Joined 9 September 2022 · 1574 posts
I'm no longer using Noise, having switched to Tangled. https://gr8whitesnark.tangled.com/join bitcoincash:qq4em2hvjxx8hx9kpqgs32gkm6g2jc02qgquhtg5xl nano_3sn…
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Being sick gets very boring and frustrating, quite quickly. Although I'm still not completely recovered and could most likely benefit from another day or two of rest, I'll be damned if I'm going to spend another day lying in bed doing nothing. It has, however, given me some appreciation for the opportunities I have to make use of the time available to me during the day.
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I don't really like humans, even though I am one. I find us a hard group with which to communicate and to relate. Today is not the first day (and it won't be the last) in which I have the jarring experience of speaking, reading and writing English, yet nobody understands what I've put across, nor do I understand their responses. hence why I have a love-hate relationship with my first language and a fervent wish to learn (or invent) one that's entirely monosemous. So far, my best bet/hope is German, but I haven't got anywhere with that, despite having copies of German for Dummies and Teach Yourself German at my disposal.
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Stack Exchange: A network of Q&A sites for miserable fucks devoid of a sense of humour and/or fun, where questions that attempt to inject some of it get not just closed, but deleted. That's particularly unfortunate for the SciFi & Fantasy site, since escapist entertainment is surely a large part of the genre's raison d'être, AFAIK. That's one of the reasons I seldom visit the sites on it. The other is that the inclusion of questionable/sketchy library code in its pages (stuff like analytics, fingerprinting and tracking code) makes me leery of it and causes me to avoid using it if I can help it. Anyway, I stated as much in its annual survey (particularly regarding how I feel regarding its decision to incorporate AI: I'm not impressed and even less inclined to use the network further, as well as if I feel like a member of the community: No, I don't). Jeff, I am still disappoint! I'd rather use Lazy Fox, although it's still tiny and lacks many of the features that made SE popular/useful in the past.
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Now, for a bit of unsolicited advice: Never rate yourself a 10. 10 means perfect, means you know everything, have stopped learning and improving. Only a fool thinks he's perfect and/or knows everything. If I know anything about anything, it's that there's a hell of a lot that I don't know about a lot of things.
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Vixxi.me seems to be down for the last couple of days, which is annoying. Although I was only making a small amount of XNO from it, it was still income. Oh well, I guess I will have to look elsewhere for crypto ...
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Note to self: Possible idea for another post on Pub0x: HEX: Is it legit, a scam or just a hex? Now, though, it's at least two hours past my bed time. +++???+++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo from start! +++
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I passed the 350 followers mark on Pub0x at some point in the last twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Woot! It's still far from my goal of 2.5K, but it's progress and all things in time.
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Sending CVs and emails to recruitment agencies achieves about as much as redirecting stdout to /dev/null and expecting any response: It's an exercise in futility. Call me old-fashioned if you will, but I prefer to deal with actual humans (fallible though we are), rather than computers and algorithms, in certain situations. Finding the means by which I earn my living is one of them. In that regard, I'm pretty much on my own and have to rely on older means of achieving that. Prioritising antisocial media might be my best bet, as much as I don't like admitting that. https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/good-luck-youre-on-your-own-in-the-age-of-ai-xxzknyq
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JK Rowling has been writing a new Harry Potter book, titled Harry Potter and the TERF Manifesto. In it, she reveals that Voldemort is NB. The release date is still to be determined, since she's having difficulty finding anyone willing to publish it. It might end up being self-published, if she can only find a site willing to host her fund-raising campaign.
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Is it wrong that every time I watch Lauren Boebert humiliate herself in front of an international audience, by saying horrible and stupid nonsense, I want to f**k her like I hate her? It seems she has a humiliation fetish (and definitely a fixation with urination). In other news ... TIL: Renaud Camus, the man whom created White Replacement Theory (commonly dog-whistled as "Jews will not replace us") is homosexual and has participated in pro-LGBT demonstrations/protests. I wonder how many right-wingers know that and, upon finding out, will drop White Replacement Theory. Sometimes, the world is too damn complex/complicated for me to get my head around it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_Camus
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Anyone who struggles with shameless self promotion isn't me. It's not my forte and it doesn't come easily to me, but I can still manage to achieve things like this: https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/year-of-the-crab-another-shot-in-the-arm-for-my-creativemusi-xjrzqez
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I found this today, while looking for a Bizarro cartoon on Christianity (unrelated) and it says so much about working for a corporation. Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words (most of them angry or snarky in tone).
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This morning, I managed to reach 600.04 PRE in rewards before reaching the cap for daily paid searches. That's a little frustrating. Fortunately for me, I happen to have a list of Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 greatest songs of all time, so that should keep me busy for about a year if I'm only looking for 25 YT videos a day ... Meanwhile, the price/value of PRE continues to fall. FML!
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Does anyone remember that Birds Aren't Real lampooning of conspiracy theorists? Well, it turns out that the joke has become reality. Life is just too strange sometimes. https://futurism.com/the-byte/dead-birds-drones-that-fly https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200722142724.htm
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I had a look at how much it would cost me to convert my AMPL and SPOT (~$15.00 in USD) payouts from Pub0x, into ETH. According to what MetaMask would charge, that's nearly $110 worth of ETH. That's more than ridiculous. It's ludicrous. F^#k the memebros, PEPE and ETH! Hopefully, things calm down drastically by the end of the month, or I will have serious problems.
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A note on CAPTCHA: Is it a circuit board? Is it a bunch of skyscrapers in the CBD? We'll never know. CAPTCHA reveals nothing.
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It looks like Pub0x finally paid out my earnings for April, although it only took them two weeks! Now, the question I'm asking myself is if I'll be able to swap my AMPL and SPOT for ETH or if the gas prices are still going to be ridiculously high.
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Ah, people are still misrepresenting Darwin's theory, constructing false narratives and attacking strawmen in order to push their own socio-economic and cultural/political/religious agendas. What a surprise (or not)! I have my own ideas on that, but try not to run my mouth because I don't know as much about it as I could and I don't want to contribute to perpetuating myths. https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/on-misrepresenting-darwinism-and-evolution-please-do-not-fee-xddvgnr Also, in "Things I Know Because Women Told Me": Any man (particularly a cishet one) whom claims to be an alpha definitely isn't, regardless of whatever silly categories and conditions to which he ascribes. Ditto with those who claim to be "dominate".
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The way things are going, it seems that nobody will buy my NFTs. (It's not simply because of the price of gas, because they're on Polygon and shouldn't be affected by that.) I can’t even give them away; nobody's interested. Maybe I should start a competition in which I give away my NFTs if I earn more than a certain amount per month for my posts on Pub0x. (The winner will get to choose which NFT they want, to increase the likelihood of better engagement/interest.) I wonder if that’s a workable idea.
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Urgh, I still haven't received my ETH from Pub0x, despite the fact that I put in a withdrawal request on the 25th of April and it was supposed to be payed on the 1st of this month. When I look at the status on the "Payments" page, it still shows as "Withdrawal pending". It's so frustrating. I require that ETH in order to convert my ERC-20s. Another thing that's proving frustrating is that I require another 4.2 SOL in order to exchange my existing SOL (which I no longer want) into something else. It's not the first time that I've been thwarted by a minimum balance requirement. I might have to mine the damn stuff or visit faucets until I get that much. That's really not something I want to do, as if my time isn't already in short supply ...
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I'm tired. I'm tired of having to be some indefatigable robotic superman who still manages to prepare and eat four square meals a day, just to survive, let alone get ahead. I can either find and hold down a job OR manage my personal/private life, not both. The very idea alone is wearisome. I've tried. I just don't have the energy, stamina or time. I ended up with burnout and complete lack of will to live, in a psych ward for a month. Yet, that's what's expected of me, because other people somehow manage. I'm not other people; I'm my mediocre, useless self. I can't even afford to feel bad about it or defeated, that takes too much time and energy, which is a luxury I don't have. https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/back-to-work-i-go-it-seems-unlikely-at-this-point-but-the-sh-xzgmwlr
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It looks like the Luno exchange is working again (wallets unfrozen or the message I got wasn't actually from Luno but someone fishing for my account details), which is good. I've managed to put a small amount of BTC through it, with much reluctance. Where I'm going to get another three thousand banana bucks this month is anybody's guess, but I always manage to find a way, somehow. My payout from Pub0x still hasn't reached my wallet, which is annoying. I best go back to job-hunting like crazy and hoping a few people buy my music on Band Camp, NFTs on OpenSea and/or posts on Mirror. Alternately, I might have to mint them and gift a few to @PVMihalache and @ZeroRequiem in the hope that they will do some free promotion for me, since they've got a larger following than I do. I'm not exactly sure how to do the latter, though. I'll have to see if OpenSea has instructions on that. https://opensea.io/collection/bdsm-fetish-barbie https://opensea.io/collection/prescription-jugs-nsfw https://opensea.io/collection/fax-machine-anthems-gws https://opensea.io/collection/selected-early-works-gws https://opensea.io/collection/moon-units https://mirror.xyz/0x7E34D99D4EfD9CBfdA379790Da9122ad2b10cfbD https://greatwhitesnark.bandcamp.com/ https://www.patreon.com/greatwhitesnark https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gr8.white.snark
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I've published another post on learning AI, since my first post on the topic proved popular enough to warrant it. If I earn $0.75 or more in tips on it, I'll put both parts onto Mirror as a single post. https://www.publish0x.com/back-to-the-source/an-overview-of-ai-for-humans-continued-xeekwpg
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TIL: The Solana (SOL) project is now using ChatGPT. Urgh! It looks like it's time to convert my SOL to something else (XNO, XMR or ZEC) and abandon that project. So much for learning blockchain development with Solana. It looks like it's time to move straight to ZCash (ZEC). It's probably just as well that I ended up having technical issues with SolSea and couldn't get my content onto it. https://www.publish0x.com/bitcoin-price-drop-what-just-happened/when-ai-meets-solana-xozexzp In other news, I dropped an album on Band Camp and OpenSea last night. It's more electronica/techno stuff, but with some dubstep thrown in. Hopefully, it's better than my previous albums and will catch a few people's ears (since it has a higher asking price than my previous releases). I'm still waiting for someone from Weasyl to verify my account. I know it's only been three days (two of them over a weekend), but the typical nature of centralised Web2 sites is annoying me. It's only been about five days, but I'm also getting sick of looking after my parents' aging pooches and being a dog butler, even though they're sweet and well-meaning little beasts: Up at 06:30 and working hard until midnight trying to get my own work done around catering to their needs and wants. It's enough to put me off getting dogs of my own (even small ones) if I ever reach that point. Then again, I don't intend to live on a half-acre property that can easily sleep and feed nine people. https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/fax-machine-anthems-new-album-released-xjrpkrv https://opensea.io/collection/fax-machine-anthems-gws https://greatwhitesnark.bandcamp.com/album/fax-machine-anthems
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Considering that DeviantArt is on a mission to rid itself of sexy/sexual content of any kind (even if merely suggestive) and lose the "Deviant" part of its name and nature, I went looking for alternative Websites and found two that I think are worth further investigation: https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/alternatives-to-deviantart-creary-and-weasyl-xgjmezd
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According to How Stuff Works, based on figures from the US Federal reserve, there's at least 21.2 trillion dollars (estimated M2) in the world as of December 2022. Yet, I can't even figure out how to consistently obtain a few hundred of them every month. FML! https://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm
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I don't remember having a past life, but I must have been a war criminal in it to deserve all this crap in my current one. Who'd want to be born a human in a Corporate Consumer Capitalist society? https://www.publish0x.com/hunting-of-the-snark/the-treadmill-on-which-we-run-and-the-rags-to-riches-myth-xlqrrjk
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I just made a fake photo of Anna Kendrick X Ivanka Trump as Wonder Woman in a red trucker cap! (There's also a Barbie Doll version!) Why did I do this? Mainly because I could. Also, if Donald Trump made $1 million from his shoddy NFTs, why can't I depict his daughter as Wonder Woman? 😆🦸♀️ If you played with Barbie dolls as a child and can stomach seeing them in BDSM, fetish/kink and role-play gear and outfits, I might have just ruined your childhood, but enhanced your adulthood ... https://opensea.io/collection/prescription-jugs-nsfw https://opensea.io/collection/bdsm-fetish-barbie
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Today in things I did: 1. Accidentally sat on a praying mantis. It's not dead yet, but I don't think it's well. 2. Created an NFT collection for BDSM/Fetish Barbie, since I found an AI that generates NSFW photo-realistic images of only white women. Things I haven't done 1. Learn C 2. Look for permanent employment https://opensea.io/collection/bdsm-fetish-barbie
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Today, it is my intention to learn as much C as I can from a crash course (or maybe two, depending on time) for developers. Deviating from that will not go well for me, since that's how I end up not getting things done. I am far too good at not getting things done.