sus

I was going to say there was no actual evidence, but huh, I actually fell for some of the tankie lies after enough time. China's deputy health minister Huang Jiefu repeatedly publicly acknowledged that most organ transplants came from death row inmates, and separately China was exporting organs to south korea on a massive scale prior to 2007.

(though it's notable that this has not been connected to the Uyghur situation specifically)

(Also noting that it's Israel claimed to end the practice in 2000, while China claimed to end the practice in 2015)

sources pre-emptively posted: the guardian, (old) beijing times, zhenhua.163.com, der spiegel

and with a good enough leak, the amount of unused memory will become negative!

Nim is a compiled language by default, and supposedly cross-compilation is usually as simple as

apt install mingw-w64
nim c -d:mingw myproject.nim

though I haven't really tried doing it (and my general impression of nim is anything "slightly obscure" like cross-compilation still has a non-zero risk of running into unexpected thorny bugs)

It be a joke

The oxford that says this?

Acronym

1. A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism

or the merriam webster that says this?

Some people feel strongly that acronym should only be used for terms like NATO, which is pronounced as a single word, and that initialism should be used if the individual letters are all pronounced distinctly, as with FBI. Our research shows that acronym is commonly used to refer to both types of abbreviations.

He paid a close associate ~~a few thousand dollars~~ (I don't remember how much it actually was), and the associate then donated that same amount of money for the hype train. It's basically just a method to conceal it

it's actually fits 3%.. PER MONTH

april '24 to august '25 is 16 months

1.03^16^ = 1.605

$49.24 * 1.6 = $78.78

I remember tab groups showing up one day by themselves maybe a week ago, and then I quickly clicked about two buttons and now they're totally gone and I almost forgot they were a thing. But likely if I had summarily clicked 2 different buttons it might have been turned on without me realizing it, and that would cause the model to be downloaded and the CPU cycles to be spent (at least if I kept the tab groups on)

They seem to believe Vlang is a cult, and don't like promoting it because of that.

Now I'm pretty sure Vlang is not literally a cult, though it does have a history of controversy where it claims to be ready-to-use and with lots of features, but actually half the features are not implemented and the rest are extremely buggy (at least in 2022), and if you bring that up with the V community they really don't like that.

It is partially self-hosted though, which is cool I guess

Video has general VPN background info:

A VPN is ultimately just someone else's computer that routes traffic through it, and there is nothing stopping you from starting your own VPN company, promising you're not logging anything, and then logging everything you can. You are almost certainly never going to be punished in any way for lying to your customers as long as you put in a minimal amount of effort.

Some VPN companies like to make ridiculous claims like "the vpn will prevent you from getting hacked" which is not true

For 95-99% of internet users (at least in western countries) a VPN doesn't really help with privacy at all since your browser is most likely still easily fingerprintable. UBlock origin or similar things help but are not even close enough to stop all fingerprinting, you need something like tor browser with javascript disabled to actually get your browser privacy to the level where a VPN is relevant. (Though it does have other benefits like circumventing some geoblocking, making unencrypted websites slightly safer, etc)

You ought to manually configure DNS, possibly even try to self-host

touched upon in the video but not directly explained, almost all VPN companies just rent from cloud services instead of hosting it themselves so even if they didn't personally log anything, all the network traffic is likely actually still being logged by amazon etc

governments and police can just get court orders to get all the data from VPNs, or even force them to start logging if they didn't already, though this is probably not a problem for you if you're not considered an exceptionally interesting person

generally trusted VPNs are mullvad, IVPN, ProtonVPN, the only one I'll personally point out is mullvad who have cohosted servers which should bypass the cloud related issues, though you had to manually select a non-cloud server last time I checked

As for more or less unique info specific to this video, it claims that VPNs lying about not collecting user data is indeed very common and done by ad companies that buy out VPN companies etc, and government spying agencies also operating VPN companies as honeypots

Finland never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, and covid + the end of trade with russia has damaged the economy badly and made public debt balloon heavily. Right now unemployment is about 10%, the 2nd highest in the EU, and the far-right coalition goverment that won the last election is trying to privatize healthcare and disempower unions.

The education system has been getting worse for about the past 15-20 years due to misguided reform attempts (and of course endless budget cuts)

Finland's birth rate dropped below replacement levels about 50 years ago and has been in freefall for about the last 10 years, and now the population pyramid is starting to be in really bad shape, which means the economic situation is likely just going to get worse and worse.

The retirement savings system is designed like a (partial) ponzi scheme due to aforementioned population dynamics, and participation is mandatory so it is effectively a hidden tax on all workers. Due to old people having the majority of the votes, it's the one thing that is immune from budget cuts, which forces the government to sell publicly owned infrastructure and dismantle public services in a futile effort to compensate.