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Google's AMP was supposed to stop this, but they never could get around the conflict of interest between "our search engine experience is improved by prioritizing fast loading results" and "our ad business needs websites to carry a ton of ads," ended up carving in enough exceptions and an anti-AMP backlash that they pretty much walked away from the whole thing.

I'm also waiting to see how Linux support for the A-series chips develops, now that the MacBook Neo has A18 Pros running MacOS. There are people working on tools to allow Asahi's m1n1 bootloader to work on the Neos. Unclear how much of that effort will ultimately be upstreamed to Asahi itself, but I'm hopeful.

Most CPUs implement a strategy called "race-to-sleep," where it throws all the resources it has at a computing task, to finish it as fast as possible, so that it can hurry back to a low power sleep mode.

For that reason, optimizing speed often improves battery life.

Technically these are all System in Package (SiP) rather than systems on a chip (SoCs). It's not cost effective to waste silicon area on things like memory and storage in the latest and greatest TSMC nodes, so they have several different silicon dies that they connect together using advanced packaging techniques, but where each silicon die in that package might come from a different foundry/process.

Not exactly, the bootpicker just won't show partitions that are not flagged as bootable. This is a departure from previous versions, that would check to see whether partitions were bootable without looking at the flag, and took a little bit of investigating to figure out this undocumented behavior, but it is an easy fix:

https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/

Somewhere along the line someone is going to have a password that is their favorite sports team followed by their anniversary. Someone will reuse the same password over and over including a site with exploitable security flaws.

None of this is new, and none of this has destroyed the feasibility of electronic payments. AI has nothing to do with any of it.

The ability to conduct fraud, hack websites, and hijack accounts has always been around. The systems we've built will always assume that occurs on a regular basis, and are resilient against needing to address this reality. How does any of this prevent electronic payments from being processed?

You're really mixing up a lot of stuff

I don't think I am. I'm just describing a broad definition of property, as a descriptivist/positivist argument, observing that this broad definition already applies in most modern legal systems.

For instance, the fact that something can be sold doesn't mean it's a form of property.

If we want to get into the philosophical underpinnings of what rights do or don't qualify as property, I'm just describing the legal frameworks that already apply. Pretty much anything that can be sold (or leased or licensed or conveyed in a will) counts as property. Lots of these rights are intangible, including the broad sets of rights under patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law that we describe as "intellectual property."

Property, by its nature, includes the right to exclude others from enjoyment or profit that arise from that property. And it doesn't require the consent of the excluded. Some argue that the concept of property itself is theft, for that reason.

But libertarians generally support strong property rights, and I'd argue it's consistent with that view to support strong intellectual property rights (whether administered by a government or not).

That SEO slop article is simply wrong on the math of cryptography, and relies on an example of the one time pad not being used only one time. Either way, the interesting thing about the OTP is that you cannot prove that any particular plaintext exists, so the nonsense about trying to infer any particular plaintext from the encrypted text. Frequency analysis doesn't help when there is no correlation between different bits of the key, the same way that flipping a fair coin 10 times reveals nothing about what it will likely be on the 11th flip.

40 and 56 bit encryption keys are obsolete as they are now easily broken. 128, 192, and 256 are the standard now. 512 bit encryption is being played around with.

You might be tricked into believing that a 512 bit key is twice as hard to crack as a 256 bit key. No, a 257 bit key is twice as hard to crack, and a 512 but key is 2^256 (1.5 x 10^77 ) times harder to crack. So if you can crack a 256 bit key in 1 second, a 512 bit key would take 3,672,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to crack using that same technique. Or, if you can crack 1 million 256-bit keys in a second, go ahead and take 6 zeroes off the number I just listed.

Throw in developments in quantum computing

Good luck with that. Quantum computers aren't anywhere close, and more importantly, have nothing to do with AI.

AI isn't going to make cryptography obsolete.

Indeed most of your examples are not property.

All of them are property, technically. Including contractual rights (which can be bought and sold). And plenty of these intangible rights don't arise from contract. How much of the world's land is owned by people who trace their purchases/inheritance to an original owner who was granted the land by a government or royal family no longer in power? Including through conquest and wars ended by treaties (of questionable consent when you consider the coercion and duress that losing a war creates). The consensual transactions downstream from that system that nobody today consented to don't actually limit the legal power of that ownership.

the most important thing about contracts is that they're voluntary, and negotiated between the parties

That's true of contracts, but not true of all the rights that can get transferred around from contracts. Some governments gave homestead rights transferring land to anyone who built a house on that wilderness. How is that conceptually different from a king-granted monopoly to someone who invented something for the British Navy?

And then there are other forms of rights. If you crash into my house and I sue you, I might win a court judgment ordering you to pay me a certain amount of money. You didn't consent to that, but you owe it just the same. And that right to payment can be sold, and is considered property as well.

People hold out intellectual property to be something unusual and different, but really it's not that different from accounts receivable and stocks and bonds and leaseholds and licenses and other forms of intangible property.

Any cryptography can be broken with enough computing power and time,

This is wrong. A one-time pad is provably secure against an adversary with infinite time and infinite computing power.

And there isn't infinite time or computing power. The math means you can use keys that can't be cracked before the heat death of the universe, using even as many transistors as there are atoms on earth.

There will always be vulnerabilities and patches. I wouldn't count on them actually breaking trust forever. And AI doesn't have anything to do with that general statement.

Everything you're saying also applies to non-tangible property rights generally, which includes property rights to land (and the accompanying rights to airspace above that land or mineral rights in the ground), and rights like:

• A first round draft pick in the 2031 NBA draft
• A noncompete agreement where your CEO agrees not to work for a competitor for 12 months after working for you
• The right to a window view of the ocean, to restrict your neighbors from building something too tall
• A ticket to enter a music festival and sit in first come, first serve seats in the grassy area
• The right to kick out a person from your restaurant that is otherwise open to the public

Each of these are enforced by some kind of adjudicatory body (which we can call a law and a state if you'd prefer). But that would be true of anything like a copyright or a trademark or the right to one's image/name.

And so we're still basically talking about how strong the right to property or the right to contract is, and what types of rules/rights will not be enforced by the courts, and which will. Some types of contract terms are unenforceable, and some property rights are limited.

Can you imagine somebody asserting rights over the cider you made with the apples he sold you?

What about someone asserting rights to the apples you grow on the land they've leased to you? Or asserting rights to the water that flows across the land they sold to you? That kind of stuff happens all the time.

The fact is, libertarian doctrine is generally in favor of a strong rights to property and contract, and that's why many libertarians are strongly in favor of strong IP rights.

AI can't be smart enough to break math.

No amount of AI processing can draw a triangle whose angles add up to more than 180°, factor a prime number into integer factors, find the square root of a negative number without using imaginary numbers, etc.

If the protocol and the cryptography is secure, no amount of smarts can overcome that security. If something is insecure, someone will probably figure it out (with or without the help of computers and AI) and take advantage of it until it's patched.