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   Dick Morrell (cloudguy@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 19:08:08 JST Dick Morrell

   Vivaldi as a browser is not ready, Firefox is going to die, Chrome sucks, Edge sucks more.

   What a time to be alive

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 19:10:48 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     @cloudguy

     #Browser #enshittification

     I cannot get rid of the feeling that this was premeditated...

     #Google has too much financial impact on #Firefox' bottom line...

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     @cloudguy

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     #Browser #Enshittification

     ...to more than $450 million, even as the total number of €Firefox users has plummeted. In 2021 these 👉payments accounted for 83% of #Mozilla’s revenue.👈"

     That in conjunction with @aniltj's recent statement:

     https://infosec.exchange/@aniltj/111916222859215924

     The #US' digital..."...economy is dominated by five aging tech giants – #Alphabet, #Amazon, #Apple, #Meta, and #Microsoft. In the last twenty years, no company has commercialized a new technology in...

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     @cloudguy @aniltj

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     ...a way that threatens them. Why?

     We argue that the 👉#TechGiants have learned how to coopt disruption👈. "

     #TESCREAL #billionaire #PeterThiel agrees: "#competition is for losers."

     https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix/111461435244611427

     In other world's, #BigTech has been killing any potential competitor of their #oligopoly for decades!

     Given the stakes in the advertising shift regarding browsers, this is most likely the case with #Mozilla as well.

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     Six Grandfathers Mountain (6g@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 19:51:45 JST Six Grandfathers Mountain

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj

     RE
     #techcompanies dominaing.... #ai

     what about #nvidia they have joined the big boys club, Feb 14, 2024

     Nvidia market cap threatens Alphabet after overtaking Amazon

     Nvidia's shares are $1.78 trillion, eclipsing Amazon's $1.75 trillion value

     Nvidia was on #theverge of overtaking #alphabet as the dominant artificial intelligence chipmaker ended the day with a market capitalization above Amazon's for the first time in two decades

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     @6G @cloudguy
     Absolutely correct, given #Nvidia's global market leadership in #AI hardware.
     I'd count them in the "old" camp as well, though.

     Excellent insight:

     https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2023/06/08/nvidias-trillion-dollar-bet

     @aniltj

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:22:09 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • ploum
     • Anil John ??

     @cloudguy @aniltj
     @ploum

     UPDATE:
     #Firefox #Enshittification

     Privacy departments at #Mozilla are being axed: 60 people layed off.
     New focus: #AI.

     Where will they be getting the billions for this investment from? Their sole big customer, the #BeEvilCompany, #Google?/s

     https://mamot.fr/@ploum/111926523609298998

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     LAUREN (noondlyt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 08:19:44 JST LAUREN

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

     @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum They already have it. They established a VC fund of $30m seed money. They are now going for profit steered by that money.

     https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/111943427392743503

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     @noondlyt

     Thanks, Lauren. I was sort of expecting that news.
     I despair that globally important projects that were public domain to start this can taken private and for-profit with the blink of an eye, like #OpenAI and now #Mozilla.

     There is no reasonably secure browser left now to surf the www. 😞

     @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum

     VC used to be the savior for tech companies. Now they just destroy the established good for the sake of profit.

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     @noondlyt

     I'm not sure whether they ever were the saviors. Just think of this thread's intro:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111929410655085907

     They have been coopting disruption (in the #Schumpetet sense.)

     But the surely did not invent it. E.g. in the 1980's, the leading noise-teduction equipment maker, #DolbySystems, acquired the most advanced producer of a better system, #HiCom.
     They bought it and they shelved it.

     @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum I am talking about the late 90s and early 2000s when seed money meant exactly that. It was used to drive whole company development, not to tank a working established concept and throw it at a trend.

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum I don't think buying up your competition is seed money by definition. But I agree the corporations have used their piggy banks to destroy decent technology.

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     @noondlyt
     👍

     I know. I am having 2nd thoughts now.

     Sometimes we don't see the forest for the trees...

     But I am not versed enough in #SiliconValkey's history to judge.

     @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 09:13:02 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • GhostOnTheHalfShell

     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cloudguy
     I recently watched an interview w/ the author of #Technofeudalism. I think he used to be economics minister of #Greece.
     Is it about that book?
     I can agree with many of his conclusions.
     However, his knowledge of pre-industrial society is rudimentary, and the initial assumptions were, not rarely, simply wrong.
     I guess you also studied mathematics, at least in high school. If you proof a thesis and make wrong deductions at some point, the whole conclusion is in doubt

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy

     build not buy, brought to you by “free market fundamentalists”

     https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix/111461435244611427

     #WhatCapitalism because if there are no competitors competing in markets, you can’t even call it that. instead call it feudalism.

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     @noondlyt
     Me neither.
     But this is where we are now.

     Also, without looking it up:

     @timnitGebru had a thread some months ago about #SiliconValley finance and how you needed to be in the #TECREAL community to get any real founding--and a white male "bro."

     I'm not sure if was in here article or another, but it seems that only one tech woman ever made it into that billionaires' club by her own merit and not through marriage.

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     @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     (1/2)

     Need to read the article. Bookmarked.

     Yanis. Yes! That's the guy.
     Medival and history of antiquity 🤦♂️
     So many mechanisms already had been in place, at least in some regions, for longer periods of time.
     I refer to a lengthy YT interview I watched. Too many to fact check.

     Maths! LOl

     Excellent, so you know exactly what I meant.

     How do you use the word "axiom" here precisely?
     I remember Newtons Firs Axiom from physics, but searching only leads to higher-level

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     GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 09:32:59 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

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     Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and was a minister of Greece. He’s not the only one banging on about tech platforms being a neo-feudalism (here from an economic perspective).

     The author of the linked article researches wealth and the economy. He discusses where the bulk of growth is coming from (in stock market) and some of that’s growth dynamics.

     My college degree is in Applied Math. There is another level: if the axioms are broken whatever is built on them is garbage.

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     (2/2)

     ...confusion:

     https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/14757/what-is-the-difference-between-newtons-definitions-and-axioms

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell
     I was hesitant to write it.
     The interview was more than an hour.

     I'd probably need a half a day-1 d to refute it.

     Alas, don't have that time.
     It would be interesting, though.

     After that much time, I'd want to write an article.
     And from the time I see the PhD students invest in their's, we are talking weeks.

     The bottom line is: many of the mechanisms he claims did not exist had existed before. Also: the #MiddleAges are not called the #DarkAges for nothing...

     @cloudguy

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy

     “ However, his knowledge of pre-industrial society is rudimentary, and the initial assumptions were, not rarely, simply wrong.”

     Please engage historical nerdery, here. I’ve munched through a bit on the economic/social/political evolution in Europe, but I am always curious where thinking about the economy back then is off base.

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cloudguy

     ...not only, but also the #Inquisition destroyed so much knowledge, which partially/not rarely survived in #Arabic translations , so we know about it again nowadays.

     Also, to be fair to him, I'd need to read his book, as we all tend to simplify things orally/in interviews.

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     My point.

     The bad thing is, I would actually agree with the systemic descriptions and the connotations of #TechnoFeudalism. If you factor in the #TESCREAL dimension of #Elmo and the #PayPalMafia et al, you even gave the medieval "beliefs" dimension. And no-one will argue that if you receive millions of dollars of seed capital, you owe your #liege aka #VC #fealty. And, yes they collect rent, and yes, they either inherited the "rights" or acquired them, charging rent.

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     @HistoPol

     All proof is founded in some set of axioms or “givens”. Proofs can also rely on previously established proof/knowledge. If any of that is garbage, so what’s is built from it.

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     Absolutely.

     The thing is, as you know from mathematics better than me, sometimes people arrive at the right conclusions despite having made 1 or 2 wrong deductions in-between.
     👋
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     @HistoPol

     It’s prolly more of a headache to muddle through distinctions.

     Think of Ptolemaic (earth centered) v Copernican (sun centered) basis for astronomical theory and you have the gist of what makes mainstream economic thinking *faulty*.

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     I was intrigued by our conversation and found some time to listen to the 1st hours of his #AudioBook, #TechnoFeudalism, which I chanced upon on #YT:

     https://youtu.be/gioEct6Kexs

     At first, I found it hard to ignore his accent, but when he started off with his childhood in Greece, it actually added local color.

     Yes, he is very well read, and so far, there was only one smaller deduction I did not agree with...the book is 7.5 hours long, though.

     It's entertaining.

     @cloudguy

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     @noondlyt @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj @ploum

     It isn’t seed money, it’s “conquest” by central bank money pile. Conquest of “IP” by money and the Bork doctrine instead of war

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     • Six Grandfathers Mountain

     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     #Technology #AI #ComputerChips

     True, however, #NVIDIA is now facing a serious contender whose staggering comeback has already surpassed the market capitalization of #Intel, #AMD. Its CEO, #LisaSu, is a genius:

     https://www.economist.com/business/2024/01/31/could-amd-break-nvidias-chokehold-on-chips

     @6G @cloudguy @aniltj

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     @6G @HistoPol @cloudguy @aniltj

     NVIDIA’s star has risen because its chips power AI. They are the “Intel” of this era.

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     @HistoPol @GhostOnTheHalfShell @6G @cloudguy @aniltj

     Do you know about Intel's illegal kickback scandal that nearly bankrupted AMD years ago?

     Also, are you familiar with chip developments using RISC architecture?

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     • Jeramee

     @Jeramee

     #Semiconductors #LisaSu #Strategy

     Yes, and yes, however, it has not been my focus for many years.

     I just came across this well-written piece from 2020 on #AMD's stellar turn-around:

     https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/tech/lisa-su-amd-risk-takers/index.html
     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @6G @cloudguy @aniltj

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     • Jeramee

     @HistoPol @Jeramee @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cloudguy @aniltj

     thx, good article on what #amd CEO Su pushed

     But, when I look at her next to those powerful PCs, I realized I'm a 100% #androidtablet (12.4in) user 😁 now

     “important to decide what you are really, ⭕really good at

     "WE made a big ⭕bet on high performance, powerful #cpu graphics chips #ai super computing and other #bleedingedgetechnology and OFTEN ⭕undercutting competitors on price

     (same url as above)
     https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/tech/lisa-su-amd-risk-takers/index.html

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     #Audiobooks #Economics

     Yes, #Technofeudalism is def. worth a try. It is a bit peculiar for an economics #book, reminds me of "What unites us" by #DanRather style wise, but #Yanis aroufakis tells the story great enthusiasm and conviction.

     I found this article, BTW:

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-capitalism-ukraine-interview

     @cloudguy

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     @HistoPol @cloudguy

     I should have a listen

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     @GhostOnTheHalfShell

     Yes, amazing life.
     I found the recent #TheEconomist pod about #AMD compelling.

     @6G @cloudguy @aniltj

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     @HistoPol @6G @cloudguy @aniltj

     Nice to know there’s life in AMD.

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     @6G
     Thanks.
     Very true, #AMD's key market is not #B2C, but #B2B, the #DataCenters.

     @Jeramee @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cloudguy @aniltj

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     @HistoPol @6G @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cloudguy @aniltj
     Great article, thank you.

     That's an amazing turnaround considering that they were on the brink of bankruptcy. A friend who works for AMD told me it was only the settlement AMD got from Intel over the kickback scheme that allowed it to survive. (It was that Intel scheme that put them at the brink, btw.)

     Dr. Su did a great job leading them out of that crisis too.