I’m wearing a WarGames shirt today.

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Index funds are also still vulnerable to risks that affect the economy as a whole, like – just off the top of my head, for no reason in particular – total collapse caused by mismanagement by fascists.

On a totally unrelated note, my portfolio has always been mostly index funds and still is, but I’ve decreased the percentage of US stock market in favor of international stocks in recent years.

I’m seconding the request for a writeup.

“Google loading” isn’t derisive enough. The example I came up with isn’t quite right, but I do want it to have that same feeling of being a grave insult. Maybe something like “simploading?” Or “dipshitloading?” “Brownloading” (think like “brownnosing”)? IDK, I’m just spitballing here.

Everything on my GrapheneOS is installed normally, by which I mean “however the fuck I want”.

Fuck allowing the act of exercising your rights as the owner to be demonized with bullshit loaded language!

“Sideloading” is anti-property-rights loaded language.

The correct term for installing something by means other than the Google-approved method is “installing normally.”

It is the act of capitulating to Google’s control, due to the incorrect belief that you need its permission to use your own property how you want, that needs a new term. So far all I’ve been able to come up with is “cuckloading,” though I’m not happy with how sexism-adjacent it is and am open to suggestions.

I second the recommendation for TP-Link running OpenWRT (that’s the important part).

I’ve been using a few Archer C7s for going on a decade at this point. (So long that they went from “OpenWRT” to “LEDE” to back to “OpenWRT”, LOL!) They’ve been working fine that whole time, and the only thing that annoys me about them is that they’re a funny shape instead of being rack-mountable.

If you’re not hand-crafting your Makefile, you have only yourself to blame. ^\s

Still better than having trash pile up on the street like the rest of NYC apparently did, though.

It’s only used for law enforcement purposes.

As if even that is in any way okay, especially considering how fascist the government is becoming!

Even if this was working 100% as the public intended, it would still be evil.

Or, for that matter, a pneumatic trash system like the one on Roosevelt Island.

Toph went around shoeless because she was blind and sensed vibrations to “see,” not because she was an earthbender.

Are you trying to suggest that there’s no such thing as “spotting” anything from a satellite unless a human astronaut is riding inside it?

A human driver probably would’ve heard him shouting and stopped to fix the problem.

NISAR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NISAR_(satellite) :

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch an Earth observation satellite (EOS) equipped with dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in 2025. It will be the first radar imaging [emphasis added] satellite to use dual frequencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_radar :

Imaging radar is an application of radar which is used to create two-dimensional images, typically of landscapes. Imaging radar provides its light to illuminate an area on the ground and take a picture at radio wavelengths.

It is, in a literal sense, “spotting” the subsidence using visual techniques, albeit at a lower EM frequency than what humans can see.

“Spotted” is still also accurate. How do you think a satellite could measure anything, except by looking at it?

I assume absolutely every single app is doing shady shit like that

No. Only the proprietary and/or corporate-controlled ones.

Turns out the last few percent can’t just be ignored, 95% isn’t good enough, and 100% is really fucking hard.

The funny part is that every CS grad student studying AI understood that perfectly well a decade ago.