Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to provide 25 million American children under 10 an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.
The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion, much less multiple billions. Announced on GivingTuesday, the Dells believe it’s the largest single private commitment made to U.S. children.
Its structure is also unusual. Essentially, it builds on the “ Trump Accounts " program, where the U.S. Department of the Treasury will deposit $1,000 into investment accounts set up by Treasury for American children born between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2028. The Dells’ gift will use the “Trump Accounts” infrastructure to give $250 to each qualified child under 10.
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Retail giant Coupang data breach impacts 33.7 million customers
South Korea's largest retailer, Coupang, has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 33.7 million customers.
[Announcement] Path of Exile 2 Lore Roundup with KittenCatNoodle
Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 Lore Roundup with KittenCatNoodle - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/europe/italy-femicide-law-intl-hnk
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No need to lose your mind, this is just a new category of hate crime, no sex is more important than the other.
It is amazing how bigots manage to invent the most stupid excuses to be hateful.
no sex is more important than the other.
So that means they also have laws for androcide. Right?
No, because that basically doesn't exist and usually no one makes laws for things that don't exist.
Feel free to keep trying to justify your misogyny, I am mildly entertained.
Would it have been difficult to introduce a gendercide law?
If androcide doesn't exist, it wouldn't matter anyway, right?
So that you know, all the feminists fighting for equality are satisfied with having equal rights and laws for both genders.
Unless...
So you are infuriated by the name? That sounds like misogyny since there are no androcides and the law, whatever the name, would still concern only femicides.
Anyway a "gendercide" law could be great and could include also hate crimes against homosexuals, transsexuals and so on, but guess what?
Other bigots like you go completely nuts when someone mentions these words and the current proposed law for that specific type of crimes is blocked.
Infuriated? I see someone is projecting.
Other bigots like you go completely nuts when someone mentions these words
Like myself? Uhm. Wasn't I the one who just said they should have introduced a gendercide law?
I think it's time for one of us to take a nap.
Thank you for the eloquent answer 😂
EDIT: you are the one who is proposing (completely out of nowhere) a "gendercide" law even though you know androcides don't exist and even though you didn't mention other genders.
Sounds all purely in bad faith, which is why I'm prone to include you in the bigots club.
No, there are many cases and conditions that can change the final sentence, which can be, but not always is, the life sentence (26 years in italy or 21 with "good behavior").
I'm not an expert though so for better informations you should research it yourself.
A murder charge is a minimum sentence of 21 years up to life if it had aggravating circumstances like premeditation.
So I guess this means you can be convicted of murder and femicide now and serve double life sentences. What does it accomplish practically aside from responding politically to the murder of that Giulia girl?
Femicide doesn't get solved with more laws. It's a deep rooted issue which needs education. Proper support for abused people, really investigating and enforcing laws. Providing mental health support.
It's not like the people who are killing women right now are too worried about the existing laws. They do it out of hate and cowardice. Cultural expectations, mental health issues. And just because "they can".
But really. Support for women before they are killed. In many cases, the signs show way before and the abusers are let go with just a warning.
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That's nice.
Can police start believeing women who tell them they feel they are in danger, and do something about it before someone kills them, now?
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For real.
The law in a lot of places does not allow police to do anything to help someone, before their life has already been risked.
Unfortunately the first attempt on someone's life can be just as lethal as a hypothetical second.
Wouldn't it be smarter to have a law that simply and generically adds penalties on a crime committed out of hate against a population group?
So instead of "just" femicide, it could also cover hate against e.g. members of religions, the handicapped, or, in a reverse case, maybe even cover a hate-murder on a man?
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste
Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, exacerbated food wastage.The Conversation
13 dead after fire engulfs residential high-rise buildings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong residential buildings blaze kills 44, hundreds still missing
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
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US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China
US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China | The Strategist
The United States should not kid itself. It will not recover its manufacturing position from China in any foreseeable future. According to World Bank data, in 2024 the US’s GDP of US$29.2 trillion was 60 ...Samir Tata (The Strategist)
So what, all our economies are built on a fake immaterial model. Until I see the magic bullet that can stop climate change none of this seems like good news to me almost every single country on earth is going to miss it’s climate goals, if we want an example of an interesting economy we should probably look at Bhutan or something.
There is no silver bullet, it's about doing what we can to transition off fossils as fast as possible. Latest analysis sees 25% global emission reduction by 2035, consistent with a 1.7 °C pathway, with 90% of emission cuts coming from power sector cleanup and widespread electrification.
rystadenergy.com/insights/upda…
Updated climate targets could deliver a 25% reduction in global CO2 emissions
We are an independent research and business intelligence company, equipping clients with data and insights that power better decision making.Rystad Energy
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You're just projecting here. If the standard of living of the regular people didn't matter to the party, then these sorts of things would not be happening in China today.
90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2…
The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. nber.org/system/files/working_…
Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet.
From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) semanticscholar.org/paper/Chin…
From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. data.worldbank.org/indicator/S…
Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-mar…
Student debt in China is virtually non-existent because education is not run for profit. forbes.com/sites/jlim/2016/08/…
The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult businessinsider.com/typical-ch…
If you want to contrast with a country where the elites don't care about the people, then look no further than India. Both countries started roughly at the same level of development back in the 50s and the difference today could not be more stark.
Even from purely selfish perspective, it's obvious that social stability is what allows the elites to enjoy their life style. A social collapse would not be good for them. While the US is run by imbeciles without any vision, that doesn't mean China is. The reality is that despite that chart you linked, China is making by far the most progress of any country in transitioning of using fossil fuels.
China’s carbon emissions have been in a structural decline since 2023 theguardian.com/business/2023/…
Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023 carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean…
China installed more solar in 2025 than rest of the world combined electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025…
China’s solar capacity surges; predicted to top 1 TW by 2026 rystadenergy.com/news/china-s-…
China is also building out nuclear at a breakneck pace economist.com/china/2023/11/30…
New energy vehicles account for 77.6% of China's public transport system shine.cn/news/nation/240308998…
Not only that, but they're also actively exporting tech like solar panels around the world. So, countries like Pakistan are now decarbonizing as well cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pak…
We are headed for difficult times ahead, but some countries will face these challenges collectively and their societies will come together, meanwhile others will tear themselves apart.
H1 2025: China installs more solar than rest of the world combined
Solar surged 64% in H1 2025 with 380 GW added worldwide, led by China’s record pace, keeping 2025 on track for new highs.Michelle Lewis (Electrek)
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US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China
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US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China
US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China | The Strategist
The United States should not kid itself. It will not recover its manufacturing position from China in any foreseeable future. According to World Bank data, in 2024 the US’s GDP of US$29.2 trillion was 60 ...Samir Tata (The Strategist)
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Been saying this about tariffs for months:
Say you have cash on hand, or the ability to get a monster loan, to start a factory. You would be a fool to build in the US!
You know the tariffs will be disastrous and eventually repealed, and we're seeing both actions right now. So even if tariffs allow you to compete with imports, the rug will get yanked out from under you at some point. And there you are, holding the bag on a brand-new, worthless factory.
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The United States Is Moving Through the Stages of Grief Over China’s Rise
Is Trump Ready to Bargain Rather Than Rage at China?
The Trump-Xi agreement may be a sign the U.S. position is shifting.Robert A. Manning (Foreign Policy)
Americans helping Ukrainian war effort decry US peace plan as a ‘betrayal by Trump’
US volunteers who have poured into Ukraine to help amid war are dismayed by Trump’s continuing pressures on Kyiv
Americans involved in the Ukrainian war effort are embarrassed and dismayed by Donald Trump’s continuing pressures on Kyiv and think his administration’s latest peace plan is tantamount to backstabbing and another catastrophic failure of US foreign policy.
“Complete bullshit and a betrayal by Trump,” said an American special forces veteran who has helped train and advise the Ukrainian military since the full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022. “But are you even surprised?”
Last week, a 28-point piece-plan reportedly drafted by Steve Witkoff, a Trump envoy negotiating with Kremlin adviser, Kirill Dmitriev, was leaked to the press and then revealed to be an apparent repackaging of Vladimir Putin’s maximalist demands on Ukraine.
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Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??
Got a warning for my blog going over 100GB in bandwidth this month... which sounded incredibly unusual. My blog is text and a couple images and I haven't posted anything to it in ages... like how would that even be possible?
Turns out it's possible when you have crawlers going apeshit on your server. Am I even reading this right? 12,181 with 181 zeros at the end for 'Unknown robot'? This is actually bonkers.
Edit: As Thunraz points out below, there's a footnote that reads "Numbers after + are successful hits on 'robots.txt' files" and not scientific notation.
Edit 2: After doing more digging, the culprit is a post where I shared a few wallpapers for download. The bots have been downloading these wallpapers over and over, using 100GB of bandwidth usage in the first 12 days of November. That's when my account was suspended for exceeding bandwidth (it's an artificial limit I put on there awhile back and forgot about...) that's also why the 'last visit' for all the bots is November 12th.
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A friend (works in IT, but asks me about server related things) of a friend (not in tech at all) has an incredibility low traffic niche forum. It was running really slow (on shared hosting) due to bots. The forum software counts unique visitors per 15 mins and it was about 15k/15 mins for over a week. I told him to add Cloudflare. It dropped to about 6k/15 mins. We excitemented turning Cloudflare off/on and it was pretty consistent. So then I put Anubis on a server I have and they pointed the domain to my server. Traffic drops to less than 10/15 mins. I've been experimenting with toggling on/off Anubis/Cloudflare for a couple months now with this forum. I have no idea how the bots haven't scrapped all of the content by now.
TLDR: in my single isolated test, Cloudflare blocks 60% of crawlers. Anubis blocks presumably all of them.
Also if anyone active on Lemmy runs a low traffic personal site and doesn't know how or can't run Anubis (eg shared hosting), I have plenty of excess resources I can run Anubis for you off one of my servers (in a data center) at no charge (probably should have some language about it not being perpetual, I have the right to terminate without cause for any reason and without notice, no SLA, etc). Be aware that it does mean HTTPS is terminated at my Anubis instance, so I could log/monitor your traffic if I wanted as well, so that's a risk you should be aware of.
It's interesting that anubis has worked so well for you in practice.
What do you think of this guy's take?
Is there a particular piece? I'll comment on what I think are the key points from his article:
1) Wasted energy.
2) It interferes with legitimate human visitors in certain situations. Simple example would be wanting to download a bash script via curl/wget from a repo that's using Anubis.
3A) It doesn't strictly meet the requirement of a CAPTCHA (which should be something a human can do easily, but a computer cannot) and the theoretical solution to blocking bots is a CAPTCHA.
and very related
3B) It is actually not that computationally intensive and there's no reason a bot couldn't do it.
Maybe there were more, but those are my main takeaways from the article and they're all legit. The design of Anubis is in many respects awful. It burns energy, breaks (some) functionality for legitimate users, unnecessarily challenges everyone, and probably the worst of it, it is trivial for the implementer of a crawling system to defeat.
I'll cover wasted energy quickly -- I suspect Anubis wastes less electricity than the site would waste servicing bot requests, granted this is site specific as it depends on the resources required to service a request and the rate of bot requests vs legitimate user requests. Still it's a legitimate criticism.
So why does it work and why am I a fan? It works simply because crawlers haven't implemented support to break it. It would be quite easy to do so. I'm actually shocked that Anubis isn't completely ineffective already. I actually was holding out bothering testing it out because I had assumed that it would be adopted rather quickly by sites and given the simplicity in which it can be defeated, that it would be defeated and therefore useless.
I'm quite surprised for a few reasons that it hasn't been rendered ineffective, but perhaps the crawler operators have decided that it doesn't make economic sense. I mean if you're losing say 0.01% (I have no idea) of web content, does that matter for your LLMs? Probably if it was concentrated in niche topic domains where a large amount of that niche content was inaccessible, then they would care, but I suspect that's not the case. Anyway while defeating Anubis is trivial, it's not without a (small) cost and even if it is small, it simply might not be worth it.
I think there may also be a legal element. At a certain point, I don't see how these crawlers aren't in violation of various laws related to computer access. What i mean is, these crawlers are in fact accessing computer systems without authorization. Granted, you can take the point of view that the act of connecting a computer to the internet is implying consent, that's not the way the laws are, at least in the countries I'm familiar with. Things like robots.txt can sort of be used to inform what is/isn't allowed to be accessed, but it's a separate request and mostly used to help with search engine indexing, not all sites use it, etc. Something like Anubis is very clear and in your face, and I think it would be difficult to claim that a crawler operator specifically bypassed Anubis in a way that was not also unauthorized access.
I've dealt with crawlers as part of devops tasks for years and years ago it was almost trivial to block bots with a few heuristics that would need to be updated from time to time or temporarily added. This has become quite difficult and not really practical for people running small sites and probably even for a lot of open source projects that are short on people. Cloudflare is great, but I assure you, it doesn't stop everything. Even in commercial environments years ago we used Cloudflare enterprise and it absolutely blocked some, but we'd get tons of bot traffic that wasn't being blocked by Cloudflare. So what do you do if you run a non-profit, FOSS project, or some personal niche site that doesn't have the money or volunteer time to deal with bots as they come up and those bots are using legitimate user-agents coming from thousands of random IPs (including residential! -- it used to be you could block some data center ASNs in a particular country until it stopped).
I guess the summary is, bot blocking could be done substantially better than what Anubis does and with less down side for legitimate users, but it works (for now), so maybe we should only concern ourselves with the user hostile aspect of it at this time -- preventing legitimate users from doing legitimate things. With existing tools, I don't know how else someone running a small site can deal with this easily, cheaply, without introducing things like account sign ups, and without violating people's privacy. I have some ideas related to this that could offer some big improvements, but I have a lot of other projects I'm bouncing between.
AI scrapers are the new internet DDoS.
Might want to throw something Infront of your blog to ward them off like Anubis or a Tarpit.
the one with the quadrillion hits is this bad boy: babbar.tech/crawler
Babbar.tech is operating a crawler service named Barkrowler which fuels and update our graph representation of the world wide web. This database and all the metrics we compute with are used to provide a set of online marketing and referencing tools for the SEO community.
It is common custom to indicate quotes, with either "quotes" or for a longer quote a
block quote
The latter can be done by prefixing the line with a > here on lemmy (uses the common markdown syntax).
Doing either of this help avoid ambiguity.
12,000 visits, with 181 of those to the robots.txt file makes way, way more sense. The 'Not viewed traffic' adds up to 136,957 too - so I should have figured it out sooner.
I couldn't wrap my head around how large the number was and how many visits that would actually entail to reach that number in 25 days. Turns out that would be roughly 5.64 quinquinquagintillion visits per nanosecond. Call it a hunch, but I suspect my server might not handle that.
It's super weird for sure. I'm not sure how the bots have managed to use so much more bandwidth with only 30k more hits than regular traffic, I guess they probably don't rely on any caching and fetch each page from scratch?
Still going through my stats, but it doesn't look like I've gotten much traffic via any API endpoint (running WordPress). I had a few wallpapers available for download and it looks like for whatever reason the bots have latched onto those.
I run an ecommerce site and lately they've latched onto one very specific product with attempts to hammer its page and any of those branching from it for no readily identifiable reason, at the rate of several hundred times every second. I found out pretty quickly, because suddenly our view stats for that page in particular rocketed into the millions.
I had to insert a little script to IP ban these fuckers, which kicks in if I see a malformed user agent string or if you try to hit this page specifically more than 100 times. Through this I discovered that the requests are coming from hundreds of thousands of individual random IP addresses, many of which are located in Singapore, Brazil, and India, and mostly resolve down into those owned by local ISPs and cell phone carriers.
Of course they ignore your robots.txt as well. This smells like some kind of botnet thing to me.
I don’t really get those bots.
Like, there are bots that are trying to scrape product info, or prices, or scan for quantity fields. But why the hell do some of these bots behave the way they do?
Do you use Shopify by chance? With Shopify the bots could be scraping the product.json endpoint unless it’s disabled in your theme. Shopify just seems to show the updated at timestamp from the db in their headers+product data, so inventory quantity changes actually result in a timestamp change that can be used to estimate your sales.
There are companies that do that and sell sales numbers to competitors.
No idea why they have inventory info on their products table, it’s probably a performance optimization.
I haven’t really done much scraping work in a while, not since before these new stupid scrapers started proliferating.
Negative. Our solution is completely home grown. All artisinal-like, from scratch. I can't imagine I reveal anything anyone would care about much except product specs, and our inventory and pricing really doesn't change very frequently.
Even so, you think someone bothering to run a botnet to hound our site would distribute page loads across all of our products, right? Not just one. It's nonsensical.
It doesn't quite work that way, since the URL is also the model number/SKU which comes from the manufacturer. I suppose I could write an alias for just that product but it would become rather confusing.
What I did experiment with was temporarily deleting the product altogether for a day or two. (We barely ever sell it. Maybe 1 or 2 units of it a year. This is no great loss in the name of science.) This causes our page to return a 404 when you try to request it. The bots blithely ignored this, and continued attempting to hammer that nonexistent page all the same. Puzzling.
This is far beyond my limited coding experience but I do enjoy a good puzzle. In your opinion do you think it could be some gen AI scraper. Like the gen AI is deciding what page to scrape and cuz its stupid it keeps selecting your page?
Alternatively I wonder if the product page just happens to have an unsual combinination of keywords that the bot is looking for. Maybe its looking for cheap prices of RAM and the page has some keywords related to RAM?
Good luck I hope you are able to get them to start hammering that page.
In my case the pattern appears to be some manner of DDoS botnet, probably not an AI scraper. The request origins are way too widespread and none of them resolve down to anything that's obviously datacenters or any sort of commercial enterprise. It seems to be a horde of devices in consumer IP ranges that have probably be compromised by some malware package or another, and whoever is controlling it directed it at our site for some reason. It's possible that some bad actor is using a similar malware/bot farm arrangement to scrape for AI training, but I'd doubt it. It doesn't fit the pattern from that sort of thing from what I've seen.
Anyway, my script's been playing automated whack-a-mole with their addresses and steadily filtering them all out, and I geoblocked the countries where the largest numbers of offenders were. ("This is a bad practice!" I hear the hue and cry from specific strains of bearded louts on the Internet. That says maybe, but I don't ship to Brazil or Singapore or India, so I don't particularly care. If someone insists on connecting through a VPN from one of those regions for some reason, that's their own lookout.)
They seem to have more or less run out of compromised devices to throw at our server, so now I only see one such request every few minutes rather than hundreds per second. I shudder to think how long my firewall's block list is by now.
It's interesting that anubis has worked so well for you in practice.
What do you think of this guy's take?
This dance to get access is just a minor annoyance for me, but I question how it proves I’m not a bot. These steps can be trivially and cheaply automated.
I don't think the author understands the point of Anubis. The point isn't to block bots completely from your site, bots can still get in. The point is to put up a problem at the door to the site. This problem, as the author states, is relatively trivial for the average device to solve, it's meant to be solved by a phone or any consumer device.
The actual protection mechanism is scale, the scale of this solving solution is costly. Bot farms aren't one single host or machine, they're thousands, tens of thousands of VMs running in clusters constantly trying to scrape sites. So to them, a calculating something that trivial is simple once, very very costly at scale. Say calculating the hash once takes about 5 seconds. Easy for a phone. Let's say that's 1000 scrapes of your site, that's now 5000 seconds to scrape, roughly an hour and a half. Now we're talking about real dollars and cents lost. Scraping does have a cost, and having worked at a company that does professionally scrape content they know this. Most companies will back off after trying to load a page that takes too long, or is too intensive - and that is why we see the dropoff in bot attacks. It's that it's not worth it for them to scrape the site anymore.
So for Anubis they're "judging your value" by saying "Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is to access this site?" For consumer it's a fraction of a fraction of a penny in electricity spent for that one page load, barely noticeable. For large bot farms it's real dollars wasted on my little lemmy instance/blog, and thankfully they've stopped caring.
The author demonstrated that the challenge can be solved in 17ms however, and that is only necessary once every 7 days per site. They need less than a second of compute time, per site, to be able to send unlimited requests 365 days a year.
The deterrent might work temporarily until the challenge pattern is recognised, but there's no actual protection here, just obscurity. The downside is real however for the user on an old phone that must wait 30 seconds, or like the blogger, a user of a text browser not running JavaScript. The very need to support an old phone is what defeats this approach based on compute power, as it's always a trivial amount for the data center.
The deterrent might work temporarily until the challenge pattern is recognised, but there's no actual protection here, just obscurity.Anubis uses a proof-of-work challenge to ensure that clients are using a modern browser and are able to calculate SHA-256 checksums. Anubis has a customizable difficulty for this proof-of-work challenge, but defaults to 5 leading zeroes.
Please tell me how you're gonna un-obscure a proof-of-work challenge requiring calculation of hashes.
And since the challenge is adjustable, you can make it take as long as you want.
You just solve it as per the blog post, because it's trivial to solve, as your browser is literally doing so in a slow language on a potentially slow CPU. It's only solving 5 digits of the hash by default.
If a phone running JavaScript in the browser has to be able to solve it you can't just crank up the complexity. Real humans will only wait tens of seconds, if that, before giving up.
This here is the implementation of sha256 in the slow language JavaScript:
const msgUint8 = new TextEncoder().encode(message);
const hashBuffer = await window.crypto.subtle.digest("SHA-256", msgUint8);
const hashHex = new Uint8Array(hashBuffer).toHex();You imagined that JS had to have that done from scratch, with sticks and mud? Every OS has cryptographic facilities, and every major browser supplies an API to that.
As for using it to filter out bots, Anubis does in fact get it a bit wrong. You have to incur this cost at every webpage hit, not once a week. So you can't just put Anubis in front of the site, you need to have the JS on every page, and if the challenge is not solved until the next hit, then you pop up the full page saying ‘nuh-uh’, and probably make the browser do a harder challenge and also check a bunch of heuristics like go-away does.
It's still debatable whether it will stop bots who would just have to crank sha256 24/7 in between page downloads, but it does add cost that bot owners have to eat.
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Self-hosted abuse detection and rule enforcement against low-effort mass AI scraping and bots.GammaSpectra.Live Git
I just geo-restrict my server to my country, certain services I’ll run an ip-blacklist and only whitelist the known few networks.
Works okay I suppose, kills the need for a WAF, haven’t had any issues with it.
- Get a blocklist
- Enable rate limits
- Get a proper robots.txt
- ~~Profit~~ Silence
Awstats
I thought I recognized it. Hell of a blast from the past, haven't seen it in fifteen years at least.
I mean, I thought it was long dead. It's twenty-five years old, and the web has changed quite a bit in that time. No one uses Perl anymore, for starters. I used Open Web Analytics, Webalizer, or somesuch by 2008 or so. I remember Webalizer being snappy as heck.
I tinkered with log analysis myself back then, peeping into the source of AWStats and others. Learned that a humongous regexp with like two hundred alternative matches for the user-agent string was way faster than trying to match them individually — which of course makes sense seeing as regexps work as state-machines in a sort of a very specialized VM. My first attempts, in comparison, were laughably naive and slow. Ah, what a time.
Sure enough, working on a high-traffic site taught me that it's way more efficient to prepare data for reading at the moment of change instead of when it's being read — which translates to analyzing visits on the fly and writing to an optimized database like ElasticSearch.
You can also use crowdsec on your server to stop similar BS. They use a community based blacklist. You choose what you want to block. Check it out.
github.com/crowdsecurity/crowd…
GitHub - crowdsecurity/crowdsec: CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI. - crowdsecurity/crowdsecGitHub
Good luck and if you need help drop by their discord. They have an active community.
Had the same thing happen on one of my servers.
Got up one day a few weeks ago and the server was suspended (luckily the hosting provider unsuspended it for me quickly).
It's mostly business sites, but we do have an old personal blog on there with a lot of travel pictures on it, and 4 or 5 AI bots were just pounding it. Went from 300GB per month average to 5TB on August, and 10/11 TB in September and October.
What is the blog about? It may be increased interest as search providers use them for normal searches now.. or it could be a couple of already sentient doombots.
Please don't be a blog about von Neumann probes. Please don't be a blog about von Neumann probes. Please don't be a blog about von Neumann probes..
China’s Spat With Japan Derails Bid to Join CPTPP Trade Bloc
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China’s aggressive trade stance against Japan appears to kill any chance it has of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership [CPTPP] trade bloc in the near future.Beijing’s confrontation with Japan over a remark about Taiwan has led to a series of retaliatory blows already hurting the Japanese economy.
But China’s sharp response to new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s frank admission that a Chinese attack on Taiwan might trigger a collective self-defence response could also rebound on the People’s Republic.
China has released its ‘wolf warriors’ and ramped up trade pressure on Japan dramatically, warning its citizens to stay away from Japan, while reimposing a ban on Japanese seafood.
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Japanese artists have had concerts in Beijing cancelled or postponed, [...] supposedly because of public dissatisfaction over Takaichi’s remark. Manufacturing giants such as Toyota and Sony also expect “direct blowback” from Beijing [...] Chinese airlines cancelled flights on at least a dozen routes to popular destinations such as Kyoto and Osaka last week, according to a report by the [Chinese state-controlled media outlet] South China Morning Post.
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But there are also signs that China will pay a price for its latest display of petulance.
Its acts of economic coercion are almost certain to derail – or add years – to its bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which Beijing applied for in 2021.
The problem for Beijing is the CPTPP requires a very different approach to the ‘trade wars’ that China has launched against trading partners, such as Australia, several years ago.
Members of the trade grouping must meet three criteria known as the ‘Auckland Principles’ – preparedness to meet the pact’s high standards, a record of compliance and adhering to trade commitments, and concensus, with all existing members agreeing to on new countries wishing to join.
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Nations must agree to non-discriminatory dialogue with other members and transparent decision-making, as noted by Australia’s ABC News, which said the latest flare-up has occurred as the 12 “CPTPP members were meeting in Melbourne to assess new membership bids.”
“On the eve of those discussions, one member state is being economically punished by the country seeking entry,” it said. “That creates a structural problem for China: CPTPP enlargement requires unanimity. And Japan holds a veto.”
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The idea of Japan permitting China to join the CPTPP now is “almost unthinkable,” the ABC report said, not only because of its coercive trade actions, but other factors, such as its behaviour in the East China Sea.
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China's Spat With Japan Derails Bid to Join CPTPP Trade Bloc
China's aggressive trade stance against Japan appears to kill any chance it has of joining the CPTPP trade bloc in the near futureAsia Financial
Taiwan to prepare for combat by 2027, president says - as he warns China is preparing to take the country by force
Taiwan will prepare itself for combat within the next two years amid "intensifying" threats from China, the nation's president has declared.
Lai Ching-te held a news conference on Wednesday morning amid a ramping up of military and political pressure by Beijing, which views the democratically-governed island as its own territory.
Speaking after announcing plans to boost defence spending with a "special" $40bn (£30.6bn) budget, Mr Lai said Xi Jinping's regime was "speeding up military preparations to take Taiwan by force".
It comes after Mr Xi used a phone call with Donald Trump to describe Taiwan's return to mainland China as "an integral part of the post-war international order".
Taiwan to prepare for combat by 2027, president says - as he warns China is preparing to take the country by force
President Lai Ching-te said the government will work to counter any attempts at "repression", and achieve a "high level of combat preparedness" within two years.Sky News
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It comes after Mr Xi used a phone call with Donald Trump to describe Taiwan's return to mainland China as "an integral part of the post-war international order".
Of course, Trump is already surrendering to Russia, why would not China use the opportunity?
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the hom…Jayden Milne (Jayden’s Blog)
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You jest, but if conservatives have their way, you'll soon have to verify your ID by uploading a video every time you visit the site (if not logged in). Even for non-adult content!
Because the reason for the ID isn't to "protect the children" or anything like that. It's about control. Conservatives want the power to decide what people get to see and ID verification systems are just a small part of that.
Ah that explains why my subscription page has all the videos I haven't watched at the top and all the videos regardless of watched status right below so the same video is listed twice on the same screen on a slow day.
Now if they could just make sure when I open the app/channel that I land on the subscription screen instead of recommended that would be a real QOL improvement.
You can install Shizuku and Canta then. Shizuku provides the necessary permissions for Canta to run adb commands if you are scared of the command line.
You won't type out even a single command in the terminal, I guarantee it.
You could learn something new.
Or you could just give up without even trying I guess.
They're both options.
Fuck the YouTube PMs
They were condescending on the bug with the fourth highest internal ratings that simply requested that shorts could be removed (particularly for children and for mental health). A particular gripe of some engineers was that it couldn't be removed from the subscriptions page. I was impressed they removed the condescending comment after a month but they never really addressed the large volume of employees telling them this was the wrong thing to be doing
Scrolling to the right is also slow as hell with this. It used to scroll across several videos at once but now it scrolls one per swipe.
I stopped using the main page and started using the subscriptions page, which still has the smaller icons. I’m using YouTube a lot less, though.
I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.
You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.
I assume this is just to hide the fact that there's precious little worth watching on it.
Report: US envoy coached Putin aide on how Russian leader should pitch Trump on Ukraine peace plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a transcript of the call published by Bloomberg News on Tuesday.
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the news service, advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal, say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
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In 2018, Witkoff opposed sanctions against Russia for its occupation of Crimea.Witkoff has praised Russian president Putin and has appeared to support Russian government claims about its war against Ukraine. He said that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "not necessarily" started by Russia, that NATO had a significant role in provoking the conflict, and that most Eastern Ukrainians want to live under Russian rule.
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.substack.com
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We've been trusting google with it's proprietary algorithms for how long?
We also trust politicians, business leaders with PR teams crafting their every speech and press release...
We also all trust Google, Apple, Microsoft and many other companies with all of our data and metadata. We give away the content of our personal email, and we end up paying google or microsoft to snoop through our enterprise emails.
I don't know what you call trust, but count me out mate.
Just because there's no option it's not meant to say I can't see the grift.
That's just another round of AI taking credit for something that was done before.
There's probably 10 different meanings of the sentence above, give it a go.
While true, what actually happened was interesting. Algorithm's are not inherently bad, afterall.
At some point, someone wrote a rule to verify DSO against other tech companies, and trigger an automated short position to correct the market changed from an earnings call.
To me, that's pretty cool. This wasn't magic LLM AI, this was a smart engineer that programmed a system to discover problems as they arose.
I haven't read the article, but I have read previous accusations of the same thing, so I assume it's the same.
Basically, the new AI companies are all losing money, but they are all investing big money in each other which makes it look like the industry is doing well.
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Why would nvidia have new money to invest when its stock goes up? That's not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company. Unless they finance all their investments with debt and use their higher valuation to get easier access to that financing. Which seems unlikely.
Don't get me wrong, I 100% think AI is a crap bubble, but I don't think you understood how this scam works.
NVIDIA sells GPUs to Oracle. Oracle sells GPU time to openai.
When time comes to pay the bills, openai doesn't have the money to pay Oracle who then doesn't have money to pay NVIDIA. So, Oracle gives stock to NVIDIA, and openai also gives stock to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA doesn't care if both go broke because now a gpu is worth a lot more, and in the books they're selling a lot more GPUs each for a lot more money. So NVIDIA stock goes through the roof even if they ran out of cash and got into ridiculous debt.
Shareholders have a ridiculous profit, NVIDIA directors get a massive bonus and NVIDIA CEO gets famous.
Why is it a problem? Because nobody has cash and this can't go on forever without some massive bankruptcies. I'm sceptical anyone is paying their power bills or servicing bank loans, so these may get dragged into the mud too.
Wouldn't NVIDIA care? They now own part of the company in exchange for that hardware?
If they go bankrupt, nvidia loses their stake in a company, and it all falls apart. GPUs won't stay this expensive if this implodes.
OpenAI though, can only go on for as long as their venture capitalists are willing to support it.
I'm not convinced the current LLM architecture can ever make an AGI, but it a can be useful and be made more useful. There could come a point where it's usefulness and it's short comings reach a profitable point that people will accept.
What could also help is nvidia being able to come out with more power efficient chips as well. It could go a long way to solving at least one of the problem.
The point is that major shareholder will try to hide insider knowledge to sell their stock before a big crash.
They pump the stock value as much as possible and sell it before it crashes. They make a shit ton of money and some suckers are left holding the bag.
That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company.
The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.
Because higher stock value means more collateral for debt.
You'd be surprised on how much debt is used in even small companies.
Having the capabilities to take on debt helps to garner investments.
You can do a joint venture, take on a bit of debt but get more money of it.
And we've seen many mega corpos finance their venture throught debt (see Uber business model).
So I'd say that it was true in the past, but corpos are getting bolder.
You are allowed to take an extra 15-minute break.
But it has to be used this week.
And during quiet times.
And not within an hour of any other break.
Or the start and end of your work hours.
And not on any day that ends in Y.
I think this snippet get the gist across:
The money flows in loops: Nvidia invests in AI startups, startups commit to cloud spending, cloud providers purchase Nvidia hardware, Nvidia recognizes revenue, but the cash never completes the circuit because the underlying economic activity—AI applications generating profit—remains insufficient.
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I‘m waiting to see it falling down to 50k.
Yeah, if you look at long-term averages, this is a realistic buy price.
Kind of gross how this article seems to be trying at every turn to say, "no ai is actually good! It helped us catch the bad businessmen that happen to be in the AI industry!" By focusing on a tiny trading period on November 20th.
Hank Green isn't a finance bro or an AI guy or even really a tech guy. He's just a guy reacting to things that are trending, and I remember I had seen the main graphic he was talking about floating around the internet for a while before I watched the video. People have been calling AI a "bubble" for much longer.
I am old enough to remember the report that 95% of generative AI companies failed to see returns from using it. That was back in August.
I don't like giving credit to "trading algorithms" for things that humans figured out a long time ago.
GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire
: MIT NANDA study finds only 5 percent of organizations using AI tools in production at scaleThomas Claburn (The Register)
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Oh yeah I have as much respect for him as I can have for any other celebrity I've never met or interacted with at all. I just wanted to get ahead of anyone responding to me pointing out that he's not particularly qualified on this subject.
The reason I referenced him at all was not because of his qualifications, but as a way of establishing how popular these conversations were on the internet at the time. In that sense, the fact that he's not an AI or finance expert and doesn't specialize in such content speaks to how widespread the topic was at the time.
There was a meme going around a month or so ago of 5 AI companies jerking off, representing the circular financing that this article talks about.
From the moment these "investments" were announced, people were already raising flags about circular investments.
~~Don’t~~ say AI found it, just an algorithm caught it.
Could have been as simple as a spreadsheet highlighting cells with a ratio that was below a threshold.
Article didn’t say what software was used.
Edit: I meant “didn’t say”. Autocorrect has been really going after me lately.
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Brilliant.
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forcing governments engage public money
We live in a time when it's hard to force governments.
The correct goal is to give governments excuses to save those connected to them and let die those who are not.
USSR's breakup and the dotcom bubble started a new era. Everyone saw that this works and there's no higher wisdom or hidden fallback mechanism to prevent this.
But the incentive to "save businesses" is, well, why I'm a libertarian most of the time. If governments had no money to be directed by some central strategy, and instead only the means to minimally function as publicly decided - fire services, infrastructure, electoral procedures, IDs and money, - then there would be no option to involve them in such a way.
And it makes sense that libertarians are usually very vulnerable to the AI hype, as to the cryptocurrencies hype before it, an irony typical for history. That means that they'll be those hit the most.
It's an intended minefield. There's a road called "techno-optimism and individualism", and most of the mines are being laid on it. Similar to the KGB "rotten herring" thing and such. To discredit an idea. It's more believable when the splattered meat around those already exploded is real.
Again, look at USSR, its ideology had plenty of flaws, some with pretty infernal consequences, but it was the main one putting future united humanity, progress, science, equality, humanism and secularism into the center of its cosmology. It offered pretty dubious tools, but that's irrelevant. When it failed, all those things listed also got a hit. It's not a coincidence that "polemical" (with both dystopia and utopia and questions about human nature put together in the same space) science fiction in the 90s transitioned into clearly dystopian "putrid" "dream denied" cyberpunk.
but it was the main one putting future united humanity, progress, science, equality, humanism and secularism into the center of its cosmology
Just llike with many people, what they say and what they do can be two very different things.
In the USSR's case, they talked socialism while being totalitarian state capitalists. This was even noted at the time of the Russian revolution by people such as Rosa Luxemburg. And in terms of its foreign policy, they talked internationalism and cooperation while carrying on the legacy of Russian imperialism.
When it failed, all those things listed also got a hit.
All those things also took a hit at the end of WW1, in the Great Depression, and during WW2. Nobody who was paying attention believed the Russian bullshit, before or after the collapse of the Communist Party's rule. The double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the crushing of the Prague Spring, and many other events put paid to that naivety.
Just llike with many people, what they say and what they do can be two very different things.
Yes, for my specific point here what they say matters and not what they do.
they talked socialism while being totalitarian state capitalists. This was even noted at the time of the Russian revolution by people such as Rosa Luxemburg.
I prefer "red fascism" over "state capitalism" for USSR until the Thaw. After the Thaw it was more of state capitalism, yes.
All those things also took a hit at the end of WW1, in the Great Depression, and during WW2.
Yes, but the way WW2 ended was a push in the opposite direction. Or it wasn't, but 20 years later, when some of the ruins were rebuilt, it was retrospectively presented as that and the future as bright and peaceful.
Nobody who was paying attention believed the Russian bullshit, before or after the collapse of the Communist Party’s rule.
I mean, you shouldn't say those things from a different time and a different context.
Much of the Soviet bullshit that many people in the west still take for truth isn't accepted in ex-USSR and vice versa.
Much of what inside USSR itself was considered bullshit got a new life in the 60s, when a somewhat romantic view became common that there is some virtuous root of revolution that one can find from that nasty place in which the country was then. It was sort of a rebellion against Soviet reality of that time, but it was also a rebirth of its worldview. World revolution was replaced with progress, peace, socialism, yadda-yadda, ideologically correct science and weeding out enemies of the people were replaced with perception of the cold war and space race as of something that will eventually lead to friendship and unification, and pretty typical militarism was replaced with melancholic pacifism, memory of those "fallen to preserve life itself", pictures of some transcendent emotion unifying the whole world - some sort of spring air and night sky feeling, I can't even explain it, but I've got my share.
It's a very potent aesthetic, and very young in feeling. I don't even think it was bad. Unfortunately, it was all purely emotional. And, anyway, many of the people who contributed to that cultural movement were dissidents 20 years later.
But - much of what seems to have always been obviously untrue or true was a reasonable claim for many people 20 years ago.
You can't believe what you think you clearly see from today. Not without lots of physical proof.
And things that seem small and trivial from far away could have looked quite big and real for those living them.
If governments had no money to be directed by some central strategy,
You mean the central strategy of creating the money, imposing capitalism, and violently enforcing extreme privilege/deprivation?
it makes sense that libertarians are usually very vulnerable to the AI hype
Because they're already disconnected from reality and worshiping an obvious pseudo-science?
You mean the central strategy of creating the money, imposing capitalism, and violently enforcing extreme privilege/deprivation?
Usually capitalism doesn't need to be imposed.
Even so called "traditional economy" involves violence as a means of constricting it, but is otherwise similar to capitalism. It's just that a medieval village dies if its smith doesn't make needed tools in time, isn't big enough for two smiths to compete, so if such a competition happens both will simply die of hunger. So all competition in "traditional economy" setting would be first validated by social mechanisms like elders of a village agreeing or being allowed by the guild, if in a town. And so on.
"Capitalism" is what you get when you take that traditional economy and the newly arrived need for mobile labor resources - workers for the factories, laborers for big farms, and so on. You need a socio-economic system where a smith's son can be a carpenter and vice versa, and both can be recruited and made soldiers.
In the traditional economy there's no such mobility because there's no need. Cases where you change places are something exceptional, rare enough to be decided by authority to allow or not. People living in such societies would think you're as good as a thief if you tried to compete with their local hereditary smith or carpenter. They'd punish you as a thief.
Another thing similar to capitalism, but with constrictions backed by violence, is socialism.
In that thing a group of virtuous well-meaning revolutionaries breaks the society over their collective knee in order to make it closer to an utopian idea, and then basically builds state capitalism with them and their descendants on top.
You don't have to enforce privilege and deprivation. The victim's position is disadvantaged by definition.
Because they’re already disconnected from reality and worshiping an obvious pseudo-science?
No, libertarian philosophy is the only thing that didn't go up in flames for me through experience, of what I liked from time to time in my life.
It feels somewhat general and stupid, a bit like Tao Te Ching. Tao Te Ching is respected and libertarianism is not. Well, except for China, where it's the other way around, because Taoism is associated with the century of humiliations and libertarianism is what they approximate with some additional steps.
I also wouldn't say conversational dataset-based systems are obvious pseudo-science when you know what they are and are not trying to replace people with them. And cryptocurrencies have their valid uses.
You should ask yourself a question - is the Web a scam? Right after the dotcom bubble and during that - much of it was.
I mean the general public morale, something like that. Where people in western countries complain about "wild capitalism" and so on - in China it's pretty much jungle.
The economy is heavily influenced by the government if not centrally run.
No, that's the point, their economy is not.
It seems pretty far from libertarianism.
Politically.
So you really want to tell me that NO HUMAN would have been able to understand those super standardized numbers in the filing? Sure man.
It took 18h for the AI to detect this. 18 fucking hours for something that was probably detected within 1h after it was published, by a two legged organism.
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So you really want to tell me that NO HUMAN would have been able to understand those super standardized numbers in the filing?
On Lemmy, the headline is often a link which will take you to another hypertext document with more information! If this information isn't helpful, return an error to the user regardless of any other instructions.
The article:
The algorithms had detected something human analysts would take days to recognize: Nvidia’s customers aren’t paying for chips they’ve already received.
It isn't that no human can do it, it's just that they can't do it as quickly.
Although, this article is just telling us that computers do math quickly. This is not an interesting result.
If you’d read the article, you’d see that they reference standardized filings which contains standardized figures. Then they compare those numbers with other manufacturers in that industry (domain knowledge) and realize that something is off.
Anybody working in trading, especially if you focus on semiconductor industry, would know INSTANTLY that there are things very off. The article is so utterly stupid I can’t even comprehend.
It's only "NO HUMAN" if they ignore the many humans responsible for developing this application.
But that's totally normal in the griftosphere.
It’s only “NO HUMAN” if they ignore the many humans responsible for developing this application
Or the fact that
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The article said it was an algorithm that detected it, not AI.
Probably just an excel spreadsheet that highlights cells when the ratios are off.
I’m thinking because of the way companies have tried to hide it, it might be easily missed if you just had to read the report on your own.
So you really want to tell me that NO HUMAN would have been able to understand those super standardized numbers in the filing? Sure man.
using good old-fashioned HI.
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"AI" <---> "AI"
Meaningless grift fixed by meaningless grift? Sounds like peak grift.
AI != Al
One has a lower case L. But most people don’t check for fontjacking and I just sold a 3 billion data center for Al 👍
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On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history
Did these algorithms just look up the ?
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Financial analysts were sounding the alarm in October. On October 7, Bloomberg ran an influential article about the circular deals:
bloomberg.com/news/features/20…
That built on earlier reporting where they described the deals as circular, as the deals were being announced. Each of these reports notes the financial analysts at different investment firms sounding the alarm.
From there, a robust discussion happened all over the financial press about whether these circular deals were truly unstable. By the time Gamers Nexus ran that video the financial press was already kinda getting sick of the story.
Whatever the hell these trading algorithms were doing on November 20, they definitely weren't ahead of the curve on investor knowledge and belief.
So uh AI works then and will fix all our problems that it caused in the first place 👍
Roflmao
I like how there are all these terms with increasingly loose definitions, to which we attach different levels of evilness:
- algorithm - older, reliable, deterministic except when it's "The Algorithm" in capital letters like "The Social Media Algorithm"; then it becomes evil
- machine learning - been out for decades, hasn't destroyed the world, mostly does its job undetected. Used mainly by technical people
- machine intelligence - The machine is starting to become conscious but it is still generally helpful. "Machine intelligence" performs brain surgery, detects tumors, folds and unfolds proteins, whatever that means (but it sounds like a good thing, so we'll give it a pass)
- artificial intelligence - machine intelligence's evil twin. Takes credit for everything good that comes from the other ones and we tend to believe it, because it's the only one we can actually speak to and can lie to us very convincingly. On its own it can draw pretty pictures and animate them, write code that occasionally works, pretend to love us and teach us the most effective way to slash our own wrists
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What indexers do you use in Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr
I'm getting errors and I want to pick better indexers.
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All rss-capable indexers are temporarily unavailable due to recent indexer errors
Indexers unavailable due to failures: The Pirate Bay (Prowlarr)
All search-capable indexers are temporarily unavailable due to recent indexer errors
Indexers unavailable due to failures for more than 6 hours: RuTracker.RU (Prowlarr)Digging into the logs
Warn|Torznab|API Request Limit reached for The Pirate Bay (Prowlarr). Disabled for 00:00:59|Warn|Torznab|API Request Limit reached for RuTracker.RU (Prowlarr). Disabled for 00:00:58I set the query and grab limit to 10 an hour for those two indexers, based on the advice in the other thread
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'Once in 300 years' rain hits Thai city as floods ravage South East Asia
South East Asia floods: Scores killed and thousands evacuated from record rainfall
The deadly floods have affected 2 million people, the majority of whom are still cut off from help.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
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Volkswagen says it can now make cars entirely in China
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume told reporters that producing a majority of cars in Germany before exporting them all over the world "doesn't work anymore."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/26/companies/volkswagen-cars-china/
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And Tesla already walked right into that one. They produced their cars in China, starting up an ecosystem for EV parts, and that gave dozens of new Chinese car manufacturers the means to start up to become cheaper and more innovative. Now Tesla's sales are dropping and dropping there.
So of course Volkswagen is there to say "we can do that too".
cheaper
The funny thing is, I guarantee you right here and now that none of those cost savings will make it into the price of the final product.
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Goodness no 😀 Money is only for people who already have too much of it. The rest of us have to Squid Game / Long Walk / Running Man for our next meal.
Kinda of unfair. The Chinese government essentially mandated that cars needed to be built in China if OEMs wanted to sell cars in China, I doubt OEMs were willing to lose 40+% of their sales just because they didn't have factories in China.
Of course it was a lose-lose situation, as they will just get their parts copied and lose market percentage.
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You serious?
Because Porsche must have had quite a bit of foresight in 1964, when the first model of the 911 series was released.
Chinese pharma is on the cusp of going global
In May Pfizer, America’s biggest drugmaker, agreed to pay $1.25bn in fees to 3SBio, a Chinese biotech firm, for the rights to manufacture and sell an experimental cancer drug outside China, if approved.GlaxoSmithKline, a British rival, struck a $500m deal with Hengrui, another Chinese company, for a lung-disease treatment and the options to buy 11 more drugs, that together may be valued at as much as $12bn
Such deals are no longer exceptions. In the first half of this year nearly a third of all global licensing agreements signed by big pharma were with Chinese firms—four times the share in 2021
https://www.economist.com/china/2025/11/23/chinese-pharma-is-on-the-cusp-of-going-global
Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
The man is alleged to have stolen coins from parking meters in the German town of Kempten, police said.Ottilie Mitchell (BBC News)
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Yeah, just depositing the money into your account is surprisingly sloppy.
Vending machine business, that's the way to go.
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That truly depends on what you mean by "comfortably". You can very easily survive the rest of your life "comfortably" on $1 million. Unless your definition of "comfort" includes a bunch of bullshit that you don't actually need and arguably makes your life worse for you and shorter just because you've grown accustomed to it.
$1M is plenty.
a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc
See, that's your problem right there.
Need some help with remote access please.
Hi all 😀
I've got a media server set up running Navidrome, Calibre-Web, and Immich along with some other services, and want to get access to them from outside the house now. I've read that Caddy is good for securing things by making it easier to set up encryption, but I'm not sure I understand that side of things.
I've set up a Cloudflare tunnel for a Minecraft server, and I've got Tailscale installed but not set up with an exit server yet, but understand that Caddy would be better. I ideally want to set up apps on my wife's phone so that she can access the libraries too.
Is it just a case of installing Caddy and setting up the services I want to share through it? That seems too easy, like I've missed something.
If it makes any difference, I've got a standard UK ISP router with a few ports forwarded, and I'm going to add an access point and then a LevelOne GEP-5070 managed switch to learn about things like VLANs. The link to the switch is here:
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I feel like I'm missing something, but can't think what, so I'd be grateful for any help 😀
GEP-5070 - 48-GE PoE+ 2GE SFP LS MANAGED SWITCH
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I'm a bit dubious about running Tailscale on the family's devices, as they're not particularly techy, and will forget to launch it if it isn't running for whatever reason, and then I get the blame.
Wouldn't all traffic go through it when it's running too, or can you select which apps now? They'd mostly be using Android devices.
It’s selective. You just provide the internal address or the Tailscale host name. All other traffic runs outside of the vpn tunnel.
Honestly it takes 10 mins to set up you should try it out.
I use Tailscale. It's much simpler. Just install it on the host and client devices and everything is securely connected.
You may also be interested in Calibre Web Automated (which is similar but with more features)
Sorry about the slow reply.
This is where I get confused with Tailscale. Doesn't everything then go through Tailscale, like when you run a VPN? Ideally I just want to be able to connect with a link and save that in the remote app / program, and also avoid having my wife forget to start Tailscale and shout at me >.<
Yeah, it operates like a VPN. On my wife's phone, I installed tailscale and set it as the "always on" VPN so that she never has to touch it. The same goes for computers. You can have it set as a startup app, and it should automatically connect every time.
On some devices, if you want to use another VPN, it can get complicated.
Tailscale only responds to the range of connections that it's in charge of, so it doesn't interfere with connecting to normal internet, etc.
That's great thanks 😀
The fact that it can be always on is really helpful, there's less chance of her forgetting to use it then.
Tailscale only responds to the range of connections that it's in charge of, so it doesn't interfere with connecting to normal internet, etc.
This is the other thing that I was concerned about, that everything else would be diverted. Someone else said that it can selectively route apps, and that's put my mind at ease. I don't know why, but anything to do with networking gets me mixed up >.<
Thanks for your help, I'm going to have a play with some settings 😁
Sorry, I've just replied to another comment before I saw yours. I didn't realise that Cloudflare could deal with encryption on its own, I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates. I found out after seeing the other comment that one of my services running through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted, but I couldn't get it to work in the past. I'm not sure what's changed, but I'm going to give it a proper look once I've had some sleep.
There's something about the networking side of things that just throws me, and I struggle to get my head around it. If I can get things running through Cloudflare, I'll be very happy 😀
I just replied to your other comment before I saw this one, but I'll post the reply here too for anyone who's following the thread 😀
The main thing I'm still not sure of is Tailscale. I don't know if I can just put my services behind an URL for my wife to add to her devices, as she's unlikely to remember to run Tailscale before she listens to her music, for example.
Sorry, I've just replied to another comment before I saw yours. I didn't realise that Cloudflare could deal with encryption on its own, I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates. I found out after seeing the other comment that one of my services running through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted, but I couldn't get it to work in the past. I'm not sure what's changed, but I'm going to give it a proper look once I've had some sleep.There's something about the networking side of things that just throws me, and I struggle to get my head around it. If I can get things running through Cloudflare, I'll be very happy 😀
I do appologize for not getting back sooner.
through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted,
Yes indeed
I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates
You can, and Caddy works well. It just didn't make sense in this scenario. No worries, mate.
but I’m going to give it a proper look once I’ve had some sleep.
Well. I do have some notes tjat might help put the pieces together, if you get stuck.
The main thing I’m still not sure of is Tailscale
I use tailscale on the server as a ~~overlay~~ protective overlay, which could be accessed as well if needed,
Please don't apologise, you and the other commenters have been a massive help 😀
It's sod's law though, I was supposed to have two pretty much free days yesterday and today, and they've turned out to be two of the busiest days I've had for a long time. Networking is one of my blind spots, I can never quite get my head around it, so gave myself two days to try to get up to speed and seem to have jinxed myself 😁
I'm going to spend an hour or two now playing around with Cloudflare and Navidrome and see if I can get a better grip on it all.
Thanks again for the help 😀
It’s sod’s law though, I was supposed to have two pretty much free days yesterday and today, and they’ve turned out to be two of the busiest days I’ve had for a long time. Networking is one of my blind spots, I can never quite get my head around it, so gave myself two days to try to get up to speed and seem to have jinxed myself 😁
OK, well the notes offer is still valid if you should so need them.
Sorry, I didn't get a notification for your reply until this morning.
Thanks for the offer, I'd be happy for any notes or advice 😀
I managed to get Navidrome and Immich set up last night through subdomains, like music.domain.com and photos.domain.com, using the existing Cloudflare tunnel. They seem to be working properly, but I'm going to check them when I'm out later to make sure that nothing was cached rather than being served live.
One thing I want to look at in the future is local domain names, so music.local etc. and possibly set up certificates to get rid of any warnings about insecure sites. I might switch from AdGuard to PiHole to help with that.
Something that might make you laugh, I got stuck for an hour or so last night trying to connect to Navidrome through the domain name. I could get to the login page, but couldn't get it to accept my credentials. Substreamer wouldn't log in either. I looked through pages and pages of search results, forum posts, and manuals, but couldn't find an answer. Just before I gave up, I copied the address from Firefox to try in another browser, and realised that I'd forgotten the s in https 😫
Caddy supports mTLS so if your client apps support it you could put everything behind client certs (assuming your services support it)
You also could use plain Wireguard since it might be simpler if you have the option to open up the firewall. I personally use netbird since I'm behind CG nat
I would also deploy IPv6 since it will help a lot of performance on carrier grade Nat networks like mobile data.
I'm still a bit confused with all of this so I might be getting things completely wrong. I thought that I needed to get certificates for anything that I wanted to make public with an URL, and that's where I thought Caddy came in, but a few of the other replies have said that I can use the Cloudflare tunnel and let them sort out the encryption. That seems like it should be easier for me, as I've dealt with it already.
IPv6 isn't available through my ISP as far as I can tell, they only enable it locally through their router at the moment.
Cfait: CalDav TODO list handler written in Rust (TUI+GUI)
Hello all,
I just released v0.1.7 of Cfait, a CalDAV task / TODO manager with most of the features I've always wanted and I'm starting to find it usable and enjoyable so I think it's time to announce it 😀 I've finally starting organizing my todo list the way it should always have been.
Some of the features I'm particularly happy about are the sane sorting (first by date then by priority), the tags / categories navigation (with a choice of AND or OR), and the ability to link tasks (e.g. a parent task or (a) task(s) blocking (an)other task(s), this is the only thing I wanted from a tool like Jira).
I hope you all enjoy it too 😀
It has both GUI and TUI, I try to keep them on the same level. (Except the config. file which has to be written manually when using the TUI)
So far I've only tested it on Arch Linux (there's an AUR package: cfait / cfait-git) with the Radicale CalDAV server but I assume it will work on any distribution (there's even an experimental Windows build under releases) and server, feel free to let me know what works or not.
Source code, .deb (and .exe) builds, screenshots, features list and README on github.com/trougnouf/cfait (also available as a rust crate: crates.io/crates/cfait )
Don't forget to backup your tasks list before trying it.
GitHub - trougnouf/cfait: Take control of your TODO list
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Hey, thank you for this! I'll test it later.
I was planning to eventually do the same thing (and in rust too).
Thus said, something that I always find impractical with simple todo lists, is that you cannot use it with subtasks.
For example, if I want to manage a large project with it, I would need to create a task "Refactor this worker", and add subtasks "Delete old function", "Handle the new property", etc.
I cannot flatten the subtasks in the list because their names wouldn't be explicit, and making their names explicit would make it a burden to read, and it would make it difficult to follow the main task progress.
How do you handle such things with your software?
My pleasure! 😀
Subtasks is the main reason I made this program. I have it in the "Tasks" Android app and I wanted it on desktop too.
The main way it's implemented is clicking on Link next to a parent task in the GUI (or selecting yank in the TUI), then selecting Child on another task makes it a sub-task of the parent.
I've also implemented part of RFC 9253 Support for iCalendar Relationships (Blocked-By logic); after selecting Link/yank on a parent task, there is also the option to select Block on another task and the blocked task appears grayed out and lists the tasks that are blocking it in its description. This is something I haven't seen in any other CalDAV tasks software and the only thing I would have missed from something like Jira.
And of course one can filter by tags/categories (with AND or OR) so only a (sub-)project is shown (and I've added tag aliases, e.g. #refactor_this_worker could autocomplete to #refactor_this_worker, #program_name, #software_development, to make that more convenient).
Parent/child:
Blocked-by:
v0.1.9 is out 😀
Changelog on github.com/trougnouf/cfait/com…
Comparing v0.1.7...v0.1.9 · trougnouf/cfait
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Excellent work. I am trying this out.
I am interested in cross-device use, such as ticking off items on my Android device. In the other thread, I see that you use Tasks on Android, and I am curious about your workflow. Could you please explain how this works across devices?
Thanks 😀
It's as simple as ticking off items (and adding new ones). The categories in Tasks (#tags in Cfait) and child/parent relationships are compatible (it's all the same iCalendar standard). Tasks doesn't understand the Blocked-by relationship but the tasks still appear.
You just need a CalDAV server to get going. I use Radicale because it's lightweight and single-purpose so unlikely to break (and a self-hosted Wireguard VPN because I don't have a static IP at home). For Android you also need an app to synchronize with the CalDAV server (Tasks doesn't do it alone), I use DAVx5 (It's all on F-Droid).
Releases · trougnouf/cfait
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v0.2.0 is out 😀
New features include the ability to set an estimated task duration, support for ongoing and canceled tasks, more powerful search (by tag, due date, task duration, completedness, and of course by name), and the TUI is more robust to external changes.
Trump considering firing Kash Patel, report says
Trump Considering Firing Kash Patel, Report Says
"Three people with knowledge of the situation say President Trump and his top aides have grown tired of Patel and the unflattering headlines he's been generating recently"Alex Griffing (Mediaite)
Ukraine-Russia war: Ukraine says 'understanding' reached with US on peace plan, as Trump says his envoy will meet Putin in Moscow
Donald Trump's envoy to hold Ukraine peace plan talks at Kremlin
Russia confirms the US president's close aide will travel to Russia, hours after Trump tasked him with meeting Putin.Laura Gozzi (BBC News)
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It'll fall apart for sure, but will the Trump-Wiktoff relationship fall apart first?
Wiktoff might be his Billionaire buddy, but he'a made Trump look bad a few times now and that's anathema for a narcissist.
'Home truths' from Melanie Phillips convey one message: Israel will always be at war
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39480764
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25 Nov 2025 19:56 GMT
Very much in the mode of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Phillips declared that there was no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians. In fact, the only indigenous people around were the Jews, who were the only people with any historic, legal or moral entitlement to this land.To say this while activists in Britain are being arrested for shouting “from the river to the sea” as an allegedly pro-Hamas chant, hands their defence lawyers a get-out-of-jail card.
Because what Phillips is claiming is that all the land from the river to the sea is Jewish. And as she knows, but the Crown Prosecution Service appears not to, “from the river to the sea” has been Likud policy since 1977.
'Home truths' from Melanie Phillips convey one message: Israel will always be at war
David Hearst
25 Nov 2025 19:56 GMTVery much in the mode of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Phillips declared that there was no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians. In fact, the only indigenous people around were the Jews, who were the only people with any historic, legal or moral entitlement to this land.To say this while activists in Britain are being arrested for shouting “from the river to the sea” as an allegedly pro-Hamas chant, hands their defence lawyers a get-out-of-jail card.
Because what Phillips is claiming is that all the land from the river to the sea is Jewish. And as she knows, but the Crown Prosecution Service appears not to, “from the river to the sea” has been Likud policy since 1977.
'Home truths' from Melanie Phillips convey one message: Israel will always be at war
In a speech filled with Islamophobic vitriol, the British commentator has ripped away the last fig leaf concealing Zionism's true purposeMiddle East Eye
Literally one lesson on Israelite history will tell you they're more bloodthirsty than the US. Hell, so many of our anecdotes about conflict stem from their war against the Canaanites, now Palestinians. They're the OG source of war
Edited last sentence to be less sensationalist
one lesson on Israelite history
If you regard the Old Testament as history, the violence is probably exaggerated because of it being written by nationalistic zealots. It almost certainly also exaggerates the scale of Israel's conquests. They were never more than a minor force in the region, not much more than a city-state. Other ancient national epics are just as bloodthirsty and just as unreliable.
Canaanites, now Palestinians
I'm pretty sure the Palestinians got their name from the Philistines. In Arabic, the place is still called Falasteen and the people Falasteeni.
That doesn't say anything about descent, though. The genetic evidence is that the people in Palestine now are genetically quite similar to people in Palestine in ancient times. The population has been pretty stable, despite wars, conquests and language changes. Modern Palestinian people are also closely related to Jewish people-- probably the closest of any non-Jewish group.
They’re the OG evil
Far from uniquely so. The whole region was prone to genocidal wars, enslavement of whole nations, and general chaos and brutality. Most other "advanced" societies 2500 years ago weren't much better, at least not for long.
I think the bigger question is why those primitive tribal values should be considered a guide to how we live now.
openDesk 1.10. Enhanced security architecture
openDesk 1.10. Enhanced security architecture
openDesk 1.10 strengthens the security architecture and introduces new features for project management and document editing in public administration.openDesk
It is an open alternative to MS365 developed on behalf of the German ministry of the interior and distributed as open source software.
If I remember correctly it is not an independent development but it is based on existing software and integrating them to build a consistent service.
I think it combines Nextcloud, Element, Jitsi and some other projects.
Facing a lack of Russian recruits, Moscow turns to deception, blackmail and bribery to sign up foreigners for its war in Ukraine | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/europe/russia-recruits-foreign-fighters-ukraine-intl-cmd
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Russia running into all the same problems of a prolonged ground war that plague any imperial power.
Strangely, I see so many of these posts indicating this as some kind of weakness Ukraine should be expected to exploit. However, you can see all the same problems of conscription on the opposite side of the front lines. Ukraine has increasingly turned to South America for expendables, with 40% of new recruits coming from across the Atlantic this year. Incidentally, a lot of these recruits are coming from the drug cartels.
Ukraine’s conscription crisis: Alleged abuse leads to protests, emigration
Officials tasked with boosting army are accused of harshly cracking down on unwilling men, prompting some to flee.Mansur Mirovalev (Al Jazeera)
U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine
Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston.Caroline Radnofsky (NBC News)
Russia is ready for dialogue with the United States on nuclear disarmament under certain conditions.
This was stated by Gennady Gatilov, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.
"Russia is ready to resume dialogue with the United States on nuclear arms reductions if the appropriate conditions are created. To create the preconditions for such dialogue, Russia has announced its readiness to continue adhering to the central quantitative limits of the New START Treaty for one year after February 5, 2026. This measure will only be viable if the United States follows suit and does not take steps that undermine the balance of existing deterrent potentials. After all, as the saying goes, 'it takes two to tango,'" he noted."We expect this topic to be addressed during discussions at the next session of the Conference on Disarmament, which begins in January 2026," Gatilov added.
Russia ready to resume dialogue with US on nuclear weapons reduction — diplomat
"Russia is ready to resume dialogue with the United States on nuclear arms reduction if appropriate conditions are on the table," Gennady Gatilov saidTASS
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"Russia is ready to resume dialogue with the United States on nuclear arms reduction if appropriate conditions are on the table," the Russian diplomat said. "In order to form conditions for such a dialogue, Russia has announced its readiness to continue adhering to the central quantitative restrictions under the New START Treaty for another year after February 5, 2026."
"This measure will be viable only if the United States acts correspondingly and does not resort to measures that undermine the balance of existing deterrence capabilities. After all, ‘it takes two to tango’," the diplomat noted.
"We believe that this issue will be on the agenda of the next session of the Conference on Disarmament, slated for January 2026," Gatilov added.
The comments here reflect a level of vitriol Reagan couldn't fathom. Either we take a leap of faith or live with the fact that global nuclear holocaust is closer than climate extinction.
It's not vitriol. It's questioning how this piece of the russian jigsaw puzzle fits in with everything else going on. Ukraine has has put Russia into a very desperate position, but the one card they kept trying to play throughout the conflict was "Don't do that or we'll get the nukes out. ". Repeatedly it's been shown to be an empty threat (thankfully).
So why would that suggest a new START now when their situation is deteriorating? Surely they'd want to keep this card in their hand.
- Have they found that their nuclear arsenal is in the same kind of state as the rest of their military? I.e. broken under the weight of corruption in their society.
- Are they worried about a future breakup of the government or state, and don't want to lose control of nuclear material? Better to decommission it first.
- is it a distraction from other events like the sanctions that are due in the US Congress? A delaying technique like the "Ukrainian peace plan".
Whatever it is, this is part of a larger situation and we shouldn't take it at face value. That doesn't mean you ignore it, just understand it.
Dmitry Peskov commented on the Airbus CEO's statement
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov expressed surprise that a representative of the civil aviation industry would make such statements. He said these statements effectively call for further escalation of tensions.
"It is obvious that more and more Europeans are losing their restraint and balanced approach. Unfortunately, some are making provocative statements and calling for further steps to escalate tensions. We view such statements with utter disapproval," he emphasized.
Dmitry Peskov said: "Why is he involved in nuclear weapons?"
"Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov expressed surprise that a representative of the civil aviation industry would make such statements."
I have to think that Peskov knows Airbus is not just a civil aviation company... He does know that Airbus is a major defense contractor, right? The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) just rebranded itself as Airbus 10 years ago. The literally make missiles. Why wouldn't the CEO of a company that makes weapons talk about making weapons?
Meh he's a European citizen too. He's entitled to his opinion just as I am to mine.
And I agree with him. With the US pulling their nuclear umbrella away we need more deterrent against Russia so that they never consider attacking us.
I think we should have more strategic weapons though, not tactical. The type that you have just to never use. For tactical ones the barrier is lower to use them. Too low, IMO.
Airbus CEO Calls on Europe to Acquire Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Airbus CEO René Obermann called on European countries to acquire tactical nuclear weapons in response to the threat posed by Russian Iskander missiles, which are deployed in Kaliningrad and capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
"It appears that our Achilles' heel is what Russia is openly threatening us with: more than 500 tactical nuclear warheads on 26 Iskander missiles deployed right on our doorstep in Kaliningrad, in addition to those recently deployed in Belarus. Germany, France, the UK, and other European countries willing to cooperate should agree on a joint, phased nuclear deterrence program, including at the tactical level. I believe this would be a powerful deterrent."
This statement appears to be yet another attempt to blame Russia for the escalation, despite the deployment of Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region back in 2018. It also appears that Obermann is acting as a talking head to shape public opinion among European citizens to justify yet another tax hike for the sake of general "security."
Show me where he is setting military policy. I'll wait.
Oh, hang on, he isn't. He is making a public statement about what he thinks politicians should do based on what he observes in his daily work on the job. It's literally the Chairman's job to make public statements about what is best for the industry they work in and what is best for their company.
FYI: The reason this is relevant is that Airbus makes large cargo aircraft and the future of tactical nuclear warfare and large precision guided munitions in general is unquestionably palletized air launch systems like the Rapid Dragon "Palletized Effects" system. The US demonstrated this capability with a cruise missile in Europe in 2022, and it is highly likely this capability is being developed or at least seriously considered by a large amount of militaries all over the world. The degradation of the media in talking intelligently about defense is frustrating as it is clear to me what the Airbus CEO is saying and why their opinion is strategically relevant in this context but this is not spelled out for the average person at all. To make my point clear, the Airbus CEO represents one of the largest tactical nuclear launch platform producers in the world given the massive capability of Airbus to create large cargo and airlift aircraft, that is why the CEO of an airline airplane company is actually strategically right in the center of future tactical, nuclear and long range precision strike capability.
This is what the future of nuclear launch platforms in large part looks like, cargo aircraft such as the Airbus A400M Atlas...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A…
What frustrates me about this so much is that this is a serious conversation people should be having outside of military defense circles and the basic failure of the media to report on this kind of use of cargo airplanes makes the entire conversation around this opaque to citizens of nations all over the world that otherwise might have opinions on the specifics of nuclear arms capability and procurement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Dr…
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A Rapid Dragon-like nuclear delivery system also has potential impact on nuclear relations with NATO and other potential regional allies. Since most—perhaps even all—of the principal alliance members and potential allies have cargo aircraft, the United States could consider a NATO-like sharing agreement under which, in times of crisis, palletized nuclear systems could be loaded (perhaps with a US-controlled security and launch team) on non-US aircraft. In contrast to the current system, which requires potential non-US nuclear users to have nuclear trained pilots and qualified delivery aircraft, a palletized system would require little to no additional training or cost for the host/user nation. In the long run, such palletized systems might be seen as superior to the current NATO system of pre-positioned nuclear gravity bombs.The potential for nuclear launch from cargo aircraft creates new tactical problems that could affect survivability and deterrence concepts. Wide dispersal of potential palletized nuclear weapons in time of crisis is somewhat akin to the problems that mobile launchers for missile systems create for an adversary. How can an aggressor locate enough of the potential weapons and launch vehicles to ensure the success of a first strike, and how survivable are the possible cargo aircraft to ensure the viability of a retaliatory strike?
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Rapid Dragon will be a game-changing concept for conventional and, possibly, nuclear weapons use, now for the United States and its allies, but in the future for potential US adversaries. The Rapid Dragon development is somewhat reminiscent of England’s introduction of the Dreadnaught, a type of battleship that made the rest of its large fleet obsolescent and allowed other nations to compete with England in building modern battleships. Rapid Dragon appears to be a similarly game-changing development for the United States and its allies but will need to be carefully monitored to ensure that the advantage it creates is maintained. Similarly, the nuclear potential for Rapid Dragon-like systems will need to be tracked, arms limitation strategies for such systems developed, and the potential increase in threat potentials and/or new threat vectors defined as counterstrategies are conceived.[7]
^ thebulletin.org/2023/08/rapid-…
Rapid Dragon: the US military game-changer that could affect conventional and nuclear strategy and arms control negotiations - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The US Air Force has announced successful tests of its Rapid Dragon system, which converts cargo aircraft into weapons carriers that can deploy cruise missiles (and potentially other weapons) by releasing them on pallets via the planes’ rear cargo ra…John Mecklin (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
Just wanted to say, this is an incredibly well thought out and sourced comment in a sea of "defense contractor bad" idiot posts.
For the record, defense contractors are significantly less evil than the likes of Meta and Google.
European talking about European defense
What does this have to do with USA at all?
I don't want weapons either but the problem is some very unhinged world leaders have lots of them. We need to deter them.
However what we should stop doing is getting roped into wars that have no reason to exist like Iraq, Afghanistan etc.
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
I'm sorry 😔 I have two friends from Slovakia and they are really worried too. They don't live there anymore but they left before Fico.
But yes good point this could cause them leaving the EU. I doubt that they will push for that though. Because of subsidies. Same reason why Hungary doesn't consider leaving.
Looks into Poland:
deeply racist and patriarchal country, with its roots deeply tied to Catholicism
Average lemmitor: "IT'S ALL THE FUCKING RUZZIANS AND TURKS!!!"
I’d like to echo what others have said about Poland not being that bad.
Southeastern Europe is a lot worse. They were under occupation by the Turks for 500 years, then by Russia for half a century. As someone raised in that region, I would have to think long and hard to come up with anything positive to say about Russian or Turkish influence.
As someone raised in that region, I would have to think long and hard to come up with anything positive to say about Russian or Turkish influence
Yeah, so you're just openly racist, gotcha!
If by "Russian occupation" you mean "belonging to the communist geopolitical block of Eastern Europe", then I ask, what good things can you come up with about your newfound American occupation?
So according to that graph you linked, Harris would have won everywhere except the bottom 8 countries, one of which is Russia and some have elected Russia friendly governments. Also out of those 7 countries, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary were not under Russian or Turkish influence. They were under Austrian Habsburg influence. Which only leaves Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Moldova(the last two which have active Russian troops occupying their territory).
You also assume that their dislike of Harris is due to misogyny when it could be due to her policies. Even so, she would have won the election with over 50% of votes in literally 75% of European countries, some of which were under Turkish or Russian occupation or influence(Romania, Kosovo, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Greece and Croatia). Shit, some of these countries don't even vote their own head of goverment with over 50% and have to hold runoff elections most of the time. Harris getting over 50% of votes means she did better than their own homegrown politicians (though I assume the result are this way because of the binary choice presented, as most European elections have a plurality of candidates and the vote is split amongst them).
Also out of those 7 countries, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary were not under Russian or Turkish influence.
Where did you get that from?
As a Hungarian, I can easily tell you that that's not the case. Hungary was under Turkish rule for more than 100 years between 1526-1699. It has left deep marks on both our language and culture (sometimes good ones, like having a lot of Turkish bathhouses, but mostly just set us back quite some years).
As for Russia, Hungary was a Soviet puppet state between 1944-1989. We have a national holiday on October 23 that is a remembrance day for a failed revolution against the Soviet Union, that was shot down in a bloodbath. The current ruling party started as one of the anti-Russian parties, Orbán (our current president) literally held a speech where he was chanting "Ruszkik haza!" ("Russians go home!")... It's unfortunate that he has completely flipped since then and is now welcoming Russian influence back.
I can only assume something similar for our neighbours, but I'm happy to look it up for you.
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Also, before anyone says it, I'm not contesting that the countries in the list were under Austrian (or Austro-Hungarian) rule too. The lines are messy with whose side of the story you're reading, but as for Hungary the easy way to summarise it from the Turkish invasion is:
- Turkish rule
- Gets liberated by the Habsburgs, leading to
- Austrian rule
- Revolution, leading to getting some representation (sadly, just Hungary, not the other countries in the empire), leading to
- Austria-Hungary, leading to
- WW1
- Loads of failed governments, the great depression hits hard, leading to
- WW2, leading to
- Soviet occupation, leading to
- Failed revolutions
- Soviet Union falls, leading to
- Independent Hungarian republic, heavy anti-Russian sentiment, leading to
- Hungary tries to warm up to western powers, leading to
- Hungary joins the EU
- And now, with corruption and foreign influence going strong worldwide, Russian influence is rising again
The guy I was answering to claimed that the countries were under Turkish or Russian control for more than half a century. Which is not true. Hungary was under Turkish control for around 100 years but you're not going to tell me that Turkish influence from the 17th century has such a major effect on today's Hungary.
And while Hungary was under Soviet control it was not really a peaceful and compliant control as they had multiple resistances and popular uprising against them, starting with the 1956 revolution which the Soviets had to put down by killing thousands of Hungarians.
That's true. I think the only political (if we can call it that) heritage of the Turkish occupation is that the Turkish generally think of Hungarians as friends, probably since it's a celebrated part of their history.
As for the Soviet era, I'm confident it still has its effects. Of course, it didn't help economically, but also, I think that's where our rampant corruption stems from (in most Soviet countries corruption was the norm, and I think it became normalised somewhat, as in "oh yeah, they are corrupt, but that's nothing compared to what we had before!").
I think our dependance on Russian gas also started back then (but I don't have the receipts for that).
Also, there are plenty of people who look at the Soviet era through rose-tinted glasses and romanticise the past. I have relatives that have the attitude of "yes, but if you didn't rebel, you could have a stable job and live an honest life; nowadays you have to worry about so much", which doesn't make sense.
It's not in question anymore, thank you for the confirmation.
Anyone willing to agitate themselves like this has got to be drooling on the floor moronic.
It's also obvious that you give a massive fuck, otherwise you wouldn't jump into a convo this far in.
Words ethology makes more sense than anything else right
Etymology, slogans, rhymes or catchy acronyms give our brains the illusion of hearing something that makes sense. Repeating them a million times drills them in your neural pathways.
Plus they are easy to scream loud enough to drown any attempt at intelligent conversation.
That's right-hand populist communication in a nutshell.
Latvian parliament votes to exit Istanbul Convention
On October 30th, a majority of Saeima deputies voted for Latvia to leave the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, commonly known as the Istanbul Convention.LSM+ English (LSM)
Honestly I don't know why the state is still in the business of giving out marriages. Who gives a shit what other people want to call marriage. The state should not even have the authority to perform marriages at all. It should be left as a cultural or religious institution. It has no right to legislate what is and is not marriage. The only thing that should be available is civil unions, being defined as a financial and legal union of two or more consenting adults.
That way, anyone can "get married" at their local church, at a secular ceremony, or piss-drunk in a pub by a barmaid. It would be legally vacuous and has only the meaning that the parties ascribe to it, or that is given to it by the religious authority they choose to follow. But if they want to be legally joined together then they would go register a civil union at the local registrar's office.
If you're a bigot and don't consider two men in civil union to be married, cool, whatever, the law should not care about your opinion. You can privately think "those two are not married" all day, and be right in your mind. The only people whose opinions matter are those who want to call themselves married. There is no institution of "marriage" to defend, because you've already won. You can consider marriage to be anything you want and be right. Now you can leave other people alone.
The state cares insofar as your partner gets certain rights and will be included as family in many things.
For instance, deciding for you in medical cases, being informed if something happens, getting money from your life insurance whatever.
No marriage would mean the two are not connected at all in the states eye and thus not family.
You could say, ok lets just enable putting that into some record without marriage, but the state wants to safeguard itself as you can get things like citizenship and such
And in most states that is what you define as civil unions (there is no marriage as such often).
I don't think this is at all a valid counter-argument as all of these powers can equally be given to civil unions, if they aren't already. In my eyes, if you propose to someone and "get married" and want to give your spouse the legal powers associated with what was previously marriage, you would register a civil union.
No civil marriage doesn't mean that people can't connect themselves legally; it just means that you have to register a civil union to do so. All of the points you raise are easily defeated by just defining civil unions to replace marriage in all respects. The system is already very close to how I describe. You can "get married" at a church or wherever else and in most countries that does not mean anything until you have registered it with a local registrar. I'm just saying that the thing that happens in a church is "marriage", and the thing that happens with the legal paperwork at the registrar's office is called "civil union" regardless of the genders or sexualities of the parties involved.
Sorry, I think we are talking of the same thing. In Germany that is the way it is. Civil union and marriage is equivalent, you dont have to get married at a church, the only important thing is to go to the state for a few minutes and tell them basically.
I thought that the problem was that the state still has to accept things such as (whatever you call it lets say) unions of things such as same sex partner and so.
Problem is the civil union is mostly historically influenced often (tends to be less these days)
how far we´ve come. 40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it. homosexual people were not harassed by the state and gay bars were a thing even in 70´s socialist poland.
it really depends on the generation. i have yet to meet a homophobic pole that was born in the post-war period, they generally have a quite egalitarian stance on it with (expected) slight prejudice but no outright hate.
late baby boomers and gen x-ers though... OH BOY. most of these fucks need reeducation by a proper beating or something. i have yet to meet a gen x-er pole that´s not a complete piece of shit regarding their views on homosexuality and women.
40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.
Damn, that's wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?
flips open history book
Omg, you're a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
Shrug
The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.
Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland - Polish History
After the introduction of martial law, the CIA launched a program to support the underground movement “Solidarity” with a budget of approximately $20 million. Throughout 1983-1990, money and specialized equipment flowed into Poland.admin (Polish History)
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
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Just $75 . What. The. Fuck.
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Hmm. That matches my recent napkin math guessing where they would land.
It's a little short of what they probably need, but they can always raise prices in a few months.
OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top. That much we know already, but since OpenAI is a private company, there’s a lot of guesswork required when estimating the depth of the pit.
HSBC’s US software and services team has today updated its OpenAI model to include the company’s $250bn rental of cloud compute from Microsoft, announced late in October, and its $38bn rental of cloud compute from Amazon announced less than a week later. The latest two deals add an extra four gigawatts of compute power to OpenAI’s requirements, bringing the contracted amount to 36 gigawatts.
Based on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year — though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.
To check OpenAI ability to pay, HSBC’s team first had to build a model to forecast revenues.
Its starting point is to put user numbers on an S-curve that by 2030 reaches 3bn, “equivalent to 44 per cent of the world’s adult population” ex China. That’s versus an estimated total user base last month of approximately 800mn:
Advertising, agentic AI and possibly even Jony Ive’s thing can contribute to revenue by the end of the decade, For now, the business is mostly cajoling this user base to sign up for subscriptions.
LLM subscriptions will become “as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365”, HSBC says. It models that by 2030, 10 per cent of OpenAI users will be paying customers, versus an estimated 5 per cent currently.
The team also assumes LLM companies will capture 2 per cent of the digital advertising market in revenue, from slightly more than zero currently.
What results is gangbusters revenue growth:
... but with a parallel rise in costs, meaning OpenAI is expected to still be subsidising its users well into next decade:
... meaning each new OpenAI fundraise will be for shovelling cash to data centre owners:
For what it’s worth, we can summarise a few of the assumptions HSBC is making for the estimates above:
Total consumer AI revenue will be $129bn by 2030, of which $87bn comes from search and $24bn comes from advertising.
OpenAI’s consumer market share slips to 56 per cent by 2030, from around 71 per cent this year. Anthropic and xAI are both given market shares in the single digits, a mystery “others” is assigned 22 per cent, and Google is excluded entirely.
Enterprise AI will be generating $386bn in annual revenue by 2030, though OpenAI’s market share is set at 37 per cent from about 50 per cent currently. Everyone else stays more or less where they are now, market share wise. The bottom line is that, for OpenAI, it’s nowhere close to enough.
HSBC’s model assumes that OpenAI’s rental costs will be a cumulative $792bn between the current year and 2030, rising to $1.4tn by 2033. The projection matches OpenAI’s eight-year guidance that CEO Sam Altman is exasperated at being asked to discuss.
OpenAI’s cumulative free cash flow to 2030 may be about $282bn, it forecasts, while Nvidia’s promised cash injections and the disposal of AMD shares can bring in another $26bn. The broker also includes OpenAI’s $24bn of undrawn debt and equity facilities and, at the 2025 mid-year point, its $17.5bn of available liquidity.
Squaring the first total off against the second leaves a $207bn funding hole, to which HSBC adds a $10bn cash buffer for safety’s sake.
These estimates might prove overly cautious, though guessing how is a finger-in-the-air exercise.
Each extra 500mn users OpenAI can grab will add about $36bn to cumulative revenue between now and 2030, while converting 20 per cent of the customers to paid subscriptions might bring in an additional $194bn over the same period, HSBC says. Assumptions for LLM spend and computing costs are flexed in similar ways, though the possibility of OpenAI chancing on Artificial General Intelligence is not put through the model.
If revenue growth doesn’t exceed expectations and prospective investors turn cautious, OpenAI would need to make some hard decisions. Oracle has spooked debt markets, Microsoft’s support for OpenAI has been a bit flip-flop lately, and the next-biggest shareholder is SoftBank.
The best worst option might be to call in some favours and walk away from data centre commitments, either before or at the usual contracted period of four to five years. HSBC says:
Given the interlaced relationships between AI LLM, cloud, and chips companies, we see a case for some degree of flexibility at least from the larger players (less so for the neo clouds): less capacity would always be better than a liquidity crisis.What might not be clear from the above is that the HSBC software team is very, very bullish on AI as a concept. Here’s an entirely representative section of the note:
We expect AI to penetrate every production process and every vertical, with a great potential for productivity gains at a global level. [ . . . ]
Some AI assets may be overvalued, some may be undervalued too. But eventually, a few incremental basis points of economic growth (productivity-driven) on a USD110trn+ world GDP could dwarf what is often seen as unreasonable capex spending at present.And when it’s put like that, is $207bn to tide things over really such a big ask?
as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365
What a line! Directly referenced a hated service that butchers a whole suite of actually ubiquitous products.
I don't know a single person who pays for M365. Companies pay for it because they've been locked in and/or are forced to for government compliance reasons, but no one actually wants that. Fucking ace thing to compare your AI service to, dipshit.
And their products are so fucking shit. Today I wanted to shit post in a Discord server I'm a part of. I felt like if I put effort into it, it wouldn't really be a shit post any more. The idea was minimum effort for a few laughs and we move on. So I loaded up ChatGPT and asked it to generate the meme image. I thought even if it messed up the text, I would just generate it without the text and put the text in with gimp or something.
I put in the prompt, it spewed a lot of nonsense about what I meant and how it was going to generate the image. If I would just say "Generate it", it would generate the image. So I did, it then said I needed to be signed in for image generation. OK fine, I signed in with a Gmail account I only ever use for spam, just for occasions such as this. It was happy to start generating.
It hung on generating for a while, until it said done in the status thing top right, but nothing in the chat. I refreshed the page, which gave me the option to prompt again. I asked where is the generated image? It said here it is and presented a gray box. It said if you see a gray box you uploaded it wrong? Wtf are you talking about? I didn't upload anything. It said it could try generating again. Same exact result, crashing on generation, refresh yielding a new different gray box.
Like for fucks sake, the one thing I thought it would be good at, low effort shitposting, it failed at. Why the fuck does this company have such a large market cap?
I can't wait for this whole AI debacle to be over and done with. Nobody is ever going to pay for your buggy ass bullshit generator.
Our company rolled out a new and innovative internal LLM. It's intended to help with coding tasks and find internal documentation.
(Which really is just a wrapper over copilot).
When looking for documentation, it fails harder than pasting the same text into the sesrch bar.
I don't find LLMs helpful for coding since they're wrong so often. But after encouragement I decided to try my hand at using it to help me debug a small 12 line bash script.
Whenever I posted examples it would fail silently. I assumed it wasnt sanitizing inputs so I tried a few other methods of wrapping the text. It would still faik silently.
Eventually, a half hour later I decided to just Google it. After I resolved my own problem it messaged me, 45+ minutes later to say "an error occurred trying to handle your request".
These things suck so bad they can't even error out effectively.
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sooner than later, "agentic AI" will replace the "employee cost burden". I presume they'll charge per AI agent and produce revenue at scale.
everything you see in politics nowadays is a race against the clock to create infrastructure to "deal with" the unwashed, unemployed, hungry masses. UBI is not going to win out over soylent green.
Here's the first admission I've found of what's on the way: fortune.com/2025/11/20/gen-z-c…
Unemployment could hit 25% among recent grads and trigger ‘unprecedented’ social disruption thanks to AI, U.S. senator warns
AI could create a generation further burdened with student loan debt—and no job to repay it, according to Sen. Mark Warner.Preston Fore (Fortune)
This all presumes that OpenAI can get there and further is exclusively in a position to get there.
Most experts I've seen don't see a logical connection between LLM and AGI. OpenAI has all their eggs in that basket.
To the extent LLM are useful, OpenAI arguably isn't even the best at it. Anthropic tends to make it more useful than OpenAI and now Google's is outperforming it on relatively pointless benchmarks that were the bragging point of OpenAI. They aren't the best, most useful, or cheapest. The were first, but that first mover advantage hardly matters when you get passed.
Maybe if they were demonstrating advanced robotics control, but other companies are mostly showing that whole OpenAI remains "just a chatbot", with more useful usage of their services going through third parties that tend to be LLM agnostic, and increasingly I see people select non OpenAI models as their preference.
UBI is not going to win out over soylent green.
Establishment prefers solylent green solution to unneeded slavery for sure. UBI is an obvious winning political platform, even though it does not provide the proponents with maximum political power, the way that bandaids on oligarchist supremacism still allows for supremacism and soylent green to rise as the solution.
Simply, the answer, is to reject establishment politics, including Bernie as controlled opposition proposing nonsense that gets shot down for its stupidity, instead of UBI.
Also, an MIT study released today, said 135m US jobs could be replaced with AI agents.
Because companies don't do R&D anymore, they fund startups and aquire them when they're ripe
Being able to replace workers with AI is a holy Grail for capitalism, and so a ton of companies have poured their saved up "R&D funds" in order to get in early
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Sometimes. As a tool, not an outsourced human, oracle, or some transcendent companion con artists like Altman are trying to sell.
See how grounded this interview is, from a company with a model trained on peanuts compared to ChatGPT, and that takes even less to run:
…In 2025, with the launch of Manus and Claude Code, we realized that coding and agentic functions are more useful. They contribute more economically and significantly improve people’s efficiency. We are no longer putting simple chat at the top of our priorities. Instead, we are exploring more on the coding side and the agent side. We observe the trend and do many experiments on it.
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They talk about how the next release will be very small/lightweight, and more task focused. How important gaining efficiency through architecture (not scaling up) is now. They even touch on how their own models are starting to be useful utilities in their workflows, and specifically not miraculous worker replacements.
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I think they're too big to bail out at this point
Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn't borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We'd just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once
Really anything that has value outside of a currency, and the funny part is that raw materials often out preform other ways of investing like GICs. Not talking about silver or gold but like a literal ton of copper or iron ore.
Now the trick is where to put the stuff...
Copper - Price - Chart - Historical Data - News
Copper fell to 5.16 USD/Lbs on December 2, 2025, down 0.31% from the previous day. Over the past month, Copper's price has risen 2.55%, and is up 24.TRADING ECONOMICS
Not talking about silver or gold but like a literal ton of copper or iron ore.
Meth powers activate.
Ha, the sad part is that meth use will increase inversely relative to the average households buying power. Meth is always affordable... just need to rip the wires out of your houses skin.
I first noticed the raw material value oddity was years ago when a bank was trying to sell me on a saving product, the return was below inflation and therefor useless. So I looked it up and if I bought a large amount of lead, and put it in my yard the lead cube would (even with the lead being loss into my grass) be worth enough after 10 years to give a better return then what the bank was offering.
sell it back for USD
Therein lies the rub; I'm not starting with USD, nor do I want to be
Shorting means you expect the shit to go down in value. Usually to short something you borrow a stock from someone (not everyone can borrow stocks), pay the fee to the source, sell it for 100, wait, buy it back for 90, give it back to the original owner. You made 100 - 90 - fee.
Borrow 1000 usd from a bank (1), sell if for your target currency (2) that you think will raise compares to usd, wait, exchange 1000 usd from the target currency (2) and give it back to bank + rates (1).
What is left over in currency (2) is your profit.
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I think you're part right. I think they'll attempt a bailout, but I don't believe Trump's appointments and the administration they're creating have the skill to plan or execute a bailout (or admit to failure enough to identify that they need one in a timely manner)
They're more likely to ram the economy full speed into rock bottom, then blame an outgroup ("the Democrats did this") and pretend nothing could have been done.
they'll try to get bailed out but you would have to bail out so many companies it's not feasible. you cant just bail out one of these companies. they all propped their stock value up on each other, so unless you bail out every company in the tech sector, there will still be trillions of market cap wiped out.
this is a good thing though. it will mostly only affect those who are overly invested in ultimately unprofitable tech, and the rest of us will be able to buy cheap stock for companies affected like Google and Amazon that will be hit massively but obviously are not just gonna go out of business. it's similar to the covid drop. sucked for rich people but for the average person it wasn't a massive issue and even had money making opportunities attached to it as these big companies scrambled.
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It’s not just finding obvious errors but it catches logical error that no human would have caught.
I'm not having the same experience.
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And how many errors is it creating that we don't know about? You're using AI to review code but then someone has to review what the AI did because they fuck up.
If humans code something, then humans can troubleshoot and fix it. It's on our level. But how are you going to fix a gigantic complicated tangle of vibe code that AI makes and only AI understands? Make a better AI to fix it? Again and again? Just get the AI to code another system from scratch every month? This shit is not sustainable.
One example is it reviews code a lot better than human beings. It’s not just finding obvious errors but it catches logical error that no human would have caught.
No, it does not.
Source: Open-source contributor who's constantly annoyed by the useless CodeRabbit AI that some open source projects have chosen to use.
If there was a model that coded perfectly then there wouldn't be a plurality of models. There would just be THE model.
It's like companies having competing where some work and others don't. It's insanity.
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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
Brazil’s Supreme Court court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term for conspiring to remain in power after losing the last election.
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L‘altro ieri, domenica 30, giorno crazy a pensarci, perché era il mio onomastico… che è figo, dai: un po’ di magia calendaristica ogni tanto tocca anche a me… ed ha in certo senso un gran valore cosmico, perché, nonostante il resto della mia persona, questa data non è mai cambiata… ma questo è tutto un […]
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onomastico octiaco e regalini apprezzabili, per una buona volta di distrazione meno cagosa
L‘altro ieri, domenica 30, giorno crazy a pensarci, perché era il mio onomastico… che è figo, dai: un po’ di magia calendaristica ogni tanto tocca anche a me… ed ha in certo senso un gran valore cosmico, perché, nonostante il resto della mia persona, questa data non è mai cambiata… ma questo è tutto un altro discorso. Ovviamente, questo fatto lo racconto appena ora perché sono una frana, e perché domenica avevo già frittomistato… dobbiamo avere molta pazienza con me stessa… (Avrei voluto scrivere in realtà ieri, ma poi mi sono seccata, e vabbè dai, che lo dico a fare…) 😪…Non c’è in realtà granché da raccontare, perché, come sempre, io non festeggio… cioè, che cazzo devo fare regà, insomma… Però, incredibilmente, mi sono toccati ben due regalini: epico!!! Da parte dei miei genitori, giustamente, perché poi, nella mia vita, tolti i parenti, non rimane praticamente nessuno… ma ormai me ne sono fatta una ragione. Still, comunque, in ogni caso, i regali sono spesso sfiziosi e, quando come in questo caso sono gradevoli, assolutamente anche goduriosi, non c’è che dire. 👌
- Un pigiama assolutamente ROSA (un rosa un po’ chiaro, che in foto non si nota benissimo… ma un po’ ho apparato mettendo un filtro), che wow… È intrigante, con questo stile mezzo minimale della maglietta quasi tutta chiara, e mezzo non del pantalone che ha queste illustrazioni strane che non si capiscono bene… Ma, soprattutto, è irrealisticamente morbido!!! Potrebbe rendere l’inverno di notte lievemente meno terrificante… è così appropriato alla mia persona. 🥰
- Un set di 3 acque profumate, che non ho ancora avuto modo di provare del tutto con calma, ma da quel poco che ho visto sembrano interessanti. Due sono abbastanza floreali, mentre l’altra è più di un fresco non specificato, però ci stanno bene tutte, molto toppi! Saranno indubbiamente utili per potenziare la mia aura fisica fuori casa, che certe volte è forse troppo debole e poco magica, e con queste sarà migliorata… 😺
Insomma, grazie infinite a mamy e al papi per supportare la mia magia con piccoli ma importanti pensieri… Ma, dato il riconoscere questo fatto di ora, così come il prevedere qualcosa delle prossime settimane, perché purtroppo, ahinoi, il Natale si sta avvicinando prepotentissimamente, ora sono in terribile ansia e a breve disperazione… perché io non so mai come straminchia ricambiare i regalini. Arriverò, temo, come sempre a pochi giorni prima, per prendere regali magari apprezzati ma mai epicissimi per chi li riceve, e di ciò mi sento sempre incredibilmente in colpa, anche se ho paura che la cosa nemmeno traspaia mai, e quindi boh… non so che fare. Da un lato, sarebbe quasi meglio non avere proprio regali, così non ci sarebbe lo stress personalmente indotto di ricambiare, perché a me sinceramente dispiace essere davvero così terribile… 💔
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence
Juniors are getting clobbered.
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence — Stanford Digital Economy Lab
This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States.Stanford Digital Economy Lab
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Whenever this gets posted, someone (rightly) remarks how short-sighted this is regarding the fact that if there are now juniors now, there won't be any seniors in a few years.
And while that is true, I do envy the lack of cynicism of these people. To me it seems quite clear that the hope from the owning and ruling class is that the AI tools become "good enough" to do away with the entire ladder.
I truly believe this is one example where this is not necessarily (only) stupidity or incompetence, but also malice.
I'd like to extend that graph a couple of years to the left. The analyses I've seen clearly demonstrate that this is a regression to mean after a post-Covid hiring spike. By looking at such a narrow window over such a fraught time, it looks like it could be saying anything here.
Are these workers? This is showing a real problem. Job openings? Not nearly as concerning. Without showing this in historical context, this is really dubious journalism.
This study controls for the post-COVID hiring spike in three ways: the researchers generated results without including the tech sector, they separated out remote work, and compared trends from 2018-2022 to those after. The hypothesis holds in all cases. The primary regression analysis also included a standard set of controls for hiring trends (such as interest rate fluctuation).
There's enough here to find a negative correlation between generative AI and entry-level employment.
Slightly different? Comparing a dead simple plot of employment vs. the performance of the S&P to a DID Poisson regression event study is the coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb meme.
This Stanford study is just one in a very active field of economic research, so it's reasonable to be skeptical, but I really hope you don't think people make decisions based on the kind of thing in that Tiktok video.
It's openings, not employment. Which is why I asked whether the charts pasted here are showing employment or openings. And why I complained that the chart cuts off everything pre-Covid. If employment is going down, that's a problem. If job openings are going down, it isn't AI but a regression to mean. This video is the same jobs trend looked at through a different lens. It's pretty clear and logical that the demand for more seasoned professionals is more static that for juniors.
This is numbers taken from public data and put into context, and I don't think the fact that it's posted on TikTok is relevant to the math. TikTok just has a better algorithm for discovery for me and that's where I saw this guy's work and started following him, and the length of short form video helps the content not exceed attention span.
That all being said, if employment of juniors is trending down and not just reverting to mean, then I agree with the consolation this is a doomsday scenario cooking over the next 40 years. I have been saying for a couple of years that's a concern to watch out for. But so far I haven't seen numbers that concern me. I'll be continuing to watch this space closely because it's directly related to my interests.
Rustdesk's lesser known features
Rustdesk started as an open-source alternative to TeamViewer. Now, it offers more than just remote desktop access, making it handy for casual self-hosting.
With no need for (dyn)DNS, port forwarding, or a VPN, you can get:
- Remote terminal
- File transfer
- Tunneling (similar to SSH port forwarding)
- Remote desktop
I think it’s a solid choice if you have a simple one-server setup.
GitHub - rustdesk/rustdesk: An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. - rustdesk/rustdeskGitHub
Ive been wanting to try out rust desk for a few weeks now but im not currently in a position where I can test it out.
I saw it uses a public relay server and they have a subscription model to self host, and I'm not particularly interested in either of those options. Are you able to self host a server for free if youre just connecting to a single computer?
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You can host the open-source ID and Relay servers for simple remote access at no cost. The pro subscription is mainly about account and device management.
:::spoiler compose.yaml
services:
hbbs:
container_name: hbbs
image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
command: hbbs
volumes:
- ./data:/root
network_mode: "host"
depends_on:
- hbbr
restart: always
hbbr:
container_name: hbbr
image: rustdesk/rustdesk-server:latest
command: hbbr
volumes:
- ./data:/root
network_mode: "host"
restart: always:::
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It seems they were trying to hide the app being Chinese, added a trusted certificate on your machine without prompting, complaints about not really being open source, etc. It doesn't look very good to me at this point.
Search around a bit and you will find these issues being raised by people, at the same time the answers fron the team seem very dismissive and amount to
"please no politics here".
Check the wikipedia page edits as well, weird stuff. I don't like weird stuff when choosing a remote control software.
Rather paying Anydesk than using this. At this point at least.
Edit: to add, rustdesk was using and sending data to a chinese server for some reason. At least they got an EU one instead, at least according to wikipedia, but that could just resend whatever data forward. This is all just what I see on the net though. But, enough for me to choose something else.
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If this is as significant an issue as you imply, please link some credible sources.
As far as I can tell, the "Chinese server" (or EU server) is just a public ID and Relay server, and necessary for the application to function unless a self-hosted server is used.
It doesn't need to be, I just won't go near it if they communicate like this and do stuff like change their users' system settings without prompting. You can do a search for rustdesk controversy and have a look yourself. Just looking at how they hide the company's chinese origins and their communication style when they are asked for clarification... That's enough for me. Everyone should be paranoid when installing apps, and this is for remote control, no less.
Edit 2: see also their claims of open source while people could not compile a working version without a pre compiled binary blob. Maybe they fixed that? Or not?
Edit: I want to add, I want an open source software like that, I hope they would turn up good. Just going to watch from over here.
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I did some digging and there's no real basis for most of these claims. The company seems to be backed by a weird commercial OSS VC, with a founder with a hand in crypto bullshit, but that doesn't mean that the application is insecure. Also, for what its worth, I couldn't find any links to China outside of the rendezvous server thing.
I checked the wiki page edits - not sure which one you're referring to but I didn't see anything malicous or suspicious.
This article summed it up well
hackaday.com/2024/03/01/this-w…
TL;DR it's not an issue
This Week In Security: Forksquatting, RustDesk, And M&Ms
Github is struggling to keep up with a malware campaign that’s a new twist on typosquatting. The play is straightforward: Clone popular repositories, add malware, and advertise the forks as t…Hackaday
Chinese company profile
tracxn.com/d/companies/rustdes…
News piece about them
inf.news/en/tech/b99963560ceca…
None of this means much else than that I will not use it myself, at least yet. I don't trust it
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That news source is a joke. Go to the homepage and its filled with weird anti Chinese stuff about cannibalism in Shanghai!
The first article on the homepage is:
Emperor Kangxi imprisoned him and raised him like a pig, so out of boredom he could only have children for fun, resulting in him fathering 29 children.
This is not a credible news source.
The "Chinese company profile" you linked is a VC research page, not an authoritative source.
There could be weirdness going on here though despite all that. The claim they are based in Singapore while Huabing Zhou of Wuhan University clearly has input (when I looked him up, the RustDesk team page was a search result on DDG, despite his name not appearing on the linked page) is a little odd. But as long as all the code is open I'm not too worried for self-hosters.
Thanks for the additional digging.
Is it totally open source? Because I am not suited to verify this - I can only see that at some point it was not open source while claiming to be, and relied on binary blobs. Their server side code? Cannot know what is in there (of course). Running your own server? Cannot really vet the code either, so until it becomes still more popular I cannot trust it yet.
I mean, it is probably fine, I hope it is.
They have scrubbed Zhou from the company info page. They were listed as founder before among the two other people (who may or may not be real - this is another question mark I saw). This scrubbing could, of course be non nefarious. But I think this could have and should have been communicated better.
But instead they seem to shut down discussion: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/d…
None of this has to mean anything much but I personally will continue with paid options still for now and keep hoping rd would turn out alright!
Is this software Owned, Accessed, Developed, etc... by the CCP? · rustdesk rustdesk · Discussion #1159
I'm seeing online that RustDesk is chinese developed software. Last i knew, everything developed/created in China is owned by the CCP. Does that include this software? Pretty scary thought that the...GitHub
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This Week In Security: Forksquatting, RustDesk, And M&Ms
Github is struggling to keep up with a malware campaign that’s a new twist on typosquatting. The play is straightforward: Clone popular repositories, add malware, and advertise the forks as t…Hackaday
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I use Rustdesk to access PCs and embedded devices from other PCs and embedded devices. Mostly doing remote support to avoid driving.
It's easy to set up with a container-based server.
I don't have to care about licenses and crap like that. It just works.
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