I’m sure TSMC would become untenable if either the US stopped buying or selling to them, though I tend to disagree and think that not licensing US tech would kill them faster. I’m pretty sure that much of that tech is not available from anywhere else and would just cause a full stop of their business, at least for some time. It’s easier to survive on lower revenue than it is on a fully shuttered assembly line.

There is likely a lot of US tech in that chip. TSMC is just a fab, they don’t have a lot of their own technology, they buy thousands of pieces of tech from all over the world to make their chips. A lot of that comes from the US.

I know :-(. Let the enshittification proceed.

I’d much rather have upgradeable RAM and SSD thanks.

It’s more the news media they are referring to, I think.

If they are using GPL code, shouldn’t they also release their source code?

Putin is a former KGB agent. He’s good at the things that the KGB were good at, because that’s how he was trained. Foreign influence is one of those things that he’s very good at thanks to that training, and Russia has been good at for a very long time, actually. So it’s kind of one of Russia’s core competencies.

Lots of reports of massive funding by Russia in influence campaigns.

This post won the quote usage world championship of 2024 in Liberia.

Have you never met one of these self proclaimed “empaths” who are so busy telling you how you feel that they forget to actually listen to you telling them how you feel? I sure have met a few in my day.

The choice between a traditional up-down vote and a new non-up-down vote must have been a tough one.

But according to the joke it still does represent two types: Binary and nonbinary. Which itself is a binary set of choices, albeit a different one.

I’m really curious how you see this as transphobic.

Seems to project weakness more than strength when the world’s second nuclear power isn’t even sure if it’s ICBMs work.

All that runnin’ around has gotta get tiring after a while though, no?

I’ve lived here for 24 years, I’m not a tourist ;-)

I’ve worked in pretty much every CEE country and usually many cities in each of them the last 24 years and really can’t say I ever felt unwelcome, even in places you’d think might be less welcoming like smaller cities in Russia. There are certainly places that are easier to get around but I really can’t say I’ve ever felt truly unsafe or unwelcome even when making questionable decisions. Of course shitty individuals exist anywhere, but I can’t say I’ve run into more here than I have in the states.

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