It's no capitalism -- it's corporatism and mercantilism. A tariff makes the market non-free.

It's hard to catch an arsonist: there's few cameras in the forest. And it's not the gambling site member but some stinky bum who's doing it for a single bottle of vodka or a hit of fentanyl.

Exactly. I think this is salty people who desperately want the AI bubble to pop and for it all to be a scam of 'stochastic parrots' and a modern Mechanical Turk. It somehow offends their humanity and they are sure there is a vast capitalist conspiracy to defraud everyone. The fact is some asshats like Altman are indeed overhyping BUT that does not change the fact that my team of programmers got cut by 30% yet we are kicking out bug fixes and new features faster than ever. At higher quality too because now a lazy developer isn't half-assing the testcases.

Agreed 100% about hard to predict. I love this analogy from Geoffrey Hinton: it is like driving in a fog. Your headlights see only a few meters ahead and then there is an impenetrable wall of fog. Anyone who tells you they can see exactly where the road is heading a mile ahead is selling you something.

We had such a law in Poland:
Dz.U. 1921 nr.30 poz.177 (also Dz.U. 1920 nr.11 poz.61): Art.2: An official, guilty of accepting a gift or another material benefit, or a promise thereof, [in matters relevant to duties], shall be punished by death by shooting.

It applied to both politicians and regular members of administration. Guess why this law got dropped...

If like me you use VirtualBox you should hold off on this kernel upgrade until you know VirtualBox is ready for it

The domain name is sent anyway (except http 1.0 which is dead), and www.foo.bar being different from foo.bar is weird and self-inflicted. Also, see no-www.org.

No, he does have principles: he'll do anything for love. Love for money, of course.

It's the other brand of socialism, whose usual abbreviation starts with "Na". But they're close to each other, despite what worshippers of either side say.

Sounds more like an EDID problem. I don't know how to debug that on Windows, but you can check that on Linux, search for the EDID blob on the 'Net, and install it on Windows.

Eg. for one of my monitors I have this bit in .xsessionrc:
xrandr --newmode "1600x1200"x60.0 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode HDMI-A-1-5 1600x1200x60.0
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1-5 --mode 1600x1200x60.0
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1-5 --rotate left
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1-5 --left-of DP-1
I just realized this would be better put into /etc/x11/xorg.conf like we used to in the previous millennium -- that'd let saved layout apply automatically -- but hey, it works.

On the other hand, Windows requires raw EDID rather than parsed modelines.

It already is. If you connect to port 443 speaking SSL-wrapped http, what else do you expect?

Practically speaking, maybe not?

If the terms of service that they make you "read" and agree to when you install the app allows this, then they've arguably procured permission, and at that point the criminal justice system bows out -- "it's a civil issue".

Now, using this backdoor access to hack your other internal systems probably isn't covered by what you agreed to, but I would also imagine that most use of these proxies aren't to hack your internal network but just to gain access to new IPs in new countries to bypass rate limits and geofencing (shady, but not inherently criminal)-- and if somebody does try to hack your internal network (or anybody else, but from your IP address), it's the customers of the proxy network doing the crimes, not the providers of the proxy network itself. (Though the proxy network providers might be complicit, so the criminal justice system *might* have something to work with.)

More relevant, Commerce is run by Howard Lutnik, who BBC just implicated heavily about getting Epstein services and lying to Congress. And who unilaterally decided Anthropic (run by Dario who is Democrat and therefore an Enemy of the State) could not release Fable for weeks until they bent the knee. And who approved OpenAI ChatGPT5.6 saying they did not even need government approval. Because Sam Altman already bend the knee.

Actually, their name is a dick joke.

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