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njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


i have seen that posted in a discord i'm in and i'm split on whether it's better or worse than the chicken one

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Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


ultrafilter posted:

I'm not posting it here but if you want to see the worst thing look up "NFTestes".

Liquidity is stored in the balls

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Main Paineframe posted:

pedophiles aren't usually treated very kindly in jail

I suspect the stories aren't really all that funny

honestly the prison journal posts i saw were mostly "just finished [book] today, here is my uninteresting opinions on it and philosophizing about it". i'm sure there's worse stuff buried in there but i'm not diggin'

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

ymgve posted:

just downloaded the .torrent metadata file, 90% or whatever of the pieces are zero fills and I won't bother trying to download the rest, kinda seems like a stunt

is the torrent fake or is 90% of the NFT ecosystem just empty data nobody has bothered to check, its literally impossible to tell

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

That constitution sold, and probably not to the crypto bros.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Soylent Pudding posted:

Liquidity is stored in the balls

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


njsykora posted:

i have seen that posted in a discord i'm in and i'm split on whether it's better or worse than the chicken one

They're both worse than the other. The crypto bros made it happen somehow.

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

ultrafilter posted:

They're both worse than the other. The crypto bros made it happen somehow.

this technology has such amazing potential for innovation

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


it's definitely potent enough to get through the first seed round

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

Shame Boy posted:

"I got into clowning for a number of reasons, none of which are perverted." is the best first sentence to any essay i have ever read

e: holy yikes the ending

One time I had an ai dungeon adventure where there was a clown with a sword and in my first action I did a karate kid leg sweep to steal his sword and the clown said "little one, you would kill me? You would kill a god little one?" and then the clown told me his name was Tych and then he said "I want to help you." before I chopped his head off with the sword I stole from him

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

killhamster
Apr 15, 2004

SCAMMER
Hero Member
there's an nft guy having an extended and ongoing meltdown in one of my pals' facebook posts

this morning he' d deleted his 500+ comment thread of him arguing with himself and immediately went back to it, desperately trying to post through it



"why are all the infosec people mocking me"
:qqsay:

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
I remember that pirate ship jpeg from the dutch police taking down a bitcoin exchange site and/or drug marketplace

knox_harrington
Feb 18, 2011

Running no point.

My brother is an IP/media lawyer and told me yesterday his company is positioning him as their crypto/NFT expert, and apparently something specifically to do with CumRocket.

I did immediately share with him that the key phrase is "it can't possibly be that stupid, you must have explained it wrong"

I suppose profiting out of people doing dumb crypto stuff by writing their contracts is less bad than actually getting involved in crypto, but I will be keeping a close eye out for any pooptouching

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
surely cumrocket is legitimate though?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

knox_harrington posted:

My brother is an IP/media lawyer and told me yesterday his company is positioning him as their crypto/NFT expert, and apparently something specifically to do with CumRocket.

I did immediately share with him that the key phrase is "it can't possibly be that stupid, you must have explained it wrong"

I suppose profiting out of people doing dumb crypto stuff by writing their contracts is less bad than actually getting involved in crypto, but I will be keeping a close eye out for any pooptouching

your brother: "And yet you goon, you who have shitposted to no end, what has that netted you in gains monetary? I am the winner for my number has gone up"

YerDa Zabam
Aug 13, 2016



EorayMel posted:

I remember that pirate ship jpeg from the dutch police taking down a bitcoin exchange site and/or drug marketplace

Nah it was when the British bobbies raided the radio station for pirates. Radio Carol Vine or some such

knox_harrington
Feb 18, 2011

Running no point.

Boxturret posted:

surely cumrocket is legitimate though?

idk, what is cumrocket?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

knox_harrington posted:

idk, what is cumrocket?

iirc another one of the "cryptocurrency made for porn sites!!!" pointless ideas that's only notable because elong mask joke-tweeted about it once and the price exploded

it is denominated in cummies

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

ymgve posted:

was it even real? i know nfts are hyped but it sounds insane that there are terabytes of them already

given how easy it is to "mint" an nft and how many of them are just "random piece + random piece + random piece" and/or literal noise, you can inflate those numbers pretty fast

novamute
Jul 5, 2006

o o o
The bigger (~10k) collections average like 1GB each so yeah getting to TBs isn't that hard.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

i used to use spideroak's backup service and still get their spam, this one just showed up

quote:

Join Us for Blockchain for Space: Cybersecurity, Supply Chain Management and Venture Financing
SpiderOak Mission Systems is pleased to be both sponsoring and participating in this Nov. 22 SpaceNews webinar.

Join us as SpaceNews correspondent Debra Werner talks with three experts, including Matthew Erickson, SpiderOak VP Solutions about blockchain's promise for cybersecurity, supply chain management and venture finance, and the challenges posed by space blockchains.

i would in fact like to know more about the challenges posed by space blockchains

quote:

SpiderOak was honored to be one of several blockchain and space cybersecurity thought leaders interviewed by SpaceNews correspondent Debra Werner for her November 15 article "Sure, There’s Hype... But Blockchain has Concrete Space Applications".

sure, there's hype, but this company that until now was a dropbox also-ran assures you that they have great ideas for your billion-dollar satellite

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

https://spacenews.com/hype-aside-blockchains-space-applications-shouldnt-be-dismissed/ the article if anyone cares

quote:

Since it burst onto the scene with Bitcoin, blockchain has been linked with other cryptocurrencies, digital artwork and extraordinary energy consumption.

truly extraordinary, a real marvel of energy consumption

anyway how does it apply to satellites? here's some not at all stupid uses for it:

quote:

Blockchain could provide tools, for example, to help an individual task a commercial satellite to collect imagery of a remote location, receive the imagery with confidence in the integrity of every pixel and transfer payment securely to the satellite operator.

With blockchain, organizations will be able to track transactions from a financial standpoint as well as from “an information assurance standpoint,” Steve “Bucky” Butow, Defense Innovation Unit space portfolio director, said in October at the 2021 Value of Space Summit. If a government agency orders commercial imagery, the agency will “want to know who has acted on that information since its origination,” he added.

Blockchain could even serve as the foundation for an international space traffic management system with organizations around the world supplying information on the location of orbital assets along with planned maneuvers.

“You have an immutable ledger that can’t be changed, and you know which transactions are recorded,” Jones said. “There is a degree of transparency for the parties involved.”

i don't know about you, but whenever i order satellite pictures my primary concern is whether or not the satellite is lying to me

i also like the idea of "oops accidentally committed this maneuver that will ram our satellite into the ISS and knock both out of orbit, i can't just cancel it i have to wait for the chain to confirm the order to stop. oh it's used up all its maneuvering fuel already waiting for 7 confirmations and now we can't fix it, well at least we all learned a valuable lesson."

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
every pixel, on the blockchain

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
every time you nail one of these idiots down to an explicit definition it turns out it's either completely nonsensical or something absolutely impractical and without an actual use case

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

quote:

“Instead of trusted third parties like government agencies or financial institutions regulating whether or not something is true, blockchain can provide the source of truth,” said Hasshi Sudler, chairman and CEO of the Internet Think Tank, a cybersecurity consulting firm.

say the line, bart!

quote:

The largest terrestrial blockchain networks require extensive computer processing and memory to record hundreds of thousands of daily transactions. Space-related blockchain networks are likely to be far less energy-intensive because most will be limited to a small number of trusted parties and therefore fewer transactions.

yaaay!

blockchains are great because you don't have to rely on trusted third parties. the only way to make blockchains at all practical for this use case is to ensure only trusted third parties can access it.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Shame Boy posted:

“You have an immutable ledger that can’t be changed, and you know which transactions are recorded,” Jones said. “There is a degree of transparency for the parties involved.”

you know what would be mindblowing? if there were some way to do this that didn't involve a bunch of rubegoldbergian machinations to try to solve the byzantine generals problem for literally no loving reason, because you actually do have trust in the system

Shame Boy posted:

blockchains are great because you don't have to rely on trusted third parties. the only way to make blockchains at all practical for this use case is to ensure only trusted third parties can access it.

lmao.

now some one send them a link to https://git-scm.com/

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

ahahah what

quote:

Cloud Constellation is working with IBM, satellite manufacturer LeoStella and subsystem vendors to ensure that SpaceBelt, its cloud storage network planned for low Earth orbit, has the requisite global connectivity, data storage and edge computing to accommodate blockchain applications.
Similarly, LEOcloud, a startup that plans to co-locate edge computing services at ground stations before establishing a constellation of orbiting data centers, is designing data centers to support blockchain.

where better to put my important critical backups and the datacenters that run my company than in low-earth orbit, a place known for its hospitable environment and ease of access

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

quote:

The Air Force also awarded SpiderOak Mission Systems a Small Business Innovation Research contract to test its secure communications protocol, called OrbitSecure, on military satellites and ground stations.

At its foundation, OrbitSecure is zero-trust software. It starts with the assumption that no one should have access to data on the network and then establishes cryptographic keys that give various parties access to the datasets they need to perform their work.

A government agency, for example, could gather imagery from commercial Earth-observation satellites, transfer it through commercial communications satellites and process it in the cloud without worrying that any of the firms involved could modify the network architecture or manipulate the imagery.

“I can create a virtual hybrid constellation to serve my mission and then tear the keys down and break it apart when I’m done,” said Matthew Erickson, SpiderOak vice president solutions.

ignoring the fact that i'm pretty sure this already exists, does... does a blockchain even get involved with this idea at any point? cuz it sounds like they just reinvented ipsec or something

e: oh last bit

quote:

Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado, is preparing to send a small robotic rover to the lunar south pole next year on an Intuitive Machines lander. The primary payload for the mission is a Nokia LTE 4G payload to demonstrate high-bandwidth communications. While Lunar Outpost is selling much of the rover’s payload space through traditional contracts, some space will be sold through digital tokens on SpaceMart, an online platform being established by Copernic Space to convert assets like rides to orbit or shares in a space startup to digital tokens that can be bought and sold quickly and easily.

In addition to making space more accessible to the general public through its platform, Copernic Space wants to make space “more psychologically accessible,” said Grant Blaisdell, co-founder and CEO of the Los Angeles startup. “Space is intimidating. People think it’s only for billionaires and NASA. I want people to see that there are huge amounts of value and accessibility in the space market.”

look we're out to prove that space is not only for billionaires and NASA, it's also for Tremendous Assholes!

the concept of being able to quickly buy or sell payload space on a rocket is absolutely the kind of idea i'd expect from someone who has no idea how rockets actually work too lmao. "it's probably just like loading luggage onto a plane, right, like they just chuck the satellite in there maybe 20 minutes before launch? why can't we get in on that??"

Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Nov 19, 2021

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
perhaps it is being explained poorly

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

oops gotta scrub the launch, someone just sold their spacecoins to FartBoner420 and we have to swap out the stuffed doge meme payload for a pickle rick full of szechuan sauce

wait gently caress the price went down 20%, make that a pickle rick half full of szechuan sauce, and also we can't afford enough fuel to go to the moon anymore so we're dropping it off just outside the atmosphere on a sub-orbital trajectory because it technically fulfills the contract

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Shame Boy posted:

i used to use spideroak's backup service and still get their spam,
Haha I'm surprised they're still around. Anyone with any sense dumped them for BoxCryptor a long time ago.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Debate and/or Discuss

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mystes
May 31, 2006

EorayMel posted:

Debate and/or Discuss


der blockkuchen

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Shame Boy posted:

ahahah what

where better to put my important critical backups and the datacenters that run my company than in low-earth orbit, a place known for its hospitable environment and ease of access

excuse me they are loving pioneers in the field of data re-entry

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

EorayMel posted:

Debate and/or Discuss



of course google asks if you would rather have it translated from the original german

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

FAUXTON posted:

of course google asks if you would rather have it translated from the original german
yet another thing IBM invents but fails to transition from enterprise to consumer

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Shumagorath posted:

yet another thing IBM invents but fails to transition from enterprise to consumer

when you think about it IBM's help in keeping teutonically meticulous records for the nazis during the holocaust was kind of like the first blockchain

tak
Jan 31, 2003

lol demowned
Grimey Drawer

FAUXTON posted:

excuse me they are loving pioneers in the field of data re-entry

DerekSmartymans
Feb 14, 2005

The
Copacetic
Ascetic

Shame Boy posted:

"I got into clowning for a number of reasons, none of which are perverted." is the best first sentence to any essay i have ever read

e: holy yikes the ending

Fluff the middle out 700 pages and that first line could be a Stephen King novel!

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DerekSmartymans
Feb 14, 2005

The
Copacetic
Ascetic

knox_harrington posted:

My brother is an IP/media lawyer and told me yesterday his company is positioning him as their crypto/NFT expert, and apparently something specifically to do with CumRocket.

I did immediately share with him that the key phrase is "it can't possibly be that stupid, you must have explained it wrong"

I suppose profiting out of people doing dumb crypto stuff by writing their contracts is less bad than actually getting involved in crypto, but I will be keeping a close eye out for any pooptouching

Goddammit, man! After “cumrocket” I was prepared for a completely different post.

Edit :
“Bucky” Butow and Hashi whatzit and their “2021 Value of Space” seminar sounds very Bitcoin.

DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Nov 20, 2021

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