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New comment by philippejara in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"

philippejara — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:47:20 +0000

After it took over and solidified itself as the world leader at it of course there was no need to steal IP anymore, most of it is registered there already and to the benefit of their nation. I'm sure people a hundred years from now will be having similar conversations if china or someone else takes the us's place and naturally starts caring about IP(and the runner ups stop caring).

New comment by philippejara in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

philippejara — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:15:33 +0000

I assume most americans today are already under the impression their government spies on them and facebook/google will gladly give anything that is asked for, how does the chinese spying on them make any difference for the average citizen? If I was a regular american and had to choose I'd take the foreign spy 10/10 times. What will the chinese do to the regular american citizen compared to what his own contry could do with this information?

If you're diaspora and other smaller interest groups for sure, but the general citizen probably wouldn't care at an individual level. I'd argue that the NSA revelations and how everything just got worse and worse since then killed any chance of the public caring about this kind of stuff.

New comment by philippejara in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

philippejara — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:47:30 +0000

As popular as the platform is with the younger demographic and the voting preferences of said younger demographic it's political malpractice for democrats to not try to at least salvage some face in this whole ordeal, whether you think the blame is misplaced or not.

New comment by philippejara in "American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway"

philippejara — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:15:11 +0000

Maybe the US and its proxies should lead by example before trying to convince anyone else, given they are the ones who dropped far more bombs than all of those combined.

New comment by philippejara in "Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over"

philippejara — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:55:55 +0000

I find it hard to see a way to run a targeted ad social media company at all if you have to make sure children aren't harmed by your product.

New comment by philippejara in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

philippejara — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:00:10 +0000

> A fair amount of “this is fine, governments enforce IP laws and that’s a public good” vibes in here, which is all a very reasonable perspective.

I'd say it would be a a reasonable perspective if his case was being tried where the offences actually took place and/or where he was a citizen of and not a country who refuses to give the same rights to non-citizens being tried there compared to citizens[1] and wasn't even where the offense took place. This is absolutely chilling for anyone who isn't an US citizen honestly.

[1]:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511y42z1p7o

New comment by philippejara in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

philippejara — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:21:38 +0000

He didn't move to new zealand from the US so I struggle to see how that is relevant, it's not HK or Germany looking to extradite him.

New comment by philippejara in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

philippejara — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:55:50 +0000

Is that going to be a trial by the laws of the land he resides in and not to a foreign country that the defendant is not a citizen nor a resident nor operates out of and that refuses to guarantee the same protections under the law to a non-citizen compared to a citizen[1]?

This same foreign country who passed laws for invading the hague if they came under trial for crimes in the ICC.

[1]: See assange's bid for first amendment's guarantees when the same foreign country was trying to extradite and "trial" him

New comment by philippejara in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

philippejara — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:41:39 +0000

The comment he's responding to speculates that he is being paid by russia to post on twitter, as if people couldn't come to their own conclusions based on their own views and their own biases, which are very very strong against the US if you're Kim Dotcom with good reason.

New comment by philippejara in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

philippejara — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:21:56 +0000

The sanctions in Venezuela are/were very different from the ones in Cuba, there is a prohibition of trade from any US company and its subsidiaries with Cuba with the exception of food, not some specific sectors aimed at supposedly weakening the government.

With that being said it could also be incompetence and/or corruption, but ignoring the embargo completely is just working to weaken your argument.

New comment by philippejara in "Today Microsoft Banned My Country Iran from Minecraft"

philippejara — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:50:49 +0000

What historical precedent? Just in the last 3 decades you had afghanistan, iraq, libya and (ongoing) syria in the middle east alone showing how horrific the consequences of this type of meddling are.

New comment by philippejara in "Today Microsoft Banned My Country Iran from Minecraft"

philippejara — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:34:23 +0000

These aren't really consequences for being a bad actor on the global stage, these are consequences for being deemed a threat to the interests of the military superpowers and their close allies, this is a very important distinction.

The interests might at times be veiled under a discourse of "rights" or "democracy" or whatever and at times this discourse might even be valid, however the underlying reasoning for it rarely lies there as the kings and his friends are free to do whatever they please.

New comment by philippejara in "Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy"

philippejara — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:02:40 +0000

The flipside of that is companies not bothering to remove it and ceasing the payments to denuvo effectively making the game not exist anymore until someone is able to crack it, and very few people seem to be able to do so. Not that much of a stretch when you look at the amount of abandonware we have.

New comment by philippejara in "American VC Firms Investing Billions into PRC Companies Fueling the CCP Military"

philippejara — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:28:41 +0000

> How is supporting the military of your adversary not treason?

For a given meaning of adversary it is, for others it isn't, clearly the line in the sand at least for the US is when they are at war, arguably when a trade ban happens if we want to be a bit more relaxed with definitions. If you do disagree and believe the line in the sand encompasses china the real worry should not be a "measly" 3 billion from random VCs but the 1 trillion dollars of the US national debt china holds.

> You don’t ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs to a country you are friends with.

You ship them to where people are buying them, unless you're saying it's a government operation and not a case of lax export regulations, which I'd be very surprised if it was the case, at least directly.

New comment by philippejara in "Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024"

philippejara — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:39:07 +0000

And so is emacs, but nobody has an issue calling it a text editor.

New comment by philippejara in "ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is"

philippejara — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:35:33 +0000

probably linking to this: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/obamas-ope...

New comment by philippejara in "ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is"

philippejara — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:27:49 +0000

It appears this is the source of the complaint adding context to what is being discussed by the EFF, no reason it should be dead.

New comment by philippejara in "‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K"

philippejara — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:09:42 +0000

Not going to go all doom and gloom but resident evil was a(completely unnecessary, in my opinion) remaster of a game from the ps2 era, and I'd wager the vast majority of people that play AAA games don't really play fighting games.

I do think the AAA market is recovering a little however in the last few years, pretty much exclusively thanks to japan.

New comment by philippejara in "Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order"

philippejara — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:33:10 +0000

given that rumble was ordered to remove what I can only assume is rt and decided to just stop serving the country instead, It's certainly banned at the very least in France itself.

https://archive.is/Ryv67

New comment by philippejara in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

philippejara — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:14:38 +0000

They didn't lend him money, they kept the stake they had before he bought twitter, both the Qatari and the saudi. Also I'm not sure why they would want it gone after the arab spring, given how the Persians only benefited from it and Qatar was pretty much a state instigator of it in other countries.