When the only goal by law is maximize profits, the motivation tends to favor minimizing cost. Change the rules, and enforce a new set of values. Only then will the situation improve.

Upon reading the whole thing, it seems Samsung failed to plan for the obvious, as TSMC is doing just fine in the U.S. with the same tech.

I’m incredulous that they only just realized it was a waste of money. Something changed. Either they only built it to get U.S. subsidies, or somerhing the current administration did killed demand. Which is it? I suspect it’s the second option.

Yeah, that idea of UPS being a means of access is BS. This is the first i heard about that one.

Perhaps the idea behind that depended on the serial/usb connection to enable the server to shutdown and restart when power returns?

At this rate, I’m gonna have to go Amish.

Not sure what UPS is in this context. I’ve seen some compelling statistical analysis that shows some very weird anomalies vs historical data. That is briefly touched upon in this article about a lawsuit in New York.

Similar weirdnesses exist in Pennsylvania where Democrats voted for Democrats across the board except for the presidency.

I feel this is odd enough for examination. I am not firmly convinced of fraud, but i do find it odd there have been few recounts vs prior elections, and near zero media coverage of such questions.

Good lord, we’re still hearing about the 2020 election, but there has been radio silence on the 2024 election.

Yeah. It’ll be easy, because they’ve rigged all of the vote tallying machines. There’s pretty damning evidence that the Trump team hacked a whole bunch of voting machines and changed votes.

Blurgh! Embarrassing. Please believe me world, most of us are sickened by this guy.

Effectively, anyone who does not have a lawyer who files a specific suit in a very short period of time can be deported at will. Saying it does not end the 14th Amendment is an exercise in English language mechanics, not in how it ends up affecting the world.

If you are high school student who is shipped off to a foreign prison, how likely do you think it is somebody will fight to bring you back?

Based

Welcome to our surveilance state. We’ve been under total surveilance for decades.

You are describing removing individuals. I’m referring to the system. Sure, over time if enough people sacrifice themselves to remove individuals in the power structure, maybe something could crack open.

That’s a very long shot. As time goes on, the security improves, the surveilance improves, and fear will stop most.

However, my intension is not to squash hope, but to shed the light of realism. This is serious, and keeping our Democracy alive has to be tackled with deliberation and coordination. Murder is the near unthinkable last resort.

I pay to avoid ads on Amazon Prime… Now i have to endure unskippable ads every 10 minutes, and my annual fee is up over 50% since i started.

Fuck them. No matter what, these mercantilists will extract everything they can, and they will break any promise or contract they sign as soon as it bemefits them. We, however, cannot do the same.

Numbers are less relevant when the other side has the most sophisticated surveilance system on the planet coupled with the most deadly military.

Key people inside the system have to defect in order to short-circuit that power.

I had success using openVPN. I set it up, generated certificates, installed it on my phones, tablets, and laptops.

It won’t work when using an external vpn like Express or Mulvad, but while using it, you have secure connection to home. Once done with the home network, turn off the vpn, turn on your commercial vpn.

Translation: we’re about to attack your ships, but we want you to blame U.K. and Ukraine for it.

I suspect it just isn’t well known. I used it for a while in my early days in Linux, which was back in the late 1990’s, and i honestly haven’t heard much abiut it over the years.

I do remember being impressed at the time. I think most people stick with the defaults for whatever distro they first choose. Since i was using Slackware back then, there was not a default choice, so i searched and experimented.

Exactly. Just like they never tracked and stored our movements when we turned iff location history.

The class action suit they lost on that was fake news /s

It also means you are presented with a Faustian chouce: walk away, or give up any hope of privacy. “You wanna see this? Give me full access to your metadata, and a way to hack your system”.

Qubes is starting to look like an everyday use requirement rather than a security nerd tool.

I had the 500 and 3000. I finally got rid of the 3000 3 years ago. I saw no reason to install linux at the time because it was already almost the same from my perspective, except the Amiga also had sterio sound 4096 color output, and pull-down screens. The console commands were substantially similar and several enthusiasts ported linux comands to AmigaOS.

Plus, we now can run more modern versions of AmigaOS on Linux though I have never done it myself.

Amiga still exists as a reasonably modern OS and hardware as of a few years ago. It was bought by small businesses and updated a few times.