I'd also love to see Waymos more in the countryside: _there_ calling a cab is annoyingly expensive, financially impractical, while "granny" and "pops" are having a hard time driving around without help.
I have high hopes for a positive social impact of self-driving cars out there.
yes, exactly, that's the fliplside of it. the business loves GPL free embedded, gpl-3 was created to protect our freedom, the right to repair and modify, as far as GPL components are concerned. it was created as response to Tivo, who locked in their embedded system (a TV iirc).
the trend to give software mit or bsd licenses instead ead of GPL is concerning.
Car manufacturers really really hate GPLv3 and the requirement that users need to be able to change the code.
They claim it is for compliance but it's well known that user modifications to cars are no longer the responsibility of the car company. I think it's more on principle than any real legal concern.
to my understandung this strong "fascist" hypothesis is hypebole. he was member of a conservative student association, however those were prohibited by the Nazis.
correct is that he was a conservative engineer who happened to be intelligent and live in that era, and who was lucky enough to work in his domain instead of dying a cannon fodder somewhere. did they build weapons? sure thing. does that make him a convinced fascist? certainly not.
he wasn't even member of the NSDAP party.
here is a short biography based off complete archive material:
There's a huge difference between "a conservative engineer who happened to be intelligent and live in that era" and leading a weapons lab attracting enormous amounts of funding, and fantasizing about how computing could be used to advance race science research.
"no" is how to get in trouble real quick in totalitarian neo fascist regimes. and coming from a region that had some of that in our history books, from the outside lots of the things in the US start walking and talking like that type of duck.
we'll know more after the midterms.
they're the single most important elections the US had in the past decades. good luck to all of us!
only now I realize I misread your comment as saying "besides tree sitter and eglot there is not much in emacs"
and somehow that is not what you said.
is this what you meant: "Now that modern IDE features (syntax parsing and LSP support) are built into Emacs out of the box, I don't feel like I'm missing out on modern editors like Zed. I’m ditching my bloated, outdated Emacs configuration file and starting fresh with a clean, lightweight setup that relies on standard built-in tools."
Ohhh, got it. Yes, correct. I’ve used Emacs for ages. Some newer editors came along with more powerful language features that I’d wished Emacs had. Now that the editor ecosystem is converging on LSP and treesitter, and Emacs supports those well, it now has identical capabilities to those other editors. Now there’s nothing the others can do that Emacs can’t, or at least nothing I really care about.
More tersely, since adding LSP and treesitter, Emacs has every cool feature I want from every other editor out there.
And yes. I’d slowly evolved my config over years, starting with ancient settings and gradually adding layers of tweaks on top of them. I’m starting over with a new config, using the built-in features whenever possible, and tweaking those into the modern equivalent of what I had before.
By analogy: I’m upgrading from a hand-maintained Debian 7 install and switching to the new apps in Debian 14 when I can.
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