Keeping in mind it's an advertorial for their apps...
Not sure what they mean by "weird characters", but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.
(the "stochastic parrots" expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)
For US government use, these kind of services would most likely be run to a separate server to run in a government-certified facility, ideally one certified with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) or similar
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FedRAMP servers do not necessarily have to be in the United States
Well, yeah. There are literally billions of non-billionaires, only thing that's needed is to join forces and stand up to them: strikes and taxes work wonders. The problem is most people would rather pick easier targets, and fight each other instead.
Jobs are limited, salaries are not, technology already amplifies work output way above everyone's needs.
Trickle down would work if it wasn't for everyone undercutting everyone else: billionaires don't get charged enough, millionaires don't get charged enough, and people at the bottom keep trampling each other over minimum wage jobs.
The solution starts with people at the bottom joining forces and saying "FU" to unlivable wages, as in unions and general strikes. As long as most people keep seeing each other as a threat, those at the top can play them at will.
Funding organizations, be it businesses, foundations, charities, or whatever, can very quickly consume any amount of money you throw at them. There is literally no upper limit to how much you can pay people to do your bidding.
People building the yachts, and people operating them, are probably glad for the opportunity to divert some of the money to feeding, clothing, or treating, themselves and their families.
The problem isn't that billionaires spend money, the problem is that they don't spend nearly enough.
So... this means the "disappearing messages", are the correct way of doing this, right?
Encrypted message is sent
A copy of the message reaches several devices
TeleMessage makes an archival copy for record keeping
Message "disappears" (is deleted) from all devices
There can be issues raised about Signal itself, the ownership and operation of TeleMessage, or how the archival process works... but otherwise, it looks like a correct workflow.
Why is this article "critical with China"? From the sound of it, the Tianfu Cup is clear about its goals, that's a surprisingly high level of transparency. All hackathons are geared towards finding and hiring hackers, both by companies and by governments. This way, people can decide whether they want to be recruited by the CCP or not.
if enough people collectively decided to vote 3rd party.
Then it would either become the 1st/2nd party, or disappear into oblivion. If it could became part of Congress, where it could look for alliances, then maybe... but based on current sentiment, it seems unlikely.
Actually... they can. I got one today, they created a new account just to reply to the same comment, with an insult about having blocked them. They earned a stalking report, but I doubt it will stick.
The current US voting system does not allow for a 3rd party to have a chance. If you want a new party, then you either need to replace one of the main two, or change the electoral rules.
From the outside, it doesn't seem like either option is likely to happen peacefully, so things will likely need to get way much worse before they get any better.
https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt
Archiving communications is not optional (yet).