thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21
I loved my Nokia N9 made in Finland. Great hardware and the UI was a gem!
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thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: AI weights are not open “source”
I've always seen weights as akin to configuration files.
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Endless – An attempt to unify the social media experience
Probably the social aspect allowing for comments and upvotes/downvotes
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Port forwarding
What happens to Mullvad?
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
"Acts" don't exist in EU law. You either have Regulations (which become law after being approved) and Directives (which member states are bound to implement in their own legislation).
"EU Acts" are just the new BS PR way to add yet another level of abstraction to European politics.
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Silvio Berlusconi, a Showman Who Upended Italian Politics and Culture Dies at 86
One of the last giants, signing the end of an era. While not perfect, like anyone, he marked both Italian and European politics of his singular approach and proverbial ball. Politics now are becoming much more dull and suffering of a lack of vision.
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat
Glad to see this pop up. Local models are vital for privacy!
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp
GPG key management should have been built into vCard and CardDAV! It's such a missed opportunity!
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: AI Propaganda Will Be Effective and Easily Accessible
Hopefully non AI propaganda will be squashed too through efforts to fight it.
thepangolino | 2 years ago | on: Why a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS
Most alternative linux based operating systems such as Sailfish OS(0.) or PureOS(1.) are perfectly able to run Android apps. It is purely a licensing issue.
0. https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-run-android-apps-anbox... 1. https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Help_Articles/Android_Ap...
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: SETI@home is in hibernation
They should have awarded tokens for each block computed. Turned it into a blockchain of sort, would have been a hit!
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: SVB lobbied the government to relax some Dodd-Frank provisions
One thing I don’t get is why do banks need to buy treasuries and not just keep it all in cash?
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
That’s why he said paid for.
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to halt its use
What really bothers me with Ivermectin is that it used to be one of the cheapest and most available drugs yet it instantly became taboo to even talk about for in the context of covid.
Why a known, safe, cheap and readily available drug couldn’t be used off label in the context of an unprecedented (at least in terms of social restrictions measures) global pandemic will always remain a mystery.
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: WHO updates critical medicines list for radiological and nuclear emergencies
In Belgium Iodine tablets are freely and for free available in all pharmacies. All you need is show up with an ID (this is to prevent hoarding) They will give you a box with enough doses for 2 adults and 3 children for free.
Now if only this system existed for all WHO essential medicines... The covid pandemic would have played out differently...
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: Andromeda Invaders: A retro-style game written in HTML5, Canvas, and Web Audio
Fun little game. Level 3 took me from 0 to 100 with no warning.
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: The number of banks willing to do business with the crypto industry is shrinking
Providing banking services to people who are unbanked for political reasons is one of the main advantages of crypto imho. This is something you can get hit by in so called democratic countries as Canada demonstrated last year. https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a...
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
The thing with a domain registration is that you know if you pay for ten years in advance, you WILL have it for ten years. With most SaaS, you have absolutely no guarantee this is going to be the case.
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: European parliament VP taken into custody
Anything more devious doesn't make the news.
Had she had a partner start a startup and fill in all the propriate tax forms after recieving millions of Euros you'd at most have heard about "possible conflicts of interests", not blatant corruption like here.
thepangolino | 3 years ago | on: Nearly six in 10 US young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up
That's a pretty common statistics all around the world. People connect to their the place they grew up in and people they grew up with.
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