Just make sure not to get MITM'd by someone whose secret key password is "4".

A million dollars is not 'ultra-rich,' that's more than 10% of the US.

Anyone who has significant exposure to the stock market - 401k, IRA, whatever - "made" a lot through the AI bubble these past 3 years. That's the top end, and if you believe the AI bubble will burst, then all those rich old people are about to lose their paper wealth.

Inflation disproportionately affects the low end, where an extra $50 on gas or $200 on rent means they're no longer saving, or dipping into the emergency fund to pay bills.

It is a class war. It's structural, and it's not just the billionaires benefiting.

As I understand, her father may have made some misstatements in his citizenship application, so his citizenship may be invalid, and since she was a minor child at the time, her citizenship-by-derivation may would be invalid. He is conveniently dead now and unable to defend or clarify any allegations. But also, she lied about being 12-not-13 when they arrived, and was really 18 when her father was (potentially fraudulently) naturalized, so she's not even eligible for parental-derived citizenship. But also, she married her own brother to help him get citizenship, which is both fraud and icky. But also, she suddenly reports a multi-million dollar net worth, shortly after marrying multi-millionaire Tim Mynett (not her brother), which obviously means she's been taking bribes from Al Qaeda.

Alyx was amazing. So many interactable objects, especially in the beginning, when you're still awed by the environment and experimenting. Clever puzzles that actually use 6DOF control. And, of course, beautifully rendered. Part of me wonders if its special place isn't partly just being the first VR that really tried to do high end storytelling, but things like Skyrim & Arizona Sunshine have not given me the same sense of immersion.

Steam Frame being basically $2k feels like Valve writing off VR as a niche market, which means no one is likely to invest the kind of resources needed to make another Alyx-level game. They're not going to sell millions of copies, and even people who pay $2k for a headset aren't going to pay $200 for a 20 hour game.

Not even solar panels on the roofs.

As I understand his argument, it goes like: the 2020 Trump administration so badly bungled national security that foreign agents corrupted the election. The 2024 Biden administration fixed things enough to produce a fair election. Now that Trump is back in charge, he, himself, is saying that the 2026 election is going to be just as corrupt as the last time he was in charge.

Seems highly out of character to admit that he's incompetent., but whatever

The feds only had stalking charges. Murder is a separate state case, but it'll be hard to beat that 'I knew what I was doing. I shot him." statement. Maybe angling for favorable sentencing.

Definitely taking "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime" to heart, though. Hero of the people.

This is the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, a treasured landmark seen in many iconic images and films. The mad king had it drained so that the bottom could be painted blue, adding an over-saturated "ocean" color.

This is why you always want to get law enforcement credentials before doing fascist errands. Law enforcement gets qualified immunity; civilian contractors are patsies.

This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters

That's not just this election. That's been every election in my memory. They cling to this strategy, even though it keeps failing.

The very broad funds definitely will - VTI/VTSAX - but at lower weights and under less time pressure than the rigid index funds (VOO/VFIAX). That takes off a lot of the liquidity squeeze and (presumably) reduces their loss.

But you have to remember that people who use these funds intentionally invest in obvious losers and willingly overpay for hyped stocks because they believe, in the long run, that buying obvious losers is more than balanced by also buying the unexpected winners.

SpaceX is just the first time an oligarch tried so obviously to rig the passive investor structure to his favor, and I'm glad the S&P people didn't cave.

Could they be astroturfing, looking for a specific solution to fill search engines with their own product placement, then deleting because most of the comments are other FOSS solutions?

Uncheck "Send notifications to Email" in your settings. Or get a 3rd party app with a notifications setting.

I believe Orwell was speaking of the Spanish Revolution (1936), in which he fought on the side of the socialists.

Pacifism is a great ideal, and (I believe) a lot of conflicts can be solved by honest negotiation. Once the shooting starts, though, the time for pacifism has ended. In the US, right now, it's not clear whether the shooting has started. I mean: ICE is definitely shooting people; people are definitely being injured and dying as result of the administration's actions, but it's not Shooting-shooting, and it still seems like avoidable, poor-policy harms. The question is: will it escalate to civil war level violence? And if it does, will strict pacifists already have blocked any hope of resistance?

Luigi.

I'm happy with 90 day certs for homelab stuff: I'm not worried about anyone MITMing my network. I figure the short lived certs are more important for people who provide services with a significant external user-base, or who process sensitive transactions.

I have my certbot set to check every 12 hours and renew at 60 days. Renewing every 3 days would be 20x more load on Let's Encrypt systems, and that feels like abuse of a free service for my use case.

50 TB isn't even that much space, certainly not for a broadcaster. No reason not to have a local copy. 50 PB, I could see a small PBS affiliate not having the resources to manage locally, but you can put 50 TB in consumer-grade NAS.

This is what McDonald's free wifi is for.

News loves to talk about Trump's 33% approval rating, but that is 66% of the GOP. Add on some people leaving the GOP over the pedo-issue, the war-issue, or the grift-issue, and Trump should do well in primaries. Terrible in the general, but good in primary.

Just gotta watch out for 2020 republicans running as 2026 democrats.

So, I'm not particularly surprised that a bunch of rich psychopaths hang out together, virtually or IRL. I mean, we all find our tribe eventually.

I'm not particularly surprised that a bunch of rich psychopaths hanging out together come up with schemes of mutual benefit. I'd be surprised if they didn't.

I've always thought of the Illuminati as a thing beyond that. Like, some kind of quasi-religious thing that transcends mere greed and grift. Maybe we've just reached the point in capitalism where oligarch collusion is indistinguishable from world domination, because enough of our governments have already ceded authority to their corporate overlords.