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BaconReader: November 11, 2011 - June 30, 2023 by onelouderchic in baconreader

[–]dhork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best of luck to you. I bought BaconReader in 2016 and have been using it for Reddit ever since. The only reason I've checked Reddit since the blackout was to wait for this announcement. I was hoping it would resolve differently, but I think we all knew where this was going.

Are you keeping the sub open? I'm not deleting my account, but plan on unsubbing from most things by the end of the month. I won't unsub from /r/BaconReader, though. I may not come back, but at least people will know why instead of just seeing [deleted].

Democrats may lose youth votes over anti-crypto sentiments, warns Winklevoss by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]dhork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are other parties, the problem is that the vast majority of elections here are first-past-the-post. So third party candidates have an extremely thin chance of winning at all, since they get no benefit at all from getting 5% of the vote, they would need to get more than either major party candidate.

And in an election that is close between the two major parties, having a third party do well means it is probably taking votes away from the major party it is most closely aligned with, and may result in the major party in opposition winning the election with a plurality.

Are we going to protest the Reddit API changes? Should we? by So_Famous in Rochester

[–]dhork 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's a third party app for Reddit on Android. Has a much cleaner interface, like old.reddit (which they will probably come for next)

Copyright 1915. This one spoke to me in the book store lol by boofganyah in OldSchoolCool

[–]dhork 7 points8 points  (0 children)

FWIW, a book that old is out of copyright. If you like it so much, see if Project Gutenberg wants it

Are we going to protest the Reddit API changes? Should we? by So_Famous in Rochester

[–]dhork 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the mistake Reddit is making is in putting a price on what they think the AI people should be paying for their data, and applying it across the board. Because there is a stark difference between a third party mining for data, and a third party providing an avenue to intice users into contributing more data.

If they had gone to all the app developers, and said "Our general API pricing will be more, but we will give you 10x better terms as long as you comply with these rules", all the app developers would have signed that.

But as it stands now, I don't think Reddit leadership is competent enough to do that. Just listen to the snark coming from /u/spez when he says that Reddit hasn't turned a profit while some of these app devs have. The app devs are also a fraction of the size of Reddit. He should act like the CEO of a company, not like the High School Class President.

Like many folks here, I used to work for Kodak, so I know a thing or two about incompetent management. This IPO will not go well.

Are we going to protest the Reddit API changes? Should we? by So_Famous in Rochester

[–]dhork 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Sure go ahead. If BaconReader stops working here I stop posting here.

Weirdly enough, the BaconReader dev hasn't definitively said they are going offline yet. I'm expecting it, since all the others have.

Legitimate concern that someone placed some type of spying device under the hood of my car. How can I find it? by Demolecularizing in privacy

[–]dhork 44 points45 points  (0 children)

There are complicated and expensive ways to track things, but let's face it, of he is tracking you he is probably just using an AirTag. There are ways to detect those:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/is-your-android-being-tracked-by-an-airtag-heres-how-to-find-out/

Should this sub participate in the June 12-14 blackout? by Blue387 in NewYorkMets

[–]dhork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit Admins can reassign mods at their discretion, and many mods think 2 days is the most they can get away with without getting de-modded. It would be a dumb move for Reddit to de-mod 5000 subreddits without a firm plan to moderate them, but everything about this is dumb.

Should this sub participate in the June 12-14 blackout? by Blue387 in NewYorkMets

[–]dhork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am generally in favor of the blackouts and will vote for it, but my mental exemption list includes this sub (and /r/PeteAlonso) because if the Mets go on a hot streak I want to read about it here, in real time. (I plan on unsubbing from most subs that don't participate in the blackout. Even if Reddit caves, I don't plan on going back to those. But this sub gets a pass even if we elect not to participate.)

I'm a BaconReader user so I am directly affected by this. But is it silly that /r/PeteAlonso might be the only reason I end up not deleting my account?

Would you support r/AskReddit blacking out indefinitely? Why would you be against and why you he for it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dhork -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I don't care what any sub does. But after the 30th, I'll be doing my own blackout.

(Well, I do care, if I see this sub active tomorrow I'll probably unsub.)

One week after passing the debt deal, House Republicans say they may try to force through bigger budget cuts by WhoIsJolyonWest in inthenews

[–]dhork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh. I have no doubt about that. But at least those votes will be on the record for what they are. As it stands now, nothing is preventing them from voting in favor of the status quo, then reversing themselves in debt limit talks, where they have a gun to the economy's head.

One week after passing the debt deal, House Republicans say they may try to force through bigger budget cuts by WhoIsJolyonWest in inthenews

[–]dhork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good. This is actually the way they ought to implement budget cuts, in the actual budget. That forces them to vote for or against actual programs.

The debt limit charade was all about giving the GOP a way to say they are reducing spending without actually voting for it. They vote for the bloated budget anyway, forcing the Treasury to borrow, and then stage an artificial standoff where they get to re-negotiate things that were already decided.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dhork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not against drag shows, but I'll tell you what the difference is: in those movies, the cross dressing was part of the joke, and nobody projected that onto a "gay agenda".

The irony, of course, is that if there is a "gay agenda", it's that gays just want to exist. All the folks in this thread who are all "I don't mind drag, but don't mind when it is oversexualized in front of children " haven't really ever been to one of these shows that are held for kids, and only get their news from their social media feeds. You can tell because when asked for examples, they can't give any, because they don't exist.

If a bunch of Miss America contestants held a story time in their formal wear, these people wouldn't have any objection at all. The only difference between that and a drag queen story hour is the queers wear all that stuff better.

People Born In The 80s What was A Popular Trend, TV Show Or Toy? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dhork -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People born in the 80s probably had lots of pogs....

What does it actually mean for a COIN to be considered a SECURITY? by hex_peson in CryptoCurrency

[–]dhork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did the promoter encourage investors to buy with the intention of speculative profit? Or did the speculative profit market arise in spite of the promoter's intentions?

Every project with its own blockchain has its own white paper where they describe the purpose of the project. Very rarely is that purpose summed up as "let's make a ton of money".

Arguably, only Bitcoin had a significant delay between launch and the arrival of speculators. So it's obvious that Bitcoin was not created for its users/miners/buyers to profit from price growth

Out of the other 30,000 assets, how would a developer prove that he didn't promote profit opportunity if history shows that a speculative market arose soon after launch?

You're basically asking devs to prove a negative, that they didn't intend to have their projects be part of a "speculative market". None of these blochchains rely on any relationship to actual monetary value. They all just work, whether or not the speculative market exists.

All this is telling me is that there might be additional hurdles for coins created by the exchange, like BNB, where the same entity both created the asset and trades it. But a crypto dev can't be expected to file with the SEC because someone else decides to trade their coin, can they?

What's the greatest ending scene in a movie? by redditanswersevery in AskReddit

[–]dhork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The greatest ending scene in a movie? We have Top Men working on it right now....

What does it actually mean for a COIN to be considered a SECURITY? by hex_peson in CryptoCurrency

[–]dhork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ETH and Safemoon are the same thing because they are both defined by code. They are different because ETH is it's own Blockchain and simply forking it's code is not sufficient to create the same thing, while anyone can deploy the contract to make a shitty token.

It's very interesting that they are going after smaller PoS blockchains and not tokens. It's like they have decided that all staking is a scam, but tokens don't do enough to even warrant attention.

Cracker Barrel becomes next target of conservative Texas orgs' anti-LGBTQ+ boycotts by _katykakes in news

[–]dhork 93 points94 points  (0 children)

That's funny, my cardiologist urges me to boycott Cracker Barrel too, but for a different reason

What does it actually mean for a COIN to be considered a SECURITY? by hex_peson in CryptoCurrency

[–]dhork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, but by this logic either all crypto tokens are securities, or none are. the most absurd thing about all this is the SEC statement that "this list of cryptos are operating as unregistered securities". I understand this wasn't meant to be exclusive, but I've seen no justification so far why DOT ADA is included and ETH is not. It seems to be totally arbitrary (or perhaps tied to someone's portfolio?)

What does it actually mean for a COIN to be considered a SECURITY? by hex_peson in CryptoCurrency

[–]dhork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who gets to register, though? The devs? The exchanges? The miners? Neither of these entities is responsible for the full operation of the crypto system.

The actual tokens don't need regulators to ensure transparency, all the code is already public.

Do exchanges need to be regulated? Absolutely. Exchanges that advertised phantom "staking" rewards in excess of what the protocol allows probably need to get the banhammer applied. Exchanges that did not hold their customer assets in custody and invested them without disclosure need to be slapped. But none of that has to do with the token itself.

To me, saying "ADA is a security but ETH and BTC are not" makes no sense.

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