Oh, FFS. Of course it is.

This is a screenshot of this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 Edit: WAS a screenshot - thanks for editing the post.

Which is about this Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1oiz0v0/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on_performing/

“non-standard” means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on “non-standard equipment” - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can’t tell what that means, YT thinks I’m a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.

Replace “paranoid” with “highly surveilled.” Just say what it is.

Easy swap out.

STOP CALLING IT PARANOIA! FFS, This stuff is being used to track people that go to protests.

404 needs to shove their paranoia and normalize using truth and real words and not hedging like CNN or something.

Thanks - not sure where it went!

Yeah, well according to the Tesla board, he’ll get paid $1 trillion if he makes Tesla the best selling car on the planet earth.

Just do it with your own money, Elon. All you have to do is one thing to get it. C’mon, “I love Telser,” right? Run with that and see what you get.

As bullish as I am on Sodium-ion batteries, only very recently did researchers figure out how to boost the charge capacity, making any attempted commercial models in use so far nice, but not the final form where normies are buying them from Home Depot.

The Sehol car mentioned is a niche configuration of a common model, because the Li-ion model goes farther between charges. Other than the launch in 2023, and articles recycling the same info, find me 1 article that doesn’t use words like “could” or “will” or “might” about sales of this model? Same thing for the BYD Seagull with Na-ion batteries. It’s all greenwashing news where if you dig at it even slightly, you see how not real any of it is.

It’s closer than it was 5 years ago, but it’s still not a “revolution” by any means.

Oh, hey, what’s this article about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory that stupidity enabled Nazis?

Hur hur… Bonhoeffer. You’re mom’s a Bone Hoeffer.

I would agree with this. Even with AI tools, trying to flag 2% of the country as “Antifa” and do anything meaningful will be entirely either impractical or a bridge too far.

OH - this is awesome! Why aren’t more people using this?

I’m going to get myself up on this tomorrow just to give it a try.

IPFS!

Samsung would never. Their customized OS is this nested egg of vendor lock-in, with your data at the center. They would rather harvest data from 99.5% of their customer base than see the 0.5% of us that actually like their equipment buy it and do anything other than sink into their ecosystem.

SMH a workaround for a workaround to enable their shitty surveillance. Pure genius.

three times a year.

WTF is up with MS doing this rate limiting? I just learned that Win11 will lock you out of your own machine for 2 hours if you restart too many times, like if you have a dualboot and are doing something that requires restarts to resolve.

Yes

I’m looking at the books for several companies

Well with all that proprietary information, please do enlighten us with specifics. Who has loans, and how much? From which banks?

I’ve been saying the same thing.

The 2008 housing bubble was predicated on cheap lending. It was all debt. It was massive amounts of toxic debt sold around Wall Street, like using Trump Coin or counterfeit cash used to buy a house.

The vast majority of what’s happening here is not debt. Sure, some, but very little. Even the OpenAI AMD stock swap thing is swapping a gamble on stocks worth real money, not debt.

IMO the first sub-bubble to pop will be all the time and effort wasted on “Startups” that are nothing more than a couple people acting as a wrapper for an AI agent. That’s not really going to impact the economy too much on its face, but suddenly a lot of people are going to go from being “entrepreneurs” to being truly unemployed.

Edit: Also, just saw this gem, and THIS is how you get a supercharged 2008 repeat, bank deregulation and $2.6 trillion in lending. Which is exactly how we got to 2008’s subprime lending.

You’re 100% correct. I spent too long looking for the same info.

Just the term “app store” with no caps can mean any application repository - Shopify has an app store, FB has one, Blackberry used to have one, Apple technically has 2, etc. There’s even a wiki entry for the term without caps.

Sorry - “shootage”?

This is kind of useless fear-mongering suited to no one’s threat model.

Are messages truly E2EE and they don’t share meta data? Yes? Then you’re fine. It needs a phone number for registration? OK, well buy a burner SIM card (you of course have several, right?) to register it if you’re that worried. Because if you’re already at a level where you’re THAT concerned about your phone number pinging for using a widely popular messaging app, then you have lost the game by even having a phone or sending messages to other humans who are the weakest link in the security chain anyway.

Considering that the Feds tried to make some government-compliant front end for Signal for idiot Hegseth to use to talk about national security stuff with the Vice President, I’d say that it’s probably fine for you to buy weed or whatever.