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DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]

@ DefinitelyNotAPhone @hexbear.net

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  • Trust the plan

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  • Also the limiting factor for most people getting a regular mortgage is the down payment and credit check, not the actual monthly payment. Unless you're rooming with 3 other people (and maybe even then) you'd likely spend less on a mortgage than your rent depending on where you live.

  • Yo this is absolutely fucked up

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  • The central Mexican indigenous empires were obliterated by a combination of civil war and disease before any sizable European colonizer populations had moved in. Cortez "conquered" the Aztecs in the sense that the remnants of the remnants of what were left surrendered to him as the most heavily armed surviving army.

    The Europeans then brutalized the survivors beyond imagination, but the vast majority of the deaths occurred before then.

  • OpenAI Pushes to Label Datacenters as ‘American Manufacturing’ Seeking Federal Subsidies

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  • The New Economic Plan of 2025 just reads "accelerate the heat death of the universe at all costs." It passed with bipartisan support.

  • Microsoft's Gaming Division is Imploding

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  • Game Pass was always doomed from the start. It's not a Netflix situation where there's functionally infinite content out there that would otherwise be more difficult/expensive to procure, so the price point of a subscription was never going to work long term. Why would you pay $30/month to play AAA releases when there's only ever 4-6 AAA releases in a given year, and you probably only care about maybe 2 of them at $60 a piece? Why would you pay $30/month to rent indy games that cost $20 to own forever? You'd be better off taking that $30/month and throwing it into a savings account to pay for future games and pocketing whatever you don't spend every few months.

    Phil Spencer is a prime example of failsons never facing consequences for their ineptitude even when they're objectively fucking over their fellow capitalists.

  • Me but the Jets and the Mets

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  • I have to imagine watching Skattebo be a human wrecking ball makes at least some of the pain go away.

  • They can't escape

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  • Tesla is only worth as much as it is because of Musk though. Tesla's stock price has historically been inflated to unfathomable bullshit levels by small investors dumping all their cash into Tesla because Musk ran around screaming about how they'll be on Mars in twenty years and now's the time to get on the bus. Up until his ego made him publicly flame out and go off the deep end he was the ultimate hype man CEO.

    Sure, he's a toxic asset now, but how many people dump all their Tesla shares the second he gets fired and craters the stock price when the company doesn't have any real fundamentals to fall back on to survive?

    For context, Tesla's EV/EBITDA (value over earnings, to simplify a complicated formula) is currently hovering around 100x. A "healthy" value is closer to 10x. That means that Tesla shares are currently priced assuming that Tesla makes nVidia look tiny in the next 10-20 years. It is completely disconnected from objective reality.

  • Cloudflare is a threat to federation

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  • My bad then, I overlooked the detail about the VPN in the OP.

  • Cloudflare is a threat to federation

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  • This is a setting within Cloudflare to do origin verification. Pretty much any CDN will have the same option, it's entirely an issue with how that instance has their settings configured.

  • looking for some (tech) career advice, is this plan dumb?

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  • Whether or not you go into cyber security, it's very worth it to try and find a more niche skill set to market yourself with. The market is very saturated with JavaScript frontend people and Python backend codemonkeys, not so much with SREs, infrastructure engineers, and machine learning engineers (your mileage will vary depending on which job market you're in here, but it used to be wide open and most flavor-of-the-month AI engineers are obviously leaning towards LLMs instead of neural networks in my experience).

    It does also seem like non-FAANGs are starting to steer away from leetcode problems for interviews which is an advancement for those of us who don't want to memorize algorithms to get a job, but again your mileage will vary.

  • Why the US is "letting" China win on energy innovation

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  • The entire AI industry is massively unprofitable right now, completely propped up by investor hype and news articles continuing to claim that superintelligence is right around the corner. The actual real world output is... uh, some tech startups are now shitting out unmaintainable proof-of-concept codebases for their dogshit business plans slightly faster than before? Companies paying $200/month/head to make their developers pretend to use Copilot? The only people consistently hyped around it are the capitalists desperate to remove labor from their equations altogether to deal with the rate of profit falling, and much like previous attempts at mass outsourcing it's just going to blow up in their faces when they have to re-hire a bunch of people to unfuck their efforts to not have to hire those people in the first place.

  • DHS' new ICE recruitment strategy: 50K signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness and Trump posters

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  • $40,000 in 40k miniatures? What are they going to do with two squads of Guardsmen and a single Marine?

  • Children of Men is a documentary

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  • At the end of the day there's no way to differentiate VPN traffic against HTTPS traffic, so the only way you could stop VPNs is to either shut down all external traffic between your country and the rest of the world or ban all encryption across wires, and either of those options are suicide on about 200 different levels simultaneously.

  • Based Soviets

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  • The difference being the Soviet-captured Nazis were forced at gunpoint to contribute to their R&D projects, being treated as prisoners before either being imprisoned or executed. NATO made its first supreme commander an SS member, put so many Nazis in the West German government that there were actually a higher percentage of them there than in the actual Third Reich, and let von Braun live a long and comfortable life as a free man.

  • Dead of night, all devices disconnected from WiFi, Ethernet connected, reset the laptop. Why the fuck is steam’s download speed still dogshit?

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  • Steam has some wonkiness going on with download speeds. Your computer is doing multiple operations, so it's going to be bottlenecked by stuff other than the network, but either Steam has some wonky bandwidth limiting per client set up on their CDN or their servers are just constantly being hammered (possibly both).

  • Best System Possible

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  • "It wasn't real capitalism!"

  • "We're totally different sides!"

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  • "The United States, too, has a single party system. But in typical American extravagance they have two of them."

  • Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments

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  • The difference is that subprime mortgages were being repackaged as safe investments and then used as fodder in retirement accounts. I severely doubt anyone's going to try something similar with crypto (again, coping that Wall Street is at least smart enough not to shit in their own food here, this comment will age poorly, etc etc)

  • Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments

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  • If 401k accounts consistently 2008 on people, no one will bother putting money into them and the system will collapse. Given that's literally a multi-trillion dollar industry, I'd like to cope and believe that the finance ghouls in charge are bright enough to not kill their golden goose by going all-in on $420KEK or whatever.

  • Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments

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  • While the public face of the stock market is all hype-driven speculation, there is a sizeable chunk of the market built on real industry and established companies with consistent low level growth and stability which retirement funds usually target in addition to treasury bonds. Crypto has none of that, it's all rampant speculation and hype.

  • Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments

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  • Neither the dollar nor crypto have any commodity value, so I'm not sure Gresham's applies here. I'd tie this closer to fictitious capital and the scramble over the rate of profit declining.

    I'd also hope that retirement funds were managed to chase consistent if low returns over aggressive growth assets with high volatility like crypto, but who knows what finance bros are smoking/snorting these days.