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Comment #48958422
My point stands: if China was "against" Ukraine they wouldn't sell to Ukraine because a lot of drone manufacturing depends on Chinese components. Of course China does not support U…
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Comment #48947288
> Energy is not the main reason. China would still stand with Russia without energy. Of course it will because Russia also has cheap raw materials not just exclusively oil and gas.…
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Comment #48713115
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Comment #48691334
They already helped Russia, gave more power and planning to unfreeze assets of Iran. Helping China achieve AI dominance is a logical next step.
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Comment #48162465
DeepSeek in general release not a very censored models when you run them locally. E.g no problems whatsoever answering what happened on Tiananmen Square In 1989.
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Comment #47921821
You cant imagine how much strain fast-moving mouse cursor put on display server of almost any OS if there a lot of windows open simultaneously. Also non-standard cursor sizes / for…
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Comment #47903971
Macbooks were not overpriced since M1 Air released in 2020. Of course Apple was not competing in low-end segment back then, but $1200-$1400 M1 just outperformed all the competitors…
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Comment #47899487
This is quite obviously because China have strict regulations and censorship of social media and US doesnt. YouTube Shorts and Instagram is full of the same garbage in US.
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Comment #47815554
Might be it for scrapping content for training an LLM? Oh no only big tech allowed to do it...
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Comment #47815542
Google AI studio and Gemini APIs are the least censored SOTA models.
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Comment #47814238
China is working on this.
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Comment #47802947
Spamhaus itself is a shady and non transparent organization and basically one of reasons why its been so hard to actually run email service for decades. Cloudflare is not perfect, …
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Comment #47802879
And there obviously gonna be market for "verified" devices. Not like there is anything at all that could stop people of any ages looking at porn.
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Comment #47679320
How do you imagine DRM can possibly protect text?
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Comment #47515082
> To me, Epic Games were clearly trying to "pull a Valve" and capture the platform magic that allows Valve and other platforms like Roblox to be sustainably profitable. Valve have …
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Comment #47470338
Europe to do what to stop the war? EU cant even stop war on their own borders. And we seen what Trump buddies think about EU in their leaked Signal chat. Also it's not like EU and …
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Comment #47470237
Except it would be very weird goal to achieve because it's only give more reasons to bomb whole country into oblivion and justify deployment of ground troops.
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Comment #47365523
Next step after age verification through ID will be making sharing of computer with others illegal. And Right to Read was already written back in 1997: https://www.gnu.org/philosop…
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Comment #47249382
Dont bother. Even when works iPhone mirroring is unreliable and buggy experience, often asks to unlock iPhone again and sync gets broken at random and you have to go over enabling …
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Comment #47220432
> Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them Generic problem of any Linux newbie. You get good at solving pr…
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Comment #47194514
Joke? Or someone really dont know it's his account?
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Comment #47178293
Hey. I will ask how exactly it was solved and try to reply here in a day or two. My relative is woman so problem was that she had her original name in a passport from country of or…
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Comment #47166024
While this is a real problem and I do have relative who had this issue like this there are ways to get new UK passport without paying £600 or changing legal name in other country. …
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Comment #47163957
> Or are the capabilities of Gemini and AI systems in general being oversold? I pretty much sure that if anyone asked Gemini "Is it good idea to retroactively opt-in new services i…
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Comment #47125310
> A government could implement the equivalent of China's great firewall. Even if it doesn't stop everyone, it would stop most people. Porn is not just political information about h…