I doubt Trump will be alive when those fabs come online. It takes years. In the meantime he’ll place tariffs on technology imports without having the alternative domestic production.

There’s been been bills at the EU level, but they’ve been defeated. I think individual countries introduced their own bills if they were supporters of the EU one.

Basically browsers are big because they are operating systems for web hosted applications with huge attack surfaces and lots of legacy compatibility requirements amassed over 3 decades.

A rewrite isn’t the answer. Putting limits on browser functionality is. JavaScript was the turning point IMHO.

Personally I keep a copy of chromium around just for Google meet. Everything else is on Firefox.

Mainly just a case of developing the design. If you know how to get performance out of a processor then the instruction set is largely secondary. However, a high performance processor is not a simple thing to design.

That’s not to say the other factors you list aren’t an issue. The latest manufacturing processes are only available from TSMC and all production slots are bought out by nVidia, AMD and Apple. Everybody else has to make do with older processes.

Adoption is probably the easiest one. Linux support for RISC-V is pretty good and recompiling software for it is pretty simple.

The world functioned before recommendation algorithms. Even the internet did. Once upon a time, when Goggle worked, it didn’t modify its results based on your history.

Netflix could operate fine with classifications, ratings good tagging and search. It doesn’t need to monitor your viewing habits and recommend something based on them.

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Yes. Yes I have.

Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It’s optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.

The thing is, a lot of social media sites have or had this. YouTube has the subscriptions feed. Twitter has (I don’t know anymore) a following feed. Reddit used to keep posts on your homepage only being from subscribed subreddits.

One problem. People don’t use them. They see maintaining subscriptions as work and so want to be fed posts by algorithm.

It’s a big elephant and you send “Toots!”.

How do you confused that with a cynical robot and a giant shark? You’d post “Quips!” or “Bites!”. Wouldn’t work at all. 🙄

Do you refer to the “Following” Vs “Discover” feed?

Apparently it’s very noticeable when a post hits the discover feed. The quality of responses dives off a cliff.

But we did leave…

…about a decade too late.

Main one is that it doesn’t manipulate your feed with stuff “you might enjoy” so you can’t be easily manipulated by the people setting the algorithm. Of course, this is exactly why people find it hard. People want to be fed stuff and told what to consume.

I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.

Really thought they’d grow their own potatoes.

Guess there will be a market in importing whole ones, and cutting them up there.

In his case.

Signal is person to person messaging with groups on the side (ala WhatsApp)

Matrix is groups with person to person on the side (ala Discord)

He wants to speak freely, but he doesn’t want to afford anyone else the same right.

It’s not an uncommon stance, but it’s a hypocritical one.

I’m in the industry but don’t know much about broadcom. What makes you say that?

Where’s the training data coming from?

People born in the 50s have long retired. The grey beards are not baby-boomers. They are people born in the late 60s and 70s. They are people who grew up as computing technology matured. They started coding low level and had careers building the infrastructure of computing which is what a lot of FOSS is.

However the question is not why these people have aged? It’s why hasn’t there been a steady stream of people taking their place from younger generations?

I believe it’s because the generations after them have careers working at higher levels of abstraction. Often going lower level is seen as black magic that is unknown to them.