raktheundead

Lithuania is considered, along with Latvia and Estonia, to be a developed country now. It really took a step forward after being freed from the chains of Russian subjugation.

Bitcoin is the ur-cryptocurrency, the Original Sin from which all of the other flaws from cryptocurrency arise.

Yeah, whataboutism is essentially telling on one’s self; an implicit recognition that one has no better arguments than to try to distract.

Yeah, the West kept semiconductor technology away from the Soviets for years and even though the Soviets managed ways of importing it through grey markets in other countries, their reverse-engineering attempts were consistently a decade or more behind the West, something that’s continued to this day in Russia.

The vast majority of people who have any experience with crypto… will be people who were victims of rug-pulls

Don’t forget ransomware!

First of all, not American.

Second of all, nine-dash line and neo-colonialism in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe says very differently. As does the Han supremacism that Xi surrepitously perpetuates.

That moment when you pretend to fight against imperialism - by implicitly supporting imperialists in the PRC.

Microsoft definitely did: https://www.zdnet.com/finance/blockchain/microsoft-is-shutting-down-its-azure-blockchain-service/

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were also serious internal discussions from some cryptocurrency booster within the ranks at Google as well.

And this is an example of the “AI as a continuation of the same grift as blockchain” pipeline, with exactly the same vague business wank with no substance behind it: https://www.aiunleashedglobalsummit.com/summit

A lot of companies investigated cryptocurrency obliquely; “blockchain” was the hype word for several years in tech. And several of those companies had a serious sunk-cost fallacy going when they perpetuated their blockchain projects, despite blockchain only at best being a case of Worse Is Better, where a solution that sucks, but exists can be better than a perfect option that doesn’t.

It’s also worth noting that the same VCs who backed cryptocurrency have pivoted to generative AI. It’s all part of the same grift, just with different clothes.

inb4 “hurting the feelings of the Chinese people”

He never ate his own balls like he said he would. Coward.

Sometimes, it’s about the perception of power, but these people tend to make the worst sorts of moderators. Sometimes, it’s about wanting to steer a community in a certain direction or to stabilise a community in the direction it’s already going in. As for me, I’ve gone through the first two, plus had a third path - I was effectively deputised as a moderator twice as a spam-catcher.

Attempted to use Red Hat 4 (pre-RHEL), but couldn’t work out the partitioning. However, I tried SuSE Linux Personal 7.0 soon afterwards and YaST gave me a much smoother time when installing everything; I’ve been using SUSE/openSUSE ever since as my primary Linux distro.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Well, yeah. They’re also partially responsible for the anti-choice movement in Ireland.

“LibsofTiktok” is clearly just a right wing actor making liberal viewpoints look stupid, yeah?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok