haha. I hope they will. I hope that this “inspires” companies to produce more locally again. Pretty please?

I wonder what that means for google operating in russia. Since the demanded sum is so large, do they get their assets seized, like for example authorities sacking google phones? Or does this have absolutely no consequences?

for the record, that is $10,779,224,060,605,347,000,000,000,000,000,000 (american) dollars

Another Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!

Tor if you dont want your fediverse server + ISP to know who you are on the fediverse. Other than that, fediverse people are not likely to use google trackers, so you should be safe without having to make new accounts constantly. Noscript for all other websites, gets rid of trackers very effectively, but a bit annoying because you have to whitelist the javascript you need.

This is an extremely important tool for moderating large forums, thank you for working on this! This is one of those mod tools that some people may need to enable large scale moderated federated forums!

Theres also zulip, but I havent tried it yet, but its supposedly open source discord, but you have to host the server yourself I think.

Yes, go on, let NVIDIA buy intel. Let them buy AMD too. What could go wrong. I love monopolies! /s

…Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing…

WHAT? why?..what???

Yeah, it definitly tells me something, namely that I should not use the tool.

Why would news publish articles about the code quality of the tool, instead of its functionality?

Now they have negative press about its closed source nature, which is a calculated risk they took, just to open source it soon anyway? I doubt it.

but… you dont have to accept contributions? you can just make it open source and tidy it up at the same time?

then why make it closed source to begin with?

They are not. Your server admin and the admins of the server you send the message to could read the message, because its not encrypted.

Wow, sounds great. Maybe we do get private DMs in the fediverse, finally!

…yeah, nobody used it after it became obvious that they put a backdoor in it…

Every time you use Dual-EC(Elliptic curve cryptography) you are using NIST encryption, which is bad because they put a backdoor in it.

Dont blindly believe NIST, they have a track record of intentionally standartising weaker crypto so that the NSA has it easier, heres an article from a security researcher about Kyber, the one they say is “general purpose” (warning: long): http://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html

Extremely cool. Perhaps a right step in the direction of hallucination free LLMs?