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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So...what you're saying is my body is... a GPU.....can it run Doom‽

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They got Doom running on an actual potato 🥔. Human body? Easy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I know i can, doing it on another screen now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

people can dream that they're playing doom, so yes

plus people who play games with no sensory input (i.e. blindfolded and with earplugs) are effectively just playing the game in their head

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sounds like the plot of a scifi book I would absolutely read.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the next "The Matrix" reboot, the robots are just using humans to mine bitcoins.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the original Matrix script actually had the machines using humans for processing instead of as energy output.

Studio execs thought it was too far fetched and made them change it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It would be more plausible today. Big AI networking our brains as a big neural net that doesn’t consume too much energy compared to the alternatives, slow but very efficient if you’re looking at the long term; but that brings up the fact that the first thing it’d do in that case is find a way to get rid of all that unnecessary flesh wasting its resources and turn us into brains in jars.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Your sinusitis could be nanobots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's actually a cool concept, nanobots that infect humans to mine cryptocurrency

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

It does hijack your cellular machinery to mine its own building instruction hashes, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Can't belive no one has made the TO THE IMMOON 🚀🚀🚀 pun yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have once accidentally exposed a postgres container to the net with the default password and then I wondered why my server is running at 100% 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao how long was it running.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Took me like a week, I assumed it was people using my plex server not using correct settings and trigger transcodes on everything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Haha, I mean how long was it open? I'm starting to spin up containers and I get so paranoid playing with it. Just curious. Usually I set them up offline though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't remember, had to have been weeks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

$RFKcoin #autism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

In case one didn't know: we do this in part since our anatomy does handle high temperatures better than foreign organisms. Hence it disrupts their lifecycle aiding in defense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

my coin is going viral

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And they aren't paying per compute time. Rent-free, always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Poor Rashida Jones