I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as @qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in systemd/Linux, FOSS, and Selfhosting.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•80% of U.S startups JUST switched to Chinese AI... (In silence)English
2·2 days agoIndeed, that argument doesn’t really work. I suspect the argument will be that they’re untrustworthy and will give a distorted view of reality with subtle propaganda shown with a video of someone asking non open weights Chinese models about Tianamen Square or something.
Another approach is that they will form a cartel for running US inference focused datacenters and will pivot to selling services using it.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•80% of U.S startups JUST switched to Chinese AI... (In silence)English
1·2 days agoMaybe not as good as Claude, but they are good enough, and open-source, and free. The US market is going to learn the hard way why open-source curbstomps greedy bullshit.
Correct, the American frontier models Claude Opus, GPT 5.4, GPT 5.5, and Gemini 3 Pro still score better (while costing significantly more), but the runner ups are all Chinese models.
Then it’ll just come from Germany or France or elsewhere. It doesn’t take millions of dollars to train a good model, despite these US companies pretending that it does.
Well, it does. Deepseek-R1 cost $6 million and that was considered to be very cheap. Europe only really has Mistral’s models, Proton’s Lumo and several models that focus on transparency, ethically sourced training data, and supposedly better local language support (OpenEuroLLM, GPT-NL), but they’re by far not as good as other models and I don’t expect them to be for quite some time.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•80% of U.S startups JUST switched to Chinese AI... (In silence)English
72·2 days agoI’ve said this before. The Chinese models are significantly better and will outcompete the models from the US, it was just a matter of people realizing that.
My other prediction, being that they will lobby for tariffs or banning Chinese models outright also seems to be coming true.
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
I do wonder how Europe is going to react. Will they just focus on their home grown Mistral or will they consider Chinese open weight models? I feel like the EU is quite wary of anything Chinese and that many people won’t fully comprehend the actual security risk and that they will initially dismiss are avoid them, but they can’t ignore it forever. Qwen 3.6 35B which can be ran at home is already leaving Mistral’s latest models in the dust.
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Programming@programming.dev•Converting x86 binaries to arm binaries in placeEnglish
5·3 days agoE.g. when you have a proprietary program that is only available on x86, but you want to run it on ARM.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK some unconventional ways you can contribute to OpenStreetMapEnglish
4·3 days agoI found that most electrical boxes and cellular antennas aren’t mapped. I suspect for that reason.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?English
1·3 days agoYes, Reddit and Discord
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Technology@lemmy.world•GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devicesEnglish
8·4 days agoWhy not just use F-Droid?
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The RipEnglish
5·6 days agoTwo years later, Masnick coined the name when writing about Marco Beach Ocean Resort’s takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals) over its use of the resort’s name.
I guess that exists
Tip, get a domain with your last name so you can immediately change the name and have the old email redirect to the new
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Technology@lemmy.world•Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub ReplacementEnglish
4·9 days agoWat is het toch een mooi taaltje
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Technology@lemmy.world•Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub ReplacementEnglish
12·9 days agoThey’re using the same software (Forgejo)
qaz@lemmy.worldtodatahoarder@lemmy.ml•How to monitor select program's folder for changes to revert if something breaks ?English
1·13 days agoIt seems like you’re referring to dotfiles. You can manage these using a git bare repo.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Calendars should be discounted based on number of months left in that yearEnglish
6·13 days agoFollow up, do people still buy calendars?
Buy? Yes, several times
Use? No
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Which instances have the most ban-happy moderators? Analysis insideEnglish
1·13 days agoCould you make a graph with defederations? I suspect that plays a role
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Which instances have the most ban-happy moderators? Analysis insideEnglish
4·13 days agoI think they’re defederated from poorly moderated instances and therefore don’t need to ban as many users. Perhaps db0 doesn’t defederate as often?
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Opensource@programming.dev•NHS Goes To War Against Open SourceEnglish
28·15 days agoWe are obviously looking at things like Mythos, which is more sophisticated at finding vulnerabilities. In the next week or so, we will be changing our tack on coding the open and making our code public until we’re on top of that risk.
Most of our repos, unless they’re essential, will be removed for security reasons.
Security by obscurity because security vulnerabilities don’t exist if you can’t see them
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Videos@lemmy.world•We Uncovered a Multi-Million Dollar Plot to Change What You Eat— The new food pyramid was built by corporate interests.English
2·15 days agoI’m not seeing that behavior on Jerboa
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why do Chinese sites often use a Serif font?English
9·16 days agoInteresting, I never knew what that strange monospaced font was
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'English
121·16 days agoAltman took the money and then OpenAI abandoned the non-profit structure to become a for-profit entity (2 years ago)
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