Humans and still humans, but red vs blue is the worse setup. All debates just become which team you are for.

No, the US needs to move past Red vs Blue “democracy” to something multi party and with constant coalitions and compromises. Then hopefully grown ups will run the US. Two parties is a democratic failure.

Well that is going to start causing panic for fossil fuel companies and petrol heads. Important mile stone. Cheaper upfront and cheaper running costs.

Yes they do. Privatization, probably selling it to US health firms. The rich will think that is great.

He has said it out loud in the past, but he just couldn’t make the view not drive away people, so he’s quiet about it for now.

Sounds like your dentists is a “Nazi bar”.

Yeah, it’s hard. People don’t want to see the problems because they don’t want to change. Law makers are the ones we really can’t fail to convince.

I’ve donated monthly to OpenRightGroup well over a decade now. I make sure it is always more than my wife’s Netflix (DRM pusher) to maintain a net positive!

It is partly designed to hurt Fdroid. Which will hurt Lineage, Graphene, e/OS, etc. It’s all very anticompetitive.

This is a legal/poltical issue more than a technology one. The good guys are the EFF, OpenRightsGroup, EDRi and others in the same side. Increasingly phone apps are forced on us to do things at all, and those apps are not only closed but only run on locked down OSs. It’s anti competitive, anti-freedom, authoritarian, etc etc.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. We need to stop fighting political fights by burying ourselves ever deeper in tech. Which I’m guilty of too!

Good podcast episode interviewing Frank Kolichek were the folk is mentioned : https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-02-nextcloud-frank-karlitschek/

Count the RISC processors and RISC ones in your house that isn’t the central one of a PC. You dishwasher, washing machine, tumble drier, TV, routers, WiFi access points, everything else, will be RISC. Normally ARM or MIPS. Apple has gone all ARM. Microsoft are trying to be relevant on ARM. ARM servers are now in low power data centers. RISC-V has a bright future due IP anticompetitive nonsense of x86 and ARM. Oh and x86 has a RISC heart and instruction conversion chips. Which “won” again? ;-)

Also NT is normally said to be a “hybrid” : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel

It’s not just the compute, it’s all that data.

As always, have to think where you put your money.

Be so much easier if they weren’t all just different types of bastards!

I had a quick look and ownership and it’s quagmire. I don’t believe that a man like Murdoch ever gets to the point he has no stake in anything. I can’t see his name on it skimming company house, but it wouldn’t be that easy. I’m sure it’s still his in some form.

Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.

Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.

Oh I know you can run it locally, but I don’t think you can’t create it locally because even if you had the compute, you don’t have the training material.

I don’t know how long AI companies are expecting to run at a loss. It is normal for a while for new bigtech. Though this is new scales. Hopefully this bubble with deflate rather than pop, just because the amount of money will have real world consequences.

No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.

I’m sure, but it would be in the margin of error. The bigger problem is Democratics thinking the US is a more evolved country than it is.

Well one way is I don’t depend on it already. But it’s also not like food or water, or grid, society infrastructure in general. It’s just another way of doing compute, but dependent on big tech’s big iron. Being made dependent on big tech is the enshitification. It’s just another method, they have already done all the anticompetition they can. Consumer choice isn’t a solution to regulatory failure, but it’s not nothing.

On top of poltical/power problem, it will have similar effect on software developer brains as satnavs do the navigation parts of our brains. Like satnavs, there will be way to get the good / bad balance better, but that’s not in big tech’s interest. It’s all so damn toxic and drowning open source project in slop PR requests.