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cicko··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Hint: Norway has oil and Switzerland has been fairly rich for a while. No country got rich with the EU and that's a good sign, otherwise it would probably also imply that many got much poorer. But the living standards for a lot of people certainly went up in comparison to what they had before.
cicko··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
Pyramid scheme?
cicko··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
I rarely use more than 25% of my subscription's weekly allowance. So, it's already unlimited.
cicko··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
I'm sorry but videogames and Netflix have done exactly nothing for my quality of life. In fact, I wish there were less of both, and multiple other things you listed. I think we have a significantly different understanding of quality.
cicko··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
What does that have to do with replacing coal with wind?
cicko··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
You can always make something better in your spare time.
cicko··on New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
You make more of the artificial one.
cicko··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
Anthropic could probably use the same institution to call for justice, no?
cicko··on The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)
Absolutely not. After the 90's I don't see a point of forcing or limiting oneself to working with two folders at a time.
cicko··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Except that it's not.
cicko··on What I self-host
Almost all of these are totally useless to me, except the one he believes is not worth it - email. So many different views.
cicko··on An Apology
Yes, the moral of the story is - don't steal expensive bikes if you don't want to get spammed by notifications that the bike is following you.
cicko··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
A drug dealer at the corner also has lots of active monthly users.
cicko··on Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
The way things are going, these will become the only viable option for an independent device.
cicko··on SvelteKit 3
Thank you for all the work. It's my top choice when creating a new project. And has been for several years already.
cicko··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Yes, because it's DOW now.
cicko··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Correct. I do everything by myself.
cicko··on Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
I'm sure people said the same thing about fire, some 100s of 1000s of years ago.
cicko··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
Think of that the next time you take the train.
cicko··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Right. Instead, we should do whatever someone writes in an anonymous forum.
cicko··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
something
cicko··on Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)
"punching them back"

Here you answered your own premise. The question is, are capitalists also punching first?

cicko··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
OsmAnd's search feature always sucked whereas CoMaps' is just beautiful. I wish it was simpler to share a location between the two, once I find it.
cicko··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
World also doesn't need two copies of maps. Please fix.
cicko··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Please no! I like the fact that the maps are created by people who actually know something about the topic.
cicko··on Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
No. Economic sanctions are in right now. Maybe tomorrow.
cicko··on Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
I'll do a n=1 study on that
cicko··on Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles
There's no need to modify the hardware UI. It worked fine for decades.
cicko··on I'm becoming AI-blind
So did chalk and blackboards.
cicko··on Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs
You can't run models with filesystem and curl.
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