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Speaking of Tor, there is currently a massive and great Bundle for Scalzi books over at Humble by Tor. Just bought it, even if I already own a few of those, because the 4 books I don't yet have would be more expensive to buy separately.

Not a US citizen. But yeah, Germany does quit a lot of shit these days as well and will be doing even more, once we get our far right government after the next election. Will be the day I set my bug out plan in motion.

human rights and all that rubbish

Denying human rights. Classic. Sorry - you instantly lost any respect I could have maybe had for your opinion.

To me, the question of switching (and any recommendation) depends highly on the type of work you do as well as your setup in terms of harness and memory, context management, and so on.

I have my context managed in a structured (but nowadays way too big) Obsidian Vault. I also built myself a vector based "vault search" capability and have my harness use this as a tool to find thematically similar things across the different contexts, when needed. I also build a few custom skills and extensions for my harness to be able to do my work.

Talking about harness: I use pi.dev and have taken care of, that i set it up in a way as to easily be able to switch the intelligence layer without loosing context. Yes, there are differences in how well models perform, but if a model refuses a task - like gpt-5.5 not willing to build a downloading tool for Annas Archive - I switch the model to something less finicky.

Thus I was able to switch to gpt based models after about a year with Claude (and having had a Claude Max since the early days it was available).

I played a lot with other models recently, to see how stabl my setup is for switching, should something like Fable happen on a broader scale with the US government. As said, minor changes in tonality, minor issues ith the quality of long text being written by the model, but most of it is actually managed in by the tonality docs, guard rails, coding standards and the likes, I set up over the last 9+ months of intensive work with it (first in Claude Code, then Codex and now as said pi.dev).

So YMMV and it heavily depends on your setup. But I more and more treat those models as interchangable.

Agree and disagree. Love the movie. Hate the remake. But the OST is really great. We can agree on that.

Having just taken the Elisabeth Line to LHR T5 and sitting here, this was fun. Thanks.

Edit: Is there a Repo to look at and learn from this?

I seem to remember GitHub working on something similar. I remember having seen a video from a conference talk someone at GH gave at an European AI conference a while back. She presented some current prototype/early version they were working in. Where AI was basically like a team member in a chat interface with access to the task boards, issue tickets and also the whole conversation of the team, if I remember correctly.

Also different members of the team could steer/approve what the AI did or did not do.

Ahhh found the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClWD8OEYgp8

Going so far to regulate what you ought to say or to watch.

Native born German. Calling BS on that crap.

I recommend reading up on "freedom from" vs. "freedom to". Explains quite a lot of differences between the European tradition of ensuring people are "free from" an potentially oppressive state vs. the US tradition of "freedom to".

In each "freedom of speech" index I know, Germany fares better than the US, or Britain, or Australia. Or quite a lot of different countries tbh.

RSF World Press (lower is better): - Germany 14/180 - Britain 18/180 - Australia 33/180 - USA 64/180

Freedom House (higher is better): - Germany 95/100 - Britain 92/100 - Australia 95/100 - USA 84/100

Edit: Typo

WTF. We have such great medical advancement in cancer treatments, vaccines, reconstructive surgery h just to name a few.

Not sure what you are referring to, but the only unjustifiable things in the (so called) medical field are snake oil sales men trying to make a quick buck by instilling a fear of science into people's minds. Like anti-vax idiots. Or homeopathic bullshit.

I can second this. Very similar experience. Was a blast to see this pop up here.

I abhore the idea of having something attached to ones body. I wanted to show, that we already have systems in place that work and do not need such a horrible intrusive way of marking children.

Sorry for being not more clear.

Children already have less rights. Like voting rights missing, the right to buy alcohol (at least here in Germany), not allowed to drive a car, Forced to go to school, not allowed to watch quite a lot of movies - just to name a few, but also special protections. As they can't be held responsible below the age of 14 (so not court cases and prison time for kids <14). Just as one example.

So we already treat kids quite differently from adults. And tht is - imho - fine. Because kids are not just "small grown ups", they are just growing up.

I just do not think, that KYC/age verification is the right way to go - or even feasible in how it is being approached. I am for denying Meta, TikTok and the others the opportunity to exploit kids. But I would rather much have them regulated in a way that just forbidds them their predatory ways overall, then to give them even more data in the form of verified idetities and the knowledge that this account is within a specific age range ad also a "real human being", making that data even more valuable for advertisers.

Were my father still alive I would pay you nearly anything for such a model. Or would totally be inspired to work on this for his next year's birthday (he would have had his 80th bd next year).

This made me smile and in remembering cry. Thanks a ton kind stranger. It was a lovely stroll down memroy lane. I still have a few pieces from his collection that are near and dear to my heart.

Thanks a ton. Now I know why connection to my camera's wifi access point drops on my Android and what to do about it. Thanks a ton!

Thanks. That just killed 15 minutes of my working day. Much appreciated. I just needed that.

Love it. Went into my bookmarks for later tonight.

Sadly not. If the relevant people I follow (and pay for) were on better services, I would happily put Substack in my DNS file with 127.0.0.1 :-(

It should be considered common courtesy that when you ask a question you have at least attempted a bit of research to find the answer on your own.

In my professional experience. About 1 in 10 people does that. Maybe, 2 in 10.

Some people are inherently lazy and unload their laziness to someone else to do the thinking for them.

Exactly this. I am not willign to be the "can you google this for me" person to anybody's laziness. And when I get a BS request, I just screenshot that, put it in a chat interface, have the bot slop out a reply and paste it back. If they try a DOS attack on my time and sanity, I can reciprocate.

If they want a human, they need to invest at least a decent amount of time. Anything they can ask AI themselves, I am not willing to answer anymore in a human voice.

I still think sending someone an AI answer is terrible

This is (see above) where I tend to differ. Anything, really anything people ask me, they could have asked a bot, I am not willing to reply in kind to. To me, using AI daily for about 60% of my day, this is where I built my Iron Curtain so to speak, my red line. I have that as a clear warning in my MS Teams status (not that anybody ever reads it - like the nohello I had in there for years). I am in a kind off cold war, mutual assured dAIstruction mode in that regard.

Especially when one considers how friggin difficult this service makes it to cancel a (paid) subscription.

There is a Wikipedia List (German) [1] of quite a few of those (in Germany and in other countries). I stumbled upon it, while trying to find a link to the one in my home town I have wandered quite a few times, as I lived between Neptun and Pluto (it was built before Pluto was demoted), very close to Pluto. It ran the street I grew up in and was built to scale (1:4 bln scale) by a teacher who was a full blown astro nerd and in his free time taught quite a few of the local youth about space, planets, the science behind it, but also built rockets with us and let them fly.

I so fondly remember him, as he was one of those people being a massive inspiration to my life.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetenweg

Edit: Added scale.

but these conclusions are really close to what Hannah Arendt tells in the Banality of Evil

That's why the article actually mentions it.

Thanks a ton. Greatly appreciated. I am currently evaluation options. So this is relevant to me.

Thanks a ton. Much appreciated. I am looking for German/EU options so this is highly relevant.

I have worked with two clients. Both north of 8 million visits a month. Both on matomo. Both self hosted.

If you architect the underlying infra right it still works like a charm. But I admit people need to know what they are doing. I was quite impressed with both infra teams.

But as always, if you do not want tu use auto scaling US cloud based services, you need to enasure you have the right scaling and the necessary technical expertise at hand.

Any source for this? Would love to read up on this.

Same here. I just discovered this and put it in my "check out tonight" folder. I am currently happy using resend. But this looks interesting, especially also for my freelance clients with a focus on EU tech.

Absolutely. Could not agree more!

Wow. This was quite a ride. I only understood maybe 5% - but I was massively impressed.

Dupe. More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213

D'accord.