The whole point of Wordpress is so you can host your own site and not have to have your web site held hostage by one of the oligarch-controlled cloud providers!

No thanks. Good Bye!

100%

Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.

Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.

As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.

Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.

Kevin and his idiot people killed Digg a long time ago when they implemented their own algo to determine what users could see and corrupted it with a bunch of advertising. It should have been left alone. Nobody cares and nobody wants it back.

Which can basically undermine everything else at any point in the future.

... maybe they shouldn't be having AI do coding? Or QA?

The thing that gets me is that anybody who has any technical knowledge, upon looking at crypto's underlying technology: blockchain, can clearly see it doesn't make sense.

Blockchain isn't any less fault tolerant than existing systems, and because of its precarious "decentralized" nature, requiring random self-interested parties to see a financial reason to run nodes based on the price of the tokens, there's no guarantee whatsoever: a) the "price" of a digital abstraction that has no intrinsic value will continue to go up or say above zero, or b) there's any other reason to run the software and waste resources when it accomplishes nothing for society.

Here is a great documentary that explains it all. No self-respecting software engineer would buy into this goofy scheme.

If you want "immutability" just use cryptographic signing in traditional, relational databases.

If you want "decentralization" there are better facilities out there that aren't tied to sketchy ponzi-scheme-like digital tokens, such as IFPS.

Only second to the quality of answers... most of which being, "Why would you do THAT?"

From the ebay auction

Yea, right... You claim someone can easily make $150k+/year renting this out but couldn't even find a starting bidder at $50k.

Real "used car salesman" vibes here...

A long time ago...

Seriously the site with the most potential so poorly run that those in power imposed zero tolerance for anybody trying to solve a problem different than the way they would solve a problem and would nuke your karma to the point where you couldn't participate if you disagreed with them.

Sums up in two sentences, the general intellectual capacity of a Stack Overflow admin.

Seriously, I've never encountered such a toxic "help environment" as Stack Overflow. If you search for solutions you'd get 10 year old answers that no longer apply. If you ask a new question, their admins admonish you because the question was asked already (10 years ago).

There is no such thing as "extra electricity", only wasted electricity. Bitcoin's energy usage produces absolutely nothing positive for society.

Watch this documentary on the subject.

It's funny that they use really messed up, third world countries as some sort of crypto "use case." These are societies that will try anything and have very lax regulation and environmental standards. Bitcoin doesn't solve any of their real problems. It's just more exploitation.

It's about time everybody realize there's very little going on in the crypto industry that's not fraud and grift.

Here is a great documentary explaining why. It's a shame it isn't getting the attention it deserves, but I guess crypto companies are still prime advertisers in mainstream media and nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds.

Imagine how AWESOME social media would be if everybody from Texas and Florida were no longer allowed to post?

In fairness, any one of those probes could turn into a significant issue if the right vulnerability is found.

There are some systems out there thought that can nip this stuff in the bud, especially if they're using whitelisting and blacklisting of IP space. One system I've found useful is free set of scripts called "login-shield." It's on github.