Office is a Trojan horse for teams

Windows is a Trojan horse for office.

The MS ecosystem is a hollow wooden horse matryoshka doll

It’s not that I don’t believe them, but anything coming from spooks has to be looked at a little sideways.

Thanks for the reply. I just couldn’t figure out how they had enough intelligence to find all these telegram groups, maybe that’s easier for a nation state than I thought.

There were reports (claims I suppose) that the fsb were using telegram to organise the stochastic gig job sabotage across Europe.

Joining a neo fash telegram group, pretending to be a rich neo fash who wants to help the cause but not risk themselves and paying people for putting up posters, damaging equipment etc.

Does what has been found here shed any more light on that? I’d guess it would allow them to find these groups to target them very easily? That was the bit I couldn’t quite understand from the original report, if so this all makes more sense.

This makes quitting Facebook look difficult and complicated

I thought it was ai comment spam advertising kremp.com

The draw from Skyrim and other ES games is wandering around and stumbling on cool stuff.

They both removed wandering by having you fly your ship to a planet, and removed the cool stuff by making the planets procgen.

It’s good fun exploring the cities and space stations but then that’s it. They designed out the entire game in favour of more procgen content.

I don’t see how you can write the law such that it allows training ai on copyrighted data without making it possible to train a special llm on a single github instead of the entire universe, and essentially treat it as a full compression of the source.

Because once you can generate the GPL code from the lossy ai database trained on it the GPL protection is meaningless.

A different reason every day

If open source apps can’t be copyrighted then the GPL is worthless and that will harm open source development much more

But Sam is talking about copyright and all your examples are patents

Aside from the unacceptable violence, the story here is far more complicated than that.
They were just impossible to work with.

I think PeopleMakeGames did a good YouTube video on it if you’ve not seen it.

PPP is difficult with defence spending, especially when nations are running a war economy and recruiting prisoners for free

The us spends that much more than anyone, including its enemies.

The us just spends way too much. Matching us defence spending is kind of a lot. Combined the EU current defence spending is second only to the us

Using this money to buy tech from Ukraine would be delicious

The peace agreement between Napoleon and Austria included Napoleon taking independent (but in the coalition) Venice.

It was kind of an awful elitist place but it was also the oldest democracy in the world at the time. Napoleon destroyed that, and all the monestaries. You can see the ruins of them around the lagoon if you visit.

It’s a very odd way to frame it.

This is almost entirely a European plan.

The NATO wargamed expectation for the Baltic’s is that Russia invades very quickly ( faster than the planned ukraine 3 day operation as they’re smaller), overthrowing the government before NATO can react in the expectation that NATO would struggle to invade a deafeated nation, and so fragmenting the alliance.

If this sounds insanely risky, well Putin never did it. But as a plan it’s not too bad. I think you know better than me the state of Europe’s readiness to counter this, they are extremely aware of the possibility.

The other point is that for Ukraine support this isn’t just a generic issue with size of military in the abstract, Europe as a whole does not have enough factories producing specifically artillery shells to support the artillery dominated land war in Ukraine. Ramping those up would take time, so even if Europe tries to help the forms it can take will differ to the USA and force different (worse? I can’t judge) choices on the ground.

You’ve answered the question of why America doesn’t protest, but maybe not in the way you think you have

There have been cases of crypto miners embedded but once discovered they’re nuked so quick it’s hard to get more than rumours.

C# modding is the most likely vector (rimworld, cities skylines, unity stuff) but Skyrim skse mods are raw code too. All can be misused.

Usually lua mods have a sandbox so they’re safe. Eg.factorio. and, um, more but my mind has gone blank.