One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a ‘public good’ which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of ‘digital public infrastructure’.

I’m sold.

If everyone uses AI systems that people largely don’t pay for, there would be no way to finance continued frontier AI development.

There would be no way for private companies to finance AI development. (Also has he heard of a loss leader?) Universities and governments will do it instead.

Congress restricted the use of Chinese model DeepSeek on federal and defense networks because of security and privacy concerns last year

Buy a server and run it locally?

So, under ‘international law’, is it now legal to invade Portugal and stop them oppressing their women? Or does that only apply if they have proven oil reserves?

I don’t want to comment on Argentina’s claim since I know nothing about it. But England should never be allowed to own any other piece of land, and definitely not one in another continent.

A simple rule of thumb in geopolitical disputes is to see who England is supporting, and support the other side.

Corollary: a simple rule of thumb when trying to figure out why some historical tragedy occured is to ask what England was doing at that time.

I would have used WiFi on my phone perhaps two or three times in the last year. My home does have a router, because we’re dinos, but most new houses don’t since everyone has a smartphone anyway.

Ah, then it makes sense.

I use WiFi at home and friends.

This is the part I don’t understand. Mobile data would work in your houses too, right?

Further, in recent versions of Android, factory settings are set to automatically turn WiFi back on if turned off

I haven’t seen this happen, but I use MIUI (Xiaomi’s Android ROM) which tends to be aggressive in limiting battery use. It will actually cut hotspot if unused for a few minutes.

Am I the only person who switches off the WiFi after use? I thought that was common advice to save battery.

But why? Mobile networks are very fast nowadays. And how many homes still have routers?

Android phone collects every WiFi network it has ever seen and sends it to Google

Possibly, but how often do you use WiFi on a phone?

If this is the guy who was posing in a drone factory, then I believe it was either severe Geranoma or terminal Iskanderitis.

This hear’s El Nino was stronger than usual and the Monsoon is weaker. But we knew that a few months ago, following the heatwave in SEA (and weather forecasts).

Infrastructure and activity patterns in India are usually designed to help survive the heat. Those in (northern) Europe generally are not. We are not a different species, lol.