I’m a firm believer that hardware must never be linked to any sort of subscription to function. If it does, then it’s because the hardware only serves as a way to access the content, but in that case, it must allow competition between providers for that content.

If I buy something, it’s mine. No one should be allowed to dictate how I use it, I want to be free to do what I want with it.

What the heck are you on about. That’s the worst possible solution to this, are you some sort of masochistic?

If Siri is something that needs to be paid for, don’t bundle it with the system. Charge extra from the start, and people can opt in to that shit.

Also, they run a massively profitable software store, and THAT is what justifies and pays for the bug fixing and security patches to the overall OS.

The “cell a year” practice isn’t to cover development costs, it’s to bring in massive profit by milking the consumeristic herd that buys their crap.

Thank you for the analysis, very insightful!

Do you reckon this is more of an oversight or bug in the BT stack, or a deliberately places backdoor as the title seems to suggest?

That’s not what this is, and even then, that competition wasn’t even good. You had two countries hoarding technological advancements for themselves, with everything having to be discovered twice.

This is a worldwide collaboration, where each assists the others, and it’s a much better way of making progress. See ITER.

Hero.

I’d have to create an account, too much of a hassle.

Edit: sorry about your family bro, it’s a tragedy that they got the US to chew itself inside out. I’m sure deep down they’re decent, normal people, who just got picked up in a vicious web of misinformation, hate and mistrust. Stay strong!

Hahaha I did the same, I was considering what rock I could turn to find them under and remembered Reddit.

Can confirm, even they haven’t found a way of spinning this one. Their best shot was justifying this as an attempt of making Trudeau, who’s leaving, to look bad and ease up on the tariffs when the new guy comes in so he looks good and is more eager to work with Trump, but even then they see it as a shot in the foot.

Yes but that’s from a company that builds decent cards at an acceptable price, and not from the HypeLords of the Lesser Return on Investment Unless You’re a Farm.

(Getting ready for the downvotes!..)

It’s likely that the stone cracked his skull and killed him, but it looks like David made sure of that by making a gory spectacle afterwards.

_50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. _

So you can’t download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart…

Big ones too. Case in point, USA.

I love how this post makes a bunch of claims, and yet provides zero sources, and thus, has absolutely zero value.

It’s digital noise, spam at best, evil misinformation at worst.

I haven’t looked into running any if these models myself so I’m not too informed, but isn’t the censorship highly dependent on the training data? I assume they didn’t release theirs.

I wouldn’t downvote an ignorant for asking a question, that’s actually praiseworthy.

But I will downvote an ignorant who somehow is so entitled that they think it’s others’ responsibility to enlighten him. Go lick a candle.

Yeah, China has almost double the population of the US and EU combined.

That’s where “developing nations” come in - India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brasil, Nigeria… AFAIK these are mostly western-aligned when it comes to tech platforms, but that could be up for grabs.

They must have hired some former Nvidia marketing guys.

This is the way.

I always wait for the prices to drop before buying any game, and never ever pre-buy them. The only exception is early access from indie devs, I’ll help them along if they show promise.

My jolly roger has been stuffed in a trunk somewhere for years, but looks like it might be coming out…

IP block it. Boom there goes eSNI and DNS.

Sure, it’s crude, but again: it doesn’t have to perfect, it just needs to create havoc with Google services to push away a regular user, who has no idea what DNS even is.

A better approach though is to fine Google, with a % of revenue increasing until compliance. They’ll very quickly be incentivised to comply or shutdown.

Nah. Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

This isn’t like the great firewall of chine where you want to prevent absolutely all traffic. If you make it inconvenient to use, because CSS breaks or a js library doesn’t load or images breaslk, its already a huge step into pushing it out of the market.

Enterprise market would be much harder, a loooot of EU companies rely on Google’s services, platforms and apps, and migrating away would take a lot of time and money.

Don’t worry about it