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Could we have the same level of security - or very close to it - from requiring a secure enclave like a vm running on the device for banking apps with hardware passthrough, or would there be no way for that vm to verify it has actual hardware passthrough and that it's not being tampered with?

That way you would just get the entire vm with the app from the Play Store or Apple, and nobody needs to worry about root?


I might be paranoid, but I like that my bankcards are in a metal case (I got it because it's water/dustproof, but I like the bonus) and I like that Wallet only activates the rfid for a second, then I'm no longer broadcasting.

Even if someone cloned your card info, they couldn't use it to do anything.

Rent would go through the roof and it would become even harder to get out of the rental trap. It's better to just have a very low hard cap on the number of properties anyone can own.

People being less likely to buy multiple houses is going to make it harder for people to buy a primary residence?

You think landlords won't pass their costs on to tenants? How do the tenants save when their rent is even more unaffordable than it is now?

He's in real estate. Of course he has an angle. Hopefully they can get something worthwhile into the eventual bill anyways.

I would hard cap how many houses anybody can own to something like 4 - whether through an LLC or otherwise. Many countries do not or did not allow foreign ownership of residential real estate. It's definitely not in the interest of any people to have their very land taken from them. In the current climate that would likely take an extremely nasty turn so it's not the best time for it, but I would be very supportive of such a measure with an exception for permanent residents and spouses of US citizens.


I still love notepad++. Basically one of only a handful of apps I miss from when I used Windows. First release about a year before textmate, so for me it's the real og.

It's a tool for programmers. Use google + ctrl+f. Not a hill to die on.

How is googling it meant to work when they keep changing what the AI settings are called each month?

LLMs are pretty good at this sort of thing.

I use emacs, so maybe they're better trained on my editor. But I've had a lot of success resolving little annoyances I have just lived with for years talking to Claude in gptel.

I can't get it to do real work for shit, but it's A+ at helping me waste time with yak-shaving. lol


Alternatively, use the single setting that was literally just given to you above. That is pretty much as easy as it gets without resurrecting Clippy to help you figure it out. It's not reasonable to expect a massive bloated gui if people have 10k+ settings they are using.

The problem is that they keep adding new ai "features" all under different names and different settings, then shuffling the settings around.

Having a "master switch" doesn't matter, since their standard operating procedure is to waffle-stomp more "features" into vscode every month that will fall under a different setting and then they'll continue to shuffle them around.

Their indifference towards their own user-hostility with regards to this is the main problem.


I'm confused—how does putting in a master switch for those who want to opt-out entirely from the AI revolution occurring at the moment not matter? Are you saying that new features will fail to respect it?

The newer questions that LLMs can't answer will be answered in forums - either SO, reddit, or elsewhere. There will be a much higher percentage of relevant content with far fewer new pages regurgitating questions about solved problems. So the LLMs will be able to keep up.

It would be close to impossible to demonstrate loss, which is always highly relevant in copyright suits (not a lawyer, but I have scanned and digitized hundreds of thousands of pages at https://CatholicLibrary.org and read up on the topic over the years).

Write a strongly worded letter to the manager (apple). It's easy on other hardware.

Try OnlyOffice. It is more polished than Libreoffice and can sign pdfs.

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