It depends. What do you think will be the impact on the EU economy if Russia invades Estonia in 10 years, triggering a nuclear war?

And nothing of that has anything to do with blocking the union’s website besides Google’s sheer incompetence.

Elon Musk openly daydreams about being Ma Huateng. What does that tell you?

Except Xi Jinping is not oppressing owners of capital. China has lots of oligarchs that in some ways have a tighter grip on society than their western counterparts. He’s oppressing people that are “inconvenient” to him.

For work-life balance on the basis of the comic, by refusing to do any kind of overtime on a regular basis, and making sure any time it happens I’m compensated for it. I’m also fortunate enough to earn enough that I was able to reduce my working hours to have Fridays free. Having half of the year free gives me the opportunity to actually do some living.

Now for the more general question, I mostly try to not think about it, because it tends to throw me into a FOMO driven frenzy where I do things to cross them from a checklist and end up not really enjoying anything. For the most part, I found I’m much happier trying to live in the moment even if I’m not very good at it.

I know that Macron is trying to square the circle after his little stunt with the elections left and France an ungovernable mess, but naming Bayrou prime-minister sounds more like a move to piss off as many people as possible in the parliament than an attempt to end political instability.

You are right about USB, thunderbolt 3+PCI Express on the other hand allows very low level memory access, and in older implementations there’s nothing the operating system can do. But then again even if they force a specific thunderbolt configuration to prevent DMA it will still leave the “normal” PCIe ports as a way to access the memory outside the purview of the OS.

That and Geralt’s story got a natural end in Blood and Wine, and it would be stupid to bulldoze that.

Bribe. Zuckerberg gave Trump an one million dollars bribe.

They are not 100% reliant on other countries, they produce lots of weapons and ammunition themselves, they just can’t match what Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea combined can produce on their own.

Dead and buried?

A system of oppression can only be a system of oppression and nothing else. It can oppress some less than others, but it can’t ever free anyone.

The article explains it well. At least some of them see it as defacing a work of art, which I think it would be fair if games were unique pieces and not mass produced - it would piss me off if someone drew a mustache on the Mona Lisa in the Louvre but if you want to do it on your mass printed Mona Lisa copy, be my guest.

If they don’t comply that is going to play into Putin’s hands and piss off Europe. Trump might do it, but it will probably kill all the international influence the US has in the process.

It will stop Benny from going on his little vacations to the US and Europe to prop up the local far-right.

Trump is going to derail this, it’s basically “Microsoft Antitrust 2 - The googliest-orangest Boogaloo”

I believe this is what he wants. I even believe he’s doing everything to convince his bosses that Xbox consoles have a future. I also would suggest everyone working on the Xbox hardware team to keep their CV updated, because when your boss starts talking about your team “definitely” having a future there’s at least a 50% chance of layoffs not being far behind.

I see you never had to jump through the hoops to get Gmail to not silently drop all your emails.

Techbros see all cyberpunk as an utopia, Zuckerberg even renamed his entire company after the Metaverse in Snowcrash when that’s one of the obviously dystopian cyberpunk worlds.

(Good) cyberpunk was always a documentary done through a slightly distorted mirror lighten up under neon glow.