That’s pretty interesting. Do you happen to have any introductory material to that topic?
I mean, it might even have applications outside of running a techno-communist nation state. For example, for designing economic simulation game mechanics.
Utilization of models begets training of more models.
Kinda like CSAM.
It’s a gross approximation, but…
Your desktop or laptop computer is probably toast, your phone probably isn’t.
Once a mail server gets hold of your mail, it can basically do whatever it wants with it, including forwarding it to FAANG MXes, HTTP POSTing it to the NSA or publishing it on Pastebin. This is one of the reasons why we push for end-to-end encryption, there can be no confidentiality or integrity otherwise.
A mask ROM is a kind of read-only memory where the desired data is directly etched into a semiconductor during the same photolithographic process that actually makes a circuit out of a planar sheet of silicon. It’s pretty much hard-wired data storage, with an indefinite lifespan.
As far as I remember, Game Cards are not mask ROM. In other words, they’ll eventually lose their data and become e-waste anyhow.
This applies to both “real” Game Cards, and Game Key Cards. It’s already been a problem with the OG Switch.
Even with Game Key Cards, an actual, physical object has to be produced, at drastically higher marginal cost than what a purely digital license costs in production (basically nothing). And there is a secondary market, which doesn’t exist in the digital realm.
Essentially, I don’t see the reasoning behind counting them as digital. All the aspects that seem relevant to any publisher (and, to a first approximation, any user that isn’t a conservationist) make them identical to physical sales.
Autists will also die if a wooden stake is driven through the heart.
As they are also vulnerable to silver bullets, maybe autists are werewolves, too?