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My personal issue with Foundation was, that at its core in the books, it was about ordinary humans solving problems. There of course were people with special abilities, but that was, well, special, and so special that e.g. in the case of the Mule, it completely trashed all plans everyone had due to its extraordinariness.

In the TV series, everybody seems to have superpowers. A rather pacifist politician from the book is suddenly, in the series, a gunslinging person with mental superpowers.

I liked that the original was about more or less competent people making decisions, and seeing those decisions play out. I admit, I like competence porn. Almost everyone having superpowers feels like a betrayal of the values of the books.

Best part about the TV series are the three emperors. It's the one addition which really added something to the story... and which did not betray the values of the original book series, but was just a nice addition.

I liked Altered Carbon, at least season 1.

What I fear is another Foundation.

Saw there's an issue already about the <= ligature. Will open a second issue with feature request for bigger dots.

Seems there's no way to disable the <= ligature without disabling whitespace ligatures? I'm not all too crazy for real ligatures but whitespace adjustments otherwise seem nice.

Also, as it's so finely adjustable, would love if they'd offer some variants for dot and comma, to increase their size, because that's my number one problem with fonts since age 45.

Wonder if their screen time stuff will finally be safe against tampering by kids and not be "hackable" within seconds.

Also, I still hope, that one day basic stuff like time machine might work... reliably.

Accelerando is not Egan, though, but Stross. Egan's book Diaspora shares similar themes, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

I'd ask for Rock n' Roll Racing!

You definitely forgot Merkel and Habeck.

It's night. Somebody has to fill a form to approve night work first.

That's weird cause 8.8.8.8/1.1.1.1 will already answer with SERVFAIL right now, unless the domain is still in the cache.

Probably just a high TTL.

Whole .de TLD seems to go offline right now due to dnssec or missing nic.de nameservers?

Thanks. I was about to ask that.

Is the middleman's nationality that important

No, it's not. You're absolutely right on that.

It's just someone you don't know who actually runs it due to no proper imprint promoting their business over someone else who you also don't know who actually runs it. So you send all your valuable business data to unknown guy A instead of unknown guy B. Oh, and also, in both cases you couldn't even sign a proper data subprocessing agreement with both guys. You can't sign it with guy A, who doesn't care, and you also can't sign it with guy B who says he's from Europe, does not even bother to provide an address to prove that, and obviously does not understand the GDPR.

Net souvereignty gain is zero by switching the middle man. In fact I'd say using such a "European" router service is actually worse than making business directly with, let's say, AWS, OpenAI or Anthropic where you'd at least know where you're buying from.

Secret Piefke :-)

Now this was an article where I didn't even need to read the article. The headline was all I needed to know it has all the same complaints I do.

Wanted to try a demo, but instead of downloading it time-limited or something, there's some kind of Web demo. But it's buggy in that it at least does not scroll the list at all when using the cursor keys instead of the mouse.

Bugs like these in the very thing which is supposed to convince me of buying do not exactly increase my trust :-)

I especially like that it's a single executable according to the docs.

Recently evaluated other testing tools/frameworks and if you're not already running the npm-dependencyhell-shitshow for your projects, most tools will pull in at least 100 dependencies.

I might be old fashioned but that's just too much for my taste. I love single-use tools with limited scope like e.g. esbuild or now this.

Will give this a try, soon.

Then why does their list of subprocessors list Google and Microsoft "for cloud infrastructure", specifically for "Le Chat, La Plateforme, Mistral Code"? Sounds to me as if they're mainly running on Azure.

Also, they're listing CoreWeave as inference provider in "EEA" area, but CoreWeave is of course also an US company. Even if they have their data center physically in the EU, it must be considered open access for the USA due to the CLOUD act.

https://trust.mistral.ai/subprocessors

If what you say is true, they have a communications problem and they need to fix that urgently. Right now, this is why they don't get my business. Others will have made the same decision based on their own subprocessor list.

Or did you mean, they're like, right now building it and plan to move there, but it's not up yet?

The problem with the European independence story is, that it seems Mistral runs its own stuff also on US cloud act affected infrastructure. This makes them a very weird value proposition: If I accept a level of "independence" whereby I run on AWS or Azure, I could as well pay for Anthropic or GPT to have SOTA performance.

If I do not accept that level of independence but want more, I need to buy what's on OVH, Scaleway, Ionos etc. or host my own, but that usually means even smaller, worse models or a lot of investment.

Nevertheless, the "band" that Mistral occupies for economic success is very narrow. Basically just people who need independence "on paper" but not really. Because if I'm searching for actual independence, there's no way I could give them money at the moment for one of their products and it making sense, cause none of their plans are an actual independence-improvement over, let's say, Amazon Bedrock.

I really really want to support them, but it must make economic sense for my company, too, and it doesn't.

My wife used to fall for every Firefly season 2 hoax on social media in the past because she wished it to be true. It was very funny when I could come to her to announce there will be a season 2.

Mixed feelings about it being animated. The older I become, the more I have trouble relating to painted characters, no real clue why, so I couldn't even enjoy things I should have enjoyed like Arcane.

Also, of course, no Shepherd Book :-(

Anyway, I hope I'll like it. Really loved season 1.

Just talked with a colleague and we used this as example where vibe coding is already brain draining people.

Exactly. Guess what: I've been on Apple for 26 years. iOS 26 is already a shit show, the new Watch OS even more so, and never ever will I allow it to update my main work platform, my Macbook Pro, to something which promises to be even worse.

Hmm, I second this. Haven't compared Qwen3.5 122B yet, but played around with OpenCode + Qwen3-Coder-Next yesterday and did manual comparisons with Claude Code and Claude Code is still far ahead in general felt "intelligence quality".

There were times when we couldn't await to upgrade to the next Mac OS version. Tahoe is not one of those versions.

Already iOS 26 made me consider switching to Android, and now I've pondered returning to Linux after 26 years on Mac OS. Bizarrely, right now it's the quality of the hardware alone holding me at Mac OS. Wouldn't have expected that 6 or 7 years ago.

Sick of the forced UI refreshes and "modern" designs. Will Apple understand again this is where I work and basically live in and not some kind of entertainment system where I need design refreshes so it feels all shiny and new?

Some things sound very clever in your head until you say them aloud.

Next step: Start Chrome in emulated X86CSS and start X86CSS in emulated Chrome.

One of the major problems of MySQL and its many derivatives is the splintering of the ecosystem.

Would rather prefer people would cooperate on ONE fork, e.g. get your extension framework integrated into MariaDB or something.

Hmm, yes, I know that one and one of the reasons why I considered the naming weird. Original Tcl expect is rather automation than testing in the slot in my mind it occupies, even if it maybe could be (badly) used as a testing tool.

This assumes the code you wrote is already correct and giving the correct answer, so why bother writing tests?

It catches regressions. Which is the one thing where such semi-automated testing is most useful in my eyes.

No clue though why they gave it that weird "expect" name. Basically, it's semi-automated regression testing.