minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemstoFediverse@lemmy.world•The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoNostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice, linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoThe return of Jacob Wohl! Yeah, he’s into AI nowplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe return of Jacob Wohl! Yeah, he’s into AI nowplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoMatt Whyglesias maintains his crypto curiosityplus-squaretherevolvingdoorproject.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMatt Whyglesias maintains his crypto curiosityplus-squaretherevolvingdoorproject.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoDoom Coin: a short story about the post-apocalypse, it has bitcoins inplus-squaredavidgerard.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDoom Coin: a short story about the post-apocalypse, it has bitcoins inplus-squaredavidgerard.co.ukDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agothe Kamala Harris "pro-crypto" news is such arrant nonsense that even a crypto mag debunks itplus-squareprotos.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkthe Kamala Harris "pro-crypto" news is such arrant nonsense that even a crypto mag debunks itplus-squareprotos.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-23 months agohold up hold up kids, Matt Whyglesias has IMPORTANT POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS for Harris: look more "moderate" by (checks notes) getting into bitcoinplus-squarewww.slowboring.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkhold up hold up kids, Matt Whyglesias has IMPORTANT POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS for Harris: look more "moderate" by (checks notes) getting into bitcoinplus-squarewww.slowboring.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoGoogle is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search resultsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search resultsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 25 August 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 25 August 2024plus-squarepinDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoChatGPT makes a terrible doctor. But it’s very convincing!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkChatGPT makes a terrible doctor. But it’s very convincing!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoHow to fix AI’s ghastly power consumption? Fake the numbers!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHow to fix AI’s ghastly power consumption? Fake the numbers!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoElon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelordsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelordsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoSan Francisco sues sites over nude AI deepfakes — including childrenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco sues sites over nude AI deepfakes — including childrenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoWyoming reporter finds one weird trick to fabricate quotes and stories!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWyoming reporter finds one weird trick to fabricate quotes and stories!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agouse a blockchain, they said. Fabulous efficiency, they said. Will revolutionise stock trading in Australia, they said.plus-squarewww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkuse a blockchain, they said. Fabulous efficiency, they said. Will revolutionise stock trading in Australia, they said.plus-squarewww.ft.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoKroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gougerplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkKroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gougerplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoThe FCC wants to stop cloned phone voicesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe FCC wants to stop cloned phone voicesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoManagement consultants are making a bundle in the AI boomplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkManagement consultants are making a bundle in the AI boomplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoLet them fight: Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigsplus-squareprotos.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLet them fight: Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigsplus-squareprotos.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to Buttcoin@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoMicrosoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externallyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externallyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agoMilitary AI: I’m from the government and EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATEplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMilitary AI: I’m from the government and EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATEplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agoThe Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriaplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriaplus-squaremedium.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Nostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice,