I would prefer it wasn’t like this, PAX Americana seemed to work quite well for several decades, of course USA served their own interests, but they they also provided a somewhat stable world order with a decent degree of freedom.
Now they have abandoned the ideals of freedom and democracy and international law, to serve their own interests exclusively at immense cost to others, without regard for either law or decency. and of course that is not sustainable to be an ally of.
I think USA will soon find that without allies, their power isn’t so great after all.

USA is already losing the tariff war as it undermines the American economy, and hasn’t helped their trade deficits much.
When EU finally decides to put tariffs on American services, because USA continue with their shenanigans, then USA will have a trade deficit for real.
Because the trade deficit on goods is vastly outweighed by the surplus on services.
Even if they have a deficit, it is basically free, because they can pay for it with dollars they print themselves, because the USD is the global reserve currency.
But Trump is ruining that too, since “liberation day” where Trump introduced his tariffs, the use of the USD as a global reserve currency has dropped, some claim by up to 30%

All USA is doing is undermine the power they used to have. Everybody threatened by USA are in talks with each other to increase cooperation.

EU, Canada, Australia, UK, Japan, are making deals to cooperate around USA including on military.
The Gulf countries are now negotiating with China on economy, which will potentially be the end of the petro dollar. And they are looking to Europe especially Ukraine for defense equipment to replace American equipment.
South American countries have been working with China for years, and USA subsidizing Argentina will not change that.

USA is making themselves irrelevant, the Iran war has shown their military is a paper tiger, that cannot protect their allies, and they are pulling key defense equipment out of Japan and South Korea to aid in the Iran war. Making all allies unsure of the value of cooperating with USA. Japan participating in the EU SAFE program is an extremely clear indicator of that.

So whatever USA decides, will have very little bearing on the rest of the world. Because for USA, the train has already left the station, the ship has sailed. The world has lost patience with USA, and are now only idling in their relations with USA, while they all seek to strengthen other relations, for both financial stability and military safety.

Chinese companies are heavily incentivized to use Chinese chips instead of American since Trump blocked trade with China.
China used to parallel import the chips they needed, and even repackage them with more onboard RAM, making more powerful Nvidia solutions available in China than in the rest of the world.
But Trumps behavior towards China made the Chinese government decide to limit the use of American technologies for AI.
There was a point where Nvidia exports to China was basically at a standstill, because China forbade the purchase of a new cut down Nvidia chip made for the Chinese market to circumvent American trade restrictions.

China is building their own complete stack now, replacing everything with Chinese technologies, right from the AI chips to the entire AI software framework.

So not only does Nvidia and other American companies lose hardware sales, the entire stack will be threatened with a Chinese alternative, that will likely compete with American options on the international market in the future. If Cuda loses its current dominance, it will be easier for competitors to take marketshare from Nvidia.

Hopefully this will be good for consumers worldwide.

I think the rest of the world is getting there too.

You don’t just accidentally stumble upon a honey pot/illegal website

That is probably true, I have never seen such a site myself, and if I stumbled upon it, I would leave immediately.

The real immorality of the issue should come from the fact that the honey pots are still using child sexual abuse material, which is almost certainly used without the adult victims consent.

I don’t get how that can be legal. But USA is very extreme with their double standards in their laws.

Seems it’s not illegal if you are a billionaire.
But at least in Europe it has consequences for people if they are in the Epstein files.
But in USA it seems it’s just considered to be a group of friends with special interests! 🤢

OK, personally I don’t think such honey traps should be legal, you can never say for sure, that a person falling for it, would use an illegal site if the honey trap didn’t exist.
IMO it’s immoral, and luckily in my country they are in principle illegal, although the police here is trying to push the line on that.

The honey trap could be the thing that “ignited” the interest for an individual!
It can also be the trigger for other people to make similar sites, as in if they can do it, we can do it too.
Honey traps break with the fundamentals of justice in many ways, and making them legal is a sign of a sick society IMO.

If these sites are known, why are they allowed to operate? AFAIK there is no country where it is legal.

So the bad job numbers have nothing to do with AI anyways?
Hands up if you are surprised by this…

Why am i not seeing any hands???

assuming they have full ownership

You are mixing things up, I’m not talking about the project, I was exclusively talking about the code someone had made personally.
Linux for instance can never be made proprietary, because it’s impossible to get permission from all developers.
But anyone who has contributed a piece of code, can use that piece in other projects under different licenses. Because they retain copyright to their own code.

So as I stated it is academic to the project, and it’s especially academic to a fork of it.

Linux passing 5% is a major milestone, good to see Linux thrive. 👍 😎

Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers

I wonder why there needs to be special correction for China, but I’m guessing it’s about some sort of bots probably farm bots.
If anyone knows more please share your knowledge.

OK this is getting a bit hairy, but AFAIK only the creator of the GPL code maintains copyright, and can take his code to a closed source project.
BUT the code that has been released as GPL remains open source, and cannot be made to be NOT open source.
So anybody has a right to use it, as long as they keep it open source. So in the case of open source projects, it’s academic that the creator of the code maintain the right to use it without the GPL conditions.

From the blog:

ONLYOFFICE is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL v3)

And

preserving ONLYOFFICE branding in derivative works;

IDK seems to me it’s not really GPL if you can’t fork it, and that clause is certainly not compatible with any other GPL code.

If they use any GPL code they are probably in violation of that license.
Looks to me like they want to appear opensource, while keeping control of the code?

ensure a balance between openness of the code and protection of the rights of the copyright holder.

Yep there it is, this is completely contradictory to how GPL 3 works. You can’t call it GPL3 and at the same time claim the copyright.
ONLYOFFICE is completely misunderstanding how AGPL works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License

The main purpose of AGPL was to facilitate the use of GPL for online services, which wasn’t really possible to make with older GPL versions, because they require distribution of the source code together with the software.

Yes, that’s actually funny. 👍 😋

Modern batteries are way way better than they used to be, even alkaline is better and were quite expensive in the 90’s.
But it’s not only how much better they are, it’s the prices, alkaline is standard today, and you barely even look at the price, because they are dirt cheap.
But you are right that in electronics there have been much improvements, a modern flashlight is easily a 100 times better because of both LED and better batteries. LED improved it probably by a factor of about 10.
But for many things like a laptop, the power consumption hasn’t gone down that much, because the better batteries have actually made it possible to make more powerful laptops instead. the power consumption of a modest laptop CPU alone id 65 Watt, which would be HUGE in the 80’s.
I agree the 99% sounds like much, but I can attest to at least 80% probably more like 90% better batteries than the early 90’s.
Lithium batteries really was a game-changer, especially if you consider only rechargeable batteries.

Oh I understand the misunderstandings that can make it funny to the uninformed.
But please, on the off chance that it’s an angle I missed, please explain how something impossible is considered funny.

Well at least some found it funny.

BYD tried to build buses in Ontario but they were so shit they had to close the plant and pay a bunch of lawsuits.

Wow interesting I didn’t know that, I’ve heard that China has too many car makers, and some of them would have to go. So this is probably just the beginning of an adjustment for Chinese makers.

Absolutely correct, we don’t want a competition based on social dumping or highest subsidies.
That’s why you make tariffs to compensate for that like the EU does, but EU has higher standards than USA, and is hit by tariffs in USA anyway, and although China has state subsidies, the 150% tariff doesn’t make the competition fair, it simply excludes any car made in China from being sold in USA.

OK for me the 80’s are way later, because the two were a threshold between two eras.
So to me 78 is way way later than 82. In the sense that that was the time things began to turn to shit politically.
We actually had a very popular song here in Denmark, about how buying a walk man made things sound like new your man.
Back then USA was kind of both cool but also something that we shouldn’t strive to copy.
The problem is that I had zero interest in anything like a walk man.
My interest was in big high power HiFi.