One day there will be a massive data leak and these backdoors are going to be closed. Not because privacy of some Joe Smith or exposing corruption, but because everyone will be able to read raunchy DMs of random politicians with their mistresses.
Yet another argument for running your own local models. And if they are scanning, they are definitely using all your data for training or outright IP theft, no matter what they claim. Current approach is just vacuum cleaner for your data.
Permanent until Trump will talk to somebody else than Navarro about these tariffs and will be promptly lifted.
The problem with current setup is attempt to strongarm tariffs onto seller, who will then promptly either stop sending any packages (because that's not how the system works) or bill the tariff back to customer explicitly - Here is your invoice for shipment and here is your invoice for tariff. You are just creating more bureaucracy at this point for no benefit.
> It’s really wild the degree to which Musk’s Nazi salute has ricocheted around Europe
This is because Americans does not have places in their country with mementos like "In this building Gestapo tortured 20 people to death ..." or "659 allied soldiers died liberating this city" or "In this complex of buildings over 500 thousand people were gassed to death"
For Musk it was a funny free speech thing. For Europeans it was very personal and very painful part of history.
English is actually a weird language without genders in nouns. I.e. in Slavic languages you can say "male software engineer" with word "vyvojar" and "female software engineer" with a word "vyvojarka" and then lot of grammar is built atop of this fact.
Job listing are then trying to use something like "vyvojar/ka" to signify that both genders are sought for, but there is nothing like that in English, so you will get translation as "software engineer (all genders)" instead of using just "software engineer"
And this is why local run models are absolutely necessary. Sure Claude is better than whatever you can run locally, but to avoid being eavesdropped on every keystroke, just buy older enterprise server with enough compute for 3k USD and run similar model there.
Mark Twain: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled"
So called watchdogs of democracy has been 100% fooled. But did you see that radical left lunatics colored pedestrian cross walk using chalks? National guard inbound!
You know that you can't do it on your own, but you need to have certification for that?
> U.S. customs is demanding a Certificate of Analysis (which could cost thousands of dollars and to determine what exact amount of Aluminum, Copper and Steel are in the product), otherwise they assume the entire PCB consists of copper, aluminum, and steel, and charge a 100% tariff on the whole product.
Yes they would 200% of product won't be a problem for them.
Furthermore as I know customs, the moment you will start making stuff up in a too brazen way, they will just use Google, search some average price of products and use that instead what you are declaring.
Sometimes it looks like they are getting a cut from amount of tariff they successfully scalp from you.
Which EU cloud providers can easily create knock offs and then let EU services migrate without changing anything on companies side, except just endpoints.
Russia is running on Windows too and did not collapsed. It turns out that companies wants to make money and are willing to jump through hoops, sanctions or not.
Also you can just use cracked OS (illegal, but if Microsoft is out, it will become abandonware) and create alternative API for cloud services. How hard do you think it would be to create i.e. S3 compatible API? Wait that already exists - https://github.com/jchristn/S3Server
And you could continue with whatever Azure, AWS etc offers. In the end, it is just some variation of a REST server.
There will be no rapid raise of anything - Driving license of B group (personal cars) is limited to 3500kg car, if you are driving anything heavier you need to have driving license of C group (Goods vans) which costs additional time and money.
Furthermore you can't really park these cars in the city. Too big.
Another thing that these cars are gas guzzlers price in EU for a gallon of gasoline is around 7 USD
So it is a nothingburger, few poseurs will buy it, and that will be it.
I think that it is only a matter of time before they will start reselling these data as exfiltrated IP to whoever will be interested.