Your prudery and moralism bores the hell out of me https://randomrantdispenser.neocities.org/rant04-2024-07-18

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  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mltoGames@sh.itjust.worksYep, Xbox Is Bleeding Out
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    2 days ago

    I don’t discard it, but how much they have to be creative on technical aspects today unless it’s to port a new game to older gens (do they even do that?), it just seems the hardware has so much power and potential they barely tap on it before the industry release new hardware, so they don’t even have to care about optimization.







  • Short, concise and precise, pretty much gold standard for a title… everyone accusing of clickbait, what?

    • yes, he is going to prison for building a privacy tool, I’m sorry that you have read actual clickbait titles before, but he was not charged with money laundering, he wasn’t even charged of being involved with any money laundering scheme, the sole reason he was arrested was for building a tool that can be used for illegal activity. Let’s hope they don’t go after the Tor Project and Tails OS with such claims too.
    • yes, OP could have made a short description in the post like saying who, what tool, what charge, etc.


  • The phrasing of this title implies that the creation of a privacy tool is what the creator got arrested for

    That’s LITERALLY what happened.

    No, he wasn’t accused of using it for money laundering at all, he was actually accused of “conspiracy” to money laundering, claiming that his tool facilitates it, HOWEVER, the prosecution itself knew their charges had absolutely no legal basis and kept it a secret, and when the defense made a motion to dismiss it was denied by the judge without even being heard and the judge gave no reason for it (I guess being on record that the trial is a farce wouldn’t look good). In front of an openly hostile judge and a trial that has no intention of following laws, legal costs in the millions piling up, he made a deal for 5 years in prison instead of the 25 they were going to give him.

    Again, he wasn’t even charged with money laundering, he was arrested for creating a tool that can be used for that. The title is telling the truth - therefore, it’s not malicious.


  • What is your definition of clickbait title? I consider clickbait misleading, misinforming or non-informing, something like “He Built a Privacy Tool. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.”

    In this case here the title provides all the correct info about the video content - yes, he was arrested for building a privacy tool, he wasn’t charged for money laundering despite what real clickbait headlines might be saying.



  • Why the massive downvotes here? I think bitcoin is bullshit as much as the next lemming, but the whole situation you may cheer now because it’s a cryptobro getting fucked is what is going to happen to you tomorrow.

    Summary: Guy basically made a Tor for crypto so transactions can’t be directly linked between users, and the government charged him with a bunch of bullshit claims and completely ignored the law to destroy it. Yeah, there is some PR stunt going on now with a presidential pardon, but that doesn’t mean the service is going back up.

    In countries like mine, subjected to USA imperialism, USA puppets are already equating drug dealers to terrorists, and they also equate immigrants and refugees to drug dealers, so guess what?

    If you visit the Tails website you are already put on a list of extremists, probably if you use Tor as well, it won’t be hard for any of the privacy tools you like to make you be called a terrorist too, Graphene is for criminals, isn’t it? We are just on whim away from a powerful asshole to decided that, because even if you believe you are “playing by the rules”, laws don’t matter. If it didn’t matter even for rich cryptobros trying to secure privacy for their users, imagine for you and your wishes of privacy?





  • Oh yeah, and this last code is extremely flawed, I was having trouble with loading order because each page accessed by this menu should also load other scripts and sometimes it wasn’t working properly so I added a bunch of redundant stuff that I’d be embarrassed to show to an actual javascript developer. As I said, this was the least AI-made of the bunch, and how bad the code is should be proof humanity haha - even though I could hardly call it AI-assisted, it was AI-made and poorly human-edited.