AC wasn't. Barack Obama was: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry... . You know, the guy who earlier asked for a favor from the Russians to help him get re-elected: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticl... .
Sure, but what good does it do you if it is encrypted and mostly goes to a single cloud endpoint? You can see the traffic volume over time, and that's about it.
DJI were spying on users: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedroneu.com%2Fblog...
If you're ethnically Chinese, China will use your relatives to pressure you to do what they want, and might stalk you or drag you into one of their overseas police departments for interrogation or torture.
China collects huge amounts of data on everyone they can, from everywhere they can, just in case. Unlike in the US, they don't need a reason to investigate you. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoursemagazine....
If you carry electronics into China, or ship them through its ports, you can expect it to end up with implants. They want the offensive capability even if they don't know when they would use it.
( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehackernews.com%2F2024... talks about one distributed electronically, but you don't want them to hold your devices.)
Travel within China is risky: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peoplenewstoday.co...
As much as I hate seeing a brute-force approach burn huge amounts of electricity to enable morally dubious applications based on inputs that are often corrupt or illegal, I think the AI bubble is as likely to pop as the Bitcoin bubble.
(You might ask: "Do you mean that AI is a brute-force approach that burns huge amounts of electricity, etc., or that Bitcoin is?" To which I answer: "Yes.")
If you are really this productive using AI tools for software development, you could probably make even more money than you do presently by making video courses for how to achieve the results that you have. Because for a large majority of software developers, AI modes pose more problems than they solve. Browse this thread to look for examples, including: hallucinations of API methods that don't exist; conflation of two separate technologies that share a common terminology; lack of coherence when asking the AI model to construct anything more complicated than a simple CRUD operation; AI model preference to rely upon counterproductive solutions, such as deleting problematic code instead of fixing it; mixing of methodologies, design patterns, and mental models in a way that results in extremely inconsistent software; generating large amounts of low-value artifacts, such as a hundred unit tests that fail to achieve as much coverage as ten human-authored unit tests; etc. etc. etc.
so we can unfuck all the things he's fucked.
But the reality is, Trump is a symptom, not a disease. He was elected by the people. Those who voted Trump once were either Nazi sympathizers or fools. Those who voted Trump the second time around were definitely Nazi sympathizers, or definitely fools.
Impeaching Trump won't do anything. The next Nazi in line is JD Vance and he's ten times worse because, unlike Trump, he's not an idiot with a case of fronto-temporal dementia.
And even if Vance and the rest of the Nazi goons are out, the people will vote another fascist in the next time around because the people has proven twice now that they're fucking fascists or fucking morons.
In short, America is fucked because Americans are hopeless.
Fed up customers fleeing in droves.
Nobody likes Microsoft. Nobody has ever really liked Microsoft. But everybody puts up with Microsoft's low quality products and abuse because Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape - particularly in corporate settings, and for gaming.
But they've really cranked up the abuse to 11 recently, with Windows becoming a terrible advertisement platform, requiring new hardware when people's old machines were still serviceable, the constant privacy invasion, relentless push for online accounts, for their cloud offerings, and now their godforsaken AI shit that literally nobody likes nor want. Not to mention upcoming price hikes for the privilege of getting all that enshittification thrown at your face...
Microsoft has gone too far for a lot of people, and people react by going to Apple or Linux. And quite frankly, personally, I desperately want Microsoft to continue shooting themselves in both feet like they're doing so they make themselves irrelevant as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and we're finally, at long last, rid of them at last. 50 years we've been waiting! That's like half a century dude...
about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.
I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.
The Sam Altman types, and the Thiel/Musk types especially, want technofeudalism with them on top. For some of them the "good of society" factors in but it is always after this.
No to both questions. How retarded are you? I didn't say anything at all about the standard to convict him, except to say that I don't trust China (to give him a fair trial or in just about anything else). But most people would respond to that kind of question by saying that they didn't steer business to friends or family, or something like that. TFA just says that his people don't deny having done that kind of thing -- the lack of a stronger response is what suggests he did it.
He is criticizing an evil regime for doing evil things, but that doesn't mean he is entirely innocent or pure in his motivations. I trust China exactly as far as I can throw it, but it is entirely possible that both (a) China is unfairly prosecuting this guy and advising him off things he didn't do and (b) he used his government position to help his family before he retired. The paragraph I quoted strongly suggests that (b) is true.
From TFA:
Li's family prospered, investing in apartment complexes and renting out forklifts and bulldozers, raising questions over whether he used his position to enrich relatives. Li and his lawyers don't deny conflicts of interest or civil violations, but say profits were made from legal, regular business operations and deny criminal charges of embezzlement and bribery.
It sounds a lot like how US Congresscritters such as Debbie Wasserman Schultz make bank (142% return in 2024!) by trading stocks in companies that are regulated by their committees: it's obviously crooked and based on having insider information, but difficult to prove.
Which part of the article triggered you to complain about "trumpistan"? Was it this one?
In 2015, Washington complained that Chinese agents were flying to the U.S. and stalking targets without approval, including U.S. permanent residents. Agents brought night goggles from China, snapped photos and taped threatening messages on doors.
Or maybe that IBM was selling that surveillance software to China before 2017?
where the sun don't shine.
The Linux Foundation has always been kind of useless, but they're really outdoing themselves this time.
More like old vs new terribleness.
"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." -- Looney Tunes, Ali Baba Bunny (1957, Chuck Jones)
