And how exactly did they manage to do that? The Schengen treaty is not valid for these exclaves, so there is passport control between them and the mainland.

In Germany a president has been ousted for far less than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Aren't you the one trying to get the internet you want by geoblocking?

And I don't mean software developers but actual engineers that work with CAD and blueprints. I wonder whether that counts too.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

This is literally the same many russians say about their country. Doesn't mean it isn't a corrupt authoritarian shithole.

Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

The right surely loves projecting.

Ever heard of a concept called "the warranty"?

A camera only system can only be capable of superhuman performance if object recognition is at least as good as humans are capable of. Currently, computer vision systems are nowhere near as good as humans at that and probably won't be for a very long time. Besides, for all "better optical sensors than the human eye" inferring is still performed with low resolution images, much lower resolution than a human eye is capable of, because it is computationally very expensive. This is why all those recaptcha images that are used to train computer vision systems are so small.

Hence his claim is spot on.

Ah. I'm a Windows user from the days when it did not have a version. Played my first computer game, Balance Of Power, back then. Used every version, even ME, supported and maintained my clients machines on everything from Windows 3.1 when I became a tech. Reinstalling 95 and 98 I don't recall as being a big thing, but I was supporting a fairly homogeneous population then. I installed 95 Upgrade Edition and ran it continuously for over 30 days without rebooting. Then the first update broke that, and I learned as many did to reboot occasionally, or more often. I found 98 and 98SE to be improvements. ME we will consign to the manure pile of MS. NT was a greater leap forward then most realize, that kernel is still the basis for Windows, and it is superb despite the naysayers. Vista was a great leap forward also, though it was an interim step towards 7, perhaps the most durable and resilient Windows yet released.

8, 10 this was an era of genuine improvement. 11 also but it suffers undeserved complaints. To this day very few understand that Windows has to, and always had to, tolerate drivers from manufacturers of varying quality and performance, which Apple hardly has to at all. Also Linux has an army of obsessive (often) coders noodling over drivers as well as the benefit of a Unix-like kernel that can tolerate more abuse than commercial software does, and only because it gets so much more attention from a huge volume of coding expertise. But as you know, Linux desktops can be changed, sometimes grammatically, on a whim of the 'owners', the GUI world under X was complex and inscrutable, Wayland is a seismic disruption, and while I think for the better, it took some time to become fully featured and adopted. This event is similar to the 10>11 migration, though perhaps oversimplified this?

But in all this, I encounter disgruntled Windows users with unusual problem histories. Unusual because these are single-digit percentages of users. Not that you experience should be ignored, no. But on the desktop Windows 10 and 11 is working and performing to high levels. In the server room nobody much bothers with anything but Linux, the advantage is huge. The vocal Windows complainers I see are too often making what seems to be a religious argument. I've encountered this since the 90s, and the 'Helpful Internet Community' responding to my Windows questions with "oh, Winblows", get a real OS" in the days of Slackware 1.x. yeah, I did run that, but not as my daily, and 'Windoze' was working. Fortunately they are much less offensive than before. But Windows 10 has run its course. The objections have been answered. Old apps are overdue, mostly, and that's expensive, but your complaint may be with the vendor. And that's software, and that's a problem even with FOSS. Just the cost being in effort.

But, after all that, if it works, use it. If not, go and find the solution.