TBH while Trump is pretty much telegraphing that he'll do just that, this story is unlikely to have anything to do with it. We happen to be in an era in which nation states have learned how easy it is to hide secret remote controls in all kinds of apparently innocuous hardware.

It's just difficult with Trump who swings wildly between ludicrous justifications of import bans, and occasionally doing what his administration's smarter advisors are actually telling him needs to be done. One of the reasons this presidency sucks. That and all the fascism.

No, Fox News has nothing to do with the CDA, which was largely about that part of the media regulated by the FCC. Fox News is not regulated by the FCC, it's a cable channel.

I'm not saying the CDA was good - just look at the degree to which radio got enshittified, and local news veered heavily right wing as companies like Sinclair bought up local broadcasters. I'm just saying Rupert Murdoch would have done everything he did anyway as he wasn't affected. The only way I can think of that he benefited from the CDA was 20 years later, when he made a bucket of cash selling Fox Broadcasting to Disney.

To be honest, I don't know why we stopped, because it's not as if modern frameworks take less time to learn or are significantly easier to visualize HTML in.

And many of the sites that migrated to these absurdly heavy web frameworks seem to be just as slow as they ever were. T-Mobile's website comes to mind. Clumsy, falls apart, and makes the fans whir in every laptop I've ever seen - and it's been like this for at least 10 years.

What are devs trying to achieve here when they use them? 'cos it sure as hell isn't reliability, maintainability, or speed. Is it just to narrow the number of people who can replace them?

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> ...which I'd prefer over hopping onto a plane and getting there 3x faster ...uhhh because?

Because it's uncomfortable and never, actually, 3X faster given it takes an hour to actually get to the airport and checked in and through security and half an hour minimum before you can leave the destination. And let's not forget that you're giving up an entire day in practice anyway when travelling.

I get it though, you like cramped seats, shitty service, anti-social co-passengers, expensive tickets, and long, long, waits. In which case, good news, because Europe has airports too! It's just almost all Europeans prefer the train, maybe because your statement above is just plain stupid.

> You know, I always marvel at the level of brainwashing it took to convice leftists to hate cars: a transport system that operates on my schedule, on my route, with no walking to stop involved, no waiting in wind or rain at said stop, which doesn't leave without me if I'm late, with no transfers needed, where I control the AC setting, the music, which doesn't put screens in front of my face with the same 3 ads on a loop during my hour-long journey, in which I can ALWAYS comfortably sit not just during off-hours, need I go on?

You know, I always marvel at the level of brainwashing it took to convince rightists to hate public transportation given cars are a transportation system that operates on no schedule with little or no predictability, that leaves you completely stranded if your own vehicle stops working, where you're constantly having to do your own maintenance, and ultimately spend hours a day staring at two lines on some fucking tarmac, stuck in a cramped metal box with uncomfortable seats, when you could just read and relax, and stand and walk around occasionally, like you would on public transport. Need I go on?

> "Oh, you need that suspicious lump looked at? Of course, as an EU citizen you are entitled to free healthcare, we can schedule an appointment as soon as 2047!" I mean fuck me, you think noone ever knows how that "free healthcare" looks *in practice* and you can blatantly fucking lie about how "awesome" it is and noone will call you out?

"Oh, you need that suspicious lump looked at? Of course, as a US citizen you are entitled to pay through the nose for an insurance service that'll require you see a primary care doctor, who's all booked up for the next 9 months, to give you a referral, and then we won't cover most of it and you'll go bankrupt." I mean, fuck me, you don't even know how "Free healthcare" looks in practice: if someone waits 6 months for a hip operation in the UK, there are questions asked in the House of Commons by MPs. Meanwhile if your insurance company fucks you over in the US, you're SoL, nobody gives a crap, half the country will find a way to blame you for it, and healthcare is intentionally rationed using high prices and constant treatment rejections because there aren't enough doctors, and there's no incentive under the US system to train more doctors - and lots of incentives to train *less*.

> LOL, wake up Sparky, it's 2026, uncontrolled immigration made those "safe streets" you speak of very much a thing of the past. OK, you are more likely to die from being stabbed (or run over with a truck, the new fashionable thing you have going on there) than from being shot, makes a huuuuge difference.

Hi, my name's blahabi and I believe any old nonsense far right nutcases spout if it fits my preconceived notions. If it shows "immigrants bad", then I believe it, despite knowing there's ample evidence immigrants commit less crime in all sectors than non-immigrants in virtually every western nation, almost certainly because they know the risks are far heavier for them.

> LOOOOOOOOL. Tell me, did you have the chance to vote for (or against) Ursula von der Leyen the way US citizens did get to vote for or agaisnt Trump? No you didn't. Same as you never get to elect the European Comission, nor the CJEU, who actually rule Europe. You only ever voted for EU parliment, which is famously the most powerless elected body in the world, so much it's a meme. Fucking democracy indeed :DDDD

Ursula von der Leven doesn't have the powers of Trump so this is a nonsense comparison. And yes, every EU citizen has the right to vote in their own countries for and against their current politicians. The major difference is there's no fucking vote rigging. While the US is doing its best to disenfranchise or erect hurdles to prevent people from voting against Trump and the Republicans.

> No such thing as a "carbon debt" except as a leftist talking point :DDDDD or do you believe in fairies too?

Facts don't care about your feelings, dumbass.

> open borders

Again, all you're doing is suggesting you're a one note RWNJ who has never actually understood the value of multicultural societies and believes any old crap about "others", in this case immigrants, to bolster your "scared of change" attitude.

> You mean "car-hostile"? I don't mind walkable, but a more appropriate word would be "walking-enforced", so no thanks.

No, he means walkable. Car hostile would imply that cars have some right to be a default form of transportation so inalienable that even the only universal form of transportation should be second tier to it. It is practical to walk and use cars throughout Europe. In most of the US, walking is de-facto banned, with road and neighborhood builders making it impractical to use that method of transportation (or even other non-car systems like public transportation or even bicycles) to access local facilities.

> Oh, noone disputes it makes a great vacation target. Go there, visit aboementioned things, enjoy the theme park atmosphere, observe primitive europeans living there in their natural habitat, make some photos to post on some (US-made obviously) social media site, then, return to civilization once that stops being fun and starts being tiresome. :DDDDDDD

Maybe if you took a vacation over there, you'd lose your... well never mind, I get it, you're too scared of brown people and think they're lurking behind every pillar in Europe getting ready to stab you.

But if you went there, you'd realize how stupid your entire reply is. I literally know right wing Republican Americans who went to Britain for a business trip who came back asking why the fuck the US doesn't have trains and walkability.

I'm pretty sure that Amazon is one of those institutions that's all-in on AI so they can join in the attempts to take over every business in the country.

Maybe they should just say "We're upping our prices because of our own greed and lust for power, just not in the usual way."

C++ has developed at lot over the last 20 years, and my understanding from C++ programmers is that there are now safe alternatives to virtually everything that had to be done using unsafe code in the past. So as long as you restrict yourself to those modern features, you can produce entirely safe C++, C++ that's as safe as Rust.

The problem with C++ is more that you have no idea what you're getting when someone drops a C++ source code bomb on you. It might be written using safe idioms, it might be using unsafe features but in a safe way. I wouldn't start a new project in C++, but I understand why someone like the GP might propose it as a way to start a project to increase security of an existing C program.

He's not looking at it the wrong way.

You're essentially saying "But a technology that does this would be very valuable!"

Yeah, no shit. So would a technology that turns lead into gold. Or that can tell whether some unwatermarked text is LLM generated or not.

Like both of those cases, it's just not possible. C needs to be translated to Rust by someone who knows the intent of the programmer, as the GP pointed out. Most of the time that's not possible to automate. There are far too many edge cases.

In C a string is an array of chars. And chars are often used as a byte type because before the second ANSI standard, char *was* the byte type. So every time you see char a[256] you MAY be looking at something intended to hold a string, but you also MAY be looking at something intended to hold series of bytes. You may think that because someone wrote something that maybe even included a string initializer that you're dealing with a string, but the developer may well be treating it as something else.

Your very example is why this kind of thing isn't automatable without a huge level of hand holding.

The best anyone can do to make "safe C" is to emulate capabilities and make it do that. Which is chronically slow. And the reality is that even capabilities aren't a panacea, because C really is just that bad. You'd get rid of some classes of error, but UB means you'd almost certainly introduce a whole set of bugs from programmers unaware how big an issue UB is, and who assume ultimately memory is just a big byte array, and some of those errors may well be security holes.

> What you're not considering is that the manufacturers are building fab capacity like crazy right now.

Which they'll shutter or repurpose if the demand plummets. You think they're going keep those factories churning out memory chips if prices drop significantly?

At the end of the day they have to make a profit. Making a bunch of memory chips with a profit of $-1 per chip is not making a profit.

It just means Gemini will start being rude and will refuse to try to help anyone with a question.

No. The hardware being built for AI is basically using hardware that more closely resembles graphic cards minus the DisplayPort output than anything you can pick apart to insert in your PC. Even the memory modules are completely un-DIMM like.

At best, supply will return to pre-AI levels, but that'll just mean that memory reduces in cost to somewhere between today's absurd prices and Trump's post-tariff prices. The chances of it being reduced to Biden levels is pretty low.

Memory is going to be expensive for the foreseeable future. And all because of what's essentially a con job, an attempt to take over every substantial business in America by making their own employees unable to understand what it is they do, that nobody's prepared to do anything about.

If it's an AI data center (which is generally what people are concerned about the massive growth of) responsible for 911, then you're going to have a bad day whether powered or not.

The obvious solution here is to run the data centers in reverse. Basically feed them long winded manipulative slop, and have them convert it into the original art. This will mean the centers will then start generating power instead of using it up.

It's so obvious I can't believe nobody's thought of it before. We could probably solve global warming if we did this.

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Ask the average system administrator who maintains any small website whether the AI companies are still scraping the web, and you might find yourself surprised. Pretty much anything with high quality content that isn't a major well funded site like Reddit or Wikipedia is getting hammered to the point that websites are either constantly going down, or resorting to reCAPTCHA and other similar "Legit or AI?" technologies to limit their use. Every BBS/etc I've been using lately has that anime nurse with a magnifying glass interstitial (see openwrt.org for example) to try to limit the amount of hammering they're getting from OpenGPT, Anthropic, Google, etc.

This is also impacting the ability of those same websites to be found via search engines. It's literally a disaster for the open web.

Anthropic adding watermarking isn't going to do much except add even more self-serving justifications to the AI bros to hammer websites constantly, as now they can distinguish between their own crap and stuff that might possibly be human written.