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> Linux distro founder here (stagex) What does it mean to "found" a Linux distro? Can you describe it?

I am extremely well aware of how rescues evaluate dogs. And I'm also fully aware that they do not know the full history of the dog. They go through a limited set of testing and int…

As an industry, I wish we would stop calling these things "open weight" because it is too easy to confuse with actual "open source", which they are not. Photoshop source code+ OSI …

> What discontent do you mean? I mean, Brexit was the ultimate discontent and it didn't just come out of nowhere. It's still very recent history and, as far as I know, the circumst…

I saw an interesting stat recently that the poorest USA state, Mississippi, has a larger economy and GDP than 1/3rd of all EU members. It just seems like the EU is too top-heavy an…

Sure, but the point was that the US doesn't even need to exercise their capabilities under the five eyes treaty. They have a separate Cloud act agreement with Australia already whi…

The EU isn't producing a domestic alternative to iOS or Google Android anytime soon. And no amount of "regular voting" is going to change that.

Kim dotcom was extradited from New Zealand, not Australia. They're different places.

> Does fastmail have a US presence? If no - then they're not bound at all by US jurisdiction. This hasn't been true for several years. All Australian companies (and UK companies) a…

It is not wrong... You can read the text right here: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre... The same agreement is in place with the UK. Canada and EU are c…

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre... > The latter states that negotiation with the EU on this topic was suspended in 2019. Dated 2023: > Justice Departme…

How could they possibly guarantee such a thing? Do you only send and receive emails with people in the EU?

Proton is leaving Switzerland because of surveillance and privacy issues. > Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposal…

Australian companies are also subject to the USA Cloud Act. As is the UK, with Canada coming on board soon too. Even the entire EU is in the process of negotiating the same agreeme…

Australia and the US entered into a bilateral agreement in 2024 which made Australian companies subject to the US CLOUD Act. https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act…

University of Washington does what you are describing. https://www.cs.washington.edu/research/artificial-intelligen... I'm sure there are several other universities doing the same.…

Locally running LLM means nothing because "open weight" models are still inscrutable. It's like bringing a dog home from the rescue and just hoping that it doesn't have the tendenc…

> It'll be in a similar place to Canada at best. If Canada was a US state it would rank around 4th or 5th in terms of economic size and power. There's a lot of doomerism, but I ser…

Not only are there many American open weight models as others have mentioned, but Americans are the only ones doing actual open source models [0]. Not just distributing binary blob…

If paying property taxes is considered "renting from the state", then I'll be glad to pay the $600 a month in rent in order for the state and my county to maintain the roads, sewer…

There is virtually no security in renting outside of whatever landlord-tenant laws your municipality will offer you. The landlord can simply say that they're not going to renew you…

Unless you are willing to enter into some kind of a special arrangement, closing costs are almost always negotiated and usually paid by the seller.