I wish I got paid to post… alas.

I think it’s more of a “heads up”. If you’re vegan, be mindful of these things, because they might not come with your regular food.

If only commercial users of open source paid a fraction of what a they would pay for a commercial product, open source would thrive.

Researchers analysed data from the UK and Sweden, and wrote in the journal BMJ Mental Health that “autism diagnoses have risen consistently over time”.

Not great but I’d be more worried if the auditors didn’t find any wrongs.

No need. Israel wouldn’t come up against these teams.

And being laughed at. Not necessarily at the same occasion.

Yeah, I have a visa card, but that’s the last option for me. I always try to pay another way if possible.

I mean, he’s not wrong, but also the deal was that the US took the brunt of the cost for defence of the US and its allies, and in returned got support/compliance from those allies. Europe didn’t have a global foreign policy due to this arrangement. Now we’ll have that, which could put us in conflict with the US.

The damage the Trump-led administration has done to the US should not be underestimated.

Perhaps they started at the wrong end? Start by requiring everything to be stored in open and well documented file formats, and then pick what applications to use.

No matter what photoshop clone you pick, it’s not going to be better than photoshop at reading photoshop files.

No idea, posting as found.

EU presser on the same: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/10/21/digital-rulebook-council-agrees-position-to-simplify-data-protection-privacy-and-cyber-reporting-rules/

I have the very same feelings. I however love that the Berlin bunker is now an unmarked parking lot. 🤣 Very fitting.

A shame really. Someone should invent one. Do you know anyone who has the best words?

Not the latest engine though. That’s a fully US engine.

You are absolutely 100% correct and I should have linked to net income instead.

Thanks for pointing it out.

The original point still stands though, these are very profitable companies.

Translations? Summarizing text? This? Does the spending justify the results? Not really. But then again, did the spending on ARPAnet justify the result of being able to send half a message to another uni? I’m not saying that AI will be the next internet, but it might, and right now everyone is suffering from FOMO, hence spending like there’s no tomorrow.

I have a spork and I love it. It’s absolutely the right tool at times.

That wasn’t the topic in the video posted, but I did get that this is what you meant. It’s also not uncommon for businesses to use profits from on part of the company to prop up another, not yet profitable part. Will AI ever be profitable? No idea, but it does have its uses. Not that this will ever be acknowledged here.

They are tech giants making money, no? American tech giants, which was one of the points in the video.

Here, here, and here.

I think the point was that AI is a tool and although we’re not the expert toolmakers we could be the expert craftsmen.