RCV will end the two party system. France uses runoff and they have more than two parties

That said, I’m partial to the systems in Sweden and Germany, plenty of options to choose from.

2024 is going to be the year of frenzied elections with no preparation

Coops are still about the money. They’re about saving money by sharing resources with fellow workers/consumers, and maintaining democratic control over the company. You’re not going to get rich from a coop (without embezzlement), but you and your coowners will be cutting out the middle man. Obviously, it only makes sense for industries that you’re heavily invested in.

Self hosting can save a lot of money compared to Google or aws. Also, self hosting doesn’t make you vulnerable to DDOS, you can be DDOSed even without a home server.

You don’t need VLANs to keep your network secure, but you should make sure than any self hosted service isn’t unnecessarily opens up tot he internet, and make sure that all your services are up to date.

What services are you planning to run? I could help suggest a threat model and security policy.

Not to mention, fiber is cheaper than copper at this point.

Telecoms are just lazy and don’t want to string up new lines.

Ah fair enough, I figured that since the registers are 512 bit, that they’d support 512 bit math.

It does look like you can load/store and do binary operations on 512-bit numbers, at least.

Not much difference between 8x64 and 512 when it comes to integer math, anyways. Add and subtract are completely identical.

Tons of computing is done on x86 these days with 256 bit numbers, and even 512-bit numbers.

There’s plenty of instructions for processing integers and fp numbers from 8 bits to 512 bits with a single instruction and register. There’s been a lot of work in packed math instructions for neural network inference.

And hack their phones so we can see why they want to spy on everyone else’s phones

It was protected by the ECHR in a recent ruling. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/european-court-human-rights-confirms-undermining-encryption-violates-fundamental

However, Chat Control 2.0 argues that since the spying is done before the content is encrypted, it’s somehow ok. 🙄

Yeah, more accurate dead reckoning is always useful, but you’ll still need some sort of of ground-based or satellite based navigation system if you’re using this for any system that requires any reasonable amount of accuracy.

I’m not sure if they literally use sand as the base material, but SiO2 (aka sand) would have to be reduced to metallic Si before the silicon crystal can be grown.

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

It is illegal in Europe, but not widely enforced.

No shit. These machines are as advanced as a nuclear power plant, they’re gonna have a bit more proprietary software and security protocols than you’d think. Not as simple as just pressing “start” with these machines.

I wonder if asianometry will do a video about the software on ASML machines sometime.

Definitely! If your VPN keeps logs, is in a surveillance-friendly jurisdiction, etc, then details of your internet traffic can be revealed by your VPN. I recommend Mullvad, paid with cash, for the most security. It can also help to pick VPN servers outside of the most egregious jurisdictions, like picking EU servers over US or HK servers.

DoH is meant to hide your internet activity from your ISP/cell-provider since DNS is otherwise unencrypted. If you trust your VPN, then you can trust unencrypted DNS.

The first step in security is to answer who you’re defending against. Someone stealing your phone? A cop with a STINGRAY device? All the security decisions you make are based on your initial threat model.

Generally, home internet, wifi, and cellular data are considered safe against passers-by (assuming your wifi password is strong). However, they are also assumed to be eavesdropped on by your ISP and government. Details of your internet traffic can then also be revealed by your ISP to other people during legal action, such as if you’re being investigated for piracy.

There are ways to further protect your internet traffic from being snooped on, even from your ISP and government, by using things like HTTPS, DNS over HTTPS, and of course, VPNs.

yeah, Id recommend switching on your secondary machine, so you can try it out and use it properly, but not get frustrated if it does something you don’t expect.

It would accelerate the ongoing brain drain in Hong Kong at least, and encourage the stragglers to finally leave for more democratic countries. Banning Google in Hong Kong would be a shitshow for the CCP, but Google doesn’t have any sort of spine or ethics.

The people? Democracy really isn’t that hard.