OpenAI is going to have no problems maintaining Chromium. I’m talking about maintenance of community forks of Chromium.

Same, it seems like there needs to be a new foundation that’s specifically focused on Firefox and nothing else. The problem with Mozilla is that they keep trying to do all kinds of stuff instead of just focusing on making a good browser.

I very much agree, I think Firefox is a far better platform to build on.

These are products maintained by companies with a lot of funding behind them. I’m talking about a community effort to continue developing Chromium if it continues to become shittier.

edit: I’m referring to community forks of Chromium here

Naturally, but if OpenAI takes Chrome in an even worse direction than Google, it’s going to be a huge challenge to make a sustainable fork of it that’s governed by the community.

I was referring to people trying to fork Chromium as open source.

Of course, that’s the only proper way to track this.

Chromium is a gigantic codebase that requires a team of experts to maintain, tests, and add features to. It’s far more complicated than just forking it. If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.

You’d also have to count all the oil and gas that Canada exports to be burned around the world. Whether it’s used domestically or not doesn’t really make a difference.

When it comes to China, you really have to look at latest numbers because how much renewable installations there change year to year. China hit an inflection point in 2023 where fossil fuel usage started to shrink:

China installed more solar in 2023 than the rest of the world combined, with the majority of it coming online in the country’s sparsely populated west and north.

That same year, its renewable capacity grew faster than its overall demand for electricity — meaning its fossil fuel usage actually went backwards.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/survey-of-the-worlds-solar-shows-global-boom/104006096

Then, in 2024 China continued to massively expand renewable usage (including solar)

China has achieved another year of remarkable growth in renewable energy, with the addition of 277 GW of solar and 79 GW of wind capacity in 2024. This surge has brought the cumulative solar and wind capacity to a staggering 1,407 GW. China contributed 15% of the world’s installed solar capacity in 2024 alone.

https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/012425-infographic-china-solar-capacity-coal-electricity-renewable-energy-hydro-wind

China hit new record of solar and wind power capacity additions in 2024 https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MONTHLY-CHINA-ENERGY-UPDATE-Feb-2025.pdf

China was at nearly 50% of the world’s solar capacity in 2024 according to IEA https://reglobal.org/snapshot-of-global-pv-markets-2024/

China’s new PV installations forecast to reach up to 255GW in 2025 https://www.pv-tech.org/chinas-new-pv-installations-forecast-to-reach-up-to-255gw-in-2025/

The pace of transition to renewables in China is on a completely different scale from the rest of the world.

Per capita production makes no sense actually, per capita consumption makes sense, and that’s double of that in China in Australia.

Clearly not in China, Vietnam, DPRK, Cuba, or Russia, or most of ASEAN. All of them have their shit together.

Like every technological advancement before it, AI under capitalism will inevitably become a tool for human exploitation. The issue was never the technology itself, it’s the rotten social and economic system that determines its use. The West’s profit-driven relations guarantee even our brightest innovations will be weaponized against workers.

Sticking hand in the sand is the standard practice here.

I mean that’s why you read the article? 🤷

Given that the title literally non-nuclear in the title, there’s absolutely nothing misleading about it.

the code https://github.com/jyjblrd/S4_Slicer

Pretty much the only way a new computing substrate will be developed is through massive government funding. No company will spend billions of dollars and years of research on something that may or may not pan out in the end. It’s just too much risk coupled with lack of short term profit. Meanwhile, the US has convinced Chinese government that they need to start doing precisely this kind of long term investment into computing tech, and now we’re seeing a huge amount of innovation coming out of China in this domain.

China’s way ahead there as well https://charmingscience.com/chinas-artificial-sun-sets-nuclear-fusion-record-runs-1006-seconds-at-180-millionf/

The funny part is that the US was the first to study this technology back in the day, but it was abandoned since thorium has no military application.

Amazing of you to pretend that XHS doesn’t exist and people from the west aren’t talking to people in China on regular basis

I personally like technological advancement in general. China has a good mix of practical and immediately useful tech, but they also do some moonshot projects like this. Even when these projects don’t work out, something interesting is learned in the process.

China does tend to have a track record of finishing big engineering projects early. :)

I think we’ll have to wait and see what they actually come up with here.

Given that this is being developed by COMAC which is a state owned company, I absolutely expect that it will see the light of day.

Generating vector graphics seems straight up more practical, cause you can use them for icons and all kinds of stuff. Generated images have very little application aside from making stuff like memes I find.

yeah that’s pretty sketchy

Here’s the thing, supply chains have intermediate components and it’s almost certain that liberty phone will have these components in its supply chain as well.

The chart above is the key one. First look at the two bars on the left hand side. This is what conventional trade statistics tell you about the dominance of China as a supplier to American manufacturers: up from being the main provider of inputs to about 5% of sectors in 1995 to just over 60% in 2018. That’s pretty striking. But now look at the two bars on the right. These are the authors’ measure which includes all those intermediate inputs (a far more complex picture) and it turns out China is the main source of these goods for about 95% of all American industrial sectors.

One obvious takeaway from the paper: whoa, America is far more reliant on China than it thought. But actually this underplays the complexity. Think back to our Brandauer electrode. The chances are that it was made of metals which were originally refined in China (I’m guessing here, but given China is the world’s biggest metal refiner this is not implausible). Those metals were then shipped to the UK where they were turned into the micron-accurate electrodes I saw being turned out of the machines in Birmingham. Then they were shipped back to another factory, probably in China, where they were put inside a rear view mirror.

https://edconway.substack.com/p/globalisation-is-a-far-far-bigger

Exactly, I think the whole idea of using a new substrate is very interesting. It’s also going to be interesting to see if power requirements might end up being lower which could be a huge advantage as well.