• @[email protected]
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        Fucking cryptobros stole 3.0 from us. It was supposed to be decentralized internet, not this ponzi Blockchain bullshit.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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          Seriously. They talked about smart contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, and made it sound like NFT’s would replace your mortgage.

          Instead we got jpegs of monkeys and Logan Paul hustling digital eggs, and everyone trading on speculation with no one actually building anything other than scams.

          • Jerkface (any/all)
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            I mean, the legitimate stuff is all still there and it’s all still growing. But it was eclipsed by a bunch of assholes trading tulip bulb scams. Now that the scams are no longer profitable and have mostly pulled up their stakes, everyone’s like, “Well I guess crypto was a bust, then!”

            No one blames tulips for the bulb bubble. The bulbs all still worked just fine once they weren’t worth thousands of dollars each anymore. But you didn’t see it filling every page of every newspaper anymore, and that’s a good thing.

            Of course there is also the fact that you basically cannot use crypto for any legitimate purpose anymore due to draconian AML laws that have been passed in the last ten years specifically to fuck with crypto.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.

      Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 years ago

          There actually is a real project called Internet 2 (https://internet2.edu). It’s a secondary high-speed backbone between institutions of higher learning. 15 years ago, at least, it was really fast…if you needed a fast connection to one of the few other members.

          • GladiusB
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            32 years ago

            I have questions about your username. None I want visual aids in response. But questions none the less.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              Well you see their username is very easy to understand

              Farts in French

              If that doesn’t make sense

              Farts in Russian

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Well you see their username is very easy to understand

              Farts in French

              If that doesn’t make sense

              Farts in Russian

    • Anomandaris
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      This isn’t even greed or anything, it’s just sloppy incompetence and/or obscenely rushed development.

      Intelligent retries and exponential backoffs are really common things taught to programmers, whoever didn’t add this needs to have a really good reason or a really good resume…

  • BornVolcano
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    1482 years ago

    Image Transcription: Twitter Post


    @[email protected], @nelson

    Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter’s JavaScript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second.

    Twitter is DDOSing itself.

    [An image taken from the sci-fi television series “The Mandalorian” that shows the protagonist “The Mandalorian” in their characteristic metal suit. Their face is obscured by their helmet. The subtitles underneath the image read the text “[sighs]”]


    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

    • Iron Lynx
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      162 years ago

      I like that the volunteer transcribers are already making the switch. Keep up the good work 👍

    • aeternum
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      82 years ago

      Nice work! Thanks for helping visually impaired users :)

    • Dr Cog
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      362 years ago

      I’m glad this volunteer community is back. How do I volunteer as well?

      • BornVolcano
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        242 years ago

        Right now, I’m just operating freelance. But I’d recommend checking out the ToR subreddit and accessing the docs and discord from there.

        (We don’t have a central document put together yet that isn’t reddit based, but if you go from reddit to discord it should be okay)

    • zalack
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      42 years ago

      Do you all have a home community? This was something I always wanted to look into doing on Reddit but never made the time.

      • BornVolcano
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        Yep, r/TranscribersOfReddit, and then there’s a discord where we all actually talk

  • @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    I wouldn’t complain if this kills corporate social media and we’re left with the user-run fediverse.

  • Ragnell
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    Can’t believe Reddit was doubling down on a full moderator strike and Twitter said “Hold my beer”

  • @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    Lol I just remembered Elon’s tweet that led to him firing an Android dev. Who’s doing poorly batched remote procedure calls again? 😂