Because if there ever was a stupid valuation that will ruin a whole lot of investors when the current AI bubble bursts, it's Nvidia's.

The AI-generated translation would be a great addition. But I'm not using it if it uses Google as a backend.

I'm pretty sure if there is a trusty Kerneldev in mainland Russia they will find a way to merge his code, and if it's only his Californian buddy doing the merges for him. At this level, sanctions are basically a non-issue.

Aside from that, most Russian devs and IT experts are expats by now. I spent New Year's with a whole bunch of them in northern Germany. Me and my buddy were a minority, everyone was speaking Russian.

They're from all over the place: Berlin, Cyprus, Sofia, Sicily, the Baltic, Turkey ... Just about any place other than Russia.

Which in turn does away with most sanction related problems anyway.

... one of those hero projects of FOSS.

AFAIK the project lead turned down a million dollar offer to run ads on VLC 15 years ago or so and decided to keep the project clean.

I hope he's doing well. Awesome software.

Quadriplegic men can't sneak up on CEOs or fire guns.

... vis-a-vis China. It forces them to take alternative routes and makes FOSS hardware a viable option. Hence big chinese money investing in it.

What would be totally hilarious if this actually pushes China ahead in the mid- and long-term, because they are forced to optimize along different metrics rather ever smaller scale of lithography or other cutting-edge and sanctioned stuff. After all, if you stay above and around the 20nm scale, you can produce comparatively cheap these days and don't need high end production hardware. In the end China might have cheap, manifold and robust premium-grade open source chipsets that roll up the market from below when the world runs out of some high-end microdevice that is critical to many industries.

I'm hoping for truly FOSS hardware and if China helps us get there I don't really have a problem with that.

I keep my phone off on the move. I don't want people calling me when I drive anyway, so what's the point of broadcasting my position.

I come out of airplane mode when I'm sitting somewhere for some length of time. Then they get my position. So whoever is tracking me only sees only gets discrete points on the map.

And on the bus or onboard trains, there's free wifi - with VoIP working just fine - so no tracking there. No easy tracking anyway: the point isn't to be untraceable, the point is to make it not cost-effective enough to do for a Mr. Nobody like me.

Where would it get location information from with GPS off, wifi off and airplane mode?

That's why GPS is turned off unless I absolutely need it, and my cellphone spends 90% of its time in airplane mode.

The sumbitches can't lose data they don't have.

Oh that's okay. I just need a couple.

This should be made very clear. It's not legal in Europe.

In other words, just like CNN, you now have two Facebooks: one that retains some shred of decency and another one dedicated to BS and propaganda.

can I use this machine to mine Bitcoin?

AI is still complete garbage at making realistic-looking, beautiful images. But there's one thing it's already very good at, and it's making stock photos. If I wanted to illustrate something or make a point visually, I'd never give Getty or Shutterstock my money: I'd just instruct an AI image generator to produce what I need in seconds.

Hell, even before AI, I've used them for years and never gave them a single penny: when I need an image they have and nobody else has - which is rare - I download the image and photoshop the watermark away. It's quicker than setting up an account.

Those two are walking dead companies.

It's problems like these that these days make me regularly consider a career-switch from senior webdev to mechanical maintenance or trade work. There is a huge and growing backlog of issues in the real world that require crafty skill, brains and the readiness to get your hands dirty that pay well and are often waaaay less obnoxious and more straigh-forward occupations than building yet another half-assed digital product for people who expect magic, don't know what they want but know exactly what it may cost and when it needs to be finished.

Even "simple" jobs like interior construction, painting, electricity, plumbing etc. seem to have some real potential these days. In the last 15 years I've on and off toyed with the idea of getting some welding experience and certification. It also would be a nice shift away from the desk. I eventually might just get into something like that, and if only for kicks and fun.

I stopped using Windows roughly 22 years ago. Waaay ahead of you, M$.