off-topic

[tough comet]

https://tenor.com/view/what-wtf-wtf-cat-the-fuck-cattitude-gif-17563019

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/fried-cat-gif-25713807

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/eat-the-cat-gif-21205501

https://fixupx.com/nocontextranger/status/1794369652791148657

Does this make Egg blue? 🤔

[hearty sonnet]

Lmfao

[tough comet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/472539628763611147/871089791993778206/Very-Small-Cats.gif

[simple pagoda]

https://tenor.com/view/the-future-is-clear-derek-muller-veritasium-we-have-a-brighter-future-our-future-is-getting-better-gif-25090671

[sick flame]

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1795192031976792344

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

Valve has confirmed that Steam accounts are non-transferable and cannot be passed on to anyone after the account holder's death

Twitter · May 27, 2024, 8:35 PM

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1795193008087797921

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

Earlier this month, Steam support confirmed to a Resetera forum user that Steam accounts and games are non-transferable. "I regret to inform you that your Steam account cannot be transferred via a will," the user was told.

Twitter · May 27, 2024, 8:39 PM

[icy pecan]

I mean why would it need to be transferable…. If the person remembers the email and password he/she can just put it in the will saying my nephew blank receives this just give them the email and password

[small berry]

inb4 Steam starts doing welfare checkups

[icy pecan]

Honestly if it gets to that point I would urge people to delete steam … they have no reason to come and do a welfare check… if Xbox came to do a welfare check for me i would ask them nicely to leave before I declare them trespassing

If they attempt to set foot in my house hold they will get shot

[peak folio]

Can’t probate Steam accounts… what about their purchases?

[queen vale]

Most, if not all, purchase TOS will include "Non-transferrable licence" in it somewhere

[peak folio]

“The library dies with you.”

[queen vale]

If you registered the account as a Cyber Cafe / business one, you can then sell / pass on the business which includes the account I guess, but then I don't know exactly how viable that'd be

Or if being that type of account would restrict what you can do vs a personal account

[peak folio]

There’s a lot of problems with that

Taxes among other things.

[queen vale]

It's been over a decade since I looked at the cybercafe thing, but there's info here https://partner.steamgames.com/pccafe

[queen vale]

Oh absolutely it wouldn't be as smooth as owning your own account, it's about the only viable(ISH) way I could envision having a TOS compliant 'transferrable' account.. but I am not a lawyer, not legal advice, always drink plenty of water etc

[peak folio]

Just gotta remember to download all the installers from GOG before you die.

[humble parrot]

Give the credentials to the heir, the heir logs into the account and changes email, password maybe

Done.

PFP/profile name change too

[peak folio]

That’s what Direhowl basically said.

[humble parrot]

Steam doesn't even have to know.

[peak folio]

But Steam will have the right to revoke that.

[humble parrot]

Nowadays, you could just share the account via the family share thing, permanently

Steam has no reason to notice anything.

And shouldn't care either way

[peak folio]

They should care about fulfilling the probate too yet…

[queen vale]

About the only catch might be the name change on payment method may trigger anti money laundering / fraud checks if you are unlucky

[peak folio]

Shit, I get hit with those away, lol

[queen vale]

I imagine the issue is more the licensing than anything else to be honest, and Steam themselves likely are mostly 'Don't ask, don't tell, we know nothing' internally about it

[peak folio]

Yeah, at least until some d-bag manager comes along.

[small berry]

NFTs can make interoperable digital ownership a thing just sayin'

I know people hate it and all, but tech gotta tech

if every single game key was an NFT we would have instant second hand markets and we could have it on our deeds

[peak folio]

Certificate of authenticity

[queen vale]

I don't know if that would work in practice just because of how it would require a significant agreement between game publishers on providing, maintaining and having the licences on a Blockchain in a way that they would be able to control

[peak folio]

Publishers never liked second hand markets in the first place.

[small berry]

that's the thing, they don't have a right to control it

[queen vale]

The fact you could transfer ownership would go against most big publishers, given they have actively attempted to prevent reselling of physical product

[small berry]

if the tech becomes widely accepted there's no option for legislators but to make the industry adapt to fair consumer practies, with enough sense in their brains

tokenization can bring monetary benefits to companies, they can set a fee everytime you transact with that key

[queen vale]

They need to 'mint' the licence key and NFT, and keep that Blockchain secure and available, and also make sure they don't fuck up with 51% attacks and such

[small berry]

Not at all, they would use an already existing platform

they would ofc run a few nodes but they wouldn't be the guys solely responsible for the network cause that's not very efficient

[queen vale]

The theory is nice, I just cannot see any publisher ever successfully implementing anything like this, especially in a consumer friendly way

[small berry]

big triple A companies could have their own blockchains for sure, not debating that

[small berry]

the amount of fair monetization to be implemented can bring such stable sources of revenue they can't even dream about it

they're just too greedy and dumb to realise

dealing with blockchains has its costs attached, you wanna sell your key, well, 10 bucks are going for the company that issued that key, or whatever they want to charge so, that would create a higher base than the already existing one for a second market, imho

it would create an "artificial" floor

[queen vale]

Brain is starting to slow down as it's 0000 here, but idea is an interesting one to discuss, have to sleep though 😅

[small berry]

gnite 😄

https://tenor.com/view/gato-pensando-cat-thinking-cat-overthinking-cat-calculating-calculating-gif-21141137

[peak folio]

As tempted as I am to load up on $SOXL what will it do if China goes after Taiwan? 🤐

[small berry]

If that reaches that point nothing will matter much anyway

[peak folio]

I mean

It’s a leveraged ETF for semiconductors

[small berry]

most that can happen is a few small islands near to the mainland being taken over then a frozen conflict

[peak folio]

So buy the dip, got it.

[small berry]

yeah that can totally happen

huge massive freaking shock

[peak folio]

Taiwan has all the semiconductors

[small berry]

one has to wonder, if China isn't benefiting from semiconductors, GDP wise, if they can manufacture their own simple ones for their stuff, what do they care if the whole world "thinks" they're going to do something to Taiwan

even if in the end it's a few islands and the whole thing probably didn't get more than a few hundred people hurt

[peak folio]

Well China is all about the sovereignty.

[small berry]

moves within moves

[peak folio]

Like the whole Hong Kong situation.

Not to get political or anything but just kinda assessing risks here.

[small berry]

Hong Kong was mostly smooth if you're not from there, it's not really comparable, the UK "conceded" to what happened and the whole world was okay with it, for the most part, even if some people didn't like it

Taiwan is a whole different ballpark

[peak folio]

Yeah it didn’t implode the markets for long.

Taiwan, it does make me nervous, lol

[small berry]

I'm not sure we'll ever be weak enough for the math to check out

or they that strong

it's a matter of balance

[peak folio]

https://apnews.com/article/us-congressional-delegation-lai-mccaul-barr-fcb45da0a337582abad91a4084763e8b

https://tenor.com/view/sweats-gif-25346666

[small berry]

remember, if anything happens, it's probably just to scare people

so just hang tight, maybe have your bags packed and ready to get out of cities

[peak folio]

Well yeah

[peak folio]

Hold up

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/785575397835276288/1244794494260482098/image0.jpg?ex=665668b6&is=66551736&hm=e42bd5800527b650a4cf9c186cc6f903fe8ca92b9e1fb9483de316db984f0b92&

[small berry]

what type of semiconductors they make?

[peak folio]

It’s an ETF

[small berry]

well, right, so they have all sorts?

[peak folio]

yeah it includes NVidia, AMD, Intel and a bunch of other stocks.

[grand falcon]

China won't do anything

They are hella broke, and their missiles are filled with water, they don't even work

[peak folio]

And leveraged 3x

[small berry]

That's not an issue, look at Russia, they're capable of starting their MIC fast enough

they got the essentials to fight wars locked down better than the west

[peak folio]

Causing world wide grain shortages with that crap

[grand falcon]

Russia is getting beat by Ukraine, idk how you gonna say that like Russia is a threat

[grand falcon]

You'd be surprised how strong the US really is, and how fast the US can move it's troops

[small berry]

You can read what my name says, Russia isn't getting beat by Ukraine exactly and they got enough shells to fight for decades if they decide to mobilize more people

Nato is stronger, the US alone is, but that doesn't mean those countries can't cause havock to smaller nations

[grand falcon]

They literally don't, if they could they would of done it already, but they can't

They are using equipment that like 30 years old, Russia is a clown show

[small berry]

and with how every economy in the world runs with monopoly money, the economy of those countries will do just fine

[small berry]

You haven't been following the war more closely than I have, I'm certain of that, I beg to disagree

[grand falcon]

The entire point of NATO, is that if you attack a NATO member, your gonna be facing the entire NATO force

That's literally the entire point of NATO

[small berry]

Nobody was talking about that tho, we know that

[peak folio]

Nuuu politics

[small berry]

more like military strategy

[peak folio]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/785575397835276288/1244795998627172362/image0.jpg?ex=66566a1d&is=6655189d&hm=6484ae33d69984a963bde4cc8794e45e38a48fb7e459d91b5f6dd49f970f4374&

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/sniper-pubg-loading-sniper-reload-gif-15505006

The mods right now

[small berry]

If any political party is campaigning with anything we're talking about give me a call

[peak folio]

Semantics

But yeah that list are some of the holdings in that ETF

[grand falcon]

Ya, I'ma just stop because

1. I don't wanna be banned or muted

And

2. He has no idea what he's talking about

[peak folio]

kk

[peak folio]

I found an image

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOmA8DaXoAA4pTY?format=jpg&name=medium

Enjoy

[grand falcon]

That indeed, is not a image

[tough comet]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-freak-out-whoa-crazy-xmas-gif-15912769

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/go-crazy-viralhog-exciterd-cat-gif-20053437

[icy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-blast-off-launch-cat-jumping-into-camera-gif-6639037559618288527

[simple pagoda]

earnings dates may 30th that's why

[simple pagoda]

intc, amd, avgo 🤮

you know x86 is about to die and intc is a boomer stock with 1/3 of their valuation as debt. If you include their fabs it turns to 8/10 of their company is debt

[simple pagoda]

also never hold leveraged etfs longer than a day as you get bad theta due to time decay on monthly contracts they buy.

So some days you might get 3% up, when in actuality the price is 5% up. Then your losses are amplified if there's low IV%. If it is flat then the negative days will be amplified as 3x whilst your gains are sub 2x

[peak folio]

please stop giving advice

[simple pagoda]

most of these leveraged etfs use contracts aka options wsb style

[simple pagoda]

If you want a good etf, I would say go with something that doesn't have just tech lol. Just buy VTI or, if you want high tech, the Qs

average return is 8% yoy for VTI, 10% for Qs

[peak folio]

You realize you can buy more than one.

But yeah there’s a 3x bear version of this ETF. 😆

[simple pagoda]

but then you're overlapping

[peak folio]

Oh no

[simple pagoda]

don't touch leveraged etfs, avoid them like the plague

if you want leverage be a degen and buy options

[peak folio]

There there for speculation

[simple pagoda]

my facts

[peak folio]

Oh yeah, options are so much safer. 🤣

[simple pagoda]

just like you should buy orange juice futures

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1178768370997407766/1244839081087860736/image.png?ex=6656923c&is=665540bc&hm=2c39211b24ddb26327cf55e8e74638c67a41db437b6820125f30420e26982750&

https://tenor.com/view/finally-orange-orange-juice-gif-26664564

[peak folio]

only 25%, not 3000%, weak

[simple pagoda]

iron condors actually have 2-3% risks if you configure your legs right. They are the safest in a bearish and bullish market with small gains but the lowest risk

I can make about 1-3% per month off them

I have an algo bot with ibkr that just trades these all day

luxalgo my beloved <3

[simple pagoda]

well theta kills all leveraged etfs, why else do you think they have splits all the time

I recommend checking out r/thetagang if you're well regarded and would like to open your third eye to what they actually do

[peak folio]

You make a lot of assumptions.

[simple pagoda]

https://tenor.com/view/indeed-oui-gif-27699370

if you're trying to hedge your stuff, use options. leveraged etfs aren't for that

[peak folio]

Far too many issues with your entire line of reasoning to even bother discussing.

[simple pagoda]

well let me show you another graph

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/831165783920345110/1244841274016665632/opt_oichar.png?ex=66569447&is=665542c7&hm=83a8f5b1dfd707576310472bce50a6916abb8f35d0fd53b50200d2d8c3019de4&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1001&height=700

[peak folio]

All I have to do is point out something existing and you go on and on and on about things that aren’t even relevant.

Like, please stop. 😂

[simple pagoda]

that's what these leveraged etfs are used for, basically options speculation

you can amplify your gains/losses in the span of a day. No one holds this thing as its stupid to

people hold it max 2 seconds then sell it

[peak folio]

Everyone knows that.

[simple pagoda]

yeah then why are you buying it lol

[peak folio]

Seriously just stop.

I never said I bought it

Good grief.

[simple pagoda]

heavily implied

[peak folio]

No that’s you.

Nobody else has this problem.

[simple pagoda]

_ _

[peak folio]

Just memeing about it in other servers.

[simple pagoda]

well I am just saying if you say something like that you're gonna make a lot of other people lose money

random people read the chat and have fomo

[peak folio]

That’s really their fault.

[simple pagoda]

there could be a gambling addict in the palworld discord

not their fault

I've seen it happen in a lot of other servers, one of my friends on discord killed themselves due to it

[peak folio]

Wall street bets or something?

[simple pagoda]

nope, they just followed the gme thing in a programming discord

[peak folio]

There are reasons brokers ask you what your risk profile is.

[simple pagoda]

but still there's a bunch of stuff that could go wrong by creating fomo

I didn't really know the guy, but he friended me on discord. Told him to ignore the fomo yet he went through and posted his losses. Then was never online again

bunch of other users told him too that it was stupid

[peak folio]

when any professional talks about their options about the market, there’s always a disclaimer stating investing capital has risks. Your advice has risks as well but you’re preaching it as gospel.

Do NOT do that.

[simple pagoda]

nah this is common sense

[peak folio]

If you feel that way why feel the need to go on about it?

[simple pagoda]

well you're probably misinformed

since you bought leveraged etfs

[peak folio]

Two assumptions that are both wrong.

[simple pagoda]

how so?

[peak folio]

omg

[simple pagoda]

enlighten me

share your knowledge about the economy

[peak folio]

We’ve already been over this

[simple pagoda]

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/ironcondor.asp

[peak folio]

next time I’ll post a TW. 😆

[simple pagoda]

tw?

[peak folio]

sorry I don’t do tw’s

[simple pagoda]

what is that

[peak folio]

trigger warnings.

I was the first to point out it was a 3x leveraged ETF.

[simple pagoda]

that's why I said this stuff

it is braindead trading

[peak folio]

That has implications that you are assuming I don’t know.

[simple pagoda]

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/121515/why-3x-etfs-are-riskier-you-think.asp

[peak folio]

You also don’t seem to know why these things exist but only regurgitate whatever you were told.

[simple pagoda]

well if you're talking about investing, I'm gonna correct everything here to make sure no one does a braindead gamble with their money

[peak folio]

Slippage and fees and all that make them obviously have their issues.

[peak folio]

You’re really not helping.

[simple pagoda]

It is the thought that counts

[peak folio]

It’s literally the most volatile thing on a triple leverage.

[simple pagoda]

leveraged etfs always go closer to 0

they aren't meant for holding

its like saying you're gonna buy the VIXY

[peak folio]

I just pointed that out…

[simple pagoda]

anyways I am just saying these etfs are made for the options market for short trades

if you hold longer than a day then it is a very stupid decision

[peak folio]

A bit hyperbole there since that makes it day trading

[simple pagoda]

well you're competing against people trading using computers. The goal is to take money from other people

[peak folio]

You can also use options on leveraged ETFs. 😛

[simple pagoda]

I can do around 1000 operations a second with fractals

[simple pagoda]

that is what they're made for

[peak folio]

They’re made for taking whatever risks you want.

options are a lot of fun, though

[peak folio]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOhFG8GWoAA6IRR?format=jpg&name=large

[tough comet]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-my-god-omg-cat-what-what-what-what-no-gif-1472871557964426674

[simple pagoda]

If win11 gets worse I don't think it'll go higher than 27% market share

We might see a Debian distro that's more user friendly

[amber pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/corre-run-drew-carrey-drew-carrey-show-group-gif-5610679

[worn kelp]

https://youtu.be/zNxjTciIwig?si=gyvwGSOYL4d-fL08

[cyan acorn]

Hello pals who's ready to be my dinner

[quartz magnet]

good mornin frens

[frozen bluff]

Morning Caos, how's it going?

[quartz magnet]

tired i want sleep more. but gotta do some exams this early
how about ya?

[frozen bluff]

I had my three day weekend but now it's time to get back to wErk. Got some mild indigestion

[peak folio]

w🇪rk

[quartz magnet]

danm that also sounds unfun

[frozen bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/to-earn-the-right-to-work-gif-15946523028530843330

[frozen bluff]

It's my short week, only got two days before I get another two days off

[quartz magnet]

oh. thats nice at least

[frozen bluff]

Yah. A little activated charcoal and I'll be right as rain

[quartz magnet]

mmmm crunchy coal

[humble parrot]

Good morning

[hollow tree]

:hello

Oh that for wasn’t supposed to be there

[night plume]

Morning

[final karma]

Hey

[frozen bluff]

Indeed. No crunch though. Soon as it works its way through my system I'll be OOOOGILY GOO

[final karma]

Sounds like a tornado or something outside this morning

[hollow tree]

How is everyone?

[frozen bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/going-crazy-mr-boss-smiling-friends-freaking-out-going-wild-gif-5258506792416434328

[frozen bluff]

Morning egg, am doing alright. How are you?

[frozen bluff]

Morning Mr. Mal

[frozen bluff]

Morning Falcaroni and Cheese

Morning Azzy

[humble parrot]

I'm ok. Going to have my coffee soon

Hi Cynic

[hollow tree]

I’m okay! Still waiting for the official paperwork to come through and I wanna book flights today 👀

[final karma]

I seriously hear tornado sirens or something going off outside

[frozen bluff]

Hell yeah book them flights

[hollow tree]

I still gotta be careful but I really wanna so I can have a date

[frozen bluff]

Is the weather foul outside?

[humble parrot]

Take shelter. Check news

[frozen bluff]

Definitely good to have a certain date so you can stop worrying about the when

[final karma]

Yeh. Right ripper of a thunderstorm

[frozen bluff]

Stay away from windows, check news for any warnings or watches

[hollow tree]

Yis for sure and I’m hoping that it’s not gonna be crazy amount cuz all my bills came out and I had to repay people who helped with London etc so fingers crossed it’s not crazy expensive and I can just pay half maybe

[final karma]

Ima do what I usually do in troubled times… sit on the crapper and close the door

[hollow tree]

I like the people I use cuz I can pay it off a little each month without panicking even tho there’s cheaper on like skyscanner and Expedia but who has £600 just laying around to book a flight immediately like maam this is a Wendy’s

[frozen bluff]

Fair tbh. Bathrooms are good places to be when it gets like that outside 😂

[final karma]

Can’t check the news. Power keeps flickering off

[frozen bluff]

You got a phone don't you?

[queen vale]

Charge everything you can whilst you have power, get anything you need for the next 12 hours out of the fridge so you don't need to keep opening it to increase it's holding cool time, if the power goes out completely consider flipping the breaker at your mains board to protect against any surges due to unstable power infrastructure

Get torches, blankets, stuff like that together, close windows and stuff to retain heat in the housr

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-gif-13871975

[final karma]

I really wish I had vodka

[frozen bluff]

Aight y'all, gotta get to work. Be back in a little while

[final karma]

Nothing in the fridge but olives and soda so I’m good there 🤣

[small berry]

xDefiant is the worst name for a videogame in this century, change my mind

XxXDefiantXxX

[night plume]

You are on a phone that is using wifi.... You can check news on it

[queen vale]

Might not have wifi, might be local cell connection which may be spotty due to power outages / being swamped with emergency traffic

[humble parrot]

He's talking on discord

[final karma]

The hail stopped smacking the window. Think ima be aight

[junior hawk]

If you can access discord you can access the news is the point he’s making

[night plume]

If they can connect to discord, most likely can check a news station app

[echo briar]

https://tenor.com/view/postal-gif-26589645

[hollow tree]

PADDY

[frozen bluff]

Don't do this

[night plume]

Last time I signed a petition, my tuition tripled >.>

[small berry]

Why save TF2? let it die and let Valve embrace us with its replacement

[junior hawk]

EGG

[hollow tree]

HI

HOW ARE YOU?!

[quartz magnet]

no

[echo briar]

fair enough

[junior hawk]

Good. How are things going for you?

[humble parrot]

I know the next part of that gif

[hollow tree]

Okay! Gonna book flights today, set a wedding date too but other wise I am overwhelmed and underfed 😂

[humble parrot]

This should be entertaining

[queen vale]

Let the old man TF2 sleep now, sleeeeep..
https://media1.tenor.com/m/Kl5hOz-UhnkAAAAC/flanders-nighty-night.gif

[night plume]

Probably should set the wedding date after immigration. Just so you can wind down and relax a little and not make your wedding stressful.

[hollow tree]

We’ve set the date is what I mean

Which is fine everyone’s excited and whatnot I just have to worry about getting out there

[night plume]

Ah, I misread

[hollow tree]

No worries

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/wedding-superman-gif-5509421

[night plume]

When buying stuff (cake, dress, renting suit, accessories, etc) don't say it's for a wedding. It will be loads cheaper

[hollow tree]

Luckily my MIL is a baker

I gotta just focus on my flights for now

I’ll phone on lunch and get a price see if I’m gonna cry or not 😂

[night plume]

Borrow a dragon or ask Nessy to boat you over

[junior hawk]

Oh congratulations! That’s fucking awesome!

[small berry]

I'd ask for an irish viking slaver to maybe sneak me in

[hollow tree]

Thank you so much! And yeah I just gotta get past this last bit

I wanted to close commissions to take a break but that won’t be an option

[night plume]

It would have to be more profitable for them to sneak you in than tl sell you

[small berry]

that can be arranged

[hollow tree]

I haven’t been enjoying commissions at all lately I wanna draw for me but eh

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/strip-tease-daffy-duck-strip-sexy-undress-gif-12391719

[queen vale]

Almost showed butt-quack

[small berry]

Am I weird for having a part of me thinking that if someone wanna pay to sleep with me that means I'm valuable

[hollow tree]

That’s what that means though, no?

[small berry]

idk society has overcomplicated it

[queen vale]

I mean it depends on how you define "Value", because technically harvesting someone's body gives it a "value" too...

[small berry]

maybe I should buy a surgical table then

[peak folio]

Also consider, if they’ll do so for free does that make you priceless?

[small berry]

technically if its free its cause both parties are in it

it stops being free when one of the parties is like, meh, I wouldnt

[peak folio]

One would hope

Speaking of value, meme stocks are at it again premaket. 😆

[queen vale]

Does that mean Kidnapping is BOGOF?

[small berry]

here I was wanting to monetize random girls with boyfriends wanting to spend some time with me and you went this dark

[peak folio]

Package deal, monetize them both.

[small berry]

if you're desperate I guess all is fair in war

[peak folio]

BOGO

[small berry]

Apparently south america is looking at el salvador and they're like maybe we should also buy some Bitcoin

people be wakin up

[humble parrot]

Not really

Not here at least

[small berry]

Milei showed some interest, I think Lula too

same in paraguay and panama

Mexico to me is kind of a wildcard

something is driving more and more politicians to promise wealth to its people buying crypto seeing how much money el salvador is making, people are desperate

[humble parrot]

Argentina isn't exactly in a good place to consider it right now.

[small berry]

I mean if they got money to expand their balance sheet why buy anything that isn't crypto

[humble parrot]

I don't know about Brazil, Caos can speak on that

[humble parrot]

They really don't.

[small berry]

Well maybe it's not a lot but eventually with all the "a fuera" they should be having some spare change

https://tenor.com/view/milei-afuera-gif-8372980736394258093

[humble parrot]

They are currently going through a transition.

And it's not easy, things are very inflationary there, for now.

As for here, well, people don't really trust anything like that. Much less after the Petro fiasco.

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/balloons-gif-24742405

[small berry]

Was that even a real thing? I never quite knew to what extend that was a thing

[humble parrot]

Is it, even banks show your balance in Petro still

Even if it has no meaning.

[small berry]

oh wow

So the government does have its own digital currency and all implemented

[humble parrot]

It's not used anywhere

It's value is fake

And is more of a trap

And laundry

[small berry]

surprising to hear it's so widely implemented whilst being so freaking useless

[humble parrot]

It was legally forced

But in reality, no one uses it.

It's a common thing.

The main issue with it is how it's valued

It makes absolutely 0 sense and is arbitrary

[small berry]

state controlled ICO, probably 99% of funds are in the gov treasury, it's not worth the electricity it consumes

but at least you do have some frameworks for a digital currency tho

[humble parrot]

It's valued is "tied" to oil barrel. Yet, it doesn't mimic it's prices and it's also supposed to be equivalent to an unrealistic amount of local currency.

For example, let's say 1 petro is $60.
They also say 1 petro is like 10 BS.
Yet, the exchange for dollars to BS goes like 1 :: 20 BS.

Even officially

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-computing-counting-math-problems-gif-14678592

[small berry]

I bet oil producers in the country can go to the state and get paid in cash via petro tho

if they get some oil out

[humble parrot]

There's no "oil producers"

[small berry]

technically

[humble parrot]

There's only one, state controlled and ruined

It's production is the lowest it has been in decades

[small berry]

anything new from the guyana thing?

[humble parrot]

No?

Did you really think they were going to do anything

There's no infrastructure there, an animal path is probably the biggest road you can find

It's all amazon jungle

[small berry]

I don't really fully understand to what extent current tools make jungles more accesible or something

it might have been a wildcard that I wasn't aware of

[humble parrot]

The only realistic invasion path is through sea

[small berry]

I know technically Venezuela could have used its vast militias to just carpet the jungle and have some crews build a single road on the way to the capital or some

if the state was better prepared it wasn't such a crazy idea

[humble parrot]

It isn't prepared

[small berry]

I imagined

[humble parrot]

The military is corrupt to it's core.

If you want my thoughts on it, the political way is easier, cheaper and less volatile

[small berry]

for sure, it always has been

[humble parrot]

It worked out for Cuba getting here.

Anyways, getting too political so I'm going to stop there

[small berry]

Idk how that's political

jesus I freaking hate this "political" freaking censorship taboo bs

[humble parrot]

I'd rather not risk it

[small berry]

this is worse than when the Spanish inquisition decided to rock out in europe

[humble parrot]

I got no problem talking about it, just trying to not break rules here

[small berry]

everything is political, that rule is as broad as broadway

[humble parrot]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[small berry]

the rule should be people shouldn't be having heated arguments about stuff, rather than a blank "politics" rule

[queen vale]

The issue with "political" just like "Religious" topics is they get very emotional and heated very quickly in many spaces, so as a result it's easier to say "Let's not put petrol onto this possible bonfire" in large communities not geared towards those topics

[small berry]

Be cool and friendly with people should be the only rule smh

[queen vale]

Whilst everyone currently in here may and probably would discuss things well, all it takes is a few people to come in and get all emotional and ragey and it causes no end of headaches for moderators, from "Censorship" accusations right the way to left/right wing accusations

[small berry]

yeah, that's what I mean

if people are civil and the topic is SFW then I don't get people not talking about it

[queen vale]

Unfortunatly we cannot authorise remote lobotomies of troublesome users or re-education so we're stuck

[small berry]

In this era all it takes is a push of a button to erase people, I disagree

"You have been banned" aaand you're gone, forever

never to be heard or seen again

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-avengers-endgame-gone-reduced-to-atoms-gif-26539274

[queen vale]

To be fair those risks also stand for the community itself, not just individuals, if Discord / ect decides that the topics are not "ones we want to encourage"

[small berry]

Which it happens, to some more than others

but they have communication with server admins so they mostly give notices and warnings

[queen vale]

Honestly, if we had half the discussions we have in here on the other side of the great firewall we'd be zero'd faster than the average crypto coin 😉

[small berry]

I've seen way more controversial partners to be honest

[small berry]

true

as far as I know Asmongolds discord gets warnings from Discord probably almost monthly

mostly cause of NSFW stuff

[queen vale]

That woulnt suprise me

[small berry]

The admins there are wild, breaking ToS constantly

from the freaking lead admins, and they're like, bleh we've posted worse, while posting some movie pirating site

lmao

[queen vale]

They're lucky they haven't actually pissed off the Discord admins

[small berry]

they probably don't want to make Asmon a martyr

cause he's just a bonfire waiting for fuel

[queen vale]

If they do clip his discord, it'll probably be part of a purge rather than individual communities, easier to handle the backlash

[small berry]

That sounds real smart Mr.Myles

may I interest you in an umbrella corp job

[queen vale]

I've dealt with corporate bureaucracy, backstabbing and BS from so many angles, I hate that I understand how it works

There's a point in life and learning where you truly understand the term "Ignorance is bliss" but then also realise there needs to be people who are aware of these things so others can have that bliss

It's like the whole "Think of the kids" bullshit online - people are leaning way, way too far to keeping the "ignorance" aspect active when kids need to learn to be safe, like Stranger Danger or Look Both Ways Before Pushing a Teacher into Traffic

[small berry]

people wonder why the youth now matures at 30

probably cause you've hidden 90% of the real world from them making them think they have a fair chance

[queen vale]

I would love for the world to be able to stay innocent forever, for the ideal world where it's safe to be vulnerable and who you truly want to be online and such, but that's not the world we either live in, or a world we can ever live in because we are inherently group/pack driven, tribalistic, and competitive, we have not out-evolved those core instincts and nor are we likely to any time soon.
So we need to make sure that we warn the children there are sharp corners, to understand how they shouldn't talk to strangers but also to learn who they can approach and how if they need help, those fine lines between risk and safety.

[small berry]

Rather than risk and safety I think the focus should shift more towards Agency

[queen vale]

And we also as a society need to learn how to deal with our ills and issues - there are unredeemable people in society, but there are also those who just need help to get back on track, or to get out of the dark place they are in.

I think that risk and safety come under agency, as you can't hold yourself to a standard if you don't have a solid one

[small berry]

we need to make mistakes and all, even the dumb ones, but we need to know how to fix them

[queen vale]

Otherwise we're just a bunch of insane individuals doing whatever, and that'll never end well

The problem is that fixing, or even addressing some of them means acknowledging some pretty dark and nasty things we are capable of, and as a result people shy away from it, and in a lot of cases literally cannot handle the concepts.. which is again fine.. but then makes things .. complicated shall we say.

Get it wrong and we're pushing 1984, or anarchy. There has to be compromise, and there is no clear "silver line" in these things

[barren sierra]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1210266796502941767/1244991805708308565/att.png?ex=66572079&is=6655cef9&hm=d6ce181a5609d9a490a45f6994c8ba2e944dbbf00701e853a572f1185ac8d0aa& first potato harvest this year

They look amazing

[peak folio]

Spuds

[queen vale]

Pinktatoes

[barren sierra]

Yes early ones look like that

It takes a bit till they get the hardened brown skin

[peak folio]

Almost laid out in the fibonacci spiral

[queen vale]

Fibbonomchi spiral

[small berry]

Fibonacci is a god

[next kayak]

Fibbo-gnocci spiral.

that's a potato based pasta for anyone that didn't get the joke

[small berry]

gnocci are fire

[small berry]

I read slav in that tobacco box, which one is hard to figure, maybe its Polish? Czech?

[barren sierra]

Croatian

[small berry]

noooooois

Croatia is dope, we're mediterranean buddies

[barren sierra]

Dawai

[icy pecan]

[peak folio]

[small berry]

[quartz magnet]

[undone osprey]

[peak folio]

The big one is like “Never talk to me or my children again”

[night plume]

Yum o.o red potatoes o.o

[sick flame]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1045919067007103056/1245013560078372924/image.png?ex=665734bb&is=6655e33b&hm=9ceb99d9187ee2a778bfb81db20f760404b9c0ef0860cbed175195dc20684240&

[small berry]

nice try youtube

[sick flame]

Youtube round 5 vs adblockers

[small berry]

that's so backwards I don't even know anymore what youtube wants

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/huevocartoon-golpe-punch-hit-knock-out-gif-9635892

[peak folio]

It’s not that complicated

[small berry]

yeah but that's literally forcing users to stop using your platform

[peak folio]

If they bypass all monetization, that would probably work.

[small berry]

for something like youtube? no, that's exactly the only leverage they got

people using the platform for everything, it being ubiquitous

[peak folio]

Just like steam tries to prevent you from playing games you didn’t pay for.

[small berry]

Youtube trying to monetize is like Winrar

you're only going to get what people want to give you

[peak folio]

Nah, Winrar doesn’t stop anyone.

[small berry]

cause they understand their own situation

[peak folio]

It’s just like “please pay ”

[small berry]

unlike youtube

you wanna charge for something people can open source? you better be careful

[peak folio]

Youtube costs a lot more to distribute than winrar tbf

[small berry]

cause it's archaic

at this point I wonder if youtube is how it is by design

[peak folio]

And winrar is not?

[humble parrot]

7zip moment

[small berry]

it is but its utility trumps any benefit having a new tool would

youtube is on a death spiral and asking for money, if Winrar did that? people would use 7zip or something similar

[peak folio]

They do anyway

[small berry]

cause they have expenses that justify it and people are trapped into it

but that's an illusion that can only go so far

[peak folio]

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q1-2024-revenue-alphabet-earnings-1235982528/

Hm..

death spiral indeed…

[small berry]

that doesn't mean they make a profit with it yet as far as I know

[unborn mauve]

i aquire peak (the remake of the peakest paper mario)

[peak folio]

This article only mentions profits at the Alphabet level, but substantially increased ad revenue from Youtube excluding premium subscriptions means they’re winning that fight.

[night plume]

stares at you all

[peak folio]

stares back

[night plume]

I can smell the smell again at work. Except this time, I smell it in various areas of the office

[peak folio]

Oh no

The death had babies.

[humble parrot]

Until rat is removed

Smell will stay

[peak folio]

It was gone though

[humble parrot]

It popped

[night plume]

Nowhere near as strong as when I first smelled it, but the smell is in different areas.

I was starting to wonder if something was wrong with my nose, but, I only smell it in the office.

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/sweetdreams-good-night-gif-19358349

[quartz magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/izutsumi-izu-dungeon-dungeon-meshi-delicious-in-dungeon-gif-9589230120839941062

[night plume]

Had a coworker who would pass gas a lot. Luckily, I didn't sit close to them. They were moved to a small building with a lot of people and no AC

[humble parrot]

💀

They were used as a torture device

[night plume]

XD that joke has been made many times.

A few coworkers that sent in the cube with him would evacuate to my desk lol

[peak folio]

Flee to the salvation of the duckweed

[night plume]

How did you know I just stuck my nose in there o.o

[peak folio]

I’m telepathic

[night plume]

(would like to say that is a joke, but I did just stick my nose in the tank to be absolutely sure it was not the tank)

[peak folio]

But yeah I figured a plant that produces a lot of air would be a good natural freshener

[night plume]

Ramshorn snails smell foul when they die, when I first smelled the smell, I honestly thought I lost a couple of the older snails

[peak folio]

Duckweed usually only stinks if you scoop it up with a bunch of animal poop or something.

[quartz magnet]

[peak folio]

Ah yea forgot about those

[quartz magnet]

Bein telepathic would allow ya to fart inside others minds?

[small berry]

aren't some plants eating oxygen too or something, why do I have in my head that having too many indoor plants can be bad

[night plume]

To catch you up: there was a horrible smell at my work last week. The smell is still here this week.

[peak folio]

That’s inception.

[quartz magnet]

[humble parrot]

Telepathically send fart.mp3 with max reverb

[peak folio]

Maybe an opossum died in your vent.

[night plume]

I seem to be the only one noticing

[peak folio]

An opossum… a opossum… an o’possum…

[night plume]

There are already jokes around the office that I practice witchcraft and voodoo and other stuff (bc I've played DnD), maybe I should burn some sage tomorrow to help and continue the joke >.>
(Sage probably smells bad <.<)

[queen vale]

Don't burn anything unless you want smoke alarms going off

[night plume]

Was joke

I would bring a car tree thingy

[quartz magnet]

[small berry]

incense triggers smoke alarms, jesus christ

[queen vale]

Get one and draw pagan symbols on it

[peak folio]

Find a vinyl pentagram to put on your chair mat.

[night plume]

I should make a salt circle for Halloween

[undone osprey]

don't forget the candles

[humble parrot]

Red moons are perfect for demon summoning

Just saying

[small berry]

stuffed cat or crow could be fun

[night plume]

Someone just burnt toast in the break room, it is masking the smell

[undone osprey]

Charcoal Cuisine

[night plume]

I was going to buy one of those bone creatures from the store and put fake skin on it and make it look rotten.

[peak folio]

Put a big wooded hexen in the cube as well

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/heretic-еретик-игра-game-gif-23165000

Couldn't find a hexen gif so have a heretic one instead I guess

[peak folio]

https://cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DevilTrap.jpg

these hexes

[hearty sonnet]

Nice 🙂

[humble parrot]

I love Heretic, it's very good

[hearty sonnet]

Me too I love all those old boomer shooters

I must've played them all

[queen vale]

Blood? <I Live.... again...> Shoots Flaregun

[hearty sonnet]

Yeah I have Blood: Fresh Supply haha

One of the really good ones

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/mighty-boot-duke-nukem-kick-gif-21926506

[hearty sonnet]

Yeeeaaaah double kick

[queen vale]

... I.. walking on hands I guess or epic fart movement

[hearty sonnet]

He's marching

[peak folio]

Loved bicycle kicking. 😆

While holding any weapon you could kick with your left foot with the tilde key. But when you’re out of ammo or you pick the melee you’d kick with your right foot.

But nothing prevented you from doing both at the same time.

And you could mess things up doing that.

https://tenor.com/view/all-you-can-funnt-gif-4152913

[hearty sonnet]

Yeah the Duke Nukem Mighty Foot is an ultra-tier weapon

[peak folio]

I was making a Duke Nukem 3D level of my school back then and my classmates got a kick out of how I implemented some of the class memes, but then I completely lost interest when Columbine happened.

[hearty sonnet]

Lmfao

[peak folio]

Yeah back then school shootings were unheard of and we were all shook af. 😅

[frozen bluff]

Morning Y'all

[humble parrot]

Morning Cynic

[night plume]

Morning

[quartz magnet]

mornin cynic

[hollow tree]

Tickets are booked! Aaaaaaeeeee

[hearty sonnet]

Nice 😊

[hollow tree]

They weren’t too much and I have three months so that’s something

I’m gonna be an American ehehehe

[peak folio]

🎫

[sick flame]

https://x.com/SpyroUniverse/status/1795470776478368068

Spyro Universe 💎 (@SpyroUniverse) on X

Toys for Bob is finally free from the dreaded COD developers list.

Twitter · May 28, 2024, 3:02 PM

[humble parrot]

Served it's sentence in the COD mines

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/xqc-slam-tilt-rage-mald-gif-19082727

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/laeppa-vika-half-life-alyx-angry-rage-keyboard-smash-gif-17601518

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-panda-break-computer-rage-gif-14539932

PC violence

[sick flame]

mascot from Just Dance is not happy on PC

[ripe forge]

Gm all

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/charizard-gif-7203141999754584884

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/fishing-fail-failarmy-throw-the-fishing-line-lost-balance-lost-footing-fall-over-gif-18029324

[peak folio]

“I cast—“

🌊

[night plume]

O.O

[quartz magnet]

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/critical-failure-baldur's-gate-3-dice-dice-roll-critical-gif-16389621355368608807

[ripe forge]

Dragon it’s

[peak folio]

Dragon it’s

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/spazcat-nibby-kissy-lick-kiss-gif-18320324307111040337

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-27337545

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/sip-cat-catte-nobo-lognes-gif-21369439

[peak folio]

https://x.com/bucky_cm/status/1795432364761550913

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1089925550572834947/1245053871013756960/image0.jpg?ex=66575a46&is=665608c6&hm=2f95c4bae8a01ffc8d3f3abffdb992b365f10b5fff1564f775d314b6a67903c5&

Tell us how you really feel.

[simple pagoda]

The furries in my computer when I call them cute

[hearty sonnet]

Bucky is right

Except I dunno what Drill Core is

[peak folio]

Yes.

[simple pagoda]

Hellblade is a walking sim basically,

[night plume]

I skipped to the end of that post bc I was lazy. The ending made me curious and I read the whole thing >.> curse him for grabbing my attention when I was going to get coffee!

[simple pagoda]

I disliked the first game

If I see a walking sim it should have an actual story like Soma

If I need a game like hellblade I'll just walk outside

[peak folio]

Holy crap it’s almost lunch time already.

[night plume]

I've decided chocolate coffee

No O.O
Don't do this to me work o.o
Don't update my programs!!!!!!!!!

[peak folio]

Don’t they train you to apply the update right away when those come up?

[simple pagoda]

YouTube can't track ad blockers

Unless they bake ads into the videos directly, there's many ways to get around viewing YouTube videos with ads. Same reason why you can plug a link into VLC and view it without ads

[hearty sonnet]

I watch a lot of YT and I just deal with the ads 🤷‍♂️

[simple pagoda]

All yt does is serves their videos through their interface, in actuality you're just viewing the video off their server which is always available publicly

[night plume]

Only IT can apply updates. I have to contact IT to do a lot to my computer bc I don't have permissions.

[simple pagoda]

If they bake ads into videos at random intervals, then serve the ads. That is how they can get around it, but everyone can just skip the ads as they'll be 15 seconds

[peak folio]

It doesn’t just prompt you randomly?

[night plume]

The prompts tell me updates are available, but clicking them does nothing. They get blocked. IT has to come in and update or allow the updates then my computer will tell me to restart.

They are going to update our work programs and I am not looking forward to it bc they do clean installs x.x removing all of our personalized settings

I basically get told I don't have the administrative permissions to allow the update when I click the pop up, or it just goes away and does nothing.

[simple pagoda]

Is bios locked

You can just load another os onto ur machine

[night plume]

I like not getting fired

[fresh shard]

this would have been much funnier if Drill Core was replaced with Palworld, Craftopia, or exercise

[hearty sonnet]

Lmao

Exercise

[simple pagoda]

You can't detect that kind of stuff. It just appears as if the machine is off

[night plume]

We can be fired for hooking our phones up to the computer, putting a usb drive in, or bringing our own mouse or keyboard

[simple pagoda]

That's all tied to your os

All the programs the company installs

[night plume]

If my machine appears off, then my work time cannot be verified, and then I am fired for claiming to work when I didn't

[simple pagoda]

If you load into an external SSD for your bootable drive, they can't see anything

[sick flame]

https://www.thegamer.com/ea-is-looking-into-putting-in-game-advertisements-ads-andrew-wilson-ceo/

[peak folio]

You go ahead and do that on a work provided machine and let us know how that goes for you.

[fresh shard]

that would still qualify as putting a usb drive in

[night plume]

And where do I connect this external SSD? I have one USB port on the computer that has to have a log in chip in it.

[simple pagoda]

I own my own laptop and desktop, no need to be spied on with a company machine

Rn I'm doing freelance though

So I'm not obligated to any contracts

[peak folio]

You work for a company, they’re going to either provide you a machine or spy on yours.

[simple pagoda]

No

Lol

[peak folio]

Not being on a company’s payroll, sure do whatever you want.

But don’t go telling office workers to change their OSes

[simple pagoda]

Im just getting money for working on this guy's websites

And setting up his infrastructure

Advising him on everything

[simple pagoda]

Oh no they're gonna have the first bios detection switch that detects if you swapped your os

This is the same reason why people don't disable their webcams whilst working from home

[cyan acorn]

💀

[simple pagoda]

If you wanna be a sheep, stick with the herd. But I'm not a sheep lol

[peak folio]

Or they will see an enormous amount of traffic to a linux distribution repository and get absolutely livid.

[simple pagoda]

How would they see that on a home network?

[peak folio]

Madmud is not on a home network

[humble parrot]

He isn't mad

[sick flame]

https://propakistani.pk/2024/05/11/ea-is-adding-in-game-ads-to-paid-games/

[humble parrot]

He's just a dumud

[peak folio]

Ofc if they have their tools on your rig it doesn’t matter.

[simple pagoda]

Then download it on a home network, bring in the SSD and attach it to your port. Boot into it at work

[peak folio]

Malmud*

[humble parrot]

[simple pagoda]

I use git, so if the client wants to see what I'm doing, they can look at the git history

On the repo

So it's not exactly hidden

[night plume]

I liked Madmud xD

[peak folio]

Angry wet dirt.

[night plume]

I have 1 usb port on my work computer.
The computer does not operate without me putting my login chip into the 1 usb port it has.
We are not allowed to connect anything else to that usb port.
There are no free ports of any kind on the back of the computer nor the monitors.
Where do I hook up this magical SSD?

[hearty sonnet]

Malnourished-Mud

Malware-Mud

[peak folio]

One gig I was at didn’t transfer data of any kind on USB ports.

You’d plug something in and Windows just points and laughs.

https://tenor.com/view/hahahaha-no-laughing-seriously-i-dont-think-so-gif-26207681

[night plume]

I had to call IT and plead a case for them to allow a second USB to be used. I have an authorized camera. IT even asked me why I couldn't use the one USB port and I had to go through the "you want me to unplug the login chip that I need to access the computer, to plug in the camera that I want to take pictures from to put onto the computer I can no longer access?"

Anytime I connect the camera to that port, IT begins monitoring my computer.... Most likely to make sure it isn't a phone.

[peak folio]

Ngl I really hate dongles.

[fresh shard]

means whatever company he works for contains far more sensitive information if they're taking that much precautions against devices that can possibly capture data, like customer info

[night plume]

I remember when I learned I needed one for my xbox controller x.x

[simple pagoda]

is it a thunderbolt4 or usbc port

[simple pagoda]

morgan stanley and jp morgan film you whilst you work and have keyloggers

[night plume]

It's a rent a pc piece of a junk, that is all I know about the Dell junk o.o

[simple pagoda]

so a dell latitude

let me guess 7490

[night plume]

No idea

[simple pagoda]

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61h2elWhPZL.jpg

[night plume]

Desktop, not laptop.

[simple pagoda]

so optiplex or precision

[night plume]

Why do you want me to be fired btw?

[simple pagoda]

https://i.dell.com/is/image/DellContent/content/dam/ss2/product-images/dell-client-products/desktops/precision-desktops/desktop-precision-7920/global-spi/desktop-precision-7920-tower-black-front-hero-504x350-ng-2.psd?fmt=png-alpha

[simple pagoda]

well if its at home, you can score a free pc during your off time

[fresh shard]

this is expected at the minimal for an company that handles a customer's SSN, etc

[night plume]

Not gonna lie, it's adorable you think I have something that nice xD

[simple pagoda]

what lol?

that's spying

[fresh shard]

u mentioned morgan stanley, thats a bank

[night plume]

O.o With how much I say I'm in the office, why would you think it is at home?

[simple pagoda]

BMO, CIBC don't

JP morgan also grades you on performance metrics

[fresh shard]

thank you for adding more banks not to use

[simple pagoda]

Those are the biggest in canada

[fresh shard]

not canadian

[simple pagoda]

we never had a breach for these two so I'll say its pretty safe

[fresh shard]

literally, a quick google tells me BMO had 3 separate data breaches, 2 within the same year

[simple pagoda]

that's due to atms

[fresh shard]

"The first attack occurred during the period between June and November 2017, while the second occurred in late December that same year. BMO did not become aware that personal information had been taken by the attackers until it received a ransom email in May 2018, prompting it to conduct a comprehensive technical review of its systems. As a result of this review, BMO discovered that the first breach involved the compromise of 36,755 customers, and the second, 76,399,"

what kind of atms you have in canada?

[simple pagoda]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006488269847.html

[simple pagoda]

card skimmers

we had a big issue with them detected during that time

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/atm-shimmers-target-chip-based-cards/

a bank account is insured up to 1million

so most of those affected can be reinstated

but tldr is most canadians don't put their cards into public card readers for stores. Instead we only tap or we don't pay

[peak folio]

||at this point don’t believe anybody who says they’ve never had a breach||

[fresh shard]

On September 20, 2023, BMO Bank, NA (“BMO”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Texas after discovering that information entrusted to the company was accessible to an unauthorized party. In this notice, BMO explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive information, which includes their names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. Upon completing its investigation, BMO began sending out data breach notification letters to all individuals whose information was affected by the recent data security incident.
card skimmers dont capture SSNs

[night plume]

Completely off topic from the current off topic: I made some awesome broccoli, cheddar, chicken soup on Sunday. It just hit me that I ate the rest of it for breakfast and I am now sad xD

[simple pagoda]

different bank

[hearty sonnet]

I can't even remember the last time I used an ATM lol

[peak folio]

🥦
🚽

Skibidi broccoli

[simple pagoda]

the usa division of bmo is basically the harris bank rebranded, in canada it is the bank of montreal

[night plume]

I avoid atms. I hate that people can come up behind me and I feel rushed at them. I also don't like that I am at the mercy of a computer that is probably not serviced or checked as often as it should be.

[fresh shard]

BMO NA and BMO CA are the same parent company which is essentially BMO NA

[night plume]

I have been denied Gifs atm. Pretend you got a Skibidi thumbs up gif here.

[simple pagoda]

the usa division is basically the harris bank

[fresh shard]

and yes, what Kyran said, if you believe a company never has been hacked you're likely denying it

[peak folio]

BMO Harris is indeed a thing.

[simple pagoda]

its a tax loophole for bank of montreal

[humble parrot]

https://youtu.be/7uHo-QYqkrY?t=45

[simple pagoda]

canadian capital gains are much higher here than the usa

by being in the usa, they can access the lower fees. I can signup for a usa account and have lower capital gains tax

[fresh shard]

yeah, the canadian report about the data breach is in public view, its very detailed

[simple pagoda]

canada issues new SSN so it doesn't matter

[fresh shard]

Even though BMO detected the breach ... it did not take measures to assess the resulting risk to customers’ personal information until 6 months later, when it received proof that personal information had been exfiltrated.
also severely downplaying the fact customers were vulnerable for 6 months before anything was done about it

[peak folio]

I would hardly call reissuing SSN a “no biggie” situation, but hey

[simple pagoda]

you also have to understand most of this info is salted so they can't decrypt it

no one stores plain text records in their db, same with the salt key lol

what you'll see if super long strings from sha256

[humble parrot]

The salt just made it delicious

[simple pagoda]

https://www.ionos.ca/digitalguide/fileadmin/DigitalGuide/Schaubilder/overview-of-hash-functions.png

all records are hashed like this

[fresh shard]

the extortionist posted the personal information of a random selection of 3,190 BMO customers to various third-party websites
pretty sure it wasn't hard to decrypt

[simple pagoda]

the salt is the key for each user record, which is not onsite or online in the database

[night plume]

Gets some popcorn

[simple pagoda]

let me guess it is employee information

[fresh shard]

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2021/pipeda-2021-003/

[hearty sonnet]

Lol the font colors on that page are awesome

[simple pagoda]

On May 28, 2018, BMO assessed the raw output of the extortionist’s examples, and through internal analysis and matching, identified the application from which the personal information had been obtained. BMO determined that as part of the attack in December 2017, the attacker accessed a component of the online banking application known as “Apply for Product”.
This application allowed customers to apply for various financial products after they had logged into their account. For convenience, BMO pre-populated various fields in the application based on the personal information associated to the account. As part of this process, an unencrypted file containing extensive customer personal information was stored in the online banking session cacheFootnote8. BMO determined that it was this file that was used by the attacker to collect the personal information of its customers.

but still this is unrelated to having your computers monitored

it was just a flaw with this specific component

[sick flame]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/639839780271554581/1245076204990628002/image.png?ex=66576f13&is=66561d93&hm=a314ba9e4620b63528646129602411f1eff0a9bd0d4403799f195775fd5a70f3&

[queen vale]

EA can fuck off, and die in the most painful way possible

[night plume]

If there is a billboard, notice baord, sign in the game and an ad starts playing on it and I can just walk over and watchbit if I want, but it doesn't hinder my gameplay or lag my internet - I'm fine with it.

If an ad pops up while I am playing a game and stops my gameplay, interrupts my gameplay, or causes an interruption to my service- that game is getting returned that day.

[queen vale]

In Minecraft of course

[fresh shard]

...but they pay me so well to test their games inhouse

[queen vale]

My sympathies 😄

[night plume]

If a creeper ran up to me with an ad, I would find it hilarious and kill it quickly. If a zombie came up to my door trying to sell me something, I would kill them quickly.

[sick flame]

imagine fifa, 45 min and activate ads

[queen vale]

I just hate how EA is seemingly determined to absolutely poison the well of gaming with macrotransactions, season passes, live services and other awful "mechanics"

[simple pagoda]

just dont buy their games then

[sick flame]

CEO EA is a worst than Bobby Kotick

[peak folio]

Authentic amount of ads in sports games.

[queen vale]

I don't and haven't for probably decades

[simple pagoda]

I only really play crpgs, so I am not hit by greed

[queen vale]

It's the double dip special - Sell the same reskinned game every year with a new Ad Package

[sick flame]

45 min soccer, ads with go to toilet on 5 min and second half 45 min 😆

[simple pagoda]

I mean some level of ads make sense if you're watching sports or f1

so games based on those should have ads

[peak folio]

And when you play a star wars game in the middle of a lightsaber fight, the boss breaks off from you to suddenly command the camera; reaching into his cloak to produce a bottle of Cerveza Crystal.”

[queen vale]

I game to get away from reality, not to have adverts injected to my escapism

[fresh shard]

you have to take it with a grain of salt, ingame ads have been a thing for a good minute now, some ppl do it right and others dug their own grave with it

[simple pagoda]

nuka cola is just a coca cola ad

[queen vale]

In-Universe, respecful of the enfironment adverts I can tolerate, but I cannot trust EA to do that

[peak folio]

$70 game, ad interruptions, microtransactions, throw a subscription in there for good measure. Also BPs and loot boxes.

[queen vale]

https://youtu.be/V6kJKxvbgZ0?t=18 (18 seconds in is a bare minimum of what I see EA pulling on a premium priced, early access, battlepass loaded "Tip Friendly" game)

[simple pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-gcvyBEgo

[fresh shard]

EA putting ingame ads is one of those wait and see things, because the topic can easily be nothing to worry once examples start appearing

[queen vale]

I'm sorry, I can't put that level of trust into their behavior and business practices

[fresh shard]

it didn't affect death's stranding's overall reception https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/5dc6e58ee0af7b0006b0f6a5/Death-Stranding-Monster-Energy-Drink/960x0.jpg

and reading the financial report, EA appears to already know players have their pitchforks ready

[queen vale]

I wasn't affected, as I never bought Death Stranding because it was an EA game, but I've seen the videos and it just looks obnoxiously out of place

[night plume]

Product placement is different from an ingame ad.

[queen vale]

Honestly I'd see that as an in game ad not a product placement with how out of place it felt

[night plume]

The pic above looks like out of place product placement (never played the game). The original post was talking about introducing ads themselves based on the individual player, that is what makes me want to get a pitchfork.

[fresh shard]

https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/5dc6e5adea103f0006521532/Death-Stranding-Norman-Reedus/960x0.jpg

[simple pagoda]

https://tenor.com/view/color-spray-baldur's-gate-alteration-color-spray-gif-12914176977716136124

[queen vale]

It doesn't blend in or mesh with the world, and cheapens the experience in my eyes

[simple pagoda]

I just play games like this good luck putting an ad in there

[night plume]

That's product placement and for me, that is fine. As long as you don't clutter a game with them, I'm fine with them.

[fresh shard]

and no its not made by EA

[queen vale]

I saw that, nice try with the edit

😛

I could have sworn Death Stranding was EA, my mistake, it being Sony ironically would also mean it's on my "Be wary" list

I hold grudges against megacorp misbehaviours 😉

[simple pagoda]

those are publishers

[queen vale]

Sony is a publisher, hardware provider, media outlet, and more

[simple pagoda]

death stranding was made by a studio that wasn't sony

[queen vale]

RIP that studio then I guess

[simple pagoda]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojima_Productions?useskin=vector
there's a second death stranding game coming next year

[fresh shard]

this guy thinks Kojima is hurting on money

[queen vale]

They'll have plenty of people who'll buy the game, so my dislike of Sony isn't going to hurt them

[quartz magnet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1178712222910918726/1245083447169388667/image.png

[simple pagoda]

doesn't work

[night plume]

Vending machine in another world?

[queen vale]

If it's a Kojima game then they'll be fine regardless who they publish with - they could probably still sell the game if Epstein was the salesman with the quality of the game

[fresh shard]

swap it out with an ad for a house in TES6

[simple pagoda]

its a medieval setting, only thing they'll advertise is easter eggs. In pathfinder wotr there's the doom slayer easter egg for instance (but you're fighting demons so it kinda makes it funny)

[simple pagoda]

https://tenor.com/view/average-bethesda-fan-average-bethesda-fan-bethesda-fan-gif-138794397274525882

the devs that make crpgs don't care about money, unless its like larian or obsidian

[fresh shard]

imo the average looks at those games as waifu sim 😅

[simple pagoda]

baldur's gate?

[queen vale]

Or their only chance at owning a home and property this generation 😂

[simple pagoda]

yeah its definitely a wholesome waifu game, nothing goes wrong ever

you definitely don't get to kill children

[fresh shard]

https://tenor.com/view/npc-gif-26556764

[queen vale]

I've never heard of RPG being defined as CRPG before, though it makes sense.. "Computer Role Playing Game"

[hearty sonnet]

I just recently learned what CRPG stood for lmao

[queen vale]

I literally just googled it to find out 😄

[simple pagoda]

basically classic rpgs now. isometric stuff top down. The definition is kinda all over the place but it is basically planescape torment, baldur's gate style games

[hearty sonnet]

Camping RPG

jk

[fresh shard]

yeah, killing the neighbor and taking over their house would be too convenient

[simple pagoda]

I only play games for their plot, idc about graphics

[queen vale]

Only if your caught

[night plume]

is now wondering about squaters rights to take my neighbors property

[frozen bluff]

Cokie Colo

[queen vale]

Depends on the country you're in

[fresh shard]

legal depending if certain criteria are met

[quartz magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/coca-cola-espuma-gif-25572606

[frozen bluff]

I'm still working on getting my first home don't do this to me

[frozen bluff]

https://media.tenor.com/1Emah2MgAhoAAAAi/atoms-cry.gif

[night plume]

My realtor says my house is actually nice, come buy it, make it easy on me xD
(This is joke bc internets)

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/coca-cola-gif-19938481

[humble parrot]

Is your realtor also a dumud?

[frozen bluff]

I will come do this immediately.

[fresh shard]

slowest sale ever

[frozen bluff]

(He didn't even realize it was sold until a day later)

[night plume]

No, but they are going to have trouble dealing with this one >.>

[night plume]

(partly wants to actually offer my house xD)

[peak folio]

You need to get pretty lucky with realtors, sadly.

Since they kinda make you marry them up front.

[night plume]

I am liking this one so far. She is more, "you own your house, take your time and find what you want" instead of the, "let's get you moving!" Mentality.

[peak folio]

Well, in this market she probably doesn’t have a choice on a less than pristine house.

[simple pagoda]

https://youtu.be/y6XBGv2GuVQ?si=OUTY8mqj982LcW1C&t=817

[frozen bluff]

(Partly wants to buy it, but, unfortunately, location 😔)

[fresh shard]

last realtor i dealt with she offered to tag along while i got lunch

[peak folio]

That’s not terribly unusual

[queen vale]

Discreete credit check, if you cheaped out on food she'd be suspicious :S

[peak folio]

Sale people want to build rapport

[fresh shard]

i realize that now, but at the time i was just like "i just want to grab food in peace"

[hearty sonnet]

Totally get it

[peak folio]

yeah, lol

[night plume]

(psh, you'd love the location >.>)

[night plume]

This was her reaction b4 seeing and hearing the condition of my house

[peak folio]

Did it… improve?

[night plume]

She still gave same advice, told me the house is in fine condition and not as bad as I said. She said it is in needs some fixing up condition, not major repairs. If I get the lawn done and declutter, it should sell for an okay amount.

[peak folio]

So not like a “need a cash buyer”situation.

[simple pagoda]

here you can get a free assessment

realtors are just for advertising

[peak folio]

At least not until the borrower assessments come in

[night plume]

No, she said a cash buyer will probably try to grab it up bc of location and bc of all the repairs/improvements I already put in if I sell it "as is" instead of put it on the market

I accidentally hit the "save toner" button when printing.... This is hard on the eyes x.x

[peak folio]

That’ll probably happen the day it’s listed but most of them try to get some ~70% ARV for a flip or wholesale.

[night plume]

If they offer a decent amount, I'd sell to a cash buyer. Doubt they would bc they want as cheap as they can get as you just said

[peak folio]

Depending on what you list it at vs what fixed houses in the neighborhood sells at, it could go pretty quickly anyway.

[night plume]

Biggest issue atm is down-payment and interest rate for moving.

Speaking of, a mortgage person should be reaching out to me.
panic ensues

[peak folio]

On your side, yeah I can imagine that makes the sale of this one a contingency.

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/for-you-cat-flower-flower-cat-cute-cat-cat-holding-flower-gif-15053298681215141616

[peak folio]

Boop

[night plume]

That is adorable o.o

[simple geyser]

Kityyyy

[peak folio]

If your bank gives less than desirable terms you can also reach out to a mortgage broker.

Usually you can get lower down payments with FHA loans but those have MI for the whole life.

[frozen bluff]

(You're right I probably would <.<)

[night plume]

When I do a calculator, I can do a decent loan. Then I realized that stupid PMI and it's like, "nope, can't afford that, go down"

If you have a Sonny's bbq in your area, tomorrow is the last day for the $6 pork plate (pulled pork sammich, 1 side, drink) and the $10 pork & rib plate (pulled pork, st louis rins, 1 side, drink)

They texted me >.>

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/face-mask-spa-cat-kitty-relaxed-gif-17317115

[hearty sonnet]

What a sweet lil bebe

[small berry]

he's vibing

[tough comet]

https://tenor.com/view/pat-cat-pat-pat-gif-25250101

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/panko-cat-pankocat-fatfatpankocat-pet-gif-228857265189960783

[queen vale]

C A T

[grand falcon]

That's obviously a bird

[queen vale]

It's a cheep imitation then

[grand falcon]

Nah

[undone osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-cats-cat-pet-pet-cat-gif-811911983239479149

[hearty sonnet]

🫠 🤣

[queen vale]

You can see the exact moment the brain cell overloads

[hearty sonnet]

What a goofy missile

[undone osprey]

Love goofy cats

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-pet-gif-20694970

[hearty sonnet]

That is such a nice kitty

I wish it was amongst my horde

[tough comet]

headbutt cat

[undone osprey]

My cat just scream at my face when they want pets or something

[hearty sonnet]

That cat looks like if you fused my two cats Molly & Simon together

[humble parrot]

Mine just meows

[hearty sonnet]

I'll start making GIFs from cat videos I take, and upload them to Tenor like I do with my gaming GIFs

[barren sierra]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/899732684161560636/1086398646863544520/1618025688417828864-video.mov?ex=6656f355&is=6655a1d5&hm=8cc42fe89dc214048e5635df8cb045d1b9c150e29efd63740b395496c5cd2293&

[tough comet]

why cant i have such interactions with a kitty

[humble parrot]

You need to get a cat first

[undone osprey]

And must be a little one

[frozen bluff]

I have never seen such a place as Sonny's

Good afternoon everyone; I have arrived

Hope y'all are having a good day today

[humble parrot]

Good afternoon Cynic

[frozen bluff]

Afternoon Azzy

[queen vale]

Go to a kitty Cafe

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-lazy-cat-monday-gif-6103928

[night plume]

If I ever went to a kitty cafe, I don't think I would try any of the food

[humble parrot]

Why not

[queen vale]

Good ones segregate and deny cat-access to the cooking areas, and provide covers for your meals and remind guests not to feed the cats

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-stove-cooking-tendies-snapsauce-gif-15647429

[humble parrot]

Cat fur is also very thin, almost imperceptible in the mouth.

[peak folio]

idk about that

[humble parrot]

I know

I have a cat

[night plume]

I will not allow my cats on tables and in certain parts of my kitchen.
When I see others with cats, their cats are on everything and in everything.
I don't trust that the cafe will have the proper cleanliness

[humble parrot]

You just bought a hot dog from a road stand

[queen vale]

Mmm Cat Bean stew with extra litter

[night plume]

I cannot, too afraid of how unclean it is x.x

[queen vale]

The crunch really adds to the flavor and helps clean you inside too!

[night plume]

It would also depend on the cafe on whether or not I would even go in. I've seen pictures of some where the litter boxes are in the dining area

[queen vale]

Yeah that is grim, the ones I have been to have a 'kitty area' that's staff only where the litter is and they have a space to retreat to, the public facing bit is staffed with several people and they are constantly on the lookout.. but at the end of the day an accident can happen, it's pretty much a risk you take

[night plume]

An accident I can understand. Sometimes a kitty gets moody and makes sure someone knows about.
But, if you sit me somewhere to dine, and there is a litter box sat near my table, I'm gone lol.

[queen vale]

Oh absolutely

[night plume]

I had my cat's boxes in my washroom and I couldn't stand it, had to move them. That was too close to my kitchen x.x

[queen vale]

Our Litter trays are in the bathroom

[night plume]

My bathrooms are too small :/ I tried to fit them, but couldn't find a way that you didn't step in them trying to get in the bathroom or enter the shower

[queen vale]

Oof, that's rough

[night plume]

I considered taking the door off to under the sink and making that a litter nook, but the pipes are too low.

Stupid letter n >.> always adding them where they don't belong

[queen vale]

Depending how hardcore you want to go and if it's your own place, you could put it into the floor itself, with the trya as a removable empty bit

[fresh shard]

cat cafes are typically safe, they usually have a group of staff specifically watching over the cats separate from the staff handling food

[rapid marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cook-quay-cat-gif-9649922288456494981

[tough comet]

cat has no idea

[frozen bluff]

Deserved

[rapid marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/shock-shocked-shocked-cat-shocked-meme-shocked-face-gif-6329997493175349435

[humble parrot]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1081059175322353664/1215964765311078440/just_a_duck_with_tf2_sounds.mp4?ex=6656feef&is=6655ad6f&hm=29ec2e45b808bcc65f45cbf4ed43e7a02abb9044f092207980b80c61954e9b84&

[undone osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-berg-cat-orange-cat-swimming-gif-25177582

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-shower-water-gif-19259441

[tough comet]

not a cat

[peak folio]

https://youtu.be/5LB_y-nudGU

[tough comet]

a real doomslayer

[undone osprey]

Rip and tear

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-butt-kitty-food-hungry-gif-16378229

[grand falcon]

I got more

This time I got an entire pizza

This gas station pizza is so good

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-bite-chomp-big-bite-chew-gif-16045326

[north moth]

Rs my gas station I go to makes they own pizza in a oven and ts slaps so mf hard

[grand falcon]

IDK if the pizza my gas station has is made by then, or what

But whatever it is, it's amazing

[peak folio]

https://x.com/dragonsofwales/status/1795350038509752371

DragonsofWales 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@DragonsofWales) on X

Wakes up.
Checks notifications.
Goes back to bed.

Twitter · May 28, 2024, 7:02 AM

[quartz magnet]

[night plume]

I don't get it....
Outer space and Santa Claus are real. (Not safe for children) ||unless you mean magical Santa Claus that we put in movies and cartoons||
Are they trying to say it is all made up or it is all real?

[quartz magnet]

So santa was a dinosaur?

[grand falcon]

Yes

[quartz magnet]

[peak folio]

The internet is a scary place.

[tough comet]

what if santa was real

[peak folio]

What is outer space was real?

[snow thistle]

If space is real and so big, why won’t it fight me?

[tough comet]

cos your so small

[night plume]

But Santa was real o.o

[peak folio]

🐸 ⚔️ 🌌

[night plume]

And everyone knows space is afraid of frogs. In the beginning, the frog croaked, space was so afraid it expanded and has been continuing in an attempt to create as much distance from the frog as it can.

[peak folio]

The Big Croak sounds more like how the universe ends than how it began.

[grand falcon]

Well actually, everything is being pulled in

Eventually(granted it'll take a long ass time), everything is gonna crash into each other

It's called "the great attractor"

[peak folio]

Been a while since I heard that theory.

[frozen bluff]

The cosmic bodies do not have hands, so you would win

[grand falcon]

It's not a theory, it's scientificly proven

"the great attractor" is real

We just have no idea what it is, or what will happen when we reach it

[peak folio]

In reference to how the universe ends, not so much.

[grand falcon]

I mean......let's take 2 cars, and pull them twords each other

They crash/bump into each other

Now imagine this on a universal scale

[peak folio]

So you’re not keen on the whole heat death story.