Not just that - I know that the Kremlin is pretty paranoid about data sovereignty. But they could have had datacenters distributed across their 10 time zones - from Smolensk to Anadyr, instead of concentrating them all in Ryazan and Koluga. Good as Ukraine's ranges are, I suspect they couldn't have gone beyond Novosibirsk

I can get small countries being forced to have their data offshore. Russia is the last country that should worry about such a problem

What war in Iran? All I see there is a blockade of Iran, but w/ other ships passing the straits normally, w/ different IRGC factions occasionally lobbing missiles at Hormuz shipping. Regime supporters keep demanding a resumption of the war, but apparently, the regime is in no position to make that call: only the US or Israel are

So far, they haven't, otherwise what's left of the regime would have collapsed already

Also, ever since 2025, when Ukraine decided to start taking the war to Russia and bombing refineries, fuel depots and Wildberry warehouses, the notion that Russia is a superpower has been busted. Just like in 1991, the idea of Saudi Arabia being a major regional power b'cos of what it looks like on a map was disabused, this year, it has been Russia's turn. I am surprised that they are still a permanent member of the UN Security Council, w/ veto powers. I won't claim that Ukraine is a superpower, but Russia definitely isn't one

Hopefully, any successor would disown the war stating that it was not his idea, and then make the best agreement he can make w/ the US and Ukraine

Only problem w/ that is that Moscow isn't too far away. It might have been different had Moscow been located at Krasnoyarsk krai, but it's located just some 50 miles from Ukraine. Even short range Ukrainian missiles made w/ no foreign technology could hit Moscow easily. But Ukraine has hit refineries and other targets as far away as Omsk, Tyumen and Yamal, and a lot of rich Muscovites have fled to Siberia - a region where they used to have to be deported during the Stalin era

So no, even Putin wouldn't be stupid enough to hit Kyiv w/ a nuke: if he did, he wouldn't be able to continue living in Moscow just from the radioactive fallout alone

How much of the company does he still control? That's the only thing I see that saves him from "spending more time with their family" (assuming that wifey still stays w/ him)

OpenBSD users who have mg as their default editor?

Jensen Huang, Alice Huang....

Are they sure they are not related?

One thing I'm wondering - if both the PCs are connected via USB/Thunderbolt, would the PC-to-PC migration be possible? Or would Windows sabotage that?

That's what I thought. AI has evolved a lot and is pretty capable of writing good code. In this case, it looks like it would have to take the NetBSD kernel, the way it is, and then combine it w/ Alpine Linux's userland. Both code bases already exist, so from what I understand, the AI would have to provide some sort of a shim that would provide the Alpine userland w/ the BSD equivalents of the Linux kernel calls. After that, hopefully, one or more people would go through it to verify that it works as expected, or help troubleshoot and iron out any bugs that may still exist

It might be something of concern if AI was building something completely from scratch. But in this case, it looks like AI would be combining existing code, just providing the hooks for one part to talk to the other

Incidentally, is this the first NetBSD based distro being created, ever since OpenBSD was forked? Something I'm missing - the point of it: what's it about NetBSD userland that makes it worth replacing w/ that of Alpine Linux? There are ways that I can think of a NetBSD distro being enhanced - increased driver support, new software utilities and so on which could give NetBSD the former PC-BSD feel to it, the advantage this time being that it would be available over a wide range of architectures. But I'm not getting the point of this distro

By now, it's its own thing. Once upon a time, it may have been some combination of Mach and FreeBSD and Quartz. But it has gone through enough that it's impossible to claim that its kernel is like either Mach or FreeBSD: it has evolved into something very unique

Only thing about your "hyper capitalist mess": all the companies that have been working on AI have been heavily leaning either Left or Left-of-Center. Grok is the only exception. The idea that AI would do things to empower the side that its owners ideologically oppose is just fascinating at best, and conspiratorial at worst

If you've never had a boss like this -- a lazy narcissist -- you're lucky. But if you have, the pattern is familiar and unmistakable:

* Doesn't understand the issues.

* Doesn't do his homework.

* Believes he's a genius whose "gut" overrules people who do understand and do do their homework.

* Plays his subordinates off against one another.

* Highly susceptible to information from random sources: thing he saw on TV, or heard on the golf course.

* Not particularly fussed about contradicting himself because he doesn't care about being right, but does care about being in charge.

* The more chaotic he can make things, the more in charge he feels.

* Has a cynical view of the people he works for but has a genuine gift for flattery when it suits his purposes.

Once you've seen this up close it's really obvious when you come across it again. You can't *not* listen to a lazy narcissist boss because he absolutely will try the stupid shit he says he will. But you can't count on him either, because he has no commitment to anything other than how he looks and feels *right now*.

Neither. Commerce didn't drop it, it got taken away and given to DoJ, but not because Commerce couldn't handle the invetigation of where the chips were going. The case goes to DoJ because we're talking about criminal charges of smuggling, corporate fraud, violation of national security statutes. Also because the Commerce investigation was tained by potential political interference. And possibly because it ran afoul of a counterintelligence operations siloed in the DoJ -- although by this point the cat is so out of the bag everyone must assume they've got a FISA wiretap warrant on them.

However, the *effect* may be to slow the progress of the investigation and delay any actions being taken.

The first reason for this is that criminal investigations are slower, the standards of proof higher, and potentially involve a criminal trial. Commerce could simply make an administrative law determination that put Megaspeed on some shit list and come to some kind of agreement with NVIDIA.

The second reason is that putting this into DoJ's hands is putting it into a department that has had staff turnover and loss of institutional knowledge, strife between career personnel and political appointees, and difficulty replacing lost employees. It's also led by lame-duck appointees, facing turnover in the next administration. So if they don't make progress in the next two years, allowing for transition delays, it could be years before anything gets accomplished. By then a lot of people will have left their jobs, memories will get hazy, evidence will go missing, and defensive positions constructed.

So while the investigation hasn't been *killed*; it has been delayed so long that it's effectively in suspended animation. It's not possible for Commerce to sanction anyone because the investigation is out of their hands.