in-depth discussions from a tax/investor/small biz perspective (most of it is not applicable to me or 80% of the population so i just watched at 1.5x speed to get a gist of issues)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMV0PA2jkrk
edit: some of the 'problems' like the negative gearing impacting borrowing power... i'm like good... that's the point!
problems like restructuring costs and stamp duty... yeah that's kinda a legit issue.
Mainline linux drivers or gtfo
china is only evil when you deal with them directly
if there is a suitably wealthy and white middle man like walmart, apple or amazon between you and the red menace, then it's just good old fashion murika apple pie freedom.
inference providers could be anyone from anywhere, there are even proxy resellers. some are harvesting and reselling your data.
if you send your code to claude/openai/google there is certainly a much higher degree of confidence in who you are sending your data to. yes they to harvest your data and can send you malicious commands (esp if you have a promp injection attack).
its like buying a cheap vps, if the stakes are low its fine, if it important then you need to consider about the consequences of your actions.
nb: i am no expert, just fucking around.
ollama or llama.cpp to self host if you have a good mac or good video card. this is perfectly safe.
there are a bazillion hosted inference providers to choose from https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/en/index be aware that you are sending your code to fuck knows who and they are sending back fuck knows what. ymmv, yolo.
hook one of them up to opencode.ai or pi.dev or one of the bazillion other 'harneses' or whatever we are calling it this week and try not to rm -r anything important.
for a good time try and get a chinese models to say something about tibet, or taiwan... its like having your own virtual tankie tamagochi!
The authors recommend "unbundling" car parking spaces so that they can be bought or rented separately from a unit.
this would be perfect👌
provides a new stream of income to strata as well. maybe dip shits will be less inclined to leave their car's in the visitor and disabled spaces if they can just rent their own/another.
i think the politics is mostly around local nimbys that see free on street parking as theirs and don't want to share with filthy apartment dwelling scum.
recycling the classics
Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan
trying to dictate who we fuck
complains about tyranny
behold the master race
kinda depends how you set it up and run it, no?
i have some simple new projects that are clean and easy, and some 10+ year old monstrosities that are the spawn of satan.
need to use ublock to stop the insane 'pls bro buy our ai' pop-up though.
anyone who didnt is a fucking idiot