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When I opened the article above I was asked to subscribe to a newsletter. I dont know whether to laugh or cry.

And Anubis: it is uncomfortably close to erotica, in a way that makes me panic when it pops up while I'm at the office. I wouldn't care if it was a picture of a puppy or something, but not an anime catgirl.

Trust in media today is at its lowest in history.

Bits about money explains why: the (normal) financial system is slow for a reason: if a bank suddenly tries to transfer 5.6B all other banks will call their contact for confirmation and then take 2 business days to process the transaction, more or less.

Stealing anything is easy, escaping and converting to cash is the hard bit, and crypto makes it easy to vanish with your money in literal seconds.

Cons: difficult to money launder.

Without getting too political, these were the days when the press controlled information and appointed themselves arbiters and gatekeepes of information.

The internet and free information showed them up for what they really were: biased cavemen like everyone else, and the aura vanished.

Based on everything with the NSA and backdoors etc, the idea that this was intentional is not inherently implausible.

The reason I agree with you is that it was too obvious i.e. if you were backdoooring something, you would want it to be more difficult to detect than this.

I guess the main takeaway is that the entire Web PKI is a far bigger house of cards than everyone assumes. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

Modern technology is basically magic but all anyone wants is flying cars.

Wi-Fi on planes is truly astounding when you think for even a moment.

Its called a Potemkin solution, and there is a serious theory that most nuclear arsenals are exactly that: no-one has ever confirmed they can actually be fired.

My eyes glazed over reading that. I feel like 30 years of internet has proven one thing: the simplest solution always wins. PGP is many things, but simple and obvious are not among them.

You are so full of BS it's scary. No credit report is a non-starter at any financial institution that wants to stay in business. They won't be giving you a loan unless they know you are wealthy e.g. own 17 investment properties already. 'High-privacy' countries is code for 'tax-haven', and 'my money in the Cayman Islands' means your bank is about to run afoul of AML and KYC laws if they give you a loan. And this is the whole world: doing business with America means adopting their financial posture i.e. penalties for doing business with money launderers.

'I didn't read the contract before signing so it doesn't apply' is not a defence in any court I'm aware of.

Men are evolutionary wired to seek money and status. When they find ordinary routes to these blocked, they discover that violence is a shortcut. That this is the same the world over across every income and culture indicates an underlying equilibrium rather than a specific case.

Very. In most places in the world starlink is the fastest internet available. The global internet business is VERY big. In developing countries most people do whatsapp/ott calling over internet so their only cost is wifi.

It is by no means exclusive to America.

There is also the practical matter that after 30 years it is very difficult to prove anything. Witnesses are gone, documents are missing etc. Satute of limitations is more about practicality than anything else.

Feature: Apple does not phone home. Enable this feature?

Would you like to enable the feature where you opt out of disabling telemetry?

0 bits is just a very small bloom filter.

This is the exact problem with the Unix greybeards smug nature: no matter how low level you go you are always on top of some abstractions.

Criticising people just because they don't use your choice of tools is just elitism and leaves a bad taste.

If someone uses a GUI to accomplish their goals that should be complimented not criticised.

They never install packages for me and love handrolling large amounts of e.g. parsing code where a library exists. I have to keep telling them 'look for a large popular dependency' when they start writing huge functions that obviously already exist.

Was doing something with OSM the other day and Opus basically started reimplementing NetTopologySuite.

I would but then I'd have to kill you.

Border between France and Germany is a particularly well know peaceful area, especially Alsace-Lorraine.

Somehow I feel like the biggest post-apocalyptic problem will be the loss of home equity due to uninsured damage causing a collapse of financial markets.

If AI does solve the Riemann it will be the watershed moment when the world realises what has happened.

The CIA certainly uses Signal, which is why privacy advocates who think the US government will go after it are idiots. Same thing for Tor.

Supporting whatever benefits you is called a 'political position', not a conservative one.

Our accountant told me 'he's not letting go of his claude subscription' followed by a long list of things it does for him. And my friend 'nah haven't really used AI' before his description of it clarified he still thinks they are GPT 3.5 chat bots.

The world has changed in 12 months and many people didn't notice, and those that did are eating their peers' lunch.

I dont like ads. Would you be willing to pay for content? Obviously not, stupid.

This comment in general, not aimed at you.

300 wives and 700 concubines. His taking of 'foreign wives' who turned him to idols was listed as one of the main reasons God was unhappy with him, indicating what the scribe thought about this.

That is what was meant and based on some of what they have published it is barely a joke.

There are little tools/optimisations that I have been wanting to do for years that I can just throw at AI now. I am almost annoyed sometimes because the little easy things I could do to 'relax' are now gone: if I am working on it is something AI can't do, normally because there are moving parts outside of the repository it can't see (i.e. integration problems, and I hate those).