My Opinion

Founder and CEO of Darkline Media Technologies, LLC. Specializing in air gapped AI systems and local workflows for creators.

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I understand the hesitation, but we'll just have to wait and see. Who knows, considering we all know they're using some form of RSI, it could be that good at finding vulnerabilities and they want to make sure it can't be used for things it shouldn't be used for by the general public.

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@7well @googlecloud so it's the worst AI because it doesn't address you the way you want it to? Last I checked it is an American Model, so you should only expect to it use English, anything else is a bonus Google was nice enough to include.

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@7well @googlecloud It's just a hallucination, refresh the page or better yet have two instances of Gemini Open with one of the dedicated to generating images and the other generating the prompts and copy them over. Or you can just start a new chat. You didn't think of this?

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@rmn_alq @buildwithrajath I'm hoping for a late October mid November release. Who knows, maybe I'm just overly optimistic. Or as the Dread Pirate Roberts would say "Get used to Disappointment!"

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I agree it is disappointing but not unexpected, considering how good it is at finding vulnerabilities and them wanting to make sure they have enough guardrails in place the Government doesn't do a repeat on Anthropic.
As far as being embarrassed by fable 5.5 we'll have to wait and see and it depends on which area you're most concerned about.

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@commincent @buildwithrajath Exactly how did they screw it up?

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@JoeMcCarley @buildwithrajath Where and when did Google say Gemini 4 would be released?

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@buildwithrajath @134_pl Apparently it is that good at find vulnerabilities. And they never said when it would be released to the general public, everything we've seen are just rumors and guessing. But I would personally guess end of October or Mid November for a release to API and Ultra members.

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I think you're missing the point. Excess funds (it's written into the law) are initially used to buy those bonds that no one else has access to, when they mature that money is placed into the General Fund that can be used for anything, let's say that after the bond matures it's worth $10 Billion. The interest to paid is a fixed amount of the current bond yield, which to be fair is usually pretty low. Even though it's paid back at that legal amount, inflation is never taken into account, so congress is paying back dollars that don't purchase as much as the dollars that were borrowed. Now if the original money were not placed into the general fund that congress didn't have access they wouldn't have have add access to cheap loans and they counted the excess in the SS fund as normal revenue (say there was a 200 Billion deficit one year and the SS excess was 100 Billion, then congress that money at current bond yields and count it as revenue an reported a deficit of just $100 billion and pushed the payment off to whatever date when they would borrow money that wasn't worth as much to pay back the original loan, increasing the deficit down the road so they would have to cut benefits, raise taxes, or cut programs. If SS had been privatized instead and gave everyone their own personal account and let them or some designee invest their money for them, SS would be just fine. But congress want their cheap loans and they wanted their insider trading, and by sleight of hand they made the American Public think the deficit spending they were actually doing wasn't as bad as it actually was. So yes Congress for all intents and purposes has been raiding the SS fund and this forecasted insolvency never had to happen if it was for the greed of congress.

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@leftillinoistax @TheGrayRider If you say it's not then enlighten is as to how it works. Make your argument. But once you start looking into it you'll see I'm right and then not even have the good graces to admit you're wrong

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sure it happens all the time but they don't call it that but here is how the process works:

The perception that Congress "raids" the fund stems from how the system is legally required to handle its cash surpluses, as well as past political debates:

By law, dating back to the original Social Security Act of 1935, any excess revenue collected from payroll taxes that isn't immediately needed to pay benefits cannot sit in a vault collecting dust. Congress is legally required to invest those surpluses into special-issue, interest-bearing U.S. Treasury bonds.

The "investments" of Social Security money are not made in the stock market or corporate real estate. Instead, by law, the money is invested exclusively in special-issue, nonmarketable U.S. Treasury securities.

As of 2026, the trust funds hold roughly $2.5 trillion worth of these special Treasury bonds. They earn a mix of interest rates based on when they were issued—for instance, older bonds in the portfolio earn an effective rate of around 2.5% to 2.6%, while newer bonds issued recently have carried average yields of 4.3%.

When the Social Security trust fund buys these Treasury bonds, the physical cash goes directly into the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury. Once there, the cash becomes part of the federal government's general pool of money.

Because the cash goes into the General Fund, it helps pay for any federal program that Congress authorizes through its annual budget. While a specific dollar cannot be tracked to a specific item, the money collectively funds standard government operations, including:
National Defense: Military payrolls, equipment, and operations.
Infrastructure & Transportation: Federal highway projects, aviation, and transit systems.
Education & Social Programs: Pell grants, federal research funding, and public health services.
Government Administration: Running federal agencies, courts, and law enforcement.

When the government uses Social Security surpluses to pay for these operations, it means the Treasury does not have to borrow as much money from external sources.

So if you take all the money that has been paid out due to overpayments, fraud, and SSI over the programs lifetime that's around 1.9 Trillion dollars and added to the about 2.6 Trillion in the fund we now have about 4.5 Trillion. The program has collect around 30 Trillion over it's life time and paid out about 28 Trillion if in all those surplus years congress hadn't spent the money and instead reinvested in Treasury bonds that would still have put us at about 10.8 Trillion Today in the fund. But had we had someone like Scott Bessent running the fund and getting the kind of returns he got in his hedge fund we'd be sitting at around 25 Trillion or so, and if we kept reinvesting that the SS fund would never run Dry.

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@anonitext @porky_eleven Rocm has a long way to had to return a strix halo it was so slow rendering images through comfy ui and krea2. My 5080 is literally 5 times faster

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@Mr_Salio The Gemini 4 you posted looks like an old Spider-Man cartoon

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@starmexxx Pick one and stick to it, I just dropped my Gemini ultra down to the $99 ultra tier and I still get everything I need, 3.8 suffices for my coding needs and I still get first access to Gemini 4 when it rolls out

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@AI_Screening @GeminiApp @GoogleDeepMind @OpenAI @claudeai You're comparing a last generation mid tier, Flash 3.8 to the latest next gen frontier models, for what 3.8flash is designed for its fantastic

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@ArtificialAnlys @GoogleDeepMind Too bad anthropic and open AI are getting ready to release an update

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@lsferguson This shit is going to turn into a civil war.

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@stephanegaddis karma

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@trumplicans2024 Democrat

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@CreasonJana They don't live in the real world. They just regurgitate what they're hear and are told to say if they want to stay in the good graces of the utterly corrupt Hollywood.