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Cumpiler69on German civil activists win victory in election case against X

These researchers are on the side of the government.

Cumpiler69on Experience the DeepSeek R1 Distilled 'Reasoning' Models on Ryzen AI and Radeon

Who are you referring to by "loosing"?

Cumpiler69on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

>but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes

It's easier to name the major Linux FOSS projects that DON'T have drama and virtue signaling than the ones with.

If you read the Github comments on System-D, GNOME, etc, it's like watching children bickering on Sega VS Nintendo.

Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws.

Cumpiler69on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

You must be new to billionaire business practices: break the rules first, ask for forgiveness later.

By the time the cheque comes, your illicit venture either went bust or you built a bilion dollar empire capable of buying the best lawyers and lobbying to walk away clean.

Cumpiler69on Experience the DeepSeek R1 Distilled 'Reasoning' Models on Ryzen AI and Radeon

And people keep wondering why Nvidia has no competition from AMD.

Cumpiler69on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

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Cumpiler69on Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

It IS available to businesses, but only to those with the correct political connections.

Cumpiler69on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

>A smart vendor will shift into that space - they'll use that LLM themselves

It's a bit late to start shifting now since it takes time. Ideally they should already have a product on the market.

Cumpiler69on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

Yes it has.

Cumpiler69on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

You can just google this, there's like a million blogs out there parroting how to bypass TPM, its's not some incantation that only Microsoft had.

Cumpiler69on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

To corporations period regardless if they make DRM or not. Enterprises want any and all features under the security umbrella for their fleets.

Cumpiler69on Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs

The title is misleading. Microsoft deleted their article documenting the bypass, not the workaround itself.

Cumpiler69on Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

>It's Snarkiness, not FUD.

Making confident but incorrect statements is not snarkyness. That's like me saying climate change isn't happening.

Cumpiler69on Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

>Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks.

It's the painful cost of maintaining backwards compatibility.

For context, I can still install and use Winamp 2.5 from 1999 on Windows 11. That's over 25 years of backwards compatibility. Not something most people need on a daily basis but still very cool.

Cumpiler69on Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time

HN will never let facts stand in the way of good FUD.

Cumpiler69on DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

What about SAP? What innovations does SAP make? Nvidia alone is worth 10 SAPS and US has about 20 Nvidias. It's not even a competition. It's like Usain Bolt vs Grandma.

Cumpiler69on Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

Europe has lower cost of living and lower wages so EU Investors don't need US levels of money to compete.

Cumpiler69on Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe

>Because Europe does not have enough money.

They seem to have enough to send overseas and to spend on illegal economic migrants.

>Private sector often does not fund projects like these as they have bad return on investment.

Then why does the private sector in the US fund projects like these?

Cumpiler69on DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

>Government can't solve affordable housing. It is the problem causing unaffordable housing.

They CAN solve housing because, like you said, they're the ones causing it. They just don't want to because the housing bubble is making a lot of people rich.

Cumpiler69on DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

Food isn't an apreciating asset who's value grows when you hoard it and is also easily transportable between free markets. I can't import cheaper land from abroad. I'm limited by what's around me. That scarcity gives it value. You can keep growing virtually infinite food in the same land. You can't do that with housing.

Cumpiler69on Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”

"Because THAT'S what heroes do."

- The AI bot costing billions in development, compute and energy who just banned your account based on a false positive

Cumpiler69on Costa Rican supermarket wins trademark battle against Nintendo

I'm still waiting for Nintendo to sue parents for naming their kids Mario.

Cumpiler69on DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

We both know that's not gonna happen. Europe is way too entrenched in its ways by this point. The good ol' glory days that brought in Airbus and Concorde are gone and not transferrable to the modern, dynamic and very internationally competitive SW world, nor are its leaders strong and motivated enough to enact policy changes that favor disruption of the old money guard at the expense of the status quo. Case in point we have no SW giants, no Airbus equivalent of the SW world. All Europe's giants are decades to centuries old. 20 years ago EU's GDP was on par with the US's, now we're only half the US's GDP. We're cooked.

Plus, we first have to prioritize solving more urgent and important topics like affordable housing (WHEN?!), the collapsing pension and welfare systems which is a ticking timebomb, cheap energy, collapsing demographic (see affordable housing), illegal immigration, Putin's war next door, the rise of the right wing (see illegal immigration) before jumping into another pissing contest with the US and China on something that's not gonna help fix the pressing issues we have right fucking now. I don't see how we can recover from this downward spiral when I look at the inactions of our politicians who are just kicking the can down the road and blaming the EU and other countries of the union for their own systemic failures.

Winning the AI race might sound cool but it might also be similar to winning the race to the moon: a cool flex but not super useful to the general population if they can't afford a place to live or getting healthcare in a timely manner. Until ChatGPT can wipe your retired old ass in a care home I doubt many people will see AI investments as being a top priority.

Cumpiler69on DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up

How about that the Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk, makers of Ozempic, is opening their AI/ML lab in London next to DeepMind and other tech giants, instead of in its back yard?

The only one close to UK in Europe is probably Switzerland and France but they too are mostly focused on research in universities rather than pushing out commercial products the way the US is exceeding at. Everyone else is not even in the game.

Cumpiler69on Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

You have no clue what oppression actually is.

You can identify whatever you want but society has no obligation to conform to your made uo identity. It's not oppression, it's freedom of speech.

Cumpiler69on List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week

In which country?

Cumpiler69on Germany: Number of unemployed highest in 10 years

Publishing such findings would be racist in Germany.

Cumpiler69on Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

Ai investors like all tech Investors don't care about your virtue signaling or your social justice, they care about making money.

They just pander to gay/trans causes in hopes it makes them more money in the west while censoring the same content overseas also for more money. They're not on your side, they're on the side of capital and Profit.

You can lie to yourself that they're on your side if that makes you feel better but if outing and killing gay people would be profitable they'd do that instead, just like how IBM did business with the Nazis to send Jews to their death.

Cumpiler69on Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]

Google search has already become crappy enough. I doubt Apples would do so much worse at this point.

Cumpiler69on Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmAq0epfrI

FWIW, a correction is required here. Oil-modding a F91W will NOT make it a dive watch replacement as the video creator claims several times.

A dive watch is designed to be operated at that depth while the weak o-rings around the pushers on the F91W will give up when you use the buttons. Oil modding on it holds up during a dive as long as you'll never push the buttons, so it's more of a neat party trick for show than anything to daily drive.