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Edit: no. Software dude

Nope. NVidia has been making a shit ton of profit from the AI bubble.

That’s not the intended effect of a stock buyback.

In the world of High Frequency Trading, a stock buyback fucks everyone that doesn’t have HFT.

The intent of a stock buyback is an alternative means of divedend distribution, by causing the stock price to rise. It also allows the company to resell those stocks it bought back later to generate revenue if, and when, it needs it. It can also use that stock to compensate employees.

Its a good move for nVidia itself. It positions itself to continue to reap the benefits of the AI bubble as it has been doing all along. It also gives it a means of survival when the bubblr bursts.

Of the companies that aren’t hemorrhaging money its the hardware companies.

Personally, I’m generally favor of this move. Why?

When the bubble bursts, they can finally ditch the LLM market and go back to actual useful AI/ML & hardware.

Like, a startup my employer helped with is using AI to read biopsies and other medical imaging faster and more accurately than ever. The dataset it is trained on is enormous. Millions of images tagged only with the diagnostic information, all de-identified. A pathologist still has to sign off on it, and that pathologist is the point of accountability.

But the LLM companies need to die first. Hopefully this is a sign that the vortex is consuming the right antagonists.

Thats a good point.

Regardless, technology is too advanced for the lawmakers anyway.

Might as well just start enforcing amish policy adoption laws.

It wouldn’t, which is why I roll my eyes every time I see a bill demanding what a VPN must do.

The only way for them to actually enforce this through VPNs is to block VPNs. Which, presumably, they’ll do at some point, but with an exception list for companies paying the right license fee to use a Government Approved VPN.

Which, obviously, will be full of security flaws, and likely won’t be HIPPA compliant or other compliances etc, etc.

I mean…

You show me one man who doesn’t wish they could. And I’ll do you a liar.

Thermite isn’t exactly hard to make, and it does a marvelous job at melting anything capable of melting.

Don’t try to explain technology to them. It won’t work.

VPNs?

… ok good luck

We are?

… the whole point of solving those problems is to discover what we were missing in the process.

You can’t just “solve” one of these problems and say “see, all good.”

Signal does not use SMS.

The vulnerability they call out in the article is a phishing attack. A phishing attack requires the user’s input. There is no defense, no security, no techniques or technology to prevent you from handing the key to your safe to someone else.

Im going to go out on a limb here and suggest something that should be obvious - you don’t have to link devices

You just pointed something out there that I haven’t really considered. But its also the difference between abolitionists and reformists too- namely, abolition should be the goal, but don’t let that stop you from making reforms too.

Hard to imagine? I’ve been living it real time for 25 years. Its just speeding up.

IT DOESN’T ADVERTISE ITSELF AS A SECURE PLATFORM!!!

It says PRIVACY. If you are dancing ass naked inside your house but you have your windows open… guess what?

Its also a failure of the user’s access control and operating security.

Once a third party has access to the secure environment, that environment is and will always be compromised.

Interesting they highlight Signal again as though this is a vulnerability.

If someone else has access to a linked device… that’s you fucking up access controls.