid scheme.
    i don't understand the people who should have enough technical knowledge to see how the sausage is made buying in earnestly to this nonsense framework. Don't get high on your own supply, idiots?!

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  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    I understand the grift as a grift/pyramid scheme.
    i don't understand the people who should have enough technical knowledge to see how the sausage is made buying in earnestly to this nonsense framework. Don't get high on your own supply, idiots?!

    They're trying to get rich for low effort.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    The crypto/nft economy only makes sense to me if I imagine that everybody involves knows it's a scam and thinks they are the scammer.

    Like I'm sure rationally that there are 'true believers' but I cannot fit them into my worldview.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    I understand the grift as a grift/pyramid scheme.
    i don't understand the people who should have enough technical knowledge to see how the sausage is made buying in earnestly to this nonsense framework. Don't get high on your own supply, idiots?!

    They're trying to get rich for low effort.

    Yeah but there's a huge difference between "we can make easy millions selling pictures of someone else's cash cow card game to suckers" and "they will sell us ownership of their cash cow card game and then we will utterly transform it and people will still like it"

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The crypto/nft economy only makes sense to me if I imagine that everybody involves knows it's a scam and thinks they are the scammer.

    Like I'm sure rationally that there are 'true believers' but I cannot fit them into my worldview.
    If someone believes that right clicking on a NFT is theft then they're a true believer. If they genuinely believe that owning a token has given them "ownership" over something else, they're a true believer.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    At a certain point it's difficult to tell who's a true believer and who is pretending to be a true believer so they can fleece the actual true believers.

  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    I understand the grift as a grift/pyramid scheme.
    i don't understand the people who should have enough technical knowledge to see how the sausage is made buying in earnestly to this nonsense framework. Don't get high on your own supply, idiots?!

    They're trying to get rich for low effort.

    Yeah but there's a huge difference between "we can make easy millions selling pictures of someone else's cash cow card game to suckers" and "they will sell us ownership of their cash cow card game and then we will utterly transform it and people will still like it"

    Well, given crypto/tech valuations compared to normal ones, if it was popular ENOUGH you might be able to buy out Hasbro if you have enough suckers.
    Hasbro's market cap is 13.3B, while startup dapper labs (which runs top shot for NBA) already has a pre-market val of 7.6B as of september of last year. In 2021, VC sunk more than 33B into crypto/web3 ventures, so major crypto venture on known brand? Definitely possible.

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    schuss wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    I understand the grift as a grift/pyramid scheme.
    i don't understand the people who should have enough technical knowledge to see how the sausage is made buying in earnestly to this nonsense framework. Don't get high on your own supply, idiots?!

    They're trying to get rich for low effort.

    Yeah but there's a huge difference between "we can make easy millions selling pictures of someone else's cash cow card game to suckers" and "they will sell us ownership of their cash cow card game and then we will utterly transform it and people will still like it"

    Well, given crypto/tech valuations compared to normal ones, if it was popular ENOUGH you might be able to buy out Hasbro if you have enough suckers.
    Hasbro's market cap is 13.3B, while startup dapper labs (which runs top shot for NBA) already has a pre-market val of 7.6B as of september of last year. In 2021, VC sunk more than 33B into crypto/web3 ventures, so major crypto venture on known brand? Definitely possible.

    It might be be possible for someone but that doesn't make it possible for this random collection if assholes, particularly if they think it's a viable long term goal after starting out blatantly stealing it.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Part of the problem is that company valuations in this industry are mostly bullshit with no correlation to reality.

    I mean, someone gave the HQ Trivia people $15million bucks on a $100million valuation while they were absolutely hopelessly bleeding money with no workable way to actually make money.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Win 11 got an update and it finally shows the clock on secondary monitors.

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  • schussschuss Registered User regular
    schuss wrote: »
    schuss wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    I understand the grift as a grift/pyramid scheme.
    i don't understand the people who should have enough technical knowledge to see how the sausage is made buying in earnestly to this nonsense framework. Don't get high on your own supply, idiots?!

    They're trying to get rich for low effort.

    Yeah but there's a huge difference between "we can make easy millions selling pictures of someone else's cash cow card game to suckers" and "they will sell us ownership of their cash cow card game and then we will utterly transform it and people will still like it"

    Well, given crypto/tech valuations compared to normal ones, if it was popular ENOUGH you might be able to buy out Hasbro if you have enough suckers.
    Hasbro's market cap is 13.3B, while startup dapper labs (which runs top shot for NBA) already has a pre-market val of 7.6B as of september of last year. In 2021, VC sunk more than 33B into crypto/web3 ventures, so major crypto venture on known brand? Definitely possible.

    It might be be possible for someone but that doesn't make it possible for this random collection if assholes, particularly if they think it's a viable long term goal after starting out blatantly stealing it.

    I'd like to say it's not possible for a random group of assholes, but crypto is such a weird momentum space with so little logic that I can't say for sure.

  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    Peewi wrote: »
    Win 11 got an update and it finally shows the clock on secondary monitors.

    The future is now.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The crypto/nft economy only makes sense to me if I imagine that everybody involves knows it's a scam and thinks they are the scammer.

    Like I'm sure rationally that there are 'true believers' but I cannot fit them into my worldview.
    If someone believes that right clicking on a NFT is theft then they're a true believer. If they genuinely believe that owning a token has given them "ownership" over something else, they're a true believer.

    They might be a true believer, but they're not a true understander, since the image isn't what they own. They own the link to it.

    That's why all this haha we right clicked his NFT makes no sense to me. You didn't "steal" anything they actually own. You haven't done anything at all. You can never actually steal that. If they're worried about it, it means they don't understand what they're doing.

    Not that this is surprising.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Well yeah, most of them only have the loosest grasp on what they actually own.

    If that weren’t the case, you wouldn’t have so many easy marks.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The crypto/nft economy only makes sense to me if I imagine that everybody involves knows it's a scam and thinks they are the scammer.

    Like I'm sure rationally that there are 'true believers' but I cannot fit them into my worldview.
    If someone believes that right clicking on a NFT is theft then they're a true believer. If they genuinely believe that owning a token has given them "ownership" over something else, they're a true believer.

    They might be a true believer, but they're not a true understander, since the image isn't what they own. They own the link to it.

    That's why all this haha we right clicked his NFT makes no sense to me. You didn't "steal" anything they actually own. You haven't done anything at all. You can never actually steal that.

    well, they own a reference to the link, the link itself is still owned by ICANN/the registrar

    but it's much easier for someone to "show" what they own if it's represented by an image, and that's why people "steal" the image, since the fundamental nature of showing it to someone makes it trivially easy to "steal"

  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The crypto/nft economy only makes sense to me if I imagine that everybody involves knows it's a scam and thinks they are the scammer.

    Like I'm sure rationally that there are 'true believers' but I cannot fit them into my worldview.
    If someone believes that right clicking on a NFT is theft then they're a true believer. If they genuinely believe that owning a token has given them "ownership" over something else, they're a true believer.

    They might be a true believer, but they're not a true understander, since the image isn't what they own. They own the link to it.

    That's why all this haha we right clicked his NFT makes no sense to me. You didn't "steal" anything they actually own. You haven't done anything at all. You can never actually steal that.

    well, they own a reference to the link, the link itself is still owned by ICANN/the registrar

    but it's much easier for someone to "show" what they own if it's represented by an image, and that's why people "steal" the image, since the fundamental nature of showing it to someone makes it trivially easy to "steal"

    That doesn't make the "theft" anymore real. It's just a fundamental misunderstanding of the whole thing, on both sides.

    NFT's are ridiculous, all round.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    But joking about right clicking their ape gets some of them mad and that brings me joy.

    Don't take this from me.

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  • replacewythyreplacewythy Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    But joking about right clicking their ape gets some of them mad and that brings me joy.

    Don't take this from me.

    sorry but I'm going to take this from you. I'm going to right click it from you

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    DON’T STEAL MY APES BRO

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
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    Too late.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    I dunno if I agree that people making right-click jokes misunderstand the nft concept, it's just the quickest way to point out how stupid the concept is.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    People dunking on NFTs almost certainly understand NFTs better than people that promote them

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    But joking about right clicking their ape gets some of them mad and that brings me joy.

    Don't take this from me.

    I just right clicked it. See cos I swapped my mouse left and right clicks so I literally did just press right click to quote it. B)

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    Hey tech thread, does anyone know of a preferably open source, but if not then free as in free beer android browser that can easily be used in whitelist mode?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    what's whitelist mode?

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  • Slacker71Slacker71 subgenius RentonRegistered User regular
    You give it an allowed list of domains that it allowed to access.

  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    what's whitelist mode?

    Only allows websites from a whitelist. I know it can be done with plugins in stuff like kiwi browser, but ideally it'd be a browser that opens just one website.

    I'm half of a mind to make a WebView app myself is how long I've been looking for one..

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I dunno if I agree that people making right-click jokes misunderstand the nft concept, it's just the quickest way to point out how stupid the concept is.

    I don’t think people promoting NFTs understand DNS or link rot.

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
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    Too late.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I'm not sure I expected "NFT bros are loudly and publicly ignorant about IP law" would become a genre of news story, but between this and the Dune thing, I'm having a pretty good time

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  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    what's whitelist mode?

    Only allows websites from a whitelist. I know it can be done with plugins in stuff like kiwi browser, but ideally it'd be a browser that opens just one website.

    I'm half of a mind to make a WebView app myself is how long I've been looking for one..

    What's the setup? Can you do it with a kids profile and an url Allowlist? I didn't realize most the browsers lock their advanced configs behind enterprise management, just trying to open Edge://policy crashes the browser on Android.

  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    Carpy wrote: »
    what's whitelist mode?

    Only allows websites from a whitelist. I know it can be done with plugins in stuff like kiwi browser, but ideally it'd be a browser that opens just one website.

    I'm half of a mind to make a WebView app myself is how long I've been looking for one..

    What's the setup? Can you do it with a kids profile and an url Allowlist? I didn't realize most the browsers lock their advanced configs behind enterprise management, just trying to open Edge://policy crashes the browser on Android.

    Nah ideally it should be either an xml or a "the site the browser starts with is the only one available"

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    My Pixel 4a got stuck in a boot loop all morning. I couldn’t do anything with it until the battery died.

    It seems to be stable now so I was able to transfer my Authenticator stuff to a spare work phone. I’m just gonna charge it up, reset it and hope that fixes whatever happened. I really don’t want to buy a new phone right now.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Huh. My phone has been flagging suspected spam calls for a while now, but just now one popped up marked as "Political Call." Seems nice for me personally since I can't get much more energized without jumping to a higher valence shell, but I do wonder how it's going to affect phone canvassing if it becomes a widespread feature.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Huh. My phone has been flagging suspected spam calls for a while now, but just now one popped up marked as "Political Call." Seems nice for me personally since I can't get much more energized without jumping to a higher valence shell, but I do wonder how it's going to affect phone canvassing if it becomes a widespread feature.

    if it's flagging like... unsolicited robo calls for donations then I have no problem with phones just blocking that shit

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    I treat political spam calls the same way I do commercial and scam spam calls so it makes no difference to me

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