big-and-small

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by big-and-small 9d ago
> And a big fuck you to DeAlignAI, Z.ai, and everyone else who's been participating in this race to the bottom. Yeah of course. Only billionare US overlords allowed to have access to security research tools.
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by big-and-small 9d ago
You can rent B300 at hourly rate and run whatever model you want.
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by big-and-small 9d ago
I guess you mean M3 ultra since M4 ultra never existed.
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by big-and-small 2mo ago
My point stands: if China was "against" Ukraine they wouldn't sell to Ukraine because a lot of drone manufacturing depends on Chinese components. Of course China does not support Ukraine politically, but that's a differe
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by big-and-small 2mo ago
> Energy is not the main reason. China would still stand with Russia without energy. Of course it will because Russia also has cheap raw materials not just exclusively oil and gas. At the same time China does not invest into Russ
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by big-and-small 3mo ago
They already helped Russia, gave more power and planning to unfreeze assets of Iran. Helping China achieve AI dominance is a logical next step.
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by big-and-small 4mo ago
DeepSeek in general release not a very censored models when you run them locally. E.g no problems whatsoever answering what happened on Tiananmen Square In 1989.
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
You cant imagine how much strain fast-moving mouse cursor put on display server of almost any OS if there a lot of windows open simultaneously. Also non-standard cursor sizes / formats are still such a mess everywhere since even in 202
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
Macbooks were not overpriced since M1 Air released in 2020. Of course Apple was not competing in low-end segment back then, but $1200-$1400 M1 just outperformed all the competitors for years. Now with Neo release they basically outplayed ev
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
This is quite obviously because China have strict regulations and censorship of social media and US doesnt. YouTube Shorts and Instagram is full of the same garbage in US.
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
Might be it for scrapping content for training an LLM? Oh no only big tech allowed to do it...
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
Google AI studio and Gemini APIs are the least censored SOTA models.
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
China is working on this.
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
Spamhaus itself is a shady and non transparent organization and basically one of reasons why its been so hard to actually run email service for decades. Cloudflare is not perfect, but at least it been consistent about not becoming censorshi
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
And there obviously gonna be market for "verified" devices. Not like there is anything at all that could stop people of any ages looking at porn.
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by big-and-small 5mo ago
How do you imagine DRM can possibly protect text?
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by big-and-small 6mo ago
> To me, Epic Games were clearly trying to "pull a Valve" and capture the platform magic that allows Valve and other platforms like Roblox to be sustainably profitable. Valve have headcount of under 400 people. Obviously they h
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by big-and-small 6mo ago
Europe to do what to stop the war? EU cant even stop war on their own borders. And we seen what Trump buddies think about EU in their leaked Signal chat. Also it's not like EU and UK actually have any military capacity to bomb Iran eve
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by big-and-small 6mo ago
Except it would be very weird goal to achieve because it's only give more reasons to bomb whole country into oblivion and justify deployment of ground troops.
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by big-and-small 6mo ago
Next step after age verification through ID will be making sharing of computer with others illegal. And Right to Read was already written back in 1997: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
Dont bother. Even when works iPhone mirroring is unreliable and buggy experience, often asks to unlock iPhone again and sync gets broken at random and you have to go over enabling it again even though phone was next to the Mac mini all the
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
> Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them Generic problem of any Linux newbie. You get good at solving problems and it's so enjoyable so you end up creating
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
Joke? Or someone really dont know it's his account?
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
Hey. I will ask how exactly it was solved and try to reply here in a day or two. My relative is woman so problem was that she had her original name in a passport from country of origin and UK passport had her name after marriage.
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
While this is a real problem and I do have relative who had this issue like this there are ways to get new UK passport without paying £600 or changing legal name in other country. It's just take digging in government rules and arguing.
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
> Or are the capabilities of Gemini and AI systems in general being oversold? I pretty much sure that if anyone asked Gemini "Is it good idea to retroactively opt-in new services into for old API keys?" it would suggest it&#x27
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by big-and-small 7mo ago
> A government could implement the equivalent of China's great firewall. Even if it doesn't stop everyone, it would stop most people. Porn is not just political information about human right abuses, government overreach or heav
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by big-and-small 8mo ago
It's fairly easy to "farm" real ID NFC data since majority of documents are not intended to be actual digital signing key. And on top of that AI is getting pretty good at generating face / video details to the point wher
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by big-and-small 8mo ago
Apple just gonna disable it for China like any other privacy feature.
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by big-and-small 8mo ago
> Macbook For most of their history Macbooks were good looking, but overheating and throttling devices with some specifically unlucky generations being pure garbage due to design problems like butterfly keyboard and flexgate. Apple also

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