cocolowlander

@cocolowlander@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you make it sound like showing up for half a day and casting a vote is some ultimate sacrifice. That is the minimum duty of a citizen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you American voters, who voted for Trump or sat out because the opposition wasn’t “good” enough.

  Sincerely, European resident

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a wild guess, but he’s trying to have conservative government use this?

  Because no self-respecting academia, money-hungry corporation, or nihilistic teenager is going to use Llama spewing out “both sides” garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM releases a new mainframe built for the age of AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a niche market, but if someone wants total control, then you get a mainframe even if it costs more and is an inferior service to the cloud providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei's journey may be the blueprint for a post-Trump, non-US centric technology world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easier to do when you have a Chinese market as a captive to subsidize your product.

  That being said, Chinese tech won’t be better, but they will certainly be cheaper and it will eat into US tech’s marketshare.

  Also keep an eye out for RISC-V (open source) architecture. Chinese gov’t is pouring billions a year to get away from x86 and ARM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs: Consumers ditch Apple for more advanced features and to support Chinese brands.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple is cooked. Not only are they going to get decimated in China, but they are going to see demand destruction in the US due to tariffs. And neither Trump nor Xi cares about Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been spending tens of billions a year in their chip industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All electronics are made in Asia. So there will be no higher prices for consumers in the EU.

  US consumers will get hammered with anywhere from 25% to 55% price increase in electronics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to state an unpopular opinion. Bluesky should have ads, not a personalized ads that track users, but just simple ones at the very top of the feed. Consumers today are too addicted to free services, and companies need to be financially independent so that they can support a quality product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A good way to stop companies from abusing H1B is to make the visa portable with the worker for a set number of years. If the company is underpaying/overworking them, the worker on H1B can just skip town to another company without fear or deportation. This makes it not worth while for corporations to hire H1B when it costs money and time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Model Y Juniper just started shipping this month. Its a glaring sign that says they bought it after everything Musk did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Feasible, yes. Practical, hard to say. Good idea, yes.

  RISC-V is open-source architecture based in Switzerland (although it started in University of California).

  One thing going for it is China is spending billions a year towards RISC-V adoption so they do not get sanctioned by the US. You need money and engineers working on it towards these type of open source to compete with existing players.