It’s not just the censorship on TikTok. They can do whatever the fuck they want with their shitty ass platform.

What bugs me is the people who adopt that EVERYWHERE. Like hey guys we’re on the grown-up Internet now we can stop talking like 9 year olds.

I’d settle for getting rid of ‘tiktok speak’.

‘So my brother uses a lot of dr*gs and I’m worried he’s going to buy a pewpew and unalive himself’

That kind of brainrot. It’s infecting the rest of the Internet.

Honestly she should sue for malicious prosecution. She was driving the vehicle legally with insurance, she proved that to the officer by showing her paperwork, and then, knowing that she had insurance and the complaint was baseless, the officer wrote the ticket anyway.

This should be an open and shut case.

This exactly.

Manifest V2 is not just a plugin, it touches a LOT of the code. Keeping it in the codebase will become increasingly difficult for any 3rd party.
But this isn’t just about Manifest V2. It’s about the very concept of choice- if Google decides you don’t get something, then nobody gets it. Call it open source if you want, if all rely on Chromium then edge, vivaldi, opera, brave, etc are just reskinned Chrome with extra shit.

It’s sad that Firefox and Webkit are really the only other choices. I wish there was more. Sadly these days it’s all about fast javascript and that’s not a super easy thing to build.

For lack of better choices, I agree that Firefox and its variants are what we should be pushing these days.

Shocking, but not surprising.

The more I think about this, the more I think it’s a really big problem how much Web surfing runs on Chromium. While standards are far more prevalent now than in the days of Internet Explorer’s de facto monopoly, the end result is similar- just as MS had control of the Internet through IE, Google gets a lot of control through Chromium.

The recent removal of Manifest V2 is a perfect example. A change literally nobody wanted forced upon the whole world. And while others like MS may be keeping the Mv2 code around, that won’t be tenable forever.

The problem isn’t Mv2 or uBlock or anything else. The problem is control. That one company has the ability to disable something millions of users want, across multiple browsers, because they say so.

And thus the more I think about it, the more I conclude it’s important to get as much browsing OFF Chromium as possible.

Disney didn’t use Steamboat Willie for a while, they didn’t lose it…

I’m not claiming Twitter is great.

But this is obviously going to fail, always was obviously going to fail. It’s a PR stunt, nothing more.

Twitter will sue them, they’ll settle for giving up the name and some token fine, and hopefully they’re on the map. Or, their hail mary long shot will pay off and they’ll get to call themselves twitter in which case holy shit they’re golden. That’s the strategy.

It’s stupid- they’ll lose in court and I doubt whatever they offer is more compelling than what’s already out there.

In general I agree- the concept of red tape, environmental evaluations, etc is a good thing.

But we all know what the road to Hell is paved with.

Key is to find a middle ground- that lets a fab be built in an environmentally friendly way but also rapidly.

Is this a surprise?

Semiconductor production is a national priority for China.

This 100%.

HBM has massive profit margins. It’s also hard as hell to make, as it involves multiple stacked wafers. This vid is a good catchup on that and the rest of this situation.

China will HAPPILY flood the non-HBM DRAM market with memory ‘only’ 2x as expensive as last year. And every PC maker, automaker, gadget maker, etc will happily buy it because as Valve famously put it, “They give us a price every month or something, and they say ‘you can buy that many’ and it’s yes or no, and if we say no then they never talk to us again.” Source interview. If China says ‘we have consistent price, we have consistent supply, we can meet your needs’ and the quality is decent then it doesn’t matter if it’s slower or DDR4 or whatever people will love them for it.

And play that ahead.
The big 3 are focused on HBM and most of their capacity is already sold through 2027
If China can scale up production of standard DDR4/5 and sell it reliably at 200% of normal price (aka, below current market rates) then there’s less incentive to build fabs. So they will let China have the consumer market with their blessings. And thus China will have made themselves essential in yet another product supply chain.

This was easy to predict.

Chinese government is not stupid. They have a strategy (more so than USA does). Years ago that was to dominate global manufacturing and supply chains. They were successful. Now the goal is to reach parity with Western chipmakers and/or get ahead. It’s happening.

The AI boom was like a golden gift to them. Semiconductor prices are through the roof. So if they can produce almost anything at all in quantity it will sell for inflated prices.

While the tech companies of the world jerk each other off with AI, China is building DRAM capacity. CXMT is the first and will not be the last. They will scale quickly. If they have the process perfected they will build a fab in the time it takes USA to conduct the environmental review for the consideration of allowing a permit application to build a fab. They will not build one fab they will build 5 or 10. I’m proud to be American and I love my country but I compare USA to China on the ability to execute large projects like this and China will win every time. We have too much red tape, too many lawsuits and insurance and moving parts. China executes faster and more decisively.

So give it a year or two and China will have a fleet of pretty good fabs. They will sell memory for way less than what the others do. And then just as China made themselves indispensable for manufacturing, they will make themselves indispensable for DRAM.

Never underestimate me how out of touch business management can be.

There’s a saying- corporate consultants are people who charge millions to tell you what your employees and customers have been trying to tell you for free.

I think the problem goes farther back than that. That might be when it got worse, but the place where Google search started to lose its way (IMHO) was when they removed + as an operator so it wouldn’t screw up searches for Google+ (their social network at the time). That was the first time they truly put something else ahead of search.

It was also before 2019 that Google search stopped doing what you told it- trying to infer what it thought you meant rather than what you typed in. Verbatim mode makes that better but it’s still not perfect.

I don’t think anyone’s made a better search though. And to be honest I don’t think it’s possible anymore without MEGA resources.

Google once stated that their primary goal was to get you off of Google property as quickly as possible- IE deliver your search result and get you where you want to go. That was the exact opposite of every other major website at the time (search engines, ‘portals’, etc) which wanted to keep you in.

It’s what made Google great. They were laser focused on the best search experience.

Now their search kinda sucks, it’s all AI and fuzzy logic and whatnot and even with quotes and Verbatim it STILL doesn’t just search for what I typed in not what you thought I wanted