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Billionaire Carlos Slim cancels $22 billion in Starlink orders due to Elon Musk’s outburst in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Anybody here think that a mexican billionaire can be alive without having ties to drug cartels? Good for him for giving the finger to Musk though.

Etherium logo finally makes sense in c/memes@lemmy.world

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

It's a pretty old cryptocoin: initally released back in 2015, and a significant change deployed in 2022. It was then when they changed from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, which basically means that they don't use mining anymore to keep the network running. They use like 1% of energy compared to PoW coins.

Also they have some smart contract capabilities which I suppose Ethereum people think are important. But I've never seen any practical use for that stuff.

Still, I think Eth is one of the cryptos that actually tries to be useful and efficient in some way and not just a stupid pump and dump scheme. Turns out, nobody gives a fuck about that, perhaps?

Etherium logo finally makes sense in c/memes@lemmy.world

Musk: Ukrainian front will collapse if I switch off Starlink in c/world@lemmy.world

Thinkpad for the win in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Interesting. What is really causing the rapid decline in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 85 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

General rule for posting stock prices: sometimes things are obvious when you zoom out a bit.

In this particular case, Reddit stock price is still up several percentage points from the Trump rally that affected just about every tech stock after 2024-10-30 about. Same applies to other stocks like Tesla.

So at this point it's nothing more than a return to normal. No need to attribute anything more to it. But sure, if this descends keeps going for some time more, it'll be different.

Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Check out Revolt. They're trying to mimic Discord.

https://revolt.chat/

Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Discord sucks but this might be easy money if you join at the very start.

I don't personally understand why people want to use it, but if you're one of those people, https://revolt.chat/ might be a great alternative. They're open source (at least for now).

CEO of Brave rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't think it's complicated. People are in fairly small cliques, and social contagion is real. In the relatively happy case it turns you into a woman or something, in the worst case it turns you into a planet-destroying asshole.