Ok

Because you can’t “program it to not attack China”. That’s such a wildly vague statement and system goal as to be essentially impossible to fulfill.

You can degrade or impair or disable certain systems in response to specific stimuli (e.g. a “kill switch” transmission/signal [that is itself a bit of a misnomer]) - like for instance, activate a radio beacon to diminish stealth (counterplay: wire cutters), or to offline external system integration/datalink (counterplay: none, it’s proprietary, closed source and largely classified), or any other number of things. It’s generally pretty hard to completely offline/mission-kill an airframe electronically (outside of an EMP, and even that’s not guaranteed when you’re talking about hardened, mil-grade components), because they’re specifically designed to be extremely resilient and fault-tolerant.

Source: I worked in defense aerospace earlier in my career

I understand what you’re saying, but I’m talking about stuff like what happens in the beginning of Ministry for the Future.

So while I understand what you mean, it’s not actually that simple.

As an American, I fully and enthusiastically agree. Hell, if you let me, I’ll move there and lend my expertise to the effort.

Honestly China’s weapons exports are probably going to absolutely skyrocket, now that Russia is… preoccupied, and the US is busy pissing literally everyone off. Sweden and France will probably see pretty big gains too. Korea and Poland too, for armor

Good job Russian citizens who are standing up to Putin

I am fully resigned to the fact that we’re going to see catastrophic climate alterations within my lifetime

Tbh if that’s the only value-add that windows can come up with compared to linux gaming in the long run… that’s a great argument for boycotting the games that insist on using that shit - or at least, insist on using insecure / shitty anticheat that’s incompatible with Linux, and/or requires comically and inappropriately broad permissions

Justified Russophobia (there are many more examples across ten centuries from all over the Baltic states, central, southern, and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia to boot).

Command economy vs imbeciles, wcgw 🫠

if only there were some alternatives

Oh, was it? If that was the only justification… yeah. Seems like a straightforward play.

It is honestly a shockingly myopic call from them, I agree

Hahaha this is fine, I am fine with this, what could possibly go wrong

It’s easy - ISPs just bribed the people running the FCC now (because that’s become an ok thing to do), and the FCC turns around and says “yep sounds good”

It’s just a branch guard + properly implementing git user and team permission structures - you’re not “configuring a server”

git never --gonna-let-you-down

🎶 every branch is sacred 🎶