Grew up with an Amiga 500. Studied CS (Compilers and OSs). Did IoT and sensor networks for my PhD. Stayed at the university to now do data science and AI stuff lik everyone else.
In Germany that would be market places like eBay or Amazon (i.e. non-originally replacement parts). Original ones go for around 45 EUR (iFixit). But I guess you wouldn't care too much about original parts at that age.
The 14 properties of ur-facism identified by Umberto Eco are:
* The cult of tradition
* The rejection of modernism
* The cult of action for action’s sake
* Disagreement is treason
* Fear of difference
* Appeal to social frustration
* Obsession with a plot
* The enemy is both strong and weak
* Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
* Contempt for the weak
* Everybody is educated to become a hero
* Machismo and weapon-fetishism
* Selective populism
* Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak
Probably one can easily make some check boxes for various right-leaning populist governments around the globe. Eco predicts that ur-facism eventually erodes democracy and will lead to a state of constant war. Not so good prospects, at all.
It is different perspectives on the same thing I guess. On a global statistical level it is risk = impact x likelihood . On a local level your controls need to be appropriate for the risk. If accepting those risks globally goes without a consequence and companies accept a huge risk appetite, it is time for law enforcement and policy making to correct this in the interest of third parties impacted.
Actually like containers, however different WSL distributions (already in WSL2) share the same virtualized kernel, which is particularly prepared to interactact with the host Windows.
Actually the even more fun part is that they only found out because they raided his house due to this really sketchy case he was contracted for via his really sketcy swiss(!) private eye company: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/germany-christ...
I just started around messing with opencode and beets cli. No MCP, no real skills etc.. Worked reasonably well on some retagging, better dir layout. Nothing special. Probably could also done it without an agent. I still fail to clean up some ripped apart compilations, etc. (Partially due to premature re-sorting). Trying to figure out the human oversight part. My goal was also doing a sensible genre and other semantic description over the whole collection to enable RAG style playlists, but I guess one also has to have a decent plan for such things. I was actually hoping there was already more out there.
I guess FEC laws don't protect you from the pravda network. However, LLM might be not so good at ranking false information, if it is already massively embedded in their training data (LLM grooming).
Still it seems that this is currently not the case [0] (yet).
I guess the risk atm is rather some crazy billionaires embedding their believes in post training and system prompts. But honestly I rather fear tiktok in this regard.
I am doing the same. I started to connect my agent to beets db. Actually would be quite I interested in some clean-up skills. I actually started to go to the local library again to add to my music collection (at least in my jurisdiction you can do private copies of non DRM content)
I am working with different EU DGs in a very different context and I can assure you first hand that it would be rather nice in many cases if that would be true in general.
Speaking of 'EU' as a single entity seems a bit like a deep state conspiracy theory. Yes l, there is lobbying around CSAM scanning, security agency, banking industry and media networks, that all work against open source and security by design. Still there is also other movements and I don't think anticompetition has the same agenda. But in the end it is politics: there needs to be enough people to care about something. For anticompetition to be active I think the problem is rather there is no European market to protect. And particularly graphene (I will get downvotes for this) is not really good in joining forces with other European businesses in this space. Activism is important, but for lobbying you need to escape the niche.
This is the reason I switched probably mor than a year or two ago. YouTube remains a cat and mouse game. Strange things with those forks is that they always add some more streaming sources Mike BkliBili but keep the old stuft. Actually soundcloud only works very limited lately.
Wouldnt call it regulatory blood lust at the moment. I think the competitive situation that is however solely focussed in performance at any cost and not at compliance at all is forcing AI labs to play with fire. The risk for them is an even bigger regulatory backlash. Totally different industry : Chinese ebike manufacturers are currently pushing the rules for motor strength to the max due to competition. What will likely happen is stricter regulation of max support and motor power if there are incidents. Particularly there will be more regulatory fragmentation with little common denominator. This will hurt the whole industry's growth. In this industry it kind of still works as an agreement of non-Chinese manufacturers.
Interestingly Russia I think itself presented its 2012 law as modeled on the American Foreign Agents Registration Act at the time. A bit worrying is that the US DoJ starts to create also a bit of the same chilling effect speaking about “Liability for Unregistered Foreign Agents". Don't get me wrong: there is huge differences in freedom of speech and I do not say this is the beginning of the end. But it seems at least intellectually interesting to draw comparisons.
Can someone explain to me how such self-awareness can be forced into the model. I mean I guess the pre training data could contain all sorts of stuff. How reliable are those hacks. I know that a lot of open weight models answer that they are Claude in the absence of a system prompt. I find destillation not that much of a plausible explanation as typically claude would probably not mention that it is Claude all the time. I find it rather plausible that a foreig. system prompt made it into pre-training. But again: I have no clue how much care is given by models to leave traces for destillation (for closed weights) or post training (for open weights).
Cool, I actually applied for a diploma thesis for doing the PIC 16 port around 2004. Raphael Neider actually was quicker then me, so he maintained the port for our lab at the Uni Karlsruhe (i am still in the same lab). We needed the port because was needed to allow people to compile our OS for our sensor nodes at the time. Still did a lot of testing of the PIC 16 port at the time because my thesis was about implementing a filesystem and a REST like API for the nodes.
I am not saying that what they say is wrong. However, this is about current phones. If your goal is supporting aftermarket phones the case looks very different. It is the only way to get a decent level of security. The problem is IMHO how graphene communicates. It is mixing tons of different things to always make their communication more 'bold'. Then they complain about people complaining about their communication style. It is my personal choice, but I accept less security while not having to care about GrapheneOS announcements. I value their work in a similar way that I value WikiLeaks.
A lot of neural engine, particularly in the embedded domain (ARM/RISC MCUs) have the same problem. Designing other models means on top of this means a lot of profiling to get convolution blocks right to get good speedups. (We optimized this in the past e.g. using Neural Architecture Search on super networks)
The core criticism to the vendor is the missing security element. This is a fair point.
However, calling out on e/OS in the same post, seems to me very counter-productive. We need more OS vendors and less infighting. Calling all custom ROMs insecure and claiming to be the only one is IMHO 'drama'. Particular there are contributions of me microG that are helpful if you want to de-Google ones phone. Graphene has a different approach: fair. People will use GrapheneOS if they share their goals.
Fairphone is about sustainability and a bit about not supporting major tech like Google. I don't think this hurts. In an ideal world we could have both. But sustainability seems to be a non-goal of GrapheneOS.
One of the reasons I haven't switched to Graphene is this kind of drama. I wish there was more middle ground. I don't think the post is in any way constructive and will lead to fairphone to consider adding a secure element.
While many things might be legal (or hasn't been ruled clearly illegal yet) /under different jurisdictions, we are still in the process of figuring out what we accept as ethical. As the output of models can't be easily copyrighted, destillation is equally disputed. Particularly if the primary model interaction was not destillation (as in this case) IMHO it will be legally quite difficult to restrict secondary use for training. In the end we have to find a legislation and probably even international treaties that account for the fact that classical copyright is beginning to become an obsolete concept.
This is true, as preprints are addressing the 'problem' at a later point in time. I guess git is better if you do not want to assign an identifier to an immutable version yet.
I like it a bit for the inspiration what could make sense, however, as there is little ablation studies, it is really difficult to understand the effect of most of the features.
90% of my apps (all except for banking, streaming and ev charging app) are installed without play store. Beyond FDroid with custom repos, I actually came to like Komi-Store in combination with obtainium. I really wonder what will happen when Google enforces their own registered developer signatures. I hope there is a crucial mass of apps outside of Play store until then to generate some heard protests.