Don't worry. We all get to prop up this failing stock in the next few days, when the Indexes start getting forcibly loaded up with Elmo's latest meme stock. Then the disease will just be endemic in our portfolios.

The good news is that all of the SpaceX top valuation won't actually drag all of our Collective portfolios if it were to collapse, it will sting a bit but all of us invested in, say, VTI and VOO, can absorb that much stupid.

I wonder what happens if there's a handful of companies immediately behind it they look just like it though. Thankfully S&P 500 has said that they will not index SpaceX until they actually earn it through profitability.

I own a tremendous amount of AI affected tech stocks relative to the rest of my portfolio, and I'm trying to divest but doing so bleeds me through additional capital gains taxes for my state, which I wholeheartedly believe should exist as long as the billionaires have to pay them, too. It's just a difficult calculation for how much risk I want to wear versus how much capital gains I want to incur to make my way towards the exits to put my money in more boring things.

People that have visiting hard drives and ssd's that are shared with the majority of desktop users on the planet, for starters.

That's like 50% of it. The other half is Amazon running to the Whitehouse and showing how you could backdoor requests past the guard rails simply by asking their most powerful models to "review this code"

Thanks for the analysis. I've got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.

People should be deeply grateful for NPR, and PBS has been a national treasure. I still can't believe we defunded Sesame Street and at the same time that anyone has an axe to grind with the only unbiased reporting left in our nation.

Thanks for the link.

How is this person forcing you? Are you an adult? So they provide the material benefits for your life, like good and shelter?

If "yes" to being an adult, and then "no" to being a dependent or an employee, then this requires a lot more conversation.

If you have an android phone, you can make use of FDroid and Islands/'Insular' (without root access) to have a separately secure side of your phone for apps and system settings.

For example, I loaded all of my work apps in there and then set a VPN so that ALL OFF THEM were unable to connect to the Internet when the VPN was offline, so that the ip-location and the DNS didn't tattle on my travels. My regular phone use was secured away to the point I couldn't accidentally send photos from my regular photos app through my work email app, only the second copy that lived within that 'secure folder' style partition.

Obviously your situation is harsher but at least you can mitigate a bit by being able to offline the app for considerable intervals, this way.

Good luck. I hope that you share more of this story.

Edit: I see you are stuck on iOS. I have zero suggestions for your specific situation besides "work on the relationship, and your always have the right to walk away from the business or the adult relationship if it's untenable."

This gives me tremendous hope for more x86 game emulation on Android devices, because Valve have been throwing resources behind the development of FEX for emulation on ARM for the Frame.

I am absolutely convinced that my existing phone and retro gaming handheld have enough horsepower for 3D games from 6 years ago once this compatibility layers are built out a bit.

Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.

Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000's, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there's always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.

The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.

I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.

Samsung s22 and s25, checking in. Graphene won't be viable for the vast, overwhelming majority of Android users today or in the coming seasons.

I hope people figure out some kind of virtualization/docker-containerization solution to the coming Goo-lag.

Yep, back to scoring the open web or being SEO'd into hellish sites that have six "DOWNLOAD" links, five of which are probable for syphilis.

That's going to be $0.80 for each of us

'A bit later' is really all the is required to meet the standard. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/tesla-isnt-a-gurantee-for-the-sp-500-even-with-year-of-profits.html

S&P Dow Jones has a history of making companies earn it, including previous Elmo ventures.

I'm not bullish on any of it, and I'm desperately trying to exit AI holdings as swiftly as I'm able, but I am deeply comforted by major indexes requiring companies demonstrate profitability or at least meaningful actual revenue beyond the self-dealing that we've seen between the IPO hopefuls.

Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!

I'm confused, having never got into Halo at all. Isn't that was the Master Chief collection was?

Edit: got it, Remake vs Remaster, thanks, kind humans!

That's the thing. Steam didn't do ANYTHING to traditional distribution channels. They all put themselves out of business, or out to pasture.

You need a certain critical mass to enter this market, since you need to be able to get an army of Foxconn slaves to produce the handsets.

No company is going to be and to swoop in and eat those two's lunches.

This is true today, but when the new iron curtain goes up and all of our devices are goog-lag'd next year, it won't be possible, especially with all of the handset makers that distribute in the US being complicit.

Samsung just removed my ability to unlock the bootloader or load any alternate OSes for my handset devices, this summer.

Soon my only options will be to import phones that are only partially compatible with the networks here in the US and that come with their own security and privacy concerns.

Maybe because it's got a CPU and memory, and because ewaste harms us all?

I'm all in favor of upcycling.

This is one of the hardest points for me to articulate, trying to convince everyday folks including families and friends that these Technologies are actively making us dumber.

Wiring up a solar and battery array, and then wiring up an entire miniature rack mount full of tech myself using 'AI' was absolutely critical in understanding the Nuance between different products and between different wiring schemes, but I realized after about 3 months that I was spending at least 15 times a day asking about the ampacity of different wire gauges ("how much current can this gauge of wire carry safely? What about that gauge of wire?") Before I finally just made a table of common wire gauges in both aluminum and copper, and then printed it out and tacked it onto my wall like it was still 1997.

I reduced my net time spent querying by at least 20% in the past month by looking at my patterns.

This isn't a brag. This is me admitting that I got stupid and then I'm forgetting the power isn't knowing stuff but in having that knowledge at our fingertips, and that asking some mega Data Center two states away to boil half their freshwater and brown out half their town so that I can be told that I really do have to up my wiring material, makes me feel gross.