It looks the Ukraine served as a wake up call for Taiwan, shifting public opinion towards reunification and leaving the ruling DPP increasingly unpopular. CBC was moaning just recently that many young Taiwanese have little appetite for a military confrontation with the mainland. The most probable outcome now seems to be that the US-puppet administration will get thrown out, paving the way for the KMT’s return to power and the resumption of a direct dialogue on reunification.

A historical point that people tend to forget about is that the KMT was already advancing on a path toward peaceful reunification back in 2014. The proposed framework involved maintaining Taiwan’s autonomy, its own military, and having a representative within the mainland’s political structure. It was precisely at this juncture that the US backed the sunflower movement successfully derailed the process and brought the DPP to power. Now, with shifting public sentiment, it looks like that particular American political operation has finally run its course.

That is one of very clear legitimate uses for LLMs, similarly they work great for making decompiled code human readable now.

the really scary part is that this doesn’t even surprise me

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I want to believe!

You know the war is lost when the UK decides they want to talk to Russia.

I’m in my 40s and I’m really glad I got into martial arts back in my 20s and kept up with it.

usually having coupling with the database being used as shared state

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I’m perfectly calm and nobody is upset here. I’m simply explaining to you that your argument does not make sense. If you want to look at negative sides of the trade-off then come up with some arguments that make logical sense. It’s quite telling that you start making personal attacks when you can’t actually address the points being made.

Romans were a product of their society.

I genuinely don’t know what you’re arguing anymore, because your logic is completely backwards. You’re blaming the GPL for “enshitification” and bloat, which is utterly nonsensical. The license has fuck all to do with how lean or bloated a piece of software is, that’s a result of developer priorities and corporate roadmaps. The GPL’s entire purpose is to enforce freedom, and a key part of that freedom is the right to fork a project and strip out the bloat yourself if the main version goes off the rails. You then admit that corporate contributions are valuable, but your proposed solution is to letting them keep their work proprietary which is the very thing that accelerates enshitification. You’re arguing that to stop companies from making software worse, we should give them a free pass to take public labor, build their own walled gardens, and contribute nothing back. That’s just corporate apologia that encourages the exact freeloading the GPL was designed to prevent. Your entire point is a self-contradictory mess.

No, GPL does not force companies to do that. It forces companies to make their source code available. There is zero requirement that it has to be contributed to the original project, nor do the maintainers of the project have to accept changes they don’t want. You’re completely misrepresenting the how GPL works here.

Centralization, bloating, and GPL are all orthogonal concepts that bear no direct relation to each other. A centralized project does not necessarily become bloated, nor does GPL play any role in whether a project is centralized or not.

GPL because abstract freedoms are meaningless. The goal should be to ensure that the code stays open and that corps aren’t freeloading of it.

ah makes sense

China has an actual carbon neutral plan, and short term use of coal is part of that. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/

A study showed that China’s use of coal is perfectly in line with their targets https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-climate-pledge-is-largely-consistent-with-1-5c-goal-study-finds

the key bit of the article

China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. The work China does on cutting emissions at home—ever cheaper renewables, more abundant storage which makes those renewables more useful, better electricity markets, long transmission lines and all sorts of associated expertise—will thus be increasingly relevant, and sellable, beyond its borders.

Russia actually operates 8 nuclear powered ice breakers right now, and they’re making more. https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/here-comes-yakutia-russias-newest-nuclear-icebreaker/422559