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I would expect that your whole code base would be then used as training data.

I think that it is only a matter of time before they will start reselling these data as exfiltrated IP to whoever will be interested.

One day there will be a massive data leak and these backdoors are going to be closed. Not because privacy of some Joe Smith or exposing corruption, but because everyone will be able to read raunchy DMs of random politicians with their mistresses.

It will be funny when somebody will figure out that contractors watching Chinese nationals are actually Chinese spies.

Yet another argument for running your own local models. And if they are scanning, they are definitely using all your data for training or outright IP theft, no matter what they claim. Current approach is just vacuum cleaner for your data.

I bet on natural gas powerplants will start being built together with data centers.

Permanent until Trump will talk to somebody else than Navarro about these tariffs and will be promptly lifted.

The problem with current setup is attempt to strongarm tariffs onto seller, who will then promptly either stop sending any packages (because that's not how the system works) or bill the tariff back to customer explicitly - Here is your invoice for shipment and here is your invoice for tariff. You are just creating more bureaucracy at this point for no benefit.

Just compile .NET WPF in Avalonia and be done with it.

It’s really wild the degree to which Musk’s Nazi salute has ricocheted around Europe

This is because Americans does not have places in their country with mementos like "In this building Gestapo tortured 20 people to death ..." or "659 allied soldiers died liberating this city" or "In this complex of buildings over 500 thousand people were gassed to death"

For Musk it was a funny free speech thing. For Europeans it was very personal and very painful part of history.

English is actually a weird language without genders in nouns. I.e. in Slavic languages you can say "male software engineer" with word "vyvojar" and "female software engineer" with a word "vyvojarka" and then lot of grammar is built atop of this fact.

Job listing are then trying to use something like "vyvojar/ka" to signify that both genders are sought for, but there is nothing like that in English, so you will get translation as "software engineer (all genders)" instead of using just "software engineer"

And this is why local run models are absolutely necessary. Sure Claude is better than whatever you can run locally, but to avoid being eavesdropped on every keystroke, just buy older enterprise server with enough compute for 3k USD and run similar model there.

Anything what can execute software is a computer. From a tamagochi to a mainframe.

Mark Twain: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled"

So called watchdogs of democracy has been 100% fooled. But did you see that radical left lunatics colored pedestrian cross walk using chalks? National guard inbound!

You know that you can't do it on your own, but you need to have certification for that?

U.S. customs is demanding a Certificate of Analysis (which could cost thousands of dollars and to determine what exact amount of Aluminum, Copper and Steel are in the product), otherwise they assume the entire PCB consists of copper, aluminum, and steel, and charge a 100% tariff on the whole product.

Yes they would 200% of product won't be a problem for them.

Furthermore as I know customs, the moment you will start making stuff up in a too brazen way, they will just use Google, search some average price of products and use that instead what you are declaring.

Sometimes it looks like they are getting a cut from amount of tariff they successfully scalp from you.

If it stops working because unilateral action from USA, it will likely create a rally around the flag effect.

Which EU cloud providers can easily create knock offs and then let EU services migrate without changing anything on companies side, except just endpoints.

Furthermore EU equivalents of Yandex do exist - https://www.seznam.cz/ (Do you see the Yahoo in it?) or French Google: https://www.qwant.com/?l=en or equivalent of Google Maps https://mapy.com/en/ just have a look here: https://european-alternatives.eu/

They are small, sure, but the moment competition is gone, there is no reason for them not to scale

I.e. for Apple EU is 25% of revenue. Try to pull out from there, and shareholders will crucify whole Apple leadership.

Russia is running on Windows too and did not collapsed. It turns out that companies wants to make money and are willing to jump through hoops, sanctions or not.

Also you can just use cracked OS (illegal, but if Microsoft is out, it will become abandonware) and create alternative API for cloud services. How hard do you think it would be to create i.e. S3 compatible API? Wait that already exists - https://github.com/jchristn/S3Server

And you could continue with whatever Azure, AWS etc offers. In the end, it is just some variation of a REST server.

There will be no rapid raise of anything - Driving license of B group (personal cars) is limited to 3500kg car, if you are driving anything heavier you need to have driving license of C group (Goods vans) which costs additional time and money.

Furthermore you can't really park these cars in the city. Too big.

Another thing that these cars are gas guzzlers price in EU for a gallon of gasoline is around 7 USD

So it is a nothingburger, few poseurs will buy it, and that will be it.

More like inconsistent policies, cronyst carve outs for big tech companies while app store is full of spam and scam apps.

Only defeated entity here is US arms industry. Ukrainians are having their own long range weapons FP-1 to FP-5 (Flamingo). This stupid behavior is sending signal to everyone else that US industry is unreliable and should be absolutely avoided.

USA is doing exactly same mistake as Swiss did at the beginning of the war when they refused to allow use of Gepard ammunition in Ukraine. Rheinmetall bypassed them by setting up factory in Germany and European stopped buying weapons from Swiss arms industries as a response https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/european-nation...

That would be candle in a flowerpot ad to save on energy bills.

It's also really noticeable how you'll keep seeing the same ads for the same few things, regardless of what your "algorithm" is currently doing. I really have to wonder how much YouTube makes off those cutting board guys.

Oh yes, that's true it has been happening to me as well. Israel/Palestine propaganda fight were biggest offenders. Every 10 minutes one or the other sometimes sprinkled with a scam mobile game ad. And I don't even play mobile games...

Btw cutting on titanium cutting board is the fastest way to have dull knives. So we moved from scam to deception.

That's like asking if bullets made infantry obsolete. As long as there is a role for attack helicopter on the battlefield, then it is not obsolete, just more vulnerable during its missions.

I do answer any call, but I am never introducing myself, nor using affirmative words. The moment I will figure out I have got an advertisement call, I am immediately hanging up. So I a not surprised that teenagers are not answering calls - it is very likely advertisement.

I mean just try to sumarize ads running on YouTube: Lightsabers ad which is actually a torch - scam. Wooden cutting board as source of microplastics - scam. Muscular old geezer selling Tai-chi - grift and scam. Mobile games advertising a "playthrough" but real game is completely something else - scam. Palestinians having difficult life - propaganda. Israel delivering help to Palestine - counter propaganda.

I have seen so many ads on YouTube and so far it was either scam or propaganda.

They are usually running during summer when sun is shining, so technically energy can be easily covered by renewables.

If system is broken, it is not working. If it is not working then it can't drive you around.

You are for failing to check that your car is in drivable state before setting on your journey. This is actual law in my country.

And that's why I think we will never see L4 or L5 system. These system would be constantly "broken" due to i.e. dirty/miscalibrated sensors to prevent possible lawsuits which would be so often that they would become essentially useless.