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heraldgeezer··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Gemma vs Gemini?

I am only a casual AI chatbot user, I use what gives me the most and best free limits and versions.

heraldgeezer··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
You can get "arbetsbefriad" / "Exempted from work" / in the UK called Garden leave / Gardening leave and you leave early. But employer decides.

>I would expect that in tech they'd allow them to leave early because employees who have chosen to leave the company are some times not the most helpful to keep around for months

It's called work ethics. Have some pride. Also if you bail without garden leave, you have to pay.

heraldgeezer··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
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heraldgeezer··on Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
You can keep CPU and RAM for way longer than the GPU if you game...

Your point kind of disproves your point.

heraldgeezer··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
I mean thats my diet irl ;)
heraldgeezer··on Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)
Why don't we do these things anymore? My office is all grey white desks.
heraldgeezer··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
99% of people can do 48h water fast with no issues. Easy weight loss, no need for a gym or healthy food.

Try it!

Or don't. Feels good to mog people by just being normal weight.

heraldgeezer··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
Grok how many people die on their commute to work in their deathtrap cars

Grok timed out but here is perplexity

Per 100 million miles traveled

    Car driving: ~0.57 deaths per 100 million miles (recent U.S. data).

    Commercial air travel: ~0.003 deaths per 100 million miles.
This means driving has roughly 190 times the fatality rate per mile as commercial flying in the U.S.

umm u should never drive again. in fact never leave your apartment/house.

heraldgeezer··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
Because we need to trust people and it is not sustainable to overstaff.

In my job we work 40h a week + oncall rotating. It works.

heraldgeezer··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
Y'all can do with a bit less of that.

Overweight/obesity combined: ~73-75% (nearly 3 in 4 adults) in the US.

heraldgeezer··on Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching
Mass media here is leftist, think BBC
heraldgeezer··on Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching
Oh, no it is very impressive.

I mean from a moral and "care about me" perspective.

Yes Trump bad but USA has done more for EU than China.

heraldgeezer··on Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online
I am Swedish
heraldgeezer··on Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching
China IS bad though.

Why glaze China so much when you can be impressed by the west instead.

All these zoomers grow up on a China propaganda app.

heraldgeezer··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
Well, does it matter if California never had the staff/manpower to use them, and they were all administered & maintained by DC staff?
heraldgeezer··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
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heraldgeezer··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
Okay good that you are honest, you do not what Israel to exist at all?

Well, the west disagrees with you.

What country in Europe are you in and who do you vote for?

heraldgeezer··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
Damage?

It has strengthened us.

Nordics and the Baltics are very pro Ukraine, we have a common enemy now to focus on.

Poland has stepped up too militarlity.

Sweden where I am has seen a HUGE uplift in military spend, and the companies like SAAB and Bofors (heheh)

Germany is the big loser as they had cheap Russian energy and shut down their nuclear plants.

Where in Europe are you from exactly?

EU overall is pro Ukraine except for Hungary...

In summary, what are you on about? And post your passport.

Oh, and Israel is our ally. I am sick of EU being so pro Hamas and pro Iran. Thankfully our government cut down on grants to the MENA and increased to Ukraine!

heraldgeezer··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
USA has not gone full force into Iran.

Need you be reminded of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

What has happened to this site? Its all these leftie pro MENA talking points.

You can disagree with the tone on the user above but the fact is NOBODY can stand up to USA military.

t. Swede

heraldgeezer··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
Not this talking point again...

I am very pro Ukraine, but those nukes where never "Ukranian", they where Soviet nukes, staffed and manned and made by Russia.

This is like if USA puts nukes in Sweden under NATO, are they suddenly Swedish nukes? No.

heraldgeezer··on Starlink Mini as a failover
Whatever one might think about Elon Musk's posts on X, the engineering and achievements coming out of SpaceX are genuinely extraordinary and deserve a lot of respect.
heraldgeezer··on The return-to-the-office trend backfires
What if I actually like the office?

I have a 40min walk to it or 10min bus ride, so no American commute, lol. (Your society is done)

I like my colleagues. Sometimes you want to meet and solve problems face to face, and not have it be planned.

I have a shift schedule, sometimes I am the only one in the office, that is bliss :)

But my work is 100% in office.

heraldgeezer··on The return-to-the-office trend backfires
What if I actually like the office?

It is a nice building in a nice area.

I have a 40min walk to it or 10min bus ride.

I like my colleagues. Sometimes you need to meet and solve problems face to face, and not have it be planned.

I like dressing up a bit, not a full suit but nice pleated pants and OCBD/sweater/blazer.

I have a shift schedule, sometimes I am the only one in the office, that is bliss :)

But my work is 100% in office. But not being shut at home is nice.

heraldgeezer··on Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Very dependant on what type of business you mean.

Sure you can have your fileshare on a personal google drive och do chats over Whatsapp if you want.

heraldgeezer··on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
You are on the internet.

You can download every book or tutorial ever made in our history.

We have access to vast knowledge.

heraldgeezer··on Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Just click the link.

You don't see how pathetic this rebrand of Nextcloud is?

It is practically a scam.

heraldgeezer··on Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Yea the FAQ does not give a good impression.

"The Premium and Ultimate plans offer EU Talk for larger meetings up to ● users."

heraldgeezer··on Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
To preface, I am Swedish.

But I work in IT and Office 365 is not "Office suite online" anymore. Office 365 started with running Exchange in the cloud by MS as it is a PITA for IT. That was basically it.

Office 365 is now:

- Office suite, both online and desktop apps (Vital for full feature Excel)

- Entra for Users, Groups and Policy, SSO, conditional access, MFA (Entra is actually Azure AD, not sure if this is still the case but all Office 365 get an Azure AD tenant it runs on)

- Device management via Intune, that is policy, push apps/installs, reinstalls, Autopilot, run scripts etc on machines, device state config

- File sharing with Sharepoint & Teams & personal Onedrive (this also adds endpoint backup)

- Teams - chat, video, workspace - We live in Teams at work.

- Email (that includes admin, extensive admin)

- DLP - Data loss prevention

- The power suite where users & admins can make their own apps

+ MS Graph API for all this

Oh, and it comes with Copilot chat baked in (GTP 5.3 based now) with enterprise controls.

At a big company you can have people ONLY working on the Entra part to secure user accounts. Or people ONLY on Intune to setup and manage PCs, policy etc.

Office 365 is a beast and I will argue GSuite does not match up as companies basically HAVE to buy Slack on the side to get parity. Also sysadmin on GSuite sucks.

The link actually made me laugh but also sad. It is frankly embarrassing. We in EU can do tech Spotify, Klarna, Lovable, Mojang, Dice, Arelion, Ericsson and this is only in Sweden. Look at a 4G network, it is insanley complex.

So yea not sure what the solution is. But this is too little too late. It should have started in 2008 maybe they would have a chance. It is also sheer numbers. MS is massive and Azure/O365 is their cash cow now. They make sure it is damn good.

heraldgeezer··on Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]
You are describing every pension system in the world.
heraldgeezer··on I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
Yup they are so mad that sysadmin + CC/AI is perfect just like how they where going to take over with "devops"
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