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unboxingelf commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?   english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
doener · 7 days ago
No, not the AI. Just the owner of means of production like AI.

The fact that capital owners successfully avoid contributing to the financing of our states and social systems is, in my view, one of the fundamental problems of our time.

unboxingelf · 7 days ago
I argue there is a more fundamental problem with the money: Debasement.

Debasement is an invisible tax and its effects far outweigh individuals bypassing taxes.

unboxingelf commented on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders   windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/jinxmeta
ChicagoDave · a month ago
Everything before CoPilot was pretty standard CEO stuff. The real change was internally. Satya is well-known for eradicating the "Art of War" environment and bringing workers together. He also fully embraced open-source (Balmer hated OSS) and R&D has continued to innovate. (Still boggles the mind that F# exists and is awesome)

Prior to CoPilot, my only beef was that Azure needs a ground up re-architecture. They bolted products onto Active Directory which is ancient LDAP tech. It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.

unboxingelf · a month ago

  It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP.
Wait until you try OCI.

unboxingelf commented on Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design   app.chartdb.io/ai... · Posted by u/guyb3
unboxingelf · 3 months ago
Nice thanks, I was finally able to design the schema for my dog turd tracker. The foreign key to the smells table was a great suggestion!
unboxingelf commented on macOS Tahoe   apple.com/os/macos/... · Posted by u/Wingy
drnick1 · 3 months ago
I am the only one to think that these days, GNOME and KDE are more usable than anything made by Microsoft or Apple? I think part of the reason is that devs working on these projects don't have an incentive to make arbitrary changes like people who need to justify their paychecks.
unboxingelf · 3 months ago
You’re not the only one.
unboxingelf commented on macOS Tahoe   apple.com/os/macos/... · Posted by u/Wingy
unboxingelf · 3 months ago
Who is macOS designed for? I assume a non negligible customer base are software professionals and this iOSification of the desktop is borderline hostile. I don’t get it.
unboxingelf commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace   instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
unboxingelf · 4 months ago
In addition to self hosting, anonymous access to hosted inference is another interesting path.

There’s a “A Decentralised LLM Routing Marketplace” being built out on nostr that leverages ecash.

https://www.routstr.com/

unboxingelf commented on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models   deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/bradleyg223
unboxingelf · 5 months ago
The Simulation Theory presents the following trilemma, one of which must be true:

1. Almost all human-level civilizations go extinct before reaching a technologically mature “posthuman” stage capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations.

2. Almost no posthuman civilizations are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history or beings like their ancestors.

3. We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

unboxingelf commented on Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans   propublica.org/article/pi... · Posted by u/wstrange
supportengineer · 6 months ago
I thought that US banks had to know their customers
unboxingelf · 6 months ago
KYC only hurts law abiding citizens.

Criminals just use stolen identities (from breaches of KYC data).

unboxingelf commented on Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app   delta.chat/en/... · Posted by u/Bluestein
heavyset_go · 6 months ago
I'm probably mixing up analogies with actual implementations, but I'm basing my question on sentiments like this[1]:

> While nostr offers the ability to send encrypted DMs to user pubkeys, the metadata of these messages are broadcast publicly via relays. This is the same as a bitcoin transaction being viewable on the public ledger. The contents of the direct message will be encrypted, but other metadata like the sender and recipient can be viewed by anyone.

[1] https://ron.stoner.com/nostr_Security_and_Privacy/

unboxingelf · 6 months ago
The analogy works in the visibility sense and I see why you might assume there’s a blockchain involved in Nostr. But to clarify, there is not.

It’s worth highlighting as there are many affinity scammers spinning up tokens/blockchains called “Nostr”.

unboxingelf commented on Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app   delta.chat/en/... · Posted by u/Bluestein
heavyset_go · 6 months ago
Doesn't Nostr expose the fact that you sent messages to certain people via its blockchain?
unboxingelf · 6 months ago
Nostr doesn’t have a blockchain or token.

Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.

It’s just signed json messages distributed by [websocket] relays.

u/unboxingelf

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