it’s 2000-01-01 for me

“you’re gonna go to hell!”

if where all the “christians” go is heaven, then i’d rather go to hell

also work for what you believe in, whether that be community service, supporting your neighbours, making a computer game, chatting with friends, everything helps as long as you can believe in it with your heart

the hollowness of what they do

i suspect they intentionally hollow out their soul to save weight or sth

the way i understand it, the company has an obligation to fulfill “shareholder’s requests”, which is maximizing profits in 99% of cases, at least on publicly traded companies.

it’s crazy for me to watch people rapidly waking up to that fact after i’ve said it for what feels like decades and was completely ignored for the longest time.

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idk, we’ll see.

What’s really worrying me is this:

i.e. wars are waged because somebody is bored

whether thin clients will prevail depends on the network costs and the CPU costs.

if the network costs become really low, shuffling more data around between user-device and server might be doable, but as long as network costs are non-negligible, it won’t happen.

Wait - is this about all radio devices or only mobile connectivity ones?

I.e., is WiFi affected as well? Or does it only affect internet that you access through your carrier?

The article says:

From 1 August 2025, new provisions will come into force RED Directive (Radio Equipment Directive), which redefines the compliance requirements for all radio devices sold in Europe.

Which technically would also affect WiFi.

I feel like an open system starts with the hardware. It doesn’t help that we have open software if we don’t control the hardware that it is running on. Maybe that’s a thought of relevance for the future.

IIRC they’re already doing this in China. I got hold of a chinese phone a while ago, and there was no way to install your own OS on it, you just had to use what came pre-installed, and i don’t know how much state-sponsored surveillance was on that.

I’m not so sure about this. According to this article, in austria at least, it was the SPÖ (center) and ÖVP (center-conservative) parties that voted for surveillance, but the Grüne (greens/center-left) and FPÖ (far-right/nazis) that voted against it.

There’s also this article from yesterday: Austria legalises state spyware amidst strong opposition

i wonder what changed. these regulations are certainly a threat. they justified it with the “threat of (islamistic) terrorism”, though i don’t know what’s really going on there.

Wait, what does that mean for USB LTE devices? Devices that you can attack to a desktop computer to give you mobile internet. Last time i checked, they’re widely available.

Would these become illegal as well?

then so does mars if you go there ;-)

thanks, done

that depends … do you?

I’m not gonna sell it to you, since i’m not a businessman.

the idea of going to mars is that while doing so, we’re necessarily gonna discover a lot of new technology, and that helps people on earth. on top of that, living on mars offers an adventure to people who don’t want to live a boring life. That’s all i can say today.