The mag 7 is 1/3 of the S&P500, but that doesn’t mean the loss will be limited to 1/3. A those other companies are also dependent on AI and the success of those 7.

The Mag7 are the 7 giant tech companies currently propped up by the AI bubble. These companies represent upwards of 34% of the marketcap of the S&P500. The other 493 companies are also intimately tied to the success of AI and/or the Mag7. Not just everyone’s retirement accounts, but a huge amount of the world is invested in the US S&P500 thinking they’re diversified across 500 successful companies.

So to be clear, yes, we’re absolutely poised for a worldwide economic recession. I wouldn’t be surprised if smaller nations who rely on USD are completely bankrupted, but one thing is for certain: when AI pops, the fallout will not be limited to the US.

They use OpenVPN for some reason. Wireguard is superior in every way. In case you set up a VPN.

Ah, i gotcha. The video at hand, and this whole thread is about the lifespan of consumer electronics, not really business refresh cycles.

Eh, back when Moore’s Law was alive, it was easily every 2-3 years. Around 2010 we hit a wall with transistor sizes and CPU speeds, which saw the time between upgrades rise considerably. A gaming PC from 2015 was very capable 5-7y later. Vendors have been spending all the time since coming up with ways to get that back down to 2-3, especially EOLing perfectly good hw artificially quickly.

Lol I definitely read the same thing twice. Assumed they were just repeating for emphasis. You’re right, my bad.

EoP, not PoE. Two different things.

If you have a file containing 4 bytes, where the first byte in the file is 0x01, second is 0x02, third is 0x03, and 4th is 0x04, and you keep that same order when you load them into the first 4 bytes of memory on an LE machine vs a BE machine, what value does the uint32 located at address 0 contain? On LE it’s 0x04030201, on BE it’s 0x01020304. So yes, it absolutely matters.

I was going to make a joke about them selling a contraption to just strap a screen to your face so we could reach peak brain rot, but then I remembered the Quest exists.

All of that can be publicly audited. When we talk about “trust” we’re referring to what happens server side, which we have to assume can never be publicly audited. The importance of e2e encryption is that what ever happens server side doesn’t matter. There’s a massive gulch between trusting a binary you’re able to inspect and trusting one you can’t.

What you said is valid though, if you want/need privacy, you need to put in effort, but you also have to assume there’s someone smarter than you who will be able to outsmart your own audit. The absolute best you can hope for is that at least the binary is publicly reviewable and that they’re not smarter than every pair of eyes who reviews it. That’s basically the backbone of open source security.

I sincerely apologize for taking you seriously. You tried to warn me with your alternating caps, so it’s my fault. Cheers.

That’s fair, though that’s more of a flaw with the email protocol. There’s no way around leaking that to the receiver’s email provider as well.

Good point, I hadn’t considered that.

For the record, if your security is based on “trust”, you’re going to have a bad time. The whole point of a cryptographically secure line of communication is that you don’t need to trust anyone except the recipient. Protonmail users choose it specifically because they don’t trust anyone, including Protonmail.

The US economy is now completely detached from productivity and is now running on speculation

Yep, the market feels like it’s in max-greed mode. There was a taste of fear when the tariffs were first announced, but wallst was quick to token TACO to justify just ignoring everything. My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”

I assume it will take until a critical mass of those speculators start needing to liquidate. I don’t know what will trigger that, but at some point the profits come due.

Anyone have any experience with this? This seems like the kind of thing that should just always be enabled by default all the time.

The nice thing about her being 10 is it’s all the same to her. She doesn’t have any preconceived notions about what the OS “should” do. If her only machine runs mint, then she’ll figure out how to use mint.

The Arch repos are completely different from the AUR. The Arch repos are officially maintained and tested. The AUR is where anyone can go upload a little pkgbuild script to make building and installing an arbitrary package as easy as possible.

Arch’s package manager (pacman) does not work with the AUR. The AUR is basically a glorified pastebin. It’s a convenience for people who know what they’re doing, but you should not go downloading and executing files at random from there. Arch explicitly warns against doing this, and deliberately does not ship with any easy way to do this.

What if you didn’t have permission to access the host, only the container?

Am I the only one who read “dangerous desktop images” and thought they were going to ship with wallpapers of people doing extreme sports?