s/the tech bros/humans/

Despite “the tech bros” really being that, I’m learning over time about some people surprisingly cowardly and evil, while looking like better versions of me, and some other people looking pretty normal and usual, while being epic and tragic heroes, and some other people looking like a typical Nazi 80 years late to the party, yet more honorable than many, and some other people looking like weak and nice versions of me, while having real warrior spirit.

You have no idea how big the world is in all dimensions. We are all looking at it via our daily interactions, via news and internet discussions, via games and via books, and we don’t see what’s deep inside. Well, I suppose, people who read classics can see something.

And they, these people on top of big tech, being just human, have such powers. What can they do with them? Perhaps we should forgive them for not being wise in deciding to have those powers, and praise them for doing less evil with them than they could.

So. Perhaps in 15 years you’ve just grown.

And also because at some point they hired Signal people to design E2EE for them, I think.

The “encryption for two different receiving sides” part is the one that you, in turn, might have missed. WhatsApp client might just send messages to some additional technical party, which is not your buddy.

Naturally, they are far weaker.

Well, it is an Islamic Republic. Of Shia denomination. Shia technically believe in apocalypse and in bringing it close by battling devilish forces. Which Iranian leaders usually associate with USA and Israel.

Iran would only bomb it when attacked.

Not quite true, they have a Shia version of Trotsky’s world revolution, except about final battle against evil and apocalypse.

Evil on the other hand…

I agree, it would be much better if Israel were located in some part of (former in that case) Northern Bavaria and its problematic (or not) neighbors were Germans, making them more justified bombing targets. Unfortunately in that case it’d be very likely that it wouldn’t last 20 years. There’d be a combined arms operation, some additional smoke from the stoves, and probably neither the Western nor the Soviet side would care much what their pet Germans are doing.

Also for the purpose of minimizing evil locating chip design in Israel is not worse than in USA. I’m not sure whether you’ll want to argue that, just adding.

That’s really interesting. I’ve mostly done only small experiments with generative music and povray renders, sharing them with friends, but that’s usually not enough to call a circle. But my friend has such a circle for poetry. I mean, with poetry this is pretty traditional.

BitLocker is older.

That’s roughly similar to catch up development (which is always faster and easier), except automated. With catch up development those doing it only make waves for some time before they, well, catch up and find deep inability to evolve, similar to USSR, which is where it ends. While with this - things are made from something already created all the time.

Basically all you need to make something a source of training data, laundered of authorship with plausible deniability, is for that something to be publicly available.

Meaning that at least in art we might be back to private orders and works available to limited circles of viewers, I think. Once it becomes unprofitable enough to publish your works, and once the existing pool of training data is exhausted and falls back enough compared to what’s in demand and in fashion.

OK, that’s just an exercise in high school level “outta my ass” style analysis.

I mean, Antique Mediterranean had all sorts of mystery religions. Perhaps we are on the threshold of an era of mystery art.

I’ve read someone blabbering how BitLocker is better than FDE on Linux or BSDs just recently. I didn’t do fact checking, but honestly just uploading keys to MS wasn’t something I expected even from them.

In general, calling something that extrapolates and averages a dataset “AI” seems wrong.

Symbolic logic is something people have invented to escape that trap somewhere in Middle Ages, when it probably seemed more intuitive that a yelling crowd’s opinion is not intelligence. Pitchforks and torches, ya knaw. I mean, scholars were not the most civil lot as well, and crime situation among them was worse than in seaports and such.

It’s a bit similar to how you need non-linearity in ciphers.

Well, if it is a bubble (at least the centralization part, not the “AI” part), then they are building locations with plenty of energy and water connected. Can help with re-industrialization a bit later.

before the mine gets filled back in.

That has to be prevented from happening, and those mines have pumps in them. Otherwise land around gets poisoned (and also eroded).

So putting useful objects inside those mines at least makes them not just passive expense.

If someone wants to know what if you just don’t pump the water out of an unused mine, leaving it be, then they can read what happens in Donbass now that nobody takes care of those many depleted mines there, due to war. It’s like Mordor basically.

So, when you are, as the classic text says, bayonet-charging the last terrified rapscallion, you suddenly find yourself without a bayonet and with said rapscallion really motivated to take as much moral repayment from your suffering as they can.

Your standard of living depends on staying in the good graces of the government—good graces that can quickly be lost by appearing to go against them.

First of all, your standard of living heavily depends on how big a network of friends and family you have. If it’s zero, then as a guy your life won’t be very interesting, and as a gal you might run out of non-exploitative choices.

Second, about good graces and such - yeah, doing political activism you might start having problems with banking and many other things.

Nothing as good guy as machine gunning a protest. They are tankies, remember.

Or maybe you meant the freedom to free-fall out a window when running as a political opposition to Putin?

Oh, yes. My sister’s friend once went to a protest. Each time she crosses the border (has to see relatives in Russia and all that), it’s an hour long interview.

Still Chrome and slow.

For me it doesn’t evoke any nostalgic feelings.

I used Opera between 9 and 12, bookmarks were very convenient, it had a builtin torrent client, and so on. Compact and ergonomic UI, stylesheets and caching modes. And not too nauseating in appearance.

Not segregate society, that was an example of a mechanism (not good, but existent in history), rather leave permission to enter a town or district to its local authorities.

No “we should”.

And most people around don’t like seeing homeless immigrants. Hence the idea.

Racists might actually feel more than average person for those of them of “right” extraction.

But the issue here is that crowds of immigrants seeking for greener pastures can indeed paralyze life in places on their path. Letting them in should be left to the decision of local authorities, so that each such division could determine how many and by which criteria it lets in and accommodates.

Not being allowed into some specific Bumfucktown, but being allowed into some other specific Bumfuckridge isn’t end of the world. While citizenship being almost out of reach is a far harder issue.

I’m not talking about getting rid of currency.