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New comment by apexalpha in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

apexalpha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:35:46 +0000

Europe was beaten down, broke and simply kaput.

Then it was split in a camp dependent on the US and a camp dependent on the USSR.

Both the US and USSR spent decades keeping us together but definitely not united.

This runs deep in European political culture.

Until 2 years ago many Dutch people had more in common and more trust in Americans than . If only because half of them go broke once every generation.

New comment by apexalpha in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

apexalpha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:50:22 +0000

Adding a bot on Telegram is a single command. It's super easy and natively supported.

Other channels are available, there's like 15+ officially supported now.

New comment by apexalpha in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

apexalpha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:43:48 +0000

I use Hermes at home. Swapped out Openclaw for this. It seems to work better with smaller contexts, chuncking it up in smaller pieces.

I don't code with it, I use Claude for that. But what I do do: it's a sysadmin for my homelab. It has a read-only mcp server to check the k8s status and has it's own ssh access to fix stuff after I approve it per session.

It's magical. Each morning I get a small update whether the backup ran, if pods are stuck or behaving weirdly etc... Since the entire homelab is GitOps I can always reverse a change made by the agent.

I am now adding Nextcloud and moving calendar offline, from Google to my own hw. I barely touch it anymore, manually. In stead I sent a quick voice note on Telegram and 30 sec later I get a screenshot 'proving' it worked.

New comment by apexalpha in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

apexalpha — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:22:42 +0000

Defensive weapons are very much needed in Europe…

New comment by apexalpha in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

apexalpha — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:57:20 +0000

> How you go from 380 to 900 billions in a month, I am very curious?

Mythos Marketing.

New comment by apexalpha in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

apexalpha — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:34:19 +0000

That's just the easiest way to sell it to the Dutch public probably.

New comment by apexalpha in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

apexalpha — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:10:09 +0000

The LPEs were not found with Mythos but with existing, publicly available models.

New comment by apexalpha in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

apexalpha — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:43:05 +0000

> An amazingly successful marketing stunt for sure.

This. Well done by Antropic.

It even reached the CISO of my small semi-government org in the Netherlands, who slightly panicked at the announced 'tsunami' of vulnerabilities that was coming with Mythos.

Got us some more money and priority with the board, though.

Never waste a good marketing scare.

New comment by apexalpha in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

apexalpha — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:30:21 +0000

There is a big difference between 'needs' and 'wants'.

I'll defend the argument no one 'needs' more than 1.5 mill per year.

I agree with you greed is endless and lots of people want more and will rationalize their hoarding while others, often in their own communities, suffer.

New comment by apexalpha in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

apexalpha — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:19:45 +0000

Well since the Cloud Native foundation is a subsidiary of the Linux foundation this makes sense.

New comment by apexalpha in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

apexalpha — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:37:35 +0000

I think they split the codebase in smaller files or modules and then tell the AI there's a bug in this particular file and to go find it.

Then they loop over a codebase like this. This way you always point a model at a 'known' bug. And I assume a smaller context window helps with quality.

Not entirely sure it's obviously proprietary.

New comment by apexalpha in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

apexalpha — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:45:35 +0000

Well it helps if 'looking for bugs' doesn't cost $300 per hour per set of eyes.

New comment by apexalpha in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

apexalpha — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:32:52 +0000

At the same time other companies like AISLE are matching Mythos on vulnerabilities using older models but their own harnass: https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-matches-anthropic-mythos-on-fre...

So while Mythos certainly is real I think you could do the same with Deepseek pro, GPT 5.5 etc...

New comment by apexalpha in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

apexalpha — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:04:53 +0000

>The Trump administration is making no real effort to crack down on whoever is trading using inside information, and these inside traders are operating with a complete sense of impunity, assured that they can get away with it.

Yeah that's because IT's HIM.

Jesus how much more proof do you people need that the Trumps themselves are looting the country.

New comment by apexalpha in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

apexalpha — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:26 +0000

As if anything in the executive branch of the US still works properly.

Isn't the FBI already raiding the homes of political opponents for intimidation?

The famed US constitution with all its 'checks and balances' they would never shut up about turned out to be papier mâché and completely trampled by the first person that tried.

New comment by apexalpha in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

apexalpha — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:10:07 +0000

Oh I must've missed this.

The AI space moves so fast! I'll check it out again.

New comment by apexalpha in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

apexalpha — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:28:17 +0000

I read somewhere you need to drop temp to 0.1 on gemma for tools.

Not sure why (too amateur sorry).

Though I think qwen was natively trained on toolcalling.

New comment by apexalpha in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

apexalpha — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:25:15 +0000

I’ve been swapping between these too as well.

However I find qwen unbeatable for toolcallling. I think gemma wasnt trained on that at all.

New comment by apexalpha in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

apexalpha — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:48:00 +0000

I feel this is great in combination with an agent like OpenClaw or Hermes.

New comment by apexalpha in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

apexalpha — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:16:48 +0000

Remember: every heat pump is a semi-permanent move to electricity over other fuels.

People almost never go back. This isn't just a temporary improvement.