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The "companions" page is really disturbing. Two dozen of slightly different animated avatars doing exactly the same gestures while starring at you.

I would say that depends of the company's legal form. If you have an "AG" or "GmbH" you get double taxed anyway, one time the company and than again your salary. So if you have an Estonian equevilant of a GmbH/AG your company will get taxed by Estonia and your salary by Germany. The Estonian E-Residency Website at least confirms my assumption but in case of Germany I could be very well wrong of course...

https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/understanding-cross-border-tax...

Yes, I see scaling as the biggest problem. Instead of developing one service for potentially 7 billion users, you're building 10 services for maybe 1 to 10 million users each. It would probably come down to patching together open-source solutions like Keycloak, Immich, FreeTube, Flarum, etc. I find atproto, on which Bluesky/Eurosky are based, particularly interesting.

I'm not so sure whether bullying is really a big problem. In such a regional environment, it makes little sense to appear "anonymous." You might not want your name and address publicly available, but if you comment on the popular parties and clubs, neighborhood happenings, etc., people who know you in real life will naturally recognize you. Ultimately, it comes down to how the local population operates.

What keeps going through my mind regarding this topic is that we have Instagram for pictures, YouTube for videos, Reddit as a forum, Twitter/Bsky as a microblogging service, and so on. But what if we focused on locality again? What if each city/region had its own virtual meeting place for pictures, videos, forums, microblogging, and so forth? I don't mean a "super app" that simply divides things regionally, but rather that each regional center builds its own Hangout.

I realize that this sounds fantastical, and I don't know how something like that could be implemented in the current situation. It's more the idea that while Facebook and similar platforms allow us to see content from people all over the world, we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area.

Is this also a some kind of a Trojan/malware attack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594733

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/

A Rust reimplementation of pylint that produces byte-for-byte identical output — 15–2300× faster (median ~85×).

prylint is not "inspired by" pylint. [...] Where pylint has bugs, prylint reproduces them. Where pylint crashes, prylint reports the same crash message.

A Rust reimplementation of pylint that produces byte-for-byte identical output — 15–2300× faster (median ~85×).

prylint is not "inspired by" pylint. [...] Where pylint has bugs, prylint reproduces them. Where pylint crashes, prylint reports the same crash message.

This looks very strange to me. There's no paper or explanation as to why the output should be identical to the real Pylint. Looking at GitHub, all the commits are by Claude, and otherwise, adamraudonis doesn't seem to have any connection to anyone else.

I don't want to accuse anyone of anything unjustly, but this post seems more like a kind of malware SEO. Is this project legit?

It's funny that most countries not even have an E-ID for their human citizen yet Estonia provides them already for AI agents.

Thats just stupid.

- Why should I run it on local hardware when there are already about a dozen US provider available?

- To compare the token usage per task with GLM 5.1 is worthless when GLM 5.1 is unable to do the task.

- Not even z.ai itself runs the model with BF16 weights.

- I couldn't care less how good the model is at drawing a pelican on a bicycle.

Look at it the other way: What did Musk get last Friday? $75B from the SpaceX IPO.

It's almost like giving a toddler $100 in the toy department and seeing what happens next.

I usually forget about my coffee anyway until it's cold.

Meta allowed an LLM to change users email address for a password reset.

Funny times are ahead...

At least he learnt not to provide an LLM presumably unrestricted access to his AWS account.

I would say you Americans are more into gambling while in Europe fan violence is a bigger topic. Like just last week, after PSG won the Champions League title, there were cars burning in Paris:

https://apnews.com/article/psg-arsenal-paris-budapest-champi...

I don't think the unstructured format directly contributes to the playing strength but rather attracts more player to play in a local club. Even in the town where I life with less than 100'000 people there are 10 clubs, 168 teams and nearly 3000 (mostly semi-professional) soccer player. Of course not all of them are young anymore but extrapolate this numbers to the population of a country it becomes a huge talent pool available for the major clubs.

And compared to the US there is a far more dense competition as any state has its own national league and on top are the Champions, Europe and Conference league. So every major soccer team plays in a national and a europene league at the same time and thus the players get of course much more routine.

But hey, we suck at baseball and basketball.

They don't even implement their logic gates within the normal game mechanics but with scripting some bit-goats in the editor. So the AoE2 Engine is just a graphical representation of their script.

But my favorite is this one: "Corollary 1 (AoE II is Turing-Complete). Let I be an instance of AoE II with two players p0, p1. Assume p0 has two markets, a town centre, a trade cart, six villagers, and five farms; while p1 has a scout unit and only attacks p0’s buildings. Then if I has no time or size limits and the terrain allows for buildings everywhere, the game session in I is Turing-complete."

Why being so explicit about the setup with no further explanation? Isn't it anymore turing complete with seven villagers and six farms? Is it even possible that a player can trade with himself?

All I see is some confusing talk about bit-goats and a player who attacks with his scout while the other trades and builds new buildings. Why does it matter that there is an infinite gold supply if the logic is scripted with bit-goats in the editor anyway? I mean if they mechanic is turing complete thats completely unrelated to how you can script with the editor.

Sure, but I don't talk with my coding agent about politics. And its something different to avoid a topic and to deceptively implement a backdoor.

Okay, but I don't think Kiriakou would explicitly admit if the US spied specifically on Israel.

I think at most we get a indirect "confession" like Andrew Bustamante gave in some podcasts like here, where he answers to the question if the US spies on the Mossad that everybody spies on everybody and than distract to the case were the US was caught spying on (it's ally) Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZklvHVsaT4

PS: I guess at the end you didn't spy until you were caught spying.

Kiriakou also stated several times that the Mossad was known to casually try to recruit CIA agents:

https://youtu.be/R7OWqAgGzwA?t=163

I guess Google implements more / stronger guard rails than Alibaba and thus confuses these small models. At least this was my impression with Gemma3 models where it often said that the image contains some nudity / sex scenes and therefore it cannot give a description of the image. Never understood the point of this behavior....

What has this to do with "hackers"? And can you share your experience in your personal study with "ifconfig" as described in Module 3?

Unified RAM means its soldered to the mainboard, right?

I'm not sure if I like this. Sure for a laptop this might be not a big problem but if this ARM ecosystem is a success it will spread to desktop computers and I fear we could lose the existing modularity.

But those are mostly companies who provide a public service, or am I wrong?

You are right but the ideology of a company is also driven by the society in which it exist. Switzerland is far more "conservative" (in the meaning to change slowly) than the US. Like our biggest retailer is "Migros" which still refuses to sell alcohol according to its statutes which where formalized somewhere in the 50s/60s of the last century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros

I dont see where those positions conflict with each other. Can you elaborate?

It seems there opens a new market as Europe plans to abandon Microsoft products. First OnlyOffice / EuroOffice and now this...

Init7 has on its blog another amazing write up https://blog.init7.net/en/die-glasfaserstreit-geschichte/

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/a-taxonomy-of...

I stumbled across this on Bruce Schneier's blog. It's a very interesting analysis, but what I think is missing are references to current research in sociology and psychology. It seems to be primarily a sociological model from the perspective of a cybersecurity expert, without any real connection to those disciplines.

That doesn't mean it's any less relevant. Conversely, there are countless analyses from psychology and sociology that examine the implications of software on our world without a technical background. Even though we've become quite adept at identifying individual symptoms arising from (social media) services, the fields of computer science and psychology still appear largely isolated from one another.

Given the current global situation, which has clearly been damaged by the internet and the exploits described in the analysis, closer interdisciplinary collaboration is urgently needed.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-...

In comparision, Nakamura had the assistance of an older version of Rybka (about 200 points less than Stockfish's 3200+ rating), and it ran on a 2008 MacBook. Of course, he also had his 20-plus years of chess knowledge in play.

Here is a Match where Nakamura played with Rybka against Stockfish from 2014: https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-...

And here Nakamura still reached 4.5:3.5 vs Komodo in 2016 https://www.chess.com/news/view/komodo-beats-nakamura-in-fin...

Hikaru surely has more matches like that, but I don't know if they can be found in chess databases or if they were only streamed on YouTube.