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Because without privacy you can't be a proper human being. You need privacy in order to have the safe space to develop, to dare try, to explore without the constant judgement of others. If you can't be a proper human being, can you genuinely have democracy?

It's both a per-requisite for humanity and what the political system that is often considered as the most just.

That's why I care.

"e" stands for the Euro currency, thought EUR was a bit much and was too lazy to look for €. Apology for the confusion.

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Out of curiosity, why? They have their own TPU which they claim to be quite efficient. Is it because they can't produce enough? Or because they have to resell NVIDIA for their own cloud, Google Cloud, to customers because they prefer to stick to CUDA? Or something else?

never really gotten into the whole “Internet of Things” thing.

Honestly... it's not worth it. It's fun, sometimes convenient, but nobody truly needs it except in some very specific situations. That being said it's also now relatively easy and cheap to setup, e.g RPi4 then add a Zigbee dongle (30e) with a Zigbee lightbulb (20e) or switch (15e) or sensor (e.g temperature for 15e), install HomeAssistant in an hour ... and voila, you have a setup you can play with and move from any home to any other in minutes. So it's not a "big" deal to start but again, what for. I personally do it because I love tinkering and want to feel that I can be at the "state of the art" of technology WITHOUT surveillance capitalism, so it's more an intellectual and more pursuit rather than a pragmatic approach. So I don't recommend it but I also had to clarify it's not that complex or expensive anymore.

I love how you just assumed that I’m Chinese

I bet most people reading "I live in Canada, my family moved here back when I was still in school. I’d like to move to China one day" would assume the same, especially "back" as I understood, but my English isn't perfect, return FROM China. It has nothing to do with "race", culture, politics or economy.

Anyway, this makes it even more interesting, have you already been to China at all then? Worked there? Because I did but I don't want to make assumptions so again feel free to clarify.

PS: also want to make it clear, I didn't say nor assumed that you were Chinese, but of Chinese heritage, a bit different.

I was going to ask how come you (OP) posts regularly such posts on the "Chip War" with recurrent arguments claiming that China is catching and will surpass the "West" soon, e.g https://lemmy.ml/post/19683899/13322374 . It seems from reading your post history https://lemmy.ml/post/19683748/13336881 that you are Canadian but would like to go back to China to live and work there.

So to be direct, are you sharing those articles in the hope of adjusting a biased perspective from the West on its control of the semiconductor industry? Are you yourself hoping to, maybe if your personal circumstances were different, work in that industry with a Chinese patriotic motivation? Feel free to expand a bit more on your motivations more broadly if you feel like it could help myself and others understand your viewpoint and goals.

Looks like you don't care for zoning... then I imagine whatever beacon paired solely with your phone would do.

So... I'm going to be that person, yes, you already where it's going : how about no tech? How about a box, wooden, plastic, whatever, where you put the keys inside? Always.

I know it doesn't sound fancy, and as somebody who is turning the light on and off above his head with a keyboard shortcut I genuinely understand the challenge, but... in terms of privacy it is hard to beat.

Now... assuming you have HomeAssistant (as I do) and still really want to still do that and are ready to setup an "infrastructure" (to be able to do the zoning) this https://www.linuxmo.com/how-to-create-a-bluetooth-tracker-with-home-assistant-and-esphome/ looks like a proper solution that does work and is fine in terms of privacy. It does look like a lot of work to be honest, and it would only work in your house (or office if it's yours so you can do the zoning there too) rather than going through the network of mobile devices that Apple and Android do... but it would be a start.

Also interesting to note "The focus on mature nodes also positions Chinese companies to dominate markets where advanced nodes are not necessary, such as in automotive and industrial applications." which is indeed very viable. Namely they focus on "old" processors used in "simpler" situations. The machinery from ASML to make such chips is actually purchasable (unlike the latest ones). China is already positioned on the lower end of the market.

Still, even though going from the production of older chips is a step to higher end one, it is not the same, especially when machinery to do so can't be purchased.

"Increased Spending on Equipment" is not evidence of progress. In fact there are numerous examples in the past of fraud, e.g https://www.ft.com/content/1e3fe107-1b6e-43dd-8f04-e3c88502c36b (cf "“Big Fund”, which raised $51bn in its last two funding rounds." 2 years ago, setup 10 years ago)

China is indeed pouring money on the problem and they are making significant progress. Yet it's not competitive in terms of performance and, much harder to evaluate, it seems not to be competitive in terms of economics. To make a processor a lot of low quality ones are discarded, leading to the idea of "yield" (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabrication#Device_yield ). So, even if one CPU/GPU/TPU is genuinely produced, in "full autonomy" (so without e.g ASML unique machinery) and it actually on independent benchmarks comparable in terms of performance to the state of the art produced outside, it's still impossible to evaluate how viable the production process is. Maybe there yield is very high and thus producing those chips is efficient and thus cheap, maybe the chip used in the benchmark is the single existing one and thus is prohibitively expensive.

I recommend the 2022 Chip War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_World%27s_Most_Critical_Technologyon the topic, it is quite interesting.

I remember a discussion with a friend of mine while I was probably droning about privacy, surveillance capitalism, etc.

She politely listened then said she didn't really mind or care.

I feel quite strongly about this and as I know she is pretty smart was somehow surprised by her reaction so I tried to illustrate my point more directly. We were in a bar so it went a bit like this :

• A: so, can I ask you how much you earn?
• B: yes, sure
• A: can I tell others here in the bar
• B: I guess
• A: can I instead sell others that information so that they can try to sell you goods and services?
• B: no

So my point was that she associated a problem with privacy with a friend who might be a bit curious. When she started to see it as a systematic commercial endeavor that was unfair to her, she did change her mind.

Maybe a short thought experiment like this could help your brother see what's troubling to you?

How about prepaid credit cards?