Wolf480pl

Sysadmin stuck with k8s,
Linux nerd
Likes The Unix Way
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2026-05-30 13:59:38 CEST

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if you find an RCE in a popular piece of software and the upstream refuses to fix it,
and you exploit that indiscriminately against random users
with the intent to cause data loss
that's still malware and morally wrong

2026-05-29 10:21:44 CEST

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would a 3D printed backplate be strong enough?

2026-05-26 16:40:21 CEST

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AFAIK slightly thicker.
I watched GamersNexus disassemble and reassemble GPUs and he often measures the thickness and says that "it's X mm so it was probably Y mm before it got squished" but I never tried to remember by how much Y is greater than X
@npub1d3y…xfkq @npub17r3…xdk2 @npub1pay…zh6x @npub10hk…28x2

2026-05-20 23:37:55 CEST

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it looks like a parody that mixes features of SteamDeck, Flipper Zero, and a wifi router
but if this is real, that'd be quite intriguing

2026-05-20 23:35:08 CEST

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a new handheld?

2026-05-16 12:16:57 CEST

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can you name them / do you know how the various brands map to them?
So far I know of at least Miele, Bosch, Samsung, Whirlpool, LG, Electrolux

2026-05-16 10:07:55 CEST

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there's a Polish washin machine company called Amica ,but they no longer manufacture in Poland :/ They sold heir factory to Samsung and moved,manufacturing to China.

2026-05-16 10:03:34 CEST

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not China? that's impressive

2026-05-16 09:45:21 CEST

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any idea where they make them?

2026-05-12 16:13:38 CEST

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Also, a problem with a web of trust based on meeting someone IRL is that it reveals the social graph. Even if your legal name isn't attached to it, once your enemy (govt, corpo, etc) successfully deanonymizes a few people, that narrows down who everyone else could be.
I guess it'd at least be more censorship-resistant than a google- or govt-run verification method, but still far from ideal...

2026-05-12 15:53:18 CEST

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I mostly care about finding information about obscure topics.
Whether it's Half-Life 2 modding or optimizing gate count of adder circuits, there's only a handful of people interested in it at any given time, and usually none of my usual friends know where to find those.

2026-05-12 13:17:50 CEST

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probably, but what's the point of having an internet if the barrier to entry is "you have to know someone"?
If I have to know someone I may as well meet them IRL.

2026-05-12 07:15:12 CEST

Once computers can pass Turing Tests, the only ways to prevent Sybil attacks while still allowing interaction with strangers are Orwellian.

2026-05-03 20:26:31 CEST

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I wouldn't call it an externality, since it only affects those who use Linux.
It's not like you had a perfectly peaceful software ecosystem and suddenly someone started making Linux, which makes you suffer even if you don't use Linux.
No, it only hurts you if you do use it, and the alternative is no Linux at all.

2026-04-13 11:25:02 CEST

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I agree in general and I cheer for IPv6 becoming more widespread
however
> you're not meant to remember addresses
The only cases when I type IPv4 addresses from memory is when I don't have working DNS - either when debugging DNS, or when manually configuring the first interface of a host, on a network with no DHCP.
Unfortunately, these are the cases where I can't rely on DNS to remember IPv6 for me.
It's not a deal-breaker but it does add some friction.

2026-04-03 22:37:01 CEST

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I meant in France.
My point is that a large part of oil prices' impact on inflation is through transport costs that affect the prices of almost everything. And thus, an "energy crisis" may still be happening through vectors other than electricity prices.
IOW, @npub1fzh…p7r7's posts would imply "France is not affected by the Strait of Hormuz being blocked", which I don't think is the case.
It'd be great if it was...

2026-04-03 20:56:42 CEST

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I wish we all had that kind of energy mix.
But electricity is not all.
How does bread get from a bakery to a bakery store?

2026-03-30 15:48:39 CEST

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it's possible, but it does link to the italian govt cybersecurity agency, which is something I didn't know from the initial ZDI candidate.
https://www.acn.gov.it/portale/w/telegram-rilevata-presunta-vulnerabilita-0-click

2026-03-26 02:33:47 CET

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silly idea: what if those routers don't have a global unicast address?

2026-03-18 14:00:33 CET

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what's indeed?

2026-03-16 15:45:37 CET

> If you understand neither your program, nor your computer, you will succumb to every bug
~ Sun Tzu*
*not really

2026-03-06 09:37:40 CET

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do you review the code like it was written by a malicious actor?
Last month I was reviewing a friend's code 4 times, and every time I was found bugs that I had missed the previous time. And that was code written by a human who knew what he was doing.
I imagine AI generated code would have even subtler bugs that are easier to miss.
@npub19wj…g8gs

2026-02-11 18:11:07 CET

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is that like Sprite and Thirst?
(oh come on did that advertisement not exist outside of Poland?)

2026-01-30 11:36:52 CET

unpopular opinion:
There is too much software and it changes too often.

2026-01-29 02:45:38 CET

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I have a laptop which every other suspend cycle wakes up without the NVME drive. A power cycle always makes it come back.

2026-01-28 09:12:58 CET

On a couple occasions I've witnessed that if you take a small program written in ordinary C, and you spend some effort to make it fast, you can get 10x-100x speedup.
Let's say only the 10x speedup end of the range generalizes to most software.
Imagine if, instead of writing new software, more effort was spent on optimizing existing software.

2026-01-25 00:32:12 CET

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Also, where do you get the material from?
Sand would have to be mined on the surface, and good sand can be quite useful for glass & concrete... though I guess dwarves might not have that so easier for them.
Ideally it'd be some inert waste but idk if eg. slag would be any good.
Also, obligatory Practical Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZg1zOKm5wk

2026-01-25 00:29:37 CET

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Sometimes parts of the mine that are still in use cave in due to an accident, and that can still cause issues on the surface.
But yeah, unused areas can probably be filled - if you search for "deep mine backfilling" you'll find some companies selling devices to make that more efficient.
Though it still probably is quite costly, and even more costly with dwarven technology.
1/

2026-01-24 21:58:58 CET

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well yeah, it's not like people enjoyed hanging out in a coal deposit and now it's missing from their life because some greedy dwarves mined it out.
Noone's gonna mind the coal disappearing from the ground.
Until you get sinkholes, that is :P

2026-01-24 21:50:09 CET

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hmm but arboricultural charcoal is net-zero carbon right? all the carbon you burn was captured from the air when the trees were growing, and the trees grew within your lifetime
meanwhile Dwarf Fortress dwarves pulling coal out of the earth are using carbon from the trees that fell into a swamp geological time ago... so arguably even older than the old-growth forests on the surface

2026-01-22 10:01:39 CET

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when did you start learning Polish?

2026-01-18 15:57:29 CET

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I thought Alpha was RISC tho...
And VAX is like, the epitome of CISC. It has a fuckton of addressing modes, and you can use every single one of them with every instruction, and everything that can be done through addressing modes is done through addressing modes.
It's beautiful and makes it impossible to pipeline.

2026-01-18 15:43:16 CET

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that's a spiritual predecessor of 68k tho

2026-01-18 14:41:09 CET

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(let's do forget about 8051)

2026-01-18 14:30:15 CET

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@npub1tf6…20k2
let's not forget hppa and itanium

2026-01-02 18:50:25 CET

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oh, so that's how it works...
Also maybe me thinking of it like it's a faulty power cable is a bit excessive...
Anyway, it looks like there will be less need for average programmers writing boring CRUD apps. I hoped it'd result from programming becoming more accessible to people, similar to writing.
If instead it happens through a centralized service, that's kinda sad.
But maybe it means those of us who keep their jobs can focus on the difficult/interesting problems?

2026-01-02 18:38:00 CET

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by 3 I mean someone else in your organization

2026-01-02 18:32:31 CET

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1. Is it really better than a spreadsheet and a bunch of local scripts? How do you know if you haven't seen the code?
2. Are you still maintaining skills needed to make spreadsheets and write shell one-liners, in case the LLM service ceases to exist, jacks up the prices, or deliberately degrades in quality?
3. If this software is disposable, how do you dispose of it in a way that nobody in the future will accidentally use it?
(don't answer if you dont want to, just food for thought)

2025-12-26 09:11:43 CET

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I always thought the rule was, on a 2-person-wide escalator, the right side is for those who stand, and the left side is for those who walk

2025-12-17 09:25:05 CET

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the one where instead of buying radiation-hardened chips, they radiation-tested 100 phone SoCs and picked the best one?

2025-12-09 00:52:28 CET

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idk about Sailfish OS, but used Android (LineageOS) without GMS for a few years, and:
- most things from F-Droid worked fine
- proprietary IMs like DIscord or Telegram worked, but without notifications
- haven't tried any bank apps, loyalty card apps, shopping apps, etc.
anything specific you're interested in?

2025-11-19 14:14:35 CET

Cloudflare published a very good article exolaining how yesterday's outage happened.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
I encourage everyone to read it.
I also think people are focusing on that particular unwrap() too much, and not enough on a bigger picture: lack of fallbacks
Without fallbacks at the interfaces between different subsystems, there's nothing to stop an error in one place from cascading throughout the whole infra
Config parsing is not the only place where such fallback was missing

2025-11-14 22:02:25 CET

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Yeah but like, it seems that maintaining that takes a small percentage of Valve's effort?
Idk, I haven't seen their books, but they seem to behave in a more secure and less desperate way...

2025-11-14 21:51:06 CET

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I think the difference is, Valve makes money by doing nothing. So all the money that's left it can spend on working on a single product for years without launching anything in the meantime.

2025-11-10 19:24:30 CET

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these placeholders show how much we've progressed since the 90s...
https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/115/526/794/079/793/003/original/6a1dfada789b8671.png

2025-11-10 14:14:41 CET

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It's not that situations are novel, it's that very similar situations can lead to vastly different outcomes.
Can you predict the consequences of telling someone on the internet to fuck off?
Most likely they'll just stop interacting with you. But maybe because of that, they'll drive while angry, and cause an accident.
Or maybe they will reflect on their behaviour and become a kinder person, and later save someone's life as a result.
Can you predict that?

2025-11-10 13:51:51 CET

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Even if that means judging behaviours instead of people, it still leads to conclusions of the form "You did a thing that led to a bad outcome. Don't do that next time."
But you're never in the same situation again, and next time you encounter a similar situation, the consequences of each choice can be different, and you likely won't have enough information to be sure which choice leads to a bad outcome.

2025-11-10 13:49:07 CET

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> In moral philosophy, consequentialism [...] holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism

2025-11-10 13:07:59 CET

IME, most people most of the time don't know what they're doing.
Even in their main profession, they don't understand the reasons for how they do things, the tradeoffs they're making, and the full consequences of their decisions.
Which is why consequentialism cannot work.
It makes no sense to pass a moral judgement on a human based solely on the consequences of their actions.
And you cannot expect humans to make moral decisions based on consequences they cannot predict

2025-11-08 09:27:00 CET

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is the description full of affiliate links and other jump that makes it hard to find anything n it?

2025-10-26 00:41:00 CEST

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I'm gonna give you another reason to block me: I like Sabaton
@npub1s3g…z2r5 @npub1vwe…pmp7

2025-10-25 22:55:37 CEST

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ja rzadko słucham Umbrtki, ale łatwo zapamiętuję refreny piosenek albo dialogi z filmów

2025-10-25 22:35:25 CEST

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> 10°C
> raining whole day every other day
> nerostou listy
> neroste trava
> szczernalo slunce
idk sounds like autumn to me

2025-10-19 18:18:52 CEST

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I don't!

2025-10-19 18:16:45 CEST

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unless it's mastodon, then it'll only do that when they're following both you and the person you're replying to

2025-10-19 17:35:48 CEST

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but you won't see their thoughts on it, because they'll reply to the OP not to you... :/

2025-10-19 14:31:23 CEST

Boosts suck, because you see an opinion like "you have to be insane to use XMPP, reasonable people only use Signal", or "We just added TLS channel binding to XMPP which, combined with OMEMO, makes us more secure than Signal"
but you don't remember it as "this person thinks that"
because the avatar next to the post is of a person you don't know, and paying attention to which of your friends boosted that is effort
so you remember it as "fedi thinks that"

2025-10-16 14:18:43 CEST

I should learn perl...

2025-09-09 22:46:07 CEST

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> store a copy of all the metadata on your computer as well as the tape,
isn't that just git-annex?

2025-08-30 22:03:10 CEST

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Yeah but if someone who's not familiar with the matter look at it, they may think we're complaining about 2->3

2025-08-30 21:41:34 CEST

imagine python but like, backwards-compatible

2025-08-29 21:16:33 CEST

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I suspect he's so intelligent, that he's rarely in a situation where he can't keep track of all the moving parts, which means he doesn't have appreciation for rules, which are useful exaclty so that you don't need to keep track of all the moving parts

2025-08-29 21:14:54 CEST

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Brodie has been reading the mailing lists and seems to have come to a similar conclusion.
I've read a few threads, and it seems to Kent, making things easy for bcachefs users is a holy end that justifies all means.
It kinda looks like:
- I need this to help my user recover from filesystem corruption
- we have a system, it says you have to wait for the next release
- but your system is stupid, in this case it doesn't have any benefit

2025-08-29 21:10:42 CEST

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maybe if multiple distros tell him he's wrong he'll get a clue (unlikely)

2025-08-29 21:03:54 CEST

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I'd think most distros would have a DKMS package in no time

2025-08-29 20:55:11 CEST

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is compiling it as an out-of-tree module not an option for you?

2025-08-29 20:19:54 CEST

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yeah, basically there's a rule:
only bugfixes after -rc1
features wait for merge window
and Kent notoriously submits features after -rc2 or even later in the release cycle

2025-08-16 11:24:15 CEST

why do solutions to 2nd order differential equations have to be so disgusting...

2025-08-14 22:48:31 CEST

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vengence must be so fun!

2025-07-31 22:22:57 CEST

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I don't have anything specific to recommend, but I think this distinction might be important:
do you want to make websites, or web applications?
If websites, I'd say learn HTML and CSS first, without JS (wish I knew a good tutorial for that)
If web applications, I guess you'll need someone to recommend you a framework and read the tutorial for that framework :/

2025-07-30 16:00:57 CEST

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which is why X11 should live on, in parallel to wayland

2025-07-24 22:31:02 CEST

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did have? He dead?

2025-07-13 11:07:39 CEST

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https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/114/845/125/174/861/130/original/976f65ef4cfe296d.jpg

2025-07-04 23:57:42 CEST

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hmm okay
> So they think it's going to be like some drug kingpin's airplane that gets seized
but why would Americans want the police to get the money from selling some drug kingpin's airplane, instead of spending that money on better roads, or schools, or sth?

2025-07-04 23:49:14 CEST

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ok but like
in order for the forfeited civil assets to become property of the police department, someone in the governor's office has to approve it every time, right?
That someone is either an elected politician or an office worker appointed by an elected politician, right?

2025-07-04 23:45:26 CEST

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why do states allow it?

2025-07-04 23:38:39 CEST

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I thought you were going the way of
> A cop can pull you over on the side of the road and be like "I will search your car for illegal stuff", and then "oh, that's some nice cash you have there, lemme keep that as evidence"

2025-07-03 22:50:33 CEST

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a lot of people haven't heard anything about 9/11 other than it collapsed after a collision with a hijacked plane

2025-07-03 22:44:30 CEST

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no I mean, in the post you linked to, he seems to be debunking some 9/11 infographic by adding his own annotations to it.
Does the original infographic adequately represent the arguments of people who believe 9/11 was an inside job?

2025-07-03 22:41:48 CEST

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does he at least faithfully represent his opponents' arguments, or does he strawman them?

2025-07-03 22:31:55 CEST

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why is it cringe?

2025-07-03 01:18:48 CEST

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I think you're taking this too practically.
My proposed solution wasn't meant to be a serious proposal, but an example of applying the general principle of TOCTOU-resistant systems to the system of two humans who deal with invoices.
Banning zip files only protects from ambiguous zip files. One day someone may come up with a way to make an ambiguous PDF thay displays differently in pdf.js than in Adobe Reader, and then what?

2025-07-02 21:46:07 CEST

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and in this case, you'd extract the zip, open the invoice, check it, screenshot it, and send the screenshot to the payments department?

2025-07-02 21:43:33 CEST

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hmm ok, i guess I broadened the definition in my headcanon too much.
But still, you defend from both the same way, right? You only read/parse the input once?

2025-07-02 21:37:14 CEST

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no i mean
If instead of parsing it once, checking the parsed form, and then immediately using it, or, alternatively, serializing it into a fresh file that contains only verified data and can be used later
If instead of doing that you parse the input file at two different times, once to check and once to use
That's called TOCTOU, right?

2025-07-02 14:46:12 CEST

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I didn't think I'd see TOCTOU used against human checks and human use

2025-07-02 01:18:44 CEST

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PulseAudio is not dead - the source code is free, you can grab it, build it for your system, and run it till the end of time.
Also, I don't get the whole "shoved it down" part. Nobody can force you to update. If you have a working system on a particular computer that runs eg. Xorg and ALSA, why would you care what's in the newer version?

2025-06-24 22:55:31 CEST

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wait are you saying this isn't true? I've been avoiding trying out matrix for the last few years because people are saying it doesn't work and all they get is "unable to decrypt message"...

2025-05-28 21:13:32 CEST

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oh, I didn't notice the footer

2025-05-28 20:45:05 CEST

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on top of that, it's not really a tool since you can't own it, it's only provided as a subscription service

2025-05-24 15:14:47 CEST

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I can't fuckin wait.
AI bubble burst 2028 let's gooo!

2025-05-24 15:10:59 CEST

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by "destroy X market" do you mean make it so cheap it can't be used to hold savings, or make it so expensive nobody can buy?

2025-05-24 15:05:23 CEST

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not if you print more money and let inflation eat the existing one

2025-05-24 14:56:10 CEST

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what if government is *not* spending money on the eldery, but the eldery have a fuckton of savings that they weren't spending for decades and now want to spend it all?

2025-05-24 14:48:40 CEST

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without the next generation, any pensions are doomed. Fewer working people -> fewer goods produced -> same money chasing more goods -> inflation
And inflation is basically tax on savings

2025-05-24 14:39:43 CEST

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hmm ok
Still, the insurance would be socializing the costs of crime, just this time it'd be risk-weighted.
That means risky activities that you nevertheless want to encourage (eg. having children) will be economically disincentivized

2025-04-01 22:25:29 CEST

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wait what, this is not an April Fools?

2025-03-13 09:37:39 CET

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How would this prevent scalping?
Well, a scalper's business model relies on buying early, then selling to people who are willing to pay more that the scalper paid.
But people who were willing to pay more than the scalper paid would've already bought the card before the scalper did.
And people who didn't buy the card are the ones who were holding out for a lower price, so they won't buy from the scalper anyway*
Therefore, the scalper is stuck with unsellable inventory
*if they're rational
2/

2025-03-13 09:33:39 CET

I have an idea how to solve GPU scalping an you're gonna hate it:
Dutch auction.
Have the vendor sell at a ridiculously high price initially, and then lower the price, by say, 1% every few hours, until it sells out, or until it reaches vendor's cost. And have a public count of how many are left.
After a few days, the price would reach sth similar to todays' MSRPs, but anyone who wants to buy earlier would have to pay extra.
1/

2025-02-10 11:13:23 CET

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how do you even test that?