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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So inventive these guys. If only we could harness that ingenuity for the common good instead, it would have a huge impact.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Last two are clearly "US dollars" and "printing press"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's the plagiarism machine, AI/LLM chatbots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Don't forget, they're slander and disinformation machines too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The printing press, of course

[–] explodicle 3 points 2 months ago

I can't even download and run the first two, those are business innovations! 🤮

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw there are a large number of people who volunteer their time and effort toward worthwhile projects. It's just they don't get rewarded anywhere near the level of benefit that they provide.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup, I used to do that as a hobby, but now that I have kids, I just don't have the time. There's no way I could do it full-time, so I have a regular 9-5 that pays reasonably well for a cause I don't hate. For me, that's enough.

I hope I can make enough at my day job to go back to working on FOSS projects before I lose my ability to write competent software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you look at the value proposition purely from a capitalistic standpoint, I get why scammers and black hats exist. I just wish they could point their weapons toward the 1% and pull something similar to a Mr. Robot and redistribute their wealth.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 months ago

Agreed. Unfortunately, as long as scamming is profitable, people will do it. And this has nothing to do with capitalism, scamming happens under any system where it's possible to get an advantage by tricking people.

I really wish we'd have better enforcement here. I don't really know what that should look like (i.e. what mix of oversight vs privacy), but I'm quite annoyed when I see resources put toward harassing regular citizens over stupid things like speeding on an empty road when we could put those resources into tracking and shutting down scammers. I watch some YouTubers who do that, so it's not like it takes resources we don't have...

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"To prove that you are human, donate $$$ to Doctors Without Borders."

"To prove that you are human, register to vote."

"To prove that you are human, adopt a pet from the local animal shelter."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“To prove that you are human, adopt a pet from the local animal shelter.”

I've got 22 cats already, but I need to check my email!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

PLEASE ADOPT VERIFICATION CAT TO CONTINUE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS. THEY'RE EATING THE CATS.

Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To prove you are human, a turtle is upside down, or whatever the blade runner test thing was.