Only India as far as I know.

There are ways, but they are costly and complicated and do not stop all attacks. So the golden rule is that if critical infrastructure doesn’t need to connect to the internet, it shouldn’t.

I guess we’re the world leaders in Linux use - Windows 78.4%, Linux 14.7%, MacOS 3.5%. US sanctions on Russia and people here not being able to afford Win11 compatible machines must have helped.

One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a ‘public good’ which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of ‘digital public infrastructure’.

I’m sold.

If everyone uses AI systems that people largely don’t pay for, there would be no way to finance continued frontier AI development.

There would be no way for private companies to finance AI development. (Also has he heard of a loss leader?) Universities and governments will do it instead.

Congress restricted the use of Chinese model DeepSeek on federal and defense networks because of security and privacy concerns last year

Buy a server and run it locally?

I would have used WiFi on my phone perhaps two or three times in the last year. My home does have a router, because we’re dinos, but most new houses don’t since everyone has a smartphone anyway.

Ah, then it makes sense.

I use WiFi at home and friends.

This is the part I don’t understand. Mobile data would work in your houses too, right?

Further, in recent versions of Android, factory settings are set to automatically turn WiFi back on if turned off

I haven’t seen this happen, but I use MIUI (Xiaomi’s Android ROM) which tends to be aggressive in limiting battery use. It will actually cut hotspot if unused for a few minutes.

Am I the only person who switches off the WiFi after use? I thought that was common advice to save battery.

But why? Mobile networks are very fast nowadays. And how many homes still have routers?

Android phone collects every WiFi network it has ever seen and sends it to Google

Possibly, but how often do you use WiFi on a phone?

The consensus so far seems to be that they don’t collect as much data as people think, partly because they can’t process all of it, and partly because educated guesses are good enough to target ads often enough.

You look for network traffic. You might not be able to see inside the packets, but you can know when they’re sending packets, and how many. As far as I know, voice assistant systems that claim to use a secondary local circuit to detect calls are telling the truth.

Ha, rich people problems.

google products are banned on my work phone

Including Play Store?

Apple stuff are mostly Veblen goods, whose demand increases with price. That’s why this is interesting.

I’ve heard Google use Debian as gLinux and I feel many other giants also use it and sponsor it and I’m not comfortable choosing it as my distro.

They use Debian for the same reason all heavy industry is built using steel and not whatever flashy new composite is in the news today. It works. Debian is slightly harder than Ubuntu / Mint to install and set-up, but probably the easiest to maintain since it is extremely stable and forgiving. It will also work on just about any hardware.

And don’t worry about the sponsorships. Debian is run by the community; the sponsers don’t get to decide anything.

My understanding is that Chinese companies have been able to replicate EUV lithography by either using particle accelerators or layering DUV. But the former requires a lot of electricity, and the latter has poor quality and reliability. But with falling electricity prices and fusion reactors around the corner, who knows?

why would a country announce such a thing?

If you don’t want all-out war, it’s a good idea to announce your attacks so the other side (1) doesn’t over-react, and (2) pays attention the next time you make a threat. Usually the downside is that the other side might use this information to try to stop you. But at this point Iran has pretty much total control of the Persian Gulf, so that’s not a huge risk.

Sorry, my bad. So these people are software funding agencies?

While this is great, aren’t wealth funds required to get a return on investment? How does that work here?