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New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:24:57 +0000

> Ukraine nuclear power plants are a massive liability - they make for easy targets for the Russians to obliterate the country - is that what you want for Switzerland?

This makes no sense. Russia has actual nuclear weapons, it can "obliterate" Ukraine (or Switzerland) on a whim with them, if they decide to. Also, as you can verify by looking at the containment zone of Chernobyl catastrophe, full blown meltdown/explosion of a nuclear reactor doesn't really "obliterate" a country size of Ukraine.

> The waste - nobody wants it - it's a hazard for tens of thousands of years

No, it is not hazardous for "tens of thousands of years".

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "U.S. science is in chaos"

lII1lIlI11ll — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:11:14 +0000

> And kill the savings of what remains of the middle class.

I would assume majority of US middle class' savings are in the real estate or securities. Why would hyperinflation kill these?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:20:03 +0000

What "techniques"? Audio/video over high-latency connection is not a computer game where there all all kinds of latency compensation techniques - several meeting participants start speaking at the same time, realize they do only after RTT, stop, then awkwardly wait for a moment and repeat hoping for no "collision", rinse-repeat. Everyone who often has meetings with participants connecting from different continents knows what I'm talking about. But you can have this in beautiful high-definition "smooth" 4K if bandwidth is high enough, yes.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:32:55 +0000

I chose Antarctic as an example because it is one of few places on Earth with significant uninhabited land where one could theoretically establish a new sovereign state. Are you implying that all popular green energy technologies are somehow unfeasible there?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:24:35 +0000

I find that hard to believe. Are you implying that Apple is running their own fiber network providing low-latency connection between Europe and Australia? Or what kind of "good engineering"?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:20:07 +0000

> where do you get power

Wind, hydro, sun? This is 2026 after all.

> personnel

Depends on what that theoretical country would offer. Some kind of strong constitutionally-enshrined protections for privacy and perhaps from tyranny-of-the-majority exploiting upper-middle class like all other western countries and with strong IT jobs market? Are you kidding, sign me up!

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:08:42 +0000

That is just like, your opinion, man? I personally find it a very poor experience talking to someone over high latency connection when we tend to always start talking over each other.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:05:53 +0000

OP had a much stronger premise ("guarantee government respect for data privacy for data centres housed on its soil") than what you described.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

lII1lIlI11ll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:21:37 +0000

It is not as simple as banking - people tend to want low-latency and high-speed connection which necessitate the data center to be in close proximity. Which basically means that founding a country with strong data protection laws somewhere in Antarctic won't get you many clients in Europe.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

lII1lIlI11ll — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:24:20 +0000

I think the main reason reason why they mandated data retention for Fable is to fight distillation, not to prevent black hats from using the model.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

lII1lIlI11ll — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:31:16 +0000

And the outrage is about what exactly? The tribe not respecting NIMBY-sensibilities of non-indigenous Vancouver residents?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

lII1lIlI11ll — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:28:20 +0000

But why don't those small local counties desperate for funds just sell their plots of land for double of triple the price themselves?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

lII1lIlI11ll — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:20:11 +0000

Only if you believe that always caving in to a violent mob burning random (private citizen-owned, non-government) cars in Paris leads to better outcomes for the country.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

lII1lIlI11ll — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:30:32 +0000

From your link: "The scam-blocking service is based on modern cloud technology, and it’s scalable, and easy to deploy" - I don't think we need another SaaS parasite for this as protocol-level solution like STIR/SHAKEN is a better approach IMO. The problem is that operators are not incentivized to do anything with spam/scam.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

lII1lIlI11ll — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:24:46 +0000

They will just run a PR campaign highlighting how anonymous SIMs have been used by pedos and terrorists so that majority of population will actually willingly support such laws, unfortunately.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

lII1lIlI11ll — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:39 +0000

> Face scan to sign in.

This is not in any current (proposed) laws I'm aware of.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

lII1lIlI11ll — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:30:20 +0000

How would they know a minor is using an adult-verified Signal or, say, Youtube account?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

lII1lIlI11ll — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:10:41 +0000

You can also... ask someone else to pass selfie-age-verification during an account registration, no?

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "Dopamine Fracking"

lII1lIlI11ll — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:52:48 +0000

Is this a US thing? Coffee in Starbucks is so mediocre that it is hard to imagine a proper coffee place ever "matching" it, even on a bad day.

New comment by lII1lIlI11ll in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

lII1lIlI11ll — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:33:38 +0000

No, the "rest of Europe" is not going the way of outlawing e2e encrypted iCloud backups and other bullshit your shitty government is pulling on you, stop deluding yourself.