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  • Yes, this is bullshit.

    While some sort of a redesign of part of Linux's internals I could imagine.

    In terms of kernel ABI stability Linux is often criticized even in comparison to BSDs.

    And in general its insides are more messy and "naturally grown", or so I've heard (OpenBSD is the only OS whose internals I've made myself familiar with sufficiently ; also put some effort for FreeBSD).

    So my, eh, alternative opinion would be that something is brewing for Linux like what Digital Unix was for BSD Unix. A hybrid cleaned up kernel, maybe support for different ABIs (like what exists in FreeBSD for Linux and older versions of itself, except maybe more ambitious). Maybe even tackling a more open alternative to NT (itself alternative to VMS and David Cutler being the man who did that) while they're at it. NT is not a bad thing. Even Windows is not a bad thing. Maybe Wine isn't enough, or maybe it would be cool to have something possible to make compatible with many Windows device drivers.

    At least I hope it's Linux learning to do EEE and not the other way around.

    Though with Bill Gates and Dave Cutler this really seems like a meeting of legends and nothing more. They're cool people, but I don't think they want to play global thermonuclear computing war at that age, unlike just global thermonuclear war IRL, this one is more attractive for younger people. Even if it's about some project being born, I'd expect that to be "just for fun" for everyone involved, they deserve that after all.

  • Ye-es, and if you call your automation "industrial planning\programming\optimization" the way I've seen it first in a student book, you won't be understood at all, despite that literally describing what you are doing.

    Probably making every piece of progress part of popular culture wasn't a good idea.

    But that started in the middle of XX century, with various new materials based on oil products being regularly invented.

    Events analogous to a "new material" with computers are a bit rare and very removed from the customer. Yet the popular culture demands some show of progress. They don't see a lot of real progress in UI\UX\web - monopolies and stuff. So - new applications become subjects of such hype.

    I remember the P2P hype, that was kinda real. Torrents felt like magic.

    I remember the "metaverse" hype, that's rather old, I didn't find any satisfaction for that, but probably a group of friends and a Second Life instance could be nice. Minecraft suffices for people today, it's easier and cool enough.

    I also remember "dynamic web" hype in my childhood, webpages were static, you'd press F5 to check new posts on a roleplaying forum. But there were nice-looking, dynamic, cool, and very inconvenient Flash applications here and there. You wanted to have both the cleanness and interop of the Web and the power and wow-factor of such applications. I wanted that too. Now I understand how dumb I was.

    The cryptocurrencies hype - it was a legitimate subject of discussions for intelligent people, how do you use cryptography to create a value exchange resilient to oppression, because without exchanging real value freedom is not achievable. That was, unfortunately, in the narrow understanding of the rules where the government can demand something from you, but can't force you or torture you or steal from you. Thus BTC is not anonymous, intentionally.

    There was simultaneously the big data hype, it was discussed as if it's not Google's and FB's pathway to power, but the opposite - finding systemic traits in human societies, probably using that analysis to build a better web, yadda-yadda.

    Then that mutated to the AI hype. But that also wasn't about yelling "we found AI, give us money", that was about neural nets yielding funny texts and discussions as to whether good enough imitation is real intelligence.

    Almost like fashion.

  • Unfortunately that's useless, the people needing to be hit are all kinda distributed over all of Russia, and the punishment is severe.

    But teaching children to build tools for modern war is an absolute positive. Possessing an AK is no good for a revolution today anyway, while with small drones you can do a lot.

  • If you are not ready to use a nuke ever, it stops being a deterrent. Game theory.

    But this situation is not the kind where a nuke is used as a deterrent. If Israel was saying they're sorry and asking for ceasefire, while Iranians would be absolutely destroying what remains of it and not listening, then yes.

    Or, if Iran had a nuke and Israelis were succeeding in destroying Iran.

    But neither are true.

  • I have an answer different from the others.

    US economy depends on the US intellectual property system, a few US monopolist companies and the US dollar, and the financial system.

    Especially the intellectual property system. However different laws can be in various countries, in fact everybody tries to follow US law.

    It means that a lot of things produces elsewhere mean royalties to US companies, and a lot of things can't be produced without permission, control of markets, planned development of microelectronics and tech in particular, yadda-yadda.

    So - if, in some hypothetical situation, that IP system is undone, with some countries having similar laws, some more like USSR's "public domain by default with some fixed payment to patent holders", and all the intermediate variants, then you'll just have a second depression. Because a huge part of the economy will shrink.

    US foreign debt is a meme subject, but honestly, if USD stops being the world's most reliable currency, you'll also probably have a default.

    US actual industrial production (what doesn't shrink as easily) is not so impressive when looking at its size. A lot about US level of life doesn't really match the efficiency of the economy. Say, if you look at Germany, life there is very different. In some ways better, maybe, but many things normal in the US are not achievable there.

    My point is - the American IP laws were spread around by pressure. Not just that, but sometimes the monopoly roles of American companies. Part of that pressure is the military guarantor role.

    If that stops being relevant, a lot of things which were a given for your economy for many years will stop existing. And for a few other economies too. It might not look as bad as the USSR's collapse, but it will probably look as ruined and unpredictable as the 1960s world.

  • I'm sorry, this seems to imply the US doesn't "feast on the smaller sharks". It went as far as threatening Japan with sanctions because they were considering "digital sovereignty" with TRON OS as opposed to Windows at some point. Japan is almost a non-optional ally.

    And also one good solution of preventing someone from doing that is arming the smaller sharks. Yet USA seems even more against more equal spread of technologies and weapons than the "next two sharks".

  • I live in Russia, in Moscow, in a kinda golden (in Stalin's time) place, so the shelter is right under me, its ventilation shaft exit is near the playground.

    The problem is - nobody knows how the hell do you get in.

    I do like canned food. I even had a small stockpile in 2022 when I thought things had gotten real and it's time to prepare. Have eaten through it.

    If it becomes a free for all, though, hiding from the physical effects will be easier than hiding from the social ones.

  • Nothing like nuking a part of the world you don't know shit about. They probably think it's a piece of desert with Disney characters (mostly centered around the capital of Agrabah and capable of hiding) and evil terrorists hurting our good Israel.

  • Equating Israel to USA in its right to exist is not swallowing its cock.

    They are right. Except one problem still can be solved, the other not so much. Maybe a few centuries after now somebody will think of something. Slow demographic changes and more modern weapons, that stuff.

  • But that is their dream for the future. Purely automatically managing the populace as some sort of a farm.

    It's an arms race. Like at any other point in history. Between those who think personal dignity and freedom and equality are a mistake of history or a device to keep the herd patient, and that they deserve to rule, and those who don't.

    The good part is that this has already been tried. A fast system with deadlocks is not that different from a slow system with deadlocks. And a big redundant system deterministically degrading in itself is not that different from a smaller less redundant system deterministically degrading in itself. No USSR and no Nazi Germany anymore on the map.

    The parts about lying and false pretense of law and democracy are new, but not too much - rulers of Frederic the Great's time had false pretenses of knightly behavior and following imperial mechanisms. One can even compare 30 years war to our two world wars in the sense of creating a new world order, which was considered impossible to change due to endless horrors following that, but eventually become a farce.

  • I suppose they shut down mobile internet. That doesn't make news because wire is normal here.

    Also there seem to be tests of DPI and filtering systems now by many ISPs in many places, because apparently Russia is going GFW.