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Jason2357

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  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • Economists cant tell you what time-frame everything must be slightly inflationary. They act like an economic quarter of deflation would be the end of the world after years of extreme inflation. Their models don't make any sense.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • It's gambling on who might stumble on AGI, not building anything.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • The dot-com bubble didn't build the internet. The internet still would have been built up if pension funds were not buying toiletpaper.com for millions of dollars. Bubbles, pretty much by definition, are specifically about the part of the economy where huge sums are invested into things that are not worth anything (i.e., full of air).

    LLMs would still be developed without a trillion-dollar bubble. Slower, sure, but all the crazy investment isn't about developing tech, it's about speculating on who will stumble on AGI and suddenly be able to run companies with 1% of the workforce of traditional companies. It's gambling. When the gamblers figure out that a casino doesn't pay out, they all leave at once.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • Absolutely not. AI tech will continue to be pushed by C-suites convinced they can surplus a fraction of their workforce eventually. The change will be that most of the investments in AI companies will disappear overnight and most will go belly-up. It will erase a significant fraction of everyone's pension funds, and federal governments around the world will pour public funds into propping up the larger companies so that they don't go under too. Heads they win, tails you lose.

  • Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living

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  • Well, in this case there was literally one standard, X11, in use since the late 80s. Now we have two, and the new one makes my mouse disappear when it hovers over any sort of map in firefox.

  • Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?

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  • Indeed. Owning your mail is a spectrum. I think it's really best to transition from something like gmail to fully owning the stack in steps, over a significant amount of time. It will take a while to change over the address on everything a while anyway. No real need to go whole-hog right away and then burn out.

  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • Precisely. I'd be more likely to switch to one of those pocket "hot spot" devices. Just a thing in my pocket that gives devices I control internet access and maybe has a shitty web interface I can log into for basic SMS when absolutely necessary. No microphone, no camera, no GPS, no access to my actual computing environment. Only 2 downsides are maintaining battery charge in multiple devices and the fact that those hotspots are generally hot garbage, and so unreliable.

    Maybe, a flip phone if one existed that was 1) a full-time good quality internet hotspot (i.e., good battery), and 2) lacked a GPS and camera, and hardware disconnected the microphone when closed. Now that I think about it, that would be a fantastic device... if it existed.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Very true.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • I’m not a fan of them, but I don’t think you could point to any email provider that can’t or won’t provide IP addresses and recovery emails to law enforcement when compelled. You can use proton without a recovery email and over tor, which is more than most allow as well.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Proton does PGP for you. There are countless standards compliant mail services where you could use your own email client and do your own PGP -Thunderbird is probably the easiest but It’s a trade-off.

  • Someone finally made a "Sonarr for YouTube"

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  • They have a whole list of these in the linked Readme. Thanks for posting - I was considering setting up pinchflat but this might be a lot lighter on resources.

    My use case: I would like to run something like this, but either directly on, or syncing to my laptop. I don’t watch much YouTube, but it would be nice to have stuff to watch offline, and cut google out of all the behavioural metadata.

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    How to make a Tailscale-like mesh VPN work without the internet?

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  • Since wireguard only awks connections with matching keys, on a private lan, I bet you could just scan the network for all hosts and try the wireguard connection. A hack, but might work.

  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • Glad someone else noticed this. I don’t care that the “small” web isn’t as extensive or as polished as the corporate web, but all the anti-scraper stuff and cookie pop-ups are the actual death. It’s horrible.

    Off to gopher and Gemini I guess.

  • Plex got hacked.

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  • Then how would they email you?

    Look at addy.io and similar.

  • Getting rid of techofascist services

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  • Great list and you are right. The other thing I would mention is the option to sometimes “go without”. Take a look at the popular items on Amazon and a good chunk of that list are not strictly necessary for a good life.

  • Getting rid of techofascist services

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  • Amazon charged that vender 40-50% in fees for using their marketplace. You didn’t get “free shipping”.

  • Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification

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  • Wow, my brain really failed me here! I ALSO listened to Picks and Shovels recently, which was narrated by Will Wheaton, and somehow the voices got switched in my memory. You are correct, Cory recorded this himself.

  • Are private email providers worth it?

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  • Wow, til I learn about WKD! I used to have a key on keyservers, but hated how that was basically a spam trap and the fact that anyone could upload a key there for my own address. It was easy because I own my own domain and already have a web server there.

    I set it up and tested it with help from https://www.webkeydirectory.com/

    Looks like it's being added to clients: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD/DistributionOfWKD

  • Are private email providers worth it?

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  • I wouldn't say you have gained nothing. The amount of data provided to google or microsoft when using their email is significantly more. For example, your app or client is checking email all of the time, giving them telemetry on your location and activity, all your devices, 24/7. Google logs and analyzes all of your interactions with Gmail's web pages, how long you have certain emails open for, what you don't bother to open, what you tag as important, etc.

    Much of the one-way email you sign up for from companies and organizations come from smaller outfits like sendgrid or their own infrastructure, so you are cutting google out of information about your associations and interests.

    Also, in regards to that 90%, you can either be part of the problem for all your contacts, or part of the solution. The network effect is huge.