With an EFF sticker, no less

@Philip Alexander maybe you need to use it someday

I just don't have a webcam, if I did have one I'd go for one with a physical off switch or buy a switching hub (which I've thought about getting one anyway but haven't found one that has decent reviews and no lights).

I have a ThinkPad and I opened it up and hard disconnected the webcam 🤣🤣🤣

he also mines Monero like a gigachad

He was probably the one that put it there :------------------------------)

Don't forget to calculate energy usage, you're paying to run all those calculations!

In that case i’ll just get a nice Celeron processor for them to use ;)

No, get an adblocker.

Not sure if you can just use Brave Browser. It's got an opt-in.

On a global scale this doesn't sound all that ecological :/

I started putting a cover on my camera after seeing Bill Gates with his camera covered.

Do not forget that you phone likely has a camera to ;)

It's not a good option if you actually need your webcam once in a while. Why don't webcams come equipped with eyelid-like mechanical shutters?

Or no webcam at all ^^

Next time someone accuses me of being in the tinfoil hat club for having an awareness of the possibility of getting my camera hacked, I now have two places to refer them lol

macOS is unix based and more programmer friendly. A bit more secure than windows too.

If you're a programmer and you're *given* a laptop at work, you'll be offered a Windows or a macOS computer, almost always. I have Linux on all my computers at home, but as far as computers which I'm allocated, I always choose macOS. It has Bash, SSH, git, gcc, and all the other tools you'd expect in a Unix-like environment. This makes development on macOS quite a bit simpler, since there's not as much setup required.

they won't do it since they are not streamers

lipsum

Oh look who has turned up... 👍

Dragon Curve Enthusiast I've never seen that HTML tag. Must've been deprecated when we went over to HTML5...

Also, comment looks like an attribute with no value. Invalid markup. :)

[Jamie A]+ Next time ya should've gone to a more popular bar!

But would you pay CPU cycles for mediocre to poor content? I can't imagine a system like this would return integrity (or basic grammar and editing) to the news. The best content (will always be) free or cheap because people who make the best content do it for the love of creating and not the love of money (or monero)

@@SineN0mine3 if the content is poor, you'll just close the tab. Same if the video/article is too verbose.

What would the point of that be?

Microsoft and Minecraft content makers (modders, map makers, servers) could make money without needing to implement microtransactions.

But why tie this to mining blocks?

Cuz why would you tie it to crafting? It's _mining_ cryptocurrency after all, not _crafting_ cryptocurrency. All jokes aside, it would probably work as just running in the background as the game is being played.

Ye slap some cpu hogging mining on a cpu hogging game, what could possibly go wrong

not really you still need to use some of the transfer, question is how much compared to videos

Maciej Bator mining is very small bandwith

you should check Jsecoin as well same idea but it works on a lottery system instead of PoW (eliminates mining farms, abusers etc)

Toby, I mean Mike, is the best spiderman!

Monero is CPU only and JavaScript has limited access to the GPU

No because you could just connect to a proxy which connects to the network/pool for u

yes.

Not really.

Its a JavaScript script, these things are usually in blacklists of your mainstream browser/adblocker on desktop already, so no. Mobile, i don't know.

If you use uBlock Origin, Coinhive is already blocked (under "uBlock filters - resource abuse").

You can't unless you read the javascript.

In which case the cryptojacker would have to watch the wallet receiving the ill gotten coin, and regularly transfer to another wallet with a better protected key.

The way the javascript engine in your browser is designed, it doesn't play nicely with scripts that run endless loops and never yield. So the script is forced to use some technique which allows the script to yield, the browser takes care of other pending work, then the script processes the next piece of the job it is running.

What you call obfuscated code might be code that has been optimized to load and download faster (often called minimized code) This is very something that is very common and can often be found in files ending with .min.js or .min.css It's also likely that the code is something that has been transpiled from another language such as typescript, which is commonly used by developers that dislike the quirks of normal javascript.

Sod Alfredsod, usually called "minified code" rather than minimized. But yes, those are the most likely explanations.

Turn off JavaScript probably..?

That is the same thing quite more often than people would think.

Ain't that the truth.

I would say less lazy, and more a form of obfuscation. Because I'm sure embedding the javascript would blow up the files to a very noticeable size. And if it just redirects to the hacker's own code on their website, it'd be very obvious whose code it is.

Efficient

Efficiency...is just clever laziness.

Much better idea, because the miner could be coded in c++, which would mine much faster.

yeah people listen a lot...

cosby714 and now there is

There are automatic checks and for Apple also manual checks (I work for a company that has several hundered apps in both stores and we have to deal with those from time to time). But the former won't catch everything and the latter is pretty easy to get around, you can for example set the code to not execute in the first month after the app was build so it won't run when tested. The automatic checks are much harder to pass but with some clever obfuscation (or just sideloading) even that is doable.

Lenovo ThinkPad X260

Lukeforce 🤔

Earning his surname!

morphman86 do you not pay for electricity? KZfaq has a premium option don't they

Yeah, sure, but the bill for using 50% of the CPU instead of 25% would not be that much. We're not asking people to start watching KZfaq through an AntMiner, we're talking about going up from 150W to 300W. For an hour worth of videos, that would be about £0.025. You'll pay more if you boil the kettle to have a cup of tea while watching.

but on a system not optimized for mining, the tradeoff of your $ of electricity to $ of crypto will be less than 1. It would simply be better for all parties if you just donated a $0.02 micropayment per hour. And it would save the CO2 and pollution caused by generating electricity.

You know a lot of gamers play CPU/GPU heavier games than many crypto miners do. When I play Star Citizen, my computers starts reving up like a B52 bomber with all the fans kicking in. With a miner you can set it to 10% and would cost way less electricity costs than it does for me to play the high end games. PS Its probaly the best way to monetize kids or 30 millennial basement dwellers who have no income and their parents pay for the electricity. I mean that XBox One power isn't cheap either so it's up to their parents to kind of keep an eye on it like they do when their kid gets a credit card on Steam or App store.

BNOOOOGERS The problem is that people are far, far, far, far, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar less likely to donate $0.02 in an hour than to let the computer rev up a tiny bit for the same amount of time. Also, my calculations earlier were way off, for some reason I calculated a doubling in CPU usage equaling a doubling in power consumption, but that is wrong. You actually use far less than double the electricity, so if you're using 150W normally, at 25% CPU usage, going to 50% CPU usage means closer to 225W, meaning you'll pay about $0.007 per hour extra. Anyway, it has more to do with psychology. When it comes to paying for stuff, the KZfaq Red scheme (now called KZfaq Premium) proved the same thing marketing people have known for ages: Given a choice between free and slightly inconvenient or paying a small sum, people will rather pick the free option and complain about the inconvenience. Given the option of free with a slight inconvenience or paid, but not in straight up cash, people will pick the less inconvenient option. That is why people generally accept microtransactions in free games, as long as the advertisement for them isn't inconvenient. People rather pay for a skin in LoL than seeing an ad for the same skin before every match. That is why the earlier free-to-play with microtransactions are so much more popular (and profitable) than mobile games. And taking it one step further and having an indirect payment method, an in-game token rather than straight up cash, even if that token costs straight up cash, means people spend a lot more. That is why Second Life is so profitable. People pay L$1000 for something they would never spend $4 on, even though both equal the same sum. So when asked to pay $5 a month directly for a premium membership, having an ad before every video or donating 25% of the CPU power, people would be most likely to donate the 25% CPU.

it has value because people believe it has value. Just like every currency

laziness aproach is more like: don't do it until you need them

Me too. :/ Very annoying, especially when it starts consuming memory out of control.

the title

One rarely gets paid for being wrong :(

You forgot the letter n

Indeed, there's rarely such a thing as a free lunch

I'm also looking to hire a Solidity developer for a short term project. if anyone is interested please e-mail me for more info.

that's so interesting!

To the degree that the writers of a cryptojacking app have to work harder to get past Apple's checks before it goes up on the App Store, yes. (Google Play does checks too, but there are lots of other places for an Android cryptojacking app to be distributed) It's not a lot of protection - there are ways around Apple's app testing - but it's *some*.