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The Gintama fan subs were quite good, they explained a lot
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:38PM (#50296454)
I read as GP agreeing with GGP:

> ... As opposed to sending to Anthropic, Microsoft or Google. Granted, those companies can assert that data will stay in the EU region too, but they'd have to be believed, which, some may find tricky lately

CLOUD Act -> "but they'd have to be believed"

Yes, but they have incentive to support the US gov to spy on everyone else
Re:CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:15PM (#50157486)
> ... high energy particle physics is a dead end...

Why that? I'm not following all that too closely

BREAKING NEWS: Water is wet
Re:Why don't more developers "use the platform"? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:57AM (#49951979)
I developed a personal finance app "using the platform". The only JS is for push notifications (service worker registration). IMO the app still feels interactive, because modern CSS (e.g. toggle visibility on radio selection) and modern HTML features like dialog or details allows for some JS-like actions.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:02PM (#49820890)
> Nuclear has no real cons other than time/cost of deployment

... and cost of operation and the fact that you have radioactive material you need to securely and safely store for quite a bit (which no one has figured out yet)

Re:US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:20PM (#49779682)
> a booming industrial economy

Nothing more important than that!!

Re:Java 27 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:02AM (#49712670)
> Also, the page reads like an open source “We’re finished, we’re tired.”

I mean it's short and concise and there are additional resources that provide more detail. IMHO it's not a bad thing.

Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:20PM (#49676139)
Those sweet $$$. He probably gets a few shares once they IPO.
Re:An Accidental Blackboard on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:29AM (#49620998)
I work for a company developing speech assistants. We use a blackboard as central component, driving the event based architecture. Agents can subscribe to files/folders on the blackboard (represented as URIs), thus enabling cooperation. Content is semantic. We used the pattern even before the AI boom and it's pretty cool to work with.
Re:Statichost.eu – European static site hosting on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:44AM (#49574867)
> we are going to back protectionism

Who started this, GeNuInElY cUrIoUs

Re:GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:49PM (#49541470)
> I doubt I'd go far out of my way to help them, even if I had exposure to them.

Too busy crippling sideloading I guess

I mean it is true that Europe is lagging behind in some frontier things, but if the price for catching up means uncontrollable mega corps it is not worth it. Europe also has some very high-tech companies so I think we are still good.
It's a good thing - AI is in basically everything, it needs regulation.
Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:29AM (#49429810)
Which honestly is a good thing? Starbucks sucks. Every small coffee in the EU has a unique flair. I don't like and don't want mega-corps.
“The Commission welcomes the changes made by Apple to its commercial terms,” commented a spokesperson for the European Commission. This announcement, the spokesperson continues, is “the result of close dialogue between the Commission and Apple,” after the tech giant was found in April 2025 to have breached the rules of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and ordered to take the necessary corrective measures. In light of these developments and the changes to be introduced, “the Commission will monitor Apple’s effective implementation of the new conditions.”

https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/08/18/tracking-and-new-commerc...

Not sure how credible this is though

I agree with your top-level-ish reply - the response by the EU was certainly smart and there are some really interesting things going atm that will loosen the dependency on the US. But just for _feel good_ I would've liked at least a bit more of a fight.

But re:DMA see the most recent Apple app store post on here. Kinda feels like the EU folded too easily there as well.

Good for Canada, quite a shame the EU folded so easily
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:48AM (#49384264)
> Only EU providers

It is though, if that is what you want

Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:50AM (#49370839)
Cortecs.ai
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Thursday August 20, 2026 @01:48AM (#49370824)
Just a reminder that cortecs.ai exists. Pretty much the same as OpenRouter but build in Europe.
The US is no longer a trusted partner. Actually hasn't been for quite a while.
I agree - also kinda funny that Meta followed and also reported a breach by their model, "They are getting PR, lets do the same!"
But you can use Wero also from your good old desktop PC, right? Sure, paying in a restaurant with Wero for example might need this, but I think this is a really, really great first step in the right direction
TBH a lot of devs working on this are probably really good devs, but having experience in the German car OEM market I can quite confidently say that usually it's management pushing unreasonable deadlines/stupid features/setting priorities wrong. Kinda like in most companies that treat SW as second class citizen. Lots of catch up to do.
> US platform
The time limits seem pretty generous
That is my understanding as well, so the title is misleading at best
> DeepSeek is going to go buy 20,000 fake IDs for their fake distillation accounts

I'm rooting for China here, feels strange but well

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