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I didn’t read the article yet and this is basically what I expected. Hardly a secret, and a fairly good summary. The economy is going to downturn anyway because people just can’t afford the new housing. For a two bedroom anywhere with people, it’s 650,000 and up. At that point you have to be married to someone who also works full time to have any reasonable chance of being able to afford the mortgage. At the average interest rate of 6% you’re paying $4,100 per month, which is about the average pre-tax income (~$54,000 per year, so ~$1038 per week). Of course, that leaves very little wiggle room to save, and if either of you were to lose your jobs or the interest rate goes up, you’d probably default.

EDIT: I forgot to add the point. It’s this. A whole bunch of people are going to default. People take bad mortgages because they have to, it’s not like its an option to be homeless and sharing a house with strangers can really, really suck. But those people are going to be defaulting, or moving overseas, or just staying at home with their parents. The market will correct itself.

I remember Yudowski being a thing like a decade ago, and people were making fun of his “AI” research even then. It’s scary to realize that not only did some people take him seriously, but those people are at the helm of AI companies and making decisions affecting tens of billions of investment capital. I think there was a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that “true horror is waking up one morning and realizing your high school class is running the country”.

For the other poster lower down, I’d almost successfully forgotten about his Harry Potter fanfiction, people kept praising it so I actually read through a bit of it, it’s painful reading. He also wrote a Superman fanfiction and that’s even worse. I think they both say a lot about his internal mental state and his perception of other people though.

Maybe, but I’m betting that the CEO who floated the idea that FPS players would be willing to pay per-reload didn’t push back too hard against the board’s ideas.

Possibly. It also suggest you’d get all these benefits by just disabling one of the GPUs, because unless battery life is a concern for your gaming laptop the difference in power draw on the desktop will be fairly minor.

This actually sounds like a really cool feature.

I’ve never had a bluetooth device that worked well and connected reliably, so “better than bluetooth” is not hard.

Absolutely. The security argument is used so often I’m surprised people aren’t more cynical about it.

They’re not offsetting anything, they still charge money for the boxed copy sold in stores. This is pure profit for them.

I think they’ll go even harder, making Windows only run stuff purchased through the Windows Store so they can completely lock in the market.

I always run with hardware acceleration off on all my Firefox machines, it seems to cause a lot of issues and the videos play just fine without it.

I didn’t even know the option search existed. I just asked ChatGPT and it just tells me the option I need.

nixOS. But seriously. You can change something in the config file, and if it doesn’t work, you can roll back to a previous file. It can also control for things like custom kernels.

Harsh but true. I also need to sell stuff to people, and I hate ads, I realize that other people hate ads too and that in fact ads generally suck. The solution is word of mouth advertising, not ever-more-intricate tools. The real truth is that what the ad companies are selling is the idea that ads are actually cost efficient and worthwhile, and the gullible customers are actually the advertisers, not the people who they’re trying to flog stuff to.

I can tell you from experience I have a Samsung T5 (500GB) that has over 95TB of writes over 5+ years to it and it’s only used up 17% of its spare blocks. The T7 which is the newer model is like $40, I’d just get one of those. They’re very reliable, I’ve bought a few and none of them have failed. The larger drives have more spare blocks and are even more resistant to writes.

Personally I would recommend a portable SSD, over a HDD as I’ve had several HDDs fail but never lost an SSD, BackBlaze backs this up with their total drive failure statistics being 2.5% for HDDs and under 0.5% for SSDs. Your real danger will be that a portable drive is guaranteed to get jostled and an SSD is far more resilient to that.

In some places you can get a home internet line that runs through the mobile phone data network, and they tend to be more reliable than cabled connections, they can get even better if they use a modem data plan and not explicitly a home bulk plan. It really hinges on how much data you use and what plans are available where you are. Of course if you do it this way you won’t have a private IPV4, but if your ISP allows IPV6, that should be unique and directly accessible no matter what.

As the other poster mentioned there are routers that have a SIM connection as backup, and now they’re being offered with a SIM and automatic fail-over as part of some fiber to the home plans.

I think the fundamental protection is always going to be the firewall that blocks all incoming connections unless you explicitly open a port for a running server.

It’s frustrating that the article doesn’t have much information about the delivery method for this attack. Is it a remote connection, or you have to run it locally and it escalates privileges?

Anyone who still uses Unity for their new projects after this would have to be completely stupid. Of course they’ll jack up the pricing again as soon as they can.

There was an API floating around ages ago that let you mount a Gmail instance as a virtual hard drive and use it like block device. Dropbox does have an API for file access, so it’s entirely possible to write a miner that talks to Dropbox and not your local drive.

Microsoft didn’t have always on internet 20 years ago, in some ways they also have somewhat less competition now than before, since there were PC clones before while now it’s Mac or PC. Though your point does give me some hope.

Apparently very few people, somehow. Because the internet was filled with people explaining how it was actually much safer than writing them down in a book because “what if someone goes through your desk?”. I’m told it’s much safer to entrust your passwords to a third party over the internet.