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- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 days ago:
Good for them, standing on principle 😁
- Comment on perplexity pro 2 days ago:
No.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 days ago:
Good to know that pretty much anything looks fine on my TV, at typical viewing distances.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Space itself expanding doesnt, however…
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
A teapot created with out solar system orbiting the sun fits our models, with an extremely low probability.
However, we dont work on that assumption being true.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Matter and energy can be converted. So, its possible it was never created, it just always was.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Sure! Big crunch is a possibility! Crunch or heat death, all matters on how much matter is in the universe.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Until evidence shows otherwise, new matter being created doesnt fit our observations.
Go prove that wrong! Win yourself a Nobel prize in physics! That’s what science is about!
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Yes, but we don’t have proof that universe can’t generate new matter.
True… we also don’t have proof there isn’t a tea pot orbiting our Sun since it’s creation, either.
However, there’s also a complete lack of evidence of it.
You cannot prove a negative. The evidence says no new matter can be created. No evidence that new matter gets created. Therefore, we work on the model of no new matter creation.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
A delusional market, is, by definition a bubble.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
It is not “normal” to run a 4 year money loser and claiming to be worth billions.
Only is made up financial land does that work, and causes cyclic depressions where the working class loses wealth, and the oligarchs further concentrate wealth in their hands.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Being in a non-federal government job, in a non insane state.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t the imaginary market, which I agree with the description. Its the leveraging of debt, to gamble in the market, which is what low interest rates enable.
And yes, our interest rates are VERY low still. I’m looking at some ARM packages right now, and their max lifetime interest rates are on par with what a typical mortgage was about a decade ago.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
The vast majority of what’s happening here is not debt.
Most of what is going on in the AI sector is most certainly debt leveraged. Like, I’m looking at the books for several companies deep into AI.
I mean, how much profit is OpenAI turning right now?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Goldman Sachs also though NINA mortgages were a good idea, and they also thought it was a good idea to bundle bad mortgages in with good mortgages, and find a rater to mark them AAA investments.
And then we saw how that worked out.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the AI bubble will burst is because it is driven by companies that actually make money.
Last I looked, the big AI companies are all hemorrhaging money.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah, I guess I kinda tossed that out there, as they do host a ton of servives. However, its very welcoming as an onboard ramp to learn about *nix stuff. Just ease yourself into that, while exploring Disroot and RiseUp :)
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
Tildeverse.org
Disroot.org
Riseup.net
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 weeks ago:
Instead of self hosting, why not try better offerings?
Most anything you probably use Google for, you can do with a disroot account. Riseup is a great group, with many similar services (not all). The tildeverse also has myriad replacement services.
Just try to support them, financially.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
Also, if they are here legally. Or citizens. Basically, anyone with an accent. Or not. Basically, a yone brown.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
I think, again, you misunderstand what Im saying.
I mean, setting up nginx or squid, in the clear web, to proxy to i2p services.
Or, even tor services too.
So, someone can go to iceblock.i2p.example.com in a browser anywhere, on any device, and hit the eepsite on i2p.
There’s already some in proxies like that, too.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair. We need a solution to that.
Riseup and similar VPN services need to get spun up more. Or push people to solutions like briar
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
I think you mistook what Im saying. Im saying, as a project, those who can, should set up these in proxies to aid those who cant and need it.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
You can use a I2P proxy for access via the clearnet. Additionally, many people can set up I2P proxies that can only being used to access that site. Take one down, there’s a bajillion others to choose.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
Thats kinda what FreeNet does.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
The flea market I go to has none of that.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 4 weeks ago:
What mechanisms are there to limit bad actors on ebay and other commercial marketplaces?
Very little.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 weeks ago:
They can run Keeppass, which does TOTP. It doesn’t do push notifs, like Duo does, though.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Dear god, no.
HOWEVER!!!
What I’d like to see are CRT-esque LCDs with the proper lenses, and blur, to emulate a CRT display.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
Fairly, land is always a good investment. Taking out predatory loans to buy land isnt.