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Comment · 3 years ago
The CEO is a huge scammer and at least one audit said atomic wallet was very insecure.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yep Reddit censorship only goes one way. There are tons of subs about white people doing bad things but as soon as someone makes a r/blacksdoing<bad things> it's almost immediately banned. Same goes with questioning trans/LGBT/Women/etc. Sub dedicated to misandry? OK.. your sub is loosely associated with misogyny? banned. What's funny is Elon Twitter reminding me of pre-2016 Reddit because they aren't censoring in an unbiased way.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's more the fact that you NEVER get 2 sides on Reddit, every sub just turns into a circle jerk. Posting on Reddit is pointless unless you're just trying to validate your preexisting views.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've also been drinking 2.25l of coke zero every day for 5 years and it has been a game changer for both weight and oral health. Previously i required fillings quite frequently and none over that period. Obv nobody should drink any soda if they don't have to but if replacing consumption of sugary drinks it's extremely effective for health gains. And most of the anti sugar-free soda studies are bro science.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Your salary is capped by what you produce for your employer but your salary is determined by how hard it is to replace you. In the Bay with more companies than you could count, they had to fight tooth and nail for these incredibly productive workers, pushing wages higher and higher

Companies don't seem to hire this efficiently in practice, and a large number of these big tech workers seem to receive far more value than they create. I've personally seen no change in usability of social media platforms despite a ton of layoffs. I think we will see more efficient hiring by necessity (higher rates).

Comment · 3 years ago
Doesn't this require a huge amount of voice data before it would even sound remotely believable to maybe an elderly person with hearing/processing issues? I thought this was only possible for YouTubers,news presenters, etc as they have many hours of voice data to use.
Comment · 3 years ago
Modern chat apps & message boards use their own image hosting rather than people sharing links. A bunch of old message-boards are going to be full of dead links though. Hosting these old images probably cost a ton of money that they don't recoup, whereas new users pay for their storage by forced app download & giving up their data.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's actually worse, they try to force you to download the app when trying to upload from any IOS browser even if you request the desktop site.
Comment · 3 years ago
In my case i just buy used HDDs from the local PC repair shop for pennies, and use them for my long term storage and offsite backups. Shops usually swap people's HDDs out for SSDs to speed up their PC, so they have a ton of ~1tb ones to sell for cheap. I doubt people like myself are impacting the market for HDDs though.
Comment · 3 years ago
Does GDPR remove the legal requirement for financial institutions to hold data for 7 yrs? if not then it's mostly irrelevant in this case.
Comment · 3 years ago
For over 10 years they did nothing to people who bought these kind of things with Paypal, police going after booter users is a fairly recent thing that started in the UK.
Comment · 3 years ago
Wouldn't seaweed be a net for all of those toxins & pollutants found at sea? Seafood health claims are always focused on omega 3s and such but rarely mention this aspect.
Comment · 3 years ago
Lol i noticed this. I can guarantee they're removing old.reddit soon, i can't see why else they'd do blocking on the front end this way.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you're referring to the guys on Raidforums etc.. I used to hang round there a bit to see who was getting breached, and most, including some that leaked some serious stuff for payment, have really poor opsec. They all use discord installed on their PC which they use to brag about their crimes, you can tell they aren't using it anonymously because the app is installed on their PC and they all have their gamer tags/spotify accounts connected. They were all using BTC as well last time i checked.. not even Monero.. oh and their site got seized with all that transaction history. I don't doubt that some are serious, but most of them are NGMI and many have already been arrested.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised, but parallel construction is also likely in these cases. E.g. they have some god-mode global network analytics to link most VPNs to real IPs, and simply make up some alternative plausible but bs story about how they tracked them.

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