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3·1 hour agoHow is that even remotely a tough choice. China acts rationally and it has a stable government. Meanwhile, US is disintegrating in real time and unless Canada diversifies its trade then it will be going down with the ship.
11·3 hours agoSame, 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.
4·9 hours agoThe art of the squeal!
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.
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.
You’re right, this post would be removed there.
1·15 hours agoI’d argue the US is already in one and they’re just playing with numbers to avoid admitting it.
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.
As China floods the world with affordable solar panels and wind turbines, the decaying American empire clings to its oil-soaked throne like King Canute, commanding the tides of progress to recede.
This is a literal battle of light against darkness, where the forces of progress clash with the death-rattles of doomed capitalism. Every kilowatt China exports strikes a blow for humanity while every US tariff reveals their allegiance to planetary destruction.
Tariffs just add cost on top of the product, but if a product from China is twice as cheap as the one produced in US then even a 100% tariff would mean Chinese product is still cheaper. Also, in some cases the cost is not the deciding factor. This was a good summary from somebody in the industry https://peertube.mesnumeriques.fr/w/4ukCr36qciYWFVGpCVPsQM
The war begun when the west overthrew a democratically elected government triggering a civil war in Ukraine.
OpenAI is going to have no problems maintaining Chromium. I’m talking about maintenance of community forks of Chromium.