When I criticise it, I know what I'm talking about.
I was drawn in by the idea of a new financial system that didn't rely on traditional banks. I was excited by the idea of rebuilding digital ownership in a post-streaming world.
In the end, I came to realise my idealism had blinded me. The philosophy was largely false.
And outweighed by the scams, thefts, fraud and grift.
@Daojoan I'm curious, in what way were they seeing your work as an asset? I'm ignorant, so I'm genuinely curious. What were they hoping to gain from your work, and how were they hoping to gain it?
Just a thoought... You don't need the Internet-of-things or AI in your fridge, or microwave, or pizza oven, or car etc. Anyone who says that you do is likely not worthy of your business. The more we connect these things, the more likely they sre to break in ways that you and I cannot fix!
@LoneLocust Yeah, that's both compelling and interesting. Mmm... gonna have to dwell on that, but I'm really not that interested in the companies profitting from the data that I'd have to surrender.
I gave ChatGPT a prompt and then copied and pasted all the recent school emails, from both schools, into it. And then asked it to summarise what I needed to know about this week and it's frickin' amazing (no personal data was sent as a part of this experiment):
@peturdainn I'm not too sure that I agree. You buy a car or house until you sell it. You buy food and then immediately do all that you can to remove it from the face of the earth. The word buy, in my head, is when you separate me from my money for something, anything. I buy a domain for a year. I see where you're going, but I suspect that buttons labelled 'rent now' would convert at closer to 0%!
I know they have embraced #Threads, but the NY times is better off ignoring #X / #Twitter as I do not think they are receiving much traffic from X thanks to #ElonMusk’s shenanigans.
Just realized that my cloud backup service has been backing up my #Steam installs and oh damn.... nom nom nom there goes that storage space I paid for... 😭