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Submission + - SPAM: I Built a Dogecoin-Powered Pinball Machine

chromatic writes: It started as a joke—what if I could use cryptocurrency to power a Lord of the Rings pinball machine? From there, things snowballed into figuring out how to hack the coin mechanism, set up a relay board, get addresses starting with the word "Balrog", and connect it all to the Dogecoin blockchain. The result? My pinball machine now takes Dogecoin instead of quarters.
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Comment Re:Huh? (Score 2) 26

What's "so special" abou this is that Getty is one of the largest single copyright holders in the world and they know the licensing status of every piece of media in their collection, so any AI trained on those images is guaranteed liability-free for their clients."

the monetization schema is bullshit - it looks like the tiktok model where there's a giant pool of money split between all the creators every year with the size of that pool determined by "business growth" (ie in a way that prioritized the business and hands the remains to the creators) PLUS bits of the youtube model of constantly shifting goals and targets to keep planning ability for its creators at a minimum - but if you want to know why this AI that rips off artists is "better" than the rest, that's why.

ARS' spin is fucking gross, nothing in the actual article says anything close to what that headline is implying.

Comment Re:You know what would have been better? (Score 1) 97

"But then, I have said the same thing about Amazon and others, that people should simply stop buying from them, but since that is so simple to do, it won't take place."

People don't not do things because they're simple - they don't do them because they don't have a problem with them. I like Amazon - the prices are good, they don't fuck me around if there's a problem and the whole process from ordering to delivery causes no problems.

Likewise, if you don't like reddit or think they should be tolerating people scraping data or accessing APIs for free forever, don't go to reddit. But I couldn't give a fuck about all that - I just want to follow a few subreddits from time to time. This protest was obviously going to fail because reddit would have lost money if they did, and no normal person is going to be remotely interested in APIs or third party apps etc.

Comment Who is who? (Score 1) 182

"To deploy it, the driver would pull out in front of the attacker and turn it on."

The person using it is not the attacker? So the attacker is the person being stopped...by the driver. Not the attacker driver, the driver who's deploying the device. Got it.

Comment Re:FEATURES! (Score 1) 182

> 5G essentially requires near-line-of-sight.

Err, sure you aren't thinking of 5ghz wifi there, champ?

> In a world (meaning the US)

I'm pretty sure the world consists of other places too.

> which also offers the advantage of not burning through the pitiful cell data allotment

Perhaps this is a US thing. On other worlds, such as the UK, data isn't so expensive.

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