There are extremely cheap dongles that split data from power. They work with most phones, too.

With a barrel jack you’d probably lose room for another USB-C. There is really no reason to prefer USB-C over a jack.

Strong FB dedicated phone button vibes.

I’ve never said that protests are illegal, but the law certainly made them way riskier for protesters.

But yes, if they can only get age verification in place it will all devolve into a corporate fascist state…

The new normal seems to be that one could be fined 600 euro for insulting the police, or be sentenced to 2 years for disrupting a political event.

It’s called a slippery slope. You may want to look that up.

Regardless, we’ll never agree on this because you are one of the “I don’t have anything to hide” kind of people, a PADEFO, naive to a fault.

I’m a born and raised Spaniard who lived there for over 35 years, and was beaten up by cops at least once. I think I know a thing or two about the system.

You said that in Spain people have the right to protest freely against the government, yet the ley mordaza proves that’s not all true, e.g. https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/blog/historia/articulo/ley-mordaza/

But regardless of all that, there’s an even more solid proof that removing anonymity on the internet is a bad idea in the current Spanish climate: La Liga has been threatening individuals and companies for well over a year now, with the help of the courts and the inaction of the government. Somehow, they had access to internet users’ personal data, and have been sending out letters requesting payment for alleged “pirated content distribution and consumption”. They have pressured ISPs to throttle and even block entire blocks of IP addresses. They have sued people for libel because of insults towards their current president.

My point here is that, if a sports corporation could do that when people are still able to be “anonymous” online, how can you guarantee that Spain wouldn’t devolve into a full fledged corporate fascist state, where those with money have the effective power to target dissidents for the pettiest reason, if anonymity were to go away?

I don’t see you using your real name here.

A bit hypocritical if you ask me.

Spain literally has a law commonly known as “ley mordaza”, which enabled law enforcement to impose massive fines to protesters, some of whom ended up spending months in prison.

AI companies are selling that “coding has been largely solved”.

It seems that it hasn’t.

The problem I’ve got is that you all have a god of the gaps, the conversation I was having 3 years ago was different to 2 years ago was different to 1 year ago

And I guess the problem I have with you, is that you seem to think that you can get results with 16GB, competitive with models that run on a Blackwell 6000 with 96GB, while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the people in the world are running GPUs with 4 to 8 GB of VRAM, if they even have access to GPUs, at all.

That’s the gap. Most people don’t have the kind of money you think they do, and even those who do have some money, they will never achieve the same results as with cloud models, because if there’s a state of the art optimization that makes models 10 times smaller, cloud models will become 10 times bigger with that advantage. It’s pretty simple.

2026’s average gaming PC is massive amounts of memory and compute apparently

Any model that can run on 16GB or less, is not going to be any close in real world tasks, to any other cloud based model. It just cannot be. There are people out there running Qwen on the Mac Studio with 96GB, and it falls short of cloud based models in both performance and speed.

lol there are plenty of open source models in the top 100 with multiple SOTA models released in the last few months alone

The top 100 of what, exactly? Many blended benchmark results are notoriously biased, and LLMs “cheat” on benchmarks on every single opportunity, so it is still hard to tell, outside of real world tasks and speed, which models are actually better than others.

But regardless, the main point of the gap is resources. Even if the average gaming computer was really enough to run meaningful models, the vast majority of the world wouldn’t have access to it, even more so in this day and age, where a single RAM stick couldn’t be bought with a whole monthly salary in most parts of the world.

You would be surprised to know how many managers still rely on this metric, even if it’s not part of their KPIs.

For which you still need massive amounts of memory and compute to run reliably. That, and the fact that chatbots and agents nowadays rely on all sorts of proprietary customizations, outside of the realm of LLMs, to perform certain tasks.

The gap will take decades to close, if it ever does.

I don’t like GitHub, but this looks like they had someone using an authorized SSH key, but the git client was configured to post some unknown email address. Happens all the time.

Would be funny if they only find out once they have migrated off GitHub though.

Not at all. I’m genuinely interested in the use cases for this type of library.

Is that a thing? I mean, running ClamAV in NodeJS? First time I’ve seen it. Is there any project out there that you know could use your library? Would love to see it.

What’s the goal of this project? What does it try to achieve? Genuinely curious.

The link you posted does not support your conclusion at all.

There have been rumors of Cook retiring for the past five years, at least, and I’m pretty sure that shareholders are quite happy with Apple market cap at almost $4 trillion.

It has nothing to do with AI.

AI is a non essential tool. Anything that a chatbot produces, can and should be achievable by a human with access to the same sources of information. Anyone hired to do a specialist job, who cannot perform without access to AI, should be summarily fired because their output would be indistinguishable from that of their LLM of choice.

In contrast, the Internet (as massive interconnected network), computers, even books, enable humans to deal with information in ways impossible to achieve without them, and help augment us. Reading feeds your brain. Computers are a window to creativity. AI does nothing of the sort, in fact I believe it does the opposite, pushing us to outsource our thinking processes while making us feel smart, undeservedly.

We aren’t comparing humans to code.

Except for the bit where LLM behaviors aren’t deterministic, but those of most compilers in most situations are.

And before anyone says that LLVM in version X produced wildly different assembly from version Y, it is not remotely comparable to what LLMs do, not even close.