### Issue 1849 - Friday 19th May, 2023

## In Today's Issue

- Westpac cuts off cryptocurrency deposits because most of them are scams
- US Supreme Court dismisses cases that could have led to major change of section 230
- OpenAI releases ChatGPT for iOS & Texas professor sucked in by AI hype, fails class
- Bike Outliner is a very good Mac app for planning things
- Friday Forum Update
- Cheap PS5 controller, Death Stranding for PC, Galaxy Tab A8, WD Red Pro NAS HDDs, Xiaomi TV Box S, Cygnett 30Ah bettery, AOC 34" monitor, M2 MacBook Air

## The News

### Westpac cuts off cryptocurrency deposits because most of them are scams

Westpac has decided to start a trial of proactively blocking its customers from transferring money to cryptocurrency exchanges, "after its own data showed investment scams accounted for about half of all scam losses, and a third of all scam payments were transferred directly to cryptocurrency exchanges". One of the exchanges impacted is Binance, who can't accept or send AUD at the moment. Meanwhile, the ATO has sent out a fresh reminder to the public that "capital gains from the disposal of assets, including crypto assets, continues to be a priority this tax time" and that it uses a data-matching program to find out if you've made a capital gain - so don't be lying to the taxman, yeah?

### US Supreme Court dismisses cases that could have led to major change of section 230

The USA's Section 230 law is back in the news as their Supreme Court has "ducked difficult questions about the scope of the 1996 law", as two cases involving overseas terrorism, the death of an American and trying to blame Twitter and Google for that, were more or less dismissed by the Supreme Court - so Twitter and Google won't get to argue that it's not their problem as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act covers them from being responsible. Some people are bummed as they see Section 230 as giving companies like Meta and YouTube and Twitter and TikTok an easy way out of properly moderating these cesspools. Techdirt has a detailed take on these two cases if you're interested to learn more.

### OpenAI releases ChatGPT for iOS & Texas professor sucked in by AI hype, fails class

ChatGPT is now available as an iOS app. Apparently there were many imposters claiming their app is ChatGPT, but they're just providing access to it via the API. Now there's an official one that's a native app, not just a web wrapper either. Cool. Dunno when Android gets it. Over in Texas, a university professor failed an entire class because he put their essays into ChatGPT and ChatGPT claimed to have authored every single essay. This dumbarse believed the chatbot. Welcome to the future folks, more and more people are going to blindly trust this magic computer box to be correct all the time, fuck the consequences.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Bike Outliner is a very good Mac app for planning things

I don't know about you, but I think in dot points and short sentences. When someone pays me to write something for them (75c/word, I'll write anything! Email me your brief, I need the money), I start by dumping a bunch of ideas into dot point single sentences and then play around with it until I've got an outline. Bike Outliner from Hog Bay Software is a macOS app that I wish I found earlier in life as it's a fucking perfect text editor for how my brain outlines an idea. There's a 7-day free trial, give it a crack. It might be a game changer for you like it is for me.

## Friday Forum Update

Here's five interesting discussions over on The Sizzle's paid subscriber forum for you to enjoy over the weekend. If you are not a paid subscriber but want to get involved, visit https://thesizzle.com.au/payme to get onboard.

- dalan is fed up with the Commonwealth Bank and wants to know if it's worth switching
- The_Hawk started a discussion about that free ad supported 55" 4K TV I mentioned earlier this week
- Baa needs a password manager that can be used company wide
- andyb has a sook about Telstra jacking up post-paid plan prices in July
- Tintin wants a free/very cheap forum for his little community to communicate on

## Bargains

- PlayStation 5 wireless controller - $68.80 from the Gamesmen's eBay store
- Death Stranding is free on Epic Games at the moment
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 64GB - $290 from Amazon
- WD Red Pro NAS 3.5" HDD 12TB/14TB/16TB/20TB - $353.61, $378.91, $401.01, $527.43 from Amazon USA
- Xiaomi TV Box S (2nd Gen) global version - $100 from Gshopper
- Cygnett ChargeUp Maxx Digital 30Ah USB powerbank - $53.95 from JB Hi-Fi
- AOC CU34G2X 34" curved 3440x1440 144Hz monitor - $500 from Scorptec
- MacBook Air M2 8GB RAM 256GB SSD - $1619.10 from Wireless1's eBay store

## Image Of The Day

On December 14th, 2006 Apple computer co-founder Steve Wozniak visited Ancient Oaks Farm for an interview by the Discovery Channel and for his first ever tour of the Digibarn Computer Museum (Digibarn Computer Museum)

## The End

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