That doesn't consider how many times he's changed his ID due to personal humiliations.

Or having a multi-core system and running the world's most tightly coded single-threaded application on it. Performance is more than good wishes.

"As hardware evolved we became less and less concerned with that."
That's not true, your problem is who you think "we" is. For application programmers, arguably there hasn't been concern since the early 90s. But the majority of programming is embedded where constrained systems make you care about resource usage.

"Do we get lightning speed performance?"
No, lightning performance results from care and good work, not hypotheticals.

"There's no point in doing that without a minimalist browser that can still surf the modern day internet."
And no point with it either. Ignorance of literally everything doesn't make you an architect, it makes you a fool to think you are.

"...and is secure because it doesn't rely on a JIT compiler."

LOL SuperKendall is that you?

So what? Your impression doesn't get any work done for me.

This plan is predicated on people as stupid as you, but with lots of money. That exists, so this con exists. We're all impressed, though, with your willingness to tell us how stupid you are.

"There is not a single aspect of this were the idea is actually good."

Well, it's good for convincing morons like Marc Andreessen that Elon Musk is a visionary. That's all it's about, the actual tactics are to simply take whatever they want and the country can FO. Of course it's a terrible idea, but investors don't know that.

"It looks like the cost to orbit is going to decrease substantially..."
Does it though? As long as you ignore the costs that won't.

"...and solar up there can cover all the power needs 24/7..."
Definitionally, as solar would be what is available. And if you can't cool it you can't power it, so power isn't really a constraint.

"...and so far Space NIMBYs have not had much effect on those mega constellations."
What mega constellations? You are better than that. And the government is already talking about China playing keep-out on the moon. Space NIMBY is the Trump plan, you can be certain it is also the plan for AI companies. The first step is for them to get theirs, the second step is to prevent you from getting yours. What NIMBY is all about.

Correct, it has utterly nothing to do with the topic. It is a characteristic of /. and of the OP.

I am in my 60s, these problems were known in the space program when I was a child, almost certainly known well before that. The topic is a joke, it only exists because Elon Musk is a moron, as are Silicon Valley billionaires generally. Anyone can be an expert on this subject, it is completely known.

I don't know why you're concerned about what happens to the Mac, the whole Mac vs. windows vs linux/unix workstation has been dead now for some time. We now live in a fully connected world where most users are connected through web browsers and are the intended victims.

And the entire computing model itself in fundamentally broken. We need a model where nothing is permitted except what is explicit based on identifying who you are, an identity that is distributed and internet-based. We've known this has been needed for decades and there have been tepid attempts, but exploitation is too profitable and we are seeing the consequences.

Of course, people will decry big brother, but the consequences of big government are nothing compared to the consequences of no government...that's what we are seeing. Brazenly, actively subverting EVERYTHING is the plan, people need to wake up. Apple's not going to save you, they're too busy slurping Trump's b-hole. They're doing a nice job with processors too, but that doesn't mean they aren't the enemy. Silicon Valley plans to exploit you and discard you.

"As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous..."

The literal definition of an AI agent is software that is fully autonomous, an AI agent cannot "become increasingly autonomous".

No user should ever install software like this for any reason. The greater concern is how vendors will sneak this garbage onto systems despite users' best efforts.

"There use to be news, with editors that would filter out the wrongthink"
FTFY

Wading through the garbage, one does find a few gems from time to time. Not unfounded rumours, but verified stories with links to sources that the regular newspapers do not print for some reason, or discussions and opinions outside of your own bubble. And it becomes clear how much of a bubble mainstream publications have become. Or maybe they always were...

"You must be a Boomer."
And you are both ignorant and bigoted.

"I've been involved in several news stories ..."
Yikes. That settles it.

"...when people were only able to read Government-Approved Nonsense..."
There's that ignorance again.

"Their democracy is where they tell us who to vote for and we vote for them... and that's failing hard in a world where people aren't limited to whatever "news" the Telescreen feeds them."
Trump said if we elected him in 2024 the country wouldn't need to vote again. Sound good to you?

"...and that's failing hard in a world where people aren't limited to whatever "news" the Telescreen feeds them."
Your solution is more unconstrained social media? Have that "Telescreen" feed even more?

We know you're MAGA, the fascism is what you voted for. Some of us prefer actual democracy.

"Yeah, censorship is bad. "

Except it's not. Bad is bad, censorship is neither good nor bad. It is what is censored and why that is potentially bad. And there isn't censorship here, only the OP's bogeyman.

And with AI and social media, lack of government oversight IS GIVING TOOLS TO THE OTHER SIDE.

Which is nonsense. There is nothing new under the sun. People have been kicking off interactions to complex to fully imagine all possible outcomes for as long as we have had laws, and the law has had approaches to assigning responsibility anyway.

Say you are back country camping in a national park. You absolutely can be held responsible if your campfire gets out of control and you start a forest fire, and you are found to have acted 'carelessly'. Even if you had a back country permit, and even if the park rules allow campfires.

We are not in uncharted territory here as how to apply standards like negligence. We may very well have gaps in our current law where various hacking and electronic abuse laws don't cover a negligent mens rea, but that could be easily fixed. It just takes little amendment to change a 'knowingly' to 'negligently' and its fixed. What we lack is a public will to hold these people accountable for anything. This is I think why they are so desperate to go public even while their actual financials SUCK...They want to cerement themselves as TBTF entities.