To be fair the very idea of value of money is “imaginary”. Even a bank note is nothing more than a promise.

The value of a stock is derived from the trust that someone will trade you for it. If the trust goes away, so does the value.

Similarly, the value of a bank note is derived from the trust that someone will trade you for it. If the trust in a bank (bank run) or government (scarce money supply, solvency) or economy goes away, so too will the value of money, i.e. inflation.

Even comodities and tangible goods have “imaginary” value, because these things can be under or over produced, which in turn changes how likely someone might want your good.

That being said, the degree of imagination needed to trust the value of trade varies, and stocks are definitely close to the top of the imagination tree.

Define “Internet” to answer your question more meaningfully.

Are you counting cached copies of data (Cloudflare etc), or only the original copy? Only the source data or the data copied on the receiving end (webbrowser etc) too? Data at rest on a computer hard drive or data being transmitted or both? Are you only including world wide web (websites) or any data (gaming, streaming, fileshare). Humans or bots or both? Public web or dark web? Any computer physically connected to a network or only those data accessible publicly?

I feel Luke warm about that pun.

Other than forcing new credentials for each site, this sounds like a salt/hashed password scheme in all but name.

and if some tradition falls into obscurity maybe wasn’t that important after all.

“Some of you will die and that’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”

OP sounds like an insufferable shill spouting “they are just looking for the criminals and illegals” while everyone is being lined up at gunpoint outside of the gas chambers of the concentration camp.

Large drives are convenient for 3 2 1 backup. Not all your storage needs or even should be ssd or raid 5.

Your take about users leaving is a bit optimistic. A more pessimistic view is some people may never realize or may just be too addicted to care. The reality will probably sit somewhere in between. Some people will leave, others will not.

BTW, the internet =/= shared user content. That stuff might wither, but the internet remains useful for a host of other applications: payment and shopping, file sharing, business, person to person communication, remote access, gaming, etc. Basically, any verifiable application. Which is what the internet should have been. These tech behemoths that have risen thanks to user content sharing are concocting the very poison to their own business in a race to the bottom.

Or the metric system.

Legitimate feedback for the survey.

This is No Stupid Questions, not Lemmy Shitpost

I had this issue in firefox. And only firefox. Was pulling my hair for hours. Wish I had been warned.

Anyway I just gave firefox the permission and the issue was resolved. Native apps seem unaffected. Which makes me think maybe this is an opt in setting right now?

More likely, the last cent digit will just drop because it isn’t significant (rounding up of course, don’t want to miss an opportunity to squeeze even more!).

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

Google search died long before the AI summary.

We can have all the benefits without many of the downsides if we fixed the perverse incentives on harvesting data. Ban creeper glasses. Regulate and license these glasses as they should be used: medical assistance devices with strict controls on use of data.

The problem never was technological. The problem has always been regulating and limiting how people use tools in negative ways, from guns, cars, drugs, food, etc. For some reason we are blind to the idea of doing more of the same with big tech? This is long overdue.

The typing is the means of communicating the thinking. If you are “doing the thinking” and the AI is doing the “typing” then either you are instructing the AI to generate additional content without original thought (which is a waste of your time, the AI’s time, and the reader’s time), or the AI is actually doing some of the thinking (in which case your job can be automated).

The programers use AI to make art. The artists use AI to write. The writers use AI to program. I think we’re all in denial by both just how much our own value is at risk, and also the real value of AI (less than advertised). A bit paradoxical.

Right so in the end it never was about the machines. In the end, it was man’s folly which would have been our inevitable demise.

I don’t know about the sources. If you read some of the sources, for example DHH’s own words in his blog posts, while you find conservative grievances which is certainly fair game for disagreement, there are no smoking guns of far right behaviour.

The comparison of omarchy’s design philosophy is particularly egregious. The philosophy is opinionated software. What does consuming a product without being in personal control of every single detail have to do with politics?

It’s the first I’m hearing about it. And I would have rather not heard about it.

Microsoft’s mission isn’t to improve the public good. Microsoft’s mission is wealth extraction for its shareholders.

Windows is worse for you as an individual consumer. But I would argue Windows is a better product for advertisers and other interests that go beyond you. Those interests are at odds with your interests. You need to look at the bigger picture.