Even if it were possible to vote in the market (I deeply disagree though), the ultra rich have waaaaaaay more "votes" in the market to a point where anyone's vote doesn't matter.
If we the people collectively owned "the cloud", then sure. But since we don't, I can only take it as him tryng to become a RAMlord seeking to extract rent from the rest of us
Given the vast amounts of constant external investment money they need to keep operations, and how little moat (if any, besides influx of investor money) they have, I'd argue it's not that far fetched. Also, they are all american, so as a non-american, I also don't see it that unlikely to suddenly not being able to access these model-as-a-service services
1) I can't wait to have a fully degoogled android auto experience, as it's the only google "thing" I use on my GrapheneOS phone
2) it didn't even cross my mind this was possible
Not necessarily. If yor process accounts for "all models make mistakes", you are probably limiting how autonomous the model can be, and then there's not much tangible difference between models beyond that threshold.
It's obviously nowhere near opus 5.5, but it's crossed the same threshold opus 4.5 did: it's good enough. If all model-as-a-service companies shut down tomorrow, I'd be happy with qwen 3.8 flash next q4 running in my strix halo
I think root is precisely what most of these apps are trying to avoid. They think (at least the finance app I used to work for thought) that with root, user credentials the app stored would be accessible by whatever uses those root permissions and they didn't want the risk
If I remember correctly in their newsletter they mentioned that they will, as it was unavoidable. But I'm talking from memory, that email is long gone from my inbox.
the problem I had with Curve is that this privacy policy is a bit trash, and their DPO was unresponsive when I tried to exercise some of my GDPR rights
One of the things I find most amusing is that Movistar is both one of the main football diffusion corp, and one of main national ISPs. So Movistar sued itself so that it can block the parts of the internet that they don't like
IMO the fundamental principles and "conflicts" are still the same, but many have forgotten about them with all the hype and sense of speed. The industry will slowly rediscover them.
> Public as in being visible to all is not the same as public as in allowing use by all
Where's the limit of that? Can I have port 443 open with a website behind it but sue anyone that accesses it because the fact that it being visible doesn't mean that I allow anyone to access it?
I'd say most subscribers to the channel want to watch his snarky ramblings as they are entertaining. I'd say the information provided is secondary to the format and personality.
I for instance don't subscribe because I want to know about old toasters, christmas lights and the internal combustion engine. If that was the case, I'd subscribe to channels specific to that topic. I subscribe to Technology Connections because I like his videos, and if I learn a thing or two along the way, that's a nice extra
I use the Street Complete app, which shows missing data around me. It's fun and satisfying to add many details that no other map has, like accessibility of crosswalks or street lighting.
Sorry for the tangent, but how does Qwen3.8-flash-next compare to DeepSeek v4 Flash? I still haven't found the time to set it up, but I'm really happy with DeepSeek v4 Flash
What offends me the most is how they used visitor's compute and badnwidth for ther own purpose unrelated to the reason the visitor accessed the site, without consent or disclosure. It's MY computer, MY internet, not yours to do with it what you please
I set something similar up in a project and it's been surprisingly good. In my case I ignored all top-level except for specific files and dirs such as Dockerfile, src or tests. Juniors rarely (never?) need to add new files or dirs at top-level, and seniors tend to (always?) realise they need to explicitly stage that new dir/file. Other prejects that have the usual exhaustive .gitignore generating from mixing and matching multiple templates ended up with random .claude or .zed once people started using new tools that weren't around when the initial gitignore was created
IMO, if you depend on AI to make a living, I'd invest in hardware for local inference, and learn on how to effectively make a living using AI inference you control, on hardware you control. Sure, economically speaking it's way cheaper to use one of these heavily subsidised services (for now), and their models are faster and more capable, but if your livelihood depends on AI inference, and you are renting AI inference, you are a being a serf of the tokenlord. And your livelihood depends on the whims of the tokenlord. They can increase rent prices, they can decide you can no longer do whatever you are doing, and you have no recourse, because you are dependant on them to make a living.
In their page they say it will need at least 112GB[0], so including context, that would be a tight fit. I'm also hoping I can make a q4 fit on my 128GB strix halo
I'm saying this based on anecdotal observations from my biased POV, so take this with a grain of salt. There are income differences, but most are inter-city/region differences. I'd say within a specific city or region, it's low gini, but there's a high gini if you compare cross-region. Income and costs in a village in rural Spain are less than half that of a "mid-tier" city, and less than a third or even quarter of that of Barcelona or Madrid
Try out Snikket. Really easy to set up, with sensible defaults. You just docker compose up and have a pretty funcional XMPP server without needing to configure much. Adding complex things such as gateways onto Snikket is a bit more complicated, as you have to deal with Docker volumes etc to put the right file in the right place, but I found it easy to manage. I've been running my Snikket instance with gateways for WhatsApp and Matrix for a couple of years now and I'm really happy. It's very low maintenance
the lesson I take from this whole saga reinforces my convictions and what I was already working working towards: tie data to physical locations, where we still have rights. Self-host everything at home. Portable devices should always have the bare minimum data needed for the time until back home, and not even a way to connect to the data at home from a portable device outside home. You want my data? get a warrant for searching my home, and it's there waiting for you