My bad, wooshed.

My dude, the person isn’t being called fat 😊, though reading the article that way makes it kinda morbidly hilarious.

The type of cells are adipose cells, which are also called fat cells, because they store fat in them.

For a truly accurate estimation of deaths, you have to calculate 1,000+ years into the future for all the children that would have been born if the Communists didn’t exist.

Therefore communists have killed infinite people.

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Download all your favorite music locally, and back it up so you can keep it forever.

You can use tools like MusicBrainz Picard to add proper metadata to all your music, and use fully-customizable music players like MusicBee to perfect your listening experience.

I think Huawei’s talking about their new triple-folding phone, the Mate XT. The phone unfolds like a z-fold brochure from a regular phone into an iPad.

This triple folding finally lets folding phones match real tablet sizes, which might make them finally an attractive option for consumers who want to merge their phone and iPad into one.

This event is quite a blatant attempt by NATO to pressure Telegram into giving them a backdoor, which is a good sign that they didn’t have access previously.

One must ask why Signal, Matrix/Element, Session, and Tor haven’t faced such attacks despite being based in Western countries.

For example, Tor is developed by the US government to protect their spies, and was opened to the public to shield spy web traffic.

Are there any true anti-imperialist alternatives? For instance, Wechat is made in China, but doesn’t have any mechanisms to protect user info.

Oh, just an annoying marketing stunt. Capitalism distracts me once again.

I’m swapping to a brand new Samsung in a couple months. I need the S Pen for school. I don’t think an alternate privatevOS exists for it 😭.

Shiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.

This is awesome! I’ve heard liberals talk about China’s sand usage as part of their China-bad smearing without offering any solutions. Artificial sand from mine tailings (a waste product) has basically no downsides, since those tailings would be produced regardless.

Yes, this is why the “stop China’s military devwlopment” excuse is bullshit. Missiles and drones don’t use NVIDIA H100s, they use dedicated chips made on older nodes for durability.

Because of Japanese capitalism, the average Japanese worker (and probably most Western workers also) is incredibly atomized. High school and maybe college are the last times that people get to socially interact with lots of other people without the pressure of money ruining everything.

Thus, high school ends up being the idealized environment for all of the slice of life / romantic anime and games, where authors want characters to have enough free time to fall in love and have friends while not worrying about finances or becoming homeless.

To me, a happy relationship forming between co-workers feels a lot less likely than a happy relationship forming between students, because working adults will always calculate some part of the relationship based off financial gain. Students simply don’t consider that at all.

Yes. All LEO satellites have rather limited lifespans. They orbit at lower altitudes to reduce connection latency. This also means that they still feel some amount of atmospheric drag from the upper remnants of the atmosphere, so slow down over time.

This is huge. Having another option for global internet connectivity that isn’t dependent on the US Empire is going to be amazing for the global south.

I guess that’s one way Zionists can explain why they’re losing. If God really did approve, they could just call him to magically kill all Arabs and expand Israel.

Just how much has Bongbong Marcos’ propaganda fucked up the Philippine people?

I’ve talked to people from the Philippines who say that the Marcos family has made several propaganda movies of themselves, showing themselves as “regular people” (albeit with shittons of jewels and shoes way out of reach of the average Filipino) and benevolent leaders under Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship.

This is the same Ferdinand that killed and tortured all his opposition with US support, and robbed ~$7 billion from the Philippines Central Bank when he was finally kicked out to Hawaii.

This pivot against FOSS in the West will just hurt themselves. The strength of FOSS is its huge potential for reach, while its drawback is that it’s harder for FOSS devs to make a living.

In the West, FOSS devs all live on donations. While a few FOSS programs become huge enough to sustain themselves, most fail. Western governments have deliberate policies of not finding much FOSS development, exacerbating this issue.

Socialist countries’ (e.g. China’s) policies of government investment in development invariably leads to more investment in FOSS, providing FOSS developers more stable incomes. For example, China has multiple government-funded Linux OSes (UOS, Kylin, Deepin), OpenHarmony OS, etc.

This will ultimately snowball into more and more FOSS programs, creating a vibrant socialist-developed software ecosystem the developing world can quickly plug into at low-cost.

This is technically true. China currently only has DUV machines, which don’t have enough resolution to produce 5nm chips directly. Only more advanced EUV machines are able to produce this directly or in one-two patterning steps.

However, China can still produce 5nm chips via multiple patterning. Basically, by overlaying lower resolution patterns offset from one another, you can form higher resolution structures in between the lower-res patterns. By repeating the multi-patterning process, you can “technically” get infinitely small resolutions.

The drawback is that you have to use several more steps. Each step takes more time, reducing throughout, and is a possible area for error. As a result, multi-patterned yields are lower than directly produced yields, and are more expensive as a result.

Thus, the real benefit going from DUV to EUV is reduced costs and increased throughput. Until China gets EUV, multi-patterned DUV is sufficient, since the state is willing to accept higher costs of production and provide subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for self-reliance.

The stumbling block right now is that the tech jump from DUV to EUV is large. DUV (deep ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength around 250nm, can be produced directly via lasers.

On the other hand, EUV (extreme ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength of 13.5nm and is almost an X-ray, cannot currently be produced directly right now. Current machines make it by using a giant laser to zap a molten drop of tin, turning it into a plasma which emits the desired EUV light. In the process, only ~6% of the original laser power is converted to EUV, resulting in an output of around 350 watts.

All in all, it took ~20 years to master this convoluted process. It will take China time to develop this EUV production tech, probably around 5-10 years at most.

In the process, China might be able to leapfrog some lingering issues with the tech. For example, the dogshit conversion efficiency means that a ridiculously large starting laser is needed to produce a paltry amount of EUV light, with the process output capping out around 500 watts.

Instead, China is starting work on oscillating electrons in a particle accelerator to generate EUV light directly, with much higher power output, called steady-state micro-bunching (SSMB). Using SSMB, China can use one accelerator to power dozens of EUV machines, and can scale output to be superior than current EUV machines. China is beginning work on a facility dedicated to SSMB research in Xiong’an this year.

For more info on this stuff, see:

• Asianometry on YouTube
  • Current EUV Lithography
  • EUV with free electron lasers (very similar to SSMB)
• China May Be Constructing EUV Lithography Machines on a Massive Scale by The China Academy

Good point. I’ve been dabbling with Khoj myself, which connects with Obsidian, the Markdown notemaking software I use. This lets the AI draw from my notes on the fly.

I’m waiting to build a PC with the RTX 5090 or something before diving deeper into local AI. The integrated GPU I’m using right now is just too slow.

The test tracks used for launch testing are the same ones cited as “for hyperloop testing” here (notice that the track mentioned in both is built by CASIC in Datong, Shanxi, is 2 km long, and is inside a low-vacuum tube). Space launch is a much more logical use for this kind of technology than rail transport. It’s nice to see that the same equipment can be used for research in such different fields.

This does mean that this track technically isn’t a “railgun”, as it uses magnetic levitation and not the Lorentz force for propulsion.