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When does investing become gambling?
Is there a hard threshold? Do high risk investments such as penny stocks qualify as gambling? Do low risk investments? Annuities? Bonds? CDs?...
Suggest me a secure chat platform for my family
I am searching for a selfhosted and secure (end to end encryption) chat platform for my family (5-20 users), possibly one i can host on a raspi....
A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water (lemmy.world)
… and I can’t even continue the chat from my phone.
YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says (fortune.com)
Freddie Mercury riding Darth Vader (lemmy.world)
Freddie Mercury, comes out for an encore riding on the shoulders of Darth Vader. Houston, August 10, 1980
TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
[General question to the Android community] Have you given up on the audio jack, or do you still only buy devices that have it?
(Posting this here rather than !askandroid as it’s a quite general question)...
isopods are friends (mander.xyz)
Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)
But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don’t do this not because they can’t but because they don’t want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.
What is the most difficult problem that you have fixed in linux? (lemmy.world)
General Advice for shell scripts
What do you advice for shell usage?...
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (www.wired.com)
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control::Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers but after mass layoffs the industry’s culture has shifted. Engineers say that getting hired can require days of work on unpaid assignments.
$3 for a single McDonald's hash brown? Some customers are fed up and pushing back (www.ksl.com)
“Even though we’re pushing through pricing, the consumer is tolerating it well,” he said in October analyst call....
Which option lads? (lemmy.world)
Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates (www.independent.co.uk)
“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”...
Why is TikTok seen as privacy invading and bad, but Facebook is fine?
I’m not here to claim that Tiktok is completely harmless, or that it’s even a good site. I’m sure they absolutely do collect as much personal information as they can, and I’m sure they give it to the Chinese government whenever they ask. But I don’t understand how Meta and Facebook are meant to be any better? There’s...
Powerball jackpot increases to $1.55 billion after no one wins (www.nbcnews.com)
Powerball’s massive jackpot will rollover and increase after Saturday’s drawing produced no winning tickets, according to the game’s website....