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No government can freeze your bitcoins.
It's not money.
You might find it ever increasingly difficult to change bitcoins to real money if a country -- or multiple -- is against it. No such thing happens currently but there are constant efforts to bring KYC and so forth to exchanges.
You can make a perfect copy of a file, however.
What you quoted is a confusing phrase: "visually lossless" which is in fact a lossy compression. It's like People's Republic which is neither a republic nor is it the People's, it's just a dictatorship.
Finally, JPEG-XL supports both lossy and lossless compression.
> The tests conducted by Broadcom involved sending silicon wafers - the foot-wide discs on which chips are printed - through Intel's most advanced manufacturing process known as 18A, the sources said. Broadcom received the wafers back from Intel last month. After its engineers and executives studied the results, the company concluded the manufacturing process is not yet viable to move to high-volume production.
and
> A Broadcom spokesperson said the company is "evaluating the product and service offerings of Intel Foundry and have not concluded that evaluation."
The make or break is not this summer. It's next. Gelsinger himself said he bet the company on 18A. If it doesn't work out then yeah, Intel is in very deep trouble but until then, Intel still has 29B cash on hand which is not chump change.
It's not that I stan for Intel, the heck do I care, I dislike the reporting that goes around this topic.
It's not the first thing to be carried by hype instead of careful comparison.
And all of that is fine when communicated properly. Even if OP is an unreliably narrator are we to believe they also left out some of CF's emails?
To me it looks like https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... is entirely the wrong email to send in the situation and if you are as old as I am and come from where I come from, you will have flashbacks to "reading between the lines" of the party daily in the 1980s. The real content is at the bottom:
> As we have a very short window to report back to Trust & Safety team, please let me know if you can make time tomorrow
Big red flashing lights: the right questions are 1) why is T&S involved at all 2) What are their concerns which forces such a hurried deadline? 3) What are the consequences of missing this deadline.
The right email would start with something like this:
> Providing services to your business constitutes serious legal risk to Cloudflare. We are happy to work with you in the future if you are buying an Enterprise plan. As we need to commit significant resources to accommodate you, we need an annual commitment. Otherwise, with much regret we need to terminate our services provided to you as it is our right per Terms on date/time. ("We may at our sole discretion terminate your user account or Suspend or terminate your use or access to the Service at any time, with or without notice for any reason or no reason at all.")
> This plan would also include these features:
Downvotes?
Fine, let's discuss then the connection between Orban's government and he himself and pedophiles.
Gábor Kaleta was an ambassador to Peru. He was recalled after they found him possessing 19 000 CSAM photographs. He got a suspended sentence and an ~1500 EUR fine.
The children home at Bicske, the next village to Orban's hometown Felcsút https://maps.app.goo.gl/oki8i7H4ijsLja977 is some truly dark shit. Let's see the facts.
1. János Vásárhelyi , the director of that place is a convicted pedophile. He is currently in prison.
2. His second, Endre Kónya was convicted because he helped cover up what's going on. He was given clemency by the president who needed to resign when this entire shit came to light. It's important to note he is from Transylvania, an area of Romania where a lot of ethnic Hungarians live. You will see soon why this is important.
3. It's worth mentioning the person pushing for this clemency was Zoltán Balog, a former minister and clergyman who is rather close with Orbán.
4. The brother of Orbán operates a wrestling association in this children's home.
5. Now we need to turn our attention to another Transylvanian Hungarian, a Franciscan friar piece of shit called Csaba Böjte. He is a favorite of the Hungarian government, funded by them, awarded by them. His orphanages were places of torture and sexual abuse for at least a decade and he have pressured the children to shut up. The "teachers" doing this are untrained and one of them got a 28 years prison sentence when Romanian authorities have caught him.
6. The wrestling association have hosted events with Csaba Böjte's children in attendance.
It's not so hard to interpret this as Orbán's brother operating an Epstein island under the guise of wrestling where Böjte supplies the children who doesn't tell anyone just what kind of wrestling is going on there.
In light of this, it's perhaps not surprising the government invented a new kind of policeman: the school guard. These people are almost completely untrained, they get 120 hours (!) before being sent to schools to play security. No one is surprised pedophiles are flocking to this, despite the whole thing is only a few years old already two were arrested and heaven knows how many got away scot-free. This entire phone thing is just going to give them more opportunities to blackmail the children.
Mostly because you need the Archimedean property for it which can not be derived from Euclid's axioms.
> The exterior design of the machine's casing is reminiscent of a Sherman tank cross-bred with a 1970s sports saloon, while the lid opens with the grace of a bank vault door. Yet the designers have managed to make the machine look attractive all the same, the overall effect being what you'd expect from GI Jane in a glittery ball gown.
#1: Much used, leading service went down the enshittification route. If we did this extremely convoluted geeky hack everything would be back to normal (it wouldn't).
#2: Let's use another service.
#3 and on: yes, here are other services which no one aside from statistical error uses.
Sigh.
Remember when people suggested to use Lemmy instead of Reddit?
You might ask, what's the point of this comment. Well, it's to get people to read https://pluralistic.net/ more and for the geeks to start unionizing before it's too late (it already is).
Price wise, I am not sure. There were cheaper Macs yes but looking at workstations https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quad... https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?attachments/sgi-indy-introdu... pricing is comparable?
https://disconnect.blog/what-comes-after-the-ai-crash/ this is your future
This empty sophistry of presuming automated bullshit generators somehow can mimic a human brain is laughable.
Please please read https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
IBM PC was office and in this period it became the gaming machine. Even before Commodore went bankrupt, the Gravis Ultrasound and Wolfenstein 3D dethroned the Amiga. https://youtu.be/wsADJa-23Sg has an excellent explanation why Wolfenstein 3D couldn't be done on the Amiga. The GUS was key in moving the demoscene to the PC and while obviously that's extremely niche it literally demonstrated what the PC is capable of and had a huge effect on the game creators. The first Assembly was organized in 1992 by two Amiga groups and Future Crew but just one year the latter released Second Reality and the Amiga was no more.
When this came out, everything about Assange was made clear. It's just textbook, take someone who is in a mental health crisis, pretend to be kind, you can do anything to them -- and Assange indeed did. Assange became famous, Chelsea went to prison.
When he decided to skip the materials damaging to Russia and published the materials on Clinton, that's when we knew his affiliation. We didn't need Pussy Riot to tell us -- although they sure did, just in case someone missed the obvious.
These are facts. This is not character assassination.
About him being rapist I was clear is not necessarily true. That might be character assassination indeed.