I had little opinion on .zip but this convinced me to go figure out how to block .zip tld. Why would someone risk all those attack vectors when there is so much available on the many other tlds. I could see myself getting caught by many of them.
That does not explain DeepSeek, nor does it explain the car industry.
The main advantages the Chinese car industry has right now are: they lead in battery R&D, production is highly automated, they iterate quickly, Chinese work culture is extremely competitive and things get done fast, and the Chinese state has policies to promote EV adoption, so there's a huge domestic market.
Note that the last point is different from subsidies to car manufacturers. Cities made it difficult to get license plates for ICE cars. The government encouraged the massive buildout of charging infrastructure. And it used consumer rebates, like California did.
aside from the huge domestic market (or potential in the future), china has built incredibly efficient infrastructure for manufacturing prototyping/production.
but it's also thanks to protectionism, and their strictly controlled (not freely traded) cheap currency.
if china had to play by the same rules as japan or germany it would not be quite as successful. but the west walked into this trap, hoping their win-win proposal would be satisfactory for all. now the west is too dependent on chinese production to enforce equal standing.
of course the US has its own unfair advantages, e.g. the global reserve currency and the massive post-WWII headstart.
At least in the case of solar and EVs, it's a case of western countries preferring to protect their existing cashcow industries rather than invest to build the industries of the future.
For a brief second, Germany was in a position to become a solar power global player. But our conservative government was more interested in protecting their local, bad industry. Including destroying forests for coal all projections said we would never actually need.
From a EU perspective similar could be said about the US market - no strict worker protections, lobbying, and a general "capital first" mindset over the users/people (see GDPR etc).
You're getting swept up in a narrative that doesn't reflect reality. Public surveillance cameras and "petty regulation" are not authoritarian. The UK has a crime problem and these are needed to maintain some sense of public order, the government is democratically elected and the people are not opposed to these nor is there any wide spread abuse of this.
They are pretty authoritarian to me. Nobody should accept constant surveillance upon them in their normal everyday lives. And petty regulations are a huge burden upon the working class who can't afford the time or money that the wealthy elite can to work through them. It is essentially a pro-wealth policy for that fact.
Also crime rates way way lower now than in the past, so complaints about crime ring hollow to me, especially when you add in the fact that many crimes only exist because of the petty regulations that get foisted upon the poor. The UK's murder rate is the lowest it has been in over 50 years, and it isn't because of surveillance cameras.
And maybe if they spent more effort on improving everyone's lives instead of trying to find people to punish at any cost people would be less drawn to criminal enterprise in the first place.
What internet privacy? Look at the sites this is being enforced on and tell me with a straight face you have privacy accessing those. Even for sites like X i'd argue truly anonymous users are horrible to have. Users should be accountable for what they say online in common public spaces. You want free speech and anonymity go to those spaces not facebook and X.
Im so sick of Steve Jobs and apple glaze. You like it because marketing targeted at you. It was no more slick than other products at the time and worked no better. You liked it because the company threw money at a very successful marketing campaign. These people are not nerds they are extreme outliers and not much different to the CEOs of today.
China isnt "all open source" they still keep their top models out of the public view. Its easy to "open source" models when they're so far behind very few will pay for them.
Open source in quotes because they are not open source and not even close to open source.
Its always trying to cut bloat. Cant someone have a vision for a better internet that better caters to modern use cases and utilizes modern tech stacks to deliver the best possible experience? I dont see any value in going back to 100kb web pages
A significant amount of the bloat on the modern internet is to facilitate marketing and advertisements, not for the benefit of the user.
I often wonder if we see this downward spiral on sites, because their attempts to monetize increase their costs, which require them to increase monetization efforts, which increase…
If we stripped it back, how much would some of these sites really need to run?
Multimedia is inherently large, but there are a lot of diminishing returns as resolution and size increases.
People bought the newspaper for the cartoons rather than the ads, but the ads supported to printing costs. Eventually the competition became so fierce one of the news giants lowered their cost to 1 penny.
Maybe lightweight internet use is a skill that needs to be trained. But with a solid connection for working, I see this less prioritized.
yes and no. I agree there is some amazing things that can be done with larger websites, but one has to wade through a lot of unoptimal sites to find the good ones.
Correct me if im wrong, but arent you trying to introduce a space where its impossible for larger websites to exist thus everything is restricted to the bare minimum website features like its 1999. I do not see the point in that, to me the problem isnt a blog with fancy JS vs a blog with static text. Its about corporations exerting outsized amounts of control over how people interact with the web. I want the new web to solve that problem and also be able to serve 4k video.
You can already do that. If your home page is a fediverse feed or client, the users provide the content without an algorithm. Many people who have a browser with a Google search bar might think corporations control a lot, but one can set a different browser, DNS, and search engine. The thing Steve Jobs did was simplify the out of the box experience, so when they bought a Mac, there'd only be a dock with Safari at the bottom. One could develop an open source machine with a very unitary goal of accessing a lightweight web using a protocol or extension similar to No script but the average non-technical user might not know how to do that.
Of the many Linux distros I've tested, maybe a handful are actually easy to use and not heavy. One example is Bodhi Linux. But I have something more like Tiny Core Linux in mind, except polished (it features a dock, surprisingly). If the hardware could be developed for this too as open hardware, there would be the added advantage of it having more ways to improve it. I'm a bit oxymoronic in having a vertically integrated product idea and an open source bias, but a lot of great ideas need a coherent outline, which sometimes start out as closed source.
If the project starts out with enthusiasm but it gets forked, then it becomes impossible to develop one feature that many people didn't realize would be overall a better user experience, or streamlined option, at the very least.
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