Stock market crash? I believe less and less a 1929 style crash is possible. Tesla, Uber, hell, look at GameStop still... The market is rigged. The US and the upper class needs numbers go up, the numbers will go up.
The only way an adjustment to such stock prices would come is if US power and dollar vanes. There is a chance now this will happen, but I guess it will still take a long time.
That doesn't seem plausible to me, though not because I don't think the upper class would be above such behaviour. If investors try to prop up the price of a company, they'll end up buying more over-priced shares and potentially losing far more money in the long-term, so it's probably only worthwhile if they believe that it's just a short-term blip. Also, the investors that don't believe that it's a sensible long-term bet will be offloading their shares to the people who are willing to pay top price for them, so someone is going to end up holding a lot of expensive stock that's not performing.
HN is not designed from the ground up to be addictive. In fact, the simple fact its UI is ugly by default is a significant factor in limiting the audience to people I actually like to hang out with.
"Posting on Reddit requires running nonfree JavaScript code."
I have much respect for him but this is at the level of old-man-shouting-at. Criticism should be more targeted and not just rehashing the same arguments, even if true.
Even with a perfectly free client you still need to perform computation on a remote machine that's outside of your control to post on (or read) reddit. Which is the same violation he moans about in this article,
> Doing your own computing via software running on someone else's server inherently trashes your computing freedom.
As always with Stallman he is dogmatic well past the point of reasonableness.
Stallman is stalwart. The dogma is the point and his obstinate, steady nature is what I love best about him. Free software continues to be incredibly important. For me, he is fresh air in the breathlessly optimistic, grasping, and negligent climate currently dominating the field.
reddit was also open source at one point, so at least in theory anybody could run their own copy. I agree Stallman is far from reasonable but AFAIK he's consistent with his unreasonable standards.
The problem is genuinely the misleading nature of the phrase "end to end" and the lack of a better alternative. HTTPS is "end to end". There should be some new word for "decryptable only by the user".
They were solid top in quality for 15 years for Android. DeX, pen features, camera software was solid. OneUI became very customizeable. But it was stably boring at best, and atrocious at worst, and they couldn't ship any other standout feature that wasn't scrapped soon after.
Now they shipped the same camera on their most sold flagship phone 3 years in a row, same battery size for 5 years. Flip-flopping between Qualcomm CPUs as their own couldn't compete after years of trying. They don't deserve the spot they have for quite some time now.
Android: You can get the message db with root. You can export individual chats in text version right from the interface. The message media is stored in the user folders.
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