A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A critical point of intervention to halt such campaigns lies in understanding why WordPress sites are so vulnerable and frequently compromised
Given that WordPress defaults to auto updating itself and all plugins it can (and you have to go out of your way to have it not do that if you care about testing), I am a little surprised.
It's a double-edged sword. It means published vulnerabilities will be fixed fairly quickly, but it also needs the entire installation to be writable by the web server so any carelessness with paths is usually catastrophic.
Thus it has ever been, though - most shit-grade hosting for PHP, for many years sets it up so the whole area is writable by the web server.
The situation was demonstrably worse before WP auto updates were standard.
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We’re so sorry, we can’t let you have your actual currency you trusted us with, because despite saying we’d be a bank, we never actually intended to follow the rules for those. Can we interest you in some shitcoins in this trying time?
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@izzion Very nice
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Did I ban the spambot but approve the post?
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Did I ban the spambot but approve the post?
The happy path.
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Did I ban the spambot but approve the post?
Don’t take my engagements away
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The duality of bitcon (these are neighboring articles on /. atm)
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I've completed something like 25775923734 reCAPTCHAs, and and it still won't let me in.
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the cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis estimated the total sum of those forgotten wallets across blockchains to be worth $140 billion.
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis estimated the total sum of those forgotten wallets across blockchains to be worth $140 billion.
That’s a lot of Monopoly money.
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I've completed something like 25775923734 reCAPTCHAs, and and it still won't let me in.
Confirmed robot
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DtNIc7YpFI&t=0&start=0&end=93
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@Applied-Mediocrity wait, he's testifying!? Clearly, the man is a complete idiot. He's pretty damn guilty, he constantly self-justifies, and the cross-examination is going to be brutal.
I'm going with "lies got me into this mess, why can't additional lies get me out of it?" idiocy.
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@PotatoEngineer he thinks he’s smarter than everyone else, so he can “um akshually” his way out of any accusation. Reality will hit him hard.
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@topspin Good, it might put the nail in the coffin of crypto good and proper.
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@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin Good, it might put the nail in the coffin of crypto good and proper.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Arantor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin Good, it might put the nail in the coffin of crypto good and proper.
A man can dream.
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4 weeks of trial
4 days of testifying in his own defense
4 hours to convict
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@izzion Think! I! broke! the! entire! Yahoo! by! clicking! the! cookie! banner! twice! Would! have! been! nice! to! know! how! many! years! the! fucker! got!
sentencing set for March 28
Oh come on! Full 110 years and be done with it
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article @izzion linked to in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
As the verdict was read, Bankman-Fried seemed stunned, appearing stone-faced
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Reality will hit him hard.
charges, which carry potential penalties adding up to 110 years in prison. Bankman-Fried is likely to face far less than the maximum at a sentencing set for March 28.
Why? Because he's been such a good boy or because he's not poor enough to get the maximum sentence?
“It’s both wrong and unfair, and I hope and believe that you have seen that it’s simply not true,” he said. “According to the government, everything Sam ever touched and said was fraudulent.”
Um, yes?
he had a 5% chance to eventually be U.S. president.
Not surprising at all.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
he had a 5% chance to eventually be U.S. president.
Because he shares the Frist Name with
Uncle Sam
?
But the latter is also well known for taking all your moneyz away.
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@BernieTheBernie His last names also promise to fry the evil bank men.
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@Zecc See:
Fried
is german, it meanspiecepeasPEACE. And it pronounced like englishfreed
. But your version is ... an interesting variant.
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@BernieTheBernie said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zecc See:
Fried
is german, it meanspiecepeasPEACE. And it pronounced like englishfreed
. But your version is ... an interesting variant.Bankman[n] is also German. It means a man[n] from the bank.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion Think! I! broke! the! entire! Yahoo! by! clicking! the! cookie! banner! twice! Would! have! been! nice! to! know! how! many! years! the! fucker! got!
Weird, my Incognito window didn't show the cookie banner. I guess, mission success?
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The going theory is that event organizers skimped on lighting costs by using UV lights intended for sanitization, not for entertainment, causing burns to the eyes and skin.
Just when you thought crypto-nuts couldn't get any stupider...
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Just when you thought crypto-nuts couldn't get any stupider...
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Just when you[who?] thought crypto-nuts couldn't get any stupider...
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Here’s big clive, basically the most qualified individual to discuss this, doing some cunning detective work to hunt down the placement of the offending fixtures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DlfLthx89E
Stolen comment:
If you find yourself going to an event that looks anything like this... You have bigger problems than eye damage.
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@kazitor said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
If you find yourself going to an event that looks anything like this... You have bigger problems than eye damage.
I think that "Bored Ape Yacht Club" was a stronger, pre-existing indicator.
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NFT v2
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@TimeBandit get block[chain] go broke.
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@TimeBandit There was a time for NFTs. It is no longer that time.
So I guess Disney has simply decided: "it's done, we might as well ship it. The damage to our reputation will be so small as to be nothing, and we'll get at least a dollar out of this."
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@TimeBandit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
NFT v2
There's also Warner's . I gave them half a year last year when a friend showed me; they still had zero content and some challenges at what you'd think had to be their core skill, displaying short video clips on different devices.
(left is FF, right Chromium)
They're still clinging on though. Seems they got slightly better at the video thing, and they actually have some stuff for sale. Just $100 for extremely rare 4k minty yaddayadda from The Flash, the worst superhero movie flop ever. What's not to like?
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The Flash, the worst superhero movie flop ever.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The Flash, the worst superhero movie flop ever.
Flashette is coming?
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Aaaaaand (all your power) is gone!
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@izzion Under-Floor Heating System Baffles Boffins in Polish Court Drama!
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/ecb-chief-lagarde-admits-her-son-lost-crypto-cash-2023-11-24/
INB4 his mom is the person who took him for all he was worth
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@izzion posted a link to an article that said (in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted):
lost "almost all" of his investments in crypto assets, despite copious warnings.
Oh no!
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@izzion it’s not like the lawyer mother is particularly competent with finances, either.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion it’s not like the lawyer
motherisparticularlycompetentwith finances, either.
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A Bitcoiner making a large transaction ended up spending 83.64 BTC (~$3 million) of the 139.42 BTC (~$5.1 million) transaction on transaction fees, effectively spending $3 million to send what ended up being a $2 million transfer. This likely error on the sender's part has become the largest transaction fee in Bitcoin history.
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@loopback0 but at least it's not got as exorbitant as a transition fee as the credit card companies. Not does it save every transition every in a ledger like they do!