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Man, the Cardassians are all such good characters in ds9... And Odo and Quark, and O'Brien...
Re:Genie 4 on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:01PM (#50308637)
Who's doing the drum solo? Who's the next Gadd?
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:17AM (#50300728)
I just asked: "The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the military crackdown on the night of June 3–4, 1989, are among the most significant events of that year. In brief:"

Then it continues to provide the chain of events, the estimated number of killed protesters and so on.

I'll give you something to try: ask a western model about the Palestinian genocide. Or ask about the legendary Norm MacDonald 9/11 joke, which has millions of views on YouTube and how it compares to his other humor.

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#50296024)
It's interesting how he was part of everybody's childhood. I watched TNG for the first time when I was over 40. And that series became something really special in our family and we all love Stewart, Frakes, Spiner and the gang.

Some of the best television ever made if you ask me.

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:04PM (#50295945)
Would this evil Riker have a beard then?
Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:46PM (#50295669)
Although Frakes is close to a god in my books as an actor and a director. But never a good captain in TNG, I agree. He's a loved director though, and part of many great Star Trek episodes, and a few good ones for The Orville.
Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:29PM (#50295406)
This podcast is so good. I could listen to Spiner and Frakes talk about things for hours...
Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:25PM (#50295349)
It must've spread so fast. I watched his interview in the Conan podcast only three years ago and he was smart and sharp and such a wonderful listen. It was a total surprise for me that he had Alzheimer's...

Rest in peace captain :(

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:57PM (#50265708)
And then look into all the good movies in Cannes every year. Or subgenres even in us such as horror. Very far away from slop...
Yes but the API prices are very low. So much that it is hard to spend over 20 dollars per month as an individual no matter how much you use it.
A few days ago we got the news that DeepSeek makes 38 dollars profit per card with their off peak pricing (in the inference server release discussion).

If that is true, either the American labs are not optimizing correctly or they make a ton of money with inference.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:45AM (#50205679)
Yes. Did not mean any disrespect. I have a bunch of friends from Russia living now abroad who has been telling stories from those years.
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:23PM (#50200506)
Because the prime minister has been running a government that is disliked from all directions. Because the economy has been going down and hard. Because the unemployment rates are the highest in EU.

And now he can shake hands with Google executives in a public photo.

People still live in the old world that thinks that doing business with the American corporations is somehow beneficial, especially with data centers. But the country should focus on building their own data centers, providing GPUs for smaller companies and providing cheap DeepSeek for Europeans instead of giving access to Google.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:56PM (#50200186)
Here some pics from those empty skyscrapers that are completely missing all the walls and the scaffolding's been gathering rust for years. And all the court cases for the people who bought the "luxury apartments" that never realized.

I'm always surprised that the topography of terror exhibition in Berlin misses this part of the German history. Nazi's and communists are presented, but the robber barons who bought all the real estate don't get a presentation.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:03PM (#50199633)
Yes. Should also cover what happened in East Germany when the wall went down. And people are now somehow surprised when everybody's kind of pissed outside of the few big cities.
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:38PM (#50198589)
Like... the town where the Google datacenter goes gets like some paved bike road from Google who "takes care of the community". Price tag around the profits of less than an hour of the GPU time in that datacenter.

An article in Finnish: https://www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sCcu9YiY-mjF4UD1O-b66ec

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:32PM (#50198494)
A bottle of vodka for your shares, comrade. Etc...
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:27PM (#50198431)
Oh the logging projects also get a LOT of attention. It's just that the current government is center-right / far right, and they just let the logging to continue no matter the sanctions from the EU.

There are a lot of people who are against this, and protest against this. Looking at the polls, seems that it will change in the next elections, like a lot.

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:30PM (#50197647)
Finland has a lot of people who care about forest and Finland needs to pay fines for EU if they don't have enough forest to suck CO2 from the air.

Google cut corners here, and didn't ask for the needed permissions. And the prime minister doesn't want to show his conversation with Google regarding this.

People are really pissed.

Edit: and the electricity prices are going up due to these data centers. And the profits from them don't stay in Finland, but go to American corporations. There should be Finnish data centers owned by Finns instead of having Google to take the cheap electricity and taking profits out.

Re:Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video] on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:07PM (#50197303)
Yes. Yle is awesome.
Re:Corporate Linux on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:20PM (#50188467)
Deepseek is what, maybe 10-15 dollars a month for quite a lot of usage if you need an llm and do not want to pay for Anthropic...
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:40AM (#50141019)
I also used to plan with more expensive models like you did, but now I just do planning with DeepSeek too and don't see much difference. I use the omp plan mode and iterate on the text until I'm happy with it. Then clear context, give the plan to DeepSeek again for implementation.

If it's mission-critical code, do a security review with GLM 5.3.

Otherwise go manually through the code and ask for changes if needed.

Works really well for me.

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:18AM (#50140014)
I'm using DeepSeek a lot, and I'm curious how you get a task to go to ten dollars with it? Or are you mixing Opus and Sol tokens to the same task? I have very hard time to go over 5 dollars with DeepSeek and that is already a weeklong project where I share the same context.

Of course I do certain things like use omp and do a compact picture snapshot after 256k tokens automatically. My tasks rarely go over a dollar...

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:13AM (#50139987)
Or just us Europeans who are so sick of American corporations milking every penny with their LLM models and preventing us from using the full model capabilities.

Now we have: a ton of competition in different inference providers, very low costs, and speeds reaching 1k tok/s in certain providers.

We can just get a box of compute even in Germany, and run the exact same model here without anybody stopping us.

Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:08AM (#50139327)
It's quite different here in EU. I just gave a presentation in an AI conference in Paris about moving from Anthropic to open-weight models, how it looks like and what kind of savings you'll be looking at. The room was packed, and after discussing with a bunch of VPs, staff engineers, and CTOs in the conference, every single one of them are either looking at or using DeepSeek now.

It's quite hard to have the valuation of Anthropic if they are limited to US.

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:12AM (#50130869)
They do not yet. They are testing it but they go with GLM right now.
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:22AM (#50130492)
Scaleway, Mistral, Lyceum, Verda, Silo AI, Siili, Upcloud, CSC, Gcore, Nebius...
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:19AM (#50130473)
I mean... I ported some of my childhood Finnish shareware games for Linux and Rust with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. It took about six hours of spelunking and finally I was pretty happy with the results! I did it twice. Tokens for both of the games were around 3 euros.
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:44AM (#50130210)
Because it doesn't make difference for my use. High is good enough! If you do an assistant for yourself, low is more than enough.

It reduces the speed and tends to overthink sometimes which is really annoying. For programming, 4.1/high is the bread and butter in my daily work.

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:43AM (#50130199)
There's also European providers for these models. More than one!

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