My Nespresso maker was stolen.

I have a fancy Delonghi Nespresso machine in the coffee nook space at my office. One morning I go to make my usual oat milk latte to find my machine is gone! I contacted building security who informed me there is no camera on our floor.

After scouring several floors in my building, I was ready to give up. Talking to some of my co-workers they suggested sending a mass email out to the teams that had recently relocated from our office. I proceed to do so. Turns out our new CEO is in our building and was in on of the building email lists. So my first interaction with the new CEO is to accuse them of stealing my coffee machine!

It turns out that this was more a Three’s Company episode than a CSI episode. One of the other teams had made a request for their own machine and when they moved, had assumed it belonged to them and slapped a moving sticker on it. In the end I hot my machine back. Hopefully I don’t get sacked by the nee CEO!

I use an RSS reader to grab headlines from several sources. I read the headlines once in the morning and once in the evening. My goal is to know what is going on. As much as possible I try not to get too emotionally engaged during this process. I try to be informed without being outraged or depressed.

Go read the FIDO threat model if you want to understand how it protects against specific attacks. It is pretty secure.

https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-id-20180227/fido-security-ref-v2.0-id-20180227.html

Jet Lag

It is hard to do well which is why I worry. Google probably has the best overall account security, you could fo worse than modeling after them.

The short answer to your question is Passkeys. But you need a whole system of account recovery around them.

I love Lemmy and Voyager and the Fediverse. That said, if it were to become mainstream I forsee some problems. The fact that the login relies on only passwords is pretty terrible. Also, this makes the service vulnerable to bots, sock puppet accounts, brigading, etc.

Vegemite is good. I like Promite better.

We have come so far through the application of rationality and the scientific method. All the wonders of the modern world we owe to science.

What has pseudoscience bought us? Ignorance and stagnation.

I want to live in a world of technological progress not a “Demon Haunted World.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

Anytime I post about AI or LLMs I get aggressively downvoted.

I do not do it very often and when I do it usually a gee whiz, look at that post. Inevitably the response is AI slop!!! AI is bad, you are bad , you should feel bad.

Caraway seeds are good too.

A PC can be a server. A server can be a PC.

Famously Google use commodity PC hardware to build the v1 version of its search engine:

Day of Defeat source players:

https://steamcharts.com/app/300#All

Its like being on an island that is slowly sinking into the sea.

Source mod tools not to be confused with Sourcemod tools.

I can only speak for myself and my kids. I have an iPhone because my work gave me one for free. They only support iPhone for security reasons. Keeping Android devices up to date across a large fleet is challenging leaving security gaps. For my kids they wanted my old iPhones because it’s what all their friends have.

Yes I have been a Lemmy advocate since I joined, but I have only ever gotten one person to use Lemmy. I told one of my daughters friends mom about Lemmy. She does not allow her daughter to use social media. Except for Lemmy.

So that is it. My one conversion. I have kind of given up on trying to convert people. I still love Lemmy and the Fediverse, but the year of Lemmy mainstream has yet to come.

Rubber sheets

I read it. It was relevant. Otherwise I would not have posted it. I did not clean it up because I was on mobile and it was legible as is.

I asked several questions and was impressed at the result. I know people do not like LLMs, but they are tools just like a search engine. I am somehow getting Butlerian Jihad vibes.

I could have gotten the same information from Google. Would that still be lazy?

From ChatGPT:

Ending the Bretton Woods system in 1971 had a cascading effect on corporate profits and income distribution. Wealth shifting toward shareholders and executives rather than workers:

1. Deregulation of Money and Credit

Once the dollar was no longer tied to gold, the U.S. government and Federal Reserve had more flexibility in managing the money supply. This led to:

• Higher inflation, which eroded workers’ real wages.

• Easier access to credit, fueling corporate financialization (more focus on stock buybacks, mergers, and financial engineering instead of wage growth).

2. Rise of Shareholder Capitalism

With the shift away from the gold standard, corporate governance changed. Instead of focusing on long-term growth and worker stability, companies prioritized maximizing shareholder value, which became a dominant ideology by the 1980s (reinforced by Milton Friedman’s theories).

• Stock Buybacks & Dividends – Companies increasingly used profits to buy back shares, boosting stock prices and benefiting executives/shareholders.

• Executive Compensation in Stocks – CEO pay shifted from salaries to stock options, aligning their interests with shareholders rather than employees.

3. Decline in Labor’s Bargaining Power

As globalization and automation accelerated, companies could move production abroad, weakening the leverage of American workers. Meanwhile:

• Unions declined, further reducing workers’ ability to demand wage increases.

• Deregulation in industries like finance, airlines, and trucking shifted power away from labor and toward corporate management.

4. Explosion of Financialization

The detachment from gold allowed an unrestricted credit boom, fueling speculative bubbles and making the financial sector more dominant. Instead of reinvesting profits into worker wages or capital expansion, firms:

• Focused on financial activities (derivatives, leveraged buyouts, etc.), which benefited investors rather than workers.

• Moved toward short-term profits, cutting costs via outsourcing and automation.

End Result

With productivity still rising but wages stagnating, the gains went disproportionately to executives and shareholders. This is why, after 1971, you see charts showing a widening gap between worker pay and corporate profits.

He was a shit human, but he was also a politician. His political message had two parts: 1. Jews are responsible for all our problems 2. We need to conquer more lands.

He said this was the only alternative to handing the country to communists.

The simple xenophobic message appealed to the common people, fear of communism bought the elites in-line.