behold, crypto use case: sanctions evasion! https://feddit.de/post/12595042
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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An article about Opera going from a normal browser company to a predatory loan / cryptocurrency / chatbot / edgelord gamer / vtuber company: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
Now I'm a healthy woman. I think all browsers having associated vtubers, or at least mascots, is a great idea. But not at the expense of silently ending support for one of their browser branches leaving any users brave enough to use it to face huge security vulnerabilities.
I FOUND A WORKING NITTER INSTANCE that is not nazi owned (that i know of) it's at xcancel.com
Good find! As far as I can tell, xcancel is run by unixfox, who also runs the invidious instance yewtube. They seem normal.
yeah these people seem okay until further notice
So there was a big, vaguely described, public kerfuffle at a beach in my city, so I logged onto Xitter to see what happened. The first (and only relevant post) was from a sinister-ish sounding bluecheck. Low and behold, I found that he writes to the Unz review.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240526210416/https://www.unz.com/article/the-worlds-greatest-boxer-is-a-white-man/ It's all about Usyk, a heavyweight boxer who's considered a pound for pound great. Usyk is a great boxer, undoubtedly. But this article is strangely constructed, borderline pointless, and brazenly racist (shocker). And honestly, reading the comments, I think the author's just trying to cope with the fact that black boxers tend to be popular.
I don't think racist cope on its own is even worth a stubstack, but this one take is especially stupid:
Since it’s assumed that heavyweight boxers are able to beat everyone below their weight class, the heavyweight champ is essentially the real champ. And until last weekend, there hasn’t been an undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999, when Lennox Lewis—a black “British” man—collected all of the belts, only to lose one of them a year later when he failed to promptly fight a mandatory challenger.
To those unfamiliar with combat sports, I can't emphasize enough how weird it is to say that the heavyweight champ is the best boxer, period. Skill - irrespective of raw strength - is super important to boxers and other people who participate in combat sports. To the point that any fan ranking a pro boxer will likely talk about "Pound for pound" (p4p) greats, not the objectively strongest fighters. And right now the unofficial p4p great is a sub 5'6" Japanese boxer Naoya "Monster" Inoue. This man is a beast. I don't need to glaze him any harder, just google him or look up what people think on reddit. Weirdly enough, he's not mentioned once.
Hell, he doesn't mention Gervonta "Tank" Davis at all. He's half an inch shorter than Inoue, but he's also considered a p4p great and is known for his high boxing IQ. As a matter of fact, he doesn't mention Terence Crawford - 5'8" also considered a p4p great - at all either. Hmmm.
Wow the Unz review seems like a very cursed site.
Case in point: Steve Sailer references RMS: https://web.archive.org/web/20240510121546/https://www.unz.com/isteve/richard-m-stallman/
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I've never heard of these boxers, but this was pretty funny
In this corner: Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury, a bald 6’9” behemoth who resembles the Amazing Colossal Man of 1957 sci-fi B-movie infamy. Fury was born 35 years ago to Irish Traveller parents [...]
I doubt that either Fury or Usyk understand the term “white” as Americans do. The main ethnic identity I’ve seen Fury claim is that of an Irish Gypsy whose people have been oppressed by the British for centuries. Fury even once let these words slip from his lips before one of his fights with Deontay Wilder when asked if there was a racial element to their matchup:
We’re all hauman beings. It doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, pink or green. We share the same blood. We are humans.
(mispelling in original)
Shocking that a pro boxer named Fury is a better human being than some self-proclaimed racist blogger.
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Echoing the audience's fawning of heavyweight boxers is probably the least objectionable thing in this racist shitheap of an article, I like how it ends by basically saying people should shut up about the judges possibly favoring Usyk for being Ukrainian, not because that's just Tyson fans coping but because the current notable russian heavyweights are either icky muslims or not full whites by parentage.
P4P is mostly a marketing term anyway, size aside the meta is different enough between distant weight classes to really strain comparison.
Idk if heavyweights are the big thing right now. Tank and Inoue are some of the most popular fighters right now. Hell, look at Ryan Garcia, he's the talk of the town. Everyone watched him v Haney and Garcia not even that big ~~or good~~! I feel like if you asked the average young man who his favorite fighter was, they might not even be welterweight
And here are my favorite sneers from the comment section
This guy gets fucking dunked on for not reading the room and claiming that black guys might actually be better boxers, genetically.
And this guy thinks that weight classes are for wokies.
Honestly, I'm starting to think this post was threadworthy just from the comment section alone.
"Jared Taylor fan"
When you want to replace the dogwhistles with foghorns.
weight classes are for wokies
This used to be a Joe Rogan staple: no weight classes, no time limits and the ring should be the size of a basketball court.
It's really just the umpteenth reiteration of the meathead mantra of how I'd do really well in [popular combat sport] if it weren't for those pesky rules holding me back.
Fucking lmao. Imagine being as big as Joe and wanting to fight in a ring the size of Kansas where you can't go the distance.
You def wouldn't need weightclasses though, the featherweights would just have to run until the heavyweights pass out from dehydration/exhaustion. It'd be like the hunger games
ah, xitter. "blacks," conversations with "alt right moderate" + colin wright tagged in, and 'men being of different sizes is woke.' what a site
And despite the fact that whatshisname wants to secure a future for himself and his heavyweight white children, he doesn't capitalize "white" at any point. To be honest that was the only part that was surprising.
an exciting new startup promises to be "airbnb for gpus"! rent out your GPU to run untrusted code for pennies an hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260259
bonus: the company is “pivoting” from drone delivery
bonus bonus: boomer in the comments going on a nonsequiter rant about trans furries
Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ‘trans furries’, or better analyse classmates’ stolen chats. I can vividly remember we were by no means disclosing private info back in ‘94 only to see a world of influencers in 2024 sharing their very personal guts for profits.
Uber, for GPUs.
Guuber?
Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ‘trans furries’
excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU
"New". The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably weren't the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.
So the top response is asking the painfully obvious question: how is this secure? Some dude (not sure if it's one of the startup employees) responds "Let's just use homomorphic encryption!" then throws a pissy fit because some people downvoted the suggestion of running extremely inefficient computation on rented hardware.
christ and of course it's a YC company. they really should print that on the office entrance wall of something
YC: Where Monopolied Rentware Is The Only Business Model We Know
were they selling nfts or shitcoins in the past?
I went looking and was actually surprised not to find crypto links in a 30 second search
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ahhh thank you for changing the litter tray
wondering what my notifications will feel like if there's more like those two winner threads last week
Everyone who manages the new sneeratorium deserves a high-five.
legit, the reason I finally bit the bullet and made a local account is that the awful.system bans weren't federated and I had to individually ban every one of the troll surfers, and last week was a lot.
a social network's product yet again being its moderation
welcome to the big time
thankfully the stubsack hasn't broken containment
yet
those threads felt more like The Big Top, with a dash of accidental psychedelics
honestly couldn't believe some of the posts I was seeing
i could. imagine reddit but they think they can't be banned.
I never partied over there, probably part of it
not a sneer, but holy shit we're midway through 2024. the abyss beckons.
fuck, I’m an ancient skeleton swearing revenge on the archeologists and/or teenagers who’ve disturbed my eternal slumber
MEDDLING KIDS
and their dog
nah the dog can chill
everyone else is absolutely cursed though. fucking coming into my tomb calling me “a guy in a rubber mask” as if skin care wasn’t hard enough