CIA/FBI have their own massive data centers (see snowden) inkl. their own older bigger palantr style software.

Elon Musk was able to connect a Starlink server to your data and no one cared. He and his Duche aeh sry doge baby boys were able to access and download all Social Security Numbers.

If someone knows were Putin and all the other world leaders are at any given moment, I would bet its USA first than China if even because i don't think China cares that much about it than USA does.

And everyone out of scope of this, lives probably in some rural USA town were no one cares for you at all anyway, but thats the same thing as in China.

That would also make him a lot more dangerous. After all in his first presidency he was still the man behind the biggest military on the planet but he knew shit on how to leverage this. In his second term he is even more loose but loose is tempertantrums and simple short sighted strategies. Easy to read, hard to accept.

I don't know what the problem is. Are we europeans to stupid? Do we just not have enough money / VC money? Are we not proud enough?

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Windows is despite of all this garbage still the de facto standard. Azure is still a way to go thing beacuse so many companies just use office365 and microsoft can be trusted.

If you look at their numbers, they also grew quite fast. That might be more of their motivation though. They added 40k in just 6 years and are now at 230k.

If you have a good product, you are more understanding. And getting worse doesn't mean its no longer valuable, only that the price/value factor went down. But Opus 4.5 was relevant better and only came out in November.

There was no price increase at that time so for the same money we get better models. Opus 4.6 again feels relevant better though.

Also moving fastish means having more/better models faster.

I do know plenty of people though which do use opencode or pi and openrouter and switching models a lot more often.

For example i run a gcs fuse driver, it has other dependencies apt 'just' resolves.

It doesn't matter much were i pull them from though, i only do this with packages which have plenty of dependencies and i don't want to assemble my own minimal image.

I'm handling it by using a slim debian or ubuntu, then using apt to install these packages with necessary dependencies.

For everything easy, like one basic binary, I use the most minimal image but as soon as it gets just a little bit annoying to set it up and keep it maintained, i start using apt and a nightly build of the image.

It could lead to a good discussion, it often doesn't.

Unfortunate i can't find the source though:

"He had a video on Youtube where he proudly gloated about how he voted for Trump in not one but two elections, how happy he is that he can now openly talk about it, how its a fresh start for US, how catastrophic Harris would have been. Did he take down the video because of embarrassment or did he fear negative impact on his sales?"

So i asked him and he voted for Trump only in 2016 so at least this source is not true.

China took a very rich business man and told him to stop showing his richness and start doing more for china.

China has a real plan for renewable energy and pushing through it.

China is smarter because it doesn't allow some people to vote for people like Trump and its smarter than russia because it is less motivated by one persons personal agenda.

It seems that its financial possible for a handful of companies to learn everything.

It doesn't matter how we solve 'work':

It can be AGI, it can also be the already existing massive global scale Reinforcement Loop we all feed through using ChatGPT and co, it could be to compute RL or by buying experts teaching this knowledge to some AI system.

Companies also start to put the 'human' part into the agentic layer.

A while back anyone was somehow a benefit even if they did some kind of shitty work. Today i don't think this is true anymore. I would prefer to manage some avg ai than a shitty person.

This will and is already disrupting human lives.

Having people like Peter Thiel over there who thinks daemons exist?

With Elon Musk having all social security numbers and no one cares about that? Or his blant disruption of democracy?

In china people disappear, true, but at least with China you know what you get. With USA its schizophrenia every 4 years and it wouldnt matter to me if suddenly my air travels are no longer possible due to Trump or i have to pay a lot more due to market disruptions.