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I use it to role play historical counter factuals, like how I could win the battle of Cannae through tactics, or how I could invent the telegraph in 13th century France. It’s worth every watt <3

Don’t have to imagine it when you can just remember it. Getting online in the late 90s was a horror show, seriously dialup was super unreliable. And that was 20 years after it’s inception, it was shit but also extremely popular.

I usually do, but in general they’re dead for lack of demand

If you have access to real debrid, sometimes they have insanely old torrents in cache. I’ve resurrected quite a few decades old bangers from the pirate bay that way.

That has never been true for Google. That’s what other search engines did in the late 90s, and Google’s success comes precisely from implementing smart ranking rather than just being a directory.

They were also early adopters of semantic search using NLP and embeddings, way before LLMs became popular.

That’s a beautiful quote thank you

He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…

Vendors do exist but they are not required to do so. My last job was at a software vendor, GDPR compliant, ISO & SOC 2 certified, controlling personal data (including salary information) of EU citizens who were not opted in (their employer is the one on the contract). Not healthcare levels of sensitive but still pretty icky in terms of EU law and we had tons of German friends who are real sticklers for the rules. We stored everything on AWS infrastructure and it has never caused any issue during certification or security assessment by clients.

Appropriate means running a risk assessment and deciding accordingly

The risk assessment doesn’t require the company to assess the reliability of international diplomatic relationships. Having your data on EU soil (even under the care of a US company) is enough for compliance.

There is no requirement for the company to think about that. The majority of GDPR-compliant companies still store on AWS/GCP, just on EU servers.

Nah, as long as the actual servers are hosted in Europe, you’re compliant with GDPR and European law. The European company is not liable if the US government violates the EU-US framework.

I think a company in Europe doesn’t give a shit that the US government can peek at their data. Their users might care but they certainly don’t.

What’s new is that they no longer trust the stability of the services long term. What if trump slaps a tariff, or asks Amazon to shut down access, or whatever bullshit passes through his head daily? You wouldn’t store your business on Russian servers, and they’re starting to realize the same applies to the US.