Where I work, Chinese models are banned due to legal concerns. Not just in production, on any company-owned machine. That basically eliminates all the decent open weight models. I’m imagining this type of policy will be more widespread. I suppose it’s because of the potential for legal woes if systems and people are dependent on these models and then federal or state laws impose harsh penalties with little time to react.

I guess they’re running g out of places to pirate training data and they’re desperate because their models aren’t particularly competitive.

Ollama is not open source? It seems to be MIT licensed: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/LICENSE. Am I overlooking something?

SoCs like this will definitely be an improvement over power guzzling discrete GPUs. Not sure what kind of crack they’re smoking marketing LLMs as a replacement for a keyboard and mouse. I’m interested in self-hosting LLMs for agentic coding and this looks like a good fit for that, but I won’t even be bothering with OpenClaw, and proprietary Micro$lop is garbage is absolutely out of the question.

When I was a kid, I used to turn over the landscaping timbers around the house to find lizards and such to catch. One time, wasps had built a huge nest under one and I ripped the nest open when I turned it over. Man, did those things sting the ever-loving shit out of me. My whole body was covered in stings.

Any nest I found after that, I made it my mission to get rid of it. I’d put on whatever clothes I had like winter gloves, long sleeve shirts helmets, etc. Of course, whatever I put on always seemed insufficient to protect me and I’d still get the shit stung out of me. What a dumb kid.

If Israel honors the ceasefire, then it’s going to take longer for The Chosen People to own the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, etc. All those darkies aren’t going to genocide themselves, you know.

MSI Thin 15 B13VE is the model. The only place I see it for $800 is Amazon at the moment.

I got a Steam Deck LCD 64GB for $350 and then put a 1TB SSD in it, so like $430 total. I love the SD, but it’s just not worth double that. A gaming laptop with a 4050 goes for about $800 now, so the current pricing isn’t really that good of a deal even at today’s prices.

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KDE Plasma Bigscreen is joining the Plasma release schedule next month and will then be available in distro repositories. That at least will be a big deal for Linux HTPCs.

Yeah, 3,000 data centers aren’t being built in the U.S. to generate profits from slop. They’re infrastructure for the digital cage.

Over 3,000 data centers are planned in the U.S., and I am not imagining they’re being built so everyone can generate slop to their heart’s content. Recent events like OpenAI becoming an official member of the military industrial complex and the F.B.I.’s deal with Flock make me think they’re largely being built as infrastructure for the digital cage.

DDG is not too bad, but when I click the sources from the AI search results, they often don’t contain the info from the search summary, so why even have it if it’s mostly a hallucination?

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Tried to sign up once, but it wanted my real phone number and a fake one from a temp SMS site wouldn’t work. Private messaging? Sure, Jan.

The NAACP never changed their name, so I assumed the term just fell out of use, but wasn’t necessarily offensive.

insider traitors

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Correction: 99% of CEOs are planning to use AI as an excuse to layoff employees to juice quarterly profits. They have zero accountability and golden parachutes, so no skin off of their asses.

Ah, hadn’t heard that, and I see there’s a TechCrunch article about it: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/22/cursor-admits-its-new-coding-model-was-built-on-top-of-moonshot-ais-kimi/

Only 1/4th of the training was from Kimi, though, even though the model id evidently says it’s Kimi. 🙄

Autopsy? More like an AI-slopsy. Or with an otherwise equivalent level of effort and insight.