But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.

XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

On NT you mean, and no, W2K was a consumer system.

RPi is not a microcontroller.

What is built into pretty much everything around us is GnuLinux.

Many things, but far from that.

The main secret is that Russia doesn’t have that many really “secret agents”.

They have “ambassador agents” being ignorant of whose identity is better for you, but that identity is not secret in any way.

Just if you are a plebe taking interest, they might simply kill you and the police won’t do anything. Or invent something better, gaslighting Stasi-style, if killing is too boring for them.

Musk and Thiel are not the type.

I’ve read an article on his site which was a transcript of this speech, and got my thought after it, so - actually my comment is a result of that.

It’s not from ground zero.

And it can be effective. It won’t be experienced and will have to live through a lot of massacres and shame, similarly to what Russia did in 2022 or many other forces which hadn’t been properly tested for long. But it will be effective most likely.

But yes, 5 years to blitzing Russia again is something born by my short memory while typing.

It’s no use, AI won’t, for example, check texts for gematric (cabbalistic numeric references) hidden messages, and try to match those to gematric messages in the context. And even if it will, it won’t look for recursive gematric messages. We are safe.

Yes. I’ll add to this that when I look at prices of hardware, it’s not even an option. Buying an iPhone would be equivalent to buying a good laptop, except you just can’t do much work on a PDA. When excluding actually doing work, as a tool for the job it’s equivalent to something 4 times cheaper.

And in addition to that it has disgusting elitist advertising, relies on sweatshops for production, and isn’t even fully usable without company’s permission to run this or that.

I wanted one when I thought they look very cool.

If we see that, then it’s already burning.

It seems like there’s a large proportion of people who don’t seem to actually care whether they have an accurate understanding of the world or not?

They are choosing tools obviously not fit for the job of finding out truth. Social media and other places where you can silence with authority or numbers those you don’t like. Of course they don’t.

They’d probably murder you if they could get away with it.

If we do military comparisons, an air carrier is no good for a country without global logistics in place. A fighter jet is no good for a country all whose possible takeoff sites are under fire control. A big-big naval cannon is no good if it’s not mounted on a ship, limited by terrain and can be just walked around.

Some weapons give clear advantage to one of the sides, but none to another.

Maybe these tools are good for building scrapers that can structure unstructured data. Turning Facebook or Reddit into something NNTP-accessable, for example. Or making XMPP and Matrix transports to services that don’t have stable/open APIs, purely using webpages. For returning interoperability.

They are using generally same UI approaches, modern horrible ones, so one can have a few stages of training, first to recognize which actions are available from the UI and which processes and APIs they invoke, and then train for association of that with a typical NNTP or XMPP or Matrix set. Like - list of contacts, status of a contact, message arrived, send message, upload something. Or for NNTP - list available groups, post something, fetch posts. Associating names with Facebook identifiers. That being divided at least into passing authentication and then the actual service.

That can be a good thing. Would probably work like shit, like something from the Expanse or even old cyberpunk.

All this AI craze has taught me is that the human brain is super advanced given its performance even though it takes the energy of a light bulb.

Seemed superficially obvious.

Human brain is a system optimization of which took energy of evolution since start of life on Earth.

That is, infinitely bigger amount of data.

It’s like comparing a barrel of oil to a barrel of soured milk.

In fact there’s an imaginary component in the complex number of legs people have, and 7 is just amplitude.

Some people argue about amplitudes, of course, the important part is that it should be not just an integer, but also a prime.

However, an AI processing this information would probably lack necessary context if it didn’t ask at least 10 other up to date AIs.

Yes please!

So if my home router becomes part of a botnet, I might be helping the defense of Animehentailand?

Nice.

You wouldn’t believe me.

Worse is better. You need to have all sorts of delusions existent in the society, for the immunity to be preserved.

Honestly I’ve had different experience, too much Russia-sympathy from Germans. But maybe that just came out of fashion.

Germans are quickly rearming, BTW.

And if we look at the numbers, their planned military budget is going to be the size of Russia’s. The efficiency of its use, despite all the jokes about German military bureaucracy, is going to be better too.

So I’d say it’s a huge question who’s being cornered, them or everybody around. Considering the size of Germany’s economy, its dependent economies and allied states. Considering that France, Poland, obviously Ukraine are interested in participating, so there’s bigger total scale of the system achievable.

Even for the old-fashioned kind of militarism they have sufficient population.

And about Putin - one of that regime’s worst unseen qualities is that not only it’s sadistic and barbaric and generally evil, it’s also incompetent. Well, competent in killing people, preserving power and all kinds of sadism, incompetent in strategy. In 5 years when Germany rearms well enough, they might, to optimize expenses, do something huge for old times’ sake after solving the immediate problem, and for this kind of aggression Putin’s Russia will not be ready, not even on the level of 1941.

But also Putin&co have that common for Soviet nomenclature fetish for the German empire. And they are psychopaths. They might be bringing this about because they want this to happen. They will all be in European countries, after all, living just fine, and nobody will put them in jail or take away their stolen riches.

Russophobic nazi supremacism still kosher though.

I’ve noticed that pro-Israel Germans are usually not that much against Russia.

Guilt Pride

Thank you for this term.