but it should’ve been clear to them

How clear was it?

I think the latter

Exactly, my last laptop was around €750 but I remember looking for a similar (in terms of performance) Framework laptop and it was around €1200 if I remember correctly, not an insignificant difference for a student.

I had a conversation with a colleague of mine about this. He believed that Musk’s decision to merge xAI and SpaceX was truly because of the potential of datacenters in space. I was unable to convince him that the logistics of this would be a nightmare and that this was just a way to make the Twitter buyout SpaceX’s problem.

Didn’t DOGE cut the budget to control these things?

Imagine a Captcha asking you how to make a pipe bomb

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Wikipedia

Everyone could’ve seen it coming from mile away

I’d say go ahead but make sure it produces accurate enough results and make sure to add something like [AI Transcribed] in front so people can take the potential for additional errors into consideration when reading it.

Also, if you’re using an online service make sure you’re using something that doesn’t use it as training data. Many (probably almost all) artists / photographers won’t appreciate that.

Almost all OCR tools use machine learning AFAIK, the commonly used Tesseract OCR software also uses a neural network.

It certainly isn’t AGI, but AI just means machine learning nowadays.

Plebbit, they don’t moderate anything AFAIK (with predictable results)

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Okay,

So let me get this straight, when I actively asked you to communicate with me, you refused, humiliated me and made sure to insult me in front of people.

You defame me in public with your CVE-2026-45585 advisory even though you literally deleted the Microsoft account I used to report bugs to you with and I got zero pennies from doing so and I still happily did like an idiot.

Now you take the courtesy to flag my github account and wipe it out of the public, just like that ? You are proving to everyone that you actively escalating this conflict but I’m done begging you.

I might sound like crazy idiot who is whinning around but I have proof for every single word I said, I just can’t release it yet. Why ? Microsoft still has chains in my hands, it’s been like this for years and I just can’t stay silent anymore. I hope I can release the documents soon.

Mark this date July 14th, I will make sure your bones are shattered that day. Nothing will be released this June (or maybe I will release smtg, depending on circumstances).

Also,

CVE-2026-45498 is UnDefend

CVE-2026-41091 is RedSun

New GitLab account,

https://gitlab.com/nightmare-eclipse

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https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/

Their account on GitLab is already blocked https://gitlab.com/nightmare-eclipse

FYI the flash model is ~158 GB

Indeed, that argument doesn’t really work. I suspect the argument will be that they’re untrustworthy and will give a distorted view of reality with subtle propaganda shown with a video of someone asking non open weights Chinese models about Tianamen Square or something.

Another approach is that they will form a cartel for running US inference focused datacenters and will pivot to selling services using it.

Maybe not as good as Claude, but they are good enough, and open-source, and free. The US market is going to learn the hard way why open-source curbstomps greedy bullshit.

Correct, the American frontier models Claude Opus, GPT 5.4, GPT 5.5, and Gemini 3 Pro still score better (while costing significantly more), but the runner ups are all Chinese models.

Then it’ll just come from Germany or France or elsewhere. It doesn’t take millions of dollars to train a good model, despite these US companies pretending that it does.

Well, it does. Deepseek-R1 cost $6 million and that was considered to be very cheap. Europe only really has Mistral’s models, Proton’s Lumo and several models that focus on transparency, ethically sourced training data, and supposedly better local language support (OpenEuroLLM, GPT-NL), but they’re by far not as good as other models and I don’t expect them to be for quite some time.

I’ve said this before. The Chinese models are significantly better and will outcompete the models from the US, it was just a matter of people realizing that.

My other prediction, being that they will lobby for tariffs or banning Chinese models outright also seems to be coming true.

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

I do wonder how Europe is going to react. Will they just focus on their home grown Mistral or will they consider Chinese open weight models? I feel like the EU is quite wary of anything Chinese and that many people won’t fully comprehend the actual security risk and that they will initially dismiss are avoid them, but they can’t ignore it forever. Qwen 3.6 35B which can be ran at home is already leaving Mistral’s latest models in the dust.

Why not just use F-Droid?

Wat is het toch een mooi taaltje

They’re using the same software (Forgejo)

Follow up, do people still buy calendars?

Buy? Yes, several times

Use? No