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One issue the author doesn't touch on is authentication in the AI era. It's now exceedingly easy for someone to clone a voice, so that phone call at 1 a.m. may not even be a loved one on the other end.

In my family, we've settled on a code word: if anything happens, we simply ask them to say it to prove they are who they claim to be. Otherwise, I treat any call, especially one at 1 am, with suspicion.

I just learned yesterday that the default model on Mistral monthly plan is GLM 5.3 (an open weight Chinese model)

It's kind of sad that the only European LLM lab of significance is not even setting their model as a default one any longer.

Realizing something is not the same as acting on it and Europe is falling further and further behind.

Exactly especially without any hardware specs. This thing could be outdated in early 2027 let alone December.

Nah - Music, TV, Fitness etc all included. All shared with the family (and extended family) so it doesn't have the friction of piecemealing it all together, which I value more than anything.

I have a subscription to Apple+, 2 TB, $40 month plan.

I'm still getting the ads to upgrade my storage. Can't dismiss it. Why?

You have Toronto, Ontario under Ontario Airport in California. As well as Hamptons Cam in Long Beach, I think.

Has Mistral released anything worthwhile in the past 6 months compared to the Chinese and American labs? Mistral Medium and Shieldstral? Qwen27B and Deepseek were released the same week as Mistral which... certainly took the wind out of its sails.

Yoshua Bengio is a gem, LLMs don't exist without him. But what has Canada done as a whole in terms of releasing anything approaching Astra, GLM, etc.?

Then maybe the EU and Canada should start innovating, so they can have a seat at the table rather than just wringing their hands about it.

He bought YouTube ads with his companies corporate credit card for his kid because his kid was complaining he wasn't getting enough digital attention… there’s so much wrong with this scenario and a couple steps beyond “my kid wants a new stuffy.”

Grok? Google?

I'm not a fan of Elon, nor do I use Cursor, but OpenAI and Anthropic aren't the only models.

There is no moat. You can vibecode an app that does this conversion in 30 minutes and never need to upload it to a AI again.

I'm not saying this right or wrong, but it is what a tech savy (e.g HN audience) has and will be doing. '

Perhaps we aren't the market for this webapp but I don't really the value it in post 2025

It’s a garbage article with no real content aside from being a superficial advertisement

The money is in B2B. This is nice as a hobby project, but it won’t scale beyond that as meeting transcriptions/summarization are an actual business force multiplier.

I wouldn’t quit your day job to go all in on this.

It’s a LinkedIn post disguised as a website

I really love the pedantry, thanks for the laugh

So to play devil's advocate... were you taking your eyes off the road for too long?

There are many many poor drivers and many many distracted drivers out there. I'm not accusing you of one, but maybe a little bit of self-introspection may be necessary.

A wise man once told me that most relationships can survive two affairs or one house remodel.

Really should be the turnover amount for operations originating from the EU, not worldwide.

Who reads these scans and who assume liabilities for missed reads?

Disabled in the sense they get more time to take tests.

I have Hermes and set it up so that it works on a self-hosted Matrix instance. It was pretty simple to set up after some back and forth with a more powerful model. It's primarily how I interact with Hermes. I don't really use a command line on my computer with it.

Just open up a Matrix Element chat window and go at it. I've been replacing more and more apps on my phone with this setup, and it's pretty streamlined. It's nice knowing that everything is local. The Matrix server is local, the local AI inference is local, etc.

So their hands are clean, but they’re outsourcing the dirty work.

But he avoids SpaceX and Tesla, which I think is probably the driving factor in not using QQQ. Maybe he values that more than $500

If your PCP checks a CBC and a CMP, all of these metrics are there (which virtually 99% of PCP’s do yearly). Lipid panels are regularly checked, A1c is checked periodically if you have a diabetes risk, usually every 1 to 3 years based off USPSTF guidelines.

The only thing that is not regularly checked is a vitamin D level.

So unless you go to some quack MD who orders nothing (which is usually the exact opposite of what quack MDs do) you’re wrong.

Source: I’m a MD

What does UK and Switzerland have that even remotely compares to what China has in terms of AI?

FYI: LinkedIn blog slop post

So no insight and just going off blogposts and YouTube huh. Pot kettle calling each other black etc.

That is a petty big assumption (aka bullshit) unless you have direct insight the inner workings of the big US labs. Just because it isn’t published doesn’t mean that innovation is not happening.

I have a similar set up. I communicate/chat with the Hermes agent via Matrix chat client.

So rather than having to go to a bunch of different websites or apps to get things done, I've linked them all to Hermes (via skills) and chat with the Hermes agent on my phone.

I want a movie? I just say download XYZ. Shows up in Plex 5 min later.

I want to research something with multiple different perspectives? Rather than going to OpenWebUI and using that, I just asked a Hermes agent to examine an issue from multiple different viewpoints and get back to me with a conclusion.

Yep. I agree. This and other systems like it are for people who obsess over planning on doing work rather than actually doing any.