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New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"

Zufriedenheit — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:21:46 +0000

It is really worrisome to me that such a procedure is even possible. I don't understand all the EU voting rules, they are so complex that it feels to me like if they want to push something through there is always some way to do it even though the vast majority of people don't want it.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

Zufriedenheit — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:16:45 +0000

They claim to protect consumers and privacy and then push this creepy surveillance state.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

Zufriedenheit — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:44:25 +0000

All GmbH are mandated to publish their financial statements in Germany. Its on Bundesanzeiger a government website which of course takes a fee again…

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Zufriedenheit — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:34:45 +0000

I am consciousness.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

Zufriedenheit — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:39:15 +0000

If they force their spyware into Android/iOS you are running out of options.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Apple Business"

Zufriedenheit — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:17:20 +0000

Apple future strategy seems to be to sell ad placements throughout their ecosystem. Very sad about that. :( I especially chose Apple because of the clean experience.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

Zufriedenheit — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:16:33 +0000

I am still waiting for a wired AirPod 4 ANC equivalent. Wired, earbud but not silicon in-ear style. Still using my normal wired headphones never switched to wireless so far but longing for an ANC version.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot"

Zufriedenheit — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:08:35 +0000

The companies scraping the whole internet without caring for anyone’s tos and illegally torrenting every single book ever written are now complaining about the output of their models being used for training. That is very ironic.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

Zufriedenheit — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:44:48 +0000

One way to fix this would be to decrease the corner radius again with the additional benefit of looking better and more efficient use of space /s

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

Zufriedenheit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:38:31 +0000

The german energy policy has really been an economic failure on an epic scale. They destroyed 30+ fully functional nuclear power plants because of fear of radiation. In the last 20 year spend >500billion € to remodel the energy grid. Now subsidizing electricity with ~30billion € per year. And the result: Carbon intensity of energy production on the same level as US and 3x the electricity price!

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

Zufriedenheit — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:49:17 +0000

DB is well known to be used as a "golden parachute" by german politicians. When they loose popularity in politics they escape by giving themselves a high payed position at state owned DB company. Problem is they have no knowledge in managing a railroad.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

Zufriedenheit — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:34:18 +0000

DB is not privatized. It is 100% owned by the state.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT"

Zufriedenheit — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:19:00 +0000

Before artificial general intelligence there will be artificial general interface. One AI model will become the UI to all other services and apps. Maybe.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results"

Zufriedenheit — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:22:39 +0000

Many news articles have social media posts as sources. Most articles have other articles as sources. And then wikipedia takes the info from the news articles and compiles them. Now google takes all of these and creates summaries again and they have links to original sources in the ai summaries. EU Commission seems very naive and fallen out of time. They are not gonna stuff the AI revolution back into the bottle no matter how hard they try.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

Zufriedenheit — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:37:53 +0000

It is the wet dream of a social media company to replace the pesky content creators that demand a share of ad revenue with an generative ai model, that pumps out a constant stream of engagement farming slop, so they can keep all the ad revenue for themselves. Creating a world model ai is a totally different matter, that requires long term commitment.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]"

Zufriedenheit — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:42:43 +0000

I don't know how much of my image of him is his public facade. But the facts that he contently lived in the first house he bought in Omaha for his whole life and stayed together with his wife for many decades, working in the same office until old age, i find very admirable. It is such a contrast to the flashy, unhinged jet-setting lifestyle that many billionaires display nowadays.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

Zufriedenheit — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:49:40 +0000

EU officials should create an environment where abundant private companies can afford to put out many great open models instead of funding some selected individuals with taxpayer money.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches"

Zufriedenheit — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:13:59 +0000

Is this just RTK? Which uses an extra stationary antenna and has been around for years. Or is there something new here?

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

Zufriedenheit — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:09:44 +0000

Probably not easy to build this type of deep integration as a third party developer. Apple could easily cripple the access for „security“ reasons and build a much better competitor themselves with first class integration into the os.

New comment by Zufriedenheit in "Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making"

Zufriedenheit — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:40:56 +0000

Somebody sued Tesla at a UK consumer court because FSD was advertised as delivering fully automatic driving soon. It was based on Consumer Rights Act, which states that goods must match their advertised description. Tesla ended up paying back the full purchase price + interest and legal fees in return for him dropping the case. It seems Tesla lawyers know they are in a bad position with this. The company has just promised way to much to early. Which was totally unnecessary imo. The car were pretty cool products and would have sold well if they just called it driver assist system or something similar.