You could at least make it alliterative: Marvin "the moron" Minsky.

You thus assume they cannot act rationally?
Again, I see how they would happily use their enemies' tools against them, but I just can't see it as a primary/rational motivation.
e.g. liblzma/xz, where was the politics?
It was an overwhelmed maintainer and a library used in systemd, thus an easy window into every Linux server on the planet.

I guess the alternative answer is they can, of course, do both.
But this still doesn't make the author's politics particularly relevant, and its just... opportunism.

Something about not being able to see vampires in space due to all major space telescopes using mirrors.

From a "state actor" perspective, I'm unclear why they would care about the author's [public] politics. There *is* something to be said about "hoisting the baizuo by their own petard" but their primary interest is in broad opportunity, not politics.
On the gripping hand, if it were a product that was specifically/primarily used by activists, that would increase the profile/motivation to exploit it.
But NP++ is a pretty generic tool and not even used for comms.

He thinks he obliterates the misinformation. I have a bone to pick with some of his assumptions however.
He says he's in Chicago.
I'm near Detroit. I put solar panels on my roof ~4 years ago. ~22kW nameplate capacity [outside of sunny April days, never exceed 16kW]. I checked my 2023 numbers [so before I got a plugin-hybrid]. 20MWh used, 19MWh generated. I'd say it went well.

But he makes assumptions that 12x500W panels would charge his [all-electric] car. Actually, he says "in the middle of December". Which, at least on *this* side of Lake Michigan [and afaik Chicago has much of the same issue] we have the "permacloud" [he does show this in the video]. Even if my roof was setup such that I could clean off the snow [pitched the wrong way, flat roof], I'd be lucky to get 5kW times maybe 5 hours worth.
My dad, who has a much smaller setup [6kW nameplate, much more typical than mine] and nearer to Lake Michigan got about 5 hours of sun yesterday [a rare clear day that meant more cold the next morning] and generated 17kWh.
In the last 30 days [so Jan2 to Feb2], he generated a total of 90kWh [and total consumption ~1900kWh]. Assuming he didn't have to run the house *too*, that would fill a typical Tesla Model 3 battery *twice* [Google suggests a Model 3 has a battery between 50 and 82kWh, so I'm being generous here].
Mind you, he's retired and doesn't drive more than 10 miles a day, so it would perhaps work for him IFF he didn't have to power the house as well, and my father's use-case clearly isn't typical.

Where does TC's math fall apart? Probably in assuming nameplate capacity [presumably for narrative simplicity]. Maybe assuming that the car is the only thing one is trying to power, and that net-metering really means net [my utility and dad's both pay about 1/2 the retail rate for backfed energy]. Which it hasn't in Michigan for 5+ years and ditto even California.

and me? WFH plus 2x300mile round-trip every month, so I definitely drive more than my dad. that would require filling a Tesla 3 3x just for those round-trips [and why it's not practical for me personally to drive a Tesla 3, my dad can't recharge such a car in a reasonable timeframe].

There's an urban legend that says the first time Japan tried to import "joysticks" to the US [80s?] they were initially blocked by customs as probable sex-toys.

I'm not sure it's required that it be "globally".
8.8.8.8 is anycasted. Even if they made their French POPs enforce it, anycast traffic can shift, nor does BGP reliably respect national borders. So it may never affect Australia, but it could leak into UK, Germany/Bavaria, Netherlands etc, alternatively French traffic might under certain circumstances hit an Amsterdam or Frankfurt POP.
Not to mention GEO satellite internet.

Alternatively, were they to implement it via CIDR-delineated views, there's enough other edge-cases [border towns on 4G, et al]. So the question becomes, what will the court NOT punish them for?

Mostly. The good news is it's controllable locally, w/o needing the cloud.
The bad news is that doesn't stop it from [wanting to] phon[ing] home. And as noted by a few others, there's no specific need for it to expose *everything* via Matter.
And there is a license/fee for getting certified and that applies to every firmware update too.

:whoosh: - the sound of mccalli's joke over your head.

WPS was the MS Works extension for word processing. 30 years ago anyway.

WordPerfect was WPD

I would say then that we're actually in agreement... My use of the term "app-maker" was in reference to Sginal/WhatsApp etc: apps bundled/tied to services. Not to things like Thunderbird, as there is no such service bundled. Users think primarily of apps. Further, saying it's merely about services is a hair misleading, by way of the fact that the E2EE doesn't happen in the backend, by definition. I'm not sure how, given your nit-pick, one should describe an outsourced-app that is bundled/tied with a specific service. Not that I'm aware of many of those that concern the regulators. Either way, the code that the regulation applies to is the app. How you define the boundaries is beyond the scope of the regulators' understanding. They consider it one service.

ok, so your nitpick is "app-maker". I'm sure the lawmakers or bureaucrats didn't consider Thunderbird or Enigmail as relevant to begin with. They only considered Gmail's S/MIME [yes, S/MIME isn't Google specific, but Gmail is still a tightly-coupled service and software combination], ProtonMail, WhatsApp, Signal etc. probably iMessage too. From that perspective, the service and the software are vertically integrated, so well within the scope. So yeah, if mastodon started supporting E2EE, that would potentially evade this law, as the service vs software are decoupled. But they're not popular enough [yet] for the government to care.

I'm unclear that "telco" and "telecommunications provider" are synonymous. that is, "telco" doesn't mean to me "telecommunications" but "telephone company". thus yes telco is pretty distinct, but arguing that WhatsApp or Signal isn't a "remote communications" product is a hair harder

This technically is speculation, not analysis in light of the regulations themselves...
pretending that it doesn't affect E2EE I expect is incorrect. Just define the app-maker as a telecomm provider, and require them to a) keep ID b) provide a backdoor or disable E2EE.
and with ID, rubber-hose cryptanalysis becomes trivial. ditto to the guy above mentioning .bin files.