NaibofTabr

hmm…

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…and my axe!

slowly?

“Show me on this doll…”

Don’t be a conformist!

Make your own decisions!

Keep Centronics Parallel alive!

If you aren’t using at least 3 different types of DVI connectors your nerd card is revoked!

It is an absolute PITA to keep an email server on the “nice” list so your company’s email traffic doesn’t get spam filtered by every service provider, and the major services (gmail, outlook, etc) are all federating their spam filter lists so many times if you get blocked on one you get blocked on all. There is so much spam to deal with that the filtering is highly automated and there’s little human oversight.

The point being, it could only take a handful of incidents reporting a company’s email as spam to ruin their reputation and result in email from their domain getting automatically filtered everywhere. So, you know, if they don’t support an easy way to unsubscribe then they are in fact behaving like spammers, so flag them and let them deal with having their domain blacklisted.

Isn’t that the administration’s goal?

Equivalent towing capacity of a Chevy Impala, so yes.

This is less of a truck and more of a truck-shaped go-kart.

After reading the article and the website, I can’t find anything that explicitly says there is no network connection built into the vehicle.

The instrument panel is a screen, and will be used to display the backup camera video. There is some computer capable of handling video processing and displaying the instrument graphics - so more than just low-level electronics to handle the battery and drive control. It could have built-in GPS, it could have 5G, it could still be collecting and sharing data on driving habits &etc, it could be subsidized by that on the backend. Just because those functions aren’t displayed to the end user doesn’t mean they aren’t in the system.

AI is a surveillance technology.

VPNs as a technology might not be illegal but circumventing the firewall certainly is.

Unless you are very vocal and high profile person no one will black bag you in a country of billion people, lol.

This is a bit of a misunderstanding about how things work in an authoritarian system. Sure, you might fly under the radar for awhile, but if you call attention to yourself (say, by getting caught trying to bypass the government firewall) and you are not high-profile, then it is very low-effort to make you disappear. Few will notice, and those that do will stay silent out of fear.

If you are more high-profile you still get black-bagged, you just get released after, with your behavior suitably modified.

Naomi Wu no longer uploads to YouTube.

Depends - how many family members do you have that the PRC might use against you? or who would miss you if the PRC black bagged you?

And there are hundreds if not thousands of them, plus a lot of automated tooling.

Or it plunges us back into the dark ages, where people believe things based on anecdotes and superstitions, and sources of factual information are rare and typically locked inside some walled garden or other.

This is just another form of control being asserted by the wealthy and powerful - knowledge is power. Removing effective access to knowledge keeps people in the dark, making them easier to manipulate.

Hold on to your public institutions. Fight for them tooth and nail. Collect books (unredactable, uneditable, un-paywall-able sources of information). Donate to libraries. Don’t patronize LLM systems. Prefer local storage and applications over cloud services.

And don’t romanticize ignorance.

Aaron Swartz was right about everything

This works in theory, but the mixer knows, and we know that several of them have been infiltrated by various government agencies, and records extracted for criminal investigations. I’d put 50/50 odds on any current mixer being already infiltrated and having some enforcement agency collecting data on the transactions.

If not law enforcement, I wouldn’t trust the mixer operators to not be gathering data and profiting off of it somehow. You’re talking about money launderers. Trustworthiness isn’t exactly the status quo. Hell, for all you know the people operating any given mixer are actually backed by Russia or North Korea or something.

futuristic technology

In which case anyone who wants to can read the message traffic and make changes to it before passing it on to the receiver.

No, you can’t conduct business this way.

AI is surveillance tool.

No one can bank online without reliable encryption. No one can transact business online without reliable encryption.

throwing a wrench into the US industry right now is a pretty good deal.

This is the part I don’t really get - they’ve spent decades working to control these resources, and I can’t really see what benefit they get from this that offsets that time and effort.

Manipulating the flow and the prices makes sense. Cutting it off entirely just to participate in a dick-measuring contest with the US really doesn’t make any sense. Nations are already looking at moving their supply chains especially for electronics after all the COVID disruptions. Encouraging those nations to go looking elsewhere for the entire supply chain just loses you business and influence, no matter how much short-term cost you inflict.