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Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

The comment and response are much better in full

altdsmart 1 day ago

Well I’ll be. There are anti-blockchain people in the comments. I post an image showing web3 and NFT ads running right here on the site…and it gets deleted. Oh well. That’s all folks. Until next time.

Response from Bree Royce (staff) 1 day ago

I already replied to you, and I told you how advertising works and how our readers help us by reporting these ads so we can block them when they sneak through Google by misleadingly flagging themselves to mask what they are. And then I got my tech to block the ad once I found it. And then I deleted your post for being off-topic since our ads have nothing to do with this news article. But perhaps I should have left it: The fact that blockchain hucksters deliberately lie and mislabel their ads to sneak through Google’s filters because legitimate gamers and respectable websites don’t want anything to do with them should tell everyone all they need to know about this tech.

Also it's incredibly amusing the guy's profile picture is the only one that doesn't load on the entire site, I don't even know why that is but thank god I don't have to look at that artistic abortion.

Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago

The platform was designed first and foremost to be a virtual town hall of engagement opportunities in which all technologies are seamlessly integrated and abstracted

what

That's like reading the marketing page for some cloud tool that your manager will surely pester you about on the next daily. "Hey, I think we should use Sporgle. They seamlessly integrate and abstract all technologies in a virtual town hall of engagement opportunities." ^1^

Just have fun with your friends and we’ll take care of the rest.

That's what I've been doing and I didn't need you to help with that so I'll just carry on I think.

^1^ Only that was back in 2020. Now they've rebranded to Sporgle.ai. The marketing page is exactly the same only there's "with the power of AI" added at the end.

Crypto ghouls drop the mask with a conference advertisement overflowing with TESCREAL jargon + The One Joke™ in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Jesus christ this is so cringe, they used The One Joke three times in the first minute and that's not even the halfway point, I'm not finishing this nonsense

Argentinian president Javier Milei promotes memecoin that then crashes 95% in apparent $100 million+ rug pull in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Were you invited to the lavish opening party with the flamingos and the dancers at the huge mansion with two pools and all that?

If yes then you're definitely the mark.

The real test is whether you're included in the 5 person Signal group they coordinate the date and time to dump

Argentinian president Javier Milei promotes memecoin that then crashes 95% in apparent $100 million+ rug pull in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

I'm sure a bunch of people buy knowing it'll collapse, but thing they're so smart and savvy they'll sell it just in time to get rich

US hacker sentenced to five years in the slammer for laundering the proceeds of nearly 120,000 stolen bitcoin worth $10,800,000,000 at today's prices in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

If you're hearing this, then there is still hope. Hope that you can avoid making the same mistakes we made.

it's twenty frickin 24 and Ubisoft just launched an NFT game in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
Mr Beast crypto fraud traced in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

Old Donaldson had a grift, E-I-E-I-O

And he would often pump-and-dump, E-I-E-I-O

With a wallet here and a wallet there, Here a pump, there a dump, everywhere pump-dump,

Old Donaldson had a grift, E-I-E-I-O.

Foreign Policy: Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

My money is on glorification of colonialism. It's this weird idea of rugged pioneers taming the land and building a Free(tm) community outside of the existing system. Shows up all the time with libertarian cranks, and probably not accidentaly does it often include claiming land from an existing population say somewhere in Oceania, because colonialism without robbery is just sparkling migration.

Also see that libertarian town that got destroyed by bears because they didn't want to regulate garbage disposal.

Mr Beast crypto fraud traced in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

All you need to know is that his real name is Jimmy Donaldson and he's exactly the type of person you expect to be named Jimmy Donaldson.

We not the same. HIGHER you insufferable twats. So much Higher. in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

hits blunt [under breath] so much higherrr

Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to ‘World’, still wants your eyeballs in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But it's specifically cartoon supervillain shit. It's not even a Bond villain, those are way too serious in comparison.

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None of those words are in the Bible 2.0 (Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs — Ludicity) (ludic.mataroa.blog)
 

An excellent post by Ludicity as per usual, but I need to vent two things.

First of all, I only ever worked in a Scrum team once and it was really nice. I liked having a Product Owner that was invested in the process and did customer communications, I loved having a Scrum Master that kept the meetings tight and followed up on Retrospective points, it worked like a well-oiled machine. Turns out it was a one-of-a-kind experience. I can't imagine having a stand-up for one hour without casualties involved.

A few months back a colleague (we're both PhD students at TU Munich) was taking a piss about how you can enroll in a Scrum course as an elective for our doctor school. He was in general making fun of the methodology but using words I've never heard before in my life. "Agile Testing". "Backlog Grooming". "Scrum of Scrums". I was like "dude, none of those words are in the bible", went to the Scrum Guide (which as far as I understood was the only document that actually defined what "Scrum" meant) and Ctrl+F-ed my point of literally none of that shit being there. Really, where the fuck does any of that come from? Is there a DLC to Scrum that I was never shown before? Was the person who first uttered "Scrumban" already drawn and quartered or is justice yet to be served?

Aside: the funniest part of that discussion was that our doctor school has an exemption that carves out "credits for Scrum and Agile methodology courses" as being worthless towards your PhD, so at least someone sane is managing that.

Second point I wanted to make was that I was having a perfectly happy holiday and then I read the phrase "Agile 2" and now I am crying into an ice-cream bucket. God help us all. Why. Ludicity you fucking monster, there was a non-zero chance I would've gone through my entire life without knowing that existed, I hate you now.

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Zuckerberg ordered Snapchat to literally man-in-the-middle attack customers (arstechnica.com)
 

I'm not sure if this fully fits into TechTakes mission statement, but "CEO thinks it's a-okay to abuse certificate trust to sell data to advertisers" is, in my opinion, a great snapshot of what brain worms live inside those people's heads.

In short, Facebook wiretapped Snapchat by sending data through their VPN company, Onavo. Installing it on your machine would add their certificates as trusted. Onavo would then intercept all communication to Snapchat and pretend the connection is TLS-secure by forging a Snapchat certificate and signing it with its own.

"Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan.

"Given how quickly they're growing, it seems important to figure out a new way to get reliable analytics about them," Zuckerberg continued. "Perhaps we need to do panels or write custom software. You should figure out how to do this."

Zuckerberg ordered his engineers to "think outside the box" to break TLS encryption in a way that would allow them to quietly sell data to advertisers.

I'm sure the brave programmers that came up with and implemented this nonsense were very proud of their service. Jesus fucking cinammon crunch Christ.

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