sigmoid10

>the people holding the bag saw their money find its way to the pockets of those who got rich

This is the key issue. Crypto by itself created little to no actual additional value. Especially when it devolved into just another centralized currency with less government oversight. So the whole thing was a zero-sum game. People only got rich because they made others poor.

>Estimated total impact: ~$6.3B, with ~$3B frozen on-chain so far, in coordination with our blockchain partners

I always find it amusing to read this. Why would you even bother with a decentralized currency that can move freely across the globe when some centralized institutions can always interfere in the way legacy banks used to do with your money? Either they are misguiding you about the core value of their product or their ability to execute traditional interventions in cases of theft. You can't have the conveniences of both at the same time.

Basically the question for any executable code (or even just any data) that you let on your machine and which did not go through independent vetting processes. The question you need to ask is if the benefit (getting rid of an annoying popup) is worth the risk of a distribution method that is trivial to compromise.

With the current admin, this will never get pursued by the feds.

It has already become irrelevant to anyone paying attention. Raw scores at published benchmarks mean next to nothing in modern use. They are either gamed to hell or unsolved to the point where differences can be explained by randomness. Speed, cost per token, tokens per task and hallucination levels are the useful axes you can compare along these days if you're not doing scientific frontier level research.

Huggingface chose not to pursue legal action under computer fraud laws this time, but I'm sure one day they will sting a hornets nest with this behaviour. They will get sued into oblivion and then we will probably see common law emerge to hold AI users accountable. Or not, in which case all hell will break lose.

You can do so and that's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid to buy a crazy expensive GPU and then only run it in a limited way because of some personal preference in an unrelated field.

Everything that runs with such a major performance decrease will also run fine on a cheap phone. If this is your normal use case that's fine, but it simply means you also didn't need such a powerful Iphone in the first place. It's like buying an RTX5090 and then playing 2048 in a browser and saying you don't understand why people always install Nvidia drivers.

Breaking is not the issue (at least most of the time), but the performance loss is everywhere.

This is an important distinction. Quantum mechanics as a framework is the correct description of reality as far as we can measure (excluding some loopholes like superdeterminism). This is as close to the foundation or "god" or whatever you want to call it as it gets. If you look at specific quantum model descriptions (like the Schrödinger equation), we know they are not complete. Even relativistically correct Dirac equation is still not the full picture, because we don't fully understand how gravity fits into this on short length scales. But the current principles like Bell's theorem exist independently with all their implications on our reality and they will not go away, no matter what else we discover at the bottom.

I guess you don't browse any modern webpages? Otherwise I can't explain your perspective. You basically lose up to 95% of performance in anything remotely resembling a JS heavy web app. So it would run the same as on a cheap Android phone.

These are still 1-click, not zero click. So the best protection you can have is not opening unknown files that were sent to you. That being said, lockdown mode blocks all sorts of message attachments. From the videos it look like they are using pdfs in the messaging vector, which would get blocked too. So you would be safe-ish. But lockdown mode is so restrictive that it doesn't really make sense for most users. Or at least it doesn't make sense to buy a $1500 phone and then limit yourself to something you could have gotten for $50.

Like what? And how do you get something that you want out of somebody who doesn't care or understand what you want? He may see you like a fat gorilla asking Einstein to fetch more bananas. Or maybe you can't even hold his attention long enough to formulate your desires. Most people have never interacted with this kind of Autism. In any result oriented environment where the results are governed by others, this person is essentially worthless to you.

>Otherwise it can be manipulated by mitm or a bad actor with the keys.

That is not true. Or at least there are no known attack vectors. Modern privacy coins would not work otherwise.