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Do you think that once GCC gets a working Wasm backend[1], that it might be possible to build Linux for Wasm directly and skip the RISC-V VM?

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Steering-WebAssembly

No, there are people who look at the better and cheaper housing the rest of world has and who want that for us too.

Being against bad housing regulations is not "anti-regulatory sentiment". Some regulations just aren't good. We shouldn't valorize rules for the sake of rules.

We need people to be less racist and stop voting for politicians they hope will hurt the right people.

You're supporting a company that makes a model that has been intentionally directed to think that white genocide is a major problem today.

You do you, but that's a very morally implicating choice you're making.

Browser users. Pre Mv3 extensions were a huge vector for malware. My in-laws were hit by that.

Yeah, I think calling the Mv3 versions "secure adblockers" would be more accurate.

The speaker is right. Why should "system" interfaces and interfaces from other components ever be fundamentally different?

There is an issue open for instantiating modules at runtime: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/issues/423

I'm using it for a secure, language agnostic workflow orchestrator. Components have very finely-grained and controller permissions and access to data. They don't even get clocks by default (to mitigate against Spectre-style attacks) and credentials and tainted data are sequestered.

The component model is what unlocks relatively type-safe interop between modules written in different languages. Given that Wasm is a runtime target for many languages, this is an entirely appropriate and useful goal.

If you have a host system where you want to expose APIs in an language-agnostic way, IDLs are the best way to do that.

You're also conflating the core WebAssembly work with the WASI work. There is some overlap in people, but WASI is developed separately.

These should really be web components. Leaving out every framework other than React is really bad for the web.

I don't use Apple Music, so opening their music player only wastes my attention and time. It happens if you accidentally press play on your headphones too. Then you need to quit Apple Music, for no good reason. And you can't uninstall it!

Angular should ditch the compiler altogether - it really hinders them in so many ways, especially now with AI-codegen where tools have to specifically choose to do the work to integrate the Angular toolchain instead of using plain TypeScript and HTML.

I don't think you're fully saying what you want to here. Are you saying this is bad?

The point of a component model is interoperability, so the more runtimes that support it the better.

It will be really great if this becomes a second popular runtime with both GC and WASI component model support. Wasmtime being the only runtime with that combo is a bit concerning. Node supporting the component model will help a lot too.

> The woke mind virus, more formally postmodern neo-marxism, is the greatest threat to civilization today.

"The woke mind virus" really? You used that non-ironically? This is not something a serious or sane person would say for real.

That really isn't true. I know people who run their own PDSes, and who've moved their accounts from Bluesky's to their own and back. You can't do that kind of thing with Mastodon. Blacksky also runs their own PDS, relay, and app view.

And that's just the Bluesky-like apps. Other non-microblog atproto apps use their own PDS, or store data on yours.

Wow, Google really fumbled this.

After reading the blog post I clicked the update button and the whole app was replaced, without much warning, with this conversation UI. It was even more jarring than I expected from the post because I figured there must be some messaging about what would happen and some way to just get to my files... but nope!

Then I downloaded the Antigravity IDE (as opposed to just Antigravity) and when I went to install it, it turns out I already had it installed!

So Google actually did an arguably ok thing with the apps - they split them into an IDE and an agent coordinator, and they kept the IDE installed so you can use it right after the update - but they didn't tell you what they were doing!!

If they had just said "Antigravity is now two apps. Which would you like to open?" everything would have been fine.

If Perplexity replaced Google as the way people searched for things, then they would, and sites would still take a hit to their traffic from Google losing users.

It is interesting to look at the past predictions on here of AI search/answer companies like Perplexity possibly dethroning Google search and comparing to the reactions of Google just doing the same thing themselves.

Why would it be good if Perplexity does it, but bad if Google does it? What are the principles at play here?

atproto apparently has some real advantages over ActivityPub in terms of data portability. Similar to Bluesky vs Mastodon, with Mastodon you're fairly strongly coupled to your server, you' can't just move your data and retain all your connections. atproto makes that possible, and that could be really important if you want to say move from a shared forge to a self-hosted one or vice versa.

atproto apps also tend to separate the PDS form the app view, so you can easily use the same data with different front ends.

And, atproto's identity model is much better. Rather than being tied to a server like the data, it's DID-based and you can use it with multiple PDSes.

It's a huge miss for this article to not talk about atproto, Tangled, and how protocols can solve the fragmentation issues - both between different services and by allowing projects to run their own host while being connected to the network.

https://tangled.org/

With the atproto approach you don't have to worry about reserving usernames specifically for one forge or another - usernames are atproto handles, your Bluesky handle, custom domain, etc.

I'm not sure if Tangled itself is the right incarnation of these ideas, but a protocol for PRs, issues, forks, and activity is the right direction for the industry.

How does being a net exporter even help? There's a global market and prices rise globally. US companies and consumers will pay more no matter if we're importing or exporting.

The China point doesn't make any sense to me.

High oil prices only accelerate China's transition to renewables, and rewards them for all the investment they've made so far, both in national energy production and in selling panels and EVs to the world.

It hurts the US far more, especially with this admin's anti wind and solar policies.

Waymo does have a database of every today they drive, but for this they don't need one.

If the car comes to a road covered with water, and that road is in the database, and the water level appears low compared to the historical level of the road in the DB, then the car could cross. if the road is not in the DB, then a different decision might be made.

This is similar to humans: you might make different decisions depending on whether you know the road well or not.

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This runs Android, not ChromeOS, so the Chromebook name doesn't fit.

That said, Googlebook is a terrible name and reusing Pixelbook would have been way better.

For one, I got to see how utterly insane and off-base many of the conspiracy theories around Chrome were compared to reality.

Given all the negative comments here - what is anyone's alternate solution for AI-driven fraudulent activity?

CAPTCHAs are increasingly ineffective. Services are either going to go offline or implement some kind of system like this. PII like credit cards or SSNs aren't enough because those are regularly stolen.

So where do things go? Fewer services and infinite fraud?