Westminster Penguin ₿

Some owls may be superb, but penguins are better.

@L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N @grok , the OS protects this memory so nothing can abuse this, right? Right? We're doomed, aren't we?

Microsoft Edge loads all your saved passwords into memory in cleartext — even when you’re not using them.

@PetrolSea @popculture72632 @LundukeJournal God have mercy on that jury.

@popculture72632 @LundukeJournal The entire defamation lawsuit would probably require a jury of normal citizens to look at the nsfw images and decide that they did not depict minors. Good luck with that.

Australian Linux YouTuber, Brodie Robertson, has made the following statement, apparently in response to coverage of his past distribution of pornographic drawings of children. “I will not be speaking further on the matter until I've discussed my options with legal counsel”

@IterIntellectus A segment of them started stealing more and leaving more of a mess?

they're calling them "consumers that changed habits" now

@LundukeJournal Sadly, they cancelled what could have been the best show with Universe.

I'm a big Star Trek fan (well... other than the most recent stuff). And I really enjoy Star Wars (again... other than some of the newest stuff). Right now we're doing a watch of Stargate from the beginning... and can confidently say that it's worthwhile. Both SG-1 and Atlantis have some extremely fun story lines.

@BigT42156385 @AdamBLiv Priority in bankruptcy. STRF is second to bonds. STRD is after everything, except the common.

@AdamBLiv What are the differences between STRD and STRF

Just an FYI tomorrow morning you can buy STRK at a price for more than 10% yield before it goes to monthly or semi monthly and the price skyrockets. Get paid 10% effective while waiting for MSTR and Bitcoin to moon… 🤔🤔🤔 70% STRD / 30% MSTR is also a killer income/growth allocation that IMHO is better than 100% STRK. Regardless, I don’t expect the deals to last.

@Hoppy_89 @AdamBLiv It will never make sense to convert. At $1,000 it's effectively in the money. At that point it will follow MSTR, but it will still have the dividends.

@AdamBLiv Adam am I right that the STRK conversion would only be worth it once the MSTR price is over $1000? Good for people that believe in strategy long term?

@BitcoinTeacher_ @grok , what would the market cap on XRP be if it went up to $10? Is this even possible?

“Me personally I have one point three million in XRP”

@HermesLux Theta was slow, but then sudden.

Here's a perfect example of Extrinsic vs Intrinsic value. Like stock options, all things tend towards their intrinsic value over time.

@saylor Hourly?

How often would you prefer to be paid dividends?

@esrtweet It's been great for me. The AUR having a package for everything you can imagine is a huge win. Stability has been good. The most common issues don't take down the system or anything, but packages that won't install due to packager mistakes, usually fixed in a day or two.

Question for the X hivemind: I'm seriously considering switching my main machine from Pop!_OS (a reskinned Ubuntu) to Arch, probably CachyOS. The reason is I'm attracted to the rolling-release concept. Getting really tired of waiting 6 months for my development tools to upgrade after they ship. I understand the downside: Arch doesn't protect me from upstream breakage. The plan to deal with that is to install snapper so I can revert to an earlier, working version of my system if things go badly awry. If you think there are any reasons this is a really bad plan, tell me now.

@kangminlee And he's begging for money. Somehow I'm not surprised, just disappointed.

No, you're a man.

@BitBrew1 @HermesLux I wish I could print money to buy companies! (Or Bitcoin)

@HermesLux Debts not being paid off but what the US plans to do is to take ownership in companies and have the sovereign wealth fund and the assets they own become more than the debt. It’s the same as just investing instead of paying off your 4% mortgage.

The idea that the US must eventually "pay off" its national debt is based on a misunderstanding. The country doesn't need to eliminate its debt, and in a fiat currency system, doing so isn't even necessary or desirable. Most people view debt through the lens of personal finance, where it's often seen as inherently risky or bad. But sovereign debt is different—it's just one data point in a much larger economic picture. Rising debt on its own isn't automatically a problem if the economy is growing, productivity is rising, and revenues are expanding alongside it. Context matters. Many variables shift every month and year, from GDP growth and tax receipts to interest rates and inflation. This principle applies to all major fiat-currency nations, though not all countries are equal in their ability to manage it. The most relevant metric isn't the raw debt total, but debt-to-GDP, which better accounts for the size of the economy, population growth, and overall productive capacity. Since 2005, U.S. national debt has surged roughly 380%, while debt-to-GDP has risen about 120%—less than one-third as much. Annually, debt-to-GDP has grown around 5.7% per year, compared to 8.1% for total debt. This has real implications for investors. If your portfolio hasn't averaged at least 8.1% annual returns over the past 20 years, its purchasing power has likely declined relative to the growth in the national debt burden—even if your investments are nominally up (say, 8% per year). In an environment where the debt is expanding faster than the economy, simply keeping pace isn't enough; you need to outpace it to preserve real value. Note: The closest personal finance equivalent of a country's Debt-to-GDP ratio is your Total Debt-to-Income ratio (or your personal debt relative to your annual earnings).

@cmuratori Don't users press Win+R for the run dialog?

I wanted to test this now-promulgated claim that "94ms time-to-show" - assuming that's accurate - would constitute Microsoft having "managed to improve the run prompt latency" that "nobody has had an issue with" in previous versions. On a 60fps* HDMI frame capture from my Windows 10 machine that's around a decade old (Intel i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz), there is one visible frame in between completing the click action and seeing a completely-drawn "run" dialog. The run dialog appears hollow for a single frame, then fills in (as shown). With just a capture, I can't tell if this is benefiting from a "hidden" extra frame of latency, because the Start Menu appears to take one extra frame to "disappear". One frame prior to the first one in the screenshot appears to have actually finished the click (the mouse cursor changed), but the Start Menu does an extra frame of color change on the text after that. Without looking at the code, I'm not sure whether to count that against "run" or against the Start Menu if we're being meticulous - and of course I don't know whether the "94 ms" (apparently median) time would have been counting that time or not. Either way, "94ms time-to-show" would clearly be a significant regression unless that number is measuring something very different from "response after completing the click on Run". The Windows 10 version on 9-year-old hardware appears to be responding within either ~33ms or 50ms depending on how you count the frames. Normally, I would now say "this means, best case, it will feel like a 30fps experience," but we all know how that would go. Apparently it is just horribly nefarious and misleading to tell people an equivalent FPS number to help them gauge the responsiveness of an interactive program in a casual tweet you make on social media. Of course, please note that I am not measuring total physical latency here (like mouse-to-event or submission-to-display) latency here, as I assume the originally quoted "94ms" was not measuring those things either. Either way, once there is a wide-release version of the new Run dialog, it will be easy enough to test if it has improved or not by running like-for-like captures, which I cannot do here because I don't have the new purportedly-faster version. * I apologize profusely for using the term "60fps" to specify the rate at which these frames were captured so you could have a reference for their temporal spacing. I realize that it is highly misleading to use FPS, especially when looking at only 2 frames. I should clearly have said "on a 16.66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 millisecond per frame capture", so that everyone would much better intuitive understanding of what was going on.

@cmuratori @Eric_Cochran They have Stockholm Syndrome from years of being abused by Microsoft.

@Eric_Cochran Not if you believe all the amazing replies to my post :( People apparently think 100ms is really fast, and that doing things like loading the history takes a long time. I guess they have 1.5gb of run history or something :)

Just want to make sure I'm reading this right: Microsoft rewrote the run dialog with performance "top-of-mind", and the best they could manage to do when putting up a single text box was 10fps?

@hoshizorarock I don't like hot dogs with my cheese. But if you're going to eat hot dogs, you might as well improve it with cheese, and chilli.

チーズはホットドッグに合うと思いますか？🧀 アメリカ合衆国の皆様答えてもらえますか？👮

@DigitalEU @grok, enlighten us, do you have any peers in Europe?

Europe is emerging as a new hub for AI talent. Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands are attracting more AI professionals as global flows shift. Luxembourg and Denmark also stand out per capita. #FrAIday: tr.ee/jd7fXO

@MarcelaMarjean Noncitizens running the government. Well, that's probably already happening, but publicly in office.

Upside down world. What’s next? Tell me.

@hoshizorarock Didn't look up before activating the jump jets to pass the car in front of him. It happens all the time!

アメリカ人よ！！ 説明しなさい🥺 これはどういう状況だ？

@HermesLux I think it would pay better, and if on margin it uses significantly less collateral.

Selling MSTR 10 Delta puts would just as easily print but without the upside appreciation of owning shares.

@vertibtw @typecraft_dev @OmarchyLinux Oh, the irony. x.com/i/status/20498…

@typecraft_dev @OmarchyLinux cuck linux dot com it's not even a distro, it's just very bad dotfiles trying to be one

I don't understand. @OmarchyLinux is enabling all kinds of people to try out interesting linux tooling and ideas. Bringing more and more people into linux. Who cares if its arch, debian, whatever. It's fun, and its growing the broader linux community. Comments like this hurt. Not me, they hurt the community. This kind of gatekeeping scares people away from linux. Please don't do this. I love linux, I love the community. Let's grow it. Not gatekeep it. Please.