"Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country." Garry Kasparov

I received a false copyright claim on one of my videos and YouTube removed the video because of this. It's a video about the Riemann Hypothesis. The claim comes from some person who submits a link to their paper about "The Continuity Engine: A Formally Verified Framework Prime

🚨Age verification seems to be unstoppable. 🚨 Following the Australian precedence, Greece & Brazil now also passed laws that will require age checks for social media.🇦🇺🇬🇷 🇧🇷 What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans. Privacy & anonymity

That means all adults cannot use an electronic device unless they verify that they belong to them. #AgeOfSurveilance

This moment isn’t about #AgeVerification. It signals the rise of the #AgeOfSurveillance, a model of monitoring the World has never seen before. Socialist States would be envious at the scale of the speech control & monitoring that’s coming…

Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online. We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead. proton.me/blog/keep-age-…

Every subsidy, every bailout, every "free" government program has a cost. Bastiat understood what too many politicians still pretend not to: the state has no money of its own. It only has yours.

In newer #DnD it feels really jarring to see just the modifiers instead of the actual ability scores. I will fix that in my TTRPG.

Κάθε φορά που θα ακούτε μέλη της ΝΕΑ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ να λένε ότι τα δεδομένα σας είναι ασφαλή αν τα συλλέξουν να θυμάστε ότι στην θητεία τους τράκαραν δύο τρένα. Είναι άχρηστοι και το χακάρισμα είναι δεδομένο.

The European Union is becoming Totalitarian. Every aspect of your life will be regulated, from the cables you charge your phones and the straws you drink to the speech that is allowed or not. #AgeVerification is not for the children, it’s for the adults.

Κάποτε στην Αλβανία τα παιδιά ρωτούσαν τον δάσκαλο "Πώς γίνεται να είναι φτωχοί στον καπιταλισμό και απέναντι να βλέπουμε την Κέρκυρα γεμάτη φώτα;" Κι ο δάσκαλος απαντούσε "αυτά που βλέπετε είναι τα φώτα από τις βίλες των πλουσίων. Η πλειοψηφία δεν έχει να φάει".

Socialism has failed so many times that at least some people understand that it wrecks economies. Fewer understand that it also leads to violence, but Gloria Álvarez does:

Δύο εξαιρετικά βιβλία για προγραμματιστές, τώρα διαθέσιμα και στα ελληνικά. Επίκαιρα και λόγω του κώδικα που όλο και περισσότερο γράφεται από ΤΝ.

Counterpoint:

The Greek government from ~2020 onwards has been operating like an anti-canary in the coal mine: every time the EU is thinking, or not even thinking, of passing some Orwellian shit, the Grek gov is the first one to actually propose it.

Άλλο ένα παράδειγμα είναι η Κορέα.

🚨🇪🇺 BREAKING: The European Commission just told all 27 member states to hurry up with rolling out online age verification, demanding deployment before the end of 2026. Asked today how the system stops anyone bypassing it with a VPN from outside the EU, Vice-President Virkkunen

Και λέει όλη αυτή η παγκόσμια πρεμούρα για ταυτοποίηση στο διαδίκτυο είναι γιατί το 2027 θα γίνει ο 3ος Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος, Ταϊβάν, Ιαπωνία, Νότια Κορέα Ε.Ε, Η.Π.Α. vs Κίνα, Ρωσία, Ιράν, Β. Κορέα, Βενεζουέλα, Κούβα Kappa