re: Chinese users. I don't know your level of experience with China (I lived there for many years), but I think it very clearly shows the opposite: through a combination of deep packet inspection, a t...
Then you definitely know more about China than I do. The Chinese people I know all live abroad, so they're a small group who probably weren't as affected by the propaganda (proof being that they chose to leave), and their friends/contacts back home are likely the same.
That's a scary thought. If 95% of people fall for the propaganda and only 5% escape it, that's a really dangerous situation.
On the CPU/compute point: yes, overall it would be more, but *locally* (in a totalitarian State) it could be less if the heavy lifting is done elsewhere. Right now, more "open" hardware seems weaker and more expensive. To be clearer: if the UK went totally totalitarian and locked down all the good devices, I'd use low-power, open hardware locally and offload the heavy computing to devices in countries that aren't as restrictive.
But what you said about China is really concerning. If it's that bad over there, how do we make sure it doesn't get like that here? Hmmm... "Voting harder" doesn't seem to be working.
Maybe all this craziness will eventually end, just like it did with the Soviet Union? I don't have any contacts in Russia, though, so I don't know what life is really like on the ground right now.
But then I'd like to know more about that 5% in China. Is it a hard and painful existence, or do they manage to live pretty well through all of that? Because if the 5% can be okay, then maybe we have to resign ourselves to the fact that only the people who are awake and taking actual steps will live well. That's not my wish, but it might be the reality.
But if even that 5% are struggling, it really doesn't bode well for us.
#openhardware
That's a scary thought. If 95% of people fall for the propaganda and only 5% escape it, that's a really dangerous situation.
On the CPU/compute point: yes, overall it would be more, but *locally* (in a totalitarian State) it could be less if the heavy lifting is done elsewhere. Right now, more "open" hardware seems weaker and more expensive. To be clearer: if the UK went totally totalitarian and locked down all the good devices, I'd use low-power, open hardware locally and offload the heavy computing to devices in countries that aren't as restrictive.
But what you said about China is really concerning. If it's that bad over there, how do we make sure it doesn't get like that here? Hmmm... "Voting harder" doesn't seem to be working.
Maybe all this craziness will eventually end, just like it did with the Soviet Union? I don't have any contacts in Russia, though, so I don't know what life is really like on the ground right now.
But then I'd like to know more about that 5% in China. Is it a hard and painful existence, or do they manage to live pretty well through all of that? Because if the 5% can be okay, then maybe we have to resign ourselves to the fact that only the people who are awake and taking actual steps will live well. That's not my wish, but it might be the reality.
But if even that 5% are struggling, it really doesn't bode well for us.
#openhardware
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