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eastbound··on Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Already done. Here is information from the top comment: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
eastbound··on Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
> $20 subscription is very generous, and they claim not to log or train on your data.

The principle of running locally is that you’re not in the cloud.

eastbound··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
MS owns Typescript and NPM and Azure and LinkedIn. I know you meant programming on Windows, but even if Windows disappears, many of us will owe our job to Microsoft.
eastbound··on Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
> It's easy to make the argument:

And it is false. Those are truthisms, except at one point, college can destroy people’s lives. College can teach people wrong things. College can misdirect people from being about to contribute to the economy and redirect them towards the political goals of the teachers, especially when those don’t derive revenue from their contribution to the economy. College can also misdirect people who would have been happier and more useful with immediate work.

There goes my demonstration: College can be harmful to society, it’s subjective to judge when the threshold was crossed. For my opinion, it was crossed in 2013 through politicization.

eastbound··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
You’re listing every feature I’d like to remove; Meanwhile Android users have great holiday pictures at the bottom of the Pyramids because they can remove the people from their pictures.
eastbound··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
I’ve lived in Australia and France and I’ve always attributed the taller size of Australians to the excellent state of their ventilation in buildings. Vents (and rooms themselves) are systematically bigger than in France, and if you live in a healthy environment, with meat, lots out outdoors during teen age, and correctly ventilated classrooms during their 20 best years, it makes no secret to me that they grew bigger.

Meanwhile in France we heat classrooms by stacking 35 kids in a confined space. It saves on heating, plus condensation that makes windows opaque helps pupils concentrate on the blackboard, as teachers said during my childhood.

eastbound··on Holes
Lake Peigneur was swallowed by a whirlpool like in an anime, in a sad drilling that took away entire boats. The salt geologic bubble under the lake can absorb gigantic volumes of water, and a drilling for the exploitation of petrol initiated the hole.

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

eastbound··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
It’s beautiful because Boeing started, not with the smallest, but with the largest plane possible. Meanwhile Airbus started with Concorde, a completely orthogonal project to round up everyone’s identical patriotism, and both projects were absolutely beautiful in their own way!
eastbound··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
The French famously got the Congés Payés (paid holidays) in 1936 after the big strike. You have great pictures of entire trains of Parisians going to the beach in Deauville by droves.

Meanwhile the Germans were working overnight to manufacture bombs. That, alone, is already a sufficient explanation on why we got invaded and lost our country to one of the evilest powers of Earth. France had to be rescued by the Russian, the English and the Americans after losing millions of inhabitants. Because we literally took too much holidays.

The one who works the most reaps the entire benefits. And it’s clearly not good to ask for less work all the time. Today France is peanuts on the international market, we are second at everything. Who heard of DailyMotion, which was once as big as Youtube, or Mistral, which was supposed to be our OpenAI?

eastbound··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
Commercial entities are 95% of useful open-source (Linux, Postgres and similar — excluding leftstr-type of utilities).
eastbound··on Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
Last industrial revolution (late 1700-to-1800), we invented world-scale capitalism, communism, democracy, having rights as humans, war at scale and we burnt our planet. I think the results of a revolution are really unfathomable and not even imaginable to humans.
eastbound··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
We have a say at a 4th level of derived decision, which is 2 levels more than what people call a democracy. Also, the other political party will do it too.

= We don’t have a say. We voted NO to the new EU treaties in 2008 and the new president decided that electing him meant that we approved the same treaties.

They only let us vote when we agree, anyway.

eastbound··on Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)
I would say the most added value, keeping your angle, is auto-updating Linux, and assuming/handling the security vulnerabilities updates.
eastbound··on Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)
The French are second to everything + they strip naked the CEOs they hate (the Air France event and the series of CEOs taken hostage in the 1990ies) = They would never align themselves to build something that makes money. DailyMotion is 1/1000th what Youtube is; Mistral is 1/1000th what OpenAI is, nothing has changed in 20 years.

Sure France would spend the money. We’d see none of the results.

eastbound··on Stop Advertising in Your Commits
Working alone, I often look at the Git Blame and wonder “Wait, did I write that or did AI write that?”
eastbound··on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
Yes, I am saying that I don’t trust anyone who trusts obviously-bad science and requires me to believe it.

Some parts of science became political. The goal seems to convince a population, not determine what is true or not.

So if you extract one field which is extremely corrupt, with practices that would seem obvious to anyone who studied Stalin, which soils the ideas and principles of sciences, and another fields rejects the idea of denouncing the first field: that demonstrates that they are both politicized sciences. Covid science, climate science and social sciences all three ask you to “trust the science” and use authority to become right.

Meanwhile a researcher who is funded by private companies for technical advances, generally produces good science. They don’t usually need to jail their opponents.

eastbound··on Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers
> Having doors flying off one of your planes (…) definitely not a bit of politics.

It’s a checkmate of the American system. Boeing delegated construction in parts of the country that needed jobs (=politics), who then botched the job and didn’t get sanctioned because it was bad optics to accuse those providers (2013 airframes). More recent events are also a checkmate of the ultrafinanciarization practices, a checkmate of the consultancy / provider / controller model, and a failure of corruption (the FAA/Boeing dinners inherited from the Macdonnell management) in a context where USA rips at the seams (industrial failure, no-one can be trusted as trustworthy) and tries to renew its ideology (apogee with the Trump elections).

That is a fair bit of politics that made Boeing fail.

eastbound··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
Tommy R was thrown feces upon him in a jail cell for 8 months (along with noise torture and losing 15% of his body weight out of food privation). Torture chambers fully exist for thought criminals in UK.
eastbound··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
It’s a giant tragedy of the commons. I’ve fired remote people who pretended to work, knowing that I wouldn’t hire remote workers ever again after AI.
eastbound··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
And yet, some people argue that you shouldn’t ask a developer to align 3 “if” and 1 “for”!!!

The energy spent arguing that those 4 instructions in a row “are not a mark of someone who can write code” would have better been spent firing them.

eastbound··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Since real-life situations involve AI, banning AI would make CTFs just a simple game, not a demonstration of capabilities and talent.
eastbound··on How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Apple knows better than to buy a pile of incompetent smugs. Intel was rock bottom before Europe determined it was a “strategic move”[1] to buy factories in Europe from the only manufacturer that hasn’t innovated since 20 years, quickly followed by the US. In both cases, governments aren’t the most savvy spenders.

[1] A “strategic” expense is named like this when you can’t justify it by any rational means.

eastbound··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
For minors, caning is with half-inch cane, which is the only one available in supermarkets. Only judicial caning is with the inch cane.
eastbound··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
That’s generally the solution for bullies. I wonder whether that is also the solution for victims, making them strong enough.
eastbound··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
The gender gap in compassion is always surprising. There is never “educate boys to fix society”. The argument is as follows: “But girls get raped, so we need to save them” “Who rapes girls?” “Boys” “What opportunities do they have?” “Drugs, army, and the street” “Wouldn’t they too deserve to be given care, notably the care that was too given to girls?” “No, [various reasons]” “But don’t you care that girls get raped by boys?” “Yes” “So what do you do?” “Take care of the girls”.
eastbound··on The Burning Man MOOP Map
Maybe wisdom gives another perspective on the ideals we had in our youth?
eastbound··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
It makes you intolerant, as you are unable to comprehend the opinion of other normal people in your society.

The action of performing real-life drastic sanctions against people you don’t tolerate is an extremism.

And it is the general opinion of most Mozilla idealists. Mozilla is a political project, and is dangerous to our democracy.

eastbound··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Your perspective only confirms that it’s popular within the Mozilla audience to ban people for their political opinion when it’s slightly out of currently-approved opinions. TODAY. Not 18 years ago. Today.

Making Mozilla a politically-extremist organization intolerant to other opinions than theirs, and thus incompatible with being a steward of the global web.

eastbound··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
> the benefit you get from coming up with this idea is that you can publish it for the world to see, and that's the only way you can benefit from it

That’s your opinion, but it’s not the spirit of the law. I’m personally fully against Intellectual Property, including for movies and music, for reasons that are obvious (public money is being spent aimlessly trying to prevent two private individuals from copying things that are copied by their very nature of being published - or trying to prevent people from using ideas that are contagious - what next, put a copyright on political ideas? on dance moves? on beautiful colors?) but that’s not the law.

> we would have gone thousands of years with no method

There are other methods: The 4 arrows. The tab method is much more efficient and easy to implement, but we would have gone with the 4-arrows-to-navigate-fields method.

eastbound··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
If Mozilla fired its CEO for a private political donation from 10 years earlier, it will not hesitate to do much worse to its users. Mozilla isn’t on the good side here.

He’s the founder of Brave, by the way.

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