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Governments don't get a damn thing about the internet. They just want to govern, and justify the spending.

Their goal is not to build resilient systems — it iss to preserve control. The internet was born decentralised, while governments operate through centralised hierarchies. Every system they design ends up reflecting that mindset: central authority, rigid bureaucracy, zero trust in the user.

So instead of adopting key rotation, temporary credentials, or privacy-first mechanisms, they recreate 1950s paperwork in digital form and call it innovation.

So if you run as a standard (non-admin) user, don't expose network services, don't insert random USB devices, and never run untrusted executables or installers, can a random person really get remote access to it?

I mean, even if you patch constantly, you are only safe from yesterday exploits — not from the next 0-day, and those keep coming super-often. It seems smarter to focus on hardening the system itself rather than relying on Microsoft to patch things fast enough and hoping you are safe in the gap between discovery and fix.

Im genuinely curious, what is the issue if you keep using windows 10?

I have a 10 year old macbook pro with a bootstrapped windows 10 for testing various things, and it looks like everything is kind of working the same way? Steam hardware survey shows that 32% of people are still using windows 10.

Besides "security updates", there is nothing to loose?

Food activates it within normal biological limits, alcohol and heroin artificially push the same system far beyond normal range, forcing the brain to compensate by downregulating receptors or reducing endogenous opioid production, so it's totally legit to compare alcohol to heroin

I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but ethanol is actually a very reactive molecule — and in some ways, it acts similarly to opioids like heroin. It, among other things, stimulates endogenous opioid pathways, leading to the release of β-endorphins and activation of mu-opioid receptors. So, alcohol works indirectly, heroin directly – but both enhance opioid signalling. If you’re curious, this study explains it really well:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3728478/

For the management of this platform, the benefit is pretty obvious – traffic = money, profits, dollars, bucks, cash, coin, funds, capital, benjamins

Do they care at all how societally terrible thing it is? They found an addictive way of retaining traffic, and they will be holding to it.

This would be interesting to test in a controlled way, curious what the CPU/time/memory quotas per run, isolation method, and syscall filtering look like.

Would appreciate pointers to any documentation or tests.

I am curious how the sandbox handles potentially malicious code. For example, what would happen if someone tried to run something like a crypto miner or a DDoS script?

Why don't you ask LLM to do it for you?

>How is the world poorer after I spent a trillion dollars to keep a few million workers busy for a few years? To bring this conversation around, in what way does a player transfer make the world poorer?

It feels like I answered this many times already, and we keep beating the same dead horse. It's is like a DDOS for the economy, this hole metaphor. The world is poorer because the time, labour and money which went into hole could have been spent on something productive. Instead of a player transfer money could have went into something like a fusion reactor, which brings cheaper energy instead of a show-off. Of course, everyone is free to do what they want with their wealth, just as I am free to criticise their decisions, because I want my kids to live in a world of prosperity, not in a world of excavators.

No one is saying you should be banned from digging holes. The point is: if too much capital keeps flowing into holes instead of hospitals, bridges, or innovation, the economy produces less long-term value. That imbalance is what we call a misallocation of capital.

In other words: criticising waste != demanding central planning. It just means recognising that not all spending contributes equally to future prosperity.

>What was lost, and who lost it?

What's lost is opportunity. All that wealth could have gone into projects that produce lasting value: infrastructure, innovation, healthcare. Instead, it was sunk into an activity with no return. Misallocation of capital is a loss measured in foregone progress, society ends up poorer than it could have been, because while we could have had a new hospital or brigde, workers were busy digging some literal shithole. Does it answer your question?

"money always comes back" view is too simplistic. Value can absolutely be destroyed or locked away:

Build a $2M missile -> launch -> it explodes. The workers get wages, sure, but the capital value is literally blown up. No ongoing benefit to the wider economy.

Stadiums for Olympics/World Cups -> billions spent -> used for 2 weeks -> abandoned. Money circulates in construction wages, but the asset sits idle, draining maintenance costs.

Buy a $450M painting -> store it in a tax-free warehouse -> never seen, never sold for decades. That capital is locked — the flow stops until resale.

So yes, wages circulate. But the end product can be waste, destruction, or dead capital. That is the difference between circulation and productive reinvestment.

The point is how it circulates. If €200M goes into a transfer fee, it is locked into a prestige loop instead of funding productive investment, it gets trapped in a cycle that reinforces inequality and produces very little outside of image-building. The recipients of this money are a tiny elite which they then spend mostly in elite consumption loops: luxury real estate, yachts, exclusive services, tax havens.

Speaking capitalist language, overinflated football spending is a misallocation of capital on low-return assets which creates market distortions.

the most accurate wording here is "generated".

we generated 35K LOC in 7 hours, 7 days of fixes and we shipped it.

This at least makes it clearer that it is on par with what it would take a senior BAML team member to accomplish this, which is kind of impressive on it's own. Not sure about ignoring the tests though

From a wider perspective it does vanish in terms of productive value: billions go into inflated transfers and club losses that generate little beyond spectacle, instead of going into things that improve lives (cheap energy, infrastructure, innovation, public goods)

Fair point, governments don't literally wire tax money straight to Qatar for oil.

But whether it is at the pump or through subsidies, it is still ordinary people who end up carrying the cost — and that money gets recycled into football vanity projects.

Football is wild. Imagine countries and governments collect taxes.

Then they use the taxes to buy petroleum products from Qatar.

Then Qatar spends €262 millions on a single football player and gazillions on a European club, which is at €889 million loss over the last five years

In the end, who is paying for it all? Ordinary people ultimately foot the bill – whether through higher energy prices, taxes, or the opportunity cost of that money leaving the productive economy – while the football circus rolls on.

Tell me then does this kind of comment fits those guidelines or welcome here?

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>We don't need such comments here.

Is it kind? Is it curious? Thoughtful? Substantive?

Why do you speak for someone else? Those "We" are in the same room with us?

The commenter above first couldn't understand, then read some comment, then understood something completely out-of-point throwing a bunch of generalisms touching me like "people make themselves suffer" and "everyone else is just following" and decided to dump it here? I can't just leave it untouched since I have actual experience with React.

Life is a form of predictive processing, like LLMs try to mimic life by predicting the next word, brains are constantly predicting the state of the world itself.

LLMs run on billions, gigawatts, and all of human knowledge to predict the next word.

Life runs on scraps to predict the next world.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s computation alone.

Your level of understanding is not very huge. React is an absolute pleasure to use, and we do enjoy it - that is why it became the most popular library and a revolution in web dev.

You do acknowledge this but this doesn't make the "spent 7 hours and shipped 35k LOC" claim factually correct or true. It sure sounds good but it's disingenuous, because shipping != making progress. Shipping code means deploying it to the end users.

It's strange that author is bragging that this 35K LOC was researched and implemented in 7 hours, but there are 40 commits spanning across 7 days. Was it 1 hour per day or what?

Also quite funny that one of the latest commits is "ignore some tests" :D

I don't think comparing it to something like camera surveillance inside your home is a good idea.

You kind of own your home – if someone places camera in your property, you can just remove it / obstruct vision / sound etc. If doing that will send you to jail then the level of dystopia around is so big it's irrelevant anyway – you're a slave with no rights and you will do that the shocking stick tells you to do.

Phones are different - you kind of don't own them by default because bootloader is locked so you are not free to execute the code you want on the device, as well as app store exists which it tells you what you can install and what you cannot install. The only leverage they have is to make Apple/Google remove certain apps from the EU stores.

It’s funny — Chat Control is not aimed at people who actually care about privacy. Those will always find a way to keep using encryption. The math doesn’t vanish because a law says so, and the open-source projects aren’t going away.

What it really does is push "regular" people back into surveillance by default. Most already assume their chats might be scanned or their phone might be listening, so they self-censor anyway. The law just bakes that into the mainstream tools, while the rest of us will keep using the same workarounds we always have.

Obvious mousetrap. Imagine shovelling all this stuff at users for "free". I'm switching to my own Chrominium builds...

>This website has no class

f12 -> ctrl+f -> "class"

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NOOooooooo. They LIED to me. I officially state that this website HAS CLASS

I see what salesforce is doing here. Trying to force a sale.

If it's even true someone from outsourced support has access to some sensitive security details then using this dumpster is almost like throwing your money out of the window.