Russian war has little to do with it. For example Germany had already decided to scrap nuclear for gas, which actually bit them in the ass when the war started.

That just makes it smell like weed plus laundry.

How about Kraftwerk?

Benzos

This Xerox Alto restoration series is a really interesting reflection on that. Here’s the point in the series where they finally get it running. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQMhvArI9g

Yeah, Xerox made revolutionary progress. But it appears that their proximity to a viable consumer product is a bit exaggerated. It really did still take another set of eyes and minds to wrangle it in. I think if they did release it sooner, and without the leaks, the next competitor still would have seen that and soon come along and done a better enough job to nullify their first-mover advantage.

Those days were chock full of companies that ended up just contributing to the zeitgeist of computing without themselves reaping in the glory.

I think Steve Jobs’ comments about what Xerox could have been… Is largely him stroking his ego that he and Apple pulled off what they couldn’t.

I don’t think Xerox would be the Mac of today in most timelines.

I was so blind, thank you so much!

Thank you!

I can’t figure out how to get sync to actually log into my Lemmy account, where is the log in button?

Not to worried, the cat and mouse game would probably catch up within a few weeks on the blocking side.

Like making you take an extra 10 turns, take a longer route, and drive on too-narrow roads, to potentially save only several minutes of being stopped in traffic.

Fact check: the French govt did not create Matrix.

Matrix is an open protocol created in 2014, for an Israel-based private company.

In 2018 the french govt decided to use a verson of that protocol in their own chatting network.