the term is semantic drift

Actually, ReactOS and Wine have historically worked together and share significant technical overlap in the goal of reimplementing the Windows API, though they have different approaches and end goals. They’re separate projects now, but a lot of work in wine happened thanks to ReactOS.

yeah that’s true

looks like

And now everybody saw how the US can just cut access to their model at any time too.

We talked about this before, lack of a good selection process that allowed people of low competence to get into positions of power and created a bureaucracy which was largely concerned with preserving itself rather than solving problems was the ultimate cause of the decline. Simply telling people everything is great while you’re unable to produce substantive change they can see tangibly deligitimizes the system. And that’s precisely what we see happening in the west today, and why there’s now public disillusionment with liberal democracy.

And you’re absolutely right that Europe has been propped up to prevent genuine socialism from taking hold. The US didn’t pour billions upon billions into rebuilding western Europe after WW2 out of sheer altruism. They used it as a way to deligitimize communism in the east. Look how great Europeans are living, look how much faster things develop under capitalism. That was the whole narrative. This is a great read on the subject incidentally, confirms everything you said http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27c/046.html

This is a caricature from a Soviet newspaper from 1955. Absolutely nothing has changed.

Yup, that cartoon is ever green, and just as true as the day it was made.

It never even crossed my mind that someone might try to harm me.

Exactly, there were just not thoughts people had back in USSR. It’s destruction was the biggest crime of the 20th century.

I really can’t see how relations with Europe could be restored at this point. There would have to be a revolution in Europe before that happens.

And I’m just going by what Zelensky said when Blumenthal visited. They openly stated that they’re going to be shuffling Syrsky out by fall, and it’s clear the directive is coming from the US. It could be that Americans are hoping to transition to something like Chechnya soon.

Yeah, LaTex has been a pain to set up historically, so making it more accessible is very welcome.

that’s cause it’s literally what it is, legalized bribery

amazing

it sure does, the US is just the most blatant about it

Might also pave a path towards governments moving off windows if it can run existing software they use.

yeah the entitlement here is off the charts

I mean all we can do is wait and see, but there’s nothing magical about this tech, and the geopolitical situation today is very different from what it was in the past. It’s not like Chinese people are too dumb to build a GPU, it’s that there was no real reason to push this tech hard before when you could just buy these chips from NVIDIA. Now that the US is actively trying to cut China off, there’s a reason to make this stuff work. Just look at how rapidly Huawei phones improved and how much progress Huawei is making with their chips in just past few years. Why shouldn’t this happen with other types of chips going forward?

It is a base that you can build on though which is a lot easier than starting from scratch.

I mean China has a proven track record of scaling stuff up once they decide to do something. Look at solar and EVs as two examples. Having sovereign supply chains for computing is obviously recognized as a top priority in China now, so there is every reason to expect that a lot of resources will be poured into making that happen at state level.

yeah I think that would be a very good outcome

the main site has a section on that https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

• Tectonic automatically downloads support files so you don’t have to install a full LaTeX system in order to start using it. If you start using a new LaTeX package, Tectonic just pulls down the files it needs and continues processing. The underyling “bundle” technology allows for completely reproducible document compiles. Thanks to the Dataverse Project for hosting the large LaTeX resource files!
• Tectonic has sophisticated logic and automatically loops TeX and BibTeX as needed, and only as much as needed. In its default mode it doesn’t write TeX’s intermediate files and always produces a fully-processed document.
• The tectonic command-line program is quiet and never stops to ask for input.
• Thanks to the power of XeTeX, Tectonic can use modern OpenType fonts and is fully Unicode-enabled.
• The Tectonic engine has been extracted into a completely self-contained library so that it can be embedded in other applications.
• Tectonic has been forked from the old-fashioned WEB2C implementation of TeX and is developed in the open on GitHub using modern tools like the Rust language.
• Tectonic can be used from Github Actions to typeset your documents whenever a change to them is made:
  • setup-tectonic - Use tectonic in your github action workflows (supports caching and optionally biber)
  • compile-latex - Thanks to Vinay Sharma for creating the action.

Yes, you can run Qwen 3.6 27b on your laptop and have it do useful work, and it’s more capable than frontier models from a year ago or so. https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b

It’s kind of funny how China is actually doing these things right now while Americans are talking it up. I think what we’ll see in practice will be this manifesto applied to China.