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Comment on Boomer hate in ~society
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Comment on Boomer hate in ~society
vord Link ParentThe closest I've seen in my ~40yr old college-educated peers making in that top 80-85% income bracket is buying houses, with a small handful saving over half of their income to hope to retire by...The closest I've seen in my ~40yr old college-educated peers making in that top 80-85% income bracket is buying houses, with a small handful saving over half of their income to hope to retire by 55 and/or afford retirement home for parents.
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Comment on I miss technology that was meant to be used as a tool in ~tech
vord Link ParentNot that extreme though, given their proliferation as accessibility devices. A left-handed wheel accellerator @snake_caseNot that extreme though, given their proliferation as accessibility devices.
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Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech
vord Link ParentSignal also doesn't tie features of your account to payment. You don't even get a badge if you don't use the Signal app. How do you identify that a given proton account is current without tying it...Signal also doesn't tie features of your account to payment. You don't even get a badge if you don't use the Signal app.
How do you identify that a given proton account is current without tying it to a specific payment?But proton also solved it, if you want.
And you could always just use free tier if security is the most important.
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Comment on I miss technology that was meant to be used as a tool in ~tech
vord Link ParentThere is a special place in hell for these engineers.some are anticlockwise
There is a special place in hell for these engineers.
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Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech
vord (edited )Link ParentRelative to Microsoft and Google, yes that is a fairly accurate pitch. How would you pitch 'We make best-effort security which protects from an awful lot of subponeas' to normal people in one...Relative to Microsoft and Google, yes that is a fairly accurate pitch. How would you pitch 'We make best-effort security which protects from an awful lot of subponeas' to normal people in one sentence? How about seamless PGP integration?
Can't help that the neighbors can watch everyone coming and going from your house, but you can lock the doors and close the blinds. Which is incidentally the default state of affairs IRL with the proliferation of Google/Amazon doorbell cameras.
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Comment on Boomer hate in ~society
vord Link ParentAnd why Millenials are shaped by the post-CFC falling apart of global initiatives, 9/11, authoritarian survielance states, and the rapid spiral of late-stage capitalism. No wonder we all feel...And why Millenials are shaped by the post-CFC falling apart of global initiatives, 9/11, authoritarian survielance states, and the rapid spiral of late-stage capitalism.
No wonder we all feel helpless.
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Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech
vord LinkDoes the author know that's just how email works? Any email provider telling you otherwise is full of shit. If you want your emails encrypted, you gotta do it yourself. And have all your senders...with the asterisk that inbound non-Proton emails are handled in plaintext during receipt before being encrypted to the user's key.
Does the author know that's just how email works? Any email provider telling you otherwise is full of shit.
If you want your emails encrypted, you gotta do it yourself. And have all your senders and recipients do it as well.
I can't speak to the accuracy of the rest of the article, but my suspicions are raised.
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Comment on Boomer hate in ~society
vord Link ParentI've met the parents of boomers. While they harbor their share of.....antiquated views, they were raised on enough Great Depression that they at least comprehended what the rest of us were going...I've met the parents of boomers. While they harbor their share of.....antiquated views, they were raised on enough Great Depression that they at least comprehended what the rest of us were going through.
My boomer aunt worked as a school administrator in a poor school district in PA, my uncle for the Navy. She was full stay-at-home for like 15 years while raising my cousins.
She couldn't comprehend why I didn't have a vacation house by the time I hit 40......
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Comment on Boomer hate in ~society
vord Link Parent6-7 has officially tipped to becoming my favorite way to irritate the children that irritated us with it for so long.6-7 has officially tipped to becoming my favorite way to irritate the children that irritated us with it for so long.
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Comment on Boomer hate in ~society
vord (edited )LinkBoomers, moreso than any other political cohort, have been able to sway the narrative more than any other generation. You know how the whole reason we have a Senate is to prevent 'tyranny of the...Boomers, moreso than any other political cohort, have been able to sway the narrative more than any other generation.
You know how the whole reason we have a Senate is to prevent 'tyranny of the majority'? So that politicians ostensibly must appeal to both rural and populous areas, and not just solely targetting the populous areas?
Boomers being the largest cohort means that it is easier for them to represent their interests by being that largest population. "Not all boomers" and all that, but if we presume every generation is more or less evenly split for social/economic desires, it rounds out. But there are substantial generational splits.
So in their early 20s, when they were young and rebellious adults, we see the civil rights movements of the 60s.
When economic crisis reared it's ugly head in the 70s, they pivoted to the proposed solution by the fuckwits in power: Neoliberalism (and it's bedbuddy the religious right).
When the GenX came of age and wanted social change....the Boomers had a veto.
When Millenials came of age and wanted social change.... the Boomers had a veto.
In the wake of the 60s, we only really saw social changes when a large enough percent of Boomers did not wish to use their veto.
And at least from where I'm sitting, the Boomers were completely overwhelmed by Fox News and the ilk the same way social media overwhelmed Xennials. So the more-religous, largest group is deeply propagandized and has far more money.
So yea. Kinda eagerly waiting for enough of them to die off so their wealth finally trickles down, and maybe we can have some reasonable 40/50 year olds running the country instead of geriatrics.
As Durry put it, "Now we're just big kids living in an old man's world. When's it gonna be our turn?"
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
vord Link ParentI'd take that with a grain of salt the size of my carI'd take that with a grain of salt the size of my car
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
vord Link ParentThe long sordid history of Microsoft is stunning proof that this is not a natural law.imo, but this is v1! It's the worst it'll ever be.
The long sordid history of Microsoft is stunning proof that this is not a natural law.
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
vord Link ParentIsn't the vast majority of current stock market prices predicated upon baking in speculative future valuation? Though that would explain the frequent crashes as reality catches up to the realities...Isn't the vast majority of current stock market prices predicated upon baking in speculative future valuation?
Though that would explain the frequent crashes as reality catches up to the realities of speculative guesses.
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
vord Link ParentI get it. I mostly didn't provide sources for similiar reasons. Take my non-addressing your other stuff as "I'm on board with a fair bit, appreciate the nuance, but also addressing properly will...I get it. I mostly didn't provide sources for similiar reasons. Take my non-addressing your other stuff as "I'm on board with a fair bit, appreciate the nuance, but also addressing properly will take way too much time I don't have."
If OpenAI and Anthropic both implode from the debt, where do these continually improved derivative models for local execution come from?
It's funny you mention housing debt, as I am currently reading Ed Zitron's The Subprime AI Crisis is here. He's my most trusted tech analyst at the moment, particularly regarding digging into the financials.
you address this later in your post, but I'm leaving it in since I worked hard on this metaphor
I feel you from the deepest trenches of my soul.
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
vord Link ParentYes, but if AI true beleivers are to be believed, eventually the AI will be able to predict all economic recessions for us with perfect accuracy. Right now, we can see the side of the cliff our...Yes, but if AI true beleivers are to be believed, eventually the AI will be able to predict all economic recessions for us with perfect accuracy.
Right now, we can see the side of the cliff our economic car is rocketing toward. We see the stuck gas pedal and missing brakes. We just can't see the speedometer.
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
vord (edited )Link ParentIt's quite simple: There is no such thing as an infinite growth curve. It will eventually plateau. We will continue to see substantial improvements until the infinite money train grinds to a halt....It's quite simple:
There is no such thing as an infinite growth curve. It will eventually plateau. We will continue to see substantial improvements until the infinite money train grinds to a halt. Which it will pretty soon. If it wasn't, why do all of the players in AI feel the need to horrifically mask and distort their true expenses and earnings?
At $20 a month, it's pretty easy to justify the tooling. How about at $200 a month for this same capability reflecting that true cost? Most model improvements at this point are still relying on 'put it on a bigger rocket.' Token prices are dropping, but best we can tell, cost to provide them has not.
Bear in mind that almost all of this is predicated upon still needing an expert to actually use the thing. I'm fairly certain this will never go away. Business Joe might be able to get Claude to spit out a venn diagram, while having preciesely 0 clue if it is accurate.
And, even if we discard all the other problems (like exponentially increasing the pollution and energy demand ala Bitcoin)....what's the point?
Automate all of life away so we can plug ourselves into the Matrix and live like it's 1999 in a virtual world, because we made ourcurrent one inhabitable?
People will counter with "but we'll only automate the drudgery," but best I can tell that really just translates to new drudgery.
It would be quite ironic if AI drove us back to an era where most of the world is just farmers again because industrial methods are proven unsustainable and every non-labor job has been eaten by AI though.
I'm also reminded of how big Superbowl ad spending is almost like a harbinger of a bubble about to pop. Like the dotcom. Or crypto. A desperate plea to get as many customers ASAP to avoid going under from all the debt-fueled loss-leading.
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
vord Link ParentI want this to be my permanant Kagi style, if any Kagi staffers are watching. When the web was weird and fun because the technology was new, marketting departments didn't muck in it much, and...I want this to be my permanant Kagi style, if any Kagi staffers are watching.
When the web was weird and fun because the technology was new, marketting departments didn't muck in it much, and everybody was just in a better mood in the 90s because there wasn't any major bad guy looming over the culture with the threat of nuclear war.
Newt Gingrich really was the sneaky little weasel that gnawed away at the good times.
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Comment on Megathread: April Fools' Day 2026 on the internet in ~talk
vord Link ParentAMD buying Intel would be a quite poetic end to the tale of Intel. I like this.AMD buying Intel would be a quite poetic end to the tale of Intel. I like this.
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Comment on Semisonic - Closing Time (1998) in ~music
vord Link ParentWas not quite that old when this song came out, was camp staff at a scout camp and we played that CD for cleaning up at the end of the day. Knowing that it's a double entendre about birth makes it...Was not quite that old when this song came out, was camp staff at a scout camp and we played that CD for cleaning up at the end of the day.
Knowing that it's a double entendre about birth makes it even better.
There is a reason retirement homes are being built to facilitate gerrymandering.