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Re:Lumo 2.0 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:19AM (#48731051)
Don't be fooled by the fact they say it's "open" on that page: only their clients are open. The models themselves? Well, good luck with that...

https://osai-index.eu/news/lumo-proton-least-open/

Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:24AM (#48424346)
Sorry, what?

Does this mean that SpaceX are the only company that really did build some datacenters to put all the million of GPU/TPU/whatever they all talk about everyday?

I mean, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft told investors they spent more than $1B per day last year in CapEx... why on Earth do they (well, Google and Anthropic at least) need to rent compute to SpaceX, of all companies?

Yann Le Cun litteraly said this morning on the radio in France that it is headquarted in Paris and will pay taxes in France. Go figure…
Hm, Singapour looks more like "one of their base"; they will have offices in Paris, Montréal, Singapour and New York (according to both this article and the interview Yann Le Cun did this morning on France Inter, the most listened radio in France).

Of course, each relevant newspaper on those areas highlight that it's coming to their place, but it really seems to be distributed.

Even acknowledging that blunder and the lost of trust that could have followed for such sloppy work would be a minimum.

I am quite shocked by such lack of care, and it does tarnish the reputation of Cloudflare in my eyes :/

Nah, it's just a basic case of a pivot from a company that previously offered a great open source (MIT licensed) product written in Go that offer WebRTC-based backbone to build audio and video sharing products upon: https://github.com/livekit/livekit

The AI stuff that the original LiveKit company put on top of it (to pivot to more investor-friendly endeavours) is not that relevant in this case, in my humble opinion.

Re:Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:26AM (#46487311)
I think the argument against this kind of top comments is that it makes easier to forget to update them if you change the code it refers to.

A single line comment is easy to parse, read and spot as having to be changed when you patch something.

Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:09AM (#45670334)
I think you are missing the point: it's mainly to highlight that the models that most people use, i.e. free versions with default settings, output a large number of factual errors, even when they are asked to base their answer to specific sources of information (as it's explained in their methodology document).
Re:The 2025 AI Index Report on Thursday April 10, 2025 @12:36PM (#43645619)
Surprised not to see a whole chapter on the environment impact. It's quite a big talking point around here (Europe, France) to discredit AI usage, along with the usual ethics issues about art theft, job destruction, making it easier to generate disinformation and working conditions of AI trainers in low-income countries.

(Disclaimer: I am not an anti-AI guy — I am just listing the common talking points I see in my feeds.)

Re:Five Years of React Native at Shopify on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:19AM (#42736756)
Bluesky. They use Expo on top of React Native, use React Native for Web (with a desktop and mobile), and for mobile native apps.

Let's note that because the clients are fully open-source and on GitHub, people from Expo and React Native are helping the little team behind the clients improve performance over time: it's not their final form!

Re: on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:35AM (#41658243)
"It is time for Postgres to care about customers!"

Wow. It's one thing to create value on top of one of the most respected open source projects in a field, it's quite another to bash it as the opening sentence of your blog post.

It really rubs me the wrong way.

Could you have some serious sources about Google dropping support for Flutter and Dart?

I mean, words have meanings. It's not because Google laid off part of the teams that worked on those technologies that it means that they dropped support of them.

> If not I might just reinstall it a few thousand times.

Unique install per user per year.

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