Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Dakota Tebaldi]

New MoviePass App Will Use Eye Tracking To Force You To Watch Ads

MoviePass is back, and it already sounds horrific.

www.thegamer.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

By the way if anyone is unfamiliar with the original MoviePass, or is unaware of the specifics of why it isn't around anymore, this video provides a good executive summary:

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I remember that now. They seemed pre-doomed, the ONLY thing that could save them was some kind of partnership with the theaters where maybe you got to see the movies that had empty theaters anyway for free?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Noodles]

I really hate how almost every NFT conversation gices me anxiety over how idiotic someone is being. (iE that Magit the Gathering thing.)

 

[Stora]

HMRC seizes NFT for first time in £1.4m fraud case

The UK tax authority has seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected VAT fraud involving 250 alleged fake companies.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said three people had been arrested on suspicion of attempting to defraud it of £1.4m.
The authority said it was the first UK law enforcement to seize an NFT.

HMRC seizes NFT for first time in £1.4m fraud case

 

[bubblesort]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Bulletin Board Systems: The VICE Exposé

These underground digital meetinghouses have been operating since the '80s. Who uses them and why?

twobithistory.org

 

[Essence Lumin]

Bulletin Board Systems: The VICE Exposé

These underground digital meetinghouses have been operating since the '80s. Who uses them and why?

twobithistory.org

The author doesn't seem to be aware the original bbs's didn't use telnet, they used modems and were one user at a time.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The author doesn't seem to be aware the original bbs's didn't use telnet, they used modems and were one user at a time.

No he mentioned that:

I was told that bulletin board systems today use an obsolete military protocol called Telnet. Once upon a time, though, they operated over the phone lines. To connect to a system back then you had to dial its phone number.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

spectrum.ieee.org

 

[Khamon]

There were multimodem BBS installations, back in the day, that allowed more than one user to log in at a time. Telnet is obsolete. Missed that memo.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I used to run a dial-up BBS that was basically a user-edited text adventure where you could create rooms with descriptions and link them with doors in any of ten directions (n,s,e,w,ne,se,nw,sw,u,d), and chat by writing messages on the walls for the next visitor to read.

Kind of like a single-user Second Life for the text world.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I've seen this used to get around the EU requirement for articles outside the EU who can't be arsed to comply with EU regulations.

12ft

 

[Noodles]

I've seen this used to get around the EU requirement for articles outside the EU who can't be arsed to comply with EU regulations.

12ft

I don't mind that companies want to make money but I really can't afford to pay for all the different paywalls. If Incould bulk buy many sites, or if most sites were like a buck a month, maybe $2, Ineould be way more likely to actually be able to pay.

Its honestly kind of a problem, and while I am generally not poor, its possibly part of why poor, rural, areas are so incredibly uninformed. Because misinformation tends to be free.

 

[Noodles]

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

spectrum.ieee.org

This is interesting, though I am a bit torn because it sounds like it was medical trials more than a real product and it was just not sustainable. I mean, I feel bad for these folks who are screwed now, and the company xould have probably handled things better somehow. like surely they have some patents or something they could exchange to another company as they fold in exchange for caring for the patients or something.

 

[Khamon]

I used to run a dial-up BBS that was basically a user-edited text adventure where you could create rooms with descriptions and link them with doors in any of ten directions (n,s,e,w,ne,se,nw,sw,u,d), and chat by writing messages on the walls for the next visitor to read.

Kind of like a single-user Second Life for the text world.

Do we call that a SUD?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Yeh, could be.

Speaking of the abandoned bionic eyes, it could have been worse. Here's what Neal Stephenson came up with in The Diamond Age:

Bud knew a guy like that who'd somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Web3 is Going Just Great

A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

web3isgoinggreat.com