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by petcat 2mo ago
> Does fastmail have a US presence? If no - then they're not bound at all by US jurisdiction. This hasn't been true for several years. All Australian companies (and UK companies) are under jurisdiction of the US Cloud Act. Ju
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by petcat 2mo ago
It is not wrong... You can read the text right here: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre... The same agreement is in place with the UK. Canada and EU are currently in the process of negot
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by petcat 2mo ago
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre... > The latter states that negotiation with the EU on this topic was suspended in 2019. Dated 2023: > Justice Department and European Commission
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by petcat 2mo ago
How could they possibly guarantee such a thing? Do you only send and receive emails with people in the EU?
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by petcat 2mo ago
Proton is leaving Switzerland because of surveillance and privacy issues. > Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving mo
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by petcat 2mo ago
Australian companies are also subject to the USA Cloud Act. As is the UK, with Canada coming on board soon too. Even the entire EU is in the process of negotiating the same agreement. https://www.justice.gov/archives/op
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by petcat 2mo ago
Australia and the US entered into a bilateral agreement in 2024 which made Australian companies subject to the US CLOUD Act. https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre...
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by petcat 2mo ago
University of Washington does what you are describing. https://www.cs.washington.edu/research/artificial-intelligen... I'm sure there are several other universities doing the same.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Locally running LLM means nothing because "open weight" models are still inscrutable. It's like bringing a dog home from the rescue and just hoping that it doesn't have the tendency to bite kids in the face. You just ca
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by petcat 2mo ago
> It'll be in a similar place to Canada at best. If Canada was a US state it would rank around 4th or 5th in terms of economic size and power. There's a lot of doomerism, but I seriously doubt the US is going to lose its top
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by petcat 2mo ago
Not only are there many American open weight models as others have mentioned, but Americans are the only ones doing actual open source models [0]. Not just distributing binary blobs and calling them "open". [0] https:/&#x
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by petcat 2mo ago
If paying property taxes is considered "renting from the state", then I'll be glad to pay the $600 a month in rent in order for the state and my county to maintain the roads, sewers, drains, school district and everything aro
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by petcat 2mo ago
There is virtually no security in renting outside of whatever landlord-tenant laws your municipality will offer you. The landlord can simply say that they're not going to renew your lease at the end of the year because the neighbors do
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by petcat 2mo ago
Unless you are willing to enter into some kind of a special arrangement, closing costs are almost always negotiated and usually paid by the seller.
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by petcat 2mo ago
You're falling for the trap of just thinking of buying a house as an investment . Buying a house can be an investment, but it's also buying a place to live. Even if the home's value merely keeps pace with inflation over 30 y
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by petcat 2mo ago
US Treasury just bought about $10 billion worth of Yen
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by petcat 2mo ago
> "Corporations are people, my friend. Of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend." - US
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by petcat 2mo ago
I think it is less about junior engineers, and more just about the kinds of work inexperienced/cheap developers are often doing: assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker type development. This is especially impacting Indian tech workers in t
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by petcat 2mo ago
> Some of the best social media is heavily moderate Heavily moderated by humans with discretion. Not AI chat bots following a rules engine.
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by petcat 2mo ago
> they do at least know what the market near them says they want right now It does seem to be a very European approach to AI that their flagship AI lab is just making models that do nothing other than monitor and moderate internet cont
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by petcat 2mo ago
Mistral needs to abandon their Everything-stral branding. Getting kind of lame. "Shieldstral" is an awkward and bad name
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by petcat 2mo ago
Here are the reported miscompilation bugs in GCC so far in 2026. The ones labeled "wrong-code". https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?chfield=%5BBug%20cr I count 500+ of them.
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by petcat 2mo ago
Well that's great for you. That's some knowledge that you will possess for the rest of your life. I want a green lawn and big bushy shrubs in front of my house. Do I need to know the intricate biology of my soil and habitat? No
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by petcat 2mo ago
It's not sarcasm. We've all accepted that code-generation has been required and accepted for decades.
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by petcat 2mo ago
You seem to be hung up on the part about "learning". Do you know how x86 registers work? Or atomic instructions available on ARM, SPARC, or POWER architectures? No, of course not. Because all of that got abstracted to higher-le
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by petcat 2mo ago
We don't need to learn CSS anymore. Just like we don't need to learn ASM since GCC does a great job generating it from higher-level code.
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by petcat 2mo ago
> You could read some general reference/guide/tutorial documentation on CSS, and then probably solve your problem Hours + Hours of reading and a lot of trial-and-error. The loop was so long and sooo slow. Now it's instan
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by petcat 2mo ago
Some anecdotal trends listed in this report on US demand for Indian tech workers rapidly slowing. https://thefederal.com/category/news/h1b-visa-indian-tech-wo... > According to the discussion, foreign hiring at
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by petcat 2mo ago
> in general you can't just hedge your way past regulations. Of course you can. The internet is absolutely polluted with cookie banners, including on the EU's own government websites, precisely for the reason to hedge your wa
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by petcat 2mo ago
> are already European, like MNT, and GrapheneOS GrapheneOS is Canadian.

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