• 0 Posts
  • 74 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: July 8th, 2023
  • oo1@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?
    1·
    11 months ago

    Words literally change their meaning over time and social context.

    I think “guy” used to mean just “a rope” until some fellow named Guy tried to blow up some nobs in London.

    I think both “guy (rope/guideline)” and the name “Guy (Guido)” might origiate from the same basic word “guide” .

    I don’t think it’s always clear why changes happen, people just use it differently and if a new usage spreads widely and becomes common, then the new usage may get added into some dictionaries.

    I quite like “RobWords” on youtube - 'tho I’m not sure if he has covered this one specficaly.

  • oo1@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•eat the rich
    9·
    1 year ago

    i’d do some intellectual property reform.
    some banking reform - more local / peer group/long term lending requirements, less fickle international finance. (and less fucking mortgage bubbles!)
    some small business support / starter initiatives - link that in with how banks work.

    i’d consider lobbying for some government sposored work to generate open source plans and enable production processes for useful tools - Okay that isn’t going to happen , , ,

    but it’s not all or nothing, but you can do things to help some more workers control and access more of their tooling even if its not outright ownership of the end to end production process.

    (By the way i’m basically arguing for a more “free” market in the ecnomic sense (easy access for a large number of small scale producers). . . which is exactly not what large-scale capitalists want.
    They want a market “free” from any thing that might regulate their attempts to secure economic power and their abiity to use it to generate supernormal prices/profits.)

    Progress doesnt happen in 4-5 year political cycles thats a hard one to improve without an electorate capable (any maybe secure enough) to thing about the longer term. Odd that it was extreme econmic and political uncertainty that brought out the likes of FDR and other post-war that people were most willing to think long term when it came to their governemnts - I guess it brought out all sorts of “crazies”.

    The big one in terms of bloodshed is land reform - and it has been done in a few places - sort of post-colonial type situations - but granted it does ususally have blooodshed. It’s a personal judgment what degree is “excessive bloodshed”.

  • oo1@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Miniature RISC-V Developer Laptop Looks Like a Lenovo ThinkPad Clone | Tom's Hardware
    151·
    1 year ago

    I’d guess they’d need to figure out whatever apple did with it’s arm chips.
    efficient use of many-cores and probably some fancy caching arrangement.

    It’ll may also be a matter of financing to be able to afford (compete with intel, apple, amd, nvidia) to book the most advanced manufacturing for decent sized batches of more complex chips.

    Once they have proven reliable core/chip designs , supporting more products and a growing market share, I imagine more financing doors will open.

    I’d guess risc-v is mostly financed by industry consortia maybe involving some governments so it might not be about investor finance, but these funders will want to see progress towards their goals. If most of them want replacements for embedded low power arm chips, that’s what they’re going to prioritise over consumer / powerful standalone workstations.