They’ll likely want specialists from the one that does. Hence the culture.

I like Taiwan (I admire China as a civilization, and the democratic part of it especially), but chip production should be decentralized.

Bleeding edge is good and all, but there are plenty of applications where you don’t need anything near bleeding edge. While centralized production means centralization around one specific chain of countries involved in that production. A major center somewhere else would most likely have a different chain. A few major centers - even more. That would create redundancy and improve competitiveness.

Ukraine’s were Russian honest word.

They had a lot of nukes, shouldn’t have given them all to Russia. It was a case of western pressure btw. Not having too many nuclear powers and all that.

Because in the country where they have the process actually existing, in the company that has the process actually existing, the culture of said country applies. Which means despotism, corporate fanaticism and long work hours.

Of course they do. Holding someone’s leash it’s easier to control them and thus, among other things, prevent them from violating some rule.

Doesn’t mean all people need leashes and collars, except for private life.

No. I meant a modern thing filling the same niche. Palemoon is just old FF supported by a group of delusional people (their attack on OpenBSD with “official branding” or something comes to mind).

Nah. It’s a trope all right.

“For 20 years” is fine.

There’s still that little issue of building up your own. Most EU countries have been demilitarizing for 30 years more and more, with the strategy being “it’s a new world without wars, and also big daddy USA will protect us, and if not them, then Britain and France will”. Britain has done an exit, and France alone is kinda lazy.

Bring. Back. XUL.

Or at least something as functional.

And HTML5 with modern JS were a mistake. Maybe it all can be made some kind of embeddable content processed in its own sandbox in an optional plugin. Just like with Flash. So something like NPAPI, but for modern age with its security nuances.

I know nobody is going to do that, just if Firefox were still faithful to its initial goal, they would try to introduce their own evolutionary paths and not just chase Chrome (which is a lost cause anyway). Even if Chrome is being treated as standard.

I won’t object to this comment being treated as idiotic, FF is a mainstream browser now, them just dropping half the modern common web standards in favor of some own idea of things would be a weird kind of suicide.

It’s not an argument, just a thought.

That’s what I meant. Phones should be treated similarly to houses.

Is analogy with people in (very quiet) places who don’t lock doors to their homes correct? Then it’s as if the door is not locked, a cop doesn’t have to ask permission (or warrant)?

Well, when you confiscate a piece of paper, even without a warrant to read it you can do that physically when it’s in your possession, and it’s part of the evidence or something, so everyone else can too, so why even fight for that detail.

They just pretended it’s fine with mobile computers.

I thought that “fruit of a poisonous tree” is a real principle, not just for books about Perry Mason. /s

So - yes. It’s just really hard to trust Apple.

As someone from fucking Russia, people with biggest income in your country are usually first businessmen, second - something else, while in Russia those would be cockroaches from MFA, PA and other thieves, plus a few oligarchs who at some point were among those cockroaches.

So it may not be as bad yet, but frankly yes, you are giving out vibes of going in the same direction.

I think the part about IDs is what’s important. They are not against porn, it’s just a good excuse to account for another part of your activities. Which may be used to classify you or even blackmail you, but I think knowing your preferences is enough. It may allow secret services to predict whom you may like or may not.

Naturally it will allow to track you.

There are many factors affecting energy spent on doing something.

I personally think that this timeline is fucking bullshit and we got there by always choosing the lesser evil, so libertarian (you may make it left-libertarian, I genuinely don’t care about left-right division because it’s mostly traditional and imaginary) revolutions in all the civilized countries are long overdue.

Not even libertarian, maybe the Empire at War: Forces of Corruption game was onto something. Maybe the left-right and libertarian-statist distinctions are obsolete for our time just like Roman optimates-populares distinction. Maybe we need some new line, formalist-naturalist (as in formal law versus natural law) or something. Where the former part would be existing political mechanisms and the latter part would be saying “no” to fools, thieves and bandits.

Pornography and prostitution are different.

One is information, allowing you to dream (maybe of stupid things), another is in the physical world.

I don’t want to think a lot of these parallels, but I’ve noticed that people close to actual government bureaucracies are in general very sceptical of imagined things against physical.

Among other things, consuming pornography doesn’t make you feel powerful, while a prostitute is a real human working for you.

Also 30s’ propaganda had traits clearly aimed at, eh, sexually dissatisfied youth.

So maybe it’s just about feeling their own power, and maybe it’s about returning that device of affecting minds. I dunno

No, I don’t. I don’t have a plan and making it will take probably more than a month

Easy when there are bad people you’re interested in.

Buy 100M worth of drones with ammo and transportation, only I’ll have to find somebody from former Artsakh Defense Army to ask where.

Or maybe just buy samples of anthrax, bubonic plague, some particular nasty kind of covid and other such nice things, lots of pests able to carry them and, of course, rodents, bribe lots of people on my way and bring all that stuff to Baku.

I had X crash due to Nvidia under FreeBSD a few times, and fewer kernel panics due to it. Never used Linux with Nvidia though.

I don’t know. Maybe endorsement of LLMs and “AIs” is a way to encourage people create datasets, which can then be used for other things.

Also this technology is good for one thing - flagging people for some political sympathies or likeliness to behave a certain way, based on their other behavior.

As if - a technology to make kill lists for fascists, if you excuse my alarmism. Maybe nobody will come at night in black leather to take you away, but you won’t get anywhere near posts affecting serious decisions. An almost bloodless world fascist revolution.