themurphy
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- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 1 day ago:
Aah, the US.
The only place in the world where everyone knows the word ‘communism’ and nobody knows what it is.
Russia and China are not communism btw. :shocked Pikachu:
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 1 day ago:
This is the way.
I for sure also want to access it on my Home Assistant, and it really can save alot of power to automate it. Even going down to 20C in the night, and make it going to 22C before anyone wakes up saves alot in a year.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 1 day ago:
They call the product line ‘Nest’, because it’s where their data servers is getting nutrition from.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 1 day ago:
So Google is telling us, they cant make a product if there are standards or requirements for what they are doing?
That means whatever US customers are buying, theres something in it, that does something illegal in EU.
- Comment on Energy labelling and ecodesign requirements will apply to smartphones and tablets from June 2025 3 days ago:
Same, good to find out though. Good thing is some phone manufatures will now actually have to do something about poor efficiency, if they want to sell more.
I always look at it when buying machines for my home, why not a phone.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 days ago:
It goes up if they dont comply. This is first offence since the law came into effect.
- Comment on In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM. 5 days ago:
Maybe I know nothing, but my VPN always defaults to Netherlands in the EU.
Could it be that its just hosted there through some tunnel VPN or some shit?
I dont know how it works, so maybe its all wrong.
- Comment on LLM Virology Capabilities Test 6 days ago:
Great results. Would an AI build for this not be better, or is it just meant as a kind of benchmark for LLMs?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
EU is democratic, which means everyone can propose a law. Never have EU put a backdoor into anything, but its true that there have been law proposals for it.
Never voted through.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
EU could potentially make a group category like for Norway or Switzerland, and then take in other countries all around the world to cooperate more and stand together with the EU on some issues.
Canada would be a great candidate. Maybe even Australia, but I dont really know anything about their politics.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
Everything is provocative if your dick is orange.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
EU and its contries are pro open source and i fucking love it.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
If its because hes part of the opposition, its worrying. But Bluesky mentions he also violates their ToS, so it might be worse in some way.
Theres too much missing information to make an opinion, but we should keep an eye out either way for more examples of this.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Probably, but it could also have been incredibly racist and whats worse.
This guy really needs to show what he posted. Why hide that.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
Literally the rest of world against these fuckers soon.
- Comment on The TAKE IT DOWN Act Is Poised To Become Law. But Will It Provide Justice To Victims? 1 week ago:
It’s a tool for censuring things. And it will hide behind a very few number of cases where its put to good use.
But most of the time, its probably gonna get misused.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
It actually matches a specific personality type, and is sometimes not even related to general intelligence.
Some of these people are choosing dumb, and are not born with it.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Damn, take my vote in any presidental election.
- Comment on Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I think they are already allowed to do that, if you dont opt out. This is about their own platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, where they werent allowed to use it for AI training.
They harvest your data to sell like they did yesterday. Nobody should be fooled by that.
- Comment on Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data. 2 weeks ago:
People based in the EU who use our platforms can choose to object to their public data being used for training purposes.
And last in the article it says it works with EU regulators to ensure its legal, basically.
Also, they are only allowed to use post, comments etc from adults.
So yeah, they probably scrape less data in EU. At least what they are telling.
- Comment on China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies. 2 weeks ago:
True, but this changes the world dynamic much more than we’d think.
Before China would sell materials and other countries would have factories to produce products from them.
Now, China can move the production into their own country, selling their products without the middleman, but still keep the prices up.
Factories shut down in the rest of the world and open in China. They now control the full product from material to the sale.
- Comment on Day 266 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Love these posts.
Dont know if you have any statistics on your posts, but it could be pretty cool to see how many different games you played when/if you hit a year!
Keep it up.
- Comment on An LLM would probably run the USA better 3 weeks ago:
You’ll train on data and laws from all other countries and take the best from each. Then make the AI put them together and let it evaluate the best possible country for its citizens + the economy.
It would absolutly be better than Trump, but probably not as good as a real well-run country.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 4 weeks ago:
For some it’s long overdue. Fiber is soon to be 20 years old at my house.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think your work with this client is nice. You obviously put alot of hours into this one.
You’ll probably discover that AI and maybe Discord is unpopular on this platform, and therefore you will not get alot of love here.
BUT it is a nice client you made. Don’t want you to think otherwise, even though people disagree on some of your implementations. Because that’s the thing you are being judged on. Not your hard work and skills.
Hope the best for your client.
- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 4 weeks ago:
Is it really a problem for freedom of speech, if it’s only a platform getting banned and not specific content?
If you are allowed to talk about anything still everywhere else on the web, I can’t see the freedom of speech card being valid in this case about FB.
FB is already controlling what you see, making freedom of speech better without them.
- Comment on AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian 5 weeks ago:
None of the above.
I dont know shit other than the US having debt. You guys know more than me about macro economy.
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 5 weeks ago:
Finally. We all about to see better prices and more features. If this ends in lower app store fees, its a massive win for every app company in the world!
- Comment on The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards. 5 weeks ago:
Anti-capitalism does not mean anti-technology or anti-trade; it means building a society based on an economic basis other than capitalism. Non-capitalist societies in the modern world also possess technology, conduct trade, and experience material progress — mechanisms that are built into the standards development system. It’s just that how decisions get made about that progress and who owns and benefits from the fruits of that progress is different than in a capitalist society.
- Comment on AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian 5 weeks ago:
It’s almost like the US is in a massive debt and cant afford its own existence.