Ben Matthews

Combined with topic of trains, this reminds me of the famous movie Dil Se with the Chaiyya Chaiyya song on the roof of the steam train - itself in the SW, but of which the core plot was also about an rebellion in Assam… i.e. it reminds that this problem is older than current government …
But maybe they will be motivated to catch up, as China will soon have a direct railway from Sichuan to the frontier of Arunachal…

Oh, it’s designed for a big desktop screen, although it just happens to work on mobile devices too - their compute power is enough, but to understand the interactions of complex systems, we need space.

Indeed, here’s an example - my climate-system model web-app, written in scala running (mainly) in wasm
(note: that was compiled with scala-js 1.17, they say latest 1.19 does wasm faster, I didn’t yet compare).
[ Edit: note wasm variant only works with most recent browsers, maybe with experimental options set - if not try without ?wasm ]

This is not a surprise, I recall decades ago they predicted ‘intensification of the hydrological cycle’. India needs to store much more water across seasons, especially to replace the seasonal himalayan snow and glacier melt.

Je suppose la problème fondamentale c’est qu’il faudrait de la coordination avec d’autres pays vers lesquels ces milliardaires pourrait se déménager, mais actuellement la politique de certains de ces pays est capturé par ces mêmes milliardaires. Néanmoins, il faut préparer, pour qu’on puisse saisir le meilleur moment des oscillations politiques mondiales, quand cela s’aligne.

Well, technically the internet backbone is already controlled locally, it’s the web services - software - that are dominated by US big-tech. And for such services to be safe we need a diversity of providers, not only local ones maybe easily coerced by our own national governments, some of which might also try to turn authoritarian in future. So the problem is not that US big-tech participates, rather that we let them become almost a monopoly.

Bon outil !
Mais ça fait apparent, les grands trous sans gares. Il sera encore plus util, avec pris en compte la fréquence des trains par jour qui s’arrêtent a ces gares. Et peut être les forêts sont trop dominant en arrière, topologie serait plus utile pour vélos.

In principle I’d like to see specific permissions - so for example playing with gui enhancements should be a lower trust barrier than adjusting and running code, but afaik (correct me if wrong) neither js nor rust have a built-in security architecture that could implement this. Maybe certain types of extensions could just be custom script language without filesystem access, but that’s harder to do.

About source code linking, last time I heard (maybe they fixed it?) it seemed that trick vscode extensions can link to arbitrary (safe-looking) source repos, which didn’t actually produce the extension.

I’m less convinced about slowly accumulating publisher trust, as this could be a barrier to honest new contributors, while big actors with a longterm profit or geopolitical motive could game such a system anyway (as they do for social media).

I do trust the scala tools (build Mill, lang-server Metals, compiler) which adjust my code, having seen them evolve over many years.
and like the separation of functions (lang-server / editor), so we are less dependent on any one big-tech solution. So I suppose a fundamental issue is what to trust less - big corps with a reputation but lock-in power, or an ecosystem of small contributors which might include tricksters. No perfect balance.

It seems so far Zed is cautious, providing api only for specific extensions - i.e. language servers and gui themes.

add a line … right before you run it

I run stuff from the command line using a trusted build tool (Mill, in scala), or via a local server (where js is sandboxed).
But indeed, a tricky language server or AI tool (I don’t use yet) might inject code where I don’t inspect before running it. That’s a risk even with java-based IDEs - java has security permissions, not in js (vscode) or rust (zed), but are they applied…? As for audits, a problem with vscode is the marketplace got too big, so many extensions, many lookalikes, nobody can check them all…

Trump may echo Nixon, iirc, breaking trust in such systems. Anybody know, can he try to stop them withdrawing? What about China, Japan, others …?

Such tricks were was predictable, as VSCode extensions, letting arbitrary JS run on your system, are an obvious security risk.
Recently I used Zed editor instead, it’s smooth, but this also has extensions, only these are fewer and in rust ( maybe a higher barrier, targeting less users, so far… ). What’s the solution here - is there some intrinsically safer sandboxed system ?

It took the EU many years to negotiate trade agreements with Canada, Brazil, etc., partly due to internal disagreements within the EU and complicated national ratification procedures. We don’t have kings who can just act on their whims.
Also - it’s easier to apply tariffs on physical goods, than on digital services which US exports - coordination is needed to avoid loopholes, but that’s complicated, slow.
So, the ideas seem good in theory, but how could this be done fast enough ?
Meanwhile only Russia is laughing, they got their multipolar world …

Glad to see a brand focusing on linux notebooks, but only intel / amd ? - maybe needs that big battery / fans …?

Il y a nombreux années, j’ai participé au sein de ma délégation nationale aux plusieurs réunions des nations-unis (FCCC), ou je me suis toujours arrivée avec mon vélo pliant Brompton, parfois avec telles consequences sur le pantalon. J’ai noté que le chef de notre délégation regardait souvent de façon semblant un peu critique vers mon vélo et jambes. Mais enfin après quelques réunions il arrive avec un tel Brompton soi-même…

Si j’ai bien compris - on vol de la chêne, en Ardenne, pour le transporter via Belgique à destination de Chine - donc problème de coordination contre crime transfrontalier ? Mais ou sont tous ces chasseurs nationalistes, ils ne voient rien ?

I like meteoblue.com, it’s Swiss (or was? -seems to have been bought recently by windy) , loads of functionality especially maps.

I suppose they try to buy some time, to get out of the mess that much of UK security info and equipment is closely dependent on US. But indeed at such a pivotal moment, when there even seems to be cross party consensus, it’s daft to miss the chance to re-orient towards Europe.

denied, from belgium

It must be bitter especially for the greens to support this debt-spending on infrastructure that they were not allowed to do (by FDP and CDU) while in government, so will they just vote it through quickly now?

I’d like to have no phone at all, I don’t like small screens, nor being interrupted. Problem is that phone apps are now almost obligatory for IDs, transport tickets, passes, banking, etc. So I’d just like a phone-receiver (modem) with a sim card on a USB stick that can enable phone-app-stuff via my laptop or tablet. (Yes some tablets have data sim cards, but we still need sms and occasional phone functions for ‘verification’ etc.). Any suggestions?