Intel’s long term prospects rely on China invading Taiwan.

Some are clearly designed for just that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Firewall-Appliance-4xUSB2-0-OPNsense-Ethernet/dp/B0CB3M6M16?th=1

But spoiler: Everything you want is spread across about 5 services, and there’s gaps in it anyway.

Well any political choice will increase the wealth of the billionaire class in general. Any candidate that is a threat to that will be smeared to dust before they get anywhere near power.

But Musk is going for the more direct approach, and tbh I think the second Trump gets power again he’ll have no need for Musk and will treat him like the parasite he is. He’s certainly done that before.

There’s been a two pronged assault on it over the years.

Mostly from websites doing anything to spam up the results via SEO and mass produced articles about product recommendations, that are little more than the top 10 selling items of that type on Amazon along with affiliate links.

But also from within as Google morphed from a search company to an advertising company. Especially once they reached peak saturation and that all important growth must continue. I just don’t think the capitalism machine works for these tech corporations once they reach the size of Google. How do you even grow from there? Enshittification and eating yourself is the only possible outcome.

What caught me out recently was infinity minus infinity.

It does not equal zero. Instead it breaks your sorting algorithm.

OK, what about 2 monkeys?

Sure, but if a cyber attack knocks out your credit card systems in a targeted attack, chances are they’re taking your cash machines down as well.

And who carries enough cash around to be useful any more? I know I don’t. I might have a £20 note tucked in my phone case at a push.

Why is anyone going full speed in the dark? Let alone an unsafe self driving car.

As long as your default mode is sleep it’d be ok. I touch my PCs power button only when it crashes so horribly that a forced shutdown is the only way out…

Or Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft on consoles.

I class market trackers as investing rather than gambling.

Sure they can still go down (and by a lot), but it tends to be big events like COVID that do that, and it soon bounced back up again.

If you’re investing more than a few percent of your portfolio in any one company, you’re probably gambling though. And sure, nVidia look a safe bet today, but if Sam Altman comes out tomorrow and goes “sorry guys, this ain’t going anywhere” then you’ll lose over half your money before you can blink.

I wouldn’t invest on a timeframe of less than a few years either. It’s not for boosting your rent money. It’s just better than leaving your spare money in cash. If the concept of “spare money” is alien, then it’s probably not for you.

It’s also why he’s hanging it all on Trump right now.

That’s what he’s after - the complete deregulation of self-driving safety standards in the US.

TSMC are probably making more money than anyone in this goldrush by selling the shovels and picks, so if that’s their opinion, I feel people should listen…

There’s little in the AI business plan other than hurling money at it and hoping job losses ensue.

That kind of defeats the whole purpose of moving from 10 to 11 though. Stopping security updates for 10 would be like 99% of the point, unless somebody has suddenly found a use for DirectStorage…

I mean, the real danger is they shove out an update that straight up breaks on your PC, as in won’t boot even in safe mode because it does something with the TPM, and it’ll be your own fault for deliberately circumventing the requirements.

Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely. They don’t care what OS it runs as long as it runs all their shit.

OK, I’ll download them then.

Feels like that’s kind of most of them right now.

I was subbed to Humble Choice for a while.

Trying to skip a month was a minefield of dark patterns. At least three confirmation screens, buttons swapping places and colours…

Without even looking at the list I know Amazon, Disney and Netflix will be on it.

They know exactly how much they take every month from account that barely use them and they’d like to keep it.

I think they should go one further with the rule. Anybody not using the service for a month gets to have it cancelled automatically, and only resumed when they use it again.