Pondering differences between wealth taxes and inflation. I guess the primary difference is that with a national currency, a wealth tax is how states can independently implement the effect.
Pondering differences between wealth Dan Lyke / comment 0
Pondering differences between wealth taxes and inflation. I guess the primary difference is that with a national currency, a wealth tax is how states can independently implement the effect.
Samsung Magician Dan Lyke / comment 0
A good rant about a crappy tool for setting passwords in SSD encryption, or something? Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two Recovery Mode reboots to uninstall.
Read down to where they embedded Electron to show a pie chart. And then down to where they embedded 150 PNGs for a "health good" animation.
Tahoe update Dan Lyke / comment 1
What I wanted for a MacOS Tahoe 16.4 update: performance, stability, security, better handling of switches disabling "Liquid Glass", square corners...
What I got: 🧑🩰
(p²-1) % 24 == 0 Dan Lyke / comment 0
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @shayman@cosocial.ca
TIL: For any prime number p >= 5, p²-1 is divisible by 24.
That's cool.
Isn't it?
Yes it is.
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @shayman@cosocial.ca
Informal proof that for a prime p >=5, p²-1 must be a multiple of 24.
p²-1 = (p-1)(p+1)
p-1, p, p+1 are three consecutive integers. One of them must be divisible by 3 - and it can't be p, because p is prime. So either p-1 or p+1 is a multiple of 3.
Also, p is odd, so p-1 and p+1 are both even - and one or the other must be divisible by 4. One is a multiple of 2, the other of 4.
So the product of p-1 and p+1 has factors of 2, 3 and 4, and must be a multiple of 2*3*4 =24.
axios supply chain attack social engineering Dan Lyke / comment 0
Simon Willison has a link to the axios npm supply chain compromise post-mortem, including Jayson Saayman's description of how the social engineering worked.
tl;dr: extremely real looking contact with a company that eventually ended up as a Microsoft Teams meeting, that complained that some component was out of date, update process on that component was the compromise.
Nota plagiarism Dan Lyke / comment 0
Because better solutions for local (and, yes, national and international) news are on my radar: An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work
Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos
I mean, it's an AI company, so of course it didn't actuall "set out to fix news deserts", it set out to exploit a human desire to fix news deserts, and of course it fucked over the actual reporters.
Reminder to mobile email client Dan Lyke / comment 1
Reminder to mobile email client developers: Often people have urgent tasks to do with their phone. Nobody wants to take your five minute tour of new features when they're trying to find a login code because a friend is helping them solve their Netflix billing issue after a square dance.
Assholes.
Listening to Who Killed Avril Dan Lyke / comment 0
Listening to "Who Killed Avril Lavigne?" on the walk to work this morning, and... it's super dumb in a good way. If you need a pop-punk flashback to the '90s made by a bunch of people who are obviously friends and having fun...