Britain look a bit out of place in that group.

They didn’t want tos top trading in the first place, Russia is a big market for them. Back in 2022 they asked USA to allow them not to sanction Russia (so that USA won’t give them trouble for continued trade), and USA agreed.

“Design system” is a way for designers to organize what they are doing with emphasis on structure and central definition of different components, colors, etc. This allows designers to create UI mockups more easily and programmers to implement the designs without guessing.

My guess is that that the new theme will be designed using this new system and then implemented using Union.

Regular people can be complicit in their government’s actions. Like americans for example.

Empire don’t discriminate. They attack “bad” countries as well as “good” countries. The simple act of defense against aggression does not automatically make someone the paragon of freedom and justice, despite what some “leftists” like to think. Imperialism is not the only “sin” a country can commit. It’s a bully being attacked by a bigger bully.

The state media would paint her paying the fine as an act of submission to the law and the government, as a “proof” that she is a coward who doesn’t stand by her beliefs.

It’s an attempt to discredit the rebels, basically like a Russian practice of forcing troublemakers to record an “apology” video under the barrel of a gun (just outside of frame).

IIRC you can’t grant the permission if the app doesn’t explicitly declare it in its manifest. I doubt most devs would care unless access to local network is required for app’s functionality on typical user’s setup (e.g. if it’s a companion app for some device).

They are trying to use students for this but I guess even they are not that stupid. And they still have more rights than some poor fucker from third world country that got their passport taken and forced to work for food.

All the regulation they do such as age verification is mandated by governments.

There is one human character that has accurate “hunches” about the future in the first book. That’s dropped in the next books though.

Yes, people who believe that are very dumb

“True” leftists would actually agree with you that Biden was even more evil than Trump.

You can self host xray or sing-box server (which implement many of the protocols) on a cheap vps. A lot of documentation is not great and is either in Chinese or Russian but it’s doable. There are also paid services offering vless with various degrees of reliability and sketchiness.

Of course the real challenge when living in an authoritarian country is how to pay for it. I.e.you need to buy a vps abroad. I guess it will be easier in USA then in countries under sanctions or with internal restrictions where people generally can’t use Visa or PayPal.

You should also be against any kind of inheritance then, at least beyond a some threshold. Cause children of billionaires have a right from birth to rule over others.

Protocols that mimic regular https traffic in a way that survives DPI. There are many variants like vless+reality+vision, naiveproxy, etc. It’s still cat-and-mouse game since government’s DPI systems are constantly improving.

Anything that requires radio is inherently unreliable. Radio is too easily regulated and controlled.

The only option in a hostile state is to use existing communication channels. Such as encrypted networks (or just vpns/proxies) over regular internet that pretend to be https traffic. This is what works now in China/Russia/etc.

Not if they start using DPI and block VPN protocols. VPNs that use OpenVPN, Wireguard and other non-censorship-resistant protocols (including Mullvad) don’t work in China, Iran or Russia.

Mullvad and other mainstream VPN providers only work in free countries where VPN is allowed.

Some patched it to change the default in config.

It will still run necessary calculations much slower than a gpu, so you will need to run it much longer for the same result, which is not only inconvenient but will likely use more power in the end anyway.

This will just waste even more energy since cpus are less efficient at this kind of task.

LLMs require insane amounts of compute, period. The hardware to do that needs energy and emits heat, there is no way around.