Seems like a pretty terrible idea in hindsight, destroying private lending, given how desperately the government is trying and failing to raise domestic consumption now.
The private lending held back involved a) high interest rates b) unconventional methods of governance/collections which would be somewhat decoupled from Ant's lending platform down to the local level of collections.
An example of the ugly side of China private lending is what is termed "flesh loans". A young girl is forced to have nude pictures taken of her to secure her high interest loan repayment. Ant was going to put hundreds of billions in capital backing loans that had loosely controlled and often unethical/violent collections system.
Yes, curtailing loads of easy capital can be at odds with pressing domestic consumption growth. In this case, I think the government made a tough but decent decision.
From a legal perspective the US may be safer than other places if the US is the one seeking your data. The US doesn't need legal process to authorize digging into your foreign server.
From a practical perspective, I'm not sure any servers are safe anywhere...depending on who may want your data.
This type of attack has been happening a lot the past 2 years. I've seen one that was very well done...the GitHub account of a fairly well known security researcher had been compromised...their identity and code was being used as part of the recruitement. I reached out to the person...who was understandably embarrassed and told me they had reported this to LinkedIn + Github but saw no action.
This is the part that really irks me: LinkedIn and Github know this is the end goal of many of the rampant supply chain attacks but they a) don't have a first class mechanism for reporting b) don't seem to be improving their systems or even warning people. I have been hit be this enough times that I follow along to get screenshots of the scammer. One might think with all the surveillance systems Microsoft/LinkedIn/Github/Google-Meet/Calendly have in place that a potential victim reporting it along with an actual picture of the scammer could get us somewhere.
Call it a conspiracy theory, but I think a lot of these businesses actively avoid making serious efforts because even trying creates expectations. Ones that they don’t want to be on the hook for.
Like the Facebook problem. They were never in more trouble with people and legislators than when they were spending mountains of gold trying to police content.
It’s much easier to shrug and say, “Sorry folks, it’s the internet. Good luck.”
Nice. How easily is the protocol categorized by an external observer? I'm noticing protocols like wireguard more commonly hitting problems as websites rely on third party systems to protect them from non-human interactions.
If you look at Wireguard traffic, you'll see a <EndpointID>.iroh.invalid SNI in the QUIC Initial packet.
Encrypted ClientHello can fix that, but support hasn't shipped into rustls yet. So it's definitely fixable.
The interesting thing is that the ClientHello is undetectable when it's sent via the relay transport (sent inside a WSS connection). And in that case, any traffic that happens on IP is fully encrypted and can't be categorized.
...and the answer is still incorrect. You seem to want the short "answer" western media has pressed into your mind. The real answer is more complex. Protests were widespread throughout China. They were about the economy. The economy was regressing quickly as a result of a sharp western recession. Workers were losing everything and there was little social safety net in place as there is today. People had been told to work hard, get their kids to study hard and they would be rewarded...it was all falling apart. Western media wants you to focus on a small subset of student protesters regarding democracy.
LLMs are simply trained on inputs. For topics such as this you cannot expect the "correct answer" as it requires a nuanced discussion and more background info.
In short, its an inappropriate question be asking any LLM. This is the sort of thing that requires a small study group of human minds...open ones.
I’ve been using podman on Mac. It’s been a nice fit as the container build files are identical to what I use on my fedora server. I have noticed my 2 virtual core 4 gb Linode vps runs apps faster in the same container as when run on my MacBook Air M2 16 gb. I expected some performance overhead but didn’t think it would be noticeable as it is. Overall happy with podman. How might OrbStack differ?
I built this Clojure lib for robust high scale LLM calls wherein the consumer is usually a http request waiting on an SSE stream. https://github.com/jhancock/aimee
The article states: "Most applications are built on an architecture like the one above, where there are a number of stateless horizontally scaleable server replicas that can handle client requests."
Using the library I built, I have yet to worry about this as Clojure core.async, http libs and Java VM are so rock solid, I don't have a fragile set of stateless servers. Sure, at some point there are rare edge cases but it's nice to get very far along without worrying about them.
Political priorities and good governance is why we have government.