The stock market is a very large Ponzi scheme. 401Ks are indexed Ponzi schemes. Once the ultra wealthy can disconnect their wealth from any one country, using crypto tokens. The stock market and 401Ks will probably crash. You usually want to do this on a generation that has no real voting block. So it will probably happen when GenX starts retiring.

Again this is different in a Capitalists society vs a Socialist one.

In a Capitalists society everyone is pitted against each other trying to out compete the other at whatever the cost. Safety in this environment is thought of at the end after a lot of suffering because one group has to win it all. Damages can externalized.

In a Socialist society we build basic rules and we compete within them. Thinking of safety as we build something and refining those rules as we build it because at the end, we are all affected by it and get to benefit from it.

I think this isn't about guns but more about seeing and controlling what people are printing. Guns is just the excuse to monitor.

"Hey I see your printing a replacement part for you washer. Well that is a patent part and you will need to pay to print that."

LOL...you do have a point, but not sure what makes them think...I would let my 3d printer talk to the outside...ever. But yeah, this bill is such BS.

I think the reason tech didn't help productivity until the late 90s is pretty obvious. The internet was missing. Computers needed the internet to make them useful to everyone. So the question should be.

What is Ai missing that will make it useful to everyone?

Merchant shipping contributes around 3% to CO₂ emissions. That is smaller than, e.g., electricity and heat generation, road transportation, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture.

It’s funny that this is always ignored or downvoted when consumers are a relatively small part of the problem. Surely shaming people harder will fix the problem, this time.

After everything that we know Israel has been doing. I don't feel comfortable letting an Israeli company access to internal Google Services.

You left out the part where they realized they couldn't ship S3 compatibility without rebuilding their storage service. So they have decided to rebuild their storage service. Not really a small project. So I can see how its taking longer. At least they were transparent about it.

Love the music. Is the music original or is there an artist attached?

There's links on the homepage to the soundtrack and credits, the artist is called Synthenia.

"Rust is self-hosting: To build a new rustc, you need an existing rustc binary (usually the previous stable release). This creates a chain of trust that goes back to the very first bootstrap (historically from OCaml, but modern versions rely on prior Rust binaries).

If any link in that historical chain was ever compromised the backdoor can live on indefinitely.

Unlike C/C++ (which has diverse independent compilers like GCC, Clang, MSVC), Rust has essentially one production compiler (rustc). This makes diverse double-compilation (DDC), the main defense, much harder. DDC involves compiling the compiler source with multiple independent compilers and checking that the outputs match (proving the binary corresponds to the source). With only one mature compiler, you can't easily cross-verify.

There have been public demonstrations of exactly this kind of attack working on Rust (e.g., Manish Goregaokar's "Reflections on Rusting Trust" in 2016."

https://x.com/lmilsfsd/status/2011920950070046787

I assume mrustc is capable of bootstrapping rust?

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

Lunduke is not a programmer, he's a tech influencer. If he cannot point to the part of the Open Source program that is backdoored, it's probably another one of his meaningless ragebait pieces.

Suffice to say that Lunduke is technology's "Boy who cried Wolf" concerning security research.

Citizens United legalized bribery. Now the politicians could make real money by ignoring the public.