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New comment by jansenmac in "The Beauty of Tautologies"

jansenmac — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:09:55 +0000

Math is nothing but tautologies.

“The logic of the world, which is shown in tautologies by the propositions of logic, is shown in equations by mathematics.” Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico Philosphicus (6.22)

New comment by jansenmac in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

jansenmac — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:59:42 +0000

Will these ad hoc decisions by the U.S. government, without law or clear process, not hurt the coming IPO's of Anthropic and OpenAI?

New comment by jansenmac in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

jansenmac — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:49:51 +0000

This is not an open source model. In that sense I think the sovereign claim is a bit strange. It's the data providers that determine access to the model.

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

jansenmac — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:24:25 +0000

I think it is a good initiative and a needed step in EU integration. I do think it is remarkable to frame this as a move towards more sovereignty. More EU integration has traditionally always been framed as giving up sovereignty by the member states. Now it is the other way around - thanks to the United States.

New comment by jansenmac in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

jansenmac — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:23:42 +0000

Just copy and past the error back to Claude and you will be able to continue. I have seen this many times over the past few months. I thought it was related to AWS bedrock that I have been using - but probably not.

New comment by jansenmac in "Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others"

jansenmac — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:17:32 +0000

Michael Caine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY

New comment by jansenmac in "A vision of chocolate's future in an Amsterdam brownie"

jansenmac — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:50:43 +0000

It started out as a tv-documentary series on Dutch television. It's presenter was called Teun (Tony) and he wanted to be convicted for eating chocolate which he knew was produced by making use of slavery. This failed and he then created his own brand that should have been 'slavery free', which proved very difficult indeed. The brand was later taken over and made into what it is now.

New comment by jansenmac in "How to tile matrix multiplication (2023)"

jansenmac — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:07:07 +0000

New comment by jansenmac in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

jansenmac — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:26:34 +0000

Still, sovereignty is a very vague concept. ASML is Dutch, has a near monopoly in the market of lithographic Chip design but it's the Americans deciding if it can sell to China. Also, ASML is very dependent on an American supplier.

Likewise, Mistrall is using NVIDIA all over the place and has used the NVIDIA cloud for training and inferencing. Mistrals partnership with NVIDIA does not seem any different to me when compared to AWS European Sovereign cloud.

New comment by jansenmac in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

jansenmac — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:13:42 +0000

Microsoft didn't cut off Karim Khan. https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...

Microsoft didn't cut services to ICC, its president says

jansenmac — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:48:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-services-international-criminal-court-president-american-sanctions-trump-tech-icc-amazon-google/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234689

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jansenmac in "Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why"

jansenmac — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:46:41 +0000

Microsoft did not block the email account of the ICC! This really is misinformation. See here: https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...

New comment by jansenmac in "Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle"

jansenmac — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:34:59 +0000

The top six contributors to Open Source globally are American Companies. In the top 10 there are no European companies, 9 are American and 1 is Chinese. https://opensourceindex.io/

New comment by jansenmac in "Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)"

jansenmac — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:37:36 +0000

Yes that's right. There used to be quite a cult around Alice in Wonderland amongst Computer Scientists. Caroll (or Dodgson as his real name was) was also a mathematician.

New comment by jansenmac in "Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024"

jansenmac — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 09:13:33 +0000

Dutch Teletekst is very much alive online. https://nos.nl/teletekst the mobile version is quite popular: +1M downloads on the Google Play store. Somehow news here is faster than regular sites, especially live sports scores.

New comment by jansenmac in "Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox"

jansenmac — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:13:55 +0000

Im in the Netherlands and also dont see the setting. Using a basic (free) account.

New comment by jansenmac in "You can't control your data in the cloud"

jansenmac — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:19:02 +0000

I think this article is over the top. You don't lose control of your data if you store it, let's say, on S3. Use encryption if you wanna be safe.

You can write a similar article about storing data on a local system. It can get stolen, it can get hacked (ransomware). If you delete a file from your local drive there may be still data on disk. Software and OS often ping home and may read along. To think you have control if not in the cloud is an illusion.

Sure, cloud services have different security concerns but to think that it is uncontrollable is just a step to far for me. Also note that there a lot of different cloud services. A lot of privacy concerns have been related to SaaS. To think that you lose control of your data at the moment when using dropbox or S3, start a container (or an enclave),is just not realistic.

New comment by jansenmac in "ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history"

jansenmac — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:51:36 +0000

Note that OpenAI is under pressure from the EU to do something about using user data. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/1071789/openais-...

New comment by jansenmac in "George Harrison and the Struggle for Creative Freedom"

jansenmac — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:43:33 +0000

Harrison's first recorded song was not Taxman, but five years before that: Don't bother me. He also had a song on A Hard days night, two on Help and two on Rubber Soul, before Taxman (where Paul played the guitar solo btw). So it might have been bad, being nr 3, but not bad as suggested.

New comment by jansenmac in "Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s"

jansenmac — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:52:20 +0000

On Dutch television they showed that sun-dried tomatoes often contain insect parts. When drying in the sun (in Turkey) they attract insects and washing does not remove everything. No reason to worry was the message.