The title is misleading, to the point of being an outright lie. The quote they put under the heading quotes politicians, not “tech execs”. The only quote from a tech exec in the article (Anthropic CEO) is talking about export controls for chips, which is very different from a “great firewall” that the title claims.

A “great firewall” would mean blocking Chinese AI products from being accessible in the US, not blocking exports of US products into China. The article only quotes politicians asking for that, despite what they put in the title.

EDIT: and for context, ChatGPT is blocked in China, while DeepSeek is allowed in the US, to the point of being the top trending App Store app.

Usually when you don’t have internet access, it’s because you don’t have any signal at all.

Experiment how? What on earth could this possibly be useful for?

I can’t believe I have to explain this. Anyway

The comparison to Alex Jones and other conspiracy nutjobs was about how they don’t care about any facts or context, and just like to string together random headlines into some doomsday narrative that supports their view.

The phrase “tankie infowars” means basically that - same methods, just different target audience. So you would switch around who the good guys and bad guys are, but not much else.

You don’t think coming to the conclusion “omg, this must be nuclear war preparations”, instead of this just being a regular target, is conspiracy level thinking?

It would fit right into Alex Jones’s show. And it’s the most upvoted comment here.

Is this a tinfoil conspiracy site? Tankie infowars?

And judging by the recent Claude Sonnet 3.5 results, OpenAI may not even be the top AI company anymore.

The ironic thing is that if it weren’t for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.

There used to be a “loophole”, where if you changed to a different plan, it restarted the 7 day period during which you could cancel with no fee. Not sure if they ever changed that though.

On the other hand, many parts of Android, including the default system WebView, are updated from the Play Store like regular apps, and don’t need a full OS update.

This is of course in addition to just taking all the training data without credit or permission by both teams, which usually goes without saying these days.

But the cloud thing and the container thing actually happened. Not 100%, but it is basically the standard these days.

Of the things you mentioned, only crypto is mostly bullshit tech with no actual use.

So are you or are you not implying that this would be quietly enabled without explicitly prompting the user?

Or you could just turn the feature off. Or just not enable it in the first place, as it’s possibly illegal to do this without showing an allow/disallow prompt at least - so just don’t click allow. Just saying.

I guess the ones they stopped just weren’t covert enough.

C is one of the few languages where using goto makes sense as a poor man’s local error/cleanup handler.

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can’t quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you’re not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

Shouldn’t AI be good at detecting and flagging ads like these?

Sounds like this was the strategy from the very beginning - get tons of attention with crazy unrealistic announcements, then later turn it into a boring old regular city after everyone already recognizes the name.

With enough technological advances, they might be able to just switch to salt water.

It’s silly to imagine all these “way out there” scenarios without also imagining progress in other areas.