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pelorat··on Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
It is considered personal data by the likes of the EU, the issue however a pesky little thing called the Swedish Constitution, specifically chapter 2 of the "Freedom of the Press Act" which basically states, in very simple terms:

1. Everyone(1) shall be entitled to have free access to official documents.

2. Official documents are all(2) documents held and produced by the authorities.

(1)=Everyone includes everyone in the world, you do not have to live in Sweden or be a citizen and you do not have to identify yourself.

(2)=Some restrictions apply (natsec, medical, etc).

In short, most government databases are databases of "official documents", including the citizenship registry maintained by the tax authorities.

Downside: All the mundane information about you is public property; address, birthdate, tax records, school grades, drivers license, passport photograph, martial status, court cases and pretty much everything else you can't think of.

Upside: Applies to all politicians as well.

pelorat··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
That's because it's borderline impossible to produce SOTA chips in Europe (due to costs), and all non-SOTA fabs here already have what they need, and are reluctant to invest more (also due to costs).
pelorat··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
It's crazy how far behind Google has fallen in this space in just a single year
pelorat··on Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Unless it can do CAD via computer-use how can you say it rivals GPT-Astra?
pelorat··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
A mathematician that doesn't let themselves be inspired by, or learn from, other peoples work, are they really mathematicians?
pelorat··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
They have all the logs, URLs accessed and inter-agent communication. What they are saying is that no agents accessed their work during the effort, but that they have no idea if any of their chats have somehow made it into the training data the model was produced with.

It's entirely possible OIA scrapers have picked up their work somehow, and then it was anonymized using some outsourcing effort.

pelorat··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Well, no one arrived in this direction, because no one was sitting and prompting a model. It was 10000 agents working 24/7 for several days, trying millions of different directions.
pelorat··on Europe's largest carbon capture facility opens in the Netherlands
instead of pumping it underground, is it not possible to split the carbon from the oxygen, and bind the carbon as a useful solid form?
pelorat··on Incident with Github.com [resolved]
Github pricing is aimed at US companies. Small EU companies that can only afford to pay their 5-6 developers 60K euro per year rather selfhost than pay GitHub.
pelorat··on Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
Can't beat them... litigate?
pelorat··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
I've only found B2B oriented companies in the EU.

Edit: https://aisler.net/en/partners/librepcb

https://www.eurocircuits.com

https://beta-layout.com

LibrePCB from Aisler seems to be most like jlcpcb.

You do pay a lot more though due to industrial regulations. Only lead free solder is allowed in the EU, and chemical regulations and waste disposal laws will drive up the price a lot compared to similar services in China and the USA.

pelorat··on EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?
> EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?

I can answer that. A higher regulatory overhead that means less money for R&D and decreased profit margins for companies here in the EU. That's what's going to happen.

pelorat··on Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Yes of course, but you need to do it via the package manager. You can't "sudo make install". If you build your own software and want to install it system wide, you need to flatpack/brew it or run it in a docker container.

(obviously you can modify the filesystem if you really really really want to).

Bazzite is gaming oriented version of Fedora CoreOs. There are many different versions. I am running bluefin.

I've tried a lot of desktop linux distros, and to be honest, immutable linux feels like the future. Anything you do can simply be rolled back. Break something? Just roll it back.

And if you run something like Bazzite, but want to try out Bluefin-Dx which is developer oriented, then you can rebase your existing installation. If you don't like it, just revert back to Bazzite with a single command.

However, it's desktop oriented. Don't run CoreOs on a server.

pelorat··on Grok 4.5
xAI is under criminal investigation in the EU
pelorat··on The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
AIPAC is more than a PAC. Mossad involvement is all but guaranteed.
pelorat··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
I like RocketLab. Looking forward to Neutron etc. But this is a bad investment, no other way to put it.
pelorat··on Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)
It's a decent game, but not a good 1v1 game. Fun to watch the massive 100+ player brawls though.
pelorat··on Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
Personally? Yes (and I hate it).

Autocomplete of entire functions and methods. Nice, but also really boring. Takes the fun out it. It's all about fixing sup-par code now, a line here or there.

It's just boring. I tried writing some code by hand today after a few months hardly thinking about things and it was really hard to do even the simplest stuff.

pelorat··on Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
The fighter jet program was a jobs program, not dissimilar to how many US government programs are jobs programs by having different parts of it made in different states for no goo reason. Add in some nationalism and it was inevitable it would not work out.
pelorat··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Sure, in Europe we don't because we already have databases of all citizens, also recording attributes like race, skin color, religious affiliation or political leaning in a database is highly illegal, both for the government and for private use.
pelorat··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
Of course it is, the USA is under the control of a petty toddler that demands absolute loyalty, not to the country, but him personally.
pelorat··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
Like the USA, I don't think Russia codifies treaties into law. Like in the USA, treaties for Russia are mere suggestions used as a geopolitical tool until inconvenient.
pelorat··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Depends on the language. Gemini and Claude are far superior when it comes to C# for instance, compared to anything that OAI offers.
pelorat··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
pretty much
pelorat··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
"Satan" as in the original meaning of the word "adversary of god". They are not calling you Satan as a way to say evil, but as a way to say "adversary of our faith".
pelorat··on China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
> which is way easier for ethnic Chinese people than for other races

Nationals. The word you are looking for is nationals.

pelorat··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Thought traces are indeed not an accurate representation of what models actually do. If you ask an AI model to add two values it will do so, then in the next prompt ask it to explain the algorithm it used, it will regurgitate that it used some standard textbook method, whilst in reality it used a completely different algorithm. Thinking LLMs don't record the neural pathways they used.
pelorat··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
For that you would need Gemini Ultra
pelorat··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
In the case of the military I'd say the real reason is political. After the fall of the Berlin wall, Europe collectively agreed (knowingly or not) that war is now a thing of the past and the goal should be the complete dismantling of militaries worldwide, starting with Europe. Lead by example, etc.
pelorat··on DeepSeek v4
USA invoked article 5.
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