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jumpconc··on Maladaptive Frugality
Why not?
jumpconc··on Maladaptive Frugality
Most optimal by what metric - length of retirement? Retirement years are worth a lot less than prime years. I think most people in society make this mistake and regret it. Most people on there deathbeds regret the things they didn't do.
jumpconc··on Maladaptive Frugality
In many games with increasing difficulty, this will just get you stuck on the next fight, and now without any potions. That's why people don't do it.
jumpconc··on Maladaptive Frugality
I think if you want to keep it on the cold side, you can still do that. Builds character, isn't dangerous, and saves a couple of bucks. You can also keep it warm when you feel like being warm. There's something in human psychology about being able to endure discomfort and then come back to "safety".
jumpconc··on Maladaptive Frugality
Minmaxxing your finances is maladaptive frugality. You have something even better than 1% extra interest in your account: you have no mortgage. You can do whatever the fuck you want to your house and your bank doesn't stick its nose in your business to ensure the value of the house stays up. You can do whatever the fuck you want with your career and you don't have to worry the bank will come and take your house back.
jumpconc··on Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
C-Suite are the top level of the company. Above them is only the board of directors, whose power is limited to firing the C-Suite if they don't like what they're doing. In day to day operations, the C-Suite controls the entire company.
jumpconc··on Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
You can talk about revolution on the internet. You can't talk about revolution on websites owned by the current elite, such as this one.
jumpconc··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
What is your BATNA? If you are going to give them money no matter what they do, they have no reason to listen to your feedback. At all.
jumpconc··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Windows 1.0, I believe. Xerox PARC invented the WIMP UI paradigm (windows, icons, menus, pointer), Apple commercialised it first, and then Microsoft copied Apple.
jumpconc··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
For your own trusted devices on a LAN, you should try KDE Connect. KDE is not required.
jumpconc··on High Performance Git
Slop is content not written by a human. By definition, there can be no de-slop algorithms. There can only be algorithms that remove certain telltale signs, fraudulently attempting to present non-human-generated content as human-generated.
jumpconc··on Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta
You're the guinea pig
jumpconc··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
I'll make a period tracker for you for 5 bucks a month. You won't buy it, because it costs 5 bucks a month. So I'll have to find alternative monetisation strategies.
jumpconc··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
The spying part requires a server.

If you use GrapheneOS, you can enable or disable internet access for each app.

jumpconc··on The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination
I wonder if people who have never seen or heard of hats will talk about a Hat Man.
jumpconc··on Revocation of X.509 Certificates
Just DNS. If you take over DNS, you can get Let's Encrypt to issue any certificate you want.
jumpconc··on Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
Sounds like whoever is getting that money is hamstringing your organization on purpose so they can keep more of your money.
jumpconc··on Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
The struggles of living in an economic system while completely rejecting that system and pretending it isn't there.
jumpconc··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
You can fire Anthropic. Anthropic can decide it's losing too many customers and do something about it.
jumpconc··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
The AI company has skin in the game which motivates them to produce reliable AIs.
jumpconc··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
How about the sorcerer's apprentice?
jumpconc··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
All my backups are inside the same universe as what is being backed up. A boundary must be drawn somewhere and this is one of many reasonable boundaries. As I understand it, the backup isn't "inside" the volume but is attached to it so that deleting the volume deletes the backups.
jumpconc··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
You haven't met certain humans. Not all humans have internal capacity for accountability.

The real meaning of accountability is that you can fire one if you don't like how they work. Good news! You can fire an AI too.