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@dlozanovic @OmedVibeCodes 1b really isn't that much.

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@politeabox @BrodieOnLinux You do understand that local models exist that'll run on consumer hardware right? Even if every single AI lab disappeared tomorrow it wouldn't stop me running GLM 4.7 Flash on my PC. Not to mention clearly third party inference providers are doing just fine.

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@RamblingOnDeck @dark1x But the issues isn't that the ports are bad. In fact the ports are better than ever. But you've got an issue where the majority of PC gamers are still on a GTX 1060 and expect to be catered to.

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@a3rcode @f4micom Not to mention it does nothing for models not built in Australia. Does Australia even have a meaningful AI industry?

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@americanmcgee Can confirm - I haven't seen anything quite like this but I have to say bookshops in China are genuinely beautiful and just super nice places to be.

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@f4micom @woodho5959 @beeeemooooo Professional software developer, 7+ years industry experience. We still need developers, we're just achieving way, way more than was ever previously possible and able to actually touch grass. Can confirm it's pretty good.

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@f4micom I mean I agree with you and would likely do the same, but I do think Laurie is right about the premise. Some people love to collect and maintain a physical media collection, or even a jellyfin server. And many other people don't care and use Netflix.

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@Dannyzem3 @RanTeeThree And yeah I gather you can run multiple off one but presumably this isn't standard? I'm not an air con expert but in my home in China each room has its own external unit outside. I'm assuming there's a reason for this.

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@Dannyzem3 @RanTeeThree To be clear, I don't think the issue is carbon footprint. I think it's entirely that the national grid simply cannot cope, and carbon footprint is used as the justification given in the UK.

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@Dannyzem3 @RanTeeThree Portable air con is if anything less efficient but realistically more difficult to police. And to be fair, it's a pretty recent thing that you don't need planning permission, and with current regs you can only have one unit without permission.

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@Dannyzem3 @RanTeeThree There are restrictions but these are the public justifications, not the real reason. The real reason is that the national grid doesn't have capacity to support air con so this is the blunt instrument used to ban it.

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People love to suggest that the reason Europe doesn't have AC is because of cultural reasons, or because the buildings are old. But the real, painful truth, is that the reason the legislation exists, and the reason they don't have AC, is because Europe lacks the grid capacity.

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@dark1x @DementorHere A few months back I told a friend I genuinely thought there was a decent chance they'd cancel it. Clearly I was wrong but damn.

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@sneezy_joe @miaaowing Of course they can - I can live in China and I can tell you that WireGuard, Shadowsocks, OpenVPN do not work here. If you spin up a server with DigitalOcean, and set up something using those protocols, it'll get blocked almost immediately.

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@sneezy_joe @miaaowing I think you're missing the point. Even if you set up the VPN, if they block the protocols, which are actually quite trivial to block, then it doesn't matter. I'm speaking from experience.

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@sneezy_joe @miaaowing Actually you can quite easily. Wireguard, shadowsocks, OpenVPN are all trivial to fingerprnt and block.

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@__silent_ @SirDODGIEbaby @spr4yz69 The bit about GSG I have to agree with you on -
from what I can tell the texture work was largely done by Technicolour, appointed by Rockstar, and the release date was also brought forward on GSG with very little notice by about six months.

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@crash_matrix @VictoriqueM It's a particular type of cope I keep seeing in British political discourse, every time something stupid is announced it's "well obviously they couldn't do *that*".

My honest take for what it's worth, is I think we are going to start to see a lot of countries banning VPNs soon.

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@VictoriqueM It's pretty trivial to block WireGuard, Shadowsocks, OpenVPN etc. Businesses wouldn't be affected because you wouldn't block them domestically, only cross border, and for that you'd just license them. That's what China does and contrary to popular belief it largely works.

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@VictoriqueM @crash_matrix You are confidently wrong. China manages DPI of VPN traffic trivially and has blocked wireguard, shadowsocks and openvpn for years reliably. You don't need a root cert to identify the pretty obvious tells of VPN traffic.