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cryptocurrency bullshit, kind of hilariously bad 

Imagine lending out $4 billion to companies to buy Bitcoin miners, and accepting the mining hardware as collateral.

Hardware that devalues the moment it gets shipped, has no resale or reuse value, and is almost certainly unprofitable in those exact same circumstances where the loan recipient would go bankrupt (namely, a cryptobunk economy downturn).

How on earth does one survive in the financial industry without realizing that it's completely impossible to recoup *any* losses here? I've seen literal small children make better financial decisions.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

non-binary people will spend thousands of hours coding a social media server and then use it to post stuff like 'goodness gracious, great balls'

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev This has pretty much been my policy for the past few years as well...

@ConsoleWitch @calcifer Birdsite yielded a plausible answer to this question recently, albeit in a somewhat different context: twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/ (CW: anti-abortion evangelical BS)

Had to take the bus into town today, and wore a kilt. Some Delores decided to take issue; which sadly I'm used to. "Why are you wearing a skirt?!" and so on. As I said, used to it (and big scary white dude, so I have some privilege to wield), so I'm calmly addressing it with her

But then she said "well how am I supposed to explain that to my kid?!", and friends, I didn't have to say a thing, because the most awesome Black lady jumped in. She turned to her kid (I'd guess roughly 13 years old) and said "hey, why is he allowed to wear a skirt?"

Kid: "he's grown enough to wear whatever the fuck he wants"

Mom: "see?! Ain't hard ma'am"

Delores huffed but that was pretty much the end 🤣

cheaply print processors onto materials like plastic and paper

#^PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon



Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key microcontrollers in a new form factor: rather than using silicon as a base, the company has enabled a processor core in plastic. The technology has been in the works for almost a decade, but Arm has...

you're not even allowed to develop a sense of self before the age of 20. it's a happy accident if you do. before that, you're expected to be a bundle of nerves jumping to the cruel whims of random adults.

and these people want to increase that to age 25. actually disgusting.

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tech companies be like "here are tools to monitor your child's private conversations, social media posts, bank accounts, diaries, browsing history, class attendance, GPS location, and deepest inner thoughts" with parents going "why child not trust me???? ?????"

@kim The package format (or well, one of them) is called .pet :D

@kim Also IMO this project deserves a lot more attention than it's getting

@Johann150 Ah yeah, that does sound like a tricky one :( Maybe joining a fork would be an idea?

This is cursed, but frankly also a genuinely impressive technical achievement

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I just realized that I haven't graced the fediverse yet with knowledge of the amazingly cursed software that is pMusic: a music player from the Puppy Linux project that is built entirely in Bash(!), yet has a GUI with fully-featured playlist management and advanced features like discography management and automatic YouTube searching and streaming!

@Johann150 (The underlying assumption here is that other devs might be frustrated with the state of things, but do not have enough energy/experience to organize a fork themselves, and so are letting it slide)

@Johann150 Of course, if the rest of the dev team is pretty much okay with the current situation, it becomes much harder.

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