I frequently see videos from around the world or hear directly from the teachers I know, that the children currently in schools are averse to and perform badly in reading and writing skills and even basic reasoning skills. It's extremely alarming - in some places, 8th graders are performing at 2nd grade levels! Their attention span is also reported to be very short.
To be honest, I'm a bit skeptical and am waiting for study results on this. The reports are that unbelievable. Of course, this isn't uniform among that population. But the incidence is a bit too frequent for my comfort. I don't remember any other generation complaining so much about the children like the current one. If I were asked to guess the culprits, I would pick social media and AI slop. But again, I'm waiting for a rigorous scientific confirmation.
But if it's true, I am scared to think about the emotional and neurological mess these kids are going to find themselves in.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to include protocols and protocol suites among centralized services. One simple test for this is the question: "How many Xs are there?". For examples, how many email servers, FTP servers or terminal servers are there? Compare that with "How many Facebooks or GitHubs are there?".
Email protocol suite is designed to be federated. FTP is just a file system access protocol. But you could combine it with an inter-server filesystem synchronization protocol/service to make it a distributed federated service. And as for terminal servers,.. well, I don't think centralization makes much sense there. How can you achieve any of these with centralized services?
I talk about the past, your university FTP-Server was the central point to get your Software/Manuals also publish your work (today's Github/Sourceforge?). Your university Email Server was the primary central point to exchange Information mostly inside your university.
Again i talk about the past when email was primarily used to talk to other peoples often not even over a net but inside a mainframe thing.
I though i was clear talking about the past hence not including Facebook or GitHub, and btw. Email just became "federated" when everyone agreed to use smtp when talking over the internet.
It really boils down to if the individual cares about freedoms. Some hackers don't care about them, and some normies do. Both of them use centralized and restrictive services. But the former does it by choice, while the latter does it because they don't know any better. But those normies do take an action when they have enough information. How many ordinary people have participated in boycotts and cancelation of subscriptions against corporations in protest of exploitation or for digital detoxification?
It's partially our own failure to be loud enough and get them the information they need.
Exactly! People seem to believe that this is a problem caused by a handful of individuals at the maximum. If nothing else, dangerous precedents have already been set. The bigger picture is much complicated and scarier!
If this is what you make of the current atmosphere, I'd say that you're severely underestimating it. In fact, the entire US seems to be in denial and sleep walking into a disaster. Everything that has happened so far was predictable at least six months in advance. But people seem to miss it because of the 'that won't happen to us' attitude. I'm not going post alarming warnings anymore. Just study history in detail. Everything happening today is eerily similar to several dark chapters in history - except with the added precision lethality of modern information warfare.
One more thing. Trump isn't your biggest problem. He's just a very visible symptom of a much deeper festering issue. The people who surround him actually far exceed his penchant for preplanned retribution. They follow the same playbook that many foreign leaders employ with him to get their wishes - satisfy his craving for validation.
I buy ebooks straight from publishers like Nostarch and Leanpub. (In fact, I have an older edition of this book). There are a few books that are sold directly by the authors too. All of them DRM-free.
I actively avoid publishers and sellers who don't respect me as a consumer/reader. People need to start demanding better deals, or else we'll end up with monopolies that won't think twice about deleting books in your custody that you purchased from them.
The Kubernetes Book, by Nigel Poulton. A very detailed and well explained book that is updated every year and you get them all for a one-time purchase.
Build Your Own Lisp, by Daniel Holden. This is an often cited classic with a lot of precious concepts explained in detail. It can be read for free online. But this is an opportunity to reward them for it. (Yes, I do own a purchased copy).
Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling. Already mentioned by the sibling commenter.
There a lot more on my wishlist. All of them are competitively priced at 10 to 15$ each.
Why does it matter if it was Obama or Bush in power? Sure, their politics influence the nation's foreign policies. But domestic partisan politics is largely irrelevant to the international partners. To the foreign nationals affected by it, you're just USA either way.
I mentioned just the other day, the problem with anti-intellectualism in the US and how it's fed by these sorts of egregious meddling by the administration. There are much less educated and affluent countries that are nowhere near as anti-science as the US. Yet unfortunately, the US exports it abroad too. I explicitly referred the same Pakistani case as an example of that. I'm all for Osama's elimination, but they jeopardized the entire humanity's future by misusing the vaccination program for it.
Despite a century of this nonsense (remember the radium girls?), neither political party cares enough to not pervert science in the interests of humanity. Smallpox and Polio were horrible diseases that caused untold miseries. Even the remote tribes of Pakistan knew their dangers well enough to participate in their elimination, until the US pulled off this dirty stunt. This is a deeply ingrained toxic culture that was reinforced by both parties over the decade. This should be a war crime irrespective of party allegiances.
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Why does it matter if it was Obama or Bush in power?
If Bush was in Power, of course the accusation would have to made against Bush. So, of course, the accusation has to be made against the president that was in charge at the time. Dark skin color does not give him a "Get Out of Jail Free Card".
> Why does it matter if it was Obama or Bush in power?
How can you open a war crime case against a guy who already got a Peace Nobel Prize? And what war crime? Was there a war? Maybe some special military operation against Bin Laden.
I don't know anything about Sam Altman, and so I cannot endorse the views presented in the video. However, this channel is usually very informative with detailed research and analysis and is usually spot on with their predictions.
One aspect I find curious about this video is that the description matches a lot of the famous SV billionaires. Not all of them, but all the usual suspects. They're all either privileged by birth, or has unusual luck of being at the right place at the right time. They may or may not have some talent, but they never acknowledge their privilege and luck. They all have made some disastrous decisions in the past, but failed upwards due to their privilege. They never mention any of those.
And some among them (this is not necessarily about Altman) exhibit a very curious behavior that's like a movement or cult among them. Once they become rich and famous, they start believing that they're special compared to all the plebs out there. They oppose the social and educational programs that empowered them in the first place. Whenever they talk about 'freedom', they're talking about their freedom to do whatever they want, even to the detriment of the others. They believe that they're divinely gifted with business acumen and therefore should be the decision makers and controllers of large populations and resources (they don't like democracy). They even have clubs and literature based on this idea.
That's an odd headline! It makes it sound like Sandisk is doing something sleazy. Believe me, I'm completely against corporate sleaziness. But this is Sandisk and the other manufacturers just following the demand-supply trends in the market. Sure, it causes RAM famine for everyone from us individuals to Apple. But what is the incentive for those manufacturers to serve this market when they can sell their entire stock exclusively at much higher profit margins? How would they even justify such a move to their shareholders?
This is the manufacturers being unable to absorb the sudden demand hike. Normally, their production capacity should be increased until supply meets demand. But then, how long will the demand last? What will happen when the AI bubble bursts? What exactly is going on on that front?
It's more of a humorous situation to imagine, however with respect to the "oh it's normal comment".
No industry with a very limited number of suppliers and with a huge lead time, capex, and tech expertise moat to build a semiconductor fab would ever note that the price of their product has a demand curve that while not a delta function is very steep around fixed maximum production of themselves and all the other suppliers, and that being on one side of that threshold makes all the suppliers poor or just enough money to stay in business vs rich.
How many RAM suppliers are there? Obviously due to the situation we all are in not enough to make the supply curve a very smooth function in response to demand.
Also, it wouldn't matter if they tried to sell it below the market rate. It would turn into a crazy scalping game, and consumers would have great difficulty obtaining what they want anyways.
There's plenty to criticize the RAM manufacturers for. They've formed a cartel to undersupply for a long time now, keeping prices artificially high. GamersNexus did a recent piece[0] that spends about 5-10 minutes scratching the surface of that, but really gets the point across. If they hadn't done this, there would likely be more supply available today.
Without the collusion, RAM prices and supply would follow a pretty classic commodities cycle of boom and bust, with manufacturers overbuilding capacity, going bankrupt, leading to a shortage and high prices, and repeat. That was pretty much all of 1990-2010 or so.
RAM factories also have to choose between making DRAM, HBM, or NAND. These all compete for capacity planning. The GamersNexus piece also goes into how China was making a very strong contention in the NAND space through YMTC until the USA added YMTC to the Dept. of Commerce's "Entity List" and basically kneecapped that company. If USA hadn't done that, we'd also have more supply available today.
China's CXMT entry to the DRAM market is looking very strong. Their wafer production, from 2020-2025 has gone: 20k, 40k, 70k, 120k, 160k, 270k. They've increased production 70% in the past year. OpenAI recently purchased 40% of 2026's global DRAM supply, which works out to 900,000 wafers for OpenAI. CXMT's production is 30% of that order. I found numbers indicating 2025 RAM production was around 1.8 million wafers.
If CXMT can increase continue increasing production at their current trend, they could be producing today's entire global production by 2028. By then, almost all new RAM will require EUV lithography machines to produce. Many people have doubts that China can get EUV working and ASML is not allowed to sell them the world's only existing EUV lithography machines. China poached quite a few ASML employees and announced [1][2] just last month that they have a working EUV pilot. China could potentially deploy that EUV by 2028.
I'd cannot recommend strongly enough to watch this video [3] detailing what EUV lithography actually is and how it works. It's an amazing exposition. The next technology breakthrough will be Hyper-NA EUV. That will require a 1-meter diameter mirror so impossibly smooth that if it were scaled up to the diameter of the solar system, then irregularities must be less than the height of one SpaceX Starship rocket. Specifically, tolerances for surface defects averaged over a "wide" area of 1mm^2 or so are on the order of 50 picometers, which is less than half the distance between two oxygen atoms in a single oxygen molecule.
In 20-30 years we might have devices that have millions of tiny Scanning Electron Microscope tips that reliably arrange individual atoms across an entire silicon wafer. At that point, no further improvements in feature size could ever occur again. Zyvex Labs in Texas is probably the leader in this, which they're using to assemble qubits for quantum computers, but it's only using a single STM tip at the moment, rather than a coordinated array of many tips.
> Like last time, so far he’s bad mostly for his own country.
How well is that going?
> The Medrano abduction and kirking Iran’s leadership may end up positive actions from a humanitarian view.
Meduro may no longer be in Venezuela, but his entire regime is left intact in place with a puppet leader under the remote control of the so-called 'acting president of Venezuela'. So the local dictator of an authoritarian regime is replaced by a foreign one - a very racist one at that. How is this positive on 'humanitarian grounds'?
In Iran too, Trump's callous rhetoric has riled up the Iranian regime to crack down heavily on the protestors in the name of treason. In the future too, his behavior will only bring more suffering to ordinary Iranians.
Why is it that when it comes to authoritarian and dictatorial regimes, so many people pivot to judgments based on nation and race, instead of being politically consistent?
To be honest, I'm a bit skeptical and am waiting for study results on this. The reports are that unbelievable. Of course, this isn't uniform among that population. But the incidence is a bit too frequent for my comfort. I don't remember any other generation complaining so much about the children like the current one. If I were asked to guess the culprits, I would pick social media and AI slop. But again, I'm waiting for a rigorous scientific confirmation.
But if it's true, I am scared to think about the emotional and neurological mess these kids are going to find themselves in.
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