And even if we assumed that this would be the case, maybe suffering under a "real monopoly" is _exactly_ what the EU needs to push them out of their local maxima. I hope they continue to hammer the ever living shit out of every company that abuses its position to exploit people and deny them their rights. Abusing copyright to prevent people from fixing their own property? Screw every single one of them.

GDPR applies if your an EU citizen even if _none_ of these is true. I hope the EU emends their markets law so that it grants every EU citizen the right to _easily_ install whatever he or she wants. That would put an end to this nonsense.

Anything less is voyeurism.*

* extreme language I know, but it's precisely how I feel about these acts.

I will never take a statement given by a company that blatantly lies like this at face value going forward. What a bunch of clowns.

My hope now is that someone will figure out a way to separate intelligence from knowledge - i.e. train a model that knows how to interpret the wights of other models - so that training new intelligent models wouldn't require training them on a petabyte of data every run.

They googlified it. (Yandex isn't better at google because it improved. It's better because it stayed mostly the same.)

My recommendation to disrupting industry leaders now is becoming good enough and then simply wait until the leader self-implodes.

This time, humanity narrowly averted complete disaster thanks to the huge efforts and resources of a small number of people.

I wonder if we are witnessing humanity's the end of open knowledge and compute (at least until we pass through a neo dark ages and reach the next age of enlightenment).

Whether it'll be due to profit or control, it looks like humanity is posed to get fucked.

For anyone wishing to engage in a public good that upsets a well-funded US industry (like sharing books, building emulators or compatibility software, fan games, etc), please consider hosting your project on Tor from the start.

If evil can flourish on Tor without prosecution, then so should the good.

I'd vote for politicians who push for laws like this. Sadly none do.

Regardless of what irrational hate you have towards cryptographic currency, it doesn't change the cold hard fact that it is the best countermeasure legal businesses have today. It exists. It's proven. It works.