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New comment by pheggs in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"

pheggs — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:59:32 +0000

best for who? for the cloud provider for all the vendor lockins? theres hardly anything i like about the popular cloud providers to be honest

New comment by pheggs in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

pheggs — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:28:17 +0000

its a big assumption that larger models bring any measurable benefit in the long term. there's a point where its not worth paying the expense of a bigger model and we dont know where that will be as both, models and hardware improves.

we do know however where evolution is at right now with our brains, but thats probably not comparable - yet the only thing I can see to make any kind of prediction at all

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

pheggs — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:14:16 +0000

I'm pretty sure that's not linear, so I personally expect the benefits of larger models to diminish. The question is at what point that's the case. I guess a lot of variables play into it, but it is possible that the benefits of running larger models will be too expensive for the little benefit they provide

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

pheggs — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:00:09 +0000

I personally believe that eventually manufacturers will want to sell more of their hardware and look for ways to sell hardware to consumers. isnt that situation quite similar to the days of early computers? I am for sure biased in hoping that will be the case

New comment by pheggs in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

pheggs — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:30:08 +0000

unfortunately the history of these big tech companies has shown that they do not care about data privacy and are even willing to lie about it. but I guess its irrelevant, in practice you have to assume the worst anyway since there is no way to verify it

New comment by pheggs in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

pheggs — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:52:17 +0000

I am personally okay helping them as long as they publish the models and dont keep them closed. And I dont trust the settings where providers say they wont train on it.

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:22:46 +0000

> They're further from Communism than they've ever been since the PRC was founded. The gap between rich and poor is growing there, not shrinking.

I suppose it depends on what time frame you look at, it's shrinking since 2010, but inequality rose more than that in the 80s: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/China/gini_inequality_index...

However, that's not my point - I did not mean to say that they are going to be successful but rather that it still appears to be a long term goal for them.

> Like Bitcoin, freedom of capital flows may be restricted, but the wealthy seem to be evading these restrictions with impunity.

I don't know about that, without any source of data I guess I just have to take your word for it. I would not be surprised if you were right in this case though.

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:29:43 +0000

it's not necessarily capitalism, I personally believe any system that drives progress would cause this in one way or another. My prediction is that birth rate decline will accelerate further. There's going to be some kind of universal basic income in many places, such as Ireland made for artists. However, it probably will not be enough to feed a family, and therefore we will see birth rates decline further. It's because we evolved to prioritize resources over reproduction and we are becoming more efficient, which means less people are needed to sustain the same amount of resources

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:14:08 +0000

> The one-child policy died a long time ago.

true, but as far as I understand it did because birth rates got too low. so they replaced it with a two-child policy and later with a three-child policy

> Also, the accumulation of wealth by connected politicians and businesspeople flies in the face of what communism is supposed to stand for.

Yeah, I am sure there's a lot of cases for that. But as far as I know the amount of billionaires has started declining in China, and I don't see how that means that they as a country moved away from the goal, it just means there's issues

> There is a reason real estate values in popular cities has skyrocketed, and it’s not due to the locals getting wealthier.

I don't know about that, you could be right. A google search for real estate prices in china reveal a lot of news articles how they are going down though.

> It’s where Chinese and other oligarchs put their ill-gotten wealth (well, besides Bitcoin).

Wouldn't be surprised if rich people in china invest in real estate. They don't have free capital flow, so its not easy to invest abroad and it becomes an obvious choice. Bitcoin is banned in China for that reason too

But again, as far as I know that does not mean the country moved their goals of trying to reach communism one day

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:41:46 +0000

mythos is a mythos

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:31:01 +0000

workers seizing the means of production is by definition socialism and not capitalism though, that's the whole idea behind socialism

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:50:56 +0000

I dont think thats right, the models and the gpus are the means of production.

in capitalism the people with the capital get the profit, not the people who do the work. however, workers are said to benefit too through their salary, just less so

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:47:25 +0000

to support the companies that open source their models

New comment by pheggs in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:29:33 +0000

what makes you think that china ever gave up its communist goals? I personally see that everything they do aims towards that goal. From the one child policy, the huge amounts of empty apartments they build, the stuff they produce for almost free, the fishing.. open sourcing the models perfectly fits that culture too, it's the means of production

New comment by pheggs in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:38:02 +0000

yeah, that's true, a lot of stuff refers to it as a federation

New comment by pheggs in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:42:37 +0000

is it though? I guess it depends on the definition you use. The line between federation and confederation is rather thin, and I believe those terms were historically even used as synonyms. Switzerland is at least called Confoederatio Helvetica, but you could probably argue it's a federation due to the centralized government. But then we also have to keep in mind that the sovereignty and the power of the country stays with the people and the cantons, and not the central government due to it's direct democracy.

New comment by pheggs in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:39:22 +0000

I can share what we do, it might not suit everyone though. We manage the devices through ansible-pull, and we have a small Prometheus metrics exporter on the devices for what I think is good to monitor. Then we have a grafana dashboard, alerts and so on. This suits us because we can manage the servers as well as the devices with ansible. Most users don't have root. If anyone needs help, the person needs to be in the wireguard vpn and the someone helping can ssh into the machine.

There's also fleetdm, which we are not using, but might be something you want to consider

New comment by pheggs in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

pheggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:12:44 +0000

right given the product names I assume you are on windows. with kerberos people shouldnt have to type their passwords into apps at all, and if you use pkinit there are no passwords at all?

i give you the mobile part, I dont know how well it is supported - iOS claims to have support though, and android through third parties I believe. Never tried that. Its just that I personally have a preference for auth methods that dont require opening a browser for desktop apps

New comment by pheggs in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

pheggs — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:17:13 +0000

if you dont mind asking, what dont you like about kerberos? I personally like it quite with certs / hardware token

to be honest, most things you list can be setup with some research. The only one I am not sure about is integrated storage, but then I am also not entirely sure what that even is supposed to mean exactly

New comment by pheggs in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

pheggs — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:06:46 +0000

I have switched my small swiss business (10 people) to linux (servers and desktops) and away from microsoft around 2020. I am extemely happy about the choice. Theres small friction here and there with clients that rely on certain software, but its usually minimal and can be fixed. Some people here talk about how people need excel and how important it was, I have personally never seen that in practice here with any client or company I worked for in the past, but maybe it just went past me. It has not been an issue for me in the past 6 years.