coralreef

controls aren't important, upgrade/tech choices are

Why is anything worth anything?

The short but final answer: because other people want it.

Fake xcode tools injecting malicious code into dev's apps: https://9to5mac.com/2015/09/20/xcode-ghost-app-store-malware...

Fake zoom updates: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/2026/02/fake-zoom-me...

NPM supply chain attack targeting cryptowallets: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/cloud-security/npm-sup...

More software means more complexity means more pathways to losing.

Can you do it? Sure. I'm sure there are millions of dollars in private keys stored on internet connected laptops somewhere out there. But the best practices remain the same: as little internet as possible, as little software as possible.

Using a consumer pc, risk wouldn't come from hardware hack implementations, it would be mostly software.

To continue with your example, "display sniffing" could be done by infecting trusted software or software presented as trustworthy (fake or infected Zoom binaries, Xcode binaries, etc.) or injected through open source dependencies like npm packages.

Yes, you or I might be paranoid enough to check the checksum hash to make sure the open source code matches the build. But every time, for everything?

The less connected it is, the safer. The less software it runs, the safer.

Right, so now you need an additional device on hand (your phone) to parse the QR code into a string. Or I guess you could activate your hot laptop's webcam, pick up your cold laptop, crank the brightness up, point it towards your webcam, and capture the QR like that.

Sounds kinda clunky.

Yes, you can certainly use an air gapped laptop as a dedicated hardware wallet.

But now you need to generate a public key to send to someone so you can receive coins. How are you sending that key to your friend? Are you going to read character by character and manually type up the string?

It's all tradeoffs.

Your general purpose computer is connected to the internet 24/7. It runs a complex operating system which constantly gets updated and patched. It visits dodgy websites, downloads npm packages, backs up files to the cloud, etc.

Thus the attack surface is far greater.

why would the entire country be "needing" to change its composition?

2016 https://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00174/

~70% of int'l marriages in Japan are Japanese men + foreign brides.

Of the women marrying foreign husbands, 25.7% Korean, next is 16.7% American, then 12.5% Chinese.

You mean western dudes who fetishize/exotify eastern women?

If the extended family incorporates other races, does it stop being extended family?

“Bloodline dilution” is only a thing if you believe your race is superior.

Carbon tax would shift the economics in favor of renewables.

Unfortunately I feel this was inevitable as GoPro did not stay on top of hardware design.

DJI and Insta360 offer compelling products. And budget, lower quality 1080p-4k action cams got eaten by Akaso and other clones.

The data center money was private capital put up by individuals and corporations willingly. They are seeking to provide a product (compute) to paying consumers.

You can have an opinion on whether or not AI/data centers are worthwhile, but ultimately it wasn't made by your money.

What was gained from it?

How do TPUs perform compared to GPUs on LLMs and image generation?

Possibly.

Who would be more efficient at pricing money: the market or the government?

Medical tourism

And 640k memory is enough for anyone!

I feel like this is a weak point. There are countless spam/scam websites out there, because anyone can spin up a page and publish something. That’s why you exercise a bit of caution and skepticism.

That’s the tradeoff of an open web. When you have a limitless design space, you get lots of trash.

But saying “websites are a scam” is just disingenuous to the fact that some websites are very legit and very useful.

What self respecting lawyer would ever advise their client, whom is probably being investigated for criminal charges, to tell their story to the media?

> is of significantly more historical significance

Hmm, maybe, or maybe a video representation of the moment, endorsed and co-branded by the league and the athletes, will come to be as valuable or more valuable than a physical photo print of that moment as represented by trading cards.

A trading card doesn’t survive a house fire or flood. How can a card be a true artifact of sports history when its also just a derivative product?

Yes, you could go and mint NFTs claiming to be authentic.

The same way you can try selling fake Rolex’s or picasso’s.

Any serious buyer would attempt to vet the items provenance to make sure it’s authentic. You might be able to pull a quick one on some, but that’s not unique to crypto.

And cryptographic proofs are not a form of provenance?

You realize it’s not the pointer to a jpg that makes an NFT valuable, it’s the provability of the artist that published it?

So you pay money for cardboard with ink on it, and it’s worth thousands? Sounds sus

Lebron James rookie cards were always a scam.

But what happens if/when a large amount of user ETH gets staked in a single country, in a few entities? End users don’t have the motive or skills to move their ETH to platforms or systems that better protect decentralization. The downsides of PoS is worth exploring.

You misuse the word “backed”. The US economy does not “back” the dollar, figuratively or literally.

America, it’s workers, corporations, military, etc., will happily abandon the dollar should it become necessary. No one wants to be paid in money undergoing massive devaluation.