Posts by landley@mstdn.jp
(DIR) Post #Apn6I7e2T1DOqlYqki by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-05T20:05:36Z
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I'm not motivated by money. I'm sometimes motivated by a lack of money, but just to make it stop bothering me. Basic income would be ideal for me, because I could get to work.I care about creating value, not making money. Converting the value I create into money has always been a janitorial task.Just some thoughts listening to https://youtu.be/xvZB93rnq4Q (where he said he's not motivated by having money but is still motivated by making it), and being reminded of https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc
(DIR) Post #Apn6IDYwSshfChDrdo by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-05T20:11:24Z
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I say this having saved coins in a bag over a year when I was 5, thinking compound interest was the greatest game mechanic EVER at 7, I read a biography of Warren Buffett for fun right after graduating college, spent 3 years during the height of the dot-com boom writing stock market investment columns...I've known HOW to make money. I had a gig making $50/hr at 26, and was offered $75 to stay. And I was absolutely MISERABLE. The money was like a video game score, when I hated the game.
(DIR) Post #Apn6IJgFic7GB6gmrw by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-05T20:17:59Z
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Took me a longish time not to feel I'd failed somehow by being emotionally unable to persist at Cashing In and compounding. I paid off all my debts early on (see "lack of money") but didn't even make regular contributions to my coca-cola stock DRIP. (Invest by mail! Zero effort required!)The problem was I never converted to capitalism. I was like someone studying theology and winding up atheist. Money isn't REAL. It's as bad a way to organize a society as the "divine right of kings" was.
(DIR) Post #ApodKitiQLz4c1hYjQ by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-06T19:56:10Z
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@interfluidity Hence the classic rebuttal "the means don't justify the ends, either."
(DIR) Post #ApwjGRslPmzmSX6jpI by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-10T17:40:19Z
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@interfluidity European buildings don't require two stairwells when they're made of brick/cinderblock. https://youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM
(DIR) Post #Apwl6PL4DUXDaDgbJI by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-01-10T18:00:55Z
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@interfluidity @kissane That's not "platforms", that's capitalism. McDonald's and health insurance companies are going the same way. Capitalism grows like cancer and consumes like fire: sustainability is failure, must squeeze blood from a stone until collapse.
(DIR) Post #Asr1aCfPn9r0DWflVg by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-04-07T17:13:36Z
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@interfluidity Tariffs are a tax on consumption, just like sales taxes.
(DIR) Post #Asr2fyVnQuum0WUPtw by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-04-07T17:25:52Z
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@interfluidity Economic hysteresis was well known back in the 1980s.https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w2545/w2545.pdfKrugman was still writing about it 10 years ago:https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/austerity-and-hysteresis/The theory seems obvious: "he only stopped breathing for 20 minutes, he'll be fine in a few days". Being unemployed and living off your savings for a year can permanent impact one's retirement trajectory.
(DIR) Post #Asr2uMsfcvDrdm3HOa by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-04-07T17:28:29Z
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@interfluidity Oh it's terrible in a zillion ways (hawley-smoot is taught in high school for a reason), but I suspect the dementia patient acting out plans he made back in the 80's was trying to screw over the poor back when he still had two brain cells to rub together.Alas, "this is why" is a bit like figuring out how you caught an incurable disease. Not immediately useful information...
(DIR) Post #Asy499Vn4h74a7gPlQ by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-04-10T22:12:16Z
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A guillotine just performs an antitrust breakup on an individual billionaire.https://youtube.com/shorts/4JDcCeQAkUU
(DIR) Post #Au40VTIc6Jto0RpCiG by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-05-13T21:00:45Z
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You know how Google lost an antitrust suit and may have to spin off chrome? Another one for the pile:https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/
(DIR) Post #Au6JLmVU7TSU7vrGDI by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-05-14T22:17:14Z
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Oh goddess they've invented link-time templates.https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/1771#issuecomment-2878664850
(DIR) Post #Au6JLnKt2MZihLuJKi by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-05-14T22:59:51Z
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Although https://www.osnews.com/story/142343/linux-removes-support-for-the-486-and-now-im-curious-what-that-means-for-vortex86-processors/ is probably still more annoying.(As patents expire old designs become available for open hardware cloning. Removing support for those old designs is a form of proprietary lock-in.)
(DIR) Post #AyiFfz2zujqxTmPAQq by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-09-28T21:54:11Z
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The AI "infinite money glitch" is called a wash trade: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lzjprizgc224@molly0xfff did a good podcast about how FTX and Alameda sent the same money back and forth, booking it as revenue each time. "My friend and I each received $1000 today... by passing the same $20 back and forth." See also Enron. Microsoft's "investment" in OpenAI included $billions in Azure cloud computing credits, yet OpenAI's use of Azure is part of Microsoft's revenue estimates:https://medium.com/@venugopal.adep/the-2-6b-azure-credit-how-microsofts-cloud-became-openai-s-secret-weapon-1f7e2f9b0330
(DIR) Post #AypqCHaXTHsQhqVuiG by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-10-03T12:59:28Z
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Sigh. I agree with Linus about big endian being silly, but NOT his follow up list:https://youtu.be/msOkPRBCJlghttps://lkml.iu.edu/2510.0/01052.htmlBranch delay slots and aligned access are about saving transistors in embedded designs, especially from companies that don't have $10 million per custom ASIC run.There's a certain amount of "all the world's a vax, we're beyond the need for diversity" going on among the greybeards. Linux development is reminding me STRONGLY of the early 90's unix community.
(DIR) Post #B0ThPMdFpTfIRZkTPU by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-11-21T16:24:39Z
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Sigh. The wifi was hiccupping this morning and I was reading about chrome zero day du jour so in a moment of weakness I updated chrome on my phone, and now it has an "AI mode" button on new tabs.The instructions for disabling it all assume I'm either on desktop (the chrome://flags page hasn't got those keys here) or am using a newer android version (the settings pulldown hasn't got...)I installed vivaldi on here once, but had 8 zillion open tabs I dunno how to move over...
(DIR) Post #B19GEccAol0KnN5hoG by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-12-11T19:18:14Z
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@astonc @interfluidity Can we use that as leverage to push https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
(DIR) Post #B19I4v0dlux8rF2IjI by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-12-11T17:58:10Z
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"You can't fix inefficiencies by throwing more money at them."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3ln5KJwVA
(DIR) Post #B1Nx2oiT0zI15v5iLo by landley@mstdn.jp
2025-12-18T21:23:42Z
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Cats are elf dogs. Dogs are orc cats.
(DIR) Post #B1vxOYWKmgPh4tAsHg by landley@mstdn.jp
2026-01-04T03:50:42Z
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It's interesting, my brain has recategorized CGI commercial mascots like that insurance lizard as "AI slop" and tunes them out even faster now. It's not even lying to me, it's meaningless algorithmic noise.