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by cge 4mo ago
> They're packaged using the same tools and technology, with the intent that they can be easily validated and promoted to core stuff in the future. That's perhaps the intent ideally, but in practice, it feels like AUR tends to
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by cge 4mo ago
I'm not asking for myself. Yes, I understand the build process, and know what to check. I've also written PKGBUILDs before and have had packages in AUR. I'm sure you understand it too, as well as many people here. But many
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by cge 4mo ago
>`rua` and other similar CLIs make it really easy to review the packages before installing them from AUR too, and if you are doing banking on the same computer, you really have no excuse not to review the software you depend on. What rev
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by cge 4mo ago
Europe does not consistently have KYC for phone service, at least for mobile connections. Normal phone companies in Ireland don't ask for information when buying SIMs (physical ones, at least). Some eSIM providers in Europe don'
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by cge 4mo ago
The filter is not simply a bioweapons filter: the model card seems to say that the filter triggers on anything related to biology or chemistry .
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by cge 4mo ago
It appears that the blocking here is of a very different nature than for Opus. Whereas with Opus the blocks seem to be for messages it deems potentially harmful, for Fable, it appears the blocking is simply anything that falls within &qu
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by cge 4mo ago
Different EU countries seem to heavily vary on this point. I’ve seen everything from requirements for id scans and addresses to esims that accept cryptocurrency as payment.
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by cge 4mo ago
The safety gates on this are extreme , and seem considerably wider than "cybersecurity and biology"; they seem to make it essentially unusable for scientists in a number of fields. I have, so far, been bumped back to Opus on 100
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by cge 4mo ago
>For example, Ben Franklin didn't consider Germans "white" (famously describing them as "swarthy" [1]). Through different waves, different European ethnic groups became "white". The Irish didn't be
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by cge 4mo ago
At a basic level, methods of combining oligos to produce long strands have been known for ages. The challenge is to be able to produce them with low enough error, high enough yield, and enough freedom on sequence. Low error improves your
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by cge 4mo ago
Parts of the EU say that, then at other times other parts act inconsistently with it. I was just at a meeting of an EU body where it was emphasized that, when considering the language of European patents written in English, courts would del
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by cge 4mo ago
The headline and summary here feel quite different from the actual article. In my experience, HOAs, whether good or bad, are typically, as the name might suggest, associations of homeowners, with petty drama between them that escalates thro
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by cge 5mo ago
That is true in the EU in a number of circumstances. You can do a data access request for CCTV footage of yourself; I’ve successfully done this before, and some organizations give out CCTV footage this way often enough they have websites ab
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by cge 5mo ago
For that matter, every device with a Lightning connector except for a limited set of iPad Pro models in a limited set of situations, was USB 2.0, and even those unusual situations were 5 Gb/s USB 3.2 Gen 1. Power seems to have topped
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by cge 6mo ago
In my experience, amateur radio (both licensed and license-free) and 3d printing both seem to have cultural perspectives on open source that differ considerably from the regular open source software community. But while in 3d printing, outs
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by cge 6mo ago
The opposite upgrade kit: people with a mainboard they'd like to keep, but who want all the other upgrades. The kit is listed, but isn't available yet.
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by cge 6mo ago
Q4_K_S Qwen3.5 30B-A3B runs at around 29 t/s for me on the 370 version with 64 GB of RAM, running llama.cpp without any tweaking. I haven't tried Qwen3.6 yet, but could download it tomorrow; since I have a 128GB FW Desktop at hom
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by cge 6mo ago
Yes, I really should have clarified: it makes sense, and I'm not blaming them. It's more just that, given their business model, and that they do intend to sell upgrade kits, I imagine that along with the people pre-ordering full
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by cge 6mo ago
I had meant they aren't available even for pre-ordering, and likely won't be until the laptops are either regularly shipping rather than shipping in numbered batches, or are on a high-numbered batch. This could be months after
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by cge 6mo ago
>It's so cool that every individual upgrade they did here can be hot-swapped back to the older designs. That's a huge extra lift that they didn't have to do. Unfortunately, as is usual for them (edit: and it makes sense; I
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by cge 6mo ago
>Things have changed since, but in my time, if a journal required source code for publication, most of the professors in my department would not have published there. Even when they do require it, one of the problems for journals that re
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by cge 6mo ago
The sub-review process, when it works well, is arguably a reasonable one. To give the example of how this works from the perspective of the program committee of a conference I'm involved in: The PC chairs assign papers to members of t
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by cge 6mo ago
MZLA Technologies, the organization that these donations go to, is not a non-profit.
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by cge 6mo ago
Something that is dismaying to me about this situation is that, on one hand, the anti-Collabora arguments are not unconvincing: the situation with Collabora and the foundation seems to have been dubious at best, and I would not be surprised
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by cge 6mo ago
It's strange. I started reading about this expecting that I'd support TDF's position against a company with a somewhat dubious open-non-open split, with a reasonable claim about conflict of interest, but the behavior of the
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by cge 6mo ago
I do not know enough about this particular drama to have any opinion on the merits of the sides involved. However, I cannot help but notice the parallels with the infancy of TDF and the separation of LibreOffice from OpenOffice.org. In 20
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by cge 6mo ago
>It's AGPL but has extra restrictions Doesn't the AGPL specifically disallow that? If I understand correctly, the FSF has even directly threatened legal action against developers who add extra restrictions to the AGPL. The li
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by cge 6mo ago
Using Opus 4.6 for research code assistance in physics/chemistry, I've also found that, in situations where I know I'm right, and I know it has gone down a line of incorrect reasoning and assumptions, it will respond to my
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by cge 6mo ago
A difficulty, too, is that choice of publishing venue is based on visibility and readership. And in my experience, EU-administered projects around scholarly publishing like these are well-meaning, but make baffling choices about focus, org
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by cge 7mo ago
>They will spend it on anything but Firefox, which is the only thing anybody wants them to spend it on. Mozilla certainly won’t spend it on Firefox, because the structure of the organization legally prohibits them from spending any of th

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