License costs for Windows alone for one single Bundesland in Germany are 15 Mio EUR a year, I read, and that doesn’t include other costs. France is probably paying Microsoft in the hundreds of millions currently. You can do a lot on your own with that kind of money, especially when using everything open source has to offer, as basis.

Does it work similar to the noise reduction on flagship phones? Then it does create a feel of artificialness when looking closer, with a tendency for artifacts.

I am not disagreeing with that, just wanted to state the facts, why the UK is in the focus.

The key question is if total costs along the pipeline, from requirements definition down to the final quality controlled fully debugged product can be reduced, at real LLM costs (not with the currently vastly subsidised costs).

Because the UK has already an invasive strict age verification system in place. Where in the EU is that slready the case as well? Certainly noz on EU level or in Austria. Their are ambitions in that direction however.

That is right, it is a tool. But how useful will it be as a tool once it will be sold by token at real costs, where every mistake that tool makes costs money and we are talking here maybe about 10 times higher costs than people currently pay for Claude, at the minimum.

Add to that the question how the use of LLMs affects the career pipeline from junior dev to senior dev.

There not so many tool analogies where the tool is especially good at making things look good, even if they aren’t when you dig deeper.

If it won’t be illegal, and under the current US regime it sure as hell won’t be illegal, it will come, it is just a matter of time. It will be interesting though if they’ll still do it even where it likely will be illegal, like in the EU.

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Not really anything new. Psyops warfare of a dictatorship based on paying traitors elsewhere to do the dirty work. Merely the payment details have changed.

They did but there was no alternative for the “AI Max”, it has much higher requirements for bandwith than traditional CPU RAM. They were investigating the possibility for LPCAMM2 or LPCAMM for that system but it was not feasible to maintain that bandwith while retaining data integrity. For the Desktop it was the right choice. It was designed for local inference applications and there the memory bandwidth is absolutely crucial.

For the new Framework 13 Pro however with an Intel based SOC they have now successfully implemented LPCAMM2.

Judging by the look of it I would have thought that magazine was from 2006 ;) Bit it says 2026 in the corner. Maybe it is that I haven’t seen a hard copy of these in a fair while.

That said, any year is a good year to make it your personal year of the Linux desktop.

I already got it before your post, thank you. It is attention farming marketing.

Those pattern prints usually look much shottier in teal life than on the slop images. Even though in this concrete example it is not that much off. Already the image looks terribly cheap, independently if the motive.

Temu textiles have shown time and again that they are disposable quality.

The answer is more boring. Chinese optimise their AI slop for engagement. Just like clickbait of other kind this is there to make people share about it. This thread shows the success of that strategy. Needless to say that any physical product shipped will have little to do with the ad.

I was not talking about erhical companies just companies that can’t just go bankrupt without a trace. Google and Co do actually care about billions of fines. Why do you think US tech fascists are so hysterical about EU regulations. If they didn’t care they would just ignore them

That is so old school. It is rather 3sec AI slop effort, maybe even automated slop.

The stand? Probably not. The hinges? If you actually use your custom shelf it is either of similar durability as the hinge or you’ll have to replace the hinges. Low quality hinges have a tendency to break apart fairly qickly. Cheap cast iron has terrible durability.

You’d be surprised. When fines are commonly in the billions, they start to care as a matter of fact. At least proper companies do. Criminals with scam businesses are a different story of course.

In the US maybe, I doubt this is legal in the EU. It is most definitely illegal with sensitive data like health data.

It is not just prioritising car commuters from outside vs locals, it is simply an extremely wasteful use of limited traffic capacity. The bus, not clogged down in traffic, has a way higher capacity than probably even two full car lanes at the highest performance. A bus lane is the only rational thing there. If that makes the highway off ramp redundant because there is no capacity for cars left to justify it, simply tear it down. It is fake capacity anyway if the traffic cannot be supported further down the road and it would even benefit car drivers, as it would remove a clogging point and free up capacity on the highway.

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