@michaelchampion@indieweb.social
Post #2389479
2023-10-22 18:26 UTC
@RickByers@toot.cafe I struggle to imagine Satya saying "oh well, they caught on to our game, let's find a spare $billion/year or so and maintain a Chromium fork that is feature-compatible (and bug-for-bug compatible :-( ) with Chrome." I can more easily imagine "let's see if our LLM's can be trained to reverse-engineer Chrome deltas so that Edgeium stays good enough so customers don't switch to Chrome and we lose the Bing traffic Edge generates, without us having to spend a ton of engineering time".
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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2023-10-22 18:33
@RickByers@toot.cafe A retirement hobby is natural and historical stewardship (I live in one of the oldest towns in Washington state, on an island whose relative isolation protected it from some of the "progress" of the last century). I've learned that citizens are MUCH more willing to volunteer for work parties that benefit a public or non-profit entity than those on private land that make a trail or old building available on a limited basis to the public