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What I'd like seen addressed is the insistence of every app trying it's best to include formatting information, even so far as to include table cells formatting data in the clipboard. I've found copying this format info useful maybe twice(?) in my 50+ year life and otherwise it is a huge PITA. Including having email clients crash or refuse to properly undo weird table formats that unintentionally get pasted over. Instead, I have to paste to an open editor in a terminal window and then do another copy and paste to the destination to most reliably disable this.

The models were built using copyrighted works, so why can't models be built using other models?

And the fact they used a Chinese model, because none of the frontier models from very highly valuated top US companies support their very common and essential use case.

From https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 , this is frickin' hilarious:

When we started the log analysis, we first used frontier models behind commercial APIs. This did not work: the analysis requires submitting large volumes of real attack commands, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts, and these requests were blocked by the providers' safety guardrails, which cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker. We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.

My thought is they might have set up the environment sloppily because they knew this could have led to something like this happening.

Because they are testing it and are expected to erect guardrails before releasing.

This article will apply for about 3 months until AI advances again and the assumptions made are no longer true.

You can't take a rapidly developing field and pretend progress is going to freeze at its current development level so you can decide how to handle it.

It's a coping mechanism to deal with rapid change by pretending change is going to stoo right here right now and you can get a handle on it.

Would anyone besides those within China themselves use a completely closed and hidden model from China for their critical business needs?

A counterpoint would be all are chip fabs are in Taiwan right now due to huge investment. And there are lower end chip fabs around the world, but they have not cracked the major market.

Maybe you have to go through a gate keeper stage. Ex.

""" In the following script, does this line make sense?

"Player: I put a cigar in the his mouth"

Script:

<Background, situational data, etc.>

Player: I raise my sword. DM: The kobold turns to you and says, "You're next", ax dripping with blood. """

And then, if it says no, ask it why and output that to the player. Or if it says yes, add it to the script and continue on.

Click on the queen. It will show the order the pieces move. If one piece blocks another from killing you, and the first piece moves earlier, then the second will be able to move after and kill you.

Their competitors are xbox and playstation and the cost is way more than each of these. You admit you won't even buy it because I guess you are too technologically inclined. And yet it's not a flop to you. Why?

The fact they've worked on running games on linux for over a decade and still only have a 5% market cap does not bode well for them.

This was supposed to be their great moment, and they ruined it with an expensive box with subpar performance. They should have waited. Now after the hype dies down and it doesn't sell, they'll just have another black eye they have to recover from.

Look, I run linux and have for 30 years. I run games on linux and have steam on linux installed myself. But I'm not trying to fool myself and others that it's some great success story. It isn't.

I think you're too cloae to take any criticism. Any result seems like it'd be a success to you.

So what are you saying? They can do this single limited release and then discontinue it and everyone is going to be happy about it? People will just flock to the next version when it comes out and not feel burned by what happened?

Not many people run games on linux, only about 5%, amd of those nearly all keep a windows OS around to handle edge cases and upgrading firmware, etc.

This is what the fight is about. If Steam can't get linux based devices into the hands of enough people continuing to support it will remain a money pit for them for as long as they try.

Releasing the Steam box at this price is not helping their cause. They have to recover from this now.

It all depends on how well they support the current iteration, though.

If it turns into a Google Glass or an Apple Vision Pro and is left nearly or actually abandoned, then I think people won't be so interested.

I bet it sells out, too. But selling out a heavily limited release doesn't mean they are going to make a profit.

Selling out doesn't equate to success. They've already said the initial launch will be heavily limited.

What matters is if they make a profit throughout the product's lifecycle. Not whether they sell out on initial release.

At this price point they should have never released it, they should have waited. Everywhere I see reviews of it on the internet, come along with forced smiles and talk about how they agree with the philosophy behind it and they should be commended for fighting against Windows. But ultimately no one recommends this to the general public.

The writing is on the wall. This thing is going to flop.

Only thing they can do now is keep it on the market, and in a few years upgrade *and* discount this thing in hopes of reigniting the hype.

If they withdraw it, the very small but existing set of current buyers will scream bloody murder about being abandoned, and if they then try and re-release, trust will already have been broken.

Its primary function – setting it apart from other eyewear data systems – is to provide instantly visible alerts about the behaviour other road users (e.g. such as brake light activation, *crash detection*, etc)

Just what I need, when a car nearby me crashes into a physical object, my vizor helmet is shouting "Bonzai!!!" with lighting bolts everywhere.

It was never about us.

Reminds me of the PS3 and its OtherOS feature.

The difference is that making Linux doesn't require a lot of money to do. Most of it is written by people for free in their spare time. They do it because they like to solve complex puzzles and be recognized within the opensource community.

OTOH, training a model requires a lot of hardware and energy to do, and the money has to come from somewhere.

Do you think that China's government is going to pay for it and release it openly to the world for the purpose of goodwill towards China, or some other reason? What would it be? Or would some other groups do it?

Yes, I agree. I'm not saying China is bad doing this, it's just this is what they are doing IMO.

Spending huge amounts of money to gain a foothold in AI because it helps their country is not a bad thing at all.

But my point is that the day that the USA's AI industry collapses in on itself, Chinese companies are going to also stop open sourcing their models, too.

It may sound like I'm kicking China for this, I'm not. It's just a practical take. You can't make money spending 10s or 100s of millions of dollars just to then give away everything for free and expect to make money long term. Do you agree?

For 400+ lines of html, not bad, even if it is AI generated: https://github.com/garritfra/pac-hunt/blob/main/index.html

The Chinese government grossly subsidized many industries to undercut their competitors and form monopolies, such as solar panels, electric cars, battery cells, and steel and aluminum manufacturing, not to mention rare earths. Yes, they are more efficient, I don't disagree with you there.

But they aren't making any money releasing open weight models, and no, I don't believe they are like Linus Torvalds with some grand vision of free as is freedom AI models, but rather doing more of the same.

Don't they lose money on every token they sell, though? It may be a blessing in disguise. They can now use all of their resources towards superintelligence, and can't be considered selfish/evil for not sharing their fruits. The government made me now becomes an excuse.

Even if everyone uses Chinese open weight models at somw point, how do you make money creating them?

This is just typical Chinese behavior. Flood the market with cheap or free stuff and wait for your competitors to die off. Then you have a monopoly. (Maybe you were implying that would happen, dunno)

That's an unfair way of looking at things. Many people don't vote because they don't think they can change anything. Furthermore, the way the U.S. voting system works, if you are in a deep blue or deep red state, your vote will have no effect, since all the states electorates will go towards whoever won the popular vote in that state. So it's really a waste of time unless you live in a swing state.

SpaceX will be listed on QQQ in the next fifteen days. There are only around 4.2% shares publicly available for trading, (about $75 billion out of a $1.75T market cap). This means passive funds that include QQQ will be forced to buy and compete over a very small sliver of the total shares (estimated at around $25 billion)

The exchange regulations have just been inexplicably loosened a month ago to allow this circus to happen. Beforehand, a company would have to show profitability and stability and wouldn't be allowed to be listed on an index for at least a year after its IPO.

So there is no wonder why the price is as it is. Perfect scam for wallstreet and the little guy get screwed so even better.

Sometimes who can't be bothered to make the text on their website not extremely tiny when viewing on mobile shouldn't be writing multi-page rants on the other people's UI.