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New comment by tom1337890 in "Ti-84 Evo"

tom1337890 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:06:22 +0000

Loved it in university and still use it on my phone:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.eanema.graph89/

New comment by tom1337890 in "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"

tom1337890 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:55:20 +0000

I follow Mistral AI and especially liked their voice Model voxtral, which is supposed to be better than whisper. So while the LLM can maybe not compete, they do compete in voice. [1]

I think these kind of special use cases matter a lot for people who want to build special software. Voice for example is not yet that uniformly accessible as LLMs. So once you chose one provider you're more tighty coupled. Plus, handling voice is more sensitive by nature, so guess at least for European companies building something with voice, Mistral is the go-to company now.

Also, running voxtral yourself is not that straight forward as of now, so relying on their inference makes sense.

1: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral

New comment by tom1337890 in "I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

tom1337890 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:28:28 +0000

Well, no ads, just saying. I am using this myself.

I use excalidraw a lot and it's hard to manage different drawings. So the fact that each drawing is one note is great.

Further, publishing the drawing on a hosted instance gives you a permalink to it, so you would actually never need to export a drawing and would have a live reference.

I think this integration is really useful.

And yes, I did not find my old account, so I created a new one :-)