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why not just use linux/?
The UK is becoming 1984.
Re:AirPods 5 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:53AM (#49644787)
I want a simple USB-C earpods with noise active cancellation. How is that hard for Apple?
privacy is a right, until you don't have a voice to say so.
Re:PyTorch: A Reference Language on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:57AM (#49084929)
Demoniac move by Spotify
Re:A language model made in Latin America, for Latin America on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @09:23PM (#46984186)
The model released is called Latam-GPT, the first large-scale open-source language model developed specifically for Latin America and the Caribbean. Its size is 70 billion parameters (70B). It is a continuous pre-training (CPT) adaptation of Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B base model, trained on a regionally-curated corpus of ~300 billion tokens that emphasize Latin American languages, cultures, and contexts.

Press release: https://cenia.cl/2026/02/10/latam-gpt-la-primera-ia-regional...

Presentation (in Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdLzAiQizhA

HF: https://huggingface.co/latam-gpt

Github: https://github.com/latam-gpt

Re:I made my own Git on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:30AM (#46780419)
btw, you can change the hashing algorithm in git easily
Re:Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:53PM (#45675016)
This is great news for the community. We should measure a bit more closely how tool usage behaves in the wild. The gains you can get from different providers are not marginal.

Sometimes it's not just raw intelligence, but engineering as well

Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:35PM (#45228255)
UTF-8 should be a universal tokenizer
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:18PM (#44992807)
the internet's own boy :( I'll be always deeply touched by him
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team on Monday August 18, 2025 @01:51PM (#44943389)
Shadow libraries maintainers deserve a Nobel prize for their contributions to humanity. Satoshi would be proud.

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