anarchost

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That's what Nostr is supposed to be for. Looking for ways to monetize decentralized social media. So far, they've only imagined cryptocurrency transactions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Only when people can afford to have a hobby.

Or post revolution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You've launched into full-on apologia for why dumb cars are bad, this just makes your suggestion look worse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If a Toyota connects to the internet to receive instructions to disable things built into the car, it is too smart of a car for its own good.

Are you seriously on the "sell my heated seats back to me" train? Because that's happened too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Toyota wants to lock people out of features built into their cars.

Would you say the same thing if they started charging monthly for using the seat warmers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Toyota has lost its way, using their "smart" cars to lock people out of features that they don't subscribe to.

I recommend people avoid them.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Technically? It's 3 years off from antique.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I love me a movie that can carry itself through aesthetics alone!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Take On Me because the rotoscoping work is amazing, and now more movies need to embrace it.

  • closest movie: Cool World, which is basically an avant-garde music video of its own, with people transitioning between the 2D and 3D worlds

Turbo Killer because it has fast cars, violence, and Satanism

  • closest movie: Rock and Rule, set in a furry cyberpunk dystopia "where magic and technology collide", featuring glowing pentagons and shiny (not as fast) cars
  • second closest movie: Nicolas Cage's Mandy. Just wait for it...
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Out of all the bad things you can say about Mastodon drama and moderation issues...

It's pretty cool the phrases "don't use this instance" and "follow people on this instance" can coexist.

Because of federation, the admins of an instance besides your own don't even get to peep your IP addresses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can go to your server's Hot or Trending section and just start following big accounts, and from there find people in replies to various interesting posts to follow. Maybe.

You can also follow hashtags on there!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He comes up from time to time in Coffeezilla videos. We can all learn something from analyzing grifters and grifts from a bird's eye view.

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