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I second Bitwarden. It’s open source and automatically copies the number to your clipboard. Migrating can be a pain in the ass but once you’re done, it’s great.

The good news is that if SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son backs it, it’ll fail in a matter of months.

Keeping interest rates high doesn’t even (usually) do that. The opposite, in fact. What The Fed is signaling to markets is that they expect Trump’s trade policies to be inflationary. Because they will.

This is one of the things Trump doesn’t understand.

To paraphrase Mayor Quimby: if the winds of change are blowing, never let it be said that Mark Zuckerberg does not also blow.

So stupid. It’s not the stupidest thing that Trump has done this week by any means but it’s still foolish. There’s the obvious environmental component but there’s also a business/economic argument for increasing fuel standards and phasing out ICE models. The car companies were fine with the Biden CAFE standards because that’s what they need to do anyway.

California was probably doing car companies a favor by banning ICE vehicle sales in 2035 and giving them a nudge. By 2035, ICE vehicle sales are probably going to be banned in half the world (and maybe all developed nations save a few petro-states). Most automakers are probably planning to be essentially EV-only around then because they want to export vehicles and ICE cars are going to be a shrinking, niche market even in the U.S.

It’s also not legal for him to make the offer without Congress allocating the funds and I doubt there’s much enthusiasm for this. And if he just ignores Congress, then he’s a dictator and just won’t pay like he doesn’t pay his legal bills. You’re screwed either way if you take the offer.

I suspect this is just a scheme to identify people who aren’t loyal to Trump so they can be sidelined and/or fired.

You’ll never actually get the money. Trump doesn’t have a slush fund he can use for this. Congress would have to allocate funding and they almost certainly won’t. Or he’s basically a dictator and just won’t pay like he doesn’t pay his lawyers and contractors.

They’re probably just trying to identify people who aren’t loyal to Trump so they can sideline or fire them. They don’t give a shit if some liberal gets scammed. I mean, Trump scams his own supporters. You think he gives a shit about scamming a liberal?

I kind of suspect this is as much about A.I. progress hitting a wall as anything else. It doesn’t seem like any of the LLMs are improving much between versions anymore. The U.S. companies were just throwing more compute (and money/electricity) at the problem and seeing small gains but it’ll be awhile before the next breakthrough.

Kind of like self-driving cars during their hype cycle. They felt tantalizingly close 10 years ago or so but then progress stalled and it’s been a slow grind ever since.

It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.

This is a bigger deal than I suspect people might realize. The reason there’s been destabilizing civil wars in Syria and Libya is their Russian bases. Now they might have to go through NATO country waters for basically everything in the Mediterranean.

Whether it’s wise is going to be up to history. I’m not saying that. I’m saying you could have predicted who would have a civil war 15 years ago with a map of Russian bases.

I have a Steam Deck and a Switch and I definitely plan to buy the Switch 2 when it’s available (and I mean actually available, not available on eBay or if I camp in front of a GameStop for three weeks).

There’s a surprising lot of ways that the Switch and the Deck play different roles for me. I prefer handheld gaming now — thanks to the Switch — so it’s nice that I can use the Steam Deck for my PC game backlog but also things like connecting to a gaming PC or console (or emulation or whatever). And since it’s also a Linux PC in disguise — it uses Arch, by the way — you can bounce over to Desktop mode and install basically anything. I’ve even used it for quick work stuff in a pinch.

But even if I sometimes enjoy customizing my Deck and checking FPS, sometimes, I don’t feel like fiddling with settings or care about FPS. As the article notes, Switch is a walled garden and a standard platform so it can’t do as much but every game is going to just open.

His manifesto is so bad. I know he wrote Mosaic and co-founded Netscape; presumably he has some type of intelligence. But he definitely can’t write manifestos for shit. The writing is awkward and his arguments so juvenile that they mostly just made me roll my eyes.

He basically writes like someone who only took the bare minimum of required humanities courses in college and every elective was in STEM. (Which is fine! He’s obviously had success in life. He just should use some of that money to hire a writer and editor to help with his next manifesto.)