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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 06:11:52 JST

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@j I don't know what that is.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:06:05 JST

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@j @graf @vic Radio Shack was the big, evil company. Bring back Commodore: they designed and built their own entire computers, in the US, including the chip fabrication by moving to Pennsylvania where MOS Technology was. Bring back Digital Equipment Corporation pre-financialization Apple and Compaq and Atari and Zenith, bring back home engineering and amateur radio and people doing shit instead of buying sealed-shut glowing rectangles. jae and ins0mniak probably have thoughts on this stuff (and moth definitely does, I hope she comes back soon). Electronics used to be weird and at present, it's less locked down and people are more free in *China*, so they're building weird shit and we're not. You know, like 10, 15 years ago they relaxed some of the post-prohibition laws on brewing and suddenly the US has this explosion of really great beer, and it's affordable. I love this DevTerm but it kind of breaks my heart that we have zero companies in the US doing this kind of thing and the moderately communist country has a thousand. If you want your code to run on TOP500 machines, you have to work for a government. And every few years they make these rumblings about unionizing and regulating software, so the same shit can happen there; they've already successfully shipped it out of the country.
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