Oh wow - did not know that!

Bit of a weird choice, given that routers usually allow limiting connections to specific MAC addresses as a security feature. Everything’s a trade-off, I guess…

Dunno, I found it pretty easy to set up different rules for different devices.

"Some people are going to get their heads cut off. "

Funny he should say that

Yeah out of many changes that distorted or outright altered meaning, one of the worst bits was that the second version eliminated the crucial first few words - which acknowledged the original post and therefore set a particular tone.

Communication is way more complex than statistical relationships between words, and I sincerely doubt that any of these systems will ever be able to fully mimic that complexity

Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners

Corporations and surveillance?

Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.

For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here’s a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:

Reveal: It’s Not Easy Going Green

https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/

Isn’t technofeudalism great?

Lol, and just immediately downvoted. Lemmy needs that essay more than I thought! Too easy to be reactive without accountability on this platform, sadly

How is this not considered spam?

This is literally just an ad for a product. It even has the price in the title for crying out loud!

And to top it off, it’s posted by an account that I’m pretty sure reported me for spam, because I posted a tech-philosophy essay where the site mentioned at the end that the essay was also published in a zine.

Well, thanks for not incorrectly calling the post spam and downvoting it at least lol

Huh? This is a link to an essay, unless I’m entirely missing something

Hey look, I wasn’t the one that wrote this:

“E.g. for people in Turkey, it’s a lot more stable than their own currency. Same logic for probably dozens of other countries…”

Is the “dozens of other countries” statement something you no longer stand behind, or are you done being rude?

So the argument is no longer “Bitcoin provides stability” or whatever, but instead is, “it’s no more unstable than the world’s most unstable national currency”?

Turns out you’re right, BTC price only went down 77% from the 2021 peak, my mistake /s

Thanks. Although to be honest I’m not sure what their edit was - does Lemmy not have a way to view a post’s edit history?? Seems like a problem…

Bitcoin regularly loses 85% of its “value” vs USD

85%

This has happened multiple times

Uh oh guys, we got a salty bag holder 😂

Bitcoin’s “value” in USD terms has dropped ~20% in the last few days, so I’m not sure we can call it ‘stable’

This is like saying “laws aren’t always enforced equally, so we should have no laws whatsoever”. Bitcoin is not a helpful response.