https://archive.ph/Z27fR

From the article: >Rich, powerful people are, at root, solipsists. The only way to amass a billion dollars is to inflict misery and privation on whole populations. The only way to look yourself in the mirror after you've done that, is to convince yourself that those people don't matter, that, in some important sense, they aren't real.

Europe faces a critical dependency on US cloud infrastructure, with 90% of its digital infrastructure controlled by American companies, according to competition expert Cristina Caffarra[^1]. This vulnerability has spurred concrete action, with public institutions in Austria, Germany, France and the International Criminal Court moving away from US providers. The core issue stems from the US CLOUD Act of 2018, which allows American authorities to access data held by US companies regardless of location, conflicting directly with EU privacy laws[^1]. This creates an "irreconcilable legal conflict" since any contract between European customers and US cloud providers is subordinate to US federal law. Several key developments highlight this shift: - Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy completed migration of 1,200 employees to European open-source platform Nextcloud[^1] - The International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft office software with OpenDesk after its chief prosecutor was locked out of Outlook[^1] - Germany's Schleswig-Holstein state has moved 24,000 civil servants to open-source alternatives[^1] However, challenges remain. The acquisition of Dutch cloud provider Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl demonstrates how European alternatives can be undermined through foreign acquisition[^1]. Critics also warn about "sovereignty washing," where US hyperscalers market 'sovereign cloud' solutions that don't resolve the fundamental legal conflicts[^1]. [^1]: [The Register - Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/)

Here's the corresponding youtube video by Benn Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

tl;dr: they successfully reached orbit, but failed to land

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off. See also https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw TAR file http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/

instruct model https://huggingface.co/tencent/WeDLM-8B-Instruct

Tldr: he wants a non-upgradeable laptop that is maxed out from day one. I'd want a bit more upgrade path than he does, but he has some interesting thoughts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40874639 > R60i nc for me > > I've liked bass. :)

Nvidia recorded no China sales revenue for H20 chips and reported revenue that narrowly beat Wall Street targets in the second quarter, as the AI chipmaker reported financial results on Wednesday. Nvidia has been navigating trade restrictions on H20 shipments to China since April. The U.S. government began issuing licenses for approved buyers in China in July, and Nvidia said a few of its China-based customers had received such licenses. But no H20 chip revenue to China was included in its second-quarter revenue, Nvidia said (It noted that some H20 chip inventory was sold outside of China in the second quarter, adding a $180 million benefit to the topline). Nvidia said it was not including H20 in its financial forecast for the current quarter, though it estimated that $2 billion to $5 billion worth of H20 chips could be shipped to China if “geopolitical” issues were resolved. The company also repeated its call for the U.S. government to allow it to sell its more advanced “Blackwell” generation of products to China.

DeepSeek has released V3.2, replacing the experimental version. There are two main models are open as always and can be downloaded from Hugging Face: - **V3.2**: General-purpose, balanced performance (GPT‑5 level) - **V3.2‑Speciale**: Specialized for complex reasoning (Gemini‑3.0‑Pro level) V3.2 can now "think" while using tools (like searching the web, running code, or calling APIs). This makes AI assistants more transparent and better at multi‑step tasks. You can choose thinking mode (slower but more thorough) or non‑thinking mode (faster for simple tasks). Key improvements are better reasoning transparency with the model explaining the steps when using tools, and stronger performance on benchmarks.

> Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19% N = 16

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34919033 > *[This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my > feelings about systems research these days. I won’t talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone’s excited about the computer industry. I may therefore present a picture somewhat darker than reality. However, I think the situation is genuinely bad and requires > action.](https://inf.ufes.br/~raulh/ufes/teaching/courses/sc/texts/utah200.pdf > )* > > * See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike for context