I sold off my collection, around 2014. I made quite a bit of money. I then watched prices skyrocket even more, and after a few years tried to get back into it, but I was absolutely flabbergasted at how predatory Hasbro has been just releasing expansion after expansion. And then adding additional tiers of rarities and other odd things making it more of a speculative commodity than the game knew and loved. I'm so glad I got out when I did. I feel sorry for the people holding huge batches of cards thinking they're going to forever go up in value. They're in for a rude awakening. When you piss off the player base, you undermine the entire value proposition of the whole franchise.

If Facebook really wants to cut costs, they should get rid of most of the managers. The best approach is: Lay off anybody who thought Zuckerberg's vision of the future in VR was a good idea.

Have any of those people seen this documentary on blockchain?

The idea that this tech is in any way an improvement over what has been in use, doesn't seem remotely plausible.

As a software developer, I can't think of a more irresponsible thing, not building in some way to identify if your auto-generated work was attributable to your system.

It just seems like second nature.

We know every printer made embeds hidden pixels.

There's a very good chance Adobe and Microsoft codes unique ID info in every file written by their systems.

That ChatGPT or DAL-E wouldn't do this is laughably unlikely.

This "bitcoin dev" is a real nutjob. Among other things, he's a hardcore religious nut that thinks slavery was "employment" and abortion should be a crime punishable by execution. He has a sordid history of crazy tweets.

https://reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/...

As a programmer, I still do not understand why so many people think these inefficient databases provide any real utility?

Another engineer has a documentary coming out on Jan 1 that talks about this. Why isn't the media asking tough questions? Why are the people hyping this "new tech" not actual tech people?

If you think third parties can do whatever they want on private property, PM me so I can post a "Hitler did nothing wrong!" sign in in the front yard of your parents house in whose basement you reside.

There are several new open source projects that we've been using to stop server attacks:

https://github.com/DPsystems/L...

and

https://github.com/DPsystems/w...

The use of these two utilities has stopped 90+% of all my attacks and system probes. It's basically a ipset ipv4 blacklist, works great as a companion to Fail2Ban and takes a ton of stress away from F2B by wholesale blocking certain address ranges (for example, should other server space that aren't authorized web crawlers be able to hit your web server? 99% of that is nefarious)... check out these projects

I like the idea and concept, but like Mastodon, you're a raindrop in the ocean unless there's an efficient way to collaborate and share. The "Federation" feature makes sense but the details of how that's done will really determine how useful the system really is.

I think one feature that would put PeerTube on the map, is an integrated way to stream directly to Smart TVs. If a content creator could roll out their own channel on Chromecast or Roku easily (keyword: easily) then they would have an angle that would allow them to offer something unique that you can't get from YouTube or Twitch.

It that's a feature, I'll set up a server right now.

This article is very misleading. Paypal has nothing to do with crypto, and will continue to not be dealing with crypto currencies. Paypal is merely allowing a third party company, Paxos to transact with its users to supposedly buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Paypal will still be dealing with fiat, not crypto.

Ted Cruz says it's, "election interference" not allowing them to spread bullshit lies that will affect the outcome of the election?

Reminds me of how Net Neutrality to them, goes against the First Amendment.

who are still competent to do their jobs

So a guy who spends his time creating an elaborate web site that promotes complete and utter bullshit that has the tendency of activating assault-weapon-toting psychopaths to shoot up pizza parlors, doesn't in any way indicate incompetence?

Wait... you're telling me that a guy who went out of his way to promote rumors that a DC pizza parlor was running a democratic pedophile ring out of their basement, might not be capable of understanding the repercussions of his actions?

What happens when they come back for more?

The same thing that happens when any other program ends. It ends. If you're on unemployment you have x amount of time before it runs out to find a job. If you're on food stamps, you have x amount of money to use in a particular time. People who are given welfare of this nature are told what the limitations are. If they squander those resources, it's their problem. Most people don't. So stop promoting this myth that giving people a helping hand turns them into perpetually needy drains on society. That's not true. All these programs have limitations and people know and accept it.