When CUDA started taking off we had ATI hardware, to support their open source pledge, and looked into ROCm.

Just getting the drivers to build on EL-anything was an extreme effort, and it wasn't my first rodeo.

Without betraying confidences, I was told second-hand that there were only ten people on the GPU driver team across all platforms and that they were doing their best and not sleeping enough as it was, with Compute way behind gaming bugs on the priority list.

I couldn't independently verify of course but the theory fit the data.

I immediately empathized with the suffering of the devs and went out and bought nVidia cards, annoying binary drivers and all.

Since then I've felt like that some bean counter at AMD wrote nVidia a trillion dollar check.

If you're not a tiny company *overstaff* your engineering departments so you don't miss new opportunities as they arise. The opportunity costs exceed the opex costs.

Same here but this lack of support will matter much less than dropping i486.

There are still embedded systems sold today that only meet i486 specs. I don't use them but some industries do.

Sure a $12 ESP32 can handle those tasks but it's a revalidation thing.

Not that anybody from those vendors stepped forward to maintain a tree.

OTR might be small enough.

The Axolotl Ratchet is much better but perhaps too big for SMS.

TextSecure probably would have offered it were that feasible.

Of course if you can arrange one-time pads you're 1:1 at 140 characters.

I mean maybe he's right, but I would always take with a grain of salt a software package creator's opinion on how awesome his software package is.

You'd think an experienced speaker would be able to adapt to the crowd.

Right... Airbus cannot possibly compete with Boeing. ARM cannot possibly compete with Intel. Siemens cannot possibly compete with... well, actually, I think Siemens dominates the industrial controls space and I can't think of a comparable US company.

And ASML? Nobody competes with ASML.

Your post is typical of Americans who somehow think the US can do everything better than anyone else. Meanwhile, the US is rapidly losing ground.

And while NL is geographically only a bit larger than New Jersey, it has about double the population and that's the metric that matters.

What's the appeal on losing money to those with inside information?

Really this is far more probable than a dozen people went crazy in the same way at the same time which seems to be a plurality of comments.

If there's an American great ape they live in Washington state, not Ohio, based on report frequency.

Star Wars nerds? Yes, so many in Ohio.

His best buddy specialized in making exploding pagers.

Good luck out there.

In my younger and more foolish days I had a Pontiac and I opted out with wire cutters to the Surveillance module's power cables.

At the time I was actually more concerned with remote unlock hijacking than tracking but still I didn't trust GM.

All together now: WE TOLD YOU SO.

If I had to guess 20 years later doing that would disable the ECU.

Maybe, or maybe not. Prior to Hitler's becoming chancellor in 1933, the NSDAP had a minority of seats in the German parliament, having actually dropped in seat count from the previous election, and they had only 33% of the popular vote.

History doesn't repeat exactly, but we can't be complacent.

You're being disingenuous; you know exactly what the issue is.

Perhaps because on average, European countries are amongst the happiest in the world? Certainly far happier than the USA.

Trump might be gone in 2029, but Trumpism and MAGA ideology will live on.

Open-source code is much safer the proprietary code. It can be audited, and in the specific cases of Linux and PostgreSQL, there are enough EU developers working on them to fork the project if the USA gets too insane.

To me, the most important things to do to mitigate risk are: (1) No dependence on proprietary US software, and (2) no dependece on US-based cloud services. I think that's the best we can do for now.