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Buttcoin is the future of online butts. Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts.

A community for hurling ordure at cryptocurrency/blockchain dweebs of all sorts. We are only here for debate as long as it amuses us. Meme stocks are also on topic.

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Cryptobro makes a new coin to "help FOSS projects". Predictable scam rush ensues. (connortumbleson.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15238521

Yet another "brilliant" scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The only way wide spread signing will occur is via our protocol.

Sure, it's not like there's a whole protocol standard that you can use for signed provenance of binaries which you could incorporate and help promote to make the OSS ecosystem better and more secure.

Nah, look, I solved package management using only my grit and impressively large IQ.

I hate the energy of That Guy that barges into the room and shouts "I solved X!" without researching for 5 minutes what all the people that were actually hard at work solving X came up with, what hurdles they identified, and which paths were already explored.

And it's always fucking tech guys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I hate the energy of That Guy that barges into the room and shouts “I solved X!” without researching for 5 minutes what all the people that were actually hard at work solving X came up with, what hurdles they identified, and which paths were already explored.

Reminds me of the time I was at Barnes & Noble and this lady comes in with her little boy (4-6 maybe?) and they head for the children's section. At the entry to the children's section she tells him to go find a book, and they separate. He walks a step to the first display in the center of the entry area, grabs something, and shouts "Momma I found a BOOK."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hate the energy of That Guy that barges into the room and shouts “I solved X!” without researching for 5 minutes what all the people that were actually hard at work solving X came up with, what hurdles they identified, and which paths were already explored.

And it’s always fucking tech guys.

“my only achievement is that I made the most mediocre version of something that already existed and somehow it got corporate adoption” is a whole-ass type of person in my industry, and they’ve always got the biggest gap between self-perceived genius and actual skill level. they always seem to gravitate towards systems software too, somehow