it's fake

There is at least already a userspace PCIe API. And USB and so on.

It's crazy that there isn't a law somewhere that privacy has to be what your expectation is. Privacy in a physical space means the people with access to the physical space. But there's just secret sensors and cameras recording stuff and sending it off under the thinnest guises. This stuff is obviously just for surveillance.

Cool article!

I also followed a few links in the article to https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

and found

Subaru states that by being a passenger, you are considered a user — and by being a user, you have consented to their privacy policy. Several car brands also note that it is a driver’s responsibility to tell passengers about the vehicle's privacy policies.

lol

It's frustrating that there isn't much of an effort to turn Linux into more of a microkernel. Instead the kernel just keeps getting bigger with even more subsystems and modules that can be exploited.

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bend the knee losers

These Unitree robots are basically the single new and futuristic thing being developed right now. It's so unbelievable, these videos look like CGI because I'm so used to seeing robots in movies that move like this.

The best part is the pricing for the lowest tier of these things (the humanoid ones) is in the thousands of dollars range (https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-r1). Okay the dog models are $100,000 but still. If the US had developed this technology these would be built on a contract basis and the lowest-tier one would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and be exclusively for use by specific departments in rich prestigious universities. The more expensive model would be millions and used by the military.

Instead it's just a commodity. LOL.

It just highlights the practicality of Chinese R&D. American capitalists are always talking about "red tape" but they're so money-hungry and used to pulling off crazy grifts. It isn't red tape that's leaving them in the dust, it's their unquenchable greed and desire to print money with some monopoly product. There are so many products like this in the US that aren't even remarkable tools but you still have to contact the sales person or sign a contract or something. They won't even tell you the price up front. And this is in the "richest country on earth" and they won't even just let people buy expensive products with a credit card. And Chinese companies are selling in-development cutting edge technology at mass market commodity prices.

It's literally frustrating how lethargic and incompetent American capitalists are. They're so arrogant. At least the US automobile industry is dying (again) as we speak. Get fucked assholes!

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VPN blocking is already a thing. There are lots of websites that block VPN users, even if just to reduce spam or malicious traffic. It seems like tech or political illiteracy on the part of the article author. The goal of all these new laws is clearly to make surveillance of internet users easier and forcing websites to ban VPN users does exactly that. If enough US states pass a law like this, it will have a big enough economic effect to force companies to actually comply, and basically block all VPN users. And if it's too difficult to comply, then companies and governments will find ways to make it easier to comply.

It's just a US-style version of banning VPNs directly. They have to do it differently so all the hack journalists and libertarians and NGOs can keep using their stupid propaganda about how "authoritarian governments" want to "ban freedom of information" by blocking VPNs.

V Day song Greek version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcck-SaLAb0

It's nice that the site is still usable and hasn't been completely bogged down by bots. Wonder why that is.