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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 402 points 9 months ago (43 children)

No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 149 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I'm serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don't have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can't come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

[–] valsa@lemmy.eco.br 90 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In São Paulo, one of the biggest cities of the world, the municipality forbade by law all billboards and building disfiguring 'decorations' some 10 years ago. Since then, the city became much more bearable, aesthetically. Nothing special happened, everybody was happy, except a few bankrupt ads agencies. Maybe, you must be able to imagine that change is possible. However, there is this ideology, Americans seem to be so fond off, that seems to make such things very difficult.

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 29 points 9 months ago

Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

Smart TV manufacturers: "Impossible!"

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[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

Same with porn. But I'm building a shake-power generator for fleshlites so it should balance out the power it pulls. Saving the earth one jack-off at a time.

Charging a hybrid car battery only takes 253.4 jerks. Pretty soon we will be expanding our charging service to parking lots across America and Canada! Most of them already have people willing to do it for you already ...they were doing it there anyway... Win/win.

Powerjerk (tm), we make perverts work for you!

Just roll up and say "Hey Jagoff, I need to get to x!" And you'll promptly be taken care of.*

*Do not give them drugs to speed up the process. We are serious about our drug-free workplace.

Edit: steal my idea and I'll find you

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Energy isn't free. More power captured from jerking will increase food consumed, meaning more energy used in farming. You'll have to brand this as either a carbon ~~capture~~ fapture system or as a weight loss program

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I am. Same loop of crap blasting on 20x massive screens 24/7 at the station.

Every store that keeps light on at night is also an ad.

My hate for them is one of the main drivers behind my radicalization.

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[–] MBM@lemmings.world 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Most people aren't loudly in favour of that, especially not the ones concerned with the power usage of blockchain

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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Yes but what about this whataboutism? And honestly I am fairly certain it ain't as much as Bitcoin. People usually focus on 1 thing to get it done because moving to the next. I bet you try to do that at work too.

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 195 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Distributed hashed linked list is so yesteryear. These days we're into text autocompletion instead.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 106 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hey, it's not just fancy autocomplete!

Thanks to years of innovation, it's now copyright infringement as well.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I wish copyrights will die to this technology! <3

[–] Electricblush@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The thing is its only the copyrights of individual artists and creators that will die to this.

The big corpos will find a way to protect their value, just you wait.

They will steal from every single creative in the world and then sue them to hell and back if they use anything they them selves "own"

This is not a threat to the copyrights that you want to die.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well I'll be a little more enthused if that would ever apply to regular people as well, rather than just people with several billion in VC money to buy lawyers.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago (8 children)

The real charlatans were the “the technology has promise” people. No, the technology was dumb.

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[–] cygon@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago (6 children)

...and, hear me out, that will be perfect for keeping messages untraceable by the government. Every single of those 200,000 computers will have full copies of all the messages ever transmitted, unencrypted, but they'll never be able to tell who wrote them and who they were for.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 36 points 9 months ago

At first I read "200.000" as a particularly precise float, and laughed at the absurdity. Then I realized he meant "two hundred thousand" and it came full-circle from comedy to tragedy. :(

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Or, you could just pick one computer, have it do the work and punish it by taking its money if it screws up (ETH).

But yeah you’re not wrong about minable coins.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (29 children)

Crypto =/= blockchain.

If you can't see the utility of blockchain with regards to things like actual, verifiable digital ownership, then I don't know what to tell you.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 106 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (36 children)

I want to see what you mean in practical terms, because the only other example that I know besides questionable crypto currencies is NFTs and that was an epic lesson on what not to do. 😅

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[–] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Maybe it would be a good thing for the digital world to be free from the concept of ownership.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

How about first we see a version that isn't a scam? We've seen plenty of scam versions so far.

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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (12 children)

It doesn't require that much computing power, that's just a variable that gets set.

If the difficulty were set lower, one average computer could easily handle it.

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Do we have a buttcoin on Lemmy? We need a buttcoin

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