If this is the Tom's Hardware article on the leak... notable by their absence are some of the countries using the Chinese hardware and software for censoring their citizens, including Iran, Cuba, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Russia, and Belarus.
It is called ‘transition’, and it stopped increasing. If one looks at 2025 preliminary data, one can see it has flattened out, continuing with the 2024 trend.
It depends. Do you want to build anything with raw earth elements in it _before_ the refineries are built, which is going to take about a half decade? Then you're going to need to do business with China in spite of their being a national security threat.
This includes modern electric motors, modern power supplies (like get used in said electric motors and electric cars, electric drones, etc), modern radio frequency transceiver modules (like in a modern radar), among other things.
Putting a tax on them is making the best of a bad situation.
Besides, it's going to the Treasury. Not Trump himself.
> Then you're going to need to do business with China in spite of their being a national security threat.
You can restrict the sale of advanced chips to China and still do business with them.
Putting a tax on it does nothing; the Chinese companies aren't the ones paying the tax anyway.
It shows that the US isn't really serious about maintaining a lead in these advanced technologies; all Trump knows how to do is extort money through various threats--tarrifs, law suits, export bans etc. To his credit he's good at that. Would make a great mobster.
I ran into this post last week about how to manipulate Grok (and presumably other LLM's) for propagandic purposes [0]:
"But speech recognition remains a difficult and error-prone task, even for ChatGPT and Grok. So they implement a rather clever optimization: if there’s a reputable site with the video and a purported transcript, just report that result. And if there are a couple of sites that have similar transcripts, assign that a very high confidence rating. Normally, that will get a best-quality result with the least computation. But—
—but that optimization is vulnerable to maliciously false information.
The people behind this exploit posted the video and a completely fake transcript to a couple of sites which Grok trusts (including supposedly Reddit’s /r/Yiddish board, though I have not found that post). Once they confirmed that Grok was trusting their fake translation, they posted the seemingly-innocent question, and then pretended to be shocked and horrified at the response.."
I wanted to run olvwm on Linux (when it went out of support on Ubuntu 16.04) and I'd managed to get this running on Ubuntu 20.04 (and more recently on Gentoo, as documented at https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/gentoo-olvwm-bye-ubuntu/).
A survey of available olwvm implementations available on github at the time I created the repo is in the README of https://github.com/olvwm/xview/
I know this is a bit late, but I second the recommendation for an updated openlook and XView on Tribblix. In addition, ol/xv as a default desktop environment would be an strong differentiator for the distribution, IMHO. Along those same lines, Tribblix could more aggressively tout the historical justification for its SVR4 packaging, highlighting its retro-ness.
And thank you so much for tribblix; I was about to give up on illumos after repeated trouble installing OpenIndiana on my laptop (Tribblix worked out of the box on the hardware). I’ve since picked up a copy of “Solaris Internals” and have spent some time appreciating Solaris. Kudos.
