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i67vw3··on Crypto’s Final Price Could Be Zero
https://archive.ph/AEaGg
i67vw3··on BlockFi Sues Sam Bankman-Fried over Robinhood Shares
Non-paywall link:- https://archive.ph/Zjz5C
i67vw3··on Apple asked video app to censor Covid search terms, Pepe the Frog thumbnails
It is not Swastika but hackencruz.

Other nations/religions have been using Swastika for about 2000 years.

Also, what if there is Hindu religious app (the app where you can listen to religious songs etc) with Swastika as it's logo.

i67vw3··on China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup
Even without vaccines, the current covid strain is not even that harmful.

If they had done complete lockdown during 1st wave or during Delta wave it was one thing (which they already did at that time and majority of world). But after 2 years it is something else.

There literally is a world cup happening half around the world, with maskless people and stadiums filled to the brim.

I have read online they are doing this nonsense due to various factions within CCP fighting with each other. This 'zero-covid' stuff as far as I know first started in Shanghai, which I heard the Shanghai CCP faction was fighting against the Xi faction. (Just some rumour I read on internet, no idea if it is true.)

i67vw3··on How a scoop by a little-known crypto site led to the fall of SBF and FTX
How is coindesk a 'little known crypto site'?

It is probably the number crypto site and probably has more visitors than 'mainstream media sites' in any particular day.

Also, how did coindesk get the financial document and later on FT got FTX internal balance sheet in its entirety.

Who leaked it?

i67vw3··on Why wasn’t FTX’s fraud detectable on the blockchain?
I had the same question, and the past 2-3 weeks I am still not able to find the answer.

If FTX gave alameda shit tons of FTT and customer funds from FTX reserves by 'transferring' the amount, it should have been visible on the blockchain.

The FTX collapse happened only because of an internal balance sheet leaked to coindesk. Why did coindesk require a balance sheet to write the story? Coindesk probably could have just done it, by looking into the blockchain ledger instead of the balance sheet.

i67vw3··on Elon Musk Claims He’ll Pay Twitter Video Creators 10% More Than YouTube
He should correct the login screen.

Like if you are reading a twitter thread, say 10 tweets in a row, a login screen appears on the 5th thread. There is no cancellation button for the pop-up, and it destroys the whole mood.

i67vw3··on Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system
I said something similar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530635

To integrate substack or patreon like service into twitter so that there is two financial transaction between users and creators on twitter from which twitter can get a cut.

i67vw3··on Ask HN: If you were in Musk's position, how would you improve Twitter instead?
Bots in this context are always referred to bad bots. Like just go on twitter and type 'Metamask, need help' and see 100 replies to your tweet within few minutes.

There are also good bots on twitter, reddit, telegram, but the context in which we are discussing bots while naturally refer to scam bots along with useless spam bot.

i67vw3··on Ask HN: If you were in Musk's position, how would you improve Twitter instead?
Bring in new features. Pre-Musk twitter only brought one new feature per year.

Reduce bots, spam.

Make sure that verified users are not able to change their usernames anyhow they want (currently you will find hundreds of elon musk verified accounts).

Improve twitter mobile app (less bloat unlike reddit app)

Use crypto payments to pay for twitter blue. Crypto payments meaning not only BTC and Dogecoin but privacy coins like Monero, Dash, Zcash etc.

Have Twitter Blue Pro, so that users will get no ads (currently twitter blue gets half ads), first access to new features, something like substack articles where twitter blue pro users will be able to read blogs created by twitter users (tiwtter is a 'micro-blogging' platform afterall) etc.

Bring new features which are aggregated from other apps like (this point is not that good)

a.) Unlimited video upload- youtube

b.) Stories-Instagram

c.) Short videos- tiktok

d.) Threads-Reddit etc

Reduce excessive tracking of users on its site and app.

Try to attract non-english, non-western users. Most non-english audience does not even know/care about twitter. They are all on whatsapp, youtube, tiktok etc.

Have NSFW, gambling and generally immoral stuff promotion to earn money on the sidelines. (The NSFW stuff will be opt-in by default to make sure that twitter is 'family friendly)

P2P transfer of fund from users to content creators on twitter itself like Patreon, Brave BAT twitter tipping etc. Twitter will get like 5% cut from the tips.

Have alternative payment methods like UPI (india), SEPA (europe) and not only card payment via stripe.

i67vw3··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
That is a bogus index. Even the government denied it's reporting https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/global-hunger-index-ind...

(Any government will try to say the same thing, to save its face)

But right now, the welfare state is still working (free/discounted food for lower income class). Anecdotally speaking, there is no such 'hunger' observed even in beggar communities. All are pretty much well fed. Due to opening of the economy in 1991, people have become 'rich' and the welfare state has subsequently reduced.

If we are talking about nourishment or nutrient intake, it is also not observed to be lower to the scale the index paints. Even during lockdown and covid pandemic, 200 million or more people were given free/discounted food everyday. There might be more hunger during the lockdowns, covid deaths; but not to high extent the index says compared to other countries.

The index paints the 'hunger' levels on the scale of DPRK or Afghanistan which is just not possible (laughable), if anyone sees it from first hand perspective. I have always been suspicious of the index from the very beginning. Even the past decade reports are suspicious.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-wheat-exports-hit...

i67vw3··on Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’
>The increasingly anti-west foreign policy might be early indications of steps towards that.

There is no 'anti-west' foreign policy. India follows neutrality in most geo-political nonsense due to its non-alignment philosophy. It has followed it for the past 75 years and will continue to follow it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

i67vw3··on Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation
As I remember it, libreddit used to have reveddit integrated. They must have changed it or I might have confused it with teddit.

But, teddit right now does have reveddit integrated.

https://teddit.pussthecat.org/r/meirl/comments/ymj861/meirl/...

Also, is there no way to use Reveddit without turning of Enhanced Tracking Protection in firefox. Could the reddit tracker be proxied from reveddit's end so that firefox (tracker blocker) does not block the tracker.

i67vw3··on Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation
I indirectly use your product. I surf reddit via teddit, libreddit and both of the. have integrated reveddit into their codebase.

If a comment is removed by reddit mods/admins, on libreddit you get a small notice which then directly links the notice to reveddit site from which I can see what the deleted comment looked like.

i67vw3··on Twitter discontinues ad-free articles for Blue subscribers
Try this

https://voonze.com/how-to-follow-twitter-accounts-by-rss-wit...

Musk twitter RSS feed https://nitter.pussthecat.org/elonmusk/

I follow twitter posts in my RSS reader via this way

i67vw3··on Briar Project – Secure messaging, everywhere
Just get a android (as Tim Apple says)

https://www.androidauthority.com/tim-cook-rcs-iphone-3206620...

i67vw3··on Zelda Wiki Leaves Fandom
There is a fandom frontend https://breezewiki.com/ just for this ad-spam.

It is included in the Libredirect extension by default https://codeberg.org/LibRedirect/libredirect

i67vw3··on WhatsApp is now a spammer's paradise in India
True, it started 7-8 months back. The indian system is completely depended on phone numbers, every service requires a phone number (rather than email ID) even government services; which made your phone number visible to every single company on this planet.

I have two numbers, one without whatsapp. While giving my number to companies, I give them my non-whatsapp number so that they cannot spam by whatsapp inbox with nonsense.

Here, we do not have phone number forwarding services like MySudo to cloak your real number which these companies take advantage of.

i67vw3··on iPhone Ownership Among U.S. Teens Hits 87%
In recent years/months I too have seen teen (youngsters) floating around their Iphones, half way around the world. The numbers have increased considerably around 10% in teens from 1% few years back.

They mainly buy it as iphone is considered 'Posh', a sign of your class.

There is no way for them to use imessage as everyone uses Whatsapp, no way to use facetime as everyone uses Whatsapp Call and for these buyers no way to use apple premium apps as they cost large amount of money while google products are free.

A funny thing happened was when PUBG was banned here by government, it was removed by apple app store and google play store. But android users were still able to play PUBG by downloading and installing APK from web while apple users were not able to do it as according to apple 'Only hackers use Sideloading'. So, it was funny to watch at time android users gloating over iphone users.

i67vw3··on Anti-Jim Cramer ETF Will Bet Against Stocks Endorsed by CNBC Mad Money Host
There is a running joke for those who do not know, That do opposite what Cramer tells you to do.

If he says buy a particular share, do not buy it as it will tank. If he says sell a particular share as the share price will tank since the company does not look in good condition; then the opposite will happen and the share price will skyrocket.

i67vw3··on Hans Niemann probably cheated in more than 100 chess games, investigation finds
And inside a Faraday cage
i67vw3··on VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website
Some nameless bureaucrat must have been trigger happy while banning VLC URL.

Indian IT ministry is one if the worst ministries in the central government (from all governments formed until now)

i67vw3··on Meta in Free Fall: Users Leaving, Revenue Down, Stock Keeps Falling
Bezos right now looks straight up as a mafia boss.

In the 90's videos he looks like a typical nerd (video can be seen on 90 minutes america). Right now, he looks like a mafia boss with his bald/shaved head and the gang member jacket (from the photos I have seen).

i67vw3··on Facebook account gets hacked – now banned on Facebook and Instagram
The problem in this equation is him being banned on Instagram.

Banning on Facebook is justifiable from every angle but not exactly on Instagram.

There is no universal Meta Account (like google account, apple ID). There are two different accounts for two different services.

Illegal/Unethical banning of OP's account on Instagram.

i67vw3··on Toyota CEO says moving to all EVs would leave some customers behind
https://archive.ph/Gq1PR

The article paints a different picture than the article's own headline....

I might be the one 'left' behind. The current EV's in the market are all spyware [1](sending gps location), and can be shut off by remote control [2](like stolen tesla's in ukraine).

Same case is for petrol/diesel powered cars but right now I can buy toned down petrol car version (cheapest one in the lineup) which does not contain any spyware and has buttons and knobs to control AC, Radio, Volume etc

[1]https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/07/27/who-is-collec... [2]https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/01/europe/russia-farm-vehicl... (not really EV tesla but diesel powered John Deere tractors, but pretty much same case) [3]https://electrek.co/2022/07/26/tesla-ransom-customer-over-80...

i67vw3··on Mental Outlaw Tests OpenAI Whisper-Translation and Transcription
??

What are you talking about? He is speaking perfectly normally.

Also, as I stated I linked odysee because he usually himself endorses odysee and the youtube video may be taken down for bogus copyright violation.

And what is with weird odysee connotation. Odysee is used by normal tech youtubers like The Linux Experiment, Some Ordinary Gamers, Distrotube, Seytonic, Techlore to have backup of their original youtube videos if they are taken down for some bogus violation like DMCA copyright.

https://odysee.com/$/tech (completely normal tech videos)

https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8 (his youtube/odysee channel)

i67vw3··on Mental Outlaw Tests OpenAI Whisper-Translation and Transcription
There were two reasons for it, because odysee is odysee

And the youtube video may be taken down for bogus copyright violation by youtube copyright bot. Now, he has done a lot to keeps this particular video getting copyrighted, but you never know.

i67vw3··on Jerusalem syndrome is a phenomena triggered by a visit to the city of Jerusalem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JeruZalem

It is a good film depicting this so called 'Jerusalem Syndrome'. It is also in the entry of the OP's wiki article in Popular Culture section.

i67vw3··on YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts
I have replied with my reasoning in this comment thread. Check it out.
i67vw3··on YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts
What you said is true to some extent, but youtube also makes their own youtube originals.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6358146?hl=en

It also has youtube gaming where they pay streamers (buy out streamers at once) via contract just like Netflix buys rights for movies and tv shows.

https://www.polygon.com/23053800/sykkuno-youtube-deal-stream...

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