hsuduebc2 (u/hsuduebc2)

hsuduebc2 commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

FpUser · 10 days ago

>" Just another clear example of how, for some reason, we in the West keep tolerating if not indirectly supporting this kind of behavior."

Live by the sword, die by the sword. It is the West that first turned patents into the weapon for big corps to fuck the rest of the world. Well now they're tasting it themselves

hsuduebc2 · 10 days ago

Can't really argue with that. I basically expect similar behavior to patent trolls in Europe and the US. And because of the Western sense of untouchability and the illusion of their own importance, they’ll allow themselves to be at least partially paralyzed by a flood of lawsuits.

This isn’t about protecting knowhow or actually producing anything, but about generating as much legal and financial friction as possible. The difference is that in China it can be semi-state-backed or at least tolerated, so it’s not just a bizarre parasitic business model like in the West but also a geopolitical tactic.

hsuduebc2 commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

dgfitz · 10 days ago

> China is also building a huge war chest of IP patents.

My understanding is that China doesn’t care about abusing patents they don’t own. Is this incorrect? Do they value patents only when they hold them and enforce them?

Asking sincerely.

hsuduebc2 · 10 days ago

Well they usually just ignoring the patents and just copying it. The problem is when state actor, potentially, can fund applications for patents and act as a bad actor in the future. Application costs tens thousands of dollars. I actually came across this a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911423. Prusa, the creator of 3D printers, mentioned that Chinese companies are filing patents on parts he and his team originally released as open source. Just another clear example of how, for some reason, we in the West keep tolerating if not indirectly supporting this kind of behavior.

hsuduebc2 commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

hsuduebc2 · 14 days ago

I wonder if they left the EU so they could monitor and restrict their citizens even more effectively and quickly. Just like limiting the length of knives this will definitely not solve their crime problem.

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aydyn · 16 days ago

This is unrealistic hopium, and deep down you probably know it.

There's no such thing as models that are "good enough". There are models that are better and models that are worse and OS models will always be worse. Businesses that use better, more expensive models will be more successful.

hsuduebc2 · 16 days ago

I agree. It isn't in the interest of any actor including openai to give out their tools for free.

hsuduebc2 commented on Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/saubeidl

quantified · 18 days ago

Not disagreeing with the capital part (though it feels a bit mixed with evil), but... don't countries with a big enough embassy do this sort of thing all the time?

hsuduebc2 · 17 days ago

They do, though the U.S. generally has heavier corporate connections and lobbying. Given this administration’s relationships in tech, it wouldn’t be surprising to see attempts to nudge EU policy in ways that loosen some constraints.

hsuduebc2 commented on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum cointelegraph.com/news/eu... · Posted by u/6d6b73

nickslaughter02 · 21 days ago

> the spread of propaganda, which is a genuine issue here

Now we are policing speech?

hsuduebc2 · 17 days ago

Because I perceive someone spreading lies with a clear malicious intent as a problem I'm policing a speech? Ok.

hsuduebc2 commented on Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/saubeidl

saubeidl · 17 days ago

As they should be.

That is what we democratically decided on as a society - as is our good right

It's undemocratic for foreign powers to try to undermine that and it is treason for you to conspire with foreign enemies against the will of the people.

hsuduebc2 · 17 days ago

I am not a fan of censorship either, like most people, but what you are saying is true. This kind of alibi talk built on the premise that “propaganda is just an opinion” is naive. It is a total refusal to face reality because it avoids seeing the world in a more complex way. In the Middle Ages there were pogroms against Jews based on the claim that they ate small children. That too was someone’s opinion, deliberately spread to kill and rob people. Today we call it propaganda, not an opinion. A weaponized word in the hands of an attacker is a weapon.

And even with all that said, I am uneasy about the growing power and reach of potential censorship. Particularly the part when politician's it self are exempted from these rules. This proposed solution with "think about the kids" argument is absurd.

hsuduebc2 commented on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum cointelegraph.com/news/eu... · Posted by u/6d6b73

wqaatwt · 21 days ago

Not incompetent criminals will just workaround, there is no way to avoid that besides 1984 style universal surveillance.

hsuduebc2 · 21 days ago

Exactly. Only outcome is more surveillance for others with zero effect on the problem itself.

hsuduebc2 commented on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum cointelegraph.com/news/eu... · Posted by u/6d6b73

hsuduebc2 · 21 days ago

Even though it goes against all my beliefs and values, I still see it primarily as a desperate attempt to gain at least some means of control over encrypted tools — which are, in fact, constantly used for criminal activity. The endlessly recycled “think of the children” argument is laughably pathetic. I don't understand why they don't present the real and much more reasonable justifications — such as terrorism in Europe or the spread of propaganda, which is a genuine issue here. But those reasons likely don’t sell as well with populists.

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned into a European version of the Patriot Act — where the state takes advantage of the fact that people have become desensitized, and everyone ends up being monitored 24/7. In the end, every citizen would be under surveillance, while criminals would simply download an app that doesn’t comply with this absurd requirement.