Some of it translated

If China manages to produce the DUV machines itself, it could cost ASML billions of euros in the long run. In the last quarter, 14 % of the machines ASML sold went to China. The Veldhoven‑based manufacturer expects to earn 20 % of its revenue from China this year. If the revenue forecast, recently revised up from €43 billion to €45 billion for this year, materialises, that would correspond to roughly €9 billion.

Further testing

For now ASML does not seem to have to worry. Chinese technology is not yet as advanced and reliable as that of the Dutch company. Before mass production can start in China, the machines still need to be tested. This year China is reportedly starting production of five machines; a year later that number is expected to rise to twenty.

Although ASML appears to retain its lead for the moment, investors were spooked on Monday. The ASML share ended 8.5 % lower, the lowest level since early June. Dutch rivals Besi and ASM also fell sharply, losing almost 10 % and more than 7 % of their value respectively.

Indeed, a fitted sheet competition!

I guess it is like watching toddlers walk, but why the random breakout into dance moves? Also how do they target? Seems like they just generally point at the other one.

Subtitles!

Maybe we should have more anti audio people? Go back to silent movies and show?

The “misconfigured local block gone global” theory goes like this: Reliance was trying to comply with India’s Section 69A blocking order for Telegram. To implement the block domestically, they configured a null route for Telegram’s IP prefixes – traffic from Indian users heading to 91.108.56.0/22 gets redirected to a dead end. Normal ISP blocking procedure.

But somewhere in that configuration, instead of just inserting a null route in their internal routing tables, they accidentally originated a BGP announcement for the prefix – telling the world, via FLAG, that they were the legitimate destination for Telegram’s traffic. The internal block leaked into the global routing table.

This is technically plausible. BGP misconfigurations do happen. The internet has seen accidental route leaks before. Pakistan Telecom knocked YouTube offline globally in 2008 with exactly this kind of mistake. Human error in complex network configurations is real.

But there are a few things that make pure-accident harder to swallow here.

First, the announcement persisted. Multiple researchers spotted it, documented it, and publicly reported it. Network operators contacted FLAG Telecom. The incident was visible in public routing data. Yet it stayed live for an extended period. Accidents get cleaned up faster when there’s external pressure and the error is obvious.

Second, the timing. The government ban announcement, followed immediately by a technically sophisticated routing manipulation that happened to push users toward a blackhole rather than a redirect, followed by slow remediation – this sequence is either a spectacular coincidence or it isn’t.

Third, the competitive context. Reliance Jio and RCom share common ownership threads with Mukesh Ambani’s broader business empire, which has a strategic partnership with Meta – the company behind WhatsApp, Telegram’s primary competitor in India. Telegram’s growth in India has been directly at WhatsApp’s expense. A platform disruption that makes Telegram unreliable while WhatsApp continues working normally is commercially convenient for a Meta-aligned entity.

None of this proves intent. But “we accidentally configured a global BGP hijack of our primary competitor’s IP space and then didn’t fix it quickly when people noticed” is a story that requires you to accept a lot of charitable coincidences stacking up simultaneously.

It’s called Agrovoltaics and it works pretty damn good,if you do it right.

The pairing can also offer some synergies. Solar panels can help moderate ground temperatures, provide shelter for livestock and help plants retain moisture.[6] For farmers the ability to produce electricity can help diversify their income stream.

Solar panels block light, which means that dual use systems involve trade-offs between crop yield, crop quality, and energy production.[7] Some crops/livestock benefit from the increased shade, obviating the trade-off,[8] such as green leafy vegetables, and spices such as turmeric and ginger, whereas staple crops such as wheat, rice, soybeans or pulses require more sun.[9] Agrivoltaics has also been used at scale in arid and semi-arid regions to stabilize soils, reduce dust storm intensity, increase vegetation cover, provide forage for livestock, and curb desertification, notably in northern China.[10][11]

Don’t forget this is an international game though. China is playing this game.

You mean Windows 10 is the perfect product? MS can’t improve on it so it must be perfect… Right? All others are just seeking perfection they can never achieve.

Wait… Yells out the door “Someone go get me a Jesuit Priest!”

This is going to sound like and excuse, but the ghost of Hitler pour lemonade in my gas tank.

Also: I can’t go because the cricket team is having a nervous breakdown.

Commonwealth’s peeps tell me I’d this isn’t just a normal state of affairs? Something along the lines of Hockey players getting into fights, and American footballers having concussions?

The philosopher answer!

This is absolutely the engineering solution that calls to me…But if the viscosity is so think it requires a vacuum of pull it in, does it need an exit mechanism?

Not that we are voting, but 👆 is very flask like and so far my favorite.

While I love the idea of a flask of soup, how da fuk do you get broccoli cheddar into a flask! When I have used them, I can barely get alcohol into the flask with the tiny funnel without alcohol abusing the counter?!?!

For a man who thrives on chaos, it’s funny to see him losing control of the chaos he sows and start whining about it.

Yea, the cognitive load required to evaluate and engage both on the article, as well as politically is so high that ignorance and a shrug seems normal.

I am not sure that a commune in the boonies is the answer, but it certainly seems more appealing then the total system collapse we seem to be apart of lately.

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen said at a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last year that he wouldn’t want his kids consuming only short-form content, noting that it might be better to limit kids to videos longer than 15 minutes.

I hope this is introduced at the LA trial in some form that demonstrates the why.

I should not be amazed, but I still am, at the entire lack of morality that tech entrepreneurs have post dotcom bursting.

As someone who isn’t familiar with the UK advertising laws, is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_Standards_Authority_(United_Kingdom) what you mean?

A couple that I’ve found

1. Presidential Pardon Power and Immunity Reforms https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5088538-biden-calls-for-constitutional-amendment-on-presidential-immunity/

2. Corporate Political Speech Restrictions https://www.movetoamend.org/motion

3. Healthcare as a Righr https://usconstitution.net/constitutional-right-to-health-insurance/

From https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/twelve-failed-constitutional-amendments-that-could-have-reshaped-american-history-180987425/

The United States Constitution had been in effect for little more than a year when Congress first moved to amend it. On September 25, 1789, the legislature sent a dozen proposed amendments to the then-13 states (soon to be 14) for ratification, as the law required. By December 15, 1791, the necessary three-fourths of states had ratified 10 of the 12 amendments, which collectively became known as the Bill of Rights.

Another 17 amendments have been ratified in the 234 years since, for a total of 27. But these measures represent just a tiny fraction of the amendments that have been proposed in Congress over the years—nearly 12,000 to date.

I’m sure they’d love this.