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FinnKuhnon Gemini 4 Argon

Based on historical developments the cost of compute will go down again eventually, decreasing the cost of training AI models of the same quality as today even further. That part is what I would be the most certain about.

FinnKuhnon Gemini 4 Argon

My personal theory is (assuming there really is no moat) whoever starts the latest with developing AI models might actually win as they should be able to develop a competitive product with significant less resources and initial investment resulting in a higher ROI. AI might even become a commodity.

FinnKuhnon California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

They might want to consider also making Federweißer. It has less alcohol, is carbonated, sweeter, and fresher. I generally really like it even though I'm not the biggest wine fan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser

FinnKuhnon The systems that no one will test

I think Apple used to use this a lot in their presentations until 1-2 years ago to mean "AI".

FinnKuhnon Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

It reminded me of a simpler version of https://gwern.net/.

FinnKuhnon Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

This German newspaper describes his life in (or on?) Tonga in even more detail: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/portrait-einmal-tongaer-...

It is a very interesting read, and I can only recommend it. Some of it is one sentence after another that left me astonished.

FinnKuhnon I am often wrong

I think how important this step is something you realize once you consider the alternative, which is trying to fix a problem, without knowing, what the problem is. It is going to result in weird workarounds instead of addressing the actual issue.

FinnKuhnon iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

Not available in EU. The reason Siri AI and other iOS features are not available in the EU is the issue of Apple not opening up the same API for other apps. Therefore I think it might be the same case here, which would mean that third-party camera apps wouldn't be compatible.

FinnKuhnon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

My guess would be that opinions just changed since 2022 AND that support for flock might differ from general support.

FinnKuhnon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

In the UK overall, 64% of the population support police use of facial recognition technology to some degree and only 11% were opposed to its use [1]. The survey also looks at support for different szenarios, but overall many generally did not oppose it, while in the US 47% oppose the use of flock cameras [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-attitudes-... [2] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/florida-bans-highwa...

FinnKuhnon Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

The US isn't the UK or China and different cultures deem different things as acceptable. The UK for example is also a monarchy, which would rial up people in the US if proposed there.

Additionally the trust that the government uses these cameras as intended is apparently higher in the UK than the trust of Americans that Flock will not misuse their surveillance technology.

FinnKuhnon GPT-6 Astra

  Hi Omer,

  I think that is a use case where I'm sure an AI agent does well
  right now, but I have 2 follow-up thoughts based on it and what
  it is means that this is one of the best use case for AI online
  commerce so far.

  My first thought was that this is a quite limited application as
  most of shopping (online & retail) is not spent comparing prices
  and is instead spent on finding what product to buy in the first
  place. I believe this "shopping fun" and exploration of multiple
  options is not going away any time soon as those are some of the
  most attractive parts of the whole experience.

  I also think that the price comparison websites that exist, e.g.
  geizhals.de here in Germany (includes most e-commerce shops, and
  shipping information), are pretty good already and AI only being
  a better version of that would be quite a sad turn of events and
  with ads (and commission systems?) potentially coming to ChatGPT
  in the near future the incentives to find the best price are rly
  misaligned and I have doubts that people will trust results from
  ChatGPT. We already saw this as Google's sponsored links evolved
  to show whoever spent the most for the placement. Paid providers
  without ads and commissions might fare better though.

edit: paragraph 3 is already happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563386

FinnKuhnon GPT-6 Astra

You can't even get many people to buy things online at all and if you can it's less profitable than retail, because you need to spend a lot of money to convince people, advertise to be seen, and account for returns. I think this is also due to the factors you mention.

One quick example: In fashion, Inditex and Shein have about the same revenue (€39.9bn and $41.8bn in 2025), but Inditex is more than three times as profitable. I don't see how there is a demand for agentic commerce that would remove even more control from the customer when shopping. Part of why we shop is for the experience. For B2B producurement platforms like Alibaba I can see the appeal though.

FinnKuhnon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

Although Germany already moved a sizable amount of Gold to Germany before Trump first took office and now has around half of the total in Frankfurt.

https://www.bundesbank.de/en/tasks/topics/bundesbank-complet...

FinnKuhnon GPU World

  I do not think agents need to work continuously. They "just"
  need to work on a project longer than an employee is able to
  work on it for them to be commercially useful. Although this
  does not consider that agents might take a shorter or longer
  amount of time for the same task. Therefore, we should begin
  to compare these in tasks completed during that time instead.

FinnKuhnon Understanding ChatGPT Work

I feel like at least some of this is inspired by OpenClaw or at least driven by Peter Steinberger, as these benefits and ideas sound very similar as what he described his work in a few interviews before these features existed in ChatGPT Work.

FinnKuhnon The Amazon tax

If you are living in Germany I can not recommend https://geizhals.de/ enough. It is "just" a price comparision website, but it features most relevant online stores for me, annd more importantly their filters are just amazing and allow you to find products extremly efficient.

FinnKuhnon How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

@Dang: I would like to report an innocent victim to the automatic "How"-Removal.

FinnKuhnon How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Reddit as well. Although they let you disable it from what I remember.

FinnKuhnon The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

The comment described them as made out of plastic, while license plates here are usually made from aluminum, so I was thinking more along the lines of some kind of packaging.

FinnKuhnon Ethical Cold Outreach

They didn't say it was okay, but asked, if it mattered. As long as I don't find out probably not. If I do however...

FinnKuhnon The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

We use "AA AA 1234" or variations of that, so the examples did not register as license plates at all. Interesting.

FinnKuhnon Apple is getting this wrong

AI would have probably told you that posting this is not a good idea.

FinnKuhnon More German than many Germans

On the other hand, the dubbing for foreign movies is usually very well done though.

FinnKuhnon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

Those TV streaming boxes really are (from a cybersecurity perspective) probably one of the worst things you can buy. Here is the "Darknet Diaries" Episode on them: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/

FinnKuhnon US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search

Must be Gotham City

FinnKuhnon What happened to TheNumbers.com

According to the post inquiries for purchasing the data increased as a result though so they might not make the decision, but they do make the suggestion.

FinnKuhnon What happened to TheNumbers.com

They don't support it yet. It seems as if Cloudflare is trying to use it's power to force Google to change this though.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pus...

FinnKuhnon Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

No, in Germany you can not transfer the copyright itself, only a license. That license can however transfer exclusive usage rights, so in practice it ends up mostly similar, with some niche differences only. For example the creator has a right to attribution.

FinnKuhnon Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

> Can you explain how it is different from US law? It sounds closer to US law than to, for example, British law.

Yes, there are some similarities. The "personal intellectual creation" requirement I think is also similarly used in the US where only genuine intellectual creations by the author count as works. Typing "generate an image of a flower" doesn't clear that bar. If you however write very detailed long description of the image then it could clear that hurdle. The verdict says that the personal creative input needs to dominate the result if you sue someone over it, it is on you to proof that your prompt meet this hurdle, which "vibecoders" are not going to meet I believe.

However, in Germany copyright always belongs to the creator (a natural person), while in the US it can also be held by a company. In practice, this means you can't sell your copyright, only license it, although even an exclusive license has limits. So an AI provider never holds copyright over generated output either way: it either belongs to the creator or the output has none. German copyright law aims to protect the creator while US copyright law focuses more on economic aspects.

So the result is that either the author has the copyright (so just like any other code) or there is no copyright. Either way I don't see what issue uploading it to Codeberg could cause for them as it should be fine either way.

> You can find the original (German) verdict

I tried to explain the argument from the verdict in more detail above, otherwise number 18-22 are the relevant part. See here for the translation of those: https://claude.ai/share/4d52fb18-a375-4ce7-9d7f-35e3d52971aa The Bird & Bird article seems to pretty much say the same from what I can tell, just in more detail.