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On social media it's the conspiracy theorists and "compulsive contrarians" who oppose photovoltaics and EVs. They might be the useful idiots of the oil/gas industry but their stupidity is organic.

OpenBSD has a reputation for being super secure but are there any big organizations that actually use it for security critical applications? A quick search shows outdated or non-related results.

I really wish there was an app to keep up with news that will actually have an impact on me like extreme weather, changes to the tax code, and significant changes to the economy.

They are being asked to move 15 km.

These articles never mention how important Big Tech companies have been for the significant growth of the US economy since 2008.

>even by the US's own admission, hundreds of children were slaughtered

Did the US really admit that or was it something that was exposed by NGOs and investigators?

CCC was cancelled last year because of this and they are still making a big deal out of it this year.

Why? The rest of German society doesn't care. I live in Denmark and have been to plenty of social events in Germany in 2022 and 2023. Nobody cares anymore. Why does the CCC?

I'm from Denmark and have been to conferences in Germany in 2022 and 2023. Never heard about COVID regulations still in effect.

If you look more into the money laundering that has been happening in the Baltic countries a lot of it it wealthy Russians attempting to get their money out of Russia and into tax havens around the world.

A lot of the fraud and laundering happening after the Russian invasion of Ukraine is definitely something Russia is doing to earn some extra cash and hurt the West.

However before 2022 it was just as much wealthy Russians doing it to put their money beyond the reach of the Russian state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s...

This has been going on before crypto. Between 2007-2015 some very wealthy Russians laundered more than €200 billion from Russia to tax havens around the world using Danske Bank's branch in Estonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s...

Nobody is demanding that you buy a new smartphone every year. Modern smartphones have 3-5 years of security/bug updates and the batteries no longer degrade as fast as they used to.

Interesting that they only support x86-64 and aarch64/ARM64.

I would have thought the majority of safety critical systems are on bare-metal ARM32.

The anti-NATO pro-Russian wing of the Republican party becoming increasingly dominant sends a worrying message across the Atlantic especially to the Baltic countries.

Honestly at this point I don't see any other option than the Baltic countries developing nuclear weapons.

This is fallout from a British documentary that revealed Sri Lankan intelligence agencies were complicit in the 2019 Easter bombings:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/06/sri-lan...

It's funny how eager Americans are to break up the Big Tech companies that happen to be the only reason the US economy is not a complete dumpster fire. Look at GDP growth for the US vs. the Eurozone since 2008. The high level of integration, both horizontal and vertical, is what makes the US Big Tech companies so economically productive and valuable.

But sure. Kill your software industry. Does the US even know how to do anything else? Does the US even manufacture anything physical anymore? Last I checked tiny little Denmark produces more wind turbines than the US and tiny little Switzerland produces more CNC machines than the US.

I was thinking in terms of Ukraine, Russia etc. Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovakia have very pro-Russian populations according to opinion polls.

There is no multipolar world. It's just the US and China. Their combined GDP is bigger than the next 33 countries combined.

As a Danish person I wish the EU had actual hard power but in the end of the day Denmark doesn't have the same geopolitical interests as Hungary, Bulgaria, and Slovakia. In fact their views are the polar opposite of ours.

According to this Jeff Bezos took a flight from Seattle to Genova, Italy.

I didn't know small private jets were capable of long haul flights like that without stopping.

A lot of the innovation in the GPU space and competition between Nvidia and AMD happens at the driver level.

This could be an

He was in a Russian psychiatric hospital.

Psychiatric hospitals in many countries are an extension of the prison system.

>There's no real doubt that possible Ukrainian NATO membership (and short of that, its ever closer de facto integration with NATO) were primary motivating factors for the Russian decision to invade.

That is a lie. Russia's primary motivation is irredentism. They have been saying Ukraine is a fake nation that should not exist since before 2014.

>American analysts and diplomats have been saying for decades (both in public and in confidential cables) that Russia viewed Ukrainian NATO membership as the reddest of all red lines

This is a narrative being pushed by pro-Russian propagandists. Ukraine was not on the trajectory of becoming a NATO country. Most Ukrainians didn't want to join NATO before Russia invaded Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Within Russia the Russian state and media is very open about this war being about conquering all of Ukraine. It is only Russia's external propaganda targeted at Westerners that bring up the lies about NATO and "liberating Eastern Ukraine from Nazi Kiev".

Good. We need to counter OpenAI who has literally gamified the neutering of their LLMs using the openai/evals repo.

I don't understand why you are being downvoted. Modern Serbia is a Russian puppet state. Belgrade does nothing without the Kremlin's permission. Even its previous "good cop" posturing was all about becoming a member of the EU to push Russia's interests.

AGPL is also the license you should use if you don't want big corporations to use your software. Big Tech even avoids GPL-3 and stick to GPL-2 from what I have noticed.

>stopkillerrobots.org

This kind of self-sabotaging suicidal stupidity should not exist after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia, China, and Iran already have "killer robots".

The only countries that will follow these suicidal regulations are stupid naive Western countries.

>Iraq was not "annexed", but the west installed a puppet government to do what they want, and they attempted to brainwash the population with western values.

This is a lie. There was a legitimate democratic election in Iraq in January 2005 with 58% voter turnout. Because of the Shia majority of Iraq they voted into power a pro-Iranian Shia-dominated government which is the very opposite of a US "puppet government".

>I wonder also how much of a driver new programmer productivity tools like copilot and ChatGPT are factoring into this. If your top 10% productivity workers just got a 30%+ productivity boost, that means you can easily shed the bottom 20% productive workers and still be ahead of the game.

I have been evangelizing GitHub Copilot (+ Copilot Chat) and ChatGPT Pro to my coworkers that include full-stack .Net/React devs, Python data science people, and embedded C devs.

Only the .Net/React devs have been sticking to both Copilot and ChatGPT Pro. The Python data science are using ChatGPT Pro but have dropped Copilot. The embedded C devs are using neither.

A US federal employee with a $5 wrench.