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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The purpose of this story is not to be pro disability or supporting schizophrenic visibility, the purpose of this made up story is to hate on smart devices and how they shove ads into everything. I agree with the sentiment of hating ads, i disagree with exploiting a disability by making up a fake story to make that point.

    Im not saying if this did happen its okay, im saying this is a made up story with no proof and several indicators that its made up in the actual source.

    If someone has a serious mental illness that can be triggered by screens showing ads i would hope they have a living situation that avoids having such things around, especially if they live alone, or if they dont live alone then they could just ask the person they live with about it.





  • So they missed the apple tv logo, from the creators of breaking bad, new series, and the fact that the fridge shows countless other ads. They also almost certainly they clicked “i agree” to terms that included targeted ads.

    Either the schizophrenic is not familiar with the very concept of ads or this story is completely fake.

    Edit: I didnt mean this to sound dismissive of schizophrenia, I just thought it was super obvious the story was fake. The purpose of this story is not to be pro disability or supporting schizophrenic visibility, the purpose of this made up story is to hate on smart devices and how they shove ads into everything. I agree with the sentiment of hating ads, but I disagree with exploiting a disability by making up a fake story to make that point.






  • Surveillance capitalism in this context would be how the “product” genuis is selling is your usage data, as opposed to what they seem to provide which is song lyrics.

    You may have heard the phrase " if you arent paying for it then YOU are the product", An oversimplified version but the same idea.

    Genuis is a tracking and metrics service for spotify and other rent seekers in the music industry, they do it by offering lyrics for “free” and tracking as much as they can about users who visit the site.


  • Someone discovered an exploit on cardano (a blockchain) that allowed for a “bad” transaction (think spending the same coin twice, or rejecting a transaction that was already valid).

    This got some discussion but an actual fix wasnt the priority. Someone else decided to try and see if they could intentionally create a similar bad transaction.

    There is a dedicated test chain which is specifically for those kind of tests but instead of choosing to do the bad transaction on the test chain, the person thought they would just block all internet traffic on their computer, but instead of doing that correctly by unplugging their ethernet cable or turning off the wifi, asked chat GPT how to block traffic ans chatGPT guessed wrong.

    … Its a pretty weak excuse IMO. It doesnt sound like the exploit was vibe coded, just that the person trusted instructions about blocking connections from GPT. Like if this was a professional they would be fired immediately for such incompetence, but it sounds like it was not a professional.

    Ultimately the problem is that they made the choice to use the main blockchain instead of the test one, that makes their defense of it being an accident a bit weak.