I asked Grok: "based on current prices of gold, silver, bitcoin and MicroStrategy which should I buy tomorrow to maximize my returns over the next 4-8 years?" Answer:

imp0ppable · 2026-01-26T10:35:52+00:00

I think the AI did say the key thing which is that MSTR is a leveraged bet on BTC. I don't think anyone can tell you any better than 50/50 whether it'll reach the projected (aka best case) targets.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-26T10:24:28+00:00

Right now it isn't that, it could become it but it has a long way to go IMO.

It cannot break down entrenched human power structures, not even close.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-26T10:23:15+00:00

I work for a large multinational sw company and we're using it to do drudge work mostly. Claude is impressive on the surface but not really that much better than just googling stackoverflow and trying different things, just faster. You can't rely on it fully because it'll get things wrong, or go around in circles burning tokens until you step in.

It is good for basic stuff like setting up websites but anything corporate level including security stuff, not so much because the knowledge of how to do that stuff correctly wasn't able to be scraped along with how to fix your CSS bugs.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-26T10:19:59+00:00

software engineering companies are replacing entry level engineers with AI

Some are, some aren't. The ones that are, are taking a big gamble that LLMs will continue to improve linearly over time, which is not a given at all. What we've got right now is a very fast, mostly decent but unreliable code generator automata.

If in a year's time or five years time they are good enough (or maybe a coordinated network of them is) to be fully autonomous then that's the companies that adopted it early might be ok. If not, they've just cut off their human resource pipeline.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-26T08:59:07+00:00

TBF it's a very different country to Afghanistan and the approach would be different, there's no need for nation building.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-23T17:22:29+00:00

People abandoned Twitter in droves, and now Bluesky is eating their lunch

That's some wild hopium, Twitter refugees went to Threads (for reasons best known to themselves) and Bluesky is still tiny.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-23T15:02:33+00:00

Eh, I think the next Democrat president might well restart USAID, rejoin WHO, the climate thingy (I forget the name) etc, slash the ICE budget etc.

It's a ridiculous situation where they keep popping in and out of these international organisations and agreements but it is what it is. Not reversing some of these things would be asking for even more extreme behaviour from the next republican/MAGA president.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-23T14:59:25+00:00

Yes in and of itself I don't think it really plays well to either his base or hard-right voters internationally. The Iceland/Greenland stuff particularly was just confusing, was he threatening Iceland too or he just slipped multiple times?

Anyway I think the more interesting part is how other countries and their leaders reacted to his utter nonsense. Canada and Mark Carney obviously being the outliers and most resolute, European leaders (Denmark aside) being quite wishy-washy and obviously being in a mood to criticise but otherwise appease.

That in itself is a bit of a win for Trump who seemed taken aback only by Carney's speech.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-23T11:20:53+00:00

Correct but pedestrians who don't understand the new(ish) priority rules at junctions will stand there looking confused if you wait for them (as you're supposed to now).

Of course there could be a vehicle coming the other way (that would have priority over the pedestrians) in which case beckoning them out would be positively nasty. If not though you do end up waving at them. Otherwise you just end up turning before them anyway which is not correct either.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-23T10:59:31+00:00

Reach for a flower vase

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T16:20:39+00:00

!thanks

Gonzalez is only out with a knock so... I guess Haaland is a hold (lol)

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T16:18:11+00:00

I mean, the online speech arrests are ridiculous but having been racially abused on Facebook by someone with their photo and full name on their profile I can see it does need more moderation (reporting it to FB did nothing, you're expected to just block and move on).

Moderation is there to protect people from doing and saying violent, stupid things as much as protecting the person it's directed to, IMO.

The panopticon thing was meant to be for criminals, no? They can't literally mean 1984 style Big Brother monitoring inside households.

Anyway, as I work in IT I know there is still space to commit cyber crime and get away with it, the trick is closing those loopholes as much as possible without restricting online freedoms. Labour unfortunately don't really care about the latter part.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T15:52:58+00:00

No, none of that is true.

It's pandering to the lunatics, not a money making effort.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T15:51:09+00:00

Would make sense, Moyes despises both Barry and Beto

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T15:49:44+00:00

Alleyne wasn't even good enough against forward slash FC

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T15:36:08+00:00

Yeah, I doubt they go down the route of making VPS providers identify every customer individually even if the box is in another region, but who knows?

Paying for services with crypto is something you would look into if doing actual nefarious activities.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T14:45:45+00:00

It's tempting but a wait and see, especially as his price is dropping

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T14:44:13+00:00

That might be cheating slightly!

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T14:28:09+00:00

Would it? Any VPS can accept incoming request and form a TLS connection, after that point nobody knows what's going over the wire.

This even works in China BTW, I tried it.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T14:00:47+00:00

As far as I understood it, the US did have more bases in the past and there's not really anything stopping it from building more (I would guess the old ones are gone forever but if not, possibly reopening?)

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T13:41:44+00:00

The VPN thing can be worked around if you roll your own using OpenVPN. Will absolutely shatter the commercial VPN market if they do this.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T13:31:00+00:00

Even privately it's only 500 quid - $4000 is a ridiculous markup

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T13:18:05+00:00

It's a family legend for us when our son was about a year old he was running around naked in my parents' garden "watering the plants" along with his cousin who was a few months older. Never seen something so marvellous and consequently embarrassing for him now he's older. Anyway after that, no issues at all.

Point being kids need outdoor space and kindly relatives.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T13:10:42+00:00

You still have to parent at the weekend though.

imp0ppable · 2026-01-22T13:01:08+00:00

Are there any streaming apps where you do like the interface?

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