That’s a nice, but wrong image.

Russia has had SORM, various versions, since 1999. Yes, it wasn’t in any way as ambitious as the Chinese great firewall, but the processes of FSB interacting with ISPs and the legal base and even some necessary procedures were always there. Now they have TSPU, apparently a few recent widespread problems were caused by it being tested.

They probably want it to be just as little known or noticeable as SORM, so that most Russians would still have the false feeling of security. Russia was past the point of no return somewhere around 2003, but in year 2012 Russian opposition mostly still thought it’s not. Because these people, however horrible they are, do things comprehensively. They never let the mask slip until their victim, the whole country in some cases, has no way out.

I wonder how successful they were over many years in selecting and killing the best people Russia has. How many, how precisely chosen, and whether the country will ever recover.

People still thinking Putin hasn’t finished anything important in controlling Russia before year 2002.

He can execute and eat people on TV now, any popular reaction will be predicted or detected and neutralized, silently at that.

Maybe he is just very thorough in things he knows, which are KGB work, so he defends against improbable things now - like Russians really organizing something via Internet.

There is a component of sadism, so maybe he wants to actually be able to do something Bokassa-like and reduce connectivity to compensate in security.

Or maybe he’s getting so old that other people are making many decisions, and they don’t understand why he mostly let the Internet be before.

No communication - of course, but about search - I don’t think having a Wikipedia snapshot with search is bad.

You are mixing up transparency and legality with the private\public category. When one side of this category is more popular, the other side is often described as the solution to the problems with the former two. But there’s no causation.

Computers with some encyclopedia, but no GPTs are fine, no?

If a kid can write and train a mini-GPT trainable on that encyclopedia, then maybe they deserve the mark for desperation and ingenuity and being a fucking new Leonardo.

Oh. Hate that. You have a list of subjects, prepare for them as good as you can, then get one you know and one you don’t, start with one you don’t know - not be in time or mood to finish one you know, get something shitty, the other way around - do the one you know and then be interrupted while you just probably remembered something about the one you don’t, get something shitty.

I myself prefer to keep good ass IRL

Of course it’s Israeli.

So someone makes a state-of-the-art, pretty directly optimized by one criterion only, means of textual encrypted communication. To avoid MITM and various attacks, ya knaw how it goes, and centralized because users are dumb and will sometimes shoot themselves in the leg.

Where else would you expect to originate a company making a voluntary MITM addon for that, for those who didn’t get that Signal was even trying to prevent them from shooting themselves in the leg.

But leaks are good. Someone leak Putin’s family and their acquaintances in EU leadership and European royalty and such, please.

BSDs are “Unix of Theseus”, so they are the closest.

Solaris is a direct continuation that didn’t have a rewrite of anything after any litigation.

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.

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 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.