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New comment by rurban in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

rurban — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:57:40 +0000

We do. But only for a limited context space, plant images. We do train our own Foundation Model, and it works great. It's the world frontier model. The machine is expensive, yes, but the customers also pay a lot to get it's advantages. And we got the H100`s on ebay.

We also have buerocracy and regulations problems, but not with the AI at all. Only with the military civil dual-use restriction of thermal cameras. The ones we are allowed to sell have ridicolous resolutions. It still works, but it's barely useful.

And our colleagues across town are also world leader in their AI field. They produce all the world best face recognition SW. They had to use tricks to overcome regulations, but it works. They have their own HW as us.

And again other colleagues across town do rent their GPU computes to train their models. That's for office OCR, and speech to text.

The town is Dresden btw

New comment by rurban in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

rurban — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:04:41 +0000

The route is not clean, the Red Bull film team added more bolts, when Lama did his climb there in 2010.

https://web.archive.org/web/201 90530021810/http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web10x/newswire-lama-speaks-comp...

This couldn't happen in my climbing area, the Saechsische Schweiz, famous for creating the first Climbing regulations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Switzerland_climbing_reg... Police will arrest you for putting bolts in there for sure.

New comment by rurban in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

rurban — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:37:08 +0000

All fine and dandy, until I found out how others talk about us nerds. When I was interviewed once on TV (about some sports I was representing), the TV folks constantly joked about me as the "pulli-guy" (guy wearing a pullover). You are certainly not considered serious, if you just don't dress like them. Or talk like them.

New comment by rurban in "FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language"

rurban — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:08:39 +0000

Wonder why they still haven't got their spark-like proof system from Ada. Would be more worth than playing with the graphics stuff, they added.

New comment by rurban in "Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole"

rurban — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:01:52 +0000

It's the classic worse is better.

The slowest of all dynamic scripting languages. Breaking ABI's and API's left and right all the time. Not able to implement basic performance optims. Their infrastructure (pip) getting worse and worse, getting everyone to install private venv's for every app, leading to missing security updates, because updates just break everything.

People just love trouble.

New comment by rurban in "Appreciating Exif"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:06:37 +0000

I wouldnt recommend exiftool in a commercial image pipeline. way too slow compared to libexif or tagging your images with in the image lib. We store everything in tiff tags and exif tags, as our database. But we also embed yaml as comment for everything not covered.

New comment by rurban in "Open source AI must win"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:02:11 +0000

Not so often. The GPU's are running 100% for 3 weeks for a training run. We do images only, but it's the same process. And then we can use the costly GPU's for inference, local model coding agents. Training is about 4x a year. But it depends what ideas the PM or the costumers have. If they has more, more training tasks. Eg. more viruses to detect.

New comment by rurban in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:50:13 +0000

Hello! The US is the enemy of democracy. If someone should be banned, then them.

New comment by rurban in "A generic dynamic array in C that stores no capacity and needs no struct"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:44:12 +0000

You don't, as the capacity is always the next power of 2 of the length.

New comment by rurban in "Open source AI must win"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:51:14 +0000

You got it wrong. Inference can use crap GPU's. Training needs the 100x more expensive big guns. Our training machine is 100x more expensive than our inference machine.

New comment by rurban in "Open source AI must win"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:48:21 +0000

That was sama's and elon's original goals before they became trillionaires. Just to keep google/deepmind to take over.

Turned out both assumptions were wrong. You couldn't trust sama to turn this into open source, the Chinese did. Elon never.

And we couldn't see demis take over as expected, probably blocked by Google buerocracy.

New comment by rurban in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:28:54 +0000

I just call it Flaky 5. Only works sometimes. Or not at all

New comment by rurban in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

rurban — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:19:01 +0000

I can use DeepSeek in 80% of my tasks. Let's see how the latest kimi 2.7 helps, because this is even cheaper than deepseek, and supposedly even better. So far it's not worse.

New comment by rurban in "GitHub Is Down"

rurban — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:08:40 +0000

Github thanksfully not, but GH actions are running entirely on Azure. They've setup actions as a testbed for Azure afterall.

New comment by rurban in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

rurban — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:46 +0000

So should we stop talking to Americans, Israeli or Iranians then?

New comment by rurban in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

rurban — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:59:30 +0000

Russia invaded their neighbors forever, not just since 94.

America invades everywhere, Russia only neighbors, that's what you learn in school.

New comment by rurban in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

rurban — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:50:09 +0000

They are also the people who hid the Co-authored-by trailer in their OSS commits.

New comment by rurban in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

rurban — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:20:37 +0000

Only worked for about 5m, then Too many requests.

New comment by rurban in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

rurban — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:07:33 +0000

The more advanced devs all use apple laptops, sure.

New comment by rurban in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

rurban — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:06:20 +0000

Opencode sits on a ton of important PR's, so they didn't want to wait. Everybody else switched to omp (oh my pi) already.