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I rendered to MiniMax's preferred 768px resolution and then used the RTX-powered upscaler x1.5, which does a good job of upscaling.

MiniMax does produce crisp imagery if you use a high number of steps (20+)

Also, Musk was the chief product architect of Tesla’s first car, the Roadster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(first_generati...

ASML is not the norm in Europe. It is the exception.

The top ten companies by revenue, worldwide, features zero European companies.

We in Europe cheer our meddling technocratic leadership while sneering at American risk taking and innovation. We have a fundamental cultural malaise, and those of my friends who feel the same as me have simply left Europe for a better life in the US or other dynamic economies.

At this point I feel like a stick in the mud for staying here, and quite honestly, I worry for my children's future here.

If you watch the actual video, you’ll see Musk saying “my heart goes out to you all” as he waves his arm in the air. The Left would love us to imagine he’s saying “sieg heil” or “exterminate the j3ws” or some such, but that’s far from the truth. The media hoopla around a freeze frame of someone raising their arm is a desperate partisan attempt to smear a political rival.

If Elon hadn’t worked with Orange Man Bad, then the Left would still be in love with him for his massive former donations to the Democrat political machine, and his work against climate change.

The whole “he’s a nazi” accusation is banal, and people are seeing through it now. That’s why we’ve moved on.

Also MCP allows exposition, which helps an autonomous agent understand the semantics of the API.

That's the killer feature from my PoV. I just point my agent at a URL and suddenly it knows when, why and how to use it.

No, we don’t have to ignore it completely. You might be unable to tolerate a company CEO having a different worldview to your own, but the rest of us don’t care, and we’ll use whatever online services we like, thank you very much

nope, not at present. The houses act as your "health" (once they're all gone, it's game over), so I'm minded to keep them as a finite resource. Always open to suggestions to improve the game dynamics though.

> That the USA is turning into the number #1 rogue country is also problematic. Trump is damaging everything here

Only in the minds of the far left is "Trump damaging everything", or is the US "the #1 rogue country"

Personally I support reindustrialisation, reinstating secure borders, and taking down totalitarian regimes that killed thousands of innocent people

'decolonize the curriculum' says it all.

This is the left doing what they always do: finding supposed victims and oppressors, and acting (loudly and publicly) as white knight saviours.

Doesn't matter if the victims asked for their help or not, or even if the issue is real. This is a performative act of virtue by the left. Nothing more.

The UN is 1-country-1-vote, which means Western liberal market economies are in the minority. As an organisation it structurally favours the economic-distributional and collectivist economies.

The New International Economic Order (UNGA, 1974), the New World Information and Communication Order at UNESCO, the 2024 Global Principles for Information Integrity and the Global Digital Compact are ideological, and all about global redistribution of wealth and international control of media flows.

The UN is not an organisation that exists to promote the values of freedom and equality of opportunity that underpin constitutions like the US.

Caption.me owner here. Sincerely interested in any and all suggestions. I admit the landing page experience for non-signed-in users is pretty weak as it stands.

Yup, I was had by a malicious fake Homebrew site that had the #1 spot in Google thanks to it being an ad (a key fact that was very unclear at the time of browsing Google)

My Adsense account got automatically disabled years ago, allegedly for click fraud (no such behaviour on my part) and there was no effective way for me to appeal.

I'm now a huge supporter of any initiative or law that attempts to break Google's stranglehold on online advertising. They have placed too much responsibility in their broken automation, and they are a bad faith actor in the space.

> In 2010: Wikimedia Foundation annual expenses were about $20m

The numbers are worse than that. FY2009-10 expenses were $10.3M. FY2024-25: $190.9M. 19x increase in fifteen years.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics

Salaries alone were $106.9M last year (from the Foundation's own Form 990 FAQ). And it's not as if the money is needed: the Foundation holds $296M in assets, plus a further $169M in a separate endowment.

Wikipedia's own editors held an RfC in 2022 and found "broad, near-unanimous consensus" that the donation banners were misleading - the ones hinting the site might go dark without your £2.

  https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-donate.html

The spending grew anyway. What do donors clicking those banners imagine they're funding?

I use MCP for Stackography, a tool I built that visualises my estate (hosts, apps, databases, tunnels, proxies etc), showing a force-directed graph, which includes live health, and a flexible search tool. It's very good for answering questions like "what stuff am I running under Docker", or "show me everything that makes up app X". Also shows the history of changes, summarised by LLM.

MCP is useful because it has instructions to Claude (or the agent of your choice) that tell it how and when to manage the graph. Integrating with Stackography is a one-line operation:

    claude mcp add --transport http stackography https://app.stackography.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer stk_...

Now when Claude builds me something new, it knows to update Stackography.

invite link: https://stackography.com/invite/8J22NXZSFT

I totally agree. When we started splitting presentation from content (CSS) that was a wonderful step forwards. And splitting back-end and front-end concerns similarly makes for a cleaner and more elegant design in both codebases.

IMO HTMX is a weird regression in our design patterns. Hopefully a temporary anomaly. I'd never choose to work in a company that adopted this mixing of front and back end code - it's a red flag as far as I'm concerned.

> Some people say it's a loss for EU sovereign AI but HF is technically an American corporation

Three French founders set up the company in New York, raised their money from American investors (Salesforce, GV, IBM, Nvidia) and are now selling to an American chip company for $12.9B.

Europe's most successful AI company was only ever European in the nationality of its founders.

> the founders (Julien, Thomas and Clem - all French) stem to make significant amount of money, which they are likely to pour into a new frontier AI lab in Europe

Why would they do that? They already moved to America once to build a company. Since then the EU has passed the AI Act (obligations on general purpose model providers in force since August 2025), so the incentive to build the next one in Europe is weaker than it was in 2016, not stronger.

Ambitious Europeans have been voting with their feet for decades. The EU could fix this any time it liked by getting out of the way of its own entrepreneurs, but it prefers to write more regulation and then complain about "sovereignty" when the businesses it drove away get bought.

Interesting that Hugging Face turned down a $500M investment from Nvidia less than a year ago (at a $7B valuation) because they "didn't want a dominant investor that could sway its decisions"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvidia-closes-in-on-huggin...

Ten months later they're selling the entire company to Nvidia for $12.9B. So much for not wanting a dominant investor ...

I pull weights from HF most weeks (Ollama, ComfyUI etc) and I suspect Nvidia aren't paying 86x revenue for a file host. They're paying for the fact that every README, notebook and workflow on the planet has a hardcoded huggingface.co path in it. It's the npm/PyPI of AI, and now the company that sells the GPUs also owns the registry that decides which models are easy to find and download

I don't think Nvidia will start deleting models. They don't need to. They just need to make sure the models that run best on CUDA get promoted, and the ones that run well on a Mac or an AMD card (or the "abliterated" finetunes) quietly get less visibility. Nvidia have plenty of form for this kind of segmentation (e.g. removing NVLink from consumer cards after the 3090).

The only alternative registry with any real scale is ModelScope, which is owned by Alibaba. So the choice for anyone worried about this is an American GPU monopoly or the Chinese Communist Party. Anyone know of a serious third option?

I have aphantasia. When I learnt the “mind’s eye” was not a metaphor, it was a wild moment for me! I still find it hard to believe that others are able to visualise using their imagination.

I’m curious about a potential link between aphantasia and autism. I’m 37 on the Autism Spectrum Quotient scale (test link below if anyone’s interested in doing it). “Significant autistic traits.” It makes sense to me that my inability to visualise people’s faces might make me less empathetic with others. Aphantasia might explain why I imagine systems, concepts and ideas rather than people, things and events.

https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient

That Bluesky link is sign-in-walled.

Ironic, given how many people criticise X.com for its sign-in requirements.

X.com makes it nearly impossible to run bot accounts, with its phone number per account requirement, and the astronomical fees for using its API.

Twitter, by comparison, was trivially easy to run bots on. I ran many automated Twitter accounts (for legit purposes). I had to shut them all down when Musk bought Twitter.

It's not insane if you're trying to build a social network without bots and foreign interference.

There's no "catastrophising" here. This is simply an article that rationally explains why the latest EU regulation is well meaning but poorly implemented.

It just so happens that the same is true for a lot of EU technical regulation.

At what point are we allowed to say "the EU is failing to regulate its members effectively"?

Or are we not allowed to say that because it would create some kind of catastrophe where the EU Commission loses its power over the EU27 and Russia invades (or somesuch catastrophising...?)

Ruby (language) on Rails (highly opinionated framework) is both a language and an architecture.

After their infamous "Fail Whale" outages, Twitter replaced its Ruby on Rails / MySQL stack with modern (at the time) technologies: Scala (functional language running on the JVM) / Finagle (RPC) / Thrift (framework) / Kafka (message queues) and this made Twitter stable under the load of several hundred million users.

Ruby is single-threaded, slow with poor GC and memory leaks. As Twitter's Alex Payne said publicly in 2008: "there shouldn't be doubt in anybody's mind that Ruby itself is slow" and that scaling Rails meant "just throw more instances at it"

Anyone thinking of buying 2x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwells - beware: unlike other cards e.g. RTX 5090, The RTX Pro 6000 cards cannot be NV-Linked, so you'll be going through the PCIe bus instead (7x higher sync cost)

They deserve it.

I'm in the UK. The smartest developers I worked with in my ~20 year career were all Polish.

The hardest-working and most skilled tradespeople that worked on my houses were Polish.

The EU is completely different to a parliamentary democracy.

Only the unelected European Commission is able to originate and repeal law.

The elected “Parliament” is only able to vote Directives through. And if Parliament vote against a Directive, the Commission pushes repeatedly until they get the result they want.

As former EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker stated: “We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker

This website tracks AI model political leanings:

https://trakkr.ai/bias

Grok differs from some of the other models (it's more libertarian, and more right wing), but all models have their biases - particularly ChatGPT, which sits to the economic left of 81% of US adults. See https://trakkr.ai/bias/findings

In the EU that's the norm not the exception. A little taste of Europe for our American friends :-S

Just my idea. I'm working on a side project https://newsavista.com/invite/ASAD68923E that aggregates news and tracks news trends and changing sentiment on the major stories. With cheap cloud LLMs (and "free" local LLMs) it turns out to be a trivial feature to build.