It’s a hybrid between a laptop and a USB hub. Takes the monitor and keyboard of a laptop and makes them connect by USB to usually a phone, but here the Steam Deck.

NIMBY in action (but far more palatable than usual)

No need to No True Doberman the discussion. There are plenty of picky dogs in the world.

Some dogs (like people) are more particular about their food. Your pet might be bored with their current diet or may have developed an aversion to the way their food tastes, looks, or feels. Additionally, dogs receiving frequent treats or table scraps may become reluctant to eat their regular dog food, in the hopes that a better-tasting treat will be coming along shortly.

https://www.greatpetcare.com/dog-behavior/reasons-your-dog-is-a-picky-eater/

I see your point and it pleases me. Let’s upvote it so it will be seen more by others like me.

But to post a controversial opinion - I believe the internet is a giant confirmation bias machine.

I disagree with your conclusion as it applies here - but I appreciate the argument. (And upvoted, as it adds to the discussion). I think between these two nations one is the underdog and more in touch with people and reality.

That said, Zelinsky is absolutely a charismatic political leader and it’s healthy to critically analyze anything you hear from such sources. In this case, the statement is definitely a bit bravado nicely coupled with reassurance to their people. I do also believe it tracks with what’s publicly available on the warfront. Nonetheless, the interpretation is clearly biased (to make their own side look good).

Thank you for your thoughts. I also see you’re getting downvoted by the echo chamber. I appreciate it, at least.

They took as much as they could digest, but it was a lot to swallow.

I prefer the term Computer Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence or Synthetic Intelligence. It grounds the term in the computational logic of a math rock, and allows the intelligence not be a ‘pass/fail’, but rather what scales to what’s been discovered.

It covers modern LLMs, but also includes classic fuzzy logic, probabilistic calculations, Bayesian networks, etc.

Really itching to try that golden goose recipe.

Both?

It genuinely hurts my soul that this is a complete argument.

The idea that users could or should have preferences - to be responsible to opt (in or out) in any capacity is an unreachable goal.

It’s frustrating that a lazy or evil developer can so easily convinve the masses to give up privacy simply by dangling a shiny just outside the default security safeguards.

I’m already drooling at the prospect of them repackaging it and selling it back to us. “After acquiring contractual control of the electrical grid and pushing several security updates, we bring you e-power, an NFT driven energy packet exchange market. Now in partnership with DraftKings™.”

I’m comfortable with boot having a either a plaintext key or two key halves to XOR together, used to unlock the base OS. I honestly don’t trust a TPM to store this, and as long as the OS is designed to guard the key from all but root, I don’t see any security issue.

ICANN says thanks, but that one is theirs, and they are also happy to let people register whatever they want (but for say … $227K a pop)

Walled-Garden-stalling?

“A googol steps to add an app”

Authoritarian-stall

Package Micromanager

Daddy Google’s allowances

Controlware / Slaveware / Theirware

I did a web search:

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

According to this site, China is in a four-way tie ranked 76 of 181 countries measured in terms of corruption (lower is better). It scored 43 of 100 on their “Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)” (higher is better).

I think the parent post has merit, as China is notably more corrupt than many similarly sized western world countries. (But my afternoon web search is far from authoritative or definitive).

I, by coincidence, am also actively campaigning for Linux.

You should try it. It has a lot of issues and problems - but far less than you think, more importantly far fewer of it’s problems come from enshitification (software forking helps resist that), and most importantly, since many projects are community-driven the more people use it the better it’s likely to get.

The summaries are not real quotes, obviously, and is obviously selected to emphasise the shifting nature of the administration’s position … but yeah, I would say it’s broadly actuate.

Right? It describes some fingerprinting techniques the site uses, but browser sandboxing limits the available data.

This type of scan is uncommon, and slightly more invasive than other tracking techniques, but neither new nor urgent.

It doesn’t paint the site operator as a paragon of privacy for sure tho.

Access to information - Internet access should be made a human right

Yes, I do, but you don’t need a man in the middle when you also hold the decryption keys (on both ends). E2EE is useful in case you get hacked, since unless they get the whole system, a copy of the data at rest would be encrypted.