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It actually looks like an open source German model that might be useful! However, I'm not sure which version I should try - they provide two reasoning versions.

I have a quite specific use case. I work for a government agency and we run our AI assistant with models from Azure, which works fine! (Although the models aren't always released with EU data residency)

Our most interesting data and documents are classified (VS-NfD), and I don't know of any good certified AI solutions for that yet. I would love to experiment more with deeper system integration, but we can't do that without frontier VS-NfD models.

very fun to feel how a word with many repeatead letters is really much easier to spot, because the necessary search algorithm is just that much faster!

I was just about to post the same thing. The fun is not just in solving the puzzle, but in solving it in a specific way (hub word first, purple category first)

It's a different country, and Switzerland is not even in the EU.

Sovereignty is a political buzzword. From the political point of view, you want your country to be as independent as possible. This means you need the capabilities to build and deploy good AI models. Initiatives like this are more about capability-building and less about LLM-building.

Why do we need capabilities in Europe? Because Trump and Xi can't be trusted to keep providing us with new frontier models in the next years.

We also have Eventim and many other local ticket shops. I usually get my tickets right at the venue's online shop, or maybe from the artist. They use all kinds of systems.

Adding full interoperability with Matrix clients as a paid add-on to Teams would be this

Wero's messaging is so confusing. It's so many different things at the same time. In short: Wero is a brand name for a collection of payment services. They are merging multiple European alternatives, like Spain's Bizum and the Netherlands' IDeal. These mergers are in various stages, so what exactly "Wero" can do depends on: - your bank - your country

Wero-proper (like it is in Germany, not a rebrand of a pre-existing system) currently supports peer-to-peer payments via SEPA instant transfer, using a centralized phone number <> IBAN lookup server.

Wero also supports online e-commerce payments (with buyer's protection similar to credit cards, managed by the customer's bank). But not all banks that support Wero p2p also support Wero E-commerce. If your payments run on e.g. Stripe, you can enable Wero for all participating banks. Wero is cheaper than credit card payments.

Some time next year, Wero will offer in-store point-of-sale (POS) payments. Afaik, those are not live anywhere yet.

I think with all the mergers with established systems, the chance of success is really high.

no, this is just about the shape of the quote.

There are straight quotes: ' or "

and there are curly quotes: ‘ and ’ or “ and ”

"curling" then just means "figuring out whether it's an opening or closing quote"

Having a heat pump for heating is then really important, as compared to a simple resistive heating element

Haystack is a popular Framework for building AI agents: https://haystack.deepset.ai/

In Germany, we have the similar portal https://opencode.de (no relation to the coding agent)

It's built on Gitlab and does everything you need your git to do.

They also provide hardened base container images at https://container.gov.de

Fun read :D

At least I'm already working for the government, so I'm on the right track ;)

and crucially, foam has to be above the line.

There is some back and forth around whether it's legal to serve beer in traditional ceramic steins, where customers can not verify that the foam really starts above the line.

As I understand, it is legal in Germany, but only if there is visible signage that informs customers about their right to pour their beer into a marked standard glass to check the amount. Source (German): https://www.abendblatt.de/incoming/article402102835/wer-hat-...

In 1899, an association was formed in Munich to combat fraudulent pouring. It was banned by the Nazis and re-formed in 1970. They went around and measured beers. This post is its spiritual successor. German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verein_gegen_betr%C3%BCgerisch...

but this breaks the entire premise of the agent. If my emails are fed in as data, can the agent act on them or not? If someone sends an email that requests a calendar invite, the agent should be able to follow that instruction, even if it's in the data field.

I don't understand the need for e-voting. Germany's entirely paper-based system works fine! After voting closes, volunteers count the votes for a few hours and we get a result.

a few days ago, someone joked on Twitter that "Germany is launching an alternative to Claude Code, it’s called Klaus Programmieren and it will run on sovereign ai system with chips made in Germany. The project is currently in the planning phase but the Federal Government has already committed a record sum of 50 Million Euros" [1]

Well, someone else(?) made it real in a high quality vibe coded shitpost!

[1] https://x.com/runaway_vol/status/2027433937002254789?s=20

I think this is what my German electronic ID card does. The card connects to an app on my phone via NFC, a service can cryptographically verify a claim about my age, and no additional info is leaked to the service provider or the government.

What you need to consider is that you also get compounding returns by treating a patient. They can now be more productive and contribute to their local economy. They might plausibly have a higher return rate (in wellbeing terms) than your alternative investment into stocks.

What will probably happen is that someone will develop an industry standard for "non-addictive design" and go around certifying products or product development practices. Like for example, they might disallow optimizing time spent, or they might require more transparency or customizability for your recommendation algorithm.

I think this is a great idea, and a good example of a government that's willing to experiment with creative policy ideas.

Maybe UBI works for some recipients when it's clearly time-limited and the recipients have a clear way to building a stable income, but are bottlenecked on time and capital. I think artists are a good fit for such a program.

continuing off the tangent, "party" is a noun, not an adjective. In a construction "party politics", it functions _like_ an adjective, but it remains a noun.

Similarly, "computer" in "computer games" is a noun that modifies the meaning of the following noun. Modifying nouns like this always are in singular.

I still hit the flow state in cursor, always reviewing the plan for some feature, asking questions, learning, reviewing code. I'm still thinking hard to keep up with the model.

similarly, I start all my underscorends with an underscore

you do not work in the public sector, where processes change rarely, slowly, and partially

This is actually really good. I'm writing with it right now. It's just not the best setup as a keyboard. Because for example you cannot easily switch back to uh the normal keyboard with keys.

"a bull case" gets lots of google results, so it seems to be a commonly used construction amongst analysts. Basically it means "The case that OpenClaw will develop as a bull".

"bullish" seems more common in tech circles ("I'm bullish on this") but it's also used elsewhere.

because Iran's information control is working - the horrific images and numbers only arrived in the west once the protests were already mostly disbanded. It's not ongoing like e.g. the war in Gaza was, so it can only capture a moment of attention, not a sustained slot.

the problem is that devices are meant to be tools. They do not provide access to services, but you use them to access them. Limiting my devices' ability to do what i ask of them is more like geofencing my shoes, because you might use them to walk to the casino.