My organization has come up with travel advice to the US. It boils down to avoid it if you can and definitely reconsider if you are an ethnic or sexual minority. Just like China really, bring a burner phone with your work account and only needed apps. Maybe we need alternative social media accounts with amazing collections of cat photos. Not my cats officer. I just collect photos of other people's.
Not too serious a suggestion, but if migration worked once to escape the PRC why not do it again. Move all your industries offshore to an enclave or possibly several in friendly neighboring countries and then your population. I mean the population isnt so large that it's not technically impossible to relocate. it's not much more than some of the largest world cities. Then when invaded withdraw entirely. Anyone happy to live under Chinese rule can stay. Given climate change humanity is probably going to have to get used to massive migrations anyway. Horrible as that could be culturally being a semi independent part of another democracy would fix their declining population, plus being a massive economic stimulus all round. I suspect something like this may be happening informally anyway. Their main strength is economic and organizational so why not build on that.
Never mind reputation damage. in the US what if it had trigged a swatting incident or alerted ICE that they were someone hiding illegals in their home. Will we get to the point where providing any real identity or contact information on the Internet is a mistake.
Lots of nice second hand xeon workstations going cheap. Given the cost of memory they are often a bargain. The only catch with the Dells for example is the lame but also proprietary power supplies.
The furry paw of diplomacy. Now the nerd in me wants to see a graph of the Panda Index as a measure of Chinese opinion about other countries It's the cuddly side of a relationship in contrast to darker clouds on the horizon.
Not a disease as such but a condition. Sepsis aka blood poisoning, is a significant one for older folk. A fast heartbeat with low blood pressure, rash etc. It can be rapidly deadly but is not so easy to identify. About Sepsis warning signs
Treatment early enough definitely saves lives so it's worth knowing about
Trying to install remote desktop multiuser in server manager, for win2025 the installer fails. I find out that a security update broke it over a year ago. Uninstalled all updates then rebooted and it works. Not to mention the constant wack a mole admins do to disable unwanted marketing additions to the taskbar and start menu via group policy and registry hacks. Clearly what windows needs next is an AI powered going dark mode to randomly break features it thinks you don't need. Because even that would be less confusing than what we have now.
Community edition would have made sense if there was a official commercial version that supported things like group policy etc. But features like that are already in the open source release, there's very little that a corporate version could add. It even does sharepoint via webdav.
Lots of doctors still depend on "faxes" even though that tech has been dead for a long while and is now just sending PDFs using a very old protocol. Word will die the day highschools and unis stop requiring docx files. Which given education institutions tech will be a very long time.
Why slow rotating physical storage ? It not like the AI models generate anything worth retaining in the long term. I assume they are in just running out of ssds so will buy any old drive
Definitely students need more sleep, right through to university. According to this study humans are still adolescent from 9 till 32. Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime
Want to protect human potential ? That would be a good starting point. It's sensible even from a purely utilitarian profit focused view of study and work.
It worth mentioning the environment benefits of the Opencore project that allows this. It keeps older Intel Macs secure, extending their useful life as well as do it yourself hackentoshes. Obviously Apple would prefer you buy new models every few years but for high end Intel Macs it's a good tradeoff till Linux supports them better.
My organization has come up with travel advice to the US. It boils down to avoid it if you can and definitely reconsider if you are an ethnic or sexual minority. Just like China really, bring a burner phone with your work account and only needed apps. Maybe we need alternative social media accounts with amazing collections of cat photos. Not my cats officer. I just collect photos of other people's.