This power struggle feud has been going on for at least rwo years, with various levels of hostility, peaking in open military posturing in the streets.
Some of the anti-CCP stuff is too heavily algorythmucally captured, and ends up being "China will lose" - which is both wrong, and the wr0ng way to look at the world.
The China-Chaser guys can be the worst for this, as the tend(ed) to phrase the everrything as a US vs China competition - for which the US is destroying the Chinese. Any realist out there knows that the Chinese and US economies are so intertwined that they are both in trouble.
Truthfully, I find that I am anti-CCP, as you can tell bt my suggestions. I try to balance it out, bit I avoid those "US fails as China soars" channels. I tjimk that I tend to follow Taiwanese producers, as they have healthy concern but strong independence.
Also I hate bully countries.
It kind of depends on whether or not you speak Mandarin.
One thing to keep in mind is that noone has a clear picture of what is going on in the top levels of the PLA, nor the CCP. And that is intentional, of course.
Unless you have a foundation, avoid the China-Fact-Chasers guys, as they are very one-sided, despite their vast 1st person experience living in China. Lei-talks has a less extreme interpretation, with lots of numbers to back things up - and will also go off on the fantastical topics here and there.
Ken Cao puts out a lot of content, as does David Zhang, also very anti-CCP
There is a GProf show that focuses on the Chinese markets which helps balance the economy knowledge, but is weak on politixal content.
Let's build a new editor in rust (good), that is in the legacy of vim/nvim[/emacs] (good), that moves to resolve the backwards mechanics of the vim-syntax like meow (good) ... but let's build it all as built in features with no modularity ???
How can you build a new terminal editor like vim/nvim/emacs without realizing that the core strength is that the best features are delivered in plugins.
Why would you try to write all of the functionality yourself? Why would you think that a small team can handle all of the work? How can you not realize that external contributors in vim/emacs are the source of the most interesting functionality?
I liked helix, almost as much as emacs w/ meow, but yiu xan't extend it, or write a plugin.
I'm not comparing it. I watched an interview with one of the openZFS guys, who talked about how engineering designs based on spinny things are hard to get to work on solid-state drives.
I had a FreeBSD niri setup that worked quite well for a bit. The jail-based containerd stuff was exciting, but not mature enough for my needs, so I had to leave it behind. Since then I've read lots of news about maturing wifi and ither improvements.
Graphics will always be behind, unforrunatrly; ZFS is starting to show its age too.
The comainers were nvidia, when they didn't participate in the early anni g, and then cam in late trying to push a rewrite to the memory sharing model.
Was that just my fantasy, or did other people have the same drean? I did mention that I was an early adotper. Maybe I should have clarified that I never went back.
Listen, no matter your opinion on wayland, you can admit that some technical decisions made were not optimal.
The issue with wayland is that both the process and the base mechanisms had significqnt flaws, that made it take a long time to get things working. In all fairness, the core team uad a valiant effort for a dwcade, hampered by unresponsive complainers, and late-to-the-party suggestions.
Fyi: I am an early WL adopter, but not on any of the major DEs.
The CCP is not a transparent governing body, by any means, but there is no second body of officials pulling strings. There is no need for a hidden government, as much of the CCP's dynamics is hidden anyway. Most public decision making is ceremonial, with decisions being made in advance, and opposition being rare.
Xi was picked for succession by his predecessor, Hu.
When Xi was picked, he was picked for the same reasons that Putin was picked - they looked like mild centrist candidates (ironic)
Over the last decade, Xi hss focused a lot more on gaining authoritarian control over the party, the military, and the economy - using the law, and power plays. This has taken a lot of power from both the Capitalists, and the princelings.
This wave is likely not as paranoud as you may think. I've seen a number of utube commentators talking about a large power struggle in the CCP over the last six months.
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