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New comment by schubidubiduba in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

schubidubiduba — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:55:55 +0000

You need to differentiate between citing everything, and citing a select few prior works which are integral to your own. For the latter, it is very natural to mention and cite them, unless you have motive not to do so.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months"

schubidubiduba — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:27:08 +0000

Having your public administration be dependent on the whims of a foreign government (and yes, Microsoft is subject to whims of the US government if it comes down to it) is just a bad idea in general. And in particular since 2 years ago.

Then there's the ridiculous license costs that could be saved.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice"

schubidubiduba — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:17:15 +0000

Even with a spec on github, a protocol can still be proprietary, e.g. if companies have to pay to use it legally in products

New comment by schubidubiduba in "The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe"

schubidubiduba — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:14:43 +0000

How does any government make decisions? The workings of the EU are maybe a tad more complex than most nation governments, but it largely functions the same with parliament etc. (because why wouldn't it)

Maybe a special case is the European Council with all the individual nations governments. That makes the system similar to Germany's federalism I suppose

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Organic Maps"

schubidubiduba — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:49:25 +0000

CoMaps does have this exact UX flow actually. Unfortunately it is somewhat flaky and frequently falls back to not doing it.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:58:51 +0000

Big tech companies have gotten used to laws not applying to them.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:57:09 +0000

Those requirements are explicitly on the outcomes because companies like Apple used to abuse loopholes in previous, non-outcome defined laws. They, as always, have no one to blame but themselves.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:54:55 +0000

All of that happens only if the user chooses to do it though. Anybody is free to stay in the caged Apple garden. The EU just wants them to leave the door unlocked.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

schubidubiduba — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:57:37 +0000

Doesn't split as easily on an Intel GPU as ona NVIDA GPU though, regarding software support. Sure, it's probably not too difficult if you know what you're doing, but not sure how big that market would be.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

schubidubiduba — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:49:40 +0000

I think I would pay it. The peace of mind knowing that my every move isn't tracked and being used to sell me stuff or engagement bait me is invaluable tbh

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:32:57 +0000

Of course they speak swedish. But often, they do not reason in Swedish and do not search in swedish. Swedish makes up a tiny fraction of training data, while the vast majority is English, from the US. Which means the answers will always have a bias towards US culture, even if you ask in Swedish and the LLM answers in Swedish.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:30:11 +0000

I highly doubt that hiring people who don't even speak the language would result in a better model for Norwegian. If anything, they could pay Anthropic for some tips and tricks for training. But that does not seem necessary as Deepseek & co detail everything for free

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:28:21 +0000

There's only so much you can do with 5 million people. Especially in a field where network effects amd scale matter a lot.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:25:29 +0000

None of that even addresses the problem described, because none of the languages you mentioned would be French in the described example.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

schubidubiduba — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:24:50 +0000

Even if the model will reply in my language, I often notice it searching in english. Or thinking in english. There's always something lost in translation. Sometimes it's just minor nuances. Other times it mangles the legal facts with those of other countries.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

schubidubiduba — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:02:17 +0000

The difference is that Walmart is a stable, reliable trade partner that honors contracts and is not trying to use propaganda to make you a fascist

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

schubidubiduba — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:21:32 +0000

He said they don't rely on it. They can use fingerprinting. Obviously they'll still use any other data you give them, including IP addresses or cookies.

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

schubidubiduba — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:52:22 +0000

They currently seem to have the opposite of tricks up their sleeve, resulting in their sales in Europe either dropping sharply or stagnating...

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

schubidubiduba — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:50:39 +0000

Visa and Mastercard already are a single point of failure (see e.g. the French judge that cannot use it anymore because the US government did not like it when he did his job). This way, there'll be at least two points of failure.

New comment by schubidubiduba in "Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit settled"

schubidubiduba — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:27:59 +0000

Fascism is not a minority political opinion. It's a mental illness.