There are companies selling off PCs that are “too small” for Win11, really cheap. More than sufficient for a NAS. You might even get a bunch of them, chose the best mainboard/case/PSU set, put the others in storage, and get all the RAM and HDD in one box.

Strange to see China of all places to be societal ahead of everyone else.

The moon does not change color. The atmosphere does, though.

I was thinking of joining GitHub back then, but the announcement that MS is buying it put me off. I was right from the start.

I know my way around cryptography, therefor I am skeptical. If push comes to shove, they can simply command the Whatsapp App to silently surrender the keys. Nobody would know, it is a closed source app and protocol, and they can hide what they are doing inside the (probably) TLS encrypted stream.

I never assumed that this presumed “end to end encryption” was secure in any way. The key exchange either runs over Meta servers, and they just log them, or the client software simply surrenders the key (maybe always, maybe on demand) together with the data stream that still runs over Meta servers.

This very much depends on the country.

For my vitae, Latin has been rather useless in the last 40+ years since I got rid of it.

It was just the choice of the lesser evil back then: French with an asshole teacher or Latin with a demented one. At least the teacher I had at the end let me off with the equivalent of a D instead of an F.

Always has been…

I had Latin in school, and the teacher was a bit senile already. He started making the rounds to check our homework - which I had not done. So I just hastily scribbled some lines of gibberish into my notebook. He came to my place, looked at my notes, and scolded me for my bad writing. And signed it off as done…

If cooking puts you in work mode, you made something wrong. Cooking is fun. Cooking is enjoying the creation of something wonderful, be it for yourself or others.

Can they just burn it, like they did last time?

Why should it? That makes no sense. I cook to raise appetite, whatever I cook.

You know well that Americans have only a very loose grip on units and reality. That’s why they use imperial and “elephants per football field” like units.

Because it has more than enough plausibility based on a number of statements and observations that are well documented?

In any case, I would put this information prominently on your website.

It’s a “Yes, the ruse worked” smile.

Keep in mind that the Chinese scientists have a lower pay than their American counterparts. And that sourcing materials in China is usually cheaper. So even an equal amount of spending already means a lot more research in China.

It would be better for the world if they just put a breathing proof bag over his head.

You should have seen the degradation of content when the eternal September started back in my days…

If they are stupid enough not to install adblockers, their reasons for controlling the computer like that fail to impress me.