MoonGhost

> If that's not a surveillance state, I don't know what is.

If it is a surveillance then street photography is too. Camera pointing at spectators isn't good either...

Realistic calculations should include both sides. New way vs old. In this case AI assisted vs manual. Here intentionally only one side considered. Because comparison does not produce desirable result. Which makes in attention attracting BS.

I didn't say replace, but complexity is the biggest barrier for newcomers. A lot of typing comparing to other languages. I use professionally since 90th, the more popular it gets the better. And complexity is the major problem, not memory management like some argue.

How about thin C++ wrapper? The language with the same features, but more human friendly. It should be easily directly translated to C++. Preferably both ways.

The thing is the luck as usually on the side of bigger battalions. Smaller teams don't have the rich and width of bigger companies. All in all we need the full spectrum from single person startup to mega corporations.

That's what Amazon is doing. They simply increase the output norm and promise mass layoffs again. MS promises too, I'm not sure about details, but likely they don't cut the projects. Which means use of some sort of copilot is expected now.

The question is what happens to developers. Will they quit the industry or move to smaller companies?

He didn't mention multi-modal models. Probably because they don't fit in the oversimplified picture.

> After all, as last two years have so amply demonstrated: people are fine with genocide.

And open war crimes like intentionally killing civilians (TV broadcasters in Iran for example, or Gaza en mass)

> Rust and x86 assembly

then

> Memory-safe language.

What's the point? Looks like today Rust is like 3D printing was. As if it makes something better. Printing was hyped and advertised by printers sellers and manufacturers. Finally they run out of money.

As for project, it's cool if compatible with old soft. Otherwise suitable mostly for education and masochism. Long way to become practical anyway even if it gets traction.

> but I think that Durov was pressed for enabling backdoors for CIA when he was arrested in France.

Durov was pressed from every side from the beginning, no doubts about this. But CIA or FSB cannot demand it legally even with secret court orders. There were news that since arrest in France he started providing some info on criminals. Not sure how far did he go. But it's good to know that Whatsup is fully cooperating with governments even when they don't have to. Putting people at risk.

As for smartphones, there are so many security holes that it's impossible to secure. Many harmless applications are calling home, pictures are geo-targeted, cell towers can request info from connected phones, every update can turn OS or app into trojan. If infected it's a perfect audio and video collection device. Put together with soldiers' IDs it shows where the unit is. Add to that CIA and alike working with weakening everyone's security and getting priority access to sensitive information.

Can you summarize it, was Telegram compromised? Is there evidence of leaks from Russian soldiers' messages.

If ayatollah gets nuke regime becomes forever like in North Korea. And Israel may suffer first because nuke strike is the only chance for Iran right now. Hope they don't have it and ayatollah goes to Moscow.

Russia and China totally expected, they don't help much. Except for Turkey NATO on Israel's side, not surprising. Iraq open sky used for airstrikes. Muslim 'allies' probably help refueling Israelis planes. The rest of the world doesn't care much.

> Could be some other mechanism

if it was it would be true for telegram as well.

Or endnode in Tor. Not sure it's secure enough against US which operates it.