Hi everyone, I’m creating this megathread to help regroup information about Pelosi’s recent visit and the follow-up (currently the PLA is conducting military drills very close to Taiwan)
You’re still totally allowed to make your own threads, this is more for things that do not warrant a thread by themselves.
BREAKING: China has announced the end to the following cooperation with the US
- Calls with leaders
- Defense meetings
- Maritime Security Consultation
- Climate Change Talks
- Anti-Drug cooperation
- Transnational crimes
- Illegal Immigration
That seems like some serious business. It’s not ‘sanction them into the abyss’ level but there’s a lot of important communication being cancelled in this list.
Will be interesting to see their next step.
China will probably take hard line stances against its rivals until the 20th CPC party congress where Xi Jinping hopes to secure reelection. Then they will probably go back to being more flexible.
goodWow you never stopped. And now you’ve learned to hack the system 🐱
I still miss HTML
Bruh the sorcery is back
yet I have lost most of my powers
This is just markdown though, a very small subset of what was previously possible. You won’t be seeing any text over other people’s comments.
“Anti-Drug cooperation”
Are China’s anti-drug laws influenced by the West in any way? Will we see a “Green” China before fucking Texas or Indiana?
I think a lot of opioid and medicine trafficking happens between China and the US. Weed, I don’t know really.
No, they’re influenced by their own experiences with narcotics during the century of humiliation.
Anyways the cooperation with regards to narcotics was mainly to the benefit of the US. China doesn’t have a big issue of drugs or precursors imported from the US but the inverse is true, Chinese factories have been huge helps for the narcotics trade into the west in making new substances that aren’t regulated as well as precursor chemicals shipped to the US, Mexico, etc which are more easily turned into narcotics and for cheaper than the cartels can hope to do on their own. So ultimately this will sting the US with more drugs flooding them while China will not be impacted in any way as the US was not in any real way helping with any of their drug trade issues which are minor compared to the US.
As to the narcotics in question going from China —> US, they’re all synthetics, opioids and club drugs type stuff.
You can also buy things like estradiol enthanate powder to secure a long term supply of critical medications for personal use. Could be important given how big natural disasters are becoming more and more commonplace.
PLA has “crossed” the middle of the Taiwan straight during their exercises. Yesterday, they also launched missiles some of which flew over Taiwan (at least 1 I think).
Statement from Taiwan army:
The National Army will adhere to the principle of preparing for war without seeking war, and will take the attitude of “not escalating conflict and not causing disputes”
You escalated conflict when you let Pelosi come here lmao
Before the exercises the green frogs were all gloating about the PRC being paper tigers and that no matter what happens, the “free world” including Amerikkka and Japan will come to their rescue.
The exercises begin and after their masters have fucked off, these frogs have fallen silent as for a brief moment of clarity they’ve realised that actions sometimes have consequences.
Green frogs?
The DPP, their symbol/flag is that ugly green so mainlanders have nicknamed them as green frogs lol. (Sometimes also referring to frogs in the well)
wow, it really is a terrible flag
A fitting colour… they’re great at being corrupt as fuck as well as making empty promises during elections and overstepping the red line to the entertainment of their western masters.
It also look like cucumber.
Edit these into the main post. Otherwise it becomes difficult to follow. Especially chronologically. You can use the horizontal rule
to make the post tidy.Actually I think this is where the chat function can become useful! (I have to leave in a half hour and won’t have time to edit the main post with everything 💀)
In discussing this the other day I came to a question about the semi-conductor topic in relation to this “Pivot to Taiwan.”
There’s very clearly a profit motive involved, with Taiwan producing a lot of computer chips and the US based companies needing to maintain control of this profit stream moving forward, particularly given the growth and technological improvement of the mainland Chinese semi-conductor industry.
What I have started to wonder about is how much this may also have to do with the hardware level backdoors implemented in nearly every western designed processor. If China takes over as the semi-conductor supplier of the world (either via mainland production or the reintegration of Taiwan), these hardware backdoors will be very quickly removed, or at the very least adapted to the needs of the Chinese people instead of American imperialists.
I think that makes sense from an imperialist point of view, especially one where the cracks are becoming blindingly apparent. Control of information is everything.
It’s not just about control for the sake of protecting profits, it’s about control for the sake of protecting information. These backdoors enable access to private/personal information on nearly any device, or to dictate what functions those devices are allowed to perform.
There is no doubt that there backdoors built into these hardware but the extent to which the US state has control over these backdoors is not very clear. At least I haven’t been able to find out some info about it.
Either way, I don’t think the backdoor aspect is as important as the monopoly angle. The entire world is dependent on Intel and AMD to perform computations. It is hard to overstate how important computation is for the economy to function especially ones like China where there is more planning and technology is deployed everyday for both convenience and governance.
There is also ARM. Nearly all my servers use ARM chips. I only have one Intel server and it’s not even a new chip (3rd gen i7).
Where do you get decent arm servers for cheap? I’m building a xeon workstation.
Well, they won’t be as powerful as a Xeon system. That is why I have my one intel server. Most of the services I run (I run 26 services), can run on low-power hardware easily (things like Invidious, Homeassistant, Cockpit, Node Red, Jellyfin, etc.). For these, I have SBCs. I currently run 9 Raspberry Pi 4s (8 as webservers, one as a recursive DNS server with Pi-Hole in front of it), 2 Pine H64s (one as my reverse proxy that provides access to the rest of my servers and one as my TV box running Kodi), and a RockPro64 handling more intensive stuff like the Matrix homeserver. My Intel machine is an old Mac Mini which I’ve upgraded the storage (500GB HDD to 1TB SSD) and RAM (4GB to 16GB) on and installed Debian. On that, I run things that require either a lot of power or a lot of storage. For example, my Mac Mini hosts Gitea, Minio (open source Amazon S3 clone), Code Server (Online IDE), Nextcloud, Onlyoffice, and a Minecraft server.
SBCs are nice because they are cheap and very low power. All my servers connect to a single <$100 UPS and that lasts over an hour. Of course, the downside is that if you have a single service that needs a lot of compute power, you’ll need to use a separate server for that, which is what my Mac Mini is for.
Edit: By the way, I’ve seen you on Matrix. My username on there is Heisenbug.
Do you know how to get cheap deals on SBCs? I tend to lose track of mine also…
Well I plan to prob under clock and under volt my workstation a lot too. That should prob work well for anything bandwidth and latency dependent.
U should post/share your setup maybe.
But I’ve been thinking of using some orange pis for farm/industrial automation. And getting a higher end Rock Pi to colocate maybe. Wish they’d make a PCIe card Pi or edge module that has high speed ethernet and video interfaces.
I still can’t see your most recent message on Matrix but it’s prob something with my account because I lost my key.
Do you know how to get cheap deals on SBCs?
Usually I just look around online every once in a while until I can find a cheap price. I usually get each pi for around $35, with a 32GB microSD card (which you can get for cheaper by buying packs that come with multiple), and a power adapter (depending on what you’re using the RPi for, you may just be able to use a USB charging station since the Pi 4 uses USB-C, but check the power requirements of the Pi and any USB devices to make sure). I’ve built my setup incrementally by slowly buying a few things at a time for around $200 each time (I’m 17 years old and built my setup over a year ago, so no income to use, just money given to me on birthdays and new year).
U should post/share your setup maybe.
I might post my setup but I’d need to clean it first. A lot of dust has accumulated since the last time I cleaned it.
But I’ve been thinking of using some orange pis for farm/industrial automation.
Yeah, SBCs and microcontrollers are really good for automation. I have one of my Pis running Homeassistant and I’ve installed an MQTT broker so that I could send commands to it. I used an ESP8266 microcontroller and soldered together a board with a few buttons that I keep next to my bed and it allows me to do things like turn off all my lights by clicking a single button, individually toggle each light based on how many times I click a button, turn on/off the fan, change the fan speed, etc. I havent set this up yet, but I could even make it run commands on my desktop. The possibilities are really endless.
Wish they’d make a PCIe card Pi or edge module that has high speed ethernet and video interfaces.
That would be nice, though I think I’ve seen Pi CM4 boards with gigabit ethernet somewhere, and the CM4 does expose a PCIe port so you could probably add a NIC.
I still can’t see your most recent message on Matrix but it’s prob something with my account because I lost my key.
It could also be my homeserver. I’m using the experimental Dendrite homeserver and it still has some issues, though federation should be working, but who knows, it’s still in beta.
Nice good that you’re into that. Good price point do you get enough RAM with that? I think I would opt for small SD cards and a big NAS if I had that many SBCs. Yah 10-15W shouldn’t be too bad to hook up. I’m 20 and have a nice little chunk saved that’s sort of on fire rn thanks to crypto imploding but still have a bit left over in my bank to make it through for now. When I was more around your age I got really into 3D printing and that sort of thing. I got a cheap Tevo Tarantula kit and really abused that thing. It was great and I had a Bob’s CNC.
I was mainly thinking to manage things on our property including water flow for artificial lakes/ponds, irrigation, (cameras, lights, censors, motors), anything that should be intelligent. U know it’s fun to do stuff with LEDs like build arrays and little gadgets. There are a lot of electronics projects you can do these days.
I thought it would be great to have a programmable module that can interface with those high speed signals for example to build a hardware firewall or create someting that can merge two HDMI 2.0/DP1.4 signals into HDMI 2.1 or whatever you want to do. The point is it’s programmable. Or maybe do some marshaling to convert an HDMI 2.1 signal to send over long range wire for cheap.
I think security can be a matter of putting up a wall between your server and the rest of the world. I don’t trust intel/amd x86 products but realistically I would put a buffer over the networking interface and do whatever I need to do to make sure my keys are safe.
This is actually why the US freaked out and has pushed Huawei cell equipment out. Not because it has back doors but because it means the equipment isn’t made by their friends with THEIR NSA/GCHQ backdoors.
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If that happened I’d be havana good laugh
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The Foreign Ministry of People’s Republic of China: We will sanction US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over Taiwan Province visit
Her family too, I believe.
Sorry if this is like the 10th time you’ve seen this, but PLA drills are in key positions if anything were to escalateInteresting how they are positioned; looking at a simple flat map you’d think it looks kinda random and leaves a lot of space open (the southwest notably), but it’s actually places the PLA don’t need to control because there’s nothing there.
I’m glad CGTN showed that chart because that was actually super informative, I would also like to see maps of where US ships are going. I hear that the USS Ronald Reagan(🤮) is in the area as well
USS Ronald Reagan
The old Gipper would be spinning in his grave if he knew ne’erdowells were lurking on the ship of his namesake
Update about the first day drills: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/339956
PLA Rocket Forces are transporting Chinese DF-26 medium-range ballistic missile systems with a maximum range of 3,000-4,000 km
